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Lacazette, Luiz, Ceballos and Pepe on the bench for Arsenal

There are two Premier League matches kicking off at 14:00 BST today.

Arsenal head north to take on Newcastle United at St. James’ Park, while Leicester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers meet at the King Power Stadium.

The headline team news from Tyneside is that Alexandre Lacazette (£9.5m) – who had been a doubt for this game with an ankle knock – is only a substitute, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) leading the line for the Gunners.

David Luiz (£6.0m), Nicolas Pepe (£9.5m) and Dani Ceballos (£5.5m) also have to make do with a place on the bench.

Youngsters Reiss Nelson (£5.5m) and Joe Willock (£5.0m) start behind Aubameyang.

Joelinton (£6.0m) makes his competitive Newcastle debut and will be joined by an out-of-position Miguel Almiron (£6.0m) in attack, with Steve Bruce keeping faith with the wing-back system that Rafael Benitez favoured in 2018/19.

Matt Ritchie (£5.5m) has recovered from injury and will line up on the left flank.

There are no major shocks at Leicester, with Ayoze Perez (£6.5m) making Brendan Rodgers’ starting XI as expected.

Perez joins Jamie Vardy (£9.0m) and James Maddison (£7.0m) in the Foxes’ line-up but Marc Albrighton (£5.5m) drops to the bench as Wilfred Ndidi (£5.0m) is brought in to bolster central midfield.

Wolves are at full strength, with Raul Jimenez (£7.5m) and Diogo Jota (£6.5m) again paired together in a two-pronged attack.

Jimenez and Matt Doherty (£6.0m) both returned from injury lay-offs in the Europa League on Thursday night and the Irish wing-back also makes Nuno Espirito Santo’s first starting XI of the 2019/20 campaign.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Schär, Lascelles, Dummett, Manquillo, Shelvey, Hayden, Longstaff, Ritchie, Almirón, Joelinton.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Chambers, Sokratis, Monreal, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Willock, Nelson, Aubameyang.

Leicester City XI: Schmeichel, Ricardo, Söyüncü, Evans, Chilwell, Ndidi, Choudhury, Tielemans, Maddison, Pérez, Vardy.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Coady, Bennett, Boly, Doherty, Dendoncker, Moutinho, Neves, Jonny, Jota, Jimenez.

Lessons learned from Gameweek 1

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  1. twoplustwo
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Wow Donny goal!

    1. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Check again

      1. twoplustwo
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Ooooh

  2. Ricky - it doesn\'t ta…
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    If that gets disallowed that is ridiculous

  3. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Jammy Dendonkey owners, every sodding week....

    1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      VAR ruled it out

  4. COLLIN QUANER
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    LOL!

  5. Andy_Social
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    SH*T That's wrong.

    His 11 points would have brought up my ton 🙁

    1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      11?? Calm down lol

      1. Andy_Social
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Yeh, wel involved and only goal would've brought 3 baps.

  6. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you, var!

  7. Canary_Kid
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Dendoncket dissallowed

  8. MarcusAurelius
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Dendoncker you beauty!! In for Bilva

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

      Ouch

    2. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Errrrrrr

  9. thepeen555
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    No goal

  10. Gravy_Davey
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Dendoncker just got VARed

  11. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    VAR says no to donker

  12. The Overthinker
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Robbed 😀

  13. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Phew!! Love VAR again 🙂

  14. Ricky - it doesn\'t ta…
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Disallowed never an handball by boly

  15. Herman Toothrot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    VAR noticed his FPL price.

  16. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    Thank VAR for that

  17. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    At least we’ll all get price rises

    1. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Nevermind

  18. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    No jam for the Dendoncker autosubs.

    1. Bruce Lee
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      inject it

  19. GREEN IS GOOD
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 8 months ago

    oh dear, what a pity, never mind

    >PHEW!

  20. MTPockets
      4 years, 8 months ago

      noooo

    • Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Who would've got the assist?

      1. Alnair
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Boly

    • One More Hit
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Sodding VAR

    • Red Star Toro
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Feeeck

    • The Overthinker
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Not today Donker

    • Messiah Hazard
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Deondenkar coming on for Trossard... Lucky that Trossard didnt come on at all... yay

      1. Bruce Lee
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        aw mayn

      2. Messiah Hazard
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        oops my stream is a couple of mins behind...

      3. TheTinman
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Lol

      4. adibo
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        Lol

    • Bruce Lee
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      you know when i say i love var

      i mean it (until my player gets shafted by it)

      trossard owners really don't deserve it

    • Captain Kakaroto (I blame R…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Phewww

    • TheDragon
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Wow

    • Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Oh man, that hurts.

    • Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 8 months ago

      Good, those who somehow picked Trossard don’t deserve anything 😉

      1. Bada Bing
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 8 months ago

        I have six jammy points coming from Kelly on my bench for trossard's no-show. 🙂