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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

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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. OneTeamInBristol
    • 2 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Semenyo to:
    A) Bruno G
    B) Rogers

    1. Pompel
      • 12 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      Pretty close, I'll be doing A due to presumably better fixtures

  2. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    enzo goal

  3. nanxun
    • 4 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    another cs busted

  4. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    city were crap today, shocking

  5. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Enzo G

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      Yes!

  6. keefy59
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Enzo celebrating with the Arsenal fans

  7. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Congratulations Arsenal, pift....

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 13 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      *Villa

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        3 months, 10 days ago

        If only....

  8. Mighty Duck
    • 1 Year
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Rejinders (c) was the obvious choice this week.

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      *Enzo

  9. Kaneyonero
    • 9 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Lmao

  10. Gizzachance
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Donny cs gone

  11. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Nico O'Reilly transfer out very lucky redemption.

  12. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Justice for selling OReilly...

  13. Lanley Staurel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Love that man. Faith in Enzo till the end.

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

    Score draw

    Should have been bolder to captain BrunoG tho.

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      I had him as Vice. Right idea but no cojones to implement it

  15. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    O'Reilly to be dropped after that? Pep retribution served cold...

  16. Bigbars
    • 15 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    The size of that keeper !! Goldern rule push it wide.. for god sake.. push it wide...

  17. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Palmer with a great view

  18. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Glad Gvardiol subbed at 50 mins. Double CS wipeout would have hurt.

  19. bigbudgie
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    What's the average now after that?

  20. FCSB
    • 10 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    O’Reilly is just a pointless piece of crap

    1. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      He was all the rage not long ago

    2. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      3 months, 10 days ago

      He really is. 0 attacking threat, 0 defcon potential, 0 bonus potential and early sub candidate.

      1. mixology
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        3 months, 10 days ago

        Was on for 2-3 bonus, no?

        1. fedolefan
          • 11 Years
          3 months, 10 days ago

          May be, but it was neck and neck. He usually drops out behind Ruben, Nunes and Gvardiol.

        2. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          3 months, 10 days ago

          3

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

    If this stays the same

    Advantage Arsenal

  22. fedolefan
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Lol, O'Reilly. That was the most inevitable CS wipeout ever.

  23. FCSB
    • 10 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    That seals the title for Arsenal

  24. Gizzachance
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    3 cs this weekend, one of them was wolves !

  25. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    do you think foden will

    a start
    b comes on a sub
    c no show

    v brighton

    thinking about foden to rice for free

    1. MVDP
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 1 Year
      3 months, 10 days ago

      No show.

  26. F4L
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    save point for donna right?

  27. PogChamp
    • 14 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Donnarumma and Nunes pain.

  28. GoonerByron
    • 14 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    A ridiculous 26 points this week. Have lots of issues to solve - How does this WC Draft look?

    Kelleher
    Nunes - Gabriel - Thiaw
    Palmer - Rice - Bruno G - Rogers - Cherki
    Haaland (c) - Thiago

    Sa - VDV - Mane - Gudmunsson

  29. Deulofail
    • 10 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Bernardo should be off

  30. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 months, 10 days ago

    Cherki is quite decent on defcons