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FPL tips and team of the week: Erling Haaland not essential this week
Emi Martinez, Aston Villa, keeper, £5m – home to Wolves
Clean sheets have been so hard to predict this season.
Gameweek four saw six of them from the 10 games, which means we’ve had 18 in 40 games – or clean sheets for 18 teams from a potential 80!
There’s no standout keeper this week but Martinez has been a big-game performer in the past and derby games can be tight affairs.
Yukinari Sugawara, Southampton, defender, £4.5m – home to Ipswich
The Japanese full-back has been flying down the right flank in manager Russell Martin’s progressive style of play where he likes to overload areas of the pitch.
Sugawara has put in 16 crosses, double any of his defensive team-mates and second on the team to Will Smallbone.
He’s created three of Southampton’s five big chances and also scored at Brentford.
Ipswich have been goal shy so far, with just two in their four games and, should Saints turn some impressive periods of play into a 90-minute performance, Sugawara has chances of a return at both ends of the pitch.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool, defender, £7m – home to Bournemouth
I may sound like a broken record by now but the attacking returns are on the horizon for the most expensive defender in the game.
Alexander-Arnold was close to another clean sheet last week before Nottingham Forest’s smash-and-grab success at Anfield and it’s amazing he has not got an assist yet.
The right-back’s expected assists (xA) stat is an incredible 1.87 from four games. For context, that is an assist higher than any other defender in the game except Villa left-back Digne (0.94). Tottenham’s Pedro Porro and Sugawara are next with just 0.67.
Josko Gvardiol, Manchester City, defender, £6m – home to Arsenal
Defences are likely to be on top when City host Arsenal on Sunday and you’d expect the Gunners to set up like they did last season, to absorb City pressure and hit on the break.
Rodri should return to City’s line-up which should mean Gvardiol playing a more progressive position down the left like he did at the back-end of last season.
He’ll see plenty of the ball, we know he has a goal or assist in him and, if City do keep a clean sheet, the Croatian will be a strong contender for bonus points.
Chris Sutton, Nedum Onuoha and Nicky Bandini take a look at how ‘free spirit’ Antoine Griezmann led Atletico Madrid to a win 2-1 win over RB Leipzig in the Champions League.
Gimenez’s late goal helps Atletico beat RB Leipzig
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Jane Lewis, Gemma Fay and Sean Hamilton discuss the big Scottish football talking points
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Dave King, Rangers’ largest shareholder, has challenged the current board to call an emergency meeting to let shareholders decide who should succeed John Bennett as chairman after the South Africa-based businessman’s offer to return to the role was given short shrift by fellow directors. (Record), external
Former manager Steven Gerrard did not want to leave Rangers to join Aston Villa when the Premier League club approached him in November 2021, King, has claimed. (Herald – subscription), external
Rangers’ commercial revenue could increase to around £30m next season after agreeing two new deals, an extension with the Kindred Group for the Unibet brand to continue as the club’s front-of-shirt sponsor in addition to Elior becoming their new food and beverage partner. (Football Insider), external
Meanwhile, Rangers’ biggest-ever shirt sponsorship deal, which will enjoy an increase of £1.5m per year to nearly £3m if all targets are met, was more than matched by city rivals Celtic in one game this week in the Champions League. (Record), external
Former Rangers and Scotland Under-21 striker Dapo Mebude will be given the chance to impress in Dunfermline Athletic’s reserve game against Falkirk next week as the 23-year-old continues to train with the Scottish Championship club after leaving Oostende. (Courier – subscription), external
Watch the moment substitute Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillaci announced himself on the global stage at Italia ’90 with his side’s first goal during Italy’s opening match against Austria.
Schillaci was the top scorer at the 1990 World Cup, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot on home soil.
It was announced on Wednesday that Schillaci has died aged 59.
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Italian football expert Mina Rzouki remembers Salvatore ‘Toto’ Schillaci, who has died aged 59.
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Martin Odegaard: Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says captain’s ankle injury ‘quite significant’
Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says captain Martin Odegaard has suffered a “quite significant” ankle ligament injury.
The midfielder limped off during Norway’s Nations League win over Austria on Monday, 9 September.
Odegaard had gone down in pain after hurting his left ankle following a foul by Christoph Baumgartner midway through the second half.
He returned to Arsenal for an MRI scan and missed his side’s 1-0 win at Tottenham in the north London derby on Sunday.
“The scan showed some damage around the ligaments in the ankle so we are going to miss him,” said Gunners boss Arteta before his side play Atalanta in the Champions League on Thursday.
“It’s something quite significant so we are going to lose him for a while. Hopefully not months.”
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