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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

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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. TheBiffas
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Wish the content creators didn't clock on to Groß in pre-season

    I was his number 1 advocate

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 16 days ago

      I naively thought his age was going to hinder him eventually.

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

        That combined with a European outing for Brighton

      2. DeSelby
        1 month, 16 days ago

        That and Europe kept me away.

    2. Studs Up
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 16 days ago

      It's the year 2050...CC's still live rent free in ppls heads

  2. DeSelby
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Gabriel such a cheat. Haha, didn't get away with it.

  3. Supersonic_
    1 month, 16 days ago

    I knew Gross would score

  4. RICICLE
    1 month, 16 days ago

    2 players i've really missed the boat on so far, De Cuyper and Gross, eurghh, still done ok without them but too late to hop on?

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 16 days ago

      It's Gw5

      The fixtures put you off

      1. RICICLE
        1 month, 16 days ago

        true, i think i'll hop on Gross

  5. Feanor
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Bartman save on Saka

  6. Shark Team
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Kostoulas is too good for his age

  7. Feanor
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Koustulas goal

  8. Dont give a fuchs
    1 month, 16 days ago

    omg kostoulas

  9. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Oh Saka should score

  10. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Goal

    To the Greek BHA

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 16 days ago

      Saka almost scored

      Missed it

      End to end

      The Arsenal defenders are taking one hell of a beating!

      1. Feanor
        1 month, 16 days ago

        Saka nowhere near scoring lol

  11. F4L
    1 month, 16 days ago

    pen to newcastle

    1. Fifa las vegas
      1 month, 16 days ago

      F**k this shite. Wissa cursed

  12. Fifa las vegas
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Kostloulas :wow:

  13. Del Griffith
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Arsenal getting battered

  14. Esraj
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Penalty Newcastle.

  15. RICICLE
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Newcastle pen

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

      Missed!

      1. RICICLE
        1 month, 16 days ago

        oh yes!

  16. Pep Roulette
    1 month, 16 days ago

    When will Se Cuyper lose his place at LW and will he shift to LB then or be benched?

  17. JBG
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Hull sadly back to norm when they didn't need to

  18. Bobby Digital
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Arsenal sucks

  19. Zilla
    1 month, 16 days ago

    This Kostulas is a good player

  20. Hughes Your Daddy
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Arsenal defending shocking

  21. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Wissa hahaha

  22. F4L
    1 month, 16 days ago

    gomez got the a

  23. have you seen cyan
    1 month, 16 days ago

    wissa miss lol

  24. threeputt
    1 month, 16 days ago

    wissa peno miss, i appear to have a donkey

  25. RICICLE
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Sorry wissa owners, but he is pathetic

    1. Fifa las vegas
      1 month, 16 days ago

      He can f**k off quickly enough out of my team

      1. RICICLE
        1 month, 16 days ago

        yeah i'd get rid asap bud, woeful he is

  26. Sailboats
    1 month, 16 days ago

    LOL @ Wissa

  27. jonnybhoy
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Do i just sell wissa now

    1. Fifa las vegas
      1 month, 16 days ago

      I just bought him 🙁

  28. Qaiss
    1 month, 16 days ago

    It’s fine when you’re at home to Coventry but Calafiori is forgetting that he’s a left-back

  29. Baines on Toast...
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Own Wissa and Tzolakis lol

  30. Feanor
    1 month, 16 days ago

    Wissa you muppet