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While it’s a quieter-than-usual Saturday of Premier League football, there’s plenty to interest Fantasy managers today.

New FPL darlings Brighton and Hove Albion are up later, while Liverpool and Brentford are both at home.

First up, though, is Arsenal v Bournemouth, which kicks off at 12:30 BST.

TEAM NEWS

The Gunners are still without Bukayo Saka and Jurrien Timber, while Riccardo Calafiori and Martin Odegaard are fresh casualties from midweek.

Eberechi Eze and Piero Hincapie are back from injury and among the substitutes, however.

There are three changes from Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League win over Sporting CP.

Myles Lewis-Skelly and Kai Havertz come in for Calafiori and Odegaard, while there’s also an alteration on the left wing as Gabriel Martinelli gets the nod over the benched Leandro Trossard.

Gabriel Magalhaes and Declan Rice, who recovered from minor issues to feature against Sporting, start as expected.

It’s been a long time since Bournemouth last played a competitive match. Over three weeks, in fact, when they salvaged a late draw against Manchester United.

Andoni Iraola makes just one change to the side he sent out then, with Eli Junior Kroupi coming in for Amine Adli.

That alteration will see Marcus Tavernier move to a wider role.

Tyler Adams is fit again and makes the visitors’ bench.

LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Rice, Zubimendi, Havertz, Martinelli, Madueke, Gyokeres.

Subs: Arrizabalaga, Mosquera, Hincapie, Jesus, Eze, Norgaard, Trossard, Dowman, Salmon.

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Jimenez, Senesi, Hill, Truffert, Christie, Scott, Tavernier, Kroupi, Rayan, Evanilson.

Subs: Mandas, Adams, Brooks, Gannon-Doak, Smith, Diakite, Adli, Unal, Toth.

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

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

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) 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. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    5 days, 13 hours ago

    Arsenal fans have bottled this

    1. Ignasi M
      • 8 Years
      5 days, 13 hours ago

      Now you can understand our pain.

      1. z13
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          I don't feel any sympathy

      2. Bluetiger1
        • 3 Years
        5 days, 10 hours ago

        Surely not another season - still think they will win

        Although deserved leading the Premier League
        accept open play drop & needing set play more
        often

    2. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      5 days, 13 hours ago

      For dgw

      A hill
      B senecio

      1. Gizzachance
        • 11 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        *senesi

      2. z13
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Senesi - 20% ownership
          Hill 8%
          Truffert 3%

          Not likely to make much difference but I guess it depends on if you are chasing or not

          1. Gizzachance
            • 11 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            Own senesi, onfh33
            Seem to both get defcon

        • Jet5605
          • 11 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          The one with the highest DC average over the past six weeks

        • fusen
          • 14 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          I've got both in my WC, owned Senesi for most of the season

          If you have to pick only one, go with Hill as he is hitting DC more consistently than Senesi currently

        • Bluetiger1
          • 3 Years
          5 days, 10 hours ago

          hill

      3. Sgt. Schultz
        • 9 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        CF Gabriel

        1. Ignasi M
          • 8 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Crazy moment.

        2. Baps Hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Desperate times, desperate actions needed.

      4. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Damn Gabby 🙁

      5. thegaffer82
        • 14 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Gabriel playing as a striker.
        Who does he think he is? Harry Maguire? 🙂

      6. Sailboats
        • 10 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Gabriel almost scores a 1 on 1. Great defensive tackle by Bournemouth

      7. Jet5605
        • 11 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Wonder how Klopp is feeling. Probably would have two more league titles if he stayed two more years at Liverpool.

        1. Shteve
          • 16 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          He won one title in 9 years. He'd prob still be on 9 if he waited.

      8. Nightcrawler
        • 6 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        if arsenal lose to city next week, GD becomes massively important

        TC could be massive with Haaland

      9. keefy59
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        The current leader first bought in Groß on his wildcard
        But then changed it to Scott & started him

        1. fusen
          • 14 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Part of the luck needed to be 1st in the world

          1. keefy59
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            I don't think it's luck
            He's a very skilful manager in his first season
            No hits a full 15 man rotational squad
            Still has BB,FH & TC

            1. thegaffer82
              • 14 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              You still need to be lucky though. There’s so many managers who are brilliant at the game and clued in, you need a lot of luck to be number 1.
              Being lucky doesn’t mean you’re aren’t a good manager either

        2. thegaffer82
          • 14 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Gross still got to play Burnley yet so you never know…

          1. keefy59
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            He already had two other Brighton players but no Welbeck
            I think he might bring him in next week .

      10. thegaffer82
        • 14 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Gyokeres isn’t that great is he? At least in the PL anyway

        1. Ignasi M
          • 8 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          He's okay, but not for a team in the top 4.

        2. Jet5605
          • 11 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          He's a mid table striker. Not good enough for teams competing for the league. Could see him at somewhere like Forest or Fulham.

        3. Dannyb
          • 9 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          He's no Sesko.....

      11. fusen
        • 14 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        I played Tavernier over Hill even though I was telling myself Hill is more likely to get DC and so would be locking in a better base point level

        It's all about the DCs this season 😐

        1. thegaffer82
          • 14 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          DCs have been a nice addition to the game. It’s brought so many more players into the game who’d usually be complete nothing picks. Hope they keep it!

      12. tiger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Hill YC

      13. Nightcrawler
        • 6 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        lewis skelly being offside there is just hilarious

        1. The Bandit
          • 15 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          30 seconds left and they are pissing around on the touchline, rather than getting the ball into the box. Very poor

      14. Hughes Your Daddy
        • 13 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Excellent, well done Bournemouth. Really impressive.

      15. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Dropped Scott on a WC. Though, to be fair, he wasn’t going to get off the bench for me even if I handn’t.

      16. One More Hit
        • 7 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Massive result for TC36. Possibly even WC35, City will still be in it unless something goes badly awry.

        1. Jet5605
          • 11 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Indeed. I'm planning TC36, BB37 and so the less teams on the beach the better. Only BUR and WOL could be sunbathing if all goes well

      17. Jet5605
        • 11 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Right now that's over, let's focus on my FH33 draft. Early thoughts?

        Darlow
        O'Reilly - Senesi - Hill
        Semenyo - Palmer - Tav - GroB
        Haaland - Pedro - DCL

        Verbruggen - Enzo - Bijol - Cash

        1. Fitzy.
          • 14 Years
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          Inspired.

      18. JBG
        • 7 Years
        5 days, 13 hours ago

        Potentially (one of) the worse PL winners ever, for a reason.

      19. z13
          5 days, 13 hours ago

          And in 12 days, Manchester City could be top of the table.

          1. z13
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              Quite likely too.

              1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
                • 14 Years
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                Not with a -6 GD.

          2. Scapegoat Salah
            • 9 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            Lol Defcons are all over the place so may missing for Gabriel, Senesi etc. Takes ages to update recently

            1. Scapegoat Salah
              • 9 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              *many

          3. Brosstan
            • 11 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            Jokeres ruined like 8 attacks this game. Trash player

          4. gooberman
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            Set piece FC bottling the league. Its beautiful.

            1. g40steve
              • 8 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              True

          5. Gizzachance
            • 11 Years
            5 days, 13 hours ago

            Ars fans booing after only being 9 pts ahead! So poor

            1. JBG
              • 7 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              6pts* Chelsea are trash

              1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 8 Years
                5 days, 12 hours ago

                3 points Burnley a given

            2. Goro Majima
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 6 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              Agreed, pretty ridiculous.

            3. g40steve
              • 8 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              No class

            4. Moon Dog
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                So much tension in the crowd today. Every misplaced pass was met with exasperation. It must affect the players.

                1. Dannyb
                  • 9 Years
                  5 days, 13 hours ago

                  They were awful to be fair,and have been for a while.

                2. JBG
                  • 7 Years
                  5 days, 13 hours ago

                  Tbf those misplaced passes where mostly by Raya, so kind of understandable by the fans haha

            5. g40steve
              • 8 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              Arsenal would walk this league with Iraola as manager, two transfer windows they lost their 4 best players yet look at the replacements 😮

            6. Jet5605
              • 11 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              Gyokeres isn't any better than Chris Wood or Raul.

              1. Sandy Ravage
                • 10 Years
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                Swedish Woltemade vs Kiwi Drogba or Mexican Zlatan

              2. _Ninja_
                • 15 Years
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                Raul scored 323 times for Real Madid you can't compare them

                JK 😉

              3. JBG
                • 7 Years
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                Jimenez is actually the most complete striker out of those 3. But yeah, Jokeres is not what Arsenal fans thought he was

                1. Jet5605
                  • 11 Years
                  5 days, 13 hours ago

                  Agreed. Jimi is a class act.
                  It's amazing how elite clubs' scouting departments use so much sophisticated data analysis/modelling and yet anyone with half a brain can see Gyok isn't quick or dynamic enough to fit into that system with the likes of Saka & co.

            7. Qaiss
              • 10 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              Rosenior is a genius

              1. g40steve
                • 8 Years
                5 days, 12 hours ago

                He’ll be gone soon, respect the ball

            8. Gudjohnsen
              • 9 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              City 2 games in hand and if they win those and the Arsenal game they are level on points.

            9. thegaffer82
              • 14 Years
              5 days, 13 hours ago

              3 Brighton players, feels like my GW rests on Brighton doing well in this game!

              1. WVA
                • 9 Years
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                Burnley goal in first 5 minutes guaranteed

            10. Moon Dog
                5 days, 13 hours ago

                The bookies made Arsenal heavy favourites for that match but football remains as unpredictable as ever.

                Where's the next upset? Burnley to beat Brighton? Fulham to beat Liverpool?

                1. Count of Monte Hristo
                  • 12 Years
                  5 days, 13 hours ago

                  As long at Danny Dat Guy Welbeck scores a hat-trick in preparation for the DGW I will be happy,

                  1. Moon Dog
                      5 days, 12 hours ago

                      I went Mitoma 😳 🙁

                      I'm a noob like Tom Dollimore.
                      https://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/497000/event/32

                      1. Firminooooo
                        • 10 Years
                        5 days, 12 hours ago

                        +1

                        1. Under my Cucurella
                          • 10 Years
                          5 days, 12 hours ago

                          +2

                  2. thegaffer82
                    • 14 Years
                    5 days, 13 hours ago

                    Chelsea to beat City perhaps?!

                2. FC Hakkebøf
                  • 9 Years
                  5 days, 13 hours ago

                  Did not expect Mitoma to be benched. Might “waste” a FT to buy Hinshelwood as was my plan. Thought the Leader in my minileague would Wildcard and Pick him. He did not Wildcard :/

                  1. Count of Monte Hristo
                    • 12 Years
                    5 days, 13 hours ago

                    In my mind Gomez/Minteh/Mitoma were sharing the wide areas so it was boring Groß or Hinshelwood in the 10 the least rotated attacking options.

                    1. Moon Dog
                        5 days, 12 hours ago

                        When Mitoma was fit it was often Minteh and Mitoma on the wings with Gomez in the 10.

                        There's always a chance they go back to that at some point.

                    2. thegaffer82
                      • 14 Years
                      5 days, 12 hours ago

                      I’d consider Scott instead of a Brighton player if you don’t already have 3. Brightons appeal was that they had Burnley this GW, but their DGW isn’t that great