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Southampton v Manchester City brings a busy day of Premier League football to a close.

Kick-off at St Mary’s is at 17:30 BST.

There’s only one place to start with the team news and that’s with the visitors, who are able to include Erling Haaland in a starting line-up for the first time since mid-March.

He replaces Julian Alvarez up top for the reigning champions, who go full strength for this evening’s game.

That much-anticipated change in attack is the only one that Pep Guardiola has made from the 4-1 win over Liverpool.

By contrast, Southampton boss Ruben Selles has made four alterations from the side defeated by West Ham United last Sunday.

In come Armel Bella-Kotchap, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Carlos Alcaraz and Kamaldeen Sulemana as Duje Caleta-Car, Romain Perraud, Stuart Armstrong and Sekou Mara drop to the bench.

Haaland was the most-bought player of Gameweek 30, with the removal of his flag on Friday helping him on his way to not far off 590,000 transfers in.

GAMEWEEK 30 LINE-UPS

Southampton XI: Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Bella-Kotchap, Maitland-Niles, Alcaraz, Ward-Prowse, Lavia, Elyounoussi, Walcott, Sulemana.

Subs: McCarthy, Caleta-Car, Onuachu, Perraud, Armstrong, Mara, Djenepo, Edozie, Diallo.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Stones, Rodri, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Grealish, Haaland.

Subs: Ortega, Walker, Phillips, Laporte, Alvarez, Silva, Gomez, Palmer, Lewis.



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  1. Gudjohnsen
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    starting to think Haland and City are not a good fit

    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Timing

    2. George Sillett
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Timing

    3. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      🙂

    4. The Polymath
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      You were saying my man?

      1. bench boost for every gamew…
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        He's right. You watched last week vs Liverpool right?

    5. George Sillett
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Try Lampard & Chelsea as a better effort

    6. bench boost for every gamew…
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Goal aside, you're right.
      People look at goals and that's the argument. If you watch how City plays with Alvarez as the nr nine their much more cohesive and difficult to play against. If Haaland stays fit City will get smashed out by Bayern in CL.

  2. Alan The Llama
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Curled it inside the corner flag.

  3. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland delivers

    1. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      KDB assist

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      back of the net

  4. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland (C) never in doubt

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      not from 5.5 yards

  5. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Rashford cappers in the mud

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      brilliant ball from Kev

  6. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Game desperately needs a Theo Walcott hat trick

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      uncle?

  7. Thanos
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    HahahahhahaLAND!!

  8. sminkypinky
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Yes sir!

  9. Supersonic_
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    FFS

  10. Cilly Bonnolly
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    YEEEEEOOOOOWWWW!!!

  11. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Patiently waiting for Haaland goal

    1. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      OMG lol

  12. Alan The Llama
    • 16 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Boom Boom Haaland

  13. RICICLE
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    There it is! CAPITAN!!!!

  14. ggfussball
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hauland

  15. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Imagine doubting HAULAND

  16. Jenas
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Harland goal kdb assist

  17. Free Hat
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    As soon as the cross left kdbs foot you could tell the outcome

    1. Supersonic_
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Aye

  18. Total Foot 5
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland. My capitano. Deliverin, is he going for hatty...

    And kdb asist, nice kdb transfer

  19. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Any VAR? Been gubbed too many times already today.

    1. GENERATION X
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Only just

  20. Wolfman180
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Urgh, not going for Haalands gonna hurt me now isn't it :/

  21. GENERATION X
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Best thing about big H is having him in place to eat Leicester next week

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      May need to TC him there.

    2. Paqueta Rice
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Nom nom nom

    3. George Sillett
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Lol big H. Sounds like you know him personally

      1. GENERATION X
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Saves on typing

        1. George Sillett
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Quality comeback

  22. artvandelay316
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haulland!!! My captain!

  23. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Great play from Grealish in the run up

  24. gibson1314
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Yeah so glad I did the transfer it's inevitable

  25. tambourineman
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland draws level with Chelsea on 29 league goals

    1. Bluetiger1
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      good stat

    2. Paqueta Rice
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Lol

      1. Paqueta Rice
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        United not much better

    3. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      KDB 100 assists!

    4. Flying Dutchman
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

  26. Free Hat
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Still a very poor 1st half city performance by their standards.

    1. George Sillett
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Does it matter ? They're winning

      1. Free Hat
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        If you want to watch good football it does matter...

    2. TOBY1
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Still could have had 3.

      The first one shouldn’t have been passed to grealish but Haaland and the header that was just wide.

  27. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    What is Haaland ownership

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      UAE

    2. Gandalf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      141% top 10k

    3. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      High enough to punish non-owner, 140% EO top 10K

      1. Scapegoat Salah
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Wow crazy how so high when he hasn’t scored in a while

  28. WVA
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Watkins will still outscore him

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      this week?

    2. Silecro
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Dream on boy

    3. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      He has 2 hatties in his last 2 matches played

  29. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    he's letting his hairdown now

  30. GENERATION X
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    In other news Mahrez has been woeful