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Gundogan, Dias, De Bruyne and Mahrez benched as Aguero misses Leeds match

As predicted, Pep Guardiola has rung the changes for Manchester City’s latest Premier League match, making seven alterations for the visit of Leeds.

Ilkay Gundogan (£6.0m), Rúben Dias (£6.2m), Kevin De Bruyne (£12.0m), Riyad Mahrez (£8.2m) and Phil Foden (£6.0m) are all among the substitutes for Gameweek 31.

Meanwhile, Sergio Aguero (£10.3m) misses out altogether with an injury not hinted at until Friday night, confirmed only as Manchester City released their team news on Saturday morning.

Aymeric Laporte (£6.0m) has also missed the cut, reportedly not “fully fit” according to the club’s official team-sheet bulletin.

His absence, and Dias’ benching means Nathan Aké (£5.4m) comes in for his first Premier League minutes since Gameweek 15, playing at centre-back alongside John Stones (£5.2m).

Benjamin Mendy (£5.9m) and João Cancelo (£6.0m) are handed with the full-back positions while it looks as if Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.5m) has been trusted with the central midfield role he often fulfils on international duty with Ukraine.

Bernardo Silva (£7.4m) joins him in the middle while Raheem Sterling (£11.3m), Gabriel Jesus (£9.2m) and Ferran Torres (£6.9m) are the front-three this afternoon.

By contrast, Leeds make just one change for Gameweek 31; Jack Harrison (£5.4m) ineligible to face his parent club.

Hélder Costa (£5.0m) comes in as his replacement on the left-hand side of a midfield quartet alongside Stuart Dallas (£5.1m), Tyler Roberts (£4.6m) and Raphinha (£5.6m).

Pascal Struijk (£4.0m) remains on the bench with Liam Cooper (£4.3m) and Diego Llorente (£4.4m) earning a second successive start as a centre-back pairing.

Gameweek 31 Line-ups

Manchester City XI (4-3-3): Ederson; B Mendy, Aké, Stones, Cancelo; Zinchenko, Fernandinho, B Silva; Sterling, Jesus, Torres.

Leeds United XI (4-1-4-1): Meslier; Alioski, Llorente, Cooper, Ayling; K Phillips; Costa, Roberts, Dallas, Raphinha; Bamford.

Gameweek 31 so far…

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  1. Muscout
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Dallas on the bench, what’s the chances Shaw or Rudiger don’t play? Lol

    1. ViperStripes
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Same here. Need New or Coufal not to play.

      1. ViperStripes
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        New = Mee

    2. Tonyawesome69
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Unlikely unless OGS wants to give Telles some game time before Europa 2nd leg or Shaw didn't recover from injury

  2. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Gundogan's had two chances & Stones has had countless.

    This is excruciating

    1. tbos83
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Yup. Every Stones owner screaming into a pillow

    2. Baby Bowen
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Will take a Gundo/KdB/Cancelo goal even though I have Dallas starting!

      1. Postman Ty
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        How did you end up with Dallas starting?

        1. Baby Bowen
          • 7 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          I always start defenders with goal threat

          1. Postman Ty
            • 9 Years
            2 years, 11 months ago

            Against Man City though? He's more likely to get -1 than an attacking return between City's incredible defence and incredible attack. Quite lucky they rested Dias and almost all of their attack. To be fair Dallas is literally a midfielder but still.

  3. Flair
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Liverpool midfield doesn't really scream creativity unfortunately. Would have liked to see Thiago.

    1. Postman Ty
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      As opposed to their "best midfield" which has Henderson over Milner? Henderson isn't exactly a Fabregas or KDB.

      1. Flair
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Best midfield has Thiago in there over Gini for these types of games.

        1. Postman Ty
          • 9 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          I'm not convinced. Still haven't seen him tear up trees and the past two years of them winning the Champions and Premier league had zero calls of a midfield remodel. Could be right though.

  4. G-Whizz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Lineup - Liverpool starting line-up: Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andrew Robertson, Fabinho, Nathaniel Phillips, Ozan Kabak, James Milner, Georginio Wijnaldum, Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah, Diogo Jota.
    Substitutes: Adrián, Konstantinos Tsimikas, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ben Davies, Rhys Williams, Sadio Mané, Naby Keita

    Lineup - A Villa starting line-up: Emiliano Martínez, Matthew Cash, Matt Targett, Marvelous Nakamba, Ezri Konsa Ngoyo, Tyrone Mings, Bertrand Traoré, Douglas Luiz, Ollie Watkins, John McGinn, Trézéguet.
    Substitutes: Anwar El Ghazi, Keinan Davis, Tom Heaton, Ross Barkley, Ahmed El Mohamady, Björn Engels, Neil Taylor

    1. Baby Bowen
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Martinez mega haul and 0-1 incoming.

      We all know it

    2. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Kane finally dropped.

      1. Forever In Our Shadow
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Sorry Mane

    3. Make United Great Again
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      JOTAAAAAAA

  5. Flair
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    May be Salah on the bench next week...

    1. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Not happening. They will need to get top four after losing to Madrid.

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Wed-Mon helps him.

      Mane has been awful, that’s the difference.

    3. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Not if they’re not out of the CL, nothing else to play for except top 4 then

  6. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Well at least Jota starts.

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Why wouldn’t he?

  7. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Jota and Trent vs Martinez. Hmmmm

  8. Cilly Bonnolly
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Got rid of Dallas and Bamford on my wildcard this week. Classic FPL. 😆

    1. Forever In Our Shadow
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      For all the right reasons.

      1. Duke Silver ☑
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Yep logic is sometimes a cruel mistress.

      2. Cilly Bonnolly
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        Doesn’t make it feel any better when you’re rival has Dallas coming off his bench.

        1. Cilly Bonnolly
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          2 years, 11 months ago

          *your

          Damn it.

    2. G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Don't worry, you're not alone...

    3. jimbe4mXL
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Same 🙂

    4. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Wait until you've seen what the replacements do.

  9. jimbe4mXL
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Pre WC: Dallas and Bamford
    Post WC: Gundo and Dias

  10. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Jota out left then?

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      Yeah, but you already know how Firmino operates in the Liverpool team.

  11. Mile Plankton
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    On WC.
    Sold Dallas, benched Bamford, KDB (c)

  12. bigwig
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Sterling hasn't touched the ball in ages, this type of game doesn't suit him at all

  13. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Pep hesitant to bring KDB on, has Dallas 1st sub...

  14. Captain Berbarossa - arrrrr…
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Really need Tuchel to bench Rudiger again so I get Dallas to come on

  15. Forever In Our Shadow
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Come on city score so Kev stays on the bench.

  16. Baby Bowen
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    How on earth is KdB not on yet, Pep smoking something and it’s not legal

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      So happy he’s staying benched

      1. Baby Bowen
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 11 months ago

        I’m not 🙁

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

    Foden to the rescue

  18. Eh, just one more thing ...
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Foden on .... Mendy off ...

  19. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Should just close the stream really. Gundo (C) blank. Stones blank. See you nevt week 😐

  20. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Get KDB on ffs

  21. Postman Ty
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Anyone else remember when Dean Smith said Grealish would only be out 2 games. That happened, right?

  22. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Foden on for Mendy

  23. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Mendy much better on Twitter than the pitch.

  24. pingissimus
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    As it stands Leeds now have the highest scoring defender and the second highest scoring forward in the game. That was 10 million brilliantly spent in week 1.

    Did anyone manage that?

  25. G-Whizz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Mendy off
    Foden on...

  26. Forever In Our Shadow
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Come on Foden.

  27. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Fodinho

  28. Bees4Lyf
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Gundo please do something!

  29. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    I bought in Mane and captained him. Trying to be different and backfired.

    What’s the chances he stays on the bench?

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 11 months ago

      What the heck?!

      Reckon one of the front three will be subbed, so decent cbsce he comes on.

  30. hueycho
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 11 months ago

    Lol @ dallas scoring when u sell him!!