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2 March 2019 1962 comments
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Fantasy Premier League managers in possession of Sergio Aguero (£11.7m) or Raheem Sterling (£11.4m) can breathe a sigh of relief after the release of Manchester City’s Gameweek 29 team news.

Both players have been named in the starting XI to face Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium this afternoon.

Despite returning to full fitness, Gabriel Jesus (£9.9m) was ready enough only for the bench, where Leroy Sané (£9.4m) also finds himself for the third time in five Gameweeks.

It gets even better for Aguero and Sterling owners as Bournemouth have gone with something of an experimental side.

In Steve Cook‘s (£4.4m) absence, 22-year-old Jack Simpson (£3.8m) comes in for his first start of the season while Nathan Aké (£5.0m) has been pushed into central midfield.

David Brooks (£5.0m) returns to the starting XI but there is still no Callum Wilson (£6.3m).

Meanwhile, as was rumoured, there were five major changes to the Wolves side to face Cardiff.

As expected, Rui Patrício (£4.5m) has been replaced by John Ruddy (£4.2m) in the starting line-up, but Matt Doherty (£5.5m) also misses out and finds himself among the substitutes.

Rúben Neves (£4.9m), Jonny (£4.4m) and Joao Moutinho (£5.4m) are also on the bench, but Raúl Jiménez (£6.9m) keeps his place.

Marcus Rashford (£7.7m) is back in the Manchester United side to face Southampton but it will be interesting to see if he plays as a central striker or is pushed wide by Romelu Lukaku (£10.7m), who did so well there against Crystal Palace.

As expected, Paul Pogba (£9.0m) keeps his place in central midfield.

Full Line-ups

Bournemouth XI: Boruc; Daniels, Simpson, Mepham, Clyne; Fraser, Surman, Brooks, Aké, A Smith; King.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Zinchenko, Gundogan, Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling, Bernardo, Aguero.

Brighton XI: Ryan; Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Bernardo; Bissouma, Stephens, Pröpper; Knockaert, Murray, Jahanbakhsh.

Huddersfield XI: Lössl; Bacuna, Schindler, Kongolo, Durm; Stankovic; Hogg, Billing; Pritchard; Mounie, Grant.

Burnley XI: Heaton; Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Barnes, Wood.

Crystal Palace XI: Hennessey; Wan-Bissaka, Dann, Tomkins, van Aanholt; Meyer, Kouyaté, Milivojevic, Schlupp; Batshuayi, Zaha.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Young, Smalling, Lindelöf, Shaw; McTominay, Andreas Pereira, Pogba; Rashford, Lukaku, Sánchez.

Southampton XI: Gunn; Bednarek, Yoshida, Vestergaard; Valery, Ward-Prowse, Oriol Romeu, Højbjerg, Bertrand; Redmond, Austin.

Wolves XI: Ruddy; Boly, Coady, Bennett; Vinagre, Saïss, Gibbs-White, Dendoncker, Traoré; Jota, Jiménez.

Cardiff XI: Etheridge; Peltier, Morrison, Bamba, Bennett; Camarasa, Gunnarsson, Ralls, De Cordova-Reid; Zohore; Niasse.

  1. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Barnes was a shrewd buy 10 gameweeks ago.

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Delighted with a goal, should have got another in half first.

  2. drughi
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Pogba (C), Rashford owner and AWB first on bench. A rough afternoon

  3. Syd.
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Just seen that Paul missed a penalty

    Special moments

    1. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      And a former City keeper saved it 😀

      1. Syd.
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        £14 million looks like a bargain now

  4. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Man City vs Watford score prediction?

    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      6-0

    2. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      9-0.

    3. GAMBIT
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Putting the C on Aguero and leaving it there

    4. FPL Pillars
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      3-1

    5. Hy liverpool
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      4-1

    6. dark91
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      2-0

    7. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      1-0

    8. TheDragon
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      10-0 Man City all scored by Aguero with Sterling benched. (Yes I own Sterling)

    9. LosBlancos
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      2 0

    10. toerag
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      1:0

  5. Distinctly Average
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Potentially the worst string of captains I’ve ever had in my history of FF. 5 blanks in the last 6 captains:

    GW24: Salah (LEI) - 2 (4) pts
    GW25: Sane (ARS, eve) TC - 1 (3) pts
    GW26: Salah (BOU) - 8 (16) pts
    GW27: Auba (sou) - 1 (2) pts
    GW28: Salah (WAT) - 3 (6) pts
    GW29: Pogba (SOU) - -1 (-2) pts

    How can I keep getting it wrong?

    1. TheDragon
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      It’s been of the toughest 10 weeks of FPL I can remember,m. There have been so many seemingly absurdly unlucky occurances

    2. Superbadhine
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      I don't even know how to console you here

    3. Celt Abroad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      I’ve had the same sequence, and these have been the most popular captains on this site these past months - it’s been the most sustained terrible period I’ve known in the game.

    4. DaniCT
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Choose one player. Captain him every week. Gotta be good someday.

      1. DandyDon
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        That’s what worked with salah last year

  6. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Annoyed that I benched JWP after having in my team all week!

    1. 1zverGGadeM
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      this
      JWP is a great baller

  7. JRO093
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Pog seriously...

  8. jimmyabs1987
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Do you still get the use of your FT when you freehit? So if you freehit you get 2x FT week after?

    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      No

      1 FT

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      no

    3. tisza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Nope

  9. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Anyone else captain Pogba? Bottled out of Jiminez. Also Doherty cameo blocks AWB

    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Who would be that daft 😉

    2. HollywoodXI
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      I did. Mood officially ruined for the whole weekend. Is game is supposed to be fun...

    3. Sideways Backwards
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Exactly the same, and Auba too. Massive negative swing with those misses

    4. Halftime
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      To be fair it wasn't a bad decision to captain him, just didn't work out this time.

    5. Celt Abroad
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Yeah. Has been a series of weirdly awful things happening this year - the Digne sub on to get a red card, Sane getting one point in a double game week, auba becoming terrible overnight, now pogba losing 16 points in a minute.

  10. Tempestic
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Rashford (c) fail... not as bad as pogba tho.

    1. clodhopper
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      7 points from 5 players

  11. BigBillyBass
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Salah cappers right now will be absolutely creaming themselves

    1. FPL Pillars
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      I am a Haz capper and very happy Pog Sterling and Kun blanks

      1. Mattias
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        I'll only start celebrating if Hazard does the business!

      2. jtreble
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        Troll much. :).

      3. LosBlancos
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        Ditto

  12. Football Heaven
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    That Pogba goal has cost me 19 + bonus points in a way: 3 for rashford assist, 10 for Pogba captain. Instead 0 for rashford -6 for Pogba

    1. Christina.
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      cry me a river

    2. Zladan
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Possible BPS too.

    3. FPL Pillars
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Boohoo

    4. Mattias
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      What Pogba goal?

      1. toerag
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        lol

  13. QUEN
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    6 points from 4.

  14. FlockofSeagulls
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Man I hope Higuain starts. :/

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      He will I think

      1. FlockofSeagulls
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 7 days ago

        Hope so. 🙂

    2. DandyDon
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      This. As captain could be a massive differential against all the city and pog choices

  15. Ronnies
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Will David Luiz play tomr guys ?

    (play say no! I need Wan Bissaka off my bench)

    1. LosBlancos
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Hell get the same or morw point prolly, dw

  16. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Pogba(c) lol @ me

  17. Zladan
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Pogba (c) has killed me.

    Capped him v PSG and he got sent off. Capped him v Saints and he misses a penalty.

  18. GREEN IS GOOD
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Someone just asked for an update on this guy:

    https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/team/620306/event/29

    1. Greenbackbøøg…
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      I give no sympathy to Jimenez owners

    2. LosBlancos
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Hahha, so unlucky

    3. DandyDon
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Could finish higher than lots with Salah captain though!

    4. DV8R
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Who is he?

  19. Greenbackbøøg…
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Anyone triple captain pogs?

  20. tafrère
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    After all these red arrows (9 on 11, down from 2k to 12k), hard to take this miss as a Pogba capper. Never felt so frustrated with this game, down to 14k now before the obvious Salah show tomorrow (my vc). Need some break from FPL, it's just been frustration everywhere the past few months.

    1. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Horrible isn't it. Go out do some exercise. Leave the phone at home.

    2. toerag
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      i feel your pain. i did the same for 2 1/2 months and it drains you. i was over 100 pts up on the rest of my league so i stopped. it has been fun watching them try to catch up 😆

  21. Farke in hell
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Bournemouth didn't have a single attempt. They should have atleast hit one from 60yd for the sake of registering an attempt on goal.

  22. Amey
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Well Barnes did the job by taking away CS from awb on 1st bench.
    Sterling © fail.
    And what happened to Jota ??
    Why was he taken out@ 46 ??

    1. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Same for me re Barnes and AWB. Made me feel a lot better. Jota might have a knock? Radio commentary said maybe.

    2. LosBlancos
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Just so doherty could block our bench pts

  23. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Sterling and City surely pummel Watford at home though 🙂

    1. toerag
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      1:0

  24. OPTA FPL
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Anyone else seen that Barnes goal? Henessey stupid error, Guiata has to return next week!

  25. screamopilla
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Pogba captain (-2) and Aubameyang (-1) owner here...FFS

    1. TAT
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Brutal!

  26. Arteta
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    @Daniel

    How was life without FPL during 2016/17 season? Did you enjoy watching football more?
    I'm seriously considering giving it a miss next year.

  27. dark91
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Some quality goals in that Man U vs Soton game!!

  28. FlockofSeagulls
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    On a bright note that was some game at old Trafford. Top draw goals all round.

    1. tisza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Good game. Saints should have had a point.
      Stay up and there could be some bargains there next season

  29. Runaway
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    Interesting that my player falling from 2 points to -1 and making me increase 500 in OR, happening first time 🙂

    1. DandyDon
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 7 days ago

      Same here

  30. Benditlike
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 7 days ago

    This is even worse than that Kola own goal. I will never get over this