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De Bruyne and Sterling start as Mahrez falls foul of Pep Roulette

15 December 2020 1975 comments
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Riyad Mahrez (£8.4m) is the latest Manchester City to suffer from Pep Guardiola’s rotation policy.

The Algerian winger finds himself on the bench for the Gameweek 13 meeting with West Bromwich Albion as Phil Foden (£6.4m) is stationed on the left-hand side of attacking midfield.

Captain favourite Kevin De Bruyne (£11.9m) retains his starting berth in a more advanced number 10 role, Raheem Sterling (£11.4m) completing the trio in support of Gabriel Jesus (£9.3m).

But Mahrez is not the only notable absentee as John Stones (£4.8m) is omitted from the matchday squad entirely despite completing 90 minutes in each of the last three Premier League games.

That development certainly strengthens the case for Ruben Dias (£5.6m) whose start against West Bromwich Albion is his 10th consecutive one in the Premier League.

Guardiola continues to tweak his full-backs, sending João Cancelo (£5.5m) back to right-back for his third start on the bounce, benching Kyle Walker (£6.2m) and bringing Benjamin Mendy (£5.9m) back on the left.

West Bromwich Albion line-up with a 4-2-3-1 shape, dropping Branislav Ivanovic (£4.5m) to the bench and going with a back-four of Kieran Gibbs (£4.3m), Dara O’Shea (£4.3m), Semi Ajayi (£4.8m) and Darnell Furlong (£4.5m).

Manchester City XI (4-2-3-1): Ederson; B Mendy, Aké, Dias, Cancelo; Rodri, Gündogan; Foden, De Bruyne, Sterling; Jesus.

West Bromwich Albion XI (4-2-3-1): Johnstone; Gibbs, O’Shea, Ajayi, Furlong; Livermore, Sawyers; Diangana, Gallagher, M Phillips; Grant.

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  1. Steve McCroskey
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    KDB > John Fleck (-4)?

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    1. Capocannonieri
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Not Lundstram?

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      1. Steve McCroskey
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        This ain't last season pal

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  2. Chalobah's Witness
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    any chance Mahrez tears his muscle while sitting on the bench?

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  3. sully29
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Even if KDB scores a last minute screamer, City's performance today would still put you off owning him. They've been turgid.

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    1. Pat Bonner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Hard to sell ahead of Southampton and Newcastle

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  4. Right In The Stanchion
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Pep complaining that he wants 5 subs a game but only puts 2 on when drawing at home to the bottom team.

    Absolute nonsense

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    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      50% more than the last game

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    2. DaniCT
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Thought about this too. So much fluff talking.

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  5. michaelington
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Kdb captain and Dias owner. Red arrow incoming.

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    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Green today

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    2. EmreCan Hustle
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      A lot of FPL managers are in the same boat as you. No need to worry.

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  6. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    KDB -> Lookman incoming. Power midfield ftw!

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

    Cancelo has to be throwing.

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  8. thegaffer82
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    People need to calm down a bit.

    KDB has been poor (today), he isn’t however suddenly a rubbish player. Anyone can have a bad day, if you think that’s him done as a force in fantasy this season, you’re kidding yourself

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    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Doesn’t matter. Season over

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    2. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      It’s the rest of the team that are the problem not KDB.

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    3. sully29
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Yes.

      The question is whether he's worth owning right now though, with other big hitters performing. This has been very uninspiring stuff.

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    4. Pedram
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Yeah but this is FFS, you won't find rationality here

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    5. fusen
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      That's all well and good but we only have 38 attempts at succeeding in an entire year. So captaining him when he fails, and then if someone else hauls (like Fernandes) it's actually quite an issue to succeeding.

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    6. EmreCan Hustle
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Let everyone get rid of him. I wouldn't mind 🙂

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    7. Pat Bonner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Not like there to be an overreaction on here!

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    8. matiakez
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Is it not more how average city look?

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    9. Steve McCroskey
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Your logic and reason has no place here

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    10. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Good thing i decided to cap bruno or would have been mad today

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    11. Casual Player
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Too much common sense for this place.

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    12. Dr. Ante Pavlovic
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Lol bad day hahah

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    13. TOLV TUMS
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      A bit of this, yes - but also worth noting that Son has doubled KDB's points so far this season and Salah and Bruno are both 30+ points ahead of him. That's a LOT of catching up to do if you subscribe to mean reversion. City's just been flat flat flat this season relative to their recent usual.

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    14. Pacer.
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      They've had 10 poor games. It's not like anyone didn't get a warning that KdB and City are well off form

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      1. Zimo
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Who'd u end up captaining?

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        1. Pacer.
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 3 months ago

          KdB, the most captained player at home against West Brom, obviously. You know exactly my feelings this year about how woeful KdB and City have been. Doesn't mean I'm going to go against the majority when it comes to captains and risk being totally out of step. In the end I went for the match I thought had the lowest chance of a 0-0 of the two obvious ones. A captain fail. Thankfully I hadn't gone for the big big midfield, so I have a ready made replacement in two weeks in Son.

          On balance it probably wasn't worth getting KdB in with 7ppg from 4 likely meaning trading for Son was a waste of 1 transfer each way. But that's damage limitation for you. Sometimes you have to do it.

          Think the main thing we have learned from this period is that KdB isn't a disaster but he's yesterday's man. There's better value players, playing better.

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      2. WVA
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        It has been nothing but pure luck that west Brom haven't conceeded more and KDB hasn't returned

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        1. Pacer.
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 3 months ago

          I dunno. I watched it and he is far far off his best, and so are city. At what point do you start acknowledging that it's not bad luck that they're averaging 1.4 goals a game or whatever rather than 2.7

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  9. JONALDINHO
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Newcastle did a better job of breaking down this west brown team. That’s says it all really

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    1. dark91
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Did West Brom play similarly against Newcastle? With 10 players in the box?

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  10. GENERATION X
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Play Johnstone concede 5

    Bench Johnstone he denies your captain time and again.

    Please Dec 31st hurry up. Sick of 2020

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  11. 272MK
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    I wonder if anyone has ever tried taken so much hit that their pts are -1000?

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  12. CaptMidnight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Cancelo is really bad! Or he's just had a bad night. But it's been soooooo bad!

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  13. Fudgy
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    I'm actually very upset 🙁

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    1. Drexl Spivey
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Makes a change.

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    2. CaptMidnight
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Stop getting so worked up over a game you absolute child.

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      1. DaniCT
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 3 months ago

        Don't tell me what to do.

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    3. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Shame

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  14. TRIPOS TOPPER
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    KdB is playing more like a right sided holding mid

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  15. TOLV TUMS
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    4 from Chilwell, 4 from KDB(c) - off to a flying start this GW.

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    1. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      -4, Zouma, Diaz 🙁

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    2. Bram
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Chilwell got 5 with 1bp

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  16. Niho992
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    I own KdB (C) and Jesus from this game. Time to delete team

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    1. ilikewud
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Just do it

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    2. Cruyff Turn
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      I own KDB (c), Dias and Cancelo.

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  17. drughi
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Season slowly turning shite

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    1. BenDavies
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      "slowly"

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    2. ilikewud
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Turning... must be nice. Mine has been trash from the start.

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    3. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Turning? Lmao

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  18. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Pep embarrassing himself.

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  19. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Crazy Pep

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  20. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    I'm coming to the conclusion that City players should be avoided this season. They have had long enough now to show their form of old but it's not happening. Perhaps we need to accept they are not the same team anymore.

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    1. Cruyff Turn
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Keep the defenders.

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    2. FPL_Crisis
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      Their focus is on champions league until they get knocked out again. At least with United/Bruno they only have the league

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  21. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Gundo & Rodri doesn't work.

    Neither does Cancelo.

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  22. Londongeezaa
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    How many players bought in KDB this week? Is it possible to check?

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    1. Benjustjamin
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      279336

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  23. Fudgy
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Pep absolutely fuming

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  24. Van der Faart
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Only my 3rd captain blank of the season but this is the most disappointing one so far.

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    1. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 3 months ago

      My third too. Second KDB fail. Think I may avoid in future.

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  25. Mika-eel
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Arguing with the 4th official is like arguing with the wife. Pointless.

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  26. Fudgy
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    WHAT THE ?1?1?1?1

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  27. Duke Silver ☑
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Fraud going ape on the touchline

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  28. how now brown cow
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    Charlie Austin looking completely knackered after about 5 minutes.

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  29. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    What a save

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  30. Pat Bonner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 3 months ago

    What a save, would’ve been kdb assist

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