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There are four Premier League matches kicking off at 14:00 GMT on Sunday.

TEAM NEWS

Unai Emery makes six changes to the side that started the 2-0 Europa League win over Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Matty Cash, Lucas Digne, Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn, Emiliano Buendia and Ollie Watkins all return, ousting Victor Lindelof, Ian Maatsen, Lamare Bogarde, Evann Guessand, Jadon Sancho and Donyell Malen from the starting XI.

There are four changes to the Bournemouth line-up: Adam Smith, Veljko Milosavljevic, Justin Kluivert and Evanilson in for Alex Jimenez, Bafode Diakite, David Brooks and Eli Kroupi.

The only alteration from Brentford manager Keith Andrews sees Aaron Hickey start. Kristoffer Ajer makes way.

Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe has had his hand forced with his only change due to the injury sustained by Anthony Gordon. Jacob Murphy comes in.

Down in south London, Marc Guehi is absent, while Will Hughes and Yeremy Pino drop to the bench. Jaydee Canvot, Adam Wharton and Daichi Kamada replace them.

Ismaila Sarr is fit to start.

Brighton and Hove Albion are unsurprisingly unchanged from the team that beat Leeds United last time out.

Finally, at the City Ground, Sean Dyche has made two changes from the 2-2 draw with Manchester United. Ibrahim Sangare and Nicolas Dominguez come in, with Douglas Luiz and Callum Hudson-Odoi both absent.

Leeds have also made two alterations. Anton Stach replaces the benched Ao Tanaka in central midfield, while Lukas Nmecha starts up top, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin only fit enough for a place on the bench.

LINE-UPS

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Pau, Digne, Onana, Kamara, McGinn, Rogers, Buendia, Watkins

Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Maatsen, Bogarde, Barkley, Tielemans, Guessand, Sancho, Malen

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Smith, Milosavljevic, Senesi, Truffert, Scott, Adams, Tavernier, Kluivert, Semenyo, Evanilson

Subs: Dennis, Cook, Brooks, Christie, Doak, Diakite, Jimenez, Adli, Kroupi


Brentford XI: Kelleher, Kayode, van den Berg, Collins, Hickey, Yarmoliuk, Henderson, Damsgaard, Ouattara, Schade, Thiago

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Nelson, Carvalho, Onyeka, Lewis-Potter, Janelt

Newcastle United XI: Pope, Trippier, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Tonali, Guimaraes, Joelinton, Murphy, Barnes, Woltemade

Subs: Ramsdale, Hall, Schar, Lascelles, Krafth, Elanga, Willock, Ramsey, Miley


Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Canvot, Munoz, Wharton, Lerma, Mitchell, Sarr, Kamada, Mateta

Subs: Matthews, Benitez, Pino, Uche, Clyne, Hughes, Esse, Sosa, Devenny

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Wieffer, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Baleba, Ayari, Minteh, Rutter, Gomez, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, Tzimas, Boscagli, De Cuyper, Veltman, Coppola, Knight, Oriola, Kostoulas


Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Savona, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, Jesus

Subs: John, Morato, Awoniyi, Kalimuendo, Hutchinson, Yates, Cunha, McAtee, Abbott

Leeds United XI: Perri, Bogle, Rodon, Bijol, Gudmundsson, Ampadu, Longstaff, Stach, Aaronson, Okafor, Nmecha

Subs: Darlow, Justin, Struijk, Gruev, Tanaka, Harrison, James, Piroe, Calvert-Lewin


LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DC) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:

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  1. No Name to Display
    • 11 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Lol! I started both Pope and Thiago.. how lucky was that??? Hahaha

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Serious jam

    2. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      How was Pope lucky?

      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        4 months, 12 days ago

        Ah. -1 saved

    3. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Same \0/

  2. Feanor
    • 16 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Thiago you beauty

    Now just need a cheeky Minteh goal to save my week

  3. The Philosopher
    • 5 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Brought in Mateta instead of Thiago ffs

    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 13 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      So it was you!

  4. RICICLE
    • 3 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    But of course my rival just randomly bringing Martinez, of course lol

  5. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Come on Brighton

  6. 1zverGGadeM
    • 8 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Come on Mateta! Just score please!!!

    1. JBG
      • 7 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Sarr assist preferably or other way around

      1. 1zverGGadeM
        • 8 Years
        4 months, 12 days ago

        Let it be!

  7. Fifa las vegas
    • 13 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Think I might go Woltemade > Thiago and spend elsewhere. Rotate Thiago and Welbeck (and no doubt bench loads of points)

    1. Bunk Moreland
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Thiago you can start in every match. I think he will score 180-200 points this season.

  8. JBG
    • 7 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    This GW is so bad that livefpl is just crashing

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 13 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Up there with one of the worst ever

      I’m still hopeful both Gakpo and Reijnders come of the bench to score though

  9. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Come on Thiago, feast on the 10 men.

    1. No Name to Display
      • 11 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      This!!!

  10. Feanor
    • 16 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Should of started Senesi over Semenyo

    How dumb of me

  11. Fifa las vegas
    • 13 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Welbeck off 🙁

  12. Sgt. Schultz
    • 9 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Welb subbed

  13. SpaceCadet
    • 12 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Anderson on 10 defcons!

  14. Warby84
    • 10 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Need a Szobo masterclass!!

  15. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Raya, Gabriel, Burn, Semenyo, Minteh, Grealish, Mateta, Dubravka, Longstaff, Gudmundsson, Senesi…

    What an abysmal week to Bench Boost, from a position of such relative promise!

    At least Villa have won big 🙂

    1. Livinginapool - Top 100 Any…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Same here. Fixtures looked good tbf

  16. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 9 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Gakpooo

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Cakpo

  17. Feanor
    • 16 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    What is Palace’s goal scoring record after playing on Thursday?

    1. Mother Farke
      • 2 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Mixed bag. 3 v Villa, 1 v Everton, 0 v the Arsenal.

  18. Pompel
    • 12 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    I feel like a bad person for wanting a Brighton goal to ruin all those filthy Munoz/Lacroix/Richards cs points ( yes , I have Guehi...)

    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      I have Guehi too so won’t happen

      1. Pompel
        • 12 Years
        4 months, 12 days ago

        group hug

    2. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 12 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      You are. Especially in a week like this

  19. JBG
    • 7 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Digne assisting and Barkley scoring, whatisthis? 2018?

  20. Flynny
    • 11 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Disaster week. 26 with haaland to go

    Semenyo pen miss

    Burn sent off

  21. Sgt. Schultz
    • 9 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Tielemans G?

    1. Sgt. Schultz
      • 9 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      Malen G looks like

  22. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Newcastle are woeful.

    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      My fault for bringing in Pope and Wolt

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        4 months, 12 days ago

        All on you mate

      2. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        4 months, 12 days ago

        Wolt got an Assist, thats a win

  23. 1zverGGadeM
    • 8 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Malen G

    1. Feanor
      • 16 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      So lucky for him

  24. Feanor
    • 16 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Villa score 4

  25. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 12 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    The GW is so bad in general that even these 4 fixtures are not hurting me much despite only owning Semenyo 😆

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 months, 12 days ago

      EO

      Most have 6 of the front 8

  26. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Villa with the 4

    Emery masters his opponent at home again

    And away

  27. Cojones of Destiny
    • 8 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    truly gw from hell :/

  28. Couto
    • 6 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Bloody Sunday:
    Pope -no clean, injured
    Senesi- no clean, Goals conceded 4
    Semenyo- missed a penalty
    Sarr- nothing
    Mateta- nothing
    Minteh- nothing
    Gapko- not start

  29. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Palace playing for a 0-0.

  30. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    4 months, 12 days ago

    Even when Villa run rampant Lollie cant get any points