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Injury latest as Tierney misses Arsenal’s Blank Gameweek 18 fixture

Kieran Tierney (£5.4m) has left his Fantasy Premier League owners with Blank Gameweek 18 frustration as he missed out on Arsenal’s Thursday-night meeting with Crystal Palace.

Fresh from an 18-point haul against West Bromwich Albion, the left-back was the most-selected defender by managers playing their Free Hit for this midweek round of fixtures (53.7%).

However, Mikel Arteta has taken the decision to leave Tierney out of his Arsenal squad to face the Eagles as a precaution due to “muscle tightness”.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.6m) comes in to the replace the Scottish international on the left-side of defence, allowing Hector Bellerín (£5.1m) to hold onto his right-back berth.

Tierney is not the only Arsenal defender to miss out due to muscle issues, as Pablo Mari (£4.4m) has also been rested for the same reason.

That means starts at centre-back for David Luiz (£5.4m) and Rob Holding (£4.5m), the latter now featuring from the beginning in 11 of the last 12 Premier League matches. Meanwhile, Gabriel (£5.0m) makes a return from self-isolation on Arsenal’s bench.

The Gunners line up in much more predictable fashion higher up the pitch, with Emile Smith Rowe (£4.5m) handed a fourth-straight start at number 10.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.3m) and Bukayo Saka (£5.3m) flank the budget midfielder behind Alexandre Lacazette (£8.3m) who has four goals in his last three Premier League appearances.

Tyrick Mitchell (£3.9m) is one of the main Fantasy interests in Crystal Palace’s team, owned by 16.1% of managers worldwide.

And Free Hitters were also a big fan of the Eagles’ left-back, Tierney and João Cancelo (£5.8m) the only defenders selected by more managers using that chip for Blank Gameweek 18.

Wilfried Zaha (£7.4m) has blanked in five of the last six Gameweeks but remains in 19.9% of Fantasy teams.

Arsenal v Crystal Palace – Starting Line-ups

Arsenal XI (4-2-3-1): Leno; Maitland-Niles, Holding, D Luiz, Bellerín; Xhaka, Ceballos; Aubameyang, Smith Rowe, Saka; Lacazette.

Crystal Palace (4-4-2): Guaita; Mitchell, Kouyaté, Tomkins, Ward; Eze, McArthur, Milivojevic, Townsend; Benteke, Zaha.

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1,247 Comments Post a Comment
  1. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Get innnnn

    Mitchell + Holding in this game

    😀

  2. jimmyabs1987
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Funny how Mitchell away at arsenal gets more than Son home to Fulham

  3. Flair
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    40 off 9 starters, all out having not played a chip. Very satisfactory.

    1. Babit1967
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      46(-4) I’ll take that

  4. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    all those jammy mitchel points 🙁

    1. Bagheri Arce
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Bit annoying eh?

      My rival and me have Tierney, but I had the foresight to spend a bit more for Holding first sub as a good back up....he has Mitchell plus fodder and gets +2pts on me.

      Have to laugh

  5. Feanor
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    41 from 7

    1. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Not bad. 64 on FH

    2. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      33 from 7
      Stones C

  6. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Mitchell my only playing sub on FH. You’ve got to laugh.

  7. Party time
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Arteta the gel hair fraud

    • Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Yaaaaaaaawwwwwwwnnn

      Glad I wasn't watching.

    • TRIPOS TOPPER
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      and of course my rival didn't FH and has Guiata and Mitchell for a 17 pointer!

    • Silecro
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      I have been beaten in a cup from a guy who has McGoldrick, Burke, Bergwijn and Pickford in his FT team

      1. Silecro
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        FH*

    • DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Previous team would have got 31 -4 with my moves for KDB and Wilson this gameweek. FH ended with 55. 28 point swing. Huge success! Happy days

      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Fantastic work!

      2. Dr Van Nostrand
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        You're happy with 28 swing. I'm not with 24. Reckon they'll be a better GW

        1. DAZZ
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          More than happy. Would be in an awful situation now without the FH this week

      3. mookie
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Selling players that would have had a game this week to buy DGWers and saying the FH got you 28 points is preschool maths.

    • Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Arsenal 0-0 Palace
      xG: 0.47 - 0.82

      1. Party time
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Wooooow!!!

          Supporting Arsenal must feel like a cactus in the butt

      2. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Love you Mitchell :£

      3. HonestBlatter
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        50p (-4p) without chips. It's okay

      4. Feanor
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Mitchell.

      5. FER FUSCH AKE
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Holding losing baps at the last minute. Same thing happened with Cancelo and Son a couple weeks back. How does a player lose baps for doing nothing?

        1. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Guaita made saves towards the end.

        2. Nightcrawler
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Incorrect passes. Went below 90%

          1. Twisted Saltergater
            • 14 Years
            3 years, 2 months ago

            It was the one raking pass at the end. If he didn’t attempt that, he’d be on 2 or 3 baps.

      6. pundit of punts
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        60 points all out.

        Played 10 players. No FH. 300k rise.

        All set up for FH next gw. Love it when a plan comes off. 😀

        1. ktk_interista
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          You planned that not a single player gets more than 1 return and that only 8 goals are scored in 6 games? I'd like to know how you planned that.

      7. SB007
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        53 points with 10 players and no chips used.

        Will take that. Leno. Bellerin. Mitchell.

      8. R.C
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        150k green arrow without FH xD

      9. Pep Roulette
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Repost

        A. Grealish + McCarthy
        B. El Ghazi + Ederson (-4)

      10. Bourbon, Pot Still or Islay…
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Does everyone on here live on their own... or with their parent(s) ?

      11. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Arsenal have jsut done the bare minimum to prevent relegation, back to steaming turds now

      12. sminkypinky
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Mitchell second on the bench sucks! Who knew he should be first choice before a New defender? I obviously didn’t. 8 points missed. Well, 6 actually. Oh well, on to the next.

      13. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Arteta the absolute joke manager, ruined my gameweek.

      14. Nightcrawler
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Mitchellll

        49(-4)

        Not sure what colour arrow but better than wasting a FH

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • 14 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Nice. You got lucky.

      15. Mr. O'Connell
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Here come all the non-FH brag scores

        1. HonestBlatter
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          BRING'EM ON BOYS

      16. Neevesy
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Jokes from Redknapp lol

        1. DycheDycheBaby
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          brilliant haha

      17. Baines on Toast...
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        This is what happens when you rest your best attacking creative player. Even if he is a left back.

      18. TheDragon
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Hint: no one cares how many points you scored with or without free hit

      19. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        54 point swing from the FH 🙂 lovely to see. If only kdb took that pen. Happy to have a 9 point ramsdale on my bench. Now time to sort out for the dgw

        1. DycheDycheBaby
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          that's good man

        2. DAZZ
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          54 point swing with 48 points on the board lol?