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Tierney absent as Tavares, Saka and Lacazette start

Gameweek 9 gets underway in north London this evening as Arsenal play host to Aston Villa.

Kick-off is at 20:00 BST.

Mikel Arteta has made three changes from Gameweek 8, with Alexandre Lacazette (£8.3m), Albert Sambi Lokonga (£4.9m) and Nuno Tavares (£4.3m) replacing Nicolas Pepe (£7.1m), Martin Odegaard (£5.5m) and Kieran Tierney (£4.9m), who misses out due to a bruised ankle.

That means Bukayo Saka (£6.4m) is fit to start despite being taken off injured at half-time on Monday after a heavy challenge.

As for Aston Villa, they are unchanged from their 3-2 defeat by Wolverhampton Wanderers last weekend.

Matty Cash (£5.1m) has recovered from a dead leg he sustained during that match, while Leon Bailey (£6.4m) makes the bench after missing the last three Gameweeks with a thigh injury.


GAMEWEEK 9 LINE-UPS

Arsenal XI: Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, White, Gabriel, Tavares, Partey, Sambi Lokonga, Smith Rowe, Saka, Aubameyang, Lacazette

Subs: Leno, Odegaard, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Cedric, Pepe, Elneny, Kolasinac, Martinelli

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Konsa, Tuanzebe, Mings, Cash, Luiz, McGinn, Targett, Buendia, Watkins, Ings

Subs: Steer, Sanson, Young, Nakamba, El Ghazi, Hause, Bailey, Archer, Ramsey


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996 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Salah’s Sonnet
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    So typical for Arse to get a cleanie yet no Tierney, hate FPL sometimes

    1. Bartowski
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Just sometimes?!

    2. BeaversWithAttitude
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Er...

  2. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Note to self: I must stop rejecting players with double surnames besides Alexander-Arnold. /Saka owner

    1. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Wrong notepad

  3. Kodap
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Could do with the ramsdale cleanie going

    1. Im New Here
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      congrats

  4. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Auba SOT

  5. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Ramsdale 7 pointer?

    1. fusen
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Stop jinxing it 😛

    2. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Minimum

  6. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Fun Fact: Villa have conceded 6 unanswered goals in a row dating back to last week.

    1. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Good work with the dating

      1. OLD Rafiki
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        lol

  7. Londongeezaa
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    ESR has only returned in 2 out of 9 games and the comments section going crazy.

    Anyone who owns him can’t be ranked too highly surely? 🙂

    1. OverTinker
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      ML leader who was already much ahead have ESR and White

    2. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Envious Smith-Rowe

    3. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I am top 1k before this game

      1. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        You’ll be back.

    4. Debauchy
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      It's about picking when to start him fella

    5. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      He’s a great enabler. Perfect to avoid hits too.

      1. Make United Great Again
        • 11 Years
        2 years, 5 months ago

        Yep

    6. Superflymonk
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I can almost taste the salt in your comment

    7. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      More than Kane 😉

    8. Paqueta Rice
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      They may not have owned or played him 9 weeks

    9. Root
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      ESR 2nd sub for me. 🙁

      17k rank

  8. OLD Rafiki
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    can't really blame my self for benching white, had Liv Rudiger and TAA....

  9. Scots Gooner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Odegaard pants again.

  10. Dammit_182
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    These 5.5m mids have been great value this year. ESR, Everton mids, Gallagher and Mbuemo (if he stops hitting the post). Feels like having 1 in your team is the way to go - is it worth having any more if is that over kill??

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I have two.

    2. tbos83
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I've got 2 (ESR and Gray). Think Salah is only premium mid worth the money

    3. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I've got 2, but suffering as it means I have Ronaldo with all the spare cash.

    4. FPL Theorist
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      3 here

    5. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      *is great value

    6. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I’ve got two

    7. Fadi AMJK
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Planning to have two, they offer a great value and would allow Son as a third premier along with TAA
      Mbeumo one for sure
      The second is open to debate along with form

  11. Stupendous
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Kept faith with ESR until week 4 and sold without hesitation.

    Now I'm scratching my head a little bit

    Checks their fixtures...

    1. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      I got him for a hit at gw5 while all pro pundits on YouTube suggested Saka

  12. No_Mo_Salah?
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone else take ESR out this week or just me?

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      About the same as benching him.

  13. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    wait, Danny Ings was on the pitch this whole time?

  14. Geriatric Unathletic
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    So Captains aside. ESR has on his own scored me more points than my entire 4 man midfied over the past 2 weeks combined, gotta love him :).

  15. matiakez
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Not much fun as a Saka and Tierney owner

  16. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Planning to bench ESR again next week 🙁

  17. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Oh no! White getting a cleanie and bonus.

    Not great this week but still a stellar 4.4m pick.

    1. Make Arrows Green Again
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Timing

    2. WVA
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Lol

    3. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Perfect jinx!

  18. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    6 points is very underwhelming for Aubamayang tonight.

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Took -8 so working well

  19. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    We just need a Villa goal

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Timing

    2. DycheDycheBaby
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Ohhhhh timing!!!!

    3. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Good timing!

    4. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Kind of opposite of jinxing 🙂

  20. lordkippe
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Decent start with Auba. Could have been more, but happy to keep him under the radar for the next home fixtures. A really big score is not far away me think

  21. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    ramsey goal

  22. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Whoops ARS

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 5 months ago

      Sorry if I trolled away your points

  23. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Yesssss clean sheet wipe out

  24. Bartowski
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    The excitement over one Matthew Cash lasted precisely one game week.

  25. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Of course, who now

  26. Mr. O'Connell
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    What a goal tbf

  27. Kodap
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    YES, huge clean wipe

  28. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    Ramsdale > ?

  29. Riverside Red
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 5 months ago

    West Ham next for Villa...Antonio and Benrahma owners hopeful.