Team news is very much in, and here it is in Twitterish form:

Six changes to the starting XI
Steve Cook returns from suspension
Alex Dobre and Brooklyn Genesini are named on bench

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Tonight's team news...

@EddieNketiah9 leads the attack
Gabriel Martinelli stays in the starting XI
@MatteoGuendouzi also starts

#EmiratesFACup

Hello world!

History in the making. That’s what we’re about to witness. For this, ladies and gentlemen, is the very first FA Cup tie between Bournemouth and Arsenal. The Cherries are looking to reach round five for the fifth time in their history (they’ve have reached the sixth round once, in 1957, and never got any further), Arsenal for the first time in three years (though they got at least that far in all but three of the preceding 17 years, in which time they reached seven finals and won six). There is, as you will have noticed, a massive disparity in Cup-flavoured achievement between these clubs, and for all their problems this season Arsenal remain eight places above their relegation-haunted opponents, but Bournemouth have home advantage and Ye Old Magic of the Cup to call upon, so anything is possible.

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