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Three Premier League matches kick off simultaneously at 14:00 BST today, as the Europa League continues to play havoc with the domestic calendar.

Manchester City entertain Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Etihad, while Arsenal host Bournemouth and Chelsea make the trip to Southampton.

City are of course without the injured Kevin De Bruyne (£10.0m) for this clash but most of their other popular attacking assets start against Nuno Espirito Santo’s side, with Raheem Sterling (£12.1m), Sergio Aguero (£12.2m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.7m) making Guardiola’s starting XI.

Bernardo Silva (£7.9m) is benched, however, along with Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.5m).

Benjamin Mendy (£5.9m) is not in the squad after suffering a hamstring injury, so Joao Cancelo (£5.3m) looks set to deputise at left-back.

Mahrez was the most-bought player of Gameweek 8, having been acquired by just over 440,000 Fantasy Premier League managers.

Sterling and Aguero were the most-captained players of this weekend, with each City asset handed the armband by over 1.1 million FPL bosses.

Diogo Jota (£6.1m) misses out for the visitors with a toe injury.

Raul Jimenez (£7.1m) is joined up front by Patrick Cutrone (£5.7m) as Santo reverts to a 3-5-2, following his dalliance with a 3-4-3 in recent weeks.

Matt Doherty (£6.0m) is among the substitutes so Adama Traore (£5.0m) plays at right wing-back.

Mason Mount (£6.7m) and Tammy Abraham (£7.6m) both make Frank Lampard’s starting XI at St. Mary’s with Fikayo Tomori (£4.7m) earning his fifth straight league start at centre-back.

N’Golo Kante (£5.0m) is fit to line up in central midfield, while Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5.9m) gets his first league start of the campaign.

The Saints bring in Yan Valery (£4.8m) and Shane Long (£4.7m) for Cedric Soares (£4.9m) and Sofiane Boufal (£5.5m).

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) keeps up his ever-present record in the Premier League this season, while there is another start for youngster Bukayo Saka (£4.5m).

Dani Ceballos (£5.5m) replaces Lucas Torreira (£4.8m) in Unai Emery’s only change from the 1-1 draw with Manchester United last Monday.

Ryan Fraser (£7.1m) has recovered from the illness that forced him to sit out Gameweek 7 but is only among the substitutes at the Emirates.

Eddie Howe has named an unchanged starting XI from the 2-2 draw with West Ham United, meaning another run-out down the left flank for Joshua King (£6.3m).

Dominic Solanke (£5.4m) again supports Callum Wilson (£7.9m) in attack.

The only three FPL assets who are yet to blank this season – Wilson, Aubameyang and Aguero – are all in action this afternoon.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Chambers, Papastathopoulos, Luiz, Kolasinac, Ceballos, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Pepe, Aubameyang, Saka.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, Stacey, Cook, Ake, Rico, H. Wilson, Lerma, Billing, King, C. Wilson, Solanke.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Cancelo, Rodrigo, Gundogan, D Silva, Sterling, Mahrez, Aguero.

Wolves XI: Rui Patrício, Boly, Coady, Saïss, Traoré, Dendoncker, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Rúben Vinagre, Jiménez, Cutrone.

Southampton XI: Gunn, Valery, Bednarek, Yoshida, Bertrand, Romeu Vidal, Højbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Redmond, Ings, Long.

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Azpilicueta, Zouma, Tomori, Alonso, Jorginho, Kante, Mount, Willian, Hudson-Odoi, Abraham.

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  1. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Taxi for Ota

  2. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Ota baps check (hopeful owner)?

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Timing

  3. how now brown cow
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Worst gw ever

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Same as every week then

    2. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      For 6.2m of the 6.7m players

    3. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Here here

  4. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Still 3 baps for Otamendi?

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Deserved

    2. Grand Thibauto
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      he deserves it for that missed tackle on jimenez

    3. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Surely not?

  5. Differential C (Mark)
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    City cleanie gone, get in!

  6. Old Wulfrunian
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Traore you beauty!!!

  7. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    2nd day running a late goal costs me max baps and cs

  8. The Chosen One...
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    that was all Jimenez. what a player

    1. Eddie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Otamendi played his part.

  9. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Bald fraud

  10. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    No KDB No City

  11. Pacer.
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Ota Bandwag-off

  12. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    That's what you gits get for saying Otamendi was on for baps! Godamn it!

  13. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    get the equaliser Raz

  14. FC Hakkebøf
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    HAHAHAHAH

  15. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Otamendi 3 BAPs?

    Can we have an update.

  16. Londongeezaa
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Bye bye Otamendi Cs

  17. Party time
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Where are my Liverpool fans at??? We're CHAMPIONS, Believe me!!!

  18. Eddie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    FFS Otamendi

  19. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Liverpool mathematically can’t lose the title....

  20. Wirtzle Gummidge
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    VAR to grant City a goal in the 98th

  21. Relaxing
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    City missing KDB?

  22. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    City blown the title race, wouldn't be surprised to see pep stand down end of the season

    Maybe they might get poch.

    1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      So they will go from a manager (Pep) - who has won a number of leagues and champions league and won the English domestic treble last year.
      To another manager (Poch) who was lucky to get out of the CL group last year - fortunate to get to the final - and has now suffered Spurs heaviest home defeat 7-2 followed by another 2-0 defeat to Brighton
      Makes perfect sense....

  23. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Saka off Terreira on

  24. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    2019 calendar year is Liverpool's year (win CL, great PL record, win Super Cup, may even win World Club Cup)

    But will 2020 calendar year be their year?

  25. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Ota CS was the sacrifice needed to enable a quickfire Sterling brace

  26. FC Hakkebøf
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    8 pts gap between City and Liverpool now!

    YNWA

    1. FC Hakkebøf
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Don't even care that I got Sterling (C) and Aguero in my team

      1. Ha.
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 9 months ago

        I don’t care either

        1. FC Hakkebøf
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 9 months ago

          My man! If I understood you correctly

    2. Niho992
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Me too. Otamendi from 9 to 2 points but who cares. Come on Wolves.

      1. FC Hakkebøf
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 9 months ago

        My man!

    3. Albrightondknight
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Went 260k to 70k on Livefpl with Ota CS
      That's gone now. But don't care.

      1. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 9 months ago

        And Sterling C

  27. KGFC
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Auba where the feck are you?!!!

    1. Jindaljain
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Even I m finding him where is he?

  28. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    I can't get anything right this season.

  29. Hect.OR 98th
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Way too early to be declaring the title over. For a start, the top two have still to play each other twice.

    1. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      IT IS OVER

    2. Zladan
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 9 months ago

      Shhh LFC fans do this every year. They win the “We are top of the league in October” trophy and then bottle it.

  30. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 9 months ago

    Tammy fail