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Our final Premier League match of the day sees Nottingham Forest face bottom-of-the-table Coventry City at the City Ground.

Kick-off is at 17:30 BST.

Frank Lampard’s side are without a single Premier League point or goal to their name after four Gameweeks.

The Tricky Trees, meanwhile, have bounced back from a narrow opening-day defeat to embark on a three-match unbeaten run.

TEAM NEWS

Forest boss Oliver Glasner makes just one change from their 2-1 win over Aston Villa last Saturday.

Jair Cunha returns from injury to take the place of Ola Aina, who drops to the bench.

The most-bought player of Gameweek 5, Morgan Gibbs-White, starts, as expected. So too do Murillo, Daniel Munoz, Neco Williams and Liam Delap, all of whom were snapped up by over 100,000 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers ahead of Friday’s deadline.

As for the visitors, Lampard makes three changes to the side he sent out in Gameweek 4.

All three alterations are enforced as Aurele Amenda and Milan van Ewijk are out injured and Taiwo Awoniyi is suspended.

Caleb Yirenkyi, Brandon Thomas-Asante and Stephen Mfuni come into the Sky Blues’ starting line-up.

LINE-UPS

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Cunha, Diomande, Murillo, Munoz, Schlager, McAtee, Williams, Gibbs-White, Ndoye, Delap.

Subs: Aina, Dominguez, Hudson-Odoi, Victor, Jesus, Netz, Sangare, Wood, Yates.

Coventry XI: Rushworth, Yirenkyi, Thomas, Pinnock, Mfuni, Dasilva, Grimes, Onyeka, Rudoni, Mason-Clark, Thomas-Asante.

Subs: Bentley, Cherif, Gboho, Hamer, Latibeaudiere, Sakamoto, Simms, Tchaouna, Torp.


LIVE GAMEWEEK 5 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE

Forest Coventry

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. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    50 mins ago

    How was that not a foul on the guy who clattered Delap?

    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 mins ago

      Ref error

  2. Biggsy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    48 mins ago

    Sounds like MGW lucky to escape a yellow

    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      48 mins ago

      Think so

      1. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 mins ago

        I feared even red, but watched elsewhere for a moment...

        1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
          • 14 Years
          3 mins ago

          Joke of an episode. Nothing worthy even of a yellow, T-A just rolling around for funsies.

    2. have you seen cyan
      • 7 Years
      48 mins ago

      Silver lining for owners

  3. Come on Sels and Schlager.

  4. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 14 Years
    46 mins ago

    YES! Well done Coventry

    1. tutankamun
      • 17 Years
      24 mins ago

      *VAR

      1. Hughes Your Daddy
        • 14 Years
        21 mins ago

        Yep, with the right call.

        1. tutankamun
          • 17 Years
          5 mins ago

          Lol

  5. Nomar
    • 16 Years
    46 mins ago

    Forest suck too.

  6. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    45 mins ago

    At least we don’t have to look at this game for another 3 weeks

    1. Well..Depends on the CC and their take aways.

  7. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    45 mins ago

    23, 23, 9, 42, 23

    My bench points this season

    1. Jordan.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      19 mins ago

      mine 0,1,4,0,0,money in team

      1. Mr. O'Connell
        • 14 Years
        2 mins ago

        Dead team. No transfers allowed all season. Sods law when I get some injuries (Pedro atm) the subbed on players do the sqrt of F all.

  8. Wolfman180
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    45 mins ago

    Sooooo glad I rolled over Cherki to MGW

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      1 min ago

      What could possibly go wrong?

      1. Bonus magnet
        • 9 Years
        1 min ago

        Cherki red card loading

  9. Forest felled

  10. What a blank.week...

  11. Bonus magnet
    • 9 Years
    43 mins ago

    Sold Rush worth and van Hecke who are on 18 points combined

    My deadly 7 players on WC have given me 14 points total

    Sorcery

  12. Calculated Risks
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    43 mins ago

    5 points total from Kinsky, Davis, Sangare, Califiori. 9 points from Thomas who I only played cos Pedro out. Makes sense.

  13. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    42 mins ago

    Hmmm

    “Maintain a high threshold for VAR intervention – "Referee’s Call" will stand unless, in the opinion of the VAR, based upon the evidence readily available, that a call is a clear and obvious error”

  14. RICICLE
    • 4 Years
    42 mins ago

    A nice Thomas 9 pts sitting last on bench ha!

    1. Moon Dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 1 Year
      8 mins ago

      I played him over Groß for a 5pt loss.

      Bittersweet!

      1. RICICLE
        • 4 Years
        7 mins ago

        hey i'd be happy with that bud! i can't complain though today with Hall and Barry, 35 pts i'm actually content with

        1. Moon Dog
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 1 Year
          2 mins ago

          Nice, that's huge in this week.

          Thanks. Yeah I called this match correctly at least. I thought Coventry were being underrated, and Forest struggle to score against these type of teams. So ignored MGW and played Thomas.

  15. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    42 mins ago

    10 pts from 6 anyone worst? 19 pts on the bench inclusding JP

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 mins ago

      *worse

  16. F4L
    • 11 Years
    42 mins ago

    fulham are bottom 😐

    huge match tomorrow

    1. Bruno blank for sure

  17. Randy_Marsh
    • 16 Years
    40 mins ago

    Happy for frank despite my fpl woes

  18. HollywoodXI
    • 12 Years
    40 mins ago

    21 points. Haaland (c) and Szobo to play. Awesome.

  19. CoracAld2831
    • 5 Years
    40 mins ago

    Horrible Forest.

  20. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    40 mins ago

    What a strange season.

  21. This.might be a historical.WC blank week.

    Season over.

  22. Hairy Potter
    • 11 Years
    40 mins ago

    What's the difference between Spurs and a triangle?

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      just now

      Something about 3 points

  23. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    39 mins ago

    Thomas 9 points 3rd.on my bench

    Egan 1 pointer fist on my bench

    Sums up my fpl season

  24. yousunkmybattleship
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    39 mins ago

    Well this game week is a disaster so far lol

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      1 min ago

      My worst ever

  25. Fifa las vegas
    • 14 Years
    38 mins ago

    Gonna be so so frustrating if Bruno hauls tomorrow after switching it up to get Saka and MGW. When will I learn.

    Now debating the WC to sort it all out again or will that just be the same situation in reverse next GW then!

  26. Forest Dump

  27. rokonto
    • 11 Years
    36 mins ago

    Why is Gross doing so much better than previous seasons???

    1. Gudjohnsen
      • 9 Years
      just now

      It's a strange one.

  28. Rico123
    • 3 Years
    35 mins ago

    If I’d have done nothing with my defence I would have had Kayode and Thomas playing for 15 points, with the transfers I made I had Williams and Davis playing for 4 points, and Thomas staring at me from the bench. Classic

    At least bringing in Barnes paid off

  29. Capocannonieri
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    29 mins ago

    All the choices I had:

    Munoz - Bust
    Hall - Win
    Barnes- Win
    Wissa - Bust
    MGW - Bust
    KDH - Bust
    Barry - Win
    Myo- Win
    AMN - Win
    Delap - Bust
    Odegaard- Bust
    Konsa- Bust (safe and most likely pick)

    So 50-50 proposition but my default was Konsa that would have benched Gross for my squad

    1. Fifa las vegas
      • 14 Years
      just now

      Lucky that you have some wins

  30. Nomar
    • 16 Years
    27 mins ago

    Last week benched Davi’s, played Thomas. Obviously, you know what I did this week!

    1. Gooner Kebab
      • 14 Years
      4 mins ago

      Rough!