Dugout Discussion

Aguero on the bench as Sterling and Sane start on the flanks for City

Manchester City take on Wolverhampton Wanderers this evening in the final match of Gameweek 22, with kick-off at the Etihad at 20:00 GMT.

Sergio Aguero has recovered from the illness that forced him to miss the 7-0 and 9-0 wins over Rotherham United and Burton Albion respectively but the Argentinean striker is only named among the substitutes this evening, as Gabriel Jesus gets the nod to lead the line.

Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane will be flanking the Brazilian tonight, while City’s midfield three of Bernardo Silva, David Silva and Fernandinho remains unchanged from the victory over Liverpool – meaning Kevin De Bruyne has to be content with a place on the bench.

Danilo gets the nod at left-back despite Fabian Delph‘s return from a three-match ban.

Nuno Espirito Santo has made two changes from the strong starting XI that defeated Liverpool in the FA Cup last Monday, with Matt Doherty and Rui Patricio replacing Ruben Vinagre and John Ruddy.

Diogo Jota is once again paired with Raul Jimenez in attack, with Joao Moutinho being deployed as the “number ten” behind Wolves’ strike pair.

Leander Dendoncker gets only his second league start of the season in central midfield.

The reverse fixture of this match ended 1-1, with Aymeric Laporte‘s header cancelling out a controversial opening goal from Willy Boly back in August.

Aguero was the fifth-most-captained FPL asset of Gameweek 22, while four Wolves’ players – Doherty, Patricio, Jimenez and Ryan Bennett – are among the nine most-benched Fantasy assets of this round of fixtures.

Sterling hasn’t scored more than six FPL points in a single game since Gameweek 14 but his season-long average of 7.1 points per match is second only to Mohamed Salah among FPL midfielders.

City are the only Premier League club without a clean sheet since the start of December, while Wolves haven’t kept a shut-out on the road since Gameweek 8.

Manchester City XI (4-3-3): Ederson; Walker, Stones, Laporte, Danilo; Fernandinho, Silva, Bernardo; Sane, Sterling, Jesus.

Wolverhampton Wanderers XI (3-4-1-2): Patricio; Bennett, Coady, Boly; Jonny, Dendoncker, Neves, Doherty; Moutinho; Jimenez, Jota.

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3,377 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Need more from you this half Raheem

  2. LewanGOALski
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Alonso ➡ Shaw - Yay or Nay?

    1. Whats the Huth
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      No. Get TAA or robo

    2. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      yes

    3. Meinhoff
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Yes

    4. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      not at all confident in MUN defence. ddg can't save em every wk

  3. Hughes the Daddy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Another game ruined by a powder puff ref. I tuned in to watch men's football not kid's touch rugby. So grim.

    1. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Good job you recorded last nights babestation then!

      1. HamezMace
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        I think Babestation is on every night, recording and rewatching old episodes is unnecessary

        1. Gnu
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          I rest my case Sherlock.

    2. Drexl Spivey
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Sigmund Freud would have a field day with this.

    3. Hughes the Daddy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Seen worse challenges at my nan's bingo.

  4. TAT
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    If choosing; Sané or Sterling?

    1. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Sane

      1. TAT
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Mendy likely to take his place when back?

    2. Planet Head
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      There's only one sane choice

  5. DR0GBA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Jiminez off

    Traore on

  6. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Traore on
    Jimenez off

  7. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Jimenez you clown. Get back on.

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      genuinely chuckled at this

  8. Captain Beefheart
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Does Llorente start if Kane is out? Great fixtures!

    1. teknicolourfox
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Same thoughts, cheap punt with good fixtures

      1. Captain Beefheart
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Who else can take advantage of those Spurs fixtures, Alli and Ericsson to inconsistent.

  9. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Jimmo rested, 1 pointer

  10. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Only just switched on for the 2nd half. The atmosphere at the Emptihad is electric.

    1. Syd.
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Bitter as usual

      Nothing every changes

      1. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        You are right, there will never be a good atmosphere at the emptihad

        1. Syd.
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          Extra salty

    2. HamezMace
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Posted about this earlier, it's unbelievable really, they're seeing the best football in the country, and have smaller crowds than West Ham

      1. Syd.
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Liverpool have smaller crowds than West Ham

        1. HamezMace
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          In terms of attendance vs ground capacity?

      2. Nascimento
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Everyone has smaller crowds than West Ham (with the exception of Arsenal and Man Utd - mostly tourists in the case of the latter)

  11. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    People starting Jimenez annoyed he has been subbed now.

    1. shearer9
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Why would I not be annoyed.

    2. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      I was pinning my gameweek on him.

      1. Dreaming of glory
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        The swine stopped me break 70 fs

    3. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Wow you should start up a live FPL radio station with Milner

  12. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Most exciting thing about this game is watching my cat chase the ball

  13. shearer9
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Best Kane replacements appear to be Firmino or Jesus. Or Auba if waiting a week.

  14. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Aguero 😀

  15. Planet Head
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Please Sane don't score - I'll go out of the cup :/

  16. Lumberjack
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    How would you order these in terms of transfer targets? Trying to decide on a Son replacement...this is my order of preference i think:

    A - Sane
    B - Sterling
    C - Hazard

    1. shearer9
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      CBA

      1. el polako
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Dont answer then.

        1. shearer9
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          I was suggesting a Cost Benefit Analysis.

      2. Lumberjack
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Just the opposite of my thinking then...

        1. shearer9
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          I kept Hazard through his series of blanks around November time and it subsequently paid big dividends. He's quality.

          1. Lumberjack
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 5 months ago

            True, I'm not ruling him out. Thanks

    2. el polako
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Hazard is due few hauls now after he trolled all his owners\cappers.

      1. Lumberjack
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Been due for a while has he not?

    3. ILOVEBAPS
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Think Sterling is the best but he's much more expensive e than Son. Sané is great value but Sterling will out score him over the season.

      1. Lumberjack
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Sterling just means a bigger downgrade in defense might be worth it though. Thanks

  17. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Benched AWB for Jimmo. No rugrats 😎

    1. shearer9
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      I'm Shaw I benched the wrong player.

    2. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      SAME 😎

  18. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Surely no one relevant started Jimenez at City?

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Define relevant?

    2. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      *raises hand* It was him or Bednarek.

    3. Blame it on Traore
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Don't think it was that daft. He's been great against the top sides.

    4. shearer9
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      I did, and now I have a battered ego to go with my one-point return.

  19. Captain Beefheart
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Yis! No Jimi means head to head points in the bag.

  20. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Like that

  21. Rash
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Oh great Jimenez off.. All hope now is on a Docherty goal to make up for the 6 they'll probs concede.

    1. Blame it on Traore
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      I was hoping they'd take Doherty off. Fear him slipping into minus digits!

  22. Botman and Robben
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Should have taken Jota off.

  23. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    That dirty MCI cleanie needs a wiping. Jota to do the deed, unassisted.

    1. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Does anyone still have City defense?

      1. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Only wollys. Digne was the obvious Mendy replacement 😉

  24. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    I only needed 2pts total from Jimi and Pat tonight to win my ML game.

    Now, it looks like I'll be lucky to get 1pt.

    Who'd have thought that.

    1. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      save points will get you through

      1. potatoace
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        Thanks but Pat doesn't really do save points.

        1. potatoace
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 5 months ago

          I stand corrected.

  25. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Wolves total live points accumulated from their 12 players involved tonight = 3pts !

  26. Ady87
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Aguero(c), Haz (vc), Jimi first sub, own Salah. What a time to be alive!

  27. The Big Fella
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    I hope Wolves score 1 because my rival has Ederson and Aguero as captain with Salah as VC. I need Aguero to come on for a 1 point cameo or he beats me this week

  28. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Walkers CS = me out in the cup vs a dead team with Zaha(c)

  29. TAT
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    F. Anderson/Kamara > Puncheon/Rashford?

    Alisson (Hamer)
    Robertson - Digne - Doherty (Balbuena - Wan-B)
    Felipe A. - Hazard - Salah - Richarlison - Pogba
    Jiménez - Aubameyang (Kamara)

  30. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 5 months ago

    Traore has the touch of a goat

    1. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 5 months ago

      Mountain goats have amazing touches

      1. FPL Blow-In
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 5 months ago

        😯