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19 September 2026 597 comments
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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.


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Enjoy!


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  1. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    18 hours, 48 mins ago

    Bad day in the office 6 pts from 4, regretting playing passive and not FH-ing

    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 14 Years
      18 hours, 47 mins ago

      Ouch. Still time to improve.

  2. Nightf0x
    • 11 Years
    18 hours, 46 mins ago

    Verb (kinsky)
    Cala konsa egan neco (ewjik)
    Ode bruno palmer schade (slater)
    Pedro haland (dcl)

    Currently on a -4, g2g (ofc bearing any updates in the intl break) or play the WC ?

    1. Cojones of Destiny
      • 8 Years
      18 hours, 40 mins ago

      WC

    2. GCHILD2K16
      • 10 Years
      16 hours, 57 mins ago

      Told you guys in my post wk 3 reflections that triple or double arsenal def is over as they will start to concede and viola.
      Ask fpl to give me a regular article slot if you want to hearr real insight v the regular fpl writers

      1. Nightf0x
        • 11 Years
        15 hours, 56 mins ago

        But they are the only def. I trust in the league

  3. CoracAld2831
    • 5 Years
    18 hours, 30 mins ago

    Time to see if my early transfer this GW (Szobo to MGW) will bear any fruits.

    1. CoracAld2831
      • 5 Years
      16 hours, 31 mins ago

      The amswer is no.

  4. GCHILD2K16
    • 10 Years
    17 hours ago

    I warned all of you to avoid Nottingham forest players when everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. FPL needs to give me a weekly article slot where i tell you all the truth contrary to the template or suggestions of the other fpl writers.

    I also said arsenal will lose at Brighton this week..

    FPL where are you at?

  5. GCHILD2K16
    • 10 Years
    16 hours, 47 mins ago

    As the only one after Brighton beat man u midweek to call Brighton beating arsenal
    i benched dedic, went triple Brighton with verb, de cruyper and gross.

    Good looking out to anyone who followed suit;-)