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De Bruyne starts but Sterling and Aguero benched as Guardiola rings the changes

There are three Premier League matches kicking off at 17:30 GMT this evening.

David Moyes takes charge of West Ham United for the first time since his reappointment as head coach, with Bournemouth the visitors to the London Stadium.

Manchester City entertain Everton, while bottom-of-the-table Norwich City play host to Crystal Palace.

The headline team news comes from the Etihad, where Pep Guardiola has made five changes from Sunday’s 2-0 win over Sheffield United.

Kyle Walker, Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling and Bernardo Silva all drop to the bench, while Oleksandr Zinchenko misses out altogether.

Ilkay Gundogan, Gabriel Jesus, Benjamin Mendy, Joao Cancelo and Phil Foden are the players recalled to Guardiola’s starting XI.

David Silva is among the substitutes after returning from injury.

Kevin De Bruyne – the second-most-captained player of Gameweek 21 – keeps his place amid the rotation.

Ederson misses out with illness, so Claudio Bravo keeps his place.

Carlo Ancelotti followed suit, initially making five alterations to his Everton side.

Fabian Delph, Lucas Digne, Yerry Mina, Bernard and Seamus Coleman came into the side, with Leighton Baines, Michael Keane, Theo Walcott, Tom Davies and Moise Kean making way.

However, Bernard was injured in the warm-up – so Davies keeps his place.

Moyes has made four changes to the West Ham team from Gameweek 20.

Aaron Cresswell, Robert Snodgrass, Mark Noble and Angelo Ogbonna are in for Arthur Masuaku, Carlos Sanchez, Manuel Lanzini and Issa Diop.

There is no Michail Antonio in the Hammers’ squad.

Daniel Farke has recalled three first-team regulars after handing them breathers last weekend.

Sam Byram, Todd Cantwell and Kenny McLean come in for Jamal Lewis, Marco Stiepermann and Onel Hernandez.

Crystal Palace are unchanged from the team that drew with Southampton on Saturday.


Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, Francis, Cook, Mepham, Rico, L Cook, Lerma, Gosling, H Wilson, C Wilson, Solanke.

West Ham United XI: Fabianski, Fredericks, Balbuena, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Noble, Snodgrass, Anderson, Fornals, Haller.

Manchester City XI: Bravo, Cancelo, Fernandinho, E Garcia, Mendy, Rodrigo, Gundogan, Mahrez, Foden, De Bruyne, Jesus.

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Holgate, Mina, Sidibe, Delph, Sigurdsson, Digne, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin, Davies.

Norwich City XI: Krul, Byram, Zimmermann, Hanley, Aarons, McLean, Tettey, Vrancic, Buendía, Pukki, Cantwell.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Kelly, Tomkins, Sakho, Riedewald, McCarthy, Milivojevic, McArthur, Meyer, Zaha, Ayew.

2,047 Comments Post a Comment
  1. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Mina YC

  2. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Mina yellow

    1. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Good news for KdB!

  3. Warby84
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Otamendi or Aurier out??

    Evans or Sidibé In??

    1. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Both

  4. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    zzzz

  5. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Will never forgive myself for playing Rico over Kiko this week

  6. Iceball
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Cantwell in for Vardy, nice...

    1. el polako
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      same here, finally jammy points for me.

  7. Ask Yourself
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    That Jahanbakhsh goal earlier was ridiculous OMG

    1. Ask Yourself
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Love the emotion in him too. Deserves moments like that.

    2. Party time
        4 years, 4 months ago

        I scored better goals than that x

        1. Ask Yourself
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Are you the real Hakim :O oh you’re even sexier now than I ever realised xx

      • Sid1891
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Beautiful

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

      People expecting BOU CS’ when Ake is fit is one thing...

      Doubling up on them with him out...

      1. Collie01
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Surely nobody doubled up?

        1. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Plenty talk of it before Xmas.

          Ramsdale the 2nd coming.

        2. Crystal Alice
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Ramsdale and Rico here. Soy 8 points, Lundstram Sidibe benched vs LIV & MCI

          1. Crystal Alice
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 4 months ago

            Trent to haul obvs

    4. CMJC
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Must be very frustrating owning Cantwell

      1. Collie01
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        More frustrating not owning

      2. CMJC
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Unless first on bench with Vardy of course

      3. Iceball
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        No, this is the second time he comes in with huge score 🙂

      4. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        yes, benched him for his last 3 goals. No Vardy means he comes in today 😀

    5. Hands Guber
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Oh joy, another week with rampant rotation, this game is so fun!

      Vardy (C) / Aguero (VC) / Heaton / Rico / Jiminez / Traore

      Modern FPL is so much fun though, cowboys.

    6. @persecuted_by_mods
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Apologies to all Kdb cappers, I capped him too hence being deeper than Rodri and Gundo

        1. The Big Fella
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          This will change second half. They need his creativity

      • Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Dropping back down to 650k so far. Horror couple of weeks!

        1. Stockport Hatter
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Swap you for 1.7m?

          1. Hazz
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 4 months ago

            No thanks 😆

        2. TheDragon
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          I’ve never known anything like this season.

          Everything that could go wrong each week goes wrong

        3. Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Try 2.5 mill here

          1. TheDragon
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 4 months ago

            You normally finish top 100k?

      • HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Damn, should have got Fredericks over Cresswell

      • Gobigorgohome
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        KDB playing behind Rodri and Foden FML

      • lordkippe
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        If Wickham gets a cameo I am up to 11 players this week! Come on Connor!!!

      • diesel001
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        West Ham penalty

      • el polako
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Pen for Hammers

      • Zilla
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Moyes masterclass

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

        Oof, Rico first sub for Vardy. Rashford VC...

        Also, would you do Jimenez to Ings?

      • Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Ramsdale jam incoming

      • Hy liverpool
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Ramsdall please

      • BobbyDoesNotLook
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Salah C needs to do miracles tomorrow to save from this gw. Liverank 12k>24k. Vardy out apparently means a lot of more Grealish and Cantwell points for owners m

      • Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Noble essential

      • S.Kuqi
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Soy, Cantwell, Grealish, Abraham and Ings.

        Kdb will blank 🙁

        1. S.Kuqi
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          My sweet captain

        2. TheDragon
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          My heart bleeds for you

      • TheDragon
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Kelly hattrick to save the gameweek

      • Gobigorgohome
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        pen

      • sunzip14
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        WHM Pen

      • Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Knew i should of viced Rashford

      • Eat my goal!
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Jimenez to Haller?

      • RealVirg
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        That ladies and gentlemen is why you play Simpson, if that dude is missing than your goal will take a hammering.

        Nuff Said