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Hello and welcome to another video and podcast from Fantasy Football Scout. It's team news time as we look ahead to game week eight.

Welcome, everyone, my name is Joe and as ever I'm joined by Neale who was absent last week. He was on holiday. He'd been headhunted by Roma and he's back again now. So it worked out well. Neale, welcome. How are you?

Neale (1:46)

Thank you, Joe, yeah.

Lost any semblance of tan I might have had from Sully, Italy. So back to my usual pale self.

Joe (1:52)

Rightio. Excellent. Okay. So just before we go, just remind to press that like button, does help us out and do remember to subscribe, keep updated with our latest videos and podcasts. And do check out latest membership offers at fantasyfootballscout.co.uk, get access to lots of articles and tools and gadgets and exclusive stuff there to help you climb up your mini leagues. Welcome all those joining us early in the live chat. We have Luke the Lucky, Average FPL Guy, Dick Abbott, Speedy Depender, Chris Bingham, and Tim Felkin and many, many more. Thanks so much for joining us. Hopefully we'll give you the team news you deserve and crave. They will start with tonight's game, which is Ipswich against Nottingham Forest. A crucial match for both of them.

They look to sort of climb up the table. What's the latest from Ipswich first?

Neale (2:43)

Just one absentee, and that is Sasa Lukic. He missed out last weekend. He's not quite ready for this one, but he will be back in game week nine.

Joe (2:50)

Okay, rightio. And also we got Nottingham Forest. Now I haven't heard anything sort of today from them, but I did hear earlier in the week that Morgan Gibbs-White is available.

Neale (2:59)

Yeah, it would have been a Friday match. We had a Wednesday afternoon presser, which something's happening with these early kick-offs.

So yeah, Daphne confirmed that. Gibbs-White had trained all week. He could have actually played last weekend. I think that had been a major ride on it. But the due is not to risk him keeping for this more winnable game. So he's trained all week and he's fine. Milenkovich was on the bench against Arsenal after a bone bruise and hamstring issues. He's ready to start as well. So it's just Savona and Igor Hizus who are out.

Joe (3:28)

Okay, let's move swiftly on to Aston Villa, Manchester City.

What's the latest for Aston Villa, particularly with Manzambi who's come into a few teams. His owners will be hoping he's ready.

Neale (3:41)

Yeah, I don't think he was mentioned specifically by Emery. He just said that we've got a few players to assess, et cetera. It's not a major injury that he's part of. I think the Athletic Reporter is a contact injury. He missed out against Viking on Wednesday with this.

But a late fitness test, Tom Freeman, who's our resident villain, seemed quite bullish on his prospects for the weekend. We have three absentees for certain, Rogeri, Juan Bissaka and Onana.

Joe (4:07)

Okay, right. And as for Man City, as well, there was a bit of rotation going on midweek in Europe. But yeah, what's the latest there?

Neale (4:18)

Yeah, Maresca was one of just four who were up yesterday.

Earlier in the week, I can confirm that Semeni was out four too, that was the best part of eight weeks. So you'll not be seeing him till December. And yesterday, Maresca confirmed that Holland is 100 per cent, we saw him go that anyway, he had been on the bench against EAK Athens. They're just managing his minutes, there's no fitness issue. And he's ready to start this weekend. Okay. He couldn't clear up the uncertainty around his competition or Riley, however. They were all forced off against Ipswich.