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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. fedolefan
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Pepinho may do a Klopp and run out of energy soon. The rebuild may be a step too far and there's no real characters like Klopp/Jose to keep him going.

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  2. jayzico
    1 year, 2 months ago

    3 point bonus Haaland? Get in...

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    1. WVA
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Surely not!?

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      1. jayzico
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Bizarre. Aint complaining.

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  3. WVA
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    OMFG

    Diouf and Rodon stuck on my bench

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 year, 2 months ago

      You had Bowen though?

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      1. WVA
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Diouf outscoring him alone!

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        1. Bobby Digital
          1 year, 2 months ago

          Still it's not like you have the worst luck in the world with Bowen hauling

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          1. WVA
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            1 year, 2 months ago

            1 return in 3 games including v Sunderland ain’t a haul not to mention his TWO price drops already!

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    2. Kaneyonero
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Be happy with what you go. I did absolutely sh1te this gw. Count yourself lucky.

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      1. Kaneyonero
        1 year, 2 months ago

        *got

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        1. WiredWeasel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 year, 2 months ago

          You cannot be worse than me. I took a hit to get Wood in, captained him he t*&&* and have 5 points. I'm over 9m rank. I didn't think it possible to do more badly that I did in the first two gameweeks and don't have the energy to do a repair job. I'm hitting the wildcard, autofilling it and leaving it for the rest of the season. It can be an experiment.

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      2. WVA
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Im doing shite too, and have done for three weeks, had more yellow cards than returns

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  4. Gubby-Allen
    1 year, 2 months ago

    So the favourable fixtures list of
    1) Brentford
    3) Newcastle
    4) Nottm Forest wasn't too reliable.

    Even 2) Man Utd didn't give you much. There must be some poor FH totals.

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  5. Pedram
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Wood owners were done dirty. How did WHU manage to do a 180 degree in form lmao

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    1. Count of Monte Hristo
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Football is bi-polar just now.

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    2. Feanor
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Done dirty by Nuno

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  6. putana
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Diouf on 9 defcon

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    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Come on one more!

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  7. F4L
    1 year, 2 months ago

    shame arteta didnt trust eze to start today

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    1. SINGH
      1 year, 2 months ago

      No hurry, let him get bedded in with our tactics and watch him destroy the PL

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  8. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Chris Wood is top fantasy troll for me. Killed me with 20 goals when not in my team and zero contributions those couple of tasty weeks on my team. Brought in this gw and captained (also Sarr for Palmer) only to get captain blank and leave KDH on the bench.

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    1. Mighty Duck
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Absolutely the same for me. Starting to hate a bit the Kiwi lumberjack.

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      1. Feanor
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Not his fault the soon to be fired manager took him off with 20 minutes left to grind out a 1-0 result, and then the team collapsed

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  9. NotNowKato
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Nuno Santos off to Man Utd. Imagine what he would do with that team.

    Mourinho into Forest.

    #myspeculation

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    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Where is big Sam?

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  10. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Wirtz last chance until he’s perma benched by Chiesa

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    1. el polako
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Did Wirtzually nothing so far.

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  11. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Irrespective of how he plays, csnt wait to do Wirtz to Salah for GW4

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    1. el polako
      1 year, 2 months ago

      I feel the same way about my Fernandes to Salah move next week.

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      1. DARK SIDE OF THE LOON
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Perfect entry point.

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  12. Hughes Your Daddy
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Eze only on the bench? Not going to do his future England chances well (after the most recent selection) 🙁

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  13. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    31pts wit 4 to go, just can't catch a break 😛

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    1. THFC4LIFE
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      27 with 4 to go here

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      1. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 year, 2 months ago

        Ugh ... sorry for boasting then 😛

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      2. SUPERMAN
        1 year, 2 months ago

        26 with four to go!

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    2. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Big score!! 24 here

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    3. Haalander
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      17 with 5 to go - 6 if you include Watkins as cap. I’d give anything for 31 pts

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    4. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Dear me, did not realise this. Chin up 😛

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  14. ChelseaGuy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Why is Dan Burn analyzing his own gameplay xD

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  15. a wat di rass
    1 year, 2 months ago

    For everyone who's had a bad week, I triple captained Wood. You're welcome

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    1. Mighty Duck
      1 year, 2 months ago

      One day we gonna strike back

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    2. Nomar
      1 year, 2 months ago

      This really doesn’t make me feel any better. You got 2 more cap points than I did!!

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    3. have you seen cyan
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Are you that guy on Reddit who had a dream? Lol

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  16. JBG
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Pep is such a genius that even watching them lose is boring... Because the matches are a snooze fest.

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  17. jayzico
    1 year, 2 months ago

    The hardest part of this year is losing ANOTHER tenner on my 'sure thing' acca.

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  18. Supersonic_
    1 year, 2 months ago

    If Gakpo scores today and Wirtz blanks - sideways move gonna be popular?

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    1. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Wait until you see what happens tomorrow .....

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    2. Feanor
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Wirtz to Semenyo was the move two weeks ago

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  19. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Surprised Bradley didn’t start tbf

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    1. Feanor
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Can’t afford him to pull a hammy as well

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  20. Sgt. Schultz
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Wirtz trying to be too delicate with passes. Just ping it u absolute #%*#.

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  21. Prinzhorn
    1 year, 2 months ago

    Feel like wildcarding completely against the template to flush this sicko season

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    1. have you seen cyan
      1 year, 2 months ago

      Yea. And cap Mbeumo or something.

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