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28 August 2016 3827 comments
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After a stilted stalemate at the Hawthorns, it’s fair to say that we’re looking forward to some fireworks from the tea-time kick-off.

Manchester City host West Ham United at the Etihad as they bid to keep pace with Manchester United and Chelsea and make it three wins from three.

Pep Guardiola makes two changes, introducing Gael Clichy at left-back for Aleks Kolarov and handing a start to Nolito at the expense of Jesus Navas.

The Hammers are again without Dimitri Payet, with his absence surely set to lead to another mass exodus in FPL terms.

Slaven Bilic has changed shape in a bid to repeat last season’s victory in Manchester, recalling Angelo Ogbonna to a three-man rearguard.

Former Manchester United starlet, Ashley Fletcher, makes his first Premier League start up front in a 3-5-2 setup. Sam Bryam drops to the bench, whilst Håvard Nordtveit misses out through injury. Manuel Lanzini is fit enough for the bench.

All eyes will be Sergio Aguero – he heads into this encounter backed with the captaincy by 32% of FPL managers, just 1% less than Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who stalled with a two-point return at Hull on Saturday.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

  1. Arceus
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Kun out Sanchez in

    1. devils advocate
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Good luck pulling that transfer off. 😉

  2. The Tinkerman
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    How many games would Aguero miss on retrospective ban for that? I'd guess 3 at least.

    1. Clump
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      3 violent conduct.

    2. Numb
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      3

  3. Moin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Can someone please explain why the ban? I am not watching...

    1. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Smoked Reid with his elbow.

      1. Moin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        thanks

    2. walkman666
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Sharp, intentional elbow to the face of Reid.

  4. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Bet on utd right now

  5. Zoostation
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Between Arsenal mids firing, Stones being awful, and possible incoming bans to Lamela and now Aguero = WC

    1. Le _ Professeur
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      + a possible ban for Gray as well .. haven't WC yet but considering it 🙂

    2. Garlana
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      What did lamela do?

      1. rdamjan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        What Lamela did? Watch the game, but I dont know:S

  6. Old Man
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    That's a ban!

  7. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Agueroless WC confirmed 🙂

  8. MemphisDepay7
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    So Aguero bench, or sell?

  9. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Mourinho will work his magic to get kun banned before the derby

    1. owls on the up
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Thought city didn't need Agüero anyway, so makes no difference!

  10. BobbyV
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Ban incoming....

  11. Sánchez
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Any link to aguero incident?

  12. Jafooli
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Kun doing a Lamela?

  13. Knallie
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    I guess fitting Sanchez in wont be so hard after all 🙂

  14. Konig Luther
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    give him a penalty

  15. Rian23
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    wouldn't be surprised if aguero gets away with that.
    costa/suarez thats 3 games instantly

    1. Sánchez
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      This

  16. BLANKET DEFENCE
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    What did aguero do?

    1. The Tinkerman
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Elbowed Reid in the face

    2. osceola31909
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Elbow to face.

  17. mattk lfc
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Better get planning without Aguero for my WC this week

  18. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Kun Ban on the cards.Nolito and Costa welcome to my team

  19. Lyonnais
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Maybe Kun now out, use the money to get an Arsenal mid in and use the wildcard later to get Kun back ?

  20. Godot - Fashanu Zealand
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Potential bans for Lamela, Gray and now Aguero..

    *sighs*

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      What did Lamela do?

      1. Adam West - Team Serbia for…
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Slapped Lovren

        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Cheers.

    2. The Tinkerman
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      What was the Lamela ban for? Missed that on MOTD?

  21. soxela
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Listen everyone... I just figured out the best strategy to maximize points statistically in FPL and wanted opinions....

    So this is the plan;

    In selecting your 15-man squad make sure u select the cheapest player that is unlikely to ever feature in a game (preferably a defender)... I call this the "dummy" player

    Now get a great selection from teams including cheapies that can show up even sporadically at different games

    Always Play 442 so that not all positions are filled

    In your squad u insert the dummy player (in my case, in defence)

    What this has in summary done is to bring into the game your highest scoring sub for the week. And if u have a good variety in defence, midfield and forwards then you're almost guaranteed a decent contribution from your bench every week.

    What say you none-casuals?

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      What's this got to do with Kun getting banned?

    2. Numb
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      I think you've cracked it

      1. ★Kuntheman★
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

    3. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      lol

    4. Shifty
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Wtf

    5. FISSH
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      what.

    6. RoysCallerAnne
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      😆 😆 😆 😆

    7. Sánchez
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      And if you get sub order wrong?

      1. Moin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        😆 will happen with most of us

    8. TJ_777
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      This is a troll right?

    9. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      I think you don't understand the rules.

    10. Shifty
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Hulk this.

    11. Lyonnais
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      wow, amazing stuff 😆

    12. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Genius.

      Hulk this.

    13. s4m777
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      What do people here reckon
      Stones>Williams
      Stones>Evans

    14. RoysCallerAnne
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      This has made the captain fail so much more easy to digest.
      You've made my day.

    15. Arteta
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      That's absolutely brilliant!

    16. sinik
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      you know that with a 442 you'll always auto sub in first bench, right?

    17. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Post of the week

    18. Konig Luther
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      WOW. Hulk this. he spotted.

    19. noquarternt
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Should get a Nobel prize for this. So good.

      1. soxela
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Thanks people! Now to reverse time and keep it a secret.... Shhhhh!

    20. ★Kuntheman★
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Wow. That's a real eye-opener. 😮

    21. Adriano
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      How has no one figured this out yet? This changes everything!

    22. The Fantastic Mr Fox
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Poor guy

    23. Zasa
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      I'm convinced this is the right strategy, thank you for this.

    24. Every Dog Has Its Day
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 4 months ago

      Reported for copying and pasting from Triggerlip's book.

  22. Wild Card this!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Defo violent conduct by Kun

  23. TokyoRisingSun
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 4 months ago

    Provisional bonus points for WBA - MID

    3 - Gibson
    2 - Evans
    1 - Nsue

  24. Worzel Gummidge
      9 years, 4 months ago

      They will have to prove he meant it. They can't. So can we stop posting this ban rubbish

      1. walkman666
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        ... it did look pretty intentional on the replays.

      2. Les Bleus
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 4 months ago

        Aren't you the one who posted that picture of Lamela?

        1. Worzel Gummidge
            9 years, 4 months ago

            Someone else did but I reposted it. If you are trying to compare these 2 then you wont get it.

        2. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          You must be joking - of course he meant it!

          1. Worzel Gummidge
              9 years, 4 months ago

              How do you know. Facing away from a player and trying to break free. Can you confirm he meant to actually elbow Reid?

        3. fiveyears
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Wouldn't be an international break without some kind of Kun incident

        4. Parm
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Who do we replace Agüero with for his three game ban, then?

          1. Chucky
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 4 months ago

            Costa/Kaku

          2. Numb
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 4 months ago

            Benteke

        5. Kaneyonero
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Kun Lamela

        6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
          • 15 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Come on give us a parting gift before your ban kun

        7. Barrier Freeman
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Of course I just put Kun in my team....

        8. Crouching Tiger
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 4 months ago

          Aguero limping