{"id":441827,"date":"2025-09-21T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441827\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:47:15","slug":"saliba-trossard-start-saka-a-sub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441827\/","title":{"rendered":"Saliba + Trossard start, Saka a sub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final match of Gameweek 5 takes place at the Emirates Stadium this afternoon, as Arsenal take on Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p>TEAM NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Mikel Arteta makes two changes to the side that beat Athletic Club 2-0 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>William Saliba<\/strong> comes in for <strong>Cristhian Mosquera<\/strong> at the back, while <strong>Leandro Trossard<\/strong> is preferred to <strong>Eberechi Eze<\/strong> on the left.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bukayo Saka <\/strong>returns as a substitute following his hamstring injury, but <strong>Martin Odegaard<\/strong> is not in the squad.<\/p>\n<p>As for City, they are unchanged from the team that beat Napoli 2-0 in midweek.<\/p>\n<p>LINE-UPS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal XI: <\/strong>Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Zubimendi, Merino, Rice, Madueke, Trossard, Gyokeres<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Kepa, Mosquera, White, Saka, Eze, Martinelli, Norgaard, Nwaneri, Lewis-Skelly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester City XI: <\/strong>Donnarumma, Khusanov, Dias, Gvardiol, O\u2019Reilly, Rodri, Reijnders, Foden, Bernardo, Doku, Haaland<\/p>\n<p>Subs: Trafford, Stones, Ake, Nico, Savinho, Nunes, Bobb, Mukasa, Lewis<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-pale-ocean-gradient-background has-background\"><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2025\/09\/21\/fpl-notes-palmer-injury-latest-why-sanchez-isnt-flagged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FPL notes: Palmer injury latest + why Sanchez isn\u2019t flagged<\/a><br \/><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2025\/09\/21\/fpl-notes-why-slot-benched-wirtz-isak-grealish-good\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FPL notes: Why Slot benched Wirtz + Isak, Grealish + Ekitike good<\/a><br \/><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2025\/09\/21\/fpl-notes-sarr-return-pino-worry-west-hams-set-piece-woes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FPL notes: Sarr return, Pino worry + West Ham\u2019s set-piece woes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Win-at-UCL-Fantasy-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145921 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:606px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final match of Gameweek 5 takes place at the Emirates Stadium this afternoon, as Arsenal take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24735,149381,748,393,149382,4884,149383,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-441827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-arsenal-line-up","9":"tag-arsenal-v-man-city-line-ups","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-gameweek-5","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-man-city-line-up","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northern-ireland","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115244489541967382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}