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2 March 2021 1549 comments
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As expected, Pep Guardiola has struck again, hurting more Fantasy Premier League managers with his latest team selection.

Ilkay Gündogan (£6.2m) is the chief victim this time out, earning a first tactical benching since Gameweek 12, having only missed the second Double Gameweek 24 trip to Everton through injury.

In the German international’s place, Bernardo Silva (£7.4m), Rodri (£5.3m) and Kevin De Bruyne (£11.8m) form the central-midfield trio tonight.

Meanwhile, John Stones (£5.2m) finds himself among the substitutes for the second time in four matches, Aymeric Laporte (£6.0m) and Ruben Dias (£6.1m) the preferred centre-back partnership against Wolves.

Oleksandr Zinchenko‘s (£5.5m) return to the bench means João Cancelo (£6.2m) is back in the side, operating at left-back while Kyle Walker (£6.1m) staffs the right-hand side of defence.

Raheem Sterling (£11.6m) will share the left flank with Cancelo tonight, selected alongside Gabriel Jesus (£9.2m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.1m) in the front-three.

Opponents Wolves have gone with the same 3-5-2 formation that helped them to victory at the Etihad Stadium last season with Pedro Neto (£5.7m) and Adama Traoré (£6.0m) leading the line.

Leander Dendoncker (£4.6m) moves forward to reclaim the central-midfield berth he is more familiar with so Ki-Jana Hoever (£4.4m) joins Conor Coady (£4.8m) and Romain Saïss (£4.9m) in the back-three.

Manchester City XI (4-3-3): Ederson; Cancelo, Laporte, Dias, Walker; B Silva, Rodri, De Bruyne; Sterling, Jesus, Mahrez.

Wolves XI (3-5-2): Patrício; Saïss, Coady, Hoever; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Dendoncker, Semedo; Neto, A Traoré.

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  1. Royal5
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Very boring game this.

    1. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      One team with almost zero left in the tank against a rested, rotated group of World class players. It's pointless.

      1. Royal5
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 days ago

        See your point. Still City are not creating a whole lot here.

        1. Bushwhacker
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          1-0 ; do they need to? They've played like this a lot.

  2. The Point About It Is
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Cancelo not seeing much of the ball as KDB and Stirling seem to dominate the ball on left side of attack.

    1. gonzalocampos
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      On the contrary, Cancelo dominating the game.

      1. BENOIT
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 days ago

        Hmmm

        1. Warby84
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Check the bonus??

  3. Bushwhacker
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Is there actually any point to this game? It's like watching a spritely puppy playing a old dog that's about to put down.

    1. The Point About It Is
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Like watching scottish football last 20 years.

      1. Bushwhacker
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 days ago

        THIS!

  4. abaalan
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    For a Barnes replacement... is Saka relatively nailed? Or who else would you go ?

    1. Stranger Mings
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      I like Lingard as I know misses GW28 but plays BgW29

    2. dogtanion
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      He was until Sunday ! Willian , Pepe and Auba are now options for the wide berths. He is first choice though and will start 90% of games apart from around Europa Leage time.

  5. dogtanion
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    City are pretty dull. Looking forward to Munich to humble them in the CL

    1. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Lol, it's going to come and then Pep is going to go back to rampaging teams 5-0 after this experiment.

    2. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      I don't think they care about how it looks.

  6. mezza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Didn’t even realize Walker has played both games this double (after playing in the champions league).

    1. WE GO FOR IT
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Will be benched soon. Don't worry!

      1. mezza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 4 days ago

        Not considering him, just pointing out how unpredictable Pep is.

  7. Defcons are for Kinnear
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Pep is the new Mourinho

  8. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Usless cretin sterling gets his man 1 on 1 and scuffs a shot, awful

  9. No Professionals
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    I know city are good, but this is embarrassing from wolves

    1. Bushwhacker
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      City are rested. Wolves are knackered.

  10. TomSaints
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 days ago

    Anyone else think KDB is a bit off the pace? I’ve watched a fair few city games and compared to past seasons he’s just not been great.

    1. Bubz
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Yep but can still get big scores

    2. TomSaints
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Still got the Hollywood pass but seems to lose the ball / miss the easier passes. Plus completely lost his ability to shoot

    3. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Ssshhh...

    4. @persecuted_by_mods
        5 years, 4 days ago

        Been off it all season but only compared to his usual standards. Fpl wise overpriced by a lot

        1. TomSaints
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Still a good player but not the ‘best player on pitch’ which has been the case before

    5. Stranger Mings
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      Guys 1, Bruno yo son or 2, Barnes to Lingard ? Cheers

    6. not_astarte
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 days ago

      cancelo on fire.

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

      Laporte in a DGW

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Offside looks like

      2. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 days ago

        No offside

        1. @persecuted_by_mods
            5 years, 4 days ago

            It is

        2. Steve The Spud
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Pointless fpl goal ruled out

          1. JJO
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Its not pointless
            Its 1 baps for others

            1. JJO
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              *less

        3. TomSaints
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Urghh can one of my players get involved? DGW curse

        4. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Looks on just to me.

        5. Hazz
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          G Laporte (offside)

          1. Hazz
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Centre Backs on it yet again...

        6. The Bandit
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Bullshit. Just look at the feet. Why make it so complicated?

          1. Magic Zico
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Computer says no

            1. Salan
              • 16 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Not computer actually. It's manually painted.

              1. Magic Zico
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 7 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                Whatever it is, granted it may not be sophisticated stuff but digital drawing and pixels counting ...

          2. Salan
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            VAR in PL is a joke.

        7. TomSaints
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          This is the type of goal that should be on. Need a margin of error and favour the attacker

          1. JJO
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Well both are defenders 🙂

          2. No Professionals
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            No one can give a viable example of how a margin of error could work in practice.

            1. Baps Hunter
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              It is easy tbh. A goal is allowed if offside is less than 2 inches 😉

              1. No Professionals
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                I know you’re joking, but some people say stuff like that. Then when it is 2.1 inches off the same people scream that there should be some margin of error.

                1. Baps Hunter
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 8 Years
                  5 years, 4 days ago

                  Yeah... 😉 English is not my first language, so it took a moment
                  to write the same thing below. I accuse also red wine wine and my birthday 😉

              2. Baps Hunter
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                Yet after that the question is if offside 0.1 inch more or less than the amount of margin of error...

          3. Baps Hunter
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            How much?!?

          4. The Point About It Is
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Wherever you define the 'margin of error' you will still get results where someone is offside by milometers.

          5. mr messi
            • 15 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Exactly. And how can they be 100% sure of the moment the ball leaves the foot for the pass? They can’t.

        8. Rash
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          VAR technology is really poor

        9. Rainer
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Good for BPS that that was ruled out.

          About the only highlight of the half...

        10. FPL_Crisis
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 15 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          As a Liverpool fan, I agree with the VAR decision

          1. No Professionals
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Why is being a Liverpool fan relevant? Not like you’re in a title race?

            1. FPL_Crisis
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 15 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              No because we’ve had at least 3 goals exactly the same ruled out so glad they’re relatively consistent even if it’s wrong

              1. The Point About It Is
                • 13 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                you mean you have recently had three offsides which would have been given incorrectly in your favour pre VAR because you are a 'big club'

                1. FPL_Crisis
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 15 Years
                  5 years, 4 days ago

                  Haha good one

          2. Rainer
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Wolves are bigger rivals to Liverpool this season that City, bad decision for Liverpool 😉

          3. The Bandit
            • 15 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Because you think you can catch City? 😆

            1. FPL_Crisis
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 15 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              #consistency

          4. Hazz
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            I don't think it makes a difference to Liverpool at this point!

            1. FPL_Crisis
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 15 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Not the result, just had the same decisions go against us a bunch of times this season

          5. Gudjohnsen
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Yeah, after the Mané offside against Everton.
            That one raised the bar.

        11. acidicleo
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Wolves to nick a draw in injury time..

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

          Onside isn't onside anymore. What a joke that decision is.

          1. Scholes Out For Summer
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            at what point is offside onside, and onside offside?

            1. CaptMidnight
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              There is no way that goal should be disallowed. They can't be sure they have timed pausing it the replay accurately. It's just so obviously not offside! He is level with the defender. It's maddening and only weirdos would want goals like that to be disallowed.

          2. ZimZalabim
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            yup
            Doesnt make sense to use VAR and make those lines when they dont have proper high quality picture and accurate angles its just a farce

        13. La Roja
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Bilva looking dangerous

        14. No Professionals
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 4 days ago

          Remember when Adama Traore “could get in any premier league team”, that was a long time ago.

          Guy is an absolute clown.

          1. jason_ni
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            He relied on jimi getting on the end of all his crosses.
            Lost without him.

          2. @persecuted_by_mods
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Neto is the one big teams should be looking at

              1. No Professionals
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                Agreed

            • Digital-Real
              • 9 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              last season was a long time ago?

            • JJO
              • 13 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Why?
              Every ball he get he is between 5 city players

              1. No Professionals
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                Well in some cases it was in space, but he does a neat cruyff turn back in to traffic

              2. JJO
                • 13 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                But yes he is far from great player

            • Rainer
              • 9 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              When they priced him at 70m 😆

            • JONALDINHO
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Everyone who had a decent knowledge of football knew he was never good. Just people watching highlight compilations

              1. fedolefan
                • 11 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                Such a poor take.

                1. No Professionals
                  • 8 Years
                  5 years, 4 days ago

                  It’s true though

                  1. Digital-Real
                    • 9 Years
                    5 years, 4 days ago

                    it's not, he's a decent player, the fact he wanted to leave Wolves in the summer plays a part in his form this season. He has good technique and not easily pushed off the ball.

                  2. fedolefan
                    • 11 Years
                    5 years, 4 days ago

                    Brah, you need to maybe watch a few games from last season. Watch the Spurs game for example, and watch that Jota goal. It's just how he rode 3-4 challenges without falling over and kept progressing the ball forward regularly. It's people without a decent knowledge of football who've reduced him to a highlights compilation.

          3. Gudjohnsen
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            Aguero, Foden and who get minutes in second half?

            1. Lazaretti
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Maybe just Aguero.

            2. No Professionals
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Possibly gundogan to give KDB rest

          4. jason_ni
            • 10 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            This is where I don't like var.. who's to say the fps has picked up the exact mili second the ball was released.

            And even then its human decision as to when to stop the play to draw the lines.

            1. Scholes Out For Summer
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              also the thickness of the lines comes into effect as well

            2. Salan
              • 16 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Exactly. I 100% agree.

              It's all about human decision. Easier for rigged matches.

            3. lindeg
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Ruled offside on the pitch, need concrete evidence for the opposite to change it. Had it been called onside on the pitch, it might have stood.

              1. No Professionals
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                That’s not how it works with offside, it is a factual decision based on the technology.

            4. mr messi
              • 15 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              Exactly. They can’t know the exact second the ball was released. Var needs to much more sophisticated to be accurate or they shouldn’t bother with it.

              1. Baps Hunter
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 8 Years
                5 years, 4 days ago

                Only better cameras and computers needed.

          5. fedolefan
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 4 days ago

            One manager happy to win 1-0, one happy to lose 1-0. Happy days!

            1. not_astarte
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 4 days ago

              and the rest for themselves .