NEW V AVL Team News: The Confirmed Line-Ups
The call — Teamsheets in: Pope benched, Fernandez-Pardo starts — NEW v AVL, GW7 Nick Pope is on the bench. Martin Horníček starts in goal for Newcastle. The teamsheets for Saturday's 17:30 kick-off at St James' Park are confirmed, and that is the line that matters first. Pope owners — fewer than 1 in 10 of you — get nothing today.
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Horníček, £5.0m, owned by about 1 in 10, starts.
Newcastle line up 4-2-3-1: Horníček; Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Hall; Gonzalez, Joelinton; Willock, Wissa, Barnes; Fernandez-Pardo.
Villa, also 4-2-3-1: Suzuki; Cash, Lindelöf, Mings, Wan-Bissaka; Kamara, Gomes; Alysson, Manzambi, Buendía; Jackson.
What it does to your team. Lewis Hall starts. About 2 in 10 managers own him at £5.3m. He plays. Wissa starts — between 1 and 2 in 10 own him at £6.2m, and he is in the XI, not on the bench. Barnes starts on the left; just under 1 in 10 have him at £6.1m. All three go in your side if you have them. No commonly owned player sits today — the benched list of owned assets is empty.
Fernandez-Pardo leads the line for Newcastle. He is £6.0m and owned by almost nobody — roughly 1 in 1,000. He starts ahead of Osula, who is on the bench. That is a fact worth noting for future weeks, not a transfer instruction at 16:30 on deadline-passed Saturday.
For Villa, Nicolas Jackson starts up front. Fewer than 1 in 10 own him at £6.6m. He plays — start him. McGinn is benched; at under 3 in 10... correction: about 3 in 100 owned, barely anyone is affected, but his owners take zero from the first whistle. Buendía and Manzambi carry Villa's creative duties from the start.
The calls, as the sheets force them: Hall, Wissa and Barnes start — field them. Jackson starts — field him. Pope sits — his owners play their bench keeper or take the blank. McGinn owners do the same. Horníček is now Newcastle's goalkeeper of record this week; anyone holding both Newcastle keepers knows which one counts.