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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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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.

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Enjoy!


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  1. Del Griffith
    • 14 Years
    20 hours, 24 mins ago

    Gross, what a legend

  2. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    20 hours, 24 mins ago

    Gross ffs!!

    Arsenal double defence gone and rooted to my bench.

    And others getting him for Pedro no doubt. What a killer…

    1. Three Pints of Schlager
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      20 hours, 16 mins ago

      Pedro Porro?

  3. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 24 mins ago

    Raya OG????

    Even better

    1. JBG
      • 8 Years
      20 hours, 23 mins ago

      That'll do

    2. Feanor
      • 17 Years
      20 hours, 23 mins ago

      No

  4. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    20 hours, 24 mins ago

    Howww the bloody hell does Gross keep scoring?! Can’t see him keeping this up with Brighton in Europe, but might need to just bite the bullet at this point…

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      20 hours, 22 mins ago

      He was brilliant before

      I should have done Ndiaye to Gross yesterday

      1. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        20 hours, 8 mins ago

        I ditched Ndiaye for MGW because I figured surely Coventry was an easier fixture then Arsenal… behind-the-couch time later!

      2. FPL Scoop
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        20 hours, 8 mins ago

        than*…

    2. DeSelby
      • 4 Years
      20 hours, 21 mins ago

      It's too late baby, now it's too late.

    3. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      20 hours, 21 mins ago

      It’s so annoying, I’m too stubborn to get him but it’s killing me

  5. Zilla
    • 8 Years
    20 hours, 23 mins ago

    FFS Benched Gross, can't wait to have bench fodders all over soon. My bench been getting too much points.

  6. Ady87
    • 13 Years
    20 hours, 23 mins ago

    Need Gross and Schade asap

  7. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 23 mins ago

    Did that hit the post then his glove?

    Either way, those benching Gross to get busted by him is superb stuff

    1. Feanor
      • 17 Years
      20 hours, 22 mins ago

      Goal - GROSS
      Assist - KOSTOULAS

      Brighton 1-0 Arsenal (31 mins)

      #FPL #BHARS

    2. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      20 hours, 22 mins ago

      Loads will get him from the bench

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

        Yeah

        Gross luck

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        20 hours, 20 mins ago

        Not wearing my driving glasses, there was a different angle I saw from behind the goal on a replay that made me question it.

  8. RICICLE
    • 4 Years
    20 hours, 23 mins ago

    of course it's that Gross

  9. F4L
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 23 mins ago

    ah got gross in this gw but benched 😥

  10. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    20 hours, 22 mins ago

    3x arsenal defence, but Gross coming in for Pedro. Hmmm

  11. Absolutely Muñozed
    • 1 Year
    20 hours, 22 mins ago

    ML rival has gross coming on for pedro

  12. RICICLE
    • 4 Years
    20 hours, 22 mins ago

    ooooft!! Barry close!

  13. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    20 hours, 21 mins ago

    Gross at about 27% ownership

  14. F4L
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 21 mins ago

    when does gross enter the captaincy conversation 😉

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      20 hours, 14 mins ago

      Next gw

  15. CoracAld2831
    • 5 Years
    20 hours, 21 mins ago

    Triple CS busted, but at least it was Gross.

  16. Albrightondknight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 20 mins ago

    Just saying pascal is f ing gross

  17. Powers106
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 19 mins ago

    Gross essential so gonna have to hit WC tonight!

  18. RED PILL
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    20 hours, 19 mins ago

    I’m on a roll. Ajer 7 points last on my bench. Now Pascal second on my bench.

  19. Pompel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    20 hours, 19 mins ago

    Last swap de Cuyper first on bench ahead of Gross not looking to brilliant now

  20. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    20 hours, 18 mins ago

    With exact money Sangare to Groß is going to be basically forced transfer quite soon.

    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      20 hours, 17 mins ago

      I need another one from Hall now 😉

  21. F4L
    • 11 Years
    20 hours, 18 mins ago

    if raya didnt do that wonder save from pen, arsenal would be clean sheet-less in 3 😯

  22. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    20 hours, 17 mins ago

    Is it worth it to get Grob in now ?

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      20 hours, 17 mins ago

      Nope, I will not cave

  23. Esraj
    • 10 Years
    20 hours, 17 mins ago

    Miley Cyrus down.

  24. Fifa las vegas
    • 14 Years
    20 hours, 17 mins ago

    Leif Davis sitter put wide, but would’ve been offside anyway

  25. Pompel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    20 hours, 16 mins ago

    May as well hope for Brighton 2 - 0 now with de Cuyper assist, since Arsenal cs broken

  26. Fifa las vegas
    • 14 Years
    20 hours, 15 mins ago

    Brighton really are class this season though. They’ve always been solid but different level so far this year

    1. el polako
      • 9 Years
      20 hours, 15 mins ago

      Yep.
      Arsenal looking helpless.

    2. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      20 hours, 14 mins ago

      Have their jerseys peeled in the wash or what? Don’t realise the FPL pics were actually correct

  27. have you seen cyan
    • 7 Years
    20 hours, 15 mins ago

    Can I get a Leif goal please

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      20 hours, 14 mins ago

      You should have had already

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 7 Years
        20 hours, 13 mins ago

        Ye

  28. Esraj
    • 10 Years
    20 hours, 14 mins ago

    Gro$$ is most definitely targeting to be in the German squad for the 2030 world cup.

    1. Three Pints of Schlager
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      20 hours, 13 mins ago

      Klopp did not invite him for the IB

  29. Ribus
    • 13 Years
    20 hours, 13 mins ago

    Last min switch at the beginning gomez/maguire over gross/shaw went well

  30. JBG
    • 8 Years
    20 hours, 13 mins ago

    Need another from you Barry or even an assist