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Coventry City take on Brighton and Hove Albion in the first of two Premier League matches to take place this Sunday.

Kick-off at the CBS Arena is at 14:00 BST.

TEAM NEWS

The team news is as straightforward as it comes: both sides are unchanged.

Taiwo Awoniyi leads the line again for the hosts, with Ellis Simms absent from the matchday squad.

Just two Coventry players are owned by more than 5% of Fantasy managers: Milan van Ewijk and Bobby Thomas.

They both start, as Frank Lampard continues with last week’s formation shift to a 3-4-3.

As for Brighton, new boy Femi Azeez and Georginio Rutter both miss out, even though Fabian Hurzeler provided encouraging updates in his press conference on Friday.

The most popular picks from Albion, Bart Verbruggen, the ‘out-of-position’ Maxim De Cuyper and Pascal Gross, are all in the starting line-up.

LINE-UPS

Coventry City XI: Rushworth, Amenda, Thomas, Pinnock, van Ewijk, Onyeka, Grimes, Dasilva, Rudoni, Mason-Clark, Awoniyi

Subs: Bentley, Sakamoto, Yirenkyi, Mfuni, Tchaouna, Thomas-Asante, Torp, Hamer, Cherif

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Kadioglu, Vuskovic, Dunk, Boscagli, Ayari, Gross, Gomez, Yalcouye, De Cuyper, Kostoulas

Subs: Steele, Hadjam, Struijk, Promise, Chema, Osman, Costinha, O’Riley, Osman


LIVE GAMEWEEK 4 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE

You can follow all the day’s action via the Live Gameweek page, which you can find in the all-new FPL Toolkit section.

Here you can track 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.

And there’s also the all-new Match Centre to explore. Here, you’ll find stats, heatmaps, rolling xG graphs and more on every Premier League fixture.

A lot is free for all, with Chief Scout Members getting full access.

Enjoy!


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  1. RICICLE
    • 4 Years
    3 hours, 52 mins ago

    People really kicking out to the max with Gross

    1. RICICLE
      • 4 Years
      3 hours, 6 mins ago

      Lucking*

    2. lilmessipran
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 4 mins ago

      Lucking how? Was unfortunate not to pick any returns last week. Will play 90 every gw takes all set pieces, just Szobo for 1.5m cheaper

    3. Feanor
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 3 mins ago

      Not luck to pick a 5.5 mid on pens who plays 90 minutes and is facing a promoted side.

      1. Milk, 1 Šuker
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 hours, 2 mins ago

        This

  2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 52 mins ago

    Groß and De Cuyper are season breakers

  3. TheBiffas
    • 5 Years
    3 hours, 52 mins ago

    If u don't own Groß wtf are u doing

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      Not copying content creators maybe?

      1. Milk, 1 Šuker
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 hours, 49 mins ago

        lol yes using our own heads

      2. TheBiffas
        • 5 Years
        3 hours, 42 mins ago

        Pretty sure the content creators sold for Sangare GW2

    2. One for All
      • 8 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      Lol glad I bought him in wildcard, triple Brighton.

  4. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 51 mins ago

    Damn Kostoulas might grab 3 baps as got got brought down for peno

    1. Jordan.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      poor you

      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        3 hours, 49 mins ago

        Panic over Groß on all 3 lol

  5. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    3 hours, 51 mins ago

    I’m comfortably top million so far but this is one of the worst start to a season in recent memory, the amount of spoon feeding, AI, it’s just all ruining the game

    1. Feanor
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      Don’t need spoons or AI to pick Gross

      1. Qaiss
        • 10 Years
        3 hours, 49 mins ago

        Yes you do and you know it. Apart from Brighton fans, no-one would really pick a player like that in seasons past

        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          3 hours, 49 mins ago

          Gross has been a feature of the game for a while

          When he's here

        2. Feanor
          • 17 Years
          3 hours, 46 mins ago

          He’s on pens and plays 90

          You thick or somethin

          1. Qaiss
            • 10 Years
            3 hours, 43 mins ago

            So was Tielemans and no-one picked him when he was at Villa

            You’re the one who’s a bit thick because you need content creators to hold your hand

            1. Feanor
              • 17 Years
              3 hours, 37 mins ago

              No one needs a CC to tell them to pick a nailed 5.5 mid on pens for a team that scores a good amount of goals.

              You’re a crybaby clown

              1. Qaiss
                • 10 Years
                3 hours, 36 mins ago

                Keep telling yourself that old boy. As I said, why didn’t you pick Tielemans as an example when he was at Villa then?

                You only sing when you win, if you looked through my posts you’d see I have been saying FPL is in a bad way for a long time

        3. TheBiffas
          • 5 Years
          3 hours, 37 mins ago

          Groß is an FPL stalwart lol

          Anyone who noticed how well he's done since returning in January had him in their GW1 team from release

    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      last season was kinda fun ngl with the template picks struggling, esp at the start

    3. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 49 mins ago

      TC fails

      People chucking around chips like confetti

      Gw19 rank tells you where you really are in the first half of the season.

  6. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    3 hours, 51 mins ago

    Gross will score at least 144 points this season

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 49 mins ago

      Oddly specific

      1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
        • 9 Years
        3 hours, 48 mins ago

        Think about it

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 17 Years
          3 hours, 47 mins ago

          Is it his age?

  7. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 hours, 51 mins ago

    Benching Gross was a huge mistake.

    1. Milk, 1 Šuker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      Who on earth are you benching him for? It’s Coventry. You have to play him.

    2. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 50 mins ago

      Some might say a gross mistake

      1. PartyTime
        • 5 Years
        3 hours, 48 mins ago

        gross misconduct

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 17 Years
          3 hours, 45 mins ago

          that’s the one

    3. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 46 mins ago

      Gross negligence

      Away at Cov

    4. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      3 hours, 43 mins ago

      Grossly mistake

  8. PartyTime
    • 5 Years
    3 hours, 49 mins ago

    CC's picked Gomez over Groß

    1. Baines on Toast...
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 hours, 48 mins ago

      This was genuinely an insane thing to see

    2. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 41 mins ago

      Not really? Most of the FPL Review guys have Groß and are smashing it

      Andy https://fantasy.premierleague.com/en/entry/41/event/4
      BigManBakar https://fantasy.premierleague.com/en/entry/5133/event/4

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 7 Years
        3 hours, 40 mins ago

        Quite a few do have Gomez for some reason.

  9. Tomerick
    • 12 Years
    3 hours, 49 mins ago

    That red card has killed my Vuskovic defcon potential!

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 47 mins ago

      will get there if he plays 90

      1. JBG
        • 8 Years
        3 hours, 45 mins ago

        Welp

        1. Tomerick
          • 12 Years
          3 hours, 43 mins ago

          He just managed it before he went off!

          1. Tomerick
            • 12 Years
            3 hours, 38 mins ago

            And now it’s updated to 9. Fml

  10. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 49 mins ago

    Come on Thomas nearly there with defcon

  11. Baines on Toast...
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 hours, 49 mins ago

    Brighton making FH turn out pretty well despite Palmer fail

    1. Baines on Toast...
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 hours, 21 mins ago

      Another team I wanted this week but didn't want for the next number of weeks. Shame Liverpool are dross else this could've been a brilliant strategy

      1. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 hours, 19 mins ago

        *Gross

  12. Harper_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 47 mins ago

    Never ever can I get lucky in this stupid game

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 19 mins ago

      Do you know Brosstan?

      You could compare notes!

      1. Harper_
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        2 hours, 25 mins ago

        I need more luck not the other way around

    2. GoonerSteve
      • 16 Years
      3 hours, 18 mins ago

      Its torture at times.

  13. Emiliano Sala
    • 10 Years
    3 hours, 47 mins ago

    Nasty points for gross
    It’s clearly by chance but it happens again and again

    1. Baines on Toast...
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 hours, 47 mins ago

      Taking penalties is not down to chance

      1. Emiliano Sala
        • 10 Years
        3 hours, 45 mins ago

        taking it in easiest game of the season sure is

        1. Absolutely Muñozed
          • 1 Year
          3 hours, 42 mins ago

          stop it - you don't make any sense here

  14. have you seen cyan
    • 7 Years
    3 hours, 47 mins ago

    WC has smashed it this week. 87 and still got Gross to finish and Gvard and Haaland.

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 46 mins ago

      91 then

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 7 Years
        3 hours, 45 mins ago

        xD

        Gvard goal for sure

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 17 Years
          3 hours, 45 mins ago

          hope so!

    2. JBG
      • 8 Years
      3 hours, 46 mins ago

      Would you take Gvardiol RC, Haaland 1 G.

      But City lose 2-1?

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 7 Years
        3 hours, 45 mins ago

        No lol

        1. JBG
          • 8 Years
          3 hours, 44 mins ago

          Well I would hehe

  15. Eightball
    • 5 Years
    3 hours, 46 mins ago

    Foden starts, LET'S GO!!

    I'm looking forward to the same headache next gameweek haha

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      3 hours, 46 mins ago

      well done for being patient with him

  16. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 hours, 46 mins ago

    This game. Yuck!

  17. Scotch Jock
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 hours, 46 mins ago

    Man Utd XI: Lammens, Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Dorgu, Tielemans, Mainoo, Mbeumo, Cunha, Fernandes, Rashford.

    Man City XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Guehi, Gvardiol, Anderson, Fernandez, Foden, Semenyo, Cherki, Haaland.

    1. Feanor
      • 17 Years
      2 hours, 58 mins ago

      Bet Cherki outscores Palmer

      1. GoonerSteve
        • 16 Years
        2 hours, 56 mins ago

        I've sold him so fully expect a haul

    2. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      2 hours, 58 mins ago

      Second class post

  18. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 44 mins ago

    being real, how have coventry actually not scored today . verbruggen masterclass

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 18 mins ago

      Yeah

      It's not looking likely

  19. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 44 mins ago

    Could do with that Coventry goal

  20. Sailboats
    • 10 Years
    3 hours, 43 mins ago

    Pascal Groß for ballon dor

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 7 Years
      3 hours, 41 mins ago

      Schade is some tough competition though. The new Messi and Ronaldo.

  21. Emiliano Sala
    • 10 Years
    3 hours, 42 mins ago

    at least that killed verb bps chance

    1. Absolutely Muñozed
      • 1 Year
      3 hours, 41 mins ago

      hopefully because I have started kinsky istead

  22. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 42 mins ago

    oh is dunk ahead of vuskovic in RCB order? damn. or at least there or there abouts. thats abit of a killer

  23. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 13 Years
    3 hours, 42 mins ago

    Anything you would change here?

    Raya 4.0

    Gabriel Calafiori Gvardiol Thomas O’Shea

    Palmer Cherki Szobo Groß Sangare

    Haaland Pedro 4.5

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      2 hours, 47 mins ago

      Szobo tests my patience

  24. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 42 mins ago

    Sometimes I feel Brighton is just a rigged club which is involved in betting

  25. Mighty Duck
    • 2 Years
    3 hours, 41 mins ago

    Gakpo 1-point cameo blocks Gross 14-pointer. Welcome hatred my old friend.

  26. FantasyTony
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 40 mins ago

    Dunk goal

  27. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 40 mins ago

    jesus wtf dunk

  28. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 1 Year
    3 hours, 39 mins ago

    WOW

  29. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 39 mins ago

    Dunk G think Groß A

    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      3 hours, 39 mins ago

      No Groß is AA sorry

      1. Absolutely Muñozed
        • 1 Year
        3 hours, 38 mins ago

        shitee

  30. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 hours, 39 mins ago

    Dunk stealing De Cuyper BAPs haha.

    1. Absolutely Muñozed
      • 1 Year
      3 hours, 38 mins ago

      atleast we are getting points from Gross

      1. Three Pints of Schlager
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 hours, 11 mins ago

        Maybe Daft Dunk will score again.

    2. PartyTime
      • 5 Years
      3 hours, 37 mins ago

      We are happy with 8 pts even