Newcastle v Arsenal team news: Gordon, Eze + Saka start, Saliba benched

Price Change Predictions

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Thiago	BRE	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Bruno G.	NEW	6.8m	34.4%	Likely
Guéhi	CRY	5.1m	90.6%	Likely
Raya	ARS	5.9m	92.5%	Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.4m	95.4%	Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	98.6%	Likely
Neto	CHE	7.2m	75.8%	Unlikely
Thiago	BRE	6.8m	25.4%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	88.3%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	85.6%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	84.0%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	83.9%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	82.5%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	79.5%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	76.8%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	79.8%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	76.3%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	66.2%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	69.7%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	71.4%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	50.9%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	7.5m	1.2%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	65.3%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	62.6%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	71.6%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	62.1%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	67.0%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	53.5%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	57.5%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	47.6%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	47.4%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	55.6%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	46.1%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	53.8%	Unlikely
Donnarumma	MCI	5.7m	51.8%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	48.8%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	48.1%	Unlikely
Muñoz	CRY	6.1m	16.8%	Unlikely
Merino	ARS	6.0m	14.4%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	45.7%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	44.3%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Vicario	TOT	5.0m	96.6%	Likely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	46.1%	Likely
Georginio	BHA	5.7m	90.6%	Likely
Kerkez	LIV	5.7m	94.1%	Maybe
Tel	TOT	6.3m	95.6%	Maybe
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	90.7%	Maybe
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	81.8%	Maybe
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	94.3%	Maybe
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	92.1%	Maybe
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	95.2%	Maybe
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.5%	Unlikely
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	91.4%	Unlikely
Dixon	EVE	3.9m	95.1%	Unlikely
Travers	EVE	4.4m	90.8%	Unlikely
Coppola	BHA	4.3m	95.8%	Unlikely
Darlow	LEE	4.0m	88.3%	Unlikely
Welch	EVE	3.9m	92.6%	Unlikely
João Pedro	CHE	7.4m	73.1%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	84.1%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	88.7%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	84.9%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	85.9%	Unlikely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	84.1%	Unlikely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	85.7%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	84.1%	Unlikely
George	CHE	4.9m	91.7%	Unlikely
M.Salah	LIV	14.1m	73.9%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	81.9%	Unlikely
Christie	BOU	5.0m	82.5%	Unlikely
Byram	LEE	3.9m	78.9%	Unlikely
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	82.7%	Unlikely
Obi	MUN	4.3m	80.1%	Unlikely
Young	AVL	4.4m	82.8%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	82.2%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	83.2%	Unlikely
Gabriel	ARS	6.3m	70.8%	Unlikely
Matete	SUN	4.4m	83.1%	Unlikely
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	80.1%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	84.3%	Unlikely
Tonali	NEW	5.4m	71.8%	Unlikely

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FPL Fixture Ticker

Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	B
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:36am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	B, Inj
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	B
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	B
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:41am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	B
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
No Change	Gakpo	LIV	B, Vs, Rest
No Change	Minteh	BHA	B
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	A
Up	Schade	BRE	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	A, £
Down	Fernández	CHE	B

Last updated: 6 Dec, 2025 12:48am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Thiago	BRE	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

The penultimate match of Gameweek 6 sees Newcastle United face Arsenal at St James’ Park.

Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

TEAM NEWS

There are three alterations from Arsenal’s Gameweek 5 line-up.

William Saliba drops to the bench, so in comes Cristhian Mosquera at centre-back.

Further forward, Eberechi Eze and Bukayo Saka start, with Mikel Merino and the injured Noni Madueke making way.

Martin Odegaard, meanwhile, is named among the substitutes.

Eddie Howe also makes three changes to this starting XI.

Lewis Hall, Lewis Miley and Joe Willock are replaced by Bruno Guimaraes, Joelinton and Anthony Gordon, who is back from suspension.

LINE-UPS

Newcastle United XI: Pope, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Murphy, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Livramento, Gordon, Woltemade

Subs: Ramsdale, Trippier, Lascelles, Barnes, Krafth, Osula, Elanga, Willock, Miley

Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Mosquera, Gabriel, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Rice, Saka, Eze, Trossard, Gyokeres

Subs: Kepa, Saliba, Lewis-Skelly, White, Odegaard, Norgaard, Merino, Martinelli, Dowman

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Athletic Nasherbo

2 months, 8 days ago

Cucurella > Gabriel 1FT? Or wildcard?

Donnarumma
Cucurella Porro Munoz
Gakpo Mbeumo Minteh Rutter
Haaland Gyokeres J.Pedro

Valdimarsson Rodon Milenkovic Carvalho

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Count of Monte Hristo

If getting Sarr avoid Mateta and look at Woltemade/Watkins or just double up on Palace attack?

Ajax Hamsterdam
2 months, 8 days ago
i think sarr and one of ww.
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1. Count of Monte Hristo
  2 months, 8 days ago
  Thanks mate 😉
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Drizzle

Another wildcard dud then. Benched Gabriel and Rodon and couldn't TC Haaland. 100 points behind in my ML now, bit hard to claw that back even though it's September.

Begging for Tark and KDH to bail me out.

The Big Fella
2 months, 8 days ago
How many points did you get and what is your OR? 100 points this early is fine. 10 points a week more than the ML average and you'll be near the top by December.
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Ajax Hamsterdam

pope was brilliant today.

Mr.K

Sarr or Rice? Sarr feels super tempting, but Crystal Palace will play in Europe as well and I feel it should hurt their PL form whereas Arsenal have a wider squad. Palace plays in Poland on Thursday evening, before facing Everton on Sunday, which pretty much sums up my worries.

The Big Fella

Exciting outcome to the match. It may be still too early to reflect but I was waiting to see what the result would be to see if I could sell Salah for Saka and/or Gyokeres but I am not sure we are any wiser. Has anybody else got any instinctive reaction (or even a thought through one)?

Albrightondknight
2 months, 8 days ago
Nope none the wiser. I might just get Raya to go with Gabriel but that seems pretty boring. Gyokeres might be a flat track
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1. The Big Fella
  2 months, 8 days ago
  Yes - like Lukaku. Unsure then whether to keep Salah or sell. I suspect Liverpool will do very well against United and I am still unsure about Arsenal but those easier team fixtures are limited. West Ham, Burnley and Sunderland in the next 5 and of those West Ham may be better now with Nuno and Sunderland look like they know how to defend. If I do not pull the trigger now then I lose one of those three in the next five.
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Freshy
2 months, 8 days ago
No picnic today for Saka vs Dan Burn and Jolie.
WHAM at home next week
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1. The Big Fella
  2 months, 8 days ago
  Hmmmmm Nuno will set them up differently though and I do not think they will be as vulnerable at the back as they have been. This is such a tough call.
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  1. have you seen cyan
    2 months, 8 days ago
    If you want Gyokeres, you should get him now.
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