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Guardiola benches Gundogan and Stones for Wolves clash

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. Deulofail
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Sleeve it out, video ref

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

    My pet hate again. Time keeping is so bad in football.

    VAR stopped the game for nearly 2 mins on top of usual limited stoppages. 1 min added time

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    1. FantasyTony
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Do you really want to see another minute of that?

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      1. Steve Chance
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Good point.

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    2. Team Bobcat
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      You have a point. Timekeeping should be improved upon for sure

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  3. 272MK
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    This is still good result. Might get Gundo on to score a cushion goal

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  4. La Roja
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Is this worth -4?

    Barnes Ricardo âž¡ Bale Targett

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    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Yes imo

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    2. jammie26
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Bale nailed on injury in next couple of weeks.

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  5. Scots Gooner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    How can arms be ruled offside when you can't score with your bloody arm?

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    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Shoulder.

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

        Extended shoulder.

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      2. Our Tiny Windows
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Half way down a bicep isn’t your shoulder. I call BS

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    2. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      The sleeve is part of you're arm. If you wear long sleeves and tuck them into your gloves, you're allowed to pick up the ball.

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      1. Deulofail
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Joke jail. The sleeve is part of your body.

        Spelling fail. your*

        If you wear a balaclava, you are officially classified as a goal post.

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  6. Digital-Real
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thankfully it's 1-0 at HT. A larger lead and those City defenders could have been hooked before 60 mins

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  7. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Stones for Dias at half time would cause a lot of chaos.

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  8. The Senate
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I mean, offside is offside but either the rule itself or the application of VAR needs to be looked at. From a realistic viewpoint such things shouldn't really be ruled out...

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    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      The application of everything the refs do needed revamping, urgently.

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    2. Team Bobcat
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Remember the age ole saying "football is a simple game complicated by fools"

      Never has that been more true than now

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  9. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Just judge offside by the feet. It’s so simple, why can’t they see it?

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    1. Defcons are for Kinnear
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      That would be feetist

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    2. @persecuted_by_mods
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Because it would still have most of the same issues re milimetres in it, when the frame is frozen etc

      But you're right better than shoulder/ armpit Vs foot

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    3. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Time for daylight!

      More goals is a good thing.

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      1. No Professionals
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Define daylight

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      2. Steve Chance
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        No offsides after sunset? Interesting!

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    4. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Unfair if you have big feet 🙂

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    5. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      What if the feet are in the air?

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      1. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Unlikely to be higher than the armpit

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        1. Deulofail
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Still need to draw a line to the floor from a dodgy camera angle. Plenty of room for inaccuracy, whether 2 cm from the floor or 200. It's not easy to establish how far off the ground a toe is, and where the ground even it. I can't imagine it would be much easier on average to draw a line from, say, an average of 10cm from the floor compared to an average of 100 cm. And of course, you'd want to be able to account for all eventualities, anyway.

          You also still have some other issues, like when exactly the ball is kicked, and which frame on the video to use to make your judgment, and the level of subjectivity in those decisions, as well as in defining where body parts are (is where does the foot end and ankle begin?).

          I don't think your solution particularly satisfactory, personally.

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    6. Team Bobcat
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I would like to see no offside from free kicksor corner kicks until ball is cleared into opposing half of the field.

      Also no offside outside the box

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  10. Defcons are for Kinnear
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Is there even a safe captain option from City in GW27?

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Ederson

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    2. fr3d
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Dias and Gundo

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    3. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Steady Eddie.

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    4. CABAYE4
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Tempted by Dias

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      1. Pep Roulette
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        I can see him getting benched against Southampton

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  11. Gunners in Haaland
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Kane hattrick on Thursday

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    1. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Yes please ... where can I add my signature to the petition?

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  12. Digital-Real
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Another 9-0 defeat coming up for Southampton next week against City?

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    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Take the 3-0 and run.

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    2. mezza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      1-0

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  13. dogtanion
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Anyone else think the praise Pep gets for "developing" Sterling is laughable? He was legit a better player in 2013/2014 for Liverpool than he is now.

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    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I’d disagree, though he’s definitely worse than the last two seasons
      Doesn’t even seem to have pace anymore

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      1. dogtanion
        • 16 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        I think the possession obsessive nature of City doesn't suit him like the all out attack of that Pool side due to his limited technical ability. He could be used far more effectively imo than hugging the wing with his back to goal and passing the ball back to midfield constantly.

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    2. Jersey Boy
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Behave

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    3. Steve Chance
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Lol.

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    4. Brehmeren
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      He was not

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      1. dogtanion
        • 16 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        He was borderline unplayable at times in 2014. Could you pick a game this season where you could say the same ? I'm not dissing his returns potential in a fpl sense, I'm talking about general play.

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    5. ZimZalabim
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I think his best season was when city hit 100 points

      when he first started playing on the left and sane on the right he scored a lot that season as well many late winners like vs Bournemouth and saints

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      1. dogtanion
        • 16 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Absolutely. Definitely his best season for City and that team was unreal. Sane was a boss

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        1. Tinkermania
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          That same season, KDB had 2 goals and 3 assists only.

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          1. dogtanion
            • 16 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            He has 3 goals this season. Some things don't change..

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

            Pop's treatment of Sane meant he left behind a champions league or two imo. One of the best players in europe ignored and dropped as part of an ego trip. Couldn't happen to a nicer manager

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            1. dogtanion
              • 16 Years
              5 years, 4 months ago

              Pep. He's not my father.

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  14. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thinking Bruno to Auba(C). Thoughts?

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    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Wouldn’t captain someone playing Burnley away in a 6-pointer.

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      1. alsybach
        • 16 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Ha ha ha!!!!

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  15. Old Wulfrunian
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    This year we've seen a lot of goals like Laporte's to be disallowed and it's so frustrating and annoying.I imagine we all agree that this is not football.

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    1. The Point About It Is
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      It is football - just not as you know it.

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

      Go back to old fashioned refs judgement I say, get rid of VAR.
      It creates debate and talking points, boring with VAR now

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  16. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I'm glad the goal was waived off, but the video official clearly draws the lines to support whatever decision was made on the field. If it was given onside, he would have drawn each line a pixel closer together and/or stopped the footage a millisecond earlier.

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    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Agreed
      The lines weren’t even at the extremities
      Also the ball had left the head already

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    2. Steve Chance
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Exactly. Roll the footage a frame either way. Draw the line from the elbow. Draw it from the sleeve. It's a fallacy to suggest these offsides are black and white decisions.

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    3. Team Bobcat
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      It is still better than a decision being made in real time with a lot more room for error.

      Think the rjole off side rule needs changing but not sure to what.

      Var technology works. The application of it seems questionable

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  17. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Predictions for second half .... how many viewers will fall asleep whiting this bore fest?

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    1. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      *watching .... seems my fingers are nodding off already ...

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    2. No Professionals
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Don’t understand why it’s boring

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      1. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Zero input from Wolves, one sided possession based, not many chances ... think Wolves keeper has had to make one save. More happened in last 2-3 of first half than the rest of the match combined .... zzzzzzz. IMO.

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    3. Old Wulfrunian
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      One goal from Raheem.He seems hungry.

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

        hungry for blank.

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  18. not_astarte
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    only option for city is to have all the 3 diff leaving out forwards nor mid.

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  19. alsybach
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Come on SALLLLLLAH!!!!!!!!!

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    1. Dthinger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Is he playing right now?

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    2. Gunners in Haaland
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Comme ci, comme ci, comme ci, Salllllah

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  20. alsybach
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    That last minute miss you salaaah still haunts me.....

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  21. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 16 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    1-1 incoming
    No doubt

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  22. Digital-Real
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Cancelo bossing the baps

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

    Kevin De Blanke or Kevin De Boome?

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    1. ZimZalabim
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I want Kdb to go off after 60 mins

      Otherwise im worried he is benched vs saints and that the game we need him for

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  24. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Jeez did anyone captain or TC gundo?

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    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Camzy

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      1. Hy liverpool
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Ouch

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    2. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      My brother TC'd Gundogan.

      In fairness he doesn't play seriously, although has been above me until this GW!

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  25. evilfish
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Every time I BB in a DGW, I always expect a haul but it never works out. What a waste of planning. What do you think the best use of the BB chip is? I need to change my strategy.

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    1. Dthinger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      what would a successful bb look like to you? How many points from the bench?

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      1. evilfish
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Anything over 16 points

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    2. Scots Gooner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I'm considering GW1 next season or GW 3/4 before the first international break.

      Get it out the way early and (maybe) get an early headstart

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      1. evilfish
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Yeah getting it out of the way early sounds good. Maybe harder to get a strong bench in GW1 when you only have £100m.

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

      I always try to use it where there's doubles, as it just increases the chance of a better score.

      Secondary to that is just where there's good fixtures across the board.

      I honestly wouldn't say there's much more to it than that.

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      1. Dthinger
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        I try to wait til I have a decent team value so the bench players are better.

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    4. Christina.
      • 16 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      gw 1
      ala space cadet

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  26. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Wolves always score against City

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  27. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    When will we know about Everton and Villa DGW?

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

      When its announced.

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  28. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Would Kane TCers be happy with 1 more goal from Kane?

    I probably would.

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    1. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Think its gonna be hard though

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

      6 points or 9 points from the game?

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      1. Weasel Boy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        9 would be nice.

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    3. Lieutenant Frank Columbo
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I would to be fair the way it’s gone ... I’d sign up now if you threw in a couple of bonus points.

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    4. No Professionals
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Yes I’d take 36 points from my triple captain

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  29. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Needs Gundo

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  30. Flair
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Dias is beautifully nailed. Hope City hold on to that double CS while Stones is benched, huge benefit.

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    1. ZimZalabim
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I think dias will miss saints

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      1. HonestBlatter
        • 15 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        This

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      2. Flair
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        I’ll believe it when I see it, him starting every game he was fully fit for since his arrival gives me great doubt in your words. Heard plenty saying that he’d be benched this week too.

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        1. ZimZalabim
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          It was one of the four games over these two weeks so now that hes played these two and has United next odds would be that hes benched vs saints who have very little goal threat at the moment and Laporte and Stones can surely handle that.
          He was rested also once in gw24 so I would expect it to happen again vs Saints.

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      3. Pep Roulette
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Exactly this

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

      Hope he gets benched shortly

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

      RIP

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    4. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Jinxed it

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