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Flores back in the Watford hot seat as Ceballos and Ozil return for Arsenal

The penultimate match of Gameweek 5 sees Watford take on Arsenal at Vicarage Road. Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

This is returning head coach Quique Sanchez Flores’ first Watford match in charge since departing the Hornets at the end of the 2015/16 season.

Flores has made three changes to the starting XI that drew 1-1 at Newcastle a fortnight ago, with Jose Holebas (£4.8m), Gerard Deulofeu (£6.2m) and the fit-again Etienne Capoue (£4.9m) replacing Daryl Janmaat (£4.4m), the injured Craig Cathcart (£4.4m) and Roberto Pereyra (£5.8m).

The release of the teamsheet had the Hornets lining up in a 4-2-3-1, a formation Flores had favoured on and off during his managerial career.

Andre Gray (£5.9m) leads the line, with Ismaila Sarr (£6.4m) among the substitutes.

There is no place in the matchday squad for Danny Welbeck (£6.0m), however.

Unai Emery has made two changes to the side that rescued a point in the north London derby.

The injured Alexandre Lacazette (£9.4m) is replaced by Mesut Ozil (£7.3m), while Dani Ceballos (£5.7m) returns to the side in place of Lucas Torreira (£4.9m).

The Gunners may well be playing in a 4-4-2 diamond, given the number of central midfielders in the starting XI.

This corresponding fixture last season saw the Gunners keep their only clean sheet of 2018/19.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) scored the only goal of that match.

The Gabon international is the sixth most-popular captaincy choice of Gameweek 5.

Aubameyang starts up front with Nicolas Pepe (£9.4m) this afternoon.

Watford XI: Foster, Femenia, Dawson, Kabasele, Holebas, Doucoure, Capoue, Hughes, Cleverley, Deulofeu, Gray.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Luiz, Kolasinac, Ceballos, Guendouzi, Xhaka, Ozil, Aubameyang, Pepe.

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

    52k ditched Pukki before Man City, tough crowd

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Most got Abraham.

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ridiculous!

      He has never not scored double figures at home in the Prem...

      The benchers too, oh my!

    3. JonBoy
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I very nearly did myself. It was only everyone here calling me a clown that stopped me doing It!

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Clown. Hope another one helps
        🙂

        1. JonBoy
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          It does. It really does. Thank you.

      2. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He did blank once 😉

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

      52k net transfers

  2. Albrightondknight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    KDB has about 30,000 transfers both in and out this week and a slight red arrow on FPL. Talk about fickle.
    If it's Son in. Then find another way and have both.

    1. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      It's a very confusing time. Template in flames.

  3. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Deulofeu just shooting from everywhere.

    1. MTPockets
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Don't blame him

      • BrutalLogiC
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        yep, he's having fun

    2. Longlatini
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Gw5

      From 11 players

      2 goals

      0 assists

      0 clean sheets

      1 x 0 pointer

      2 x 1 pointer

      Rank before MNF outside top 2 million

      Thanks Gw5!

    3. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      people going cheap on defence with their wc is odd decision imo. Defenders just need patience, ditching the likes of TAA and Digne for bargain bucket defenders is a nightmare waiting to happen. Every season you did well you had a good defence...

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Keeping Taa
        Holding Digne till SHU game. If he still flops, gone for me

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          everyone knows what Digne is like. One week 0 or -2, next week 15 pointer. That is Digne

          1. Amey
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Yes
            But the 15 one's looks rare with lack of CS 😮

            1. have you seen cyan
              • 4 Years
              4 years, 7 months ago

              true if he was 7mil no chance, but 6.2 is ok price for me

      2. The_Fish
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Agreed. I've just wildcarded and I'm keeping Trent and Digne. Robbo gone though.

    4. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Why is Deulofeu classified as a forward in fpl?

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Last season.

      2. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Only Liverpool and City are allowed to have strikers classified as mids

    5. Nightcrawler
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Some of these arsenal players are just embarrassing really

    6. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      2 straight Red arrows after gw 4 WC 😀
      Don't even think team is bad.

      1. tucaoneo
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Same.

      2. Debauchy
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Marathon fella

        1. Debauchy
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Keep the faith

          1. Amey
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Sure.
            Thank you for kind words 🙂

    7. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Reiss Nelson can't get up to speed with the game.

    8. Dynamic Duos
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Barnes still a good option?

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yes.

        1. Dynamic Duos
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Ceballos and Kane to Son and Barnes?

          1. Rainer
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Probably

      2. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yes

      3. Baps hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yes, but there are better. So no 😉

    9. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Leno YC

    10. Bartowski
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Arsenal should have saved themselves some money with Pepe and got Deulofeu by the looks of this game.

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Sold Iwobi and paid more than double for Pepe 😆

        1. Bartowski
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Oh yeah, or just kept Iwobi

      2. Debauchy
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Needs time, will come good

    11. dark91
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      This is pure comedy. Nelson can't even stop the ball and you bring him in for Ceballos!!

    12. StayoutheSpiceZone
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Crazy on here on matchday!

      Surely, if you bought in the Arsenal players, it is for their good run of fixtures - not just this one!

      Ceballos will be good at the Emirates!

    13. popcoin
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      RMT

      Was struggling to find the final piece of the WC jigsaw, when I swapped Sterling and Abraham to Aguero and Son and this fell into place:

      Pope (Button)
      Digne Alde Lowton Tomori Lundstram
      Mane Son Mount Cantwell Hayden
      Auba Aguero Pukki

    14. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Unlucky Viper 🙁

    15. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Anyone with a worse estimated OR of 2.5mil? (6 Auto-sub points not yet added, thankfully.)

      Tosh start to the season! 😀

    16. Weeb Kakashi
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Pick one on WC

      A Eriksen Pukki
      B Auba Cantwell
      C Son Wood

    17. tambourineman
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Watford pen

    18. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Pen Watford

    19. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Louise 😀

    20. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Luiz hahaha

      1. Party time
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Hey there 😉

      2. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Watford penalty. VAR checking

      3. Turns
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        (A) Auba, Mount (3-4-3)
        (B) Sterling, Cantwell (3-5-2)

        Have KDB, no Kun.

      4. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Penalty!

      5. Pinturicchio10
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Arsenal are poor.

          1. Pinturicchio10
              4 years, 7 months ago

              Pfft...

          2. Tsparkes10
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Uh oh Luiz

          3. Longlatini
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            David Luiz quality again

          4. jdp219
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            WC to this team? Yes, it's thin on defense, but they play at least and some OK fixtures upcoming.

            Pope, Button
            TAA, Soy, Lunds, Pieters, Mings
            Mane, Sterling, Son, Mount, Cantwell
            Wilson, Pukki, Tammy

            Auba up top means Auba, Pukki, Greenwood and Cantwell > Donck...?

          5. diesel001
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Luiz knows he screwed up there.