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Lacazette benched again as Digne misses out for Everton

The penultimate match of Gameweek 27 kicks off at 16:30 GMT, with Arsenal entertaining Everton at the Emirates.

Mikel Arteta has made only one alteration to his Arsenal side from the one that thrashed Newcastle United 4-0 last weekend, with Sead Kolasinac (£5.2m) replacing Bukayo Saka (£4.5m) at left-back.

That means that there is no place in the hosts’ starting XI for Alexandre Lacazette (£9.3m), who again begins this match on the bench.

Eddie Nketiah (£4.3m) gets his second successive league start, with Nicolas Pepe (£9.2m), Mesut Ozil (£7.2m) and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£10.9m) joining him in attack.

Carlo Ancelotti has made five changes from the side that beat Crystal Palace a fortnight ago, with three of the alterations coming in defence: Mason Holgate (£4.5m), Djibril Sidibe (£5.2m) and Leighton Baines (£4.9m) replacing Seamus Coleman (£5.3m), Michael Keane (£5.2m) and Lucas Digne (£5.8m).

Digne isn’t even on the bench, with the French left-back missing out because of a minor injury.

Ancelotti said ahead of kick-off:

He had a little problem during the week, he tried to train yesterday but he was not confident and so I prefer to leave him at home to train, to be ready for the next game.

The injured Theo Walcott (£6.2m) and the benched Bernard (£6.4m) are replaced by Alex Iwobi (£5.6m) and Fabian Delph (£5.3m) in midfield.

Andre Gomes (£5.2m) is involved in Everton’s matchday squad for the first time in three months after recovering from ankle surgery, meanwhile.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£6.2m) and Richarlison (£8.2m), transferred in by a combined 378,000 FPL managers ahead of Gameweek 27, both start up front.


Arsenal XI: Leno, Bellerin, Mustafi, Luiz, Kolasinac, Ceballos, Xhaka, Pepe, Ozil, Nketiah, Aubemeyang

Everton XI: Pickford, Sidibe, Holgate, Mina, Baines, Schneiderlin, Delph, Iwobi, Sigurdsson, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison.

947 Comments Post a Comment
  1. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Kolasinac has really taken the true, Arsenal injury style on since he joined

  2. HTL
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    I've made some incredibly bad benching decisions in recent weeks. Maybe it's best just to have non-playing fodder?

  3. YoungPretender
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Any of these for a -4?

    Aubameyang & Lundstram > Jiminez & Robertson

    Aubameyang & De Bruyne > Jiminez & Mane

  4. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Auba to Yota , Adama to Perez and keep money to invest in the back or

    Auba to Vardy ?

    1. Big Hands Barry
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      The latter

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        But he scored

  5. Digital-Real
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Iwobi doesn't like passing the ball to DCL. Most certain to ruin DCL haul

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    OMG auba

  7. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Auba G

  8. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Eddie ate dynamite goodbye Eddie.

    1. jason_ni
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      I feel like this is from a guitar tutorial I saw years back..

  9. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Juhuuuuuuu WC success

    1. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Juuhuuuu

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Chucky in heaven 😉

  10. Corgz Dark side of the Loon
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    The way this GW is going ......LFC 0 WHU 2

  11. Podge
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Ohbangabang

  12. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    AuBAAAAAAAA

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Chucky in heaven. Go all in for the win

  13. Maddi Son
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    a) Grealish > Barnes
    b) Grealish & Stevens > Barnes & Pereira
    c) Grealish & Dendoncker > Barnes & Armstrong

  14. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Aubaaaaa you beauty!!!! Winning goal bonus too

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      There's 60 minutes left pal

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        Atm

    2. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      lol we need more...

      1. FPL Daniel
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        More from Auba

  15. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Luiz 2nd assist.

  16. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Just like on PS4

  17. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Yaaaaasssss

  18. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks Auba 🙂

  19. Arteta
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    COME ON!!

  20. RealVirg
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Oh Auba baby use that aubergine on me tonight! yum yum!!!

    1. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      White coats, call the man in white coats.

      1. RealVirg
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 1 month ago

        It's the only way of preserving the virg-ness

  21. Epic Fail
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Aubamebloodclartyang

    1. beric
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Yessss!

  22. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Chucky to heaven confirmed.

    Here we go!

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Good one :))

    2. Chucky
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      GW 23-GW27... lucky chucky 😉 .. can't put a wrong foot at the moment...

  23. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Martial, Auba and DCL today. Feels good to be alive...

  24. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Luiz assist...
    And for his own team

    Nice 🙂

  25. Dacra
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Wow Auba. What a day.

    Martial, Fernandes, DCL, Auba all doing the business 😀

    1. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Fair play man

  26. nerd_is_the_werd
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    AUBAMEYANGGGGG

  27. Stupendous
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Saka and Auba boom!!!!

  28. Make United Great Again
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    AUBA AUBA BABY

  29. Babelcopter
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    We need more Auba lad!

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 1 month ago

      Brace at least

  30. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 1 month ago

    Time for a new Eng goalie?