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Three more Premier League matches to come now, including the strangely untelevised (in the UK) Brighton and Hove Albion v Arsenal.

Everton and Newcastle United also host newly promoted opposition in the form of Ipswich Town and Hull City

Above kick-off times in BST

TEAM NEWS

Jurrien Timber and Bruno Guimaraes are handed their first Premier League starts of the season as Mikel Arteta makes two changes from Arsenal’s 2-0 win over Sunderland.

Ben White misses out with an injury, while Myles Lewis-Skelly moves to the bench.

There’s again no Cristhian Mosquera in the squad but Piero Hincapie does make the bench, having missed the EFL Cup tie against Ipswich Town in midweek.

Pascal Struijk and Chema Andrés make their first league starts of 2026/27, too, with Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler also making a couple of alterations from Gameweek 4.

Lewis Dunk is absent with a stiff neck (!), while £4.5m midfielder Malick Yalcouye has to make do with substitute duty. Does this mean Pascal Gross will be in the ’10’?

At St James’ Park, injury-riddled Newcastle promote Sean Steur and Joe Willock to the starting XI in place of the sidelined Amar Dedic and Nico Gonzalez.

With Tino Livramento also unexpectedly missing, it looks like Lewis Miley will be operating at right-back.

One of Hull’s two changes is enforced as Lucas Herrington replaces the concussed Nobel Mendy.

In the other alteration, Sorba Thomas makes his full Premier League debut in place of Elliot Stroud.

It’s a straight swap on the left wing for Everton as Jack Grealish comes in for Tyrique George.

And despite winning at Crystal Palace last Saturday, Ipswich boss makes a couple of tweaks for today’s clash on Merseyside.

There’s a notable change between the posts as Kjell Scherpen is benched. Alas, budget goalkeeper fans, his replacement, Christian Walton, is £4.4m in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) and not £4.0m.

The other change comes in defence. Abdoul Ouattara replaces Jacob Greaves, so Dara O’Shea will presumably move from right-back to centre-half.

LINE-UPS

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Kadioglu, Vuskovic, Struijk, Boscagli, Ayari, Gross, Andres, Gomez, De Cuyper, Kostoulas.

Subs: Steele, Hadjam, Rutter, David, Osman, Costinha, Svoboda, O’Reilly, Yalcouye.

Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Konsa, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Guimaraes, Odegaard, Saka, Havertz, Tzolis.

Subs: Arrizabalaga, Hincapie, Eze, Gyokeres, Madueke, Merino, Zubimendi, Lewis-Skelly, Dowman.


Everton XI: Pickford, Maitland-Niles, Branthwaite, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, Garner, Armstrong, Johnson, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Barry.

Subs: Travers, King, Keane, O’Brien, George, Hackney, Alcaraz, Dibling, Graham.

Ipswich Town XI: Walton, Ouattara, O’Shea, Diop, Davis, Lukic, Palacios, Fatawu, Enciso, Clarke, Emersonn.

Subs: Scherpen, Furlong, Greaves, Florentino, Nunez, Akpom, Flemming, Philogene, Maeda.


Newcastle United XI: Hornicek, L Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Hall, Steur, Willock, Murphy, Wissa, Barnes, Fernandez-Pardo.

Subs: Pope, Schar, Bamba, Toure, Thompson, Pivas, Salia, Mason Miley, Mills.

Hull City XI: Tzolakis, Coyle, Ajayi, Egan, Herrington, Giles, Belloumi, Crooks, Slater, Thomas, McBurnie.

Subs: Phillips, Gelhardt, Hjerto-Dahl, McNair, Stroud, Gourna, Iroegbunam, Vaz, Cho.


LIVE GAMEWEEK 5 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE

Spurs v Aston Villa team news: Porro + Manzambi start Timber and

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. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
    1 month, 15 days ago

    De Cuyper YC

  2. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    De Cup booked

    6 mins added on

    1. Fifa las vegas
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Time fit Saka still so…oh wait

      1. Fifa las vegas
        1 month, 15 days ago

        *for

  3. JBG
    1 month, 15 days ago

    This Arsenal collapse have given two of my ML rivals some heavy jam.... De Cuyper for one and Gr *dry heace* oß for the other.

  4. Count of Monte Hristo
    1 month, 15 days ago

    1 more DEFCON please Gab, it’s the least you can do.

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      This +1

    2. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Re arrange the following words
      at clutching straws

      1. Count of Monte Hristo
        1 month, 15 days ago

        3 points are better than 1

  5. el polako
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Kiernan Dont Haul.

    1. Three Pints of Schlager
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      *Doesn't

      1. el polako
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Sori?

  6. Fifa las vegas
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Only thing I have left is the hope of an Ipswich goal

    1. Benedict_Alexander_Arnold
      1 month, 15 days ago

      RIP

  7. TheBiffas
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Lovely Maitland-Niles haul

  8. v1nc3
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Diop defcon

  9. #1 Arne Engels Fan
    1 month, 15 days ago

    God help whichever Arsenal players aren't called up for internationals over the 3 week break

    Arteta will probably light the training ground on fire every day to teach them group harmony

    poor Max Dowman will be asked to extinguish the fire whilst blindfolded

    1. el polako
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Arteta will probably fake few injuries so they don’t go on international duty.

  10. HollywoodXI
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Why has Raya only got one save on FPL? Listening to sky sports and there were two saves mentioned over and above the one from the first half.

  11. Never Captain Nicky Butt
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Ill-advised Bruno captain to save my gw

    1. Fifa las vegas
      1 month, 15 days ago

      MGW for me, at the cost of losing Bruno *gulp*

  12. JBG
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Barry should've had a brace and 3bps... fcking VAR

    1. RICICLE
      1 month, 15 days ago

      absolutely hate VAR

  13. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Verbruggen Kinsky a nice example of the headache of rotating GKs!

    1. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Raya a nice example of only having one playing goalkeeper

  14. lilmessipran
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Anyone doing worse than 7 from 6? Gross first on bench has double of my main team.. stupid silly game

    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Pesumably you picked JP .... or perhaps not

      1. lilmessipran
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Unlikely Gross comes on .. Sanagare and Wissa with two fat zeroes

      2. lilmessipran
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Also sold JP

    2. FPL Emu
      1 month, 15 days ago

      6(-4) from 5 here!

  15. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Rice is such an Ars

  16. Pompel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Double Brighton cs secured.
    Gross 14 pts staring at me from 2nd on bench. Praying for another no show, fat chance I guess

    1. GCHILD2K16
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Told you all during the weeek that Brighton will win hence went triple Brighton with verb, de cruyper and gross

  17. wowo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Rice should see Red, lucky him

    1. MrZ
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Ars is such a lucky team

  18. JBG
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Just realised I sold Gomez on my WC for King... he got an assist and defcon points, along with CS. Arsenal... you frauds

    1. wowo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      I played him ahead of DCl, on a 5-0win,he got me nothing and DCL haul

  19. The-Red-1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Defcon king Egan subbed early and finished on 4 defcon. Is he injured?

  20. el polako
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Rice should see red.

    1. wowo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Ref tried to stop VAR stepped in for review with a yellow

  21. thegame983
    1 month, 15 days ago

    hall with defcon

    1. Bobby Digital
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Get in!

    2. Cojones of Destiny
      1 month, 15 days ago

      at least some good news

    3. lilmessipran
      1 month, 15 days ago

      I swear going with Thiaw over Hall on WC3 has been the worst fpl decision i have made this season.. so far

  22. DA Minnion (Former great)
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Have had Gross since day one. Unreal fantasy asset.

    1. fusen
      1 month, 15 days ago

      I didn't get him on my gw3 WC as surely he won't keep this up and has mediocre fixtures coming up...

      Painful this is now whether to jump on the train or not? My normal play style is don't be stubborn, jump on just in case it continues, but I have a decent enough team already

      1. DA Minnion (Former great)
        1 month, 15 days ago

        Watched the Brighton game today. They were unreal. I've De cup also. Kostolus up front looks really quality.

  23. Cojones of Destiny
    1 month, 15 days ago

    what to do with donkey wissa ?
    a. play vs Cov
    b. Sell to who ?

  24. Feanor
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Wissa to Delap seems on

    1. Cojones of Destiny
      1 month, 15 days ago

      why not Barry ?

  25. F4L
    1 month, 15 days ago

    hall with a huge late defcon push, swear he was on 3 at like 65 mins.

  26. PogChamp
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Tarkowski legend

  27. F4L
    1 month, 15 days ago

    no hate but why does it feel like everytime everton keep a clean sheet this season they should've conceded. pickford some gk

  28. fusen
    1 month, 15 days ago

    So everyone is selling all their Arsenal and Chelsea players now right?

    1. GCHILD2K16
      1 month, 15 days ago

      Should have done so wk 4 bar raya or cala and tzolis...rogers and or JP.
      Check out for my weekly reflection articles to hear great insights contrary to other FPL writers aka template.

  29. Pompel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 15 days ago

    Big question marks now on which Arsenal triple-up to aim for - if any. Think I might hold on to my WC a couple more GWs

    1. GCHILD2K16
      1 month, 15 days ago

      None. Raya or cala and tzolis > odegard has been the play since wk 3. No dbl or tripld def.
      Odegard and saka always flatter to deceive. Ga every 3-4 games type players with odd purple patch

  30. F4L
    1 month, 15 days ago

    is mosquera better than konsa?