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2pm team news: Trafford, Ait-Nouri + Rodri start, Rutter + Wan-Bissaka subs

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There are two Premier League matches kicking off at 14:00 BST.

Brighton and Hove Albion take on Manchester City at the Amex Stadium, while Nottingham Forest and West Ham United meet at the City Ground.

TEAM NEWS

Pep Guardiola makes four changes from the team that lost to Tottenham Hotspur last weekend.

Matheus Nunes, Abdukodir Khusanov, Rodri and Bernardo Silva come in for Rico Lewis, Ruben Dias, Nico Gonzalez and Rayan Cherki, who is missing from the matchday squad.

Phil Foden is also absent.

James Trafford keeps his place in goal, while Rayan Ait-Nouri is fit enough to start after coming off injured in Gameweek 2.

Brighton make three alterations to their starting XI.

The hosts bring in Joel Veltman, Jack Hinshelwood and Diego Gomez.

Mats Wieffer, who is not in the squad, Yasin Ayari and Matt O’Riley make way. 

Georginio Rutter returns from injury to make the bench.

It’s much more straightforward team news from Nottingham Forest, who are unchanged.

As for opponents West Ham, Graham Potter has made three changes to the side that lost 5-1 to Chelsea.

Out go Jean-Clair Todibo, Nayef Aguerd and Aaron Wan-Bissaka and in come Kyle Walker-Peters, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Mateus Fernandes, who makes his debut.

LINE-UPS

Brighton and Hove Albion XI: Verbruggen, Veltman, van Hecke, Dunk, De Cuyper, Hinshelwood, Baleba, Minteh, Gomez, Mitoma, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, Gruda, Rutter, Milner, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Ayari, O’Riley, Coppola

Manchester City XI: Trafford, Nunes, Khusanov, Stones, Ait-Nouri, Rodri, Bernardo, Reijnders, Bobb, Marmoush, Haaland

Subs: Ederson, Dias, Ake, Doku, Nico, Gundogan, Akanji, O’Reilly, Lewis

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Wood

Subs: Gunn, Morato, Luiz, Kalimuendo, Jesus, Hutchinson, Yates, McAtee, Boly

West Ham United XI: Hermansen, Walker-Peters, Mavropanos, Kilman, Diouf, Ward-Prowse, Soucek, Bowen, Fernandes, Paqueta, Fullkrug

Subs: Areola, Summerville, Wilson, Rodriguez, Todibo, Wan-Bissaka, Scarles, Potts, Irving

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  1. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Getting beaten by both the bogey teams

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  2. have you seen cyan
    • 6 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    What a horrible start to the season, what is this garbage.

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    1. Boxwoods
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      +1

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  3. putana
    • 7 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    luckily i played Diouf over Andersen

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    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Cheers

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  4. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    City has less points than United and we are called shite

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    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 15 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      United are actually shite though

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      1. ☈☾
        • 8 Years
        7 months, 17 days ago

        Are we? Apart from GK errors which we are fixing by signing one

        Top of xG table, shots in the box

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    2. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      United are really shite though

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    3. Studs Up
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Waited 3 weeks to say that?

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  5. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Death
    Taxes
    11 Anderson defensive contributions

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  6. SINGH
    • 7 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Need 10 goals from Haaland pls

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  7. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Is that a Brighton winner?

    Brilliant

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Gruda

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  8. Scapegoat Salah
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    De Cuyper ledge

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  9. wiseguy
    • 4 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Brighton absolutely dominating Citeh and look really good but they have no appealing assets somehow.

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  10. The-Red-1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Worth 2FT to move Sels and Wood to Sanchez and Gyorkores?

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    1. They are eating the dogs
      • 3 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Wait for the Liverpool game. Gyokeres hasn't yet proved himself against top teams and Arsenal got tough fixtures.

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  11. Sting
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    sold Diouf and Mitoma on my WC

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  12. PartyTime
    • 4 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Pep struggling since last season. Overrated Pep!

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  13. sunzip14
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    AWB can rest plz!

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  14. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    7 mins added at the Amex

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    1. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Enough time for a Brighton 3rd!

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  15. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Now I need a tally from DeCuyper sitting at the end of my bench with Gudmun

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  16. Superflymonk
    • 11 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    If Anderson finishes on 11 defcons for the third time in a row I'll rage quit!

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    1. PartyTime
      • 4 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Flawed game

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    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      It’s only 2 points anyway

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      1. Superflymonk
        • 11 Years
        7 months, 17 days ago

        A whisker away from 6 points, and those 2 points last week cost me a h2h minileague match

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  17. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 13 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Ups and downs. Excellent seeing corrupt Marinakis Forest losing, downs Man City letting Brighton go ahead!

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  18. They are eating the dogs
    • 3 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Anyone else wildcarding?

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    1. SINGH
      • 7 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Might do but will wait and see during IB

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    2. Scapegoat Salah
      • 9 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Seems pointless, nobody good to buy lol

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    3. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      I don’t really need to, but I might do anyway to freshen things up

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    4. Monklane
      • 16 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Nope. We all know who we want to sell but don't know who we want to buy long term.

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  19. henrysquire
    • 7 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Wow. City and Forest falling apart. Just can't predict this game.

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  20. Babit1967
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Seriously got rid of Diouf and Bowen on wildcard and broughtt in Wood and captained - hate this game lol

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      As it ever was

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  21. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Needed more from Haaland(c) and Reindeer but that Brighton W is a nice surprise!

    Now need Watkins, Rogers and Konsa to overcome Palace. A Rice masterclass and Salah/Ekitike blank also wouldn’t go amiss!

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  22. Sebbo29
    • 11 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Don't even care about the Wood captain fail. Diouf coming in for Dorgu and giving Bowen one more chance compensates for that - finally some luck!

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    1. RICICLE
      • 3 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Nice brag

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  23. JBG
    • 7 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    I'm still on a green arrow with only 4 players returning... Such a weird start to this season

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  24. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    • 9 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Deserved, for being the most boring team in the league.

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  25. BobB
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Diouf and Evanilson on bench...played BB a week too early

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  26. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    Least I only have x2 Forest defence on freehit. Glad to have my team back!

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  27. RedJive79
    • 6 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    KDH, Gudmun and Diouf on my bench with 30 points. Rest of team have total of 35. Honesty.

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    1. Wolfman180
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      Ouch

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  28. Wolfman180
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    What is this game? Went Haaland over Salah to start thinking City would be decent whereas Salah not involved enough. First week looked great, the last min Salah goal annoying but still look fairly anonymous. But now City heading for 2nd loss.. like wth? Just glad Haaland scored

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  29. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    KDH 12 points benched.
    Diouf points benched.

    More points on my bench than my actual team.
    Worst start ever.

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  30. Bigbars
    • 15 Years
    7 months, 17 days ago

    We as fans can be quite fickle at times... Where are all the potter out boo boys...
    FPL wise i'm gutted, AWB on the bench for this game, could have done with those CS points. Im actually all for PL being so erratic.

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    1. wiseguy
      • 4 Years
      7 months, 17 days ago

      AWB on the bench might be a big part of the reason for the improvement, he's been dreadful.

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