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Jesus and Laporte ‘not fully fit’ for Man City’s Southampton trip

19 December 2020 1821 comments
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Gabriel Jesus (£9.2m) and Aymeric Laporte (£6.0m) have been left out of the Manchester City squad to face Southampton in Gameweek 14.

The club released an official statement with their Saturday team-sheet which explained the two players were “not fully fit” for the trip to St Mary’s Stadium.

“Sergio Aguero is amongst the substitutes for Manchester City’s Premier League clash with Southampton, but Gabriel Jesus and Aymeric Laporte are not fully fit and have been left out of the matchday squad.” – Manchester City press release

Sergio Aguero (£10.3m) is still only ready enough for a place on the bench so it looks to be either Raheem Sterling (£11.4m) and Ferran Torres (£6.9m) occupying the centre-forward role from the start this afternoon.

Bernardo Silva (£7.4m) and Kevin De Bruyne (£11.9m) complete the front-four, with Riyad Mahrez (£8.4m) left on the bench for the second successive Premier League match.

John Stones (£4.8m) earns his place back, starting alongside Ruben Dias (£5.6m) at centre-back, with João Cancelo (£5.5m) starting for the fourth match in a row, Kyle Walker (£6.2m) at right-back.

Southampton are in their traditional 4-2-2-2 shape, Danny Ings (£ and Che Adams (£ leading the line with Theo Walcott (£ and Moussa Djenepo (£ providing the width.

Southampton XI: A McCarthy; Bertrand, Bednarek, Vestergaard, Walker-Peters; Djenepo, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Walcott; Ings, Adams.

Manchester City XI: Ederson; Cancelo, Stones, Dias, Walker; Rodrigo, Gündogan; Torres, De Bruyne, B Silva; Sterling.

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  1. Hect.OR 98th
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Was going to lose Cancelo to raise funds for another transfer, but he keeps getting points. Too early to lose DCL for someone like Adams?

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    1. Iwantmorepointsthanks
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Adams looks awful. But somehow he gets points, so yeah go ahead!

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    2. jason_ni
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Cancelo is so good.. 5.5 he is hard to beat, and due a monster haul soon!

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  2. Stoic
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Pep Guardrinho

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  3. Pacer.
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Total and utter gash. KdB gone

    KdB/James ---> Salah/TAA

    Exact money. Done and dusted. Pray for no injuries

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    1. Zimo
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Hmm I'd have gotten robbo over trent

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      1. Pacer.
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Na, he's back

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        1. Zimo
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 6 months ago

          In the team? Sure. But Robertson is doing better this season and has actually taken more indirect freekicks and corners over him now. There's no contest in open play. So robbo is a better option. I guess direct freekicks could still help u.

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    2. In Carrick we trust
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      I'd go robertson low ownership and get the points every week

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  4. In Carrick we trust
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Is a triple up off Robertson, Salah and firmino wise over the festive season?

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    1. Better off with a pin and a…
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      • 13 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Firminho isn't a good fantasy asset IMO. Go cheap up top and get TAA if you want a triple up.

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      1. In Carrick we trust
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        That's a fair point, I'd love another good striker to partner kane, if Rashford keeps his form I'd also be tempted, he looked good against Sheffield United

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  5. BenDavies
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Cancelo 2 BAPS, we'll take that.

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  6. Dr. Ante Pavlovic
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Sold Cancelo for Dier last night. Good job me!

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    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Cancelo might not play Newcastle

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      1. seanie3
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Oh not this nonsense again

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    2. seanie3
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      At least you didn’t sell him weeks ago when he was rested for mendy and the masses inc myself got rid for James, big mistake

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  7. Arteta
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Dias and Robertson hehe

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    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Same. Love it!

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    2. TOLV TUMS
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      • 11 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Indeed

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  8. Isco Disco
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Another Stones CS...Woohoo
    Was expecting more from KDB in this game tho

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  9. Flair
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    City are such a good defense

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    1. tafrère
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Not really, they could have concede 2 goals easily.

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

    Cancelo you troll.

    Ah well - wouldn’t have gotten Salah in if I didn’t sell him

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    1. Steve Chance
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Yasn.

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  11. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Well it isn't a fail at least... Not gonna captain KdB again for the rest of the year.

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    1. Party time
      5 years, 6 months ago

      It depends on what Bruno does tomorrow

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  12. yalala
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Got Salah, Grealish, Son and Bruno already..

    KDB to who?

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    1. Aidan269
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Wait till after fixtures this weekend

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      1. yalala
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Fair

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  13. Karan_G14
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Think I will say goodbye to KDB after Newcastle!

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    1. Paqueta Rice
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Think I will do it this week for Salah

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  14. DMP
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    4th clean sheet Dias brought home since I sold Chilwell for him.

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    1. Karan_G14
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      3 bps too

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      1. DMP
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        After that Salah disaster, have him but captained Bruno aware of is eminent benching, I needed that.

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    2. DMP
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      In 5 GW.

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    3. FPL_Motty
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Why would you sell Chilwell, thats not going to age well. Dias+Chilwell needed

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      1. DMP
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        Because I knew Chelsea had/has bad fixtures until GW18. Double Chelsea defence not very wise.

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  15. Paqueta Rice
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    14 from 2 normally would be decent but with no Salah it’s really not

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    1. have you seen cyan
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      25 from 2, pretty happy but those City CS's grate on me a bit :l

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  16. Nightcrawler
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    City so infuriating to watch

    Last game for kdb vs newc then he's gone

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    1. Rolls-Royce
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Will he start though?

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    2. Mile Plankton
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Not waitning Newcastle. Selling for Salah today.

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      1. Mile Plankton
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        waiting*

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  17. Mile Plankton
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Stones delivers! 😎

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  18. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Who would you sell only for this week? WC in 16! Same value on both.

    A. Kane
    B. Bruno

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  19. Fudgy
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Cheers stones

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    1. Wirtzle Gummidge
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      A positive comment.

      Tis the season

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  20. tafrère
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    11.8 for a player that hasn't scored all season from open play.

    And I call others casuals...

    I should look in the mirror more often. Pretty face but clueless thoughts lmao.

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    1. Cruyff Turn
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      The past is irrelevant. Hold.

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  21. PlayPercentage
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    No BPs for Sterling, the only goal scored?

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    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Must have been wasteful

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  22. Wirtzle Gummidge
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Stones.

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  23. Dickie1898
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Those Dias points will be the most valuable of the gw for me. Feel a tad fortunate thought tbh!

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  24. CaptMidnight
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    I'll give KDB one more chance next week and then he's gone. Not that he's been bad, but his team mates have been absolute sh*te.

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    1. Balls of Steel
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      KDB doesn't look his energetic self to me...maybe he's been told he's got to play every game so managing himself to get safely through each game without any injuries!

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  25. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Thoughts? Let's be honest, it's a real kick in the nutz when you see your keepers / defenders clean sheet points whipped off your FPL score after they concede late in the game...

    Clean sheet points are "in play" and therefore not consistent with other points that are generally locked in - goals, assists, minutes played, yellow cards etc (barring them being overturned)

    I would much prefer it to be consistent and get the morale boost of seeing them added afterwards (or if they are subbed with clean sheet intact...) rather than the disappointment of having them there and then removed!!!

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

      Just don't check lol

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    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Nah. I like it the way it is.

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    3. Cruyff Turn
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Agreed. Shared the same sentiment a bit earlier...

      https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2020/12/19/jesus-and-laporte-not-fully-fit-for-man-citys-southampton-trip/?hc_page=17&hc_sort_by=comment_date#hc_comment_23007943

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  26. FPL_Motty
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Dias repays og last week with a 8/9pter

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  27. Flair
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Benched Dias for Lamptey, did not see it backfiring this badly smh. 3 BPS and Saints not scoring with those missed pen calls

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    1. Karan_G14
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Can't bench a defender playing for the best defence (statistically) in the league mate. Wrong call imo.

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

        Disagree, Lamptey was a better option this week. More likely I could have benched him for James but either way, CS fairly fortunate

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

          Play 4 at the back? Or you shouldn't be having a benching headache like that. Dias wasn't fortunate, they have a very good defence and have been relying on it. Lamptey not a bad choice, but surely both could have played, both good fixtures

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  28. The 12th Man
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    51 from 3 .

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

      Thank you 🙂

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    2. Flair
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Very nice

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    3. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Wow

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      1. The 12th Man
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        The wife’s score.
        Salah(c), Firminio and McCarthy

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        1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 6 months ago

          Ahhh

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    4. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Just looked, it’s 30 from 3 isn’t it?

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      1. The 12th Man
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 6 months ago

        That’s me.

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    5. Paqueta Rice
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Yikes 100+ for you hopefully

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  29. DAZZ
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Kdb > Son after newcastle is the easiest transfer ever.

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    1. The 12th Man
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 6 months ago

      Yep on the cards for me.
      Extra cash can fund a Liverpool defender.

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  30. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 6 months ago

    Is Henderson (Pool) an actual FPL option? He has proven before in the past that he can be At 5.4 he is a nice price, could be a 3rd Pool option in 19.
    Could be a pick right now, wont be surprised in the slightest to see him get returns in the coming weeks

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