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8 December 2018 1887 comments
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Both Chelsea and Manchester City will have their attacks led by midfielder players at Stamford Bridge this evening.

Eden Hazard (£10.9m) has been deployed in the false-nine position for the Blues, flanked by Pedro (£6.3m) and Willian (£7.3m). After recent performances Olivier Giroud (£7.7m) is on the bench while and Álvaro Morata (£8.6m) is absent from the matchday squad entirely.

Marcos Alonso (£7.1m) keeps his place at left-back while Mateo Kovacic (£5.8m) is preferred to Ross Barkley (£5.7m) once again.

It’s Raheem Sterling (£11.5m) who plays up front for Manchester City this evening, with Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m) and Leroy Sané (£9.4m) joining him in the front three.

Gabriel Jesus (£10.1m) drops to the bench while David Silva (£8.7m) and Bernardo Silva (£7.5m) retain their places in central midfield.

In defence, Aymeric Laporte (£6.1m) comes back into the side and is paired with John Stones (£5.3m) at centre-back, Fabian Delph (£5.3m) and Kyle Walker (£6.5m) in the wide areas.

Chelsea XI: Kepa; Alonso, Luiz, Rudiger, Azpilucueta; Jorginho, Kante, Kovacic; Willian, Pedro; Hazard.

Manchester City XI: Ederson; Walker, Stones, Laporte, Delph; Fernandinho, David Silva, Bernardo Silva; Mahrez, Sané; Sterling.

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  1. JustPark
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Was about to post I don't mind a nil-nil.

    Hazard and Alonso haul please.

  2. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Blue is the COLORRRR

    1. SPorting
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      *colour

    2. evilfish
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Sky blue?

  3. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    ngolooooo

  4. Tsparkes10
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hazard assist... luckily got rid to Anderson so not hurt me too much yet

  5. Zladan
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Haz A

  6. FPL Puppy
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Did Hazard -> Sterling for free. Hazard’s leading the race.

    1. Hulk Smash
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Sterling is traditionally poor against big teams but will return to form next week.

  7. Fred54
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    City not keeping a clean sheet non shocker, shocker.

  8. FDMS All Starz
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Wow a stroke of luck

  9. El-Kloppico
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Only 2nd time of the season that City is chasing the score..

  10. SPorting
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Feel better about benching Laporte now.

  11. bialk
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Chelsky luckiest team in the league

  12. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Kante 16% ownership 😮

    1. Crouching Tiger
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      And many getting him from bench.

      1. Hughes Your Daddy
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Yep, thanks Wilson 😉

    2. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      0,1 started him surely

    3. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Amongst live teams?

  13. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Just when I was about to fall a sleep. Hazard assist. Nice

  14. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    City rattled.

  15. Planet Head
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hope Pep doesn't take Sane off because of that sleepy moment

  16. LIARS POKER
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    City only 1 CS in the last 6.

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      The (lack of) Mendy effect.

    2. One More Hit
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Seriously considering ditching Ederson. Given away several pens and there are cheaper options more likely to get BPS

  17. Numb
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hazard assist and City CSs destroyed. 2 birds 1 stone.

    1. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Peta says you have to say feed 2 birds with one scone now.

  18. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Kante owners group hug!!

  19. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hazard ESSENTIAL.getting him back this week... fell for stupid martial

  20. SirStevieG
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Yes Eden now get a goal

  21. Winston.
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    A. Sane and Alonso or
    B. Sterling and Kolasinac ?

    Thanks

    1. circusmonkey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      B

  22. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    So Tot humiliate Chelsea, Arsenal humiliate Tot, Chelsea humiliate City ?

    1. Hulk Smash
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      And the humiliation for United fans is that we don't even get mentioned alongside those teams any more.

  23. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Hazard playing with those boys and Willian wasting it as usual

  24. Planet Head
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    This week is the Fantasy Cup qualifying round. Will be an awful lot of dead/casual teams in that.

  25. Silecro
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Kante, Torreira, Salah. CDM goals galore :/

    1. pundit of punts
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      McArthur

  26. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    My first attacking points this week comes at the cost of losing a City cleanie. Lol.

    1. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Casual Kante owner alert.

      1. Hybrid.power
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 3 months ago

        Hazard 🙁

  27. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    hazard counterattack suckerpunch neeeededd

  28. Rsforstar
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    Just need delph goal to wipe chelsea cleanie

  29. De Gea Van Dijk. 10
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    85 percent of dead teams own Kante.

    1. circusmonkey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Do you mean that of the owners, 85% are dead?

  30. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 3 months ago

    For the record when the goal happened Willian almost ruined it

    1. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      Duly noted in the minutes.

    2. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 3 months ago

      He's an absolute turd.