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The final match of Gameweek 20 sees Manchester City and Chelsea square off at the Etihad Stadium.

Kick-off is at 5.30pm GMT.

TEAM NEWS

Pep Guardiola makes three changes from Thursday’s goalless draw at Sunderland.

Josko Gvardiol, Rodri and Tijjani Reijnders come into the starting XI.

Nathan Ake drops to the bench, while Nico Gonzalez and Savinho are injured.

Nico O’Reilly starts for the hosts at left-back.

Calum McFarlane will be in the dugout for Chelsea today after Enzo Maresca’s sudden departure.

He makes five alterations to the side that drew with Bournemouth.

In come Filip Jorgensen, Benoit Badiashile, Reece James, Pedro Neto and Joao Pedro.

Robert Sanchez (muscle), Wesley Fofana (illness) and Moises Caicedo (suspension) miss out, while Alejandro Garnacho and Liam Delap are named among the substitutes.

Marc Cucurella remains absent.

LINE-UPS

Manchester City XI: Donnarumma, Nunes, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Rodri, Bernardo, Reijnders, Cherki, Foden, Haaland

Subs: Trafford, Ake, Doku, Khusanov, McAidoo, Mukasa, Lewis, Mfuni, Heskey

Chelsea XI: Jorgensen, Acheampong, Chalobah, Badiashile, Gusto, James, Enzo, Estevao, Palmer, Neto, J Pedro

Subs: Slonina, Merrick, Tosin, Hato, Santos, Garnacho, Gittens, Delap, Guiu

LIVE GAMEWEEK PAGE!

New to Fantasy Football Scout this season is the Live Gameweek page, which you can see on the side menu.

Here you can follow the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out, as seen below:


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  1. Koflok
    • 13 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    Etikite > Watkins?

    1. terranullius
      • 1 Year
      4 days, 10 hours ago

      yes.

    2. Old Wulfrunian
      • 9 Years
      4 days, 10 hours ago

      Etikite->Thiago?

      1. Boxwoods
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Yes

        1. terranullius
          • 1 Year
          4 days, 9 hours ago

          Bowen->Thiago? Now or 2 GW23?

      2. Koflok
        • 13 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Still have Thiago..

      3. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        i am doing this in the most kneejerk move in my fpl history lol

  2. terranullius
    • 1 Year
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    What a gw!

    1. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 10 hours ago

      Not much outside of Gabriel and Thiago

      1. MikeS
        • 11 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Yer not like rice scored many PTS!

  3. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    OReilly to haul as I sold him

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      well done for keeping thiago though.

  4. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    100k rank drop because of the donkey Thiago hauling. What a joke

    1. Qaiss
      • 10 Years
      4 days, 10 hours ago

      Sold him for a hit, didn’t expect him to start and could never have predicted Everton shipping 4 at home like that. Painful but shows the lucky rollercoaster of this game

      1. Qaiss
        • 10 Years
        4 days, 10 hours ago

        He is a season hold though, started at £6m

      2. Ajax Hamsterdam
        • 11 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        what did you think he would be benched? i also sold him lol

    2. Tic Tacs
      • 5 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Benched (third), absolute catastrophe. Have played him every week up to now.

  5. Cojones of Destiny
    • 7 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    who to lose first
    a. Szob
    b. Ekitike

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 10 hours ago

      i am losing both but I would drop szbo first and hope ekitike is fit for burnley

    2. Mr. O'Connell
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      A is the 2nd worst pick in the whole game after Timber

      1. Cojones of Destiny
        • 7 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        to Rice, Wilson ??

    3. Manani
      • 14 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      a

  6. F4L
    • 11 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    honestly can fpl towers please just get rid of -4 bps for goals conceded for defenders. i know defenders are getting more points this season but teams concede goal, not individuals. bps system is mainly about individual actions

    1. Nightcrawler
      • 6 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      so defenders should not get clean sheet points too??

      1. F4L
        • 11 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        defenders need to get bps boosts for a clean sheet otherwise they'd never be in the conversation for bonus. but its still only 12 bps for clean sheet, defenders get most of their bps from individual actions

    2. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      no. if your team concedes, a defender shouldnt get bps unless in execptional circumstances

  7. PogChamp
    • 14 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    The Wirtz goal really looks offside.

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      it was i thought. the freeze frame they used his foot was in the air but that was too early, his foot clearly offside when the ball left bradley's foot

    2. mookie
      • 12 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      It looked like it. Maybe they stopped the image a bit late.

    3. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      It's okay Fulham will get an "apology" later in the week
      That will make everything fine

    4. Bigbars
      • 15 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      I've always thought they pick and choose the line and thickness and moment of frame freeze to suit. They never clearly broadcast when and where semi automated VAR is in effect. And it is so frustrating that Sky get to hear their dialogue

  8. Nightcrawler
    • 6 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    Anyone contemplating deleting their teams ???

    No Rice
    No Gabriel
    No Thiago
    No Bruno G
    No Thiaw
    No Wirtz
    No rogers or watkins
    No verbruggen
    Raya VVD Tark Dorgu Saka Ekitike Andersen Lacroix in the team

    Dropped out of top 25k

    1. mookie
      • 12 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Nope

      1. mookie
        • 12 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Speaking on behalf of everyone.

    2. g40steve
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Must be elite

    3. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Most on here would happily trade ranks with you, including myself

    4. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Try being around 350 k and then come back to me.

    5. Tic Tacs
      • 5 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      At 25K? Ridiculous

  9. mookie
    • 12 Years
    4 days, 10 hours ago

    There are bad days, and there are legendary bad days.
    Can Cherki turn a legendary in a regular one?

    1. g40steve
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      No but Palmer & Foden can 😉

      1. mookie
        • 12 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Foden is too highly owned.

    2. Ajax Hamsterdam
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      lol

  10. g40steve
    • 7 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    How many left to play?

    Haaland C Palmer Foden NOR

    1. Pompel
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Same. Expect Cherki, Nunes and Ruben to run away with the points

  11. DA Minnion (Former great)
    • 13 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Trollago scoring a hatrick away to Everton is just laughable.

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      People benching him and still getting the points is even worse

  12. Vazza
    • 5 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Ekitike, Wirtz => Thiago, Palmer

    Free

    Good moves?

    1. REDMOND IN SANDALS
      • 4 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      If Ekitike hauls against Burlney, you will have a breakdown

  13. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Benching both Virgil and Ekitike GW21 (ars) and save FT, too much money idle?

    Will give them BUR GW22 and ship them out then.

    1. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      That’s fine. Many will be in same boat

    2. Atimis
      • 9 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Same here

  14. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    What a bonkers WC. Some big purchases and so horrible sales 😯

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      *and some

  15. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Kept Wilson and Thiago, but on the other hand also kept VVD and have no Newcastle, so it can never be too good

  16. Dubem_FC
    • 10 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    That sounds you hear is FPL managers activating their WC.

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      You can hear last week? 😯

  17. Dynamic Duos
    • 12 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    O'Reilly off bench, just beat 4 please.

    Haaland Foden O'Reilly to go with 54pts

    1. Dynamic Duos
      • 12 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Haaland (c)

  18. F4L
    • 11 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    miley is playing so well at RB, wonder if he even keeps his spot there with Livra back

    1. Dynamic Duos
      • 12 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Doubt it very much

  19. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 11 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    I assume hall subbed off was just to give him a rest?

    1. F4L
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      yeah

  20. Jebiga
    • 13 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Why people's selling Saka and Timber?
    I don't get it

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Need Gabriel and Rice. Some people already have 3 Arsenal and needing to sell to create space

      1. Jebiga
        • 13 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Are both rice and Gabriel that important? More then timber and Saka?

        1. Jafooli
          • 13 Years
          4 days, 9 hours ago

          Some weeks yes, some weeks no, some weeks the same. That's the issue.

          But cheaper is much cheaper, which helps....

          1. Jafooli
            • 13 Years
            4 days, 9 hours ago

            *Rice is cheaper

    2. Studs Up
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Gabriel

    3. MVDP
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 1 Year
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Mid week snow expected in London could affect the Arsenal game. Snow drifts of up to 1cm may cause major disruption. Maybe?

      Two foot drifts for the Newcastle game have even led to police advising folk to put a coat on.

  21. Dynamic Duos
    • 12 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Ekitike to Watkins?

    1. g40steve
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Or Thiago?

      1. Dynamic Duos
        • 12 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        Got him

  22. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    My team is dropping another 40k post subs. Lucky ducks

  23. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Palmer 4% EO! What an opportunity.

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      I’ll take a scabby penalty

  24. Nightf0x
    • 10 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    dub (alison)
    gabriel keane mukiele clyne (richards)
    gordon foden saka rice (king)
    tiago haland (ekitike)

    which ?

    a) saka king to 2 of rogers enzo cherki wilson, bench clyne
    b) saka clyne king -4 to cherki timber garner (or) enzo timber wilson
    c) ekitike clyne to watkins alderete (or) richar enzo/cherki/wilson (or) bowen/pedro garner
    d) saka clyne to cherki/enzo/rogers/wilson timber

  25. dansmusen
    • 8 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    That Wirtz goal took the fun out of FPL. Clearly offside and most of my rivals got him.

    1. g40steve
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Looking at the lines in the grass very offside, can see it being another VAR apology layer

      1. The Bandit
        • 15 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        A cert

    2. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      There was one frame that showed his foot clearly over the grass line, with the defender clearly behind. They should be fired.

  26. Dynamic Duos
    • 12 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Prediction? City 4-0?

    1. Jebiga
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      0-1

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Score draw

    3. g40steve
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      3-2

    4. Philosopher's Stones
      • 5 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      4-1

    5. MikeS
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      0-0

  27. Jafooli
    • 13 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Has Sanchez lost the GK spot? Or rest/rotation?

    1. Von Lipwig
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      slightly injured. back next game prob

    2. Pompel
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Minor niggle according to Daily Mail

    3. Jafooli
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Cheers both, don’t need another issue to deal with in addition to:

      Ekitika, Cunha, Guehi, VDB, Dorgu & Esteve, yikes....

  28. Pep Roulette
    • 8 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Tarkowski to Munoz will be popular once he's back

    1. MikeS
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Tarkowski worth keeping imo

    2. F4L
      • 11 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      tark feels abit overpriced tbf. i dont mind owning for now, everton had a similar odd match spurs at home when they shipped 3 and barely competed, so can happen. was unlucky with a header cleared off the line

  29. F4L
    • 11 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    thiago took his goals so well today. starting striker for brazil at the world cup?

    1. tuturututu
      • 4 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Would be for me

    2. Jafooli
      • 13 Years
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Probably, since main competition is Richard & Jesus?

      1. Jafooli
        • 13 Years
        4 days, 9 hours ago

        *Richarlison

    3. Captain Mal
      • 1 Year
      4 days, 9 hours ago

      Vini false 9 with Raphina/Estevao on the wings?

  30. Jafooli
    • 13 Years
    4 days, 9 hours ago

    Any chance Guehi grabs another defcon for 2pts, currently on 9 DCs