Dugout Discussion

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.

1,201 Comments Post a Comment
  1. fedolefan
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 28 days ago

    Auba looks so dejected, damn.

    1. MTPockets
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Well, he had one job

    2. A guy
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      How is this a red and Rose’s lunge into the stomach is not? 2 penalties also wrongly given.

    3. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Hugo 3 baps 😎

      1. Weilong7
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        will it be sure that he gets the max bonus?

    4. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Auba at 9.5m can be a steal in dgw35

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        I've heard they're deleting him from the game after this

    5. Weilong7
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      tot trippier was poor all game.. how did he get so much bps?

      1. Les Bleus
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Completed passes BS probably

    6. BigBillyBass
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Aubameflop strikes again

    7. CliveTilds
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Lol Auba owners

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        you forgot the ''@''

      2. Bielsa's Blue Bucket
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        I'll have a large portion, at that the lo. See below

    8. Delph & Safety
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Sold Lloris as part of a hit to Fabianski...

      1. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Solid

      2. lugs
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        same, but for Ederson, have Auba too 🙁

      3. Anathallo
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Don't feel bad, I was seriously considering Ederson in for a hit. Up until the pen I was kicking myself that I hadn't.

    9. SM001
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      This season is a complete washout for me. Nothing has gone right. Son and Auba=1 point. Doherty benched in a potential goldmine fixture.

    10. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      So long as Raz outscores Pogba and Salah, and Kun blanks, it’s happy days 🙂

      1. Point-one short
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        This

    11. nobwak
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Should be this - If you get the ball first, it's not a foul. Simple. Clears up all ambiguity. No more "could have"s or "what if"s.

      Such bullshit. Games gone.

      1. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        What? You talking about Torreria’s red? Despite first impact you can’t go through someone’s shin or knee.. obvious red

        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          it was the only reasonable and most natural way for torreira to try to play the ball imo

          do you want him to just stand there

        2. nobwak
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          I can appreciate that it's a foul in today's "game "maybe, maybe a yellow at a push... But to send someone off when they've very clearly got the ball first leaves an extremely foul taste in my mouth.

      2. FC Hakkebøf
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        So its okay to wreck your opponent as Long as you touche the Ball?

        Im happy you dont write the law of football

        1. nobwak
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          It worked perfectly well for decades.

        2. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          yes it is

      3. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Sure let's break everyone's legs 😆

        1. nobwak
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          Did Torreira break someone's leg though!? No!
          You can't give red cards based on what could have happened surely! Give them for what has actually happened, which is winning the ball and the opponent being absolutely fine.

          1. Deulofail
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 28 days ago

            I didn't say anything about Toreira. I don't think it was a red.

            1. nobwak
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 28 days ago

              So you agree with me then

              1. Deulofail
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 28 days ago

                Not at all

          2. Vinyl78LP
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 28 days ago

            Any player who lunges at an opponent when
            challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or
            from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force
            and endangering the safety of an opponent, is guilty of
            serious foul play,

            Contact now is irrelevant.

            1. Deulofail
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 28 days ago

              I agree, but Nobwak wants to change that: reds only for broken legs or death, and only when you miss the ball 😆

              1. nobwak
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 28 days ago

                I want to see fouls and cards given for what has actually occured, not what COULD HAVE occured... That is all. Nothing wrong with that.

                1. Deulofail
                  • 8 Years
                  5 years, 28 days ago

                  "Nothing wrong with that". Okay you've spoken. I must agree.

                  The only way to get anything near to consistency is to allow refs to punish poor tackles, rather than the outcome of the tackles. That will stop people taking the risk of lunging in, studs up, ooff the ground, out of control, leg-breaking-potential tackles.

            2. nobwak
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 28 days ago

              How is it endangering safety if you win the ball and the opponent gets up and walks away. Surely if you get the ball and your opponent is absolutely fine... then it's a perfectly timed, and more importantly safe, tackle?
              Or are we giving fouls for what could have happened in an alternative reality now?

              1. Deulofail
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 28 days ago

                "How is it endangering safety if you win the ball"

                What??

                1. ENDANGERING =/= injuring
                2. Winning the ball is irrelevant to the danger or even the injury

                1. nobwak
                  • 8 Years
                  5 years, 28 days ago

                  If the opposing player is absolutely fine then surely it's a safe tackle by definition.

                2. nobwak
                  • 8 Years
                  5 years, 28 days ago

                  We're never going to agree really. I don't like seeing the game get sanitised, you do, it's a matter of preference.

                  1. Deulofail
                    • 8 Years
                    5 years, 28 days ago

                    😆

        2. nobwak
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          Let's start giving a goal for a shot that was blocked but "could have" gone in

    12. Bielsa's Blue Bucket
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Transferred out Kun for -4 and kept Auba. Now that my friends defines stupidity

      1. HNI
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        That 3.5mn rank defines it better. Damn you should be performing better clicking the auto pick button as its so difficult to get 3.5mn rank in any gw forget overall

    13. Salarrivederci
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Hugo 10-pointer!
      Son is out before his next drop!

      1. mo 10 years on FFS? Join my…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        perfect send off for hugo!

      2. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        keeping son for chelsea and arsenal then selling him before soton, cool

        1. Salarrivederci
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          I kept him for this match. Would rather have Maddison or Hazard next week.

    14. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Do feel bad for Auba. Actually really like the guy.

      As an FPL owner though up until this week, it’s not been nice owning 😆

      1. TAT
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        I kept for this game. Given how things turned out, I'm eying everything from a -12 to a -16 to fix my team.

    15. FC Hakkebøf
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      10 pts for Hugo. Brilliant!

    16. HNI
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      How much love Kun gets by Pep. A big surprise start and i shifted captaim to pogba reading is comments pre match

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Was a sensible decision

        1. HNI
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          Agreed but at 4k overall you need so much luck every gw to get in top guys :/

      2. Bielsa's Blue Bucket
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        I sold for a hit reckless. Can't believe he's starting him

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 28 days ago

          Was not a sensible decision

      3. FC Hakkebøf
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        He will be subbed within an hour.

        Bad decision in hindsighr, but as Deulo said, it was sensible

    17. Miniboss
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Went Auba Son Bednarek -> Kun Mane Luiz for -8.

      So far quite happy!

    18. Eleven Hag
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      lloris with 10 points - perfect start to d GW

    19. New article
      @FPLDIARYFPL
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      New post

    20. Klip Klopp
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Son + Auba --> Hazard + Aguero for free?

      1. Bronski
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        No brainer

    21. 007 [RoboKlopp]
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Son vs sou
      Keeping or selling and get gw 31 player?

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Probably keeping. Don't fancy Hazard vs. Wolves, and he's the only I'd bring in for the double.

        Might focus on bringing in Vardy (FUL) for Jimenez (CHE).

      2. Ghost Gooner
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Keeping for Sou

    22. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Just realised Aké is in midfield today. Interesting.

    23. Bronski
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      How did Auba contrive to miss the follow up pen chance. Amazing defending!

    24. Gentle_Turks
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      Why the hell has Guaita been benched for Hennessey?

      1. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 28 days ago

        Tell me about it

    25. Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 28 days ago

      There must be Patricio and Guaita owners. Poor souls.
      No keeper myself now