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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. OneTeamInBristol
    • 2 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Semenyo to:
    A) Bruno G
    B) Rogers

    1. Pompel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

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

  2. F4L
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    enzo goal

  3. nanxun
    • 5 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    another cs busted

  4. F4L
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    city were crap today, shocking

  5. g40steve
    • 8 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Enzo G

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

      Yes!

  6. keefy59
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Enzo celebrating with the Arsenal fans

  7. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Congratulations Arsenal, pift....

    1. Mr. O'Connell
      • 14 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

      *Villa

      1. Jafooli
        • 14 Years
        8 months, 17 hours ago

        If only....

  8. Mighty Duck
    • 2 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Rejinders (c) was the obvious choice this week.

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

      *Enzo

  9. Kaneyonero
    • 10 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Lmao

  10. Gizzachance
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Donny cs gone

  11. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Nico O'Reilly transfer out very lucky redemption.

  12. Atimis
    • 9 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Justice for selling OReilly...

  13. Lanley Staurel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Love that man. Faith in Enzo till the end.

  14. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Score draw

    Should have been bolder to captain BrunoG tho.

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

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

  15. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

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

  16. Bigbars
    • 15 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

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

  17. THE Wild Rover
    • 16 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Palmer with a great view

  18. Mr. O'Connell
    • 14 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

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

  19. bigbudgie
    • 12 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    What's the average now after that?

  20. FCSB
    • 10 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    O’Reilly is just a pointless piece of crap

    1. Gizzachance
      • 11 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

      He was all the rage not long ago

    2. fedolefan
      • 12 Years
      8 months, 17 hours 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
        8 months, 17 hours ago

        Was on for 2-3 bonus, no?

        1. fedolefan
          • 12 Years
          8 months, 17 hours ago

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

        2. g40steve
          • 8 Years
          8 months, 17 hours ago

          3

  21. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    If this stays the same

    Advantage Arsenal

  22. fedolefan
    • 12 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

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

  23. FCSB
    • 10 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    That seals the title for Arsenal

  24. Gizzachance
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    3 cs this weekend, one of them was wolves !

  25. Ajax Hamsterdam
    • 12 Years
    8 months, 17 hours 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. Jacquet or chips
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 2 Years
      8 months, 17 hours ago

      No show.

  26. F4L
    • 11 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    save point for donna right?

  27. PogChamp
    • 14 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Donnarumma and Nunes pain.

  28. GoonerByron
    • 15 Years
    8 months, 17 hours 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
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Bernardo should be off

  30. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    8 months, 17 hours ago

    Cherki is quite decent on defcons