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Emery rotates key personnel out for North London derby

Unai Emery has named a much-changed starting XI for the North London derby.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£10.9m) and Sead Kolasinac (£5.1m) have both been named on the bench, much to the frustration of their Fantasy owners.

However, those assets are not the only ones to miss out, with midfield men Mesut Özil (£7.9m) and Lucas Torreira (£4.8m) also among the substitutes.

Those who have held onto Son Heung-min (£8.9m) will be quite excited to see a back-four seemingly made up entirely of centre-backs.

With Kolasinac and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.4m) on the bench, Nacho Monreal (£5.4m), Laurent Koscielny (£5.4m), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (£5.1m), and Shkodran Mustafi (£5.4m) are the starting options in defence.

Harry Kane (£12.4m) and Son are the front two for Spurs, who are playing a 3-5-2 formation with Toby Alderweireld (£6.0m), Jan Vertonghen (£5.9m) and Davinson Sánchez (£5.8m) flanked by Kieran Trippier (£6.2m) and Danny Rose (£5.8m).

Spurs XI: Lloris, Trippier, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Vertonghen, Rose, Wanyama, Sissoko, Eriksen, Son, Kane.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Mustafi, Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal; Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ramsey; Iwobi, Lacazette, Mkhitaryan.

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  1. Jimmers
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Clown Mustafi

  2. DV8R
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Give it to Son

  3. SirStevieG
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    FFS Kane goal and Son blank. Get out of my team Son.

  4. Mysterion
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Brooks 😎

    1. TAArt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Looking forward to seeing how he goes

  5. IRBOX ⚽
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Kane pen converted

  6. Waynoo
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    penaltyyyy

  7. Differential C (Mark)
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Know a guy who played Jonny and Doherty.
    Ouch.

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      That’s me 🙁

      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        unlucky mate real bad luck

      2. Differential C (Mark)
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Right! Tough luck, man 🙁

      3. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Me but played Jonny and benched doch last min.Fear both cameos lol so did that

  8. seewhyaxe
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Ah Doherty really rested.

    Let’s see if he has a cameo

    1. TAArt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      My wolves defensive double up for their ‘good’ fixture run has been an absolute disaster

      1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Mine has been a nightmare

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      previously hes come off bench when rested 🙁

    3. Danno - Emre Canada
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Yep he has before, annoyance

  9. Miguel Sanchez
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    hmmmm... might have to take next week's captaincy off Aguero (WAT) now.

    1. Maddamotha
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Why? Its a week’s goddamn it. People need to stop

      1. Miguel Sanchez
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        haha, very true

  10. BENOIT
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    How can anyone disagree with VAR?

    Kane was offside, these decisions matter, too much at stake to let officials ruin so many matches

    1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      But Lineker and Shearer don't like it so it must be bad

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      very easy to object to it. accuracy =/= “fair”

      1. BENOIT
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        You what?

        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          sorry if you’re too dim to understand this post

    3. Alan The Llama
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Can't stand it. There are still going to be loads of mistakes.

      1. BENOIT
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        That would have been cleared up

    4. Brosstan
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      If Mustafi had punched Kane in the face, would it not be a pen because he was offside?

      1. Malcolm Tucker for England …
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Correct

      2. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Offside and Mustafi RC would have thought

      3. Forza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Yeah, but Mustafi could still be sent off anyway, so that would be fair.

  11. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Team sheets??

  12. Zilla
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    1st sub for Doherty owners?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Doherty

    2. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Schär

    3. 007 [RoboKlopp]
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Bennett

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        This

    4. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      he’ll come on

    5. Jam0sh
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Pereira

    6. @NF_Janner
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Kola... and then bennet

    7. _Ninja_
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      AWB

    8. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Diop

    9. Abra Dubravka
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      AWB

  13. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    No Doherty

  14. Rash
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Simma?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Cheers - I benched Doherty after reading this

    2. Les Bleus
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      “ALL JUST MY OPINION.”

      Saved yourself either way didn’t you

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Well it wasn't 100% confirmed, so made sure to highlight this pretty clearly.

    3. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      wish i saw this

  15. fedolefan
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Damn it.

  16. tafrère
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Kane was offside. In fact, Spurs are offsides in every corner and freekick.

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      makes it even funnier

  17. Ozzy smith
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    More inept officiating dictating huge games at the highest level. Roll on VAR.

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      no thanks

    2. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Exactly. Too much money in football these days to let the officials decide the outcome of matches

  18. fr3d
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Why wouldn’t Aguero start?

    1. MGD
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      All the Pep comments ect

    2. OPTA FPL
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      non owner excuse
      they have 10 days rested after today

    3. Brosstan
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Because FFS purposefully misused Pep's post match quotes to make it seem like he would be rested.

      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        lol

  19. Brosstan
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Kane essential again!

    1. Goat
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      There’s 19 other penalty takers too

  20. Bouncebackability
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    How bad is that linesman?! The line not moving and it wasn't close

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Going by the replay his line of sight was blocked tbf albeit because he could not get back fast enough.

  21. A guy
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    VAR

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      nope

  22. Zladan
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Doherty owners were warned.

    As a non-owner, I was scared of a haul from him on this Cardiff (h) fixture.

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      by whom?

      1. Zladan
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        Wolves ITK on the forum, it was all over here and Twitter this morning.

        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 8 months ago

          may surprise u to learn lots of people dont monitor comment section 24/7

          1. Zladan
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 8 months ago

            I mean, in amongst all the “who to captain” posts, the Wolves news dominated every page all morning.

          2. Brosstan
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 8 months ago

            Casuals smh

  23. Butcher
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    No GK for me this GW.

    Thanks Nuno

    1. Dannyb
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      He did say way before the deadline that Ruddy was playing.

    2. Zladan
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      You were literally told Ruddy was going to play.

    3. Fitzy.
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      You've had plenty of time to get one, it was well known that Patricio wasn't playing.

    4. andrewe63
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      I swapped him for Ruddy..it was well advertised .

  24. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Wenger in

  25. The 5% Team
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hennessey??

  26. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Guaita benching is a surprise.

    1. The 5% Team
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      no GK for me this week....Guaita and Patricio 🙁

    2. Mysterion
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Did n@zi that coming

      1. andrewe63
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 8 months ago

        contraversial

  27. Differential C (Mark)
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    WOL ITK holds true.

    1. andrewe63
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      bookmarked it

  28. El-Kloppico
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Severe penalty this.
    If Salah went down like this, or like Bernardo did against WHM, the site would explode here.

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      No one relevant owns Kane.

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      mustafi is silly

    3. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Irrelevant. Was offside

  29. nobwak
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 8 months ago

    Betting on spurs to get a penalty is basically free money.
    How many dodgy peno's do they want!?

    1. denial
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 8 months ago

      Another one would be nice