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Dugout Discussion December 15

Sterling benched as Aguero returns to Man City bench

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Raheem Sterling (£11.6m) has been benched for the third home match this season as Manchester City host Everton this lunch-time.

The midfielder was considered a strong captain candidate for Gameweek 17 but was given a second rest in the last three league matches.

Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m) takes his place on the right flank while Leroy Sané (£9.5m) retained his berth on the left.

Gabriel Jesus (£10.1m) leads the line once again while Sergio Aguero (£11.2m) was named among the substitutes, alongside a returning Kevin de Bruyne (£9.7m).

Everton have gone with three at the back with Yerry Mina (£5.4m), Michael Keane (£5.1m) and Kurt Zouma (£5.0m) all in the starting line-up.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.3m) comes in to lead the attack with Richarlison (£7.1m) in a midfield role.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Gündogan, Laporte, Delph, Sané, Silva, Fernandinho, Mahrez, Otamendi, Jesus.

Everton XI: Pickford; Mina, Zouma, Keane; Digne, Sigurdsson, Gomes, Coleman; Bernard, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin.

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  1. SPorting
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Sane on the prowl

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    1. Fantastisk
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      LEEEEEEEROOOOY JENKINS

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      1. MMN
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Your comment made me think he went and scored

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        1. Fantastisk
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Sorry!

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  2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Callum Wilson-gate to commence in T-Minus 60 minutes...

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  3. SPorting
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Laporte with a cheeky header

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  4. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    The better the player, the less space they need to operate in. And Sane has been really impressive at playing in tiny pockets of space. Talent.

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    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Cheers OptaJoe.

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    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Oxymoron alert...

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      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Where was the contradiction?

        Because the opposite is true of defenders? The better they are, the more space they can control.

        I suppose you could argue the Everton defenders are bad.

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        1. Jafooli
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          Tiny pockets of space 😉

          Just messing cause game is kak 😀

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          1. Piggs Boson
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            Oh I see 😀

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            1. Jafooli
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 4 months ago

              Should know by now I never say anything either sensible or worthwhile 😀

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    3. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      He gave the ball to the other guy and the other guy scored.

      #Simple

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      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        I wasn't talking about the goal.

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        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          I was being my usual banal self.

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          1. Piggs Boson
            • 12 Years
            5 years, 4 months ago

            No problem. Not everyone wants to overthink everything 😀

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    4. Nabs Kebabs
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      no, that just means you have good acceleration, touch, agility and dribbling skills. That doesn't define how good a player you are.

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      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Also intelligence, quick-thinking, technique, movement etc... Pretty much everything needed for attacking.

        Defending is different, so perhaps I should have said it determines how good they are at attacking.

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  5. FDMS All Starz
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    What are the chances sterling coming on

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    1. FPL Puppy
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      If they get a second goal early in the second half, slim to none

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    2. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Might replace Sane with 20 to go

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    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Can't see it if the game is won.

      Pep will want him fresh for the midweek game.

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    4. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      You need an Everton goal.

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  6. FPL Puppy
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    How's Richy looking?

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    1. EDUARDO DA SILVA
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Headless chicken

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    2. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Had a shot off target, lost some possession.

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    3. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Peripheral

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    4. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Quiet apart from a pretty tough volley he sent over the bar

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    5. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      not holding the ball properly.Missed a glorious cahnce

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  7. el polako
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Sane and Mbappe to dominate Golden Ball awards 2020-2030.

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    1. Zilla
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      No. Messi & Ronaldo era won't happen ever again.

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      1. el polako
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Sane reminds me of young Cristiano Ronaldo.

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      2. Podge
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        You don’t know that

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        1. Now I'm Panicking
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          No-one knows anything about the future

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  8. aborg
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    If Everton draw Pep will bring in Sterling, count my words.
    If the score line remains minimal as it is by the second half there would be a chance that Sterling will play the last 30 mins.

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    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      36 words and a number.

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      1. GoonerSteve
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Or is it 36 words, two numbers? One of the words is a number.

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        1. GoonerSteve
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          I’m talking bollocks ignore me. Second isn’t a number.

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  9. conorbon
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Alonso, Son and Hazard to Digne, Sane and Sterling for a -8 mad?

    Alonso and Hazard aren’t justifying their price and I need some City attacking coverage

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    1. MMN
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Mad is an understatement

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      1. conorbon
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        So a no then?

        Might just go Hazard to Sane for now then

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        1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          selling hazard is insaneeee

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        2. MMN
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          A goal tomorrow and hazard might become one of the hottest players to own

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    2. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      lololololololol

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    3. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Yeah that’s downright insane

      Alonso is justifying his price and then some

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      1. grumpyman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Alonso scored 30+ points in the first 3 weeks. Since then Sari ‘fixed’ his defending and Luiz has outscored him for nearly 2 million less.

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        1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 4 months ago

          It’s a short term thing - Alonso has 14 goals, 14 assists, 36 clean sheets, 40 baps in 80 games. Luiz is decent short term, but Alonso is the real deal.

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    4. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Before you do that think about how you would feel if Sane was benched next week at home to Palace and Hazard starts at home to Leicester.

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    5. Regin
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Pure madness.

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  10. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Everything going down Sane's side 🙁

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    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      He’s always been a crap eater.....

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    2. el polako
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      No surprise considering his current form.

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    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      He'll fire a ball across for Riyad to tap in!

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  11. boc610
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Manchester city now have what Fergie instilled at united ( but dont have anymore)...the mindset in the opposing teams that the game has already been lost before you even walk out the tunnel

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    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Didn't work well last week.

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  12. Critical Observer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    What kinda teams are y’all facing in the fpl cup this round?

    I’m up against a manager that hasnt made a single transfer since late october and sits at OR 2 million+; he did haul last week though, courtesy of (S)alah.

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    1. Regin
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I got a tough opponent. My current rank is 113k. His is 94k. My or was 39k 3 weeks ago but dropped to 113k.

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    2. Tev
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Hasn’t made a transfer for weeks but has Salah (C) left over, he’d have beaten me easily last week

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      1. Critical Observer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Ditto, glad I face my opponent this week instead of last week.

        Cue another Salah hatty.

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    3. ramunas
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Rank 5.53m, Solanke (C) with strike partner Niasse and VC on De Gea..

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  13. boc610
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Lookman should have started

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    1. Critical Observer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Look man, he can’t start start right now, lacking match-fitness. 20 minutes in the 2nd half will suit him better.

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  14. SPorting
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Sane toying with the EVE defence

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    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      And my sanity.

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  15. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Sane close...

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  16. pundit of punts
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Going forward -

    A. Alonso + 4.4m defender

    or

    B. Trippier + Kolasinac

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  17. FPL Maldini
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Thoughts on an Ederson to Lloris transfer if City lose their CS today?

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    1. Critical Observer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Reactionary.

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    2. MMN
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Well spurs are away to Everton next week and city at home to palace. Either way I prefer the city defence

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    3. LD
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I guess if there aren’t any other fires

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    4. Tev
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Whether or not they get a cleanie today is almost irrelevant, you won’t get his points from today if you bring him in

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      1. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        thissssss

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  18. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    If you want to cancel an opposition attack, just sit down in the box. Alright then.

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  19. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Would love a 1-1 with no Rich involvement

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    1. Regin
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      I would prefer a 3-1 win with sane sco ING the next 2 and a goal by somebody like Andre gomes

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  20. WVA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    G2G for next gameweek?

    Ryan
    Alonso Laporte Kolasinac
    Salah Hazard Son Snodgrass
    Kane Wilson Jimenez
    Hamer Bennett Hojbjerg AWB

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    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      Happy with Ryan?

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      1. WVA
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 4 months ago

        Not at all been my worst transfer of the season, 1 2 2 2 3 3 lol

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  21. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    what a miss by mahrez

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    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 4 months ago

      * initiates Bubz Watch *

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  22. FPL Puppy
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    City close to 2-0

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  23. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Oh piss off

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  24. Jeremy Corbyn
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    I will call a vote of no confidence on Sterling at the right time

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  25. tisza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    City Everton used to be a lively rivalry!!
    Stadium should be bouncing instead it's pretty quiet and a fair few empty seats

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  26. Danno - Emre Canada
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Great save Pick

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  27. altan8797
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    is mahrez having a bad game or am I just another sterling owner 😀

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  28. IAWC ( It's a Wonderfu…
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    pickfordd

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  29. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    Damn, Mahrez should be burying that

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  30. L'Aeroplanino
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 4 months ago

    mahrez SOT

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