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Brighton v Bournemouth team news: Minteh sub, Kroupi starts

19 January 2026 217 comments
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Brighton and Hove Albion v Bournemouth rounds off Gameweek 22.

Kick-off at the Amex at 20:00 GMT.

TEAM NEWS

Fabian Hurzeler welcomes back Yankuba Minteh to his squad but the winger has to make do with a place among the substitutes.

Georginio Rutter drops to the bench, too, with Danny Welbeck leading the line.

Carlos Baleba is among the substitutes after his return from AFCON.

The visitors, meanwhile, hand Amine Adli a start on their first Premier League match without Antoine Semenyo.

David Brooks misses out through injury as Eli Kroupi gets another start.

LINE-UPS

Brighton XI: Verbruggen, Veltman ,Van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Hinshelwood, Gross, Gruda, Gomez, Mitoma, Welbeck.

Subs: Steele, Rutter, Minteh, Baleba, Kostoulas, Milner, Boscagli, Ayari, Coppola.

Bournemouth XI: Petrovic, Jimenez, Hill, Senesi, Truffert, Cook, Scott, Adli, Kroupi, Tavernier, Evanilson.

Subs: Forster, Christie, Smith, Diakite, Milosavljevic, Rees-Dottin, DaCosta, George Steven.

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  1. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 hours, 10 mins ago

    Verbruggen, what a legend. 2 save points, penalty save and maximum bonus is amazing but to go and add an assist as well. Top man

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    1. g40steve
      • 7 Years
      4 hours, 8 mins ago

      Nice 1-1 with low owned players involved 😉

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      1. FPL Blow-In
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 hours, 6 mins ago

        Oh no, sorry I forgot he also gets a cs

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      2. Sheffield Wednesday
        • 5 Years
        3 hours, 52 mins ago

        ...both own goals, and the penalty misses instead of getting saved.

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        1. Sheffield Wednesday
          • 5 Years
          3 hours, 50 mins ago

          Can you tell I have no players involved in this fixture?

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    2. Supersonic_
      • 4 Years
      3 hours, 26 mins ago

      Ideal

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  2. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    4 hours, 8 mins ago

    Next borefest coming in.

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    1. Bobby Crush
      • 11 Years
      4 hours ago

      I think the opposite.
      Could be goals in this one.

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  3. Jebiga
    • 13 Years
    3 hours, 50 mins ago

    Is guehi now decent pick?

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    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 48 mins ago

      Only if he starts and keeps CS which seems obvious. Likely 50% hit rate from that lot.

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    2. Sheffield Wednesday
      • 5 Years
      3 hours, 47 mins ago

      Not selling, not buying. Plenty of other defenders doing well so can afford to bench.

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    3. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 42 mins ago

      depends on his defcon potential, gvardiol and dias were alright for defcon though so maybe

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  4. brianutd-why always we? 20
    • 14 Years
    3 hours, 49 mins ago

    Seriously need a CS from Petrovic but that’s the luck part of this game!

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    1. Sir Michael Taker
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 31 mins ago

      Hes quite a bad keeper unfortunately, he needs luck to clean.

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  5. The Knights Template
    • 12 Years
    3 hours, 33 mins ago

    Will Rutter get on the pitch at some stage?

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    1. Sir Michael Taker
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 32 mins ago

      Hes ill/recovering apparently hence the benching.

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      1. The Knights Template
        • 12 Years
        3 hours, 32 mins ago

        Cheers

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  6. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 27 mins ago

    tavernier needed to play that ball earlier

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    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 27 mins ago

      *dont think that was a dive either way

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  7. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 hours, 27 mins ago

    Still own Senesi somehow. My biggest differential this week.

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  8. Traction Engine Foot
    • 7 Years
    3 hours, 26 mins ago

    Pen?

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    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 26 mins ago

      looks like it

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  9. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 25 mins ago

    isnt that a red card like? no attempt to play the ball

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    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 24 mins ago

      *i really dont understand what dogso is anymore

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    2. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      3 hours, 22 mins ago

      Its not even vaguely a foul

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      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        3 hours, 20 mins ago

        yeah fair enough thats up for debate, but once the foul is given then start to think about whether it was a dogso offence.

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  10. The Knights Template
    • 12 Years
    3 hours, 25 mins ago

    Verbruggen pen save incoming!

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    1. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 hours, 23 mins ago

      Almost

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    2. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 hours, 19 mins ago

      I wish

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  11. JBG
    • 7 Years
    3 hours, 24 mins ago

    A Van Hecke save would be nice here

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  12. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 23 mins ago

    tavernier g
    adli a

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  13. brianutd-why always we? 20
    • 14 Years
    3 hours, 23 mins ago

    You beauty Tavvy

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  14. Traction Engine Foot
    • 7 Years
    3 hours, 22 mins ago

    Get in Tav

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  15. Tonyawesome69
    • 7 Years
    3 hours, 22 mins ago

    Get in! Tav pen goal!

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  16. Bushwhacker
    • 6 Years
    3 hours, 22 mins ago

    Season over due to bent ref and VAR. ridiculous

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    1. brianutd-why always we? 20
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 22 mins ago

      Ok

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  17. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    3 hours, 22 mins ago

    Talking to myself on an old article 😳

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  18. Rwilliams90
    • 14 Years
    3 hours, 20 mins ago

    Think this is my worst gameweek in my long FPL life. Absolutely tragic.

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    1. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 hours, 16 mins ago

      Average of top 10k and Elite will be 40 points so I'm sure most are feeling the same way.

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  19. Jordan.
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 hours, 20 mins ago

    fek off var ,screwed over by it all weekend ,sick of it

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  20. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 hours, 20 mins ago

    Verbruggen owner, could have been bliss. Not seen it but never a penalty

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      3 hours, 17 mins ago

      Evanilson is really annoying. His shots off target mean that Verb do even get a chance to save them.

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  21. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    3 hours, 19 mins ago

    Petrovic save point

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  22. Qaiss
    • 10 Years
    3 hours, 19 mins ago

    FPL review pick scores

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  23. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 hours, 18 mins ago

    No damage here
    tavernier g - 2.6% owned
    adli a - 0% owned

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    1. Rwilliams90
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 17 mins ago

      Thought Tav would be higher. At least Verbruggen didn't save it I guess.

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  24. Rwilliams90
    • 14 Years
    3 hours, 18 mins ago

    I desperately need Van Hecke defcon but he's on 1...

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    1. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 hours, 16 mins ago

      Delayed counting as usual. Like with Tarkowski yesterday.

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  25. JBG
    • 7 Years
    3 hours, 18 mins ago

    Van Hecke loses CS almost immediately... meanwhile Tarkowski(who I benched to bring in Ekitike and C him) and Dorgu sitting pretty on my bench.

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    1. Rwilliams90
      • 14 Years
      3 hours, 17 mins ago

      Best off just picking at random most weeks.

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  26. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 hours, 17 mins ago

    Just off topic.

    Why was that a penalty?

    Do they have a secret technology to determine who touch whom.and what?

    I mean, the TV pictures were useless from each angle and just because the VAR guys were not sure what to do as usual when the stop the pictures and draw lines randomly.

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    1. The Knights Template
      • 12 Years
      3 hours, 11 mins ago

      Because Beavis & Butthead are the VAR officials this evening. Giggling and jostling as we speak.

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    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 10 mins ago

      it might sound silly but i think if the ref just lets it go and doesnt give a yellow for diving VAR doesnt intervene. once the contact was seen, its not a dive etc...and then one thing leads to another and ends with a pen

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    3. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 hours, 9 mins ago

      It’s an awful decision. Adli isn’t getting a shot off or getting to the ball after he touched it on. Nor is there enough contact to send him down

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  27. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 hours, 14 mins ago

    AndyLTFPL, BigManBakar, FPL Harry, Fabio Borges and Ben Crellin all brought in Tavernier this GW - big win for the content creators!

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    1. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      3 hours, 13 mins ago

      They are just blindly following whatever FPL review suggests. If ever the success of FPL review catches on, they're done as content creators.

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      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        3 hours, 8 mins ago

        Noticed he's got 78% ownership in the analytics league too, crazy
        Think it massively favours penalty takers

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        1. fedolefan
          • 11 Years
          3 hours, 6 mins ago

          At least Szobo missed else that would have been too much to take.

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    2. Mom, Butters just gave me a…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 hours, 13 mins ago

      They knew that fake penalty would be given. And with Semenyo losing with ManCity now..Easy.

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    3. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      3 hours, 11 mins ago

      Is that why the clear YC wasn’t given?

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    4. Tonyawesome69
      • 7 Years
      3 hours, 8 mins ago

      Ben Crellin transferred-in Tavernier in GW21...

      https://x.com/i/status/2008607026834764167

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  28. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 hours, 14 mins ago

    kroupi looks very useful in this role he's playing now. he might keep his spot post jan transfer window tbf

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    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 hours, 8 mins ago

      He was getting minutes (and goals) before the Unal injury and Semenyo departure. Unless a signing comes in I reckon he is getting very good mins

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  29. AzzaroMax99
    • 9 Years
    3 hours, 11 mins ago

    Would go Wirtz+Foden to Bruno F +Palmer for a hit? Even this week or wait for next?

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    1. Snoop Udogie Dogg
      • 5 Years
      3 hours, 9 mins ago

      wait

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  30. FPL Sanky
    • 2 Years
    3 hours, 10 mins ago

    Should have had a haul from Jimenez...those misses from him just sums up my season

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