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Four Premier League matches kick off at 3pm BST today, including reigning champions Manchester City against newly promoted Norwich City.

Aston Villa v Newcastle United, Crystal Palace v Brentford and Leeds United v Everton are the other top-flight fixtures taking place at the traditional Saturday afternoon start time.

The headline team news comes from the Etihad as Pep Guardiola makes five changes to the side that lost 1-0 to Tottenham Hotspur.

Aymeric Laporte, Kyle Walker, Rodri, Gabriel Jesus and Bernardo Silva are all recalled to the starting XI, with Raheem Sterling, Riyad Mahrez, Nathan Ake, Benjamin Mendy and Fernandinho dropping to the bench.

An ankle injury keeps Kevin De Bruyne out, while John Stones isn’t part of the hosts’ matchday squad.

Norwich are unchanged from the side that lost 3-0 at home to Liverpool last Saturday.

That’s also the case with Brentford, as Bryan Mbeumo gets set for another out-of-position run-out alongside Ivan Toney.

Summer signings Conor Gallagher and Joachim Andersen get their first Palace starts, with Christian Benteke also recalled. Jordan Ayew, Jairo Riedewald and Jean-Philippe Mateta drop to the bench.

Aston Villa boss Dean Smith makes two changes to the team that lost to newly promoted Watford last weekend, with Jacob Ramsey and Douglas Luiz replacing Matt Targett and Marvelous Nakamba.

Targett’s benching means that Ashley Young starts at left-back.

Joe Willock starts for Newcastle as Steve Bruce makes three changes to the Magpies side that lost at home to West Ham last Sunday.

Willock replaces the injured Jonjo Shelvey in midfield, with Fabian Schar and captain Jamaal Lascelles coming into defence in place of Emil Krafth and Ciaran Clark.

Kalvin Phillips and Junior Firpo are make the Leeds line-up after fitness-related benchings in Gameweek 1, with Robin Koch and Rodrigo dropping to the bench.

Yerry Mina for Mason Holgate and Alex Iwobi for Andros Townsend are Everton’s two alterations.

GAMEWEEK 2 LINE-UPS

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Young, McGinn, Ramsey, Douglas Luiz, El Ghazi, Buendia, Ings

Subs: Steer, Targett, Wesley, Hourihane, Tuanzebe, Nakamba, Hause, Philogene-Bidace, Chukwuemeka

Newcastle XI: Woodman, Murphy, Schar, Fernandez, Lascelles, Ritchie, Hayden, Willock, Almiron, Wilson, Saint-Maximin

Subs: Gillespie, Clark, Joelinton, Lewis, Hendrick, Krafth, Fraser, Gayle, S. Longstaff

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Kouyate, Schlupp, McArthur, Benteke, Gallagher, Zaha.

Subs: Butland, Matthews, Tomkins, Ayew, Mateta, Kelly, Riedewald, Rak-Sakyi.

Brentford XI: Raya, Ajer, Jansson, Pinnock, Henry, Janelt, Onyeka, Mbeumo, Norgaard, Canos, Toney.

Subs: Goode, Forss, Wissa, Fernandez, Ghoddos, Dervisoglu, Bidstrup, Sorensen, Roerslev.

Leeds: Meslier, Ayling, Struijk, Cooper, Firpo, Phillips, Raphinha, Dallas, Klich, Harrison, Bamford.

Subs: Forshaw, Roberts, Klaesson, Helder Costa, Rodrigo, Summerville, Shackleton, Cresswell, Drameh.

Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Mina, Keane, Digne, Allan, Doucoure, Gray, Richarlison, Iwobi, Calvert-Lewin.

Subs: Kenny, Holgate, Delph, Townsend, Begovic, Gbamin, Davies, Kean, Branthwaite.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Dias, Laporte, Walker, Gundogan, Rodri, Grealish, Silva, Torres, Jesus.

Subs: Steffen, Ake, Zinchenko, Mendy, Fernandinho, Sterling, Mahrez, Doyle, Palmer.

Norwich City XI: Krul, Aarons, Hanley, Gibson, Giannoulis, Lees-Melou, Gilmour, Rupp, Cantwell, Pukki, Rashica.

Subs: Gunn, Omobamidele, Dowell, Tzolis, Sorensen, McLean, Sargent, Mumba, Idah.

FANTASY5

There’s still time to enter today’s Fantasy5 contest, in which you can win £10,000 without paying a penny.

Simply pick five players from the nominated Gameweek 2 matches and, if they all exceed their Fantasy ‘points targets’ (a par score set by Fantasy5 for each asset), you’ll be in the money.

The deadline is at 3pm BST – so get those entries in now.

We’ve selected our own picks for Gameweek 2 in the article below, with Ted Talks FPL following suit.

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  1. Drexl Spivey
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Keep the M'F'ing heads ringin!

    1. Carlton P
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ring ding dong

  2. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Ings 🙂

    1. TheBiffas
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      🙂

  3. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
    • 16 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Watching Villa v Newcastle game - as I own three Villa players fairly dire so far. But Cash looking promising - very attacking plus he has long throws, Buendia trying, Ings has not got a really good chance from the bits I saw so far - edit Ings just scored a a bicycle kick!

    1. Podge
      • 15 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      😆

  4. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Get INgs….. 😎

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Tsmikas buyers update?

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Kinda slowed a bit now….initial Xmas sales rush seems over

  5. Khark
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Daniel Ings.

    That. Is. Filth.

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I’m off for another shower…..

    2. Zoostation
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Fantastic goal, quality player to be honest.

    3. Maeki2
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Goal of the year easy

    4. Firminooooo
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ha,ha. Why didn’t Pep buy Ings?

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Because he didn’t know he would score a bicycle kick goal on 21/08/2021 at 15:48

      2. Bobby Digital
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Would've been cheap too. Maybe he thinks Ings is too old.

        1. Firminooooo
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Probably to cheap for ManC.

          1. Bobby Digital
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Haha, might be ...

  6. BeaversWithAttitude
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Wow, just wow! Ingsy! x

    1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I was mentioning him as a captain option I had not the balls to do it. Just VC.

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

    Mings to Ings
    You love to see it.

  8. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    DCL check
    Ings check
    Pukki, it’s your time

    1. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Not a bad gameweek for you so far I see, well done Jota as well. All that with no Kane!

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I don’t have the first 2, more a sign that strikers are scoring so step up Teemu!

  9. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Points for everyone with Ings it seems...

    1. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      38.1% relax

  10. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Never doubt Ings!

  11. Scholes Out For Summer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Ings Get in!!

  12. tokara
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Ings to DCL, bring it on!!!

  13. Salarrivederci
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Never doubting INgs in those first 3 GWs.
    What a goal!

    Come on Toney!

  14. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    The Mings to Ings Combination has arrived!

  15. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Mings + Ings = ???

    1. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      M

      1. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        🙂

    2. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Mings

      1. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Spot on!

    3. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Minging

    4. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Easy to type anyway....

      1. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        🙂

    1. MIGHTY JOE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Dear me!!

    2. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ings is a beast. What a striker!!!

    3. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      When did Delap sign for Villa?

      1. PartyTime
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        😆

    4. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Great goal

    5. Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Cash deserves all the credit for the throw in! 😀

  16. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Either Toney or Raphinha look like scoring/assisting? Needs their points ASAP…

    1. WVA
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Apologies Jaf but they most definitely be won't be returning

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        🙁

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

      Toney just needs a pen.

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        He defo on them?

        1. Salarrivederci
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          He is the best pen. taker in the world. Ofc he is.

      2. @persecuted_by_mods
          4 years, 7 months ago

          He'd only write you an I.o.u

    3. One More Hit
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ings & Grealish doing OK in my team then! Some difficult decisions to make for GW3

    4. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Anyone watching Brentford how is Toney?

      1. One More Hit
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Can't seem to get any streams to consistently load so I've gone over to Soccer Saturday. If he doesn't do much today, wonder if we'll see an exodus. Ings/Antonio/DCL would be a nice lineup at the mo

        Co-incidentally it sounds like Mitrovic has 3 in 3 now he's back in the Championship.

        1. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Cheers, I remember last year & the Werner pre season hype, need to get rid if another dud?

          1. One More Hit
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 7 months ago

            Mate I played a ghost team last season as 19/20 had drained me, who'd have thought Werner and Aubameyang could be such flops (and having to watch them do very little for 30 odd gameweeks lol)

      2. The Wise Owl
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Not getting many chances. Mbuemo looking more dangerous

        1. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Typical

    5. Bobby Digital
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Danny boiii

    6. Uppercut Panda - A legend i…
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ings never doesn't have it!!

    7. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Scissors me, Danny.

      1. Rainer
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Wrong site, sorry lads.

      2. Twisted Saltergater
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Ok sister!

    8. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Get in Ings, DCL who?

    9. FPL Alaska
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      What a goal from Danny! Exceptional.

      On another note, I can't even believe the number of times I have convinced myself Mahrez would be a good choice in a Pep squad.

    10. jay01
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Anyone else stupid enough to have a combo of Buendia, Raphina, Digne and Toney in their team?

      :/

      1. Holmes
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Just Digne missing

      2. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Sold Buendia so he'll score.

      3. The Knights Template
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Toney out!

    11. Maeki2
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Ings -> DCL .... DCL -> Ings

      1. TomSaints
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Ings for one more week then sell. Such a tough fixture run for Villa that DCL should score a few more… though Everton don’t look great

    12. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Mbeumo needs to stop hitting the woodwork - need some differential points!

    13. Twisted Saltergater
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      ding ding ding, round 2

    14. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 16 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Tired of saying it at this stage

      But man Danny Ings is a class forward

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Main reason I picked him, he can score with little to no service just creating magic out of nothing

        • Wrong Captain Choice - Ag i…
          • 16 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          He would be still at Liverpool only for injuries for sure.

        • TomSaints
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          I’m still dissapointed at the sideways step to Villa.

          City should have snapped him up. He’s nearly as good as Kane and the rotation heavy team will help manage his injury chance. It was such an obvious move

        • FPL Alaska
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          He really is exceptional. For years it was just the injury risk, but at this point he would be a bargain steal for a major club. Poor timing for Liverpool.

      2. Zoostation
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Are Palace fans singing “we love you” the best song in the league?