Dugout Discussion

Starts for Sterling, Aguero and Lacazette but Aubameyang misses out

Two Premier League fixtures take place this evening, bringing Double Gameweek 35 to a close.

Wolverhampton Wanderers host Arsenal in the 19:45 BST kick-off at Molineux before the Manchester derby gets underway at a rain-soaked Old Trafford 15 minutes later.

Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero both start for City but Pep Guardiola has made three changes to the side that beat Spurs on Saturday, with Vincent Kompany, Fernandinho and David Silva replacing John Stones, Phil Foden and the injured Kevin de Bruyne.

Bernardo Silva continues on the right flank with Sterling on the opposite wing, meaning no start for Riyad Mahrez or Leroy Sane.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has wielded the axe after the 4-0 loss at Everton, with Matteo Darmian, Luke Shaw, Ashley Young, Andreas Pereira and Jesse Lingard returning in place of Phil Jones, Diogo Dalot, Nemanja Matic, Romelu Lukaku and Anthony Martial.

All bar the injured Jones of those five players are among the substitutes.

There is no Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in the Arsenal matchday squad, with the Gabonese striker and wing-back Sead Kolasinac among seven players to drop out of Unai Emery’s starting XI.

Arsenal say that Aubameyang misses out this evening having had a “small sinus procedure”, while Kolasinac is among the substitutes.

Shkodran Mustafi, Mohamed Elneny, Carl Jenkinson, Matteo Guendouzi and Konstantinos Mavraponos are the other men to make way as Sokratis, Nacho Monreal, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Granit Xhaka, Lucas Torreira, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Alex Iwobi are recalled to Emery’s line-up.

The Arsenal head coach looks to be reverting to a 4-2-3-1, with Iwobi, Mkhitaryan and Mesut Ozil supporting Alexandre Lacazette in attack.

Leander Dendoncker for Morgan Gibbs-White is Nuno Espirito Santo’s only change, meaning that Raul Jimenez, Diogo Jota, Matt Doherty and Jonny all get two starts in Double Gameweek 35.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Darmian, Lindelof, Smalling, Shaw, Young, Fred, Pereira, Pogba, Lingard, Rashford.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Kompany, Laporte, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Silva, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Bennett, Coady, Boly, Doherty, Dendoncker, Neves, Moutinho, Jonny, Jimenez, Jota

Arsenal XI: Leno, Maitland-Niles, Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal, Torreira, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Iwobi, Lacazette.

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  1. Dannyb
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Was gonna bring Auba in, cant bring myself to do it now.

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Nope, avoid

    2. StayoutheSpiceZone
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      If they lose tonight he will need to play Auba in most pl games to come

    3. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Had a sinus procedure. Could explain why he was missing games with illness. Hopefully the sinus op fixes that.

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        😮
        It's painful.

  2. Kante Touch This
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    How likely is Son to be rested vs West Ham due to CL?

    1. StayoutheSpiceZone
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      He’s suspended!

      1. Kante Touch This
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Oh nice thanks!

    2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      0 chance

    3. Legendary!
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Unlikely, he's missing the first leg

    4. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Minimal chance

      1. Kante Touch This
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Then im stuck with this decision

        1. duffy + son or 2. trent + moura

        1. Top Lad Dakes.
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Probably 1 but that’s tough. If you could find the money somewhere else for Trent

  3. Captain Kakaroto (I blame R…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Have sterling (c), kun, Dilva, pogba, Lindelof. Hoping for goalfest

    1. Supersonic Marv'
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I'm still clinging on to hopes that my Jiminez TC decision will pay off.

    2. StayoutheSpiceZone
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Me too

      2-9

    3. Legendary!
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      i desperately need Sterling (C) to pay off big time. no longer have BB and my closest rival closed a 40 point gap with his. Damn!!!

    4. pingissimus
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      You mean a Laporte hattie

    5. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Manchester United 1 (Fred goal / Darmian assist)
      Manchester City 1 (Gundogan goal / Zinchenko assist)

      That would be anticlimax

  4. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Have no fear Liverpool fans, Darmian to the rescue tonight

    1. StayoutheSpiceZone
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Darmian can at lest time waste well

    2. XabiAlonso
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Haha

      1. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        It will be 0-3 in 30 mins from now

  5. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    29/29 starts for me this GW. Shame most of those buys were utter dross

    1. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Only casuals don’t have Valery

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Joke's on you, I went the hipster route with Bednarek and doubled the points

    2. Thick Of It
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      The only really luck I have had this he is holding onto Brighton defensive "assets" for my bench boost.

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      You're a Pro for a reason 😉

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        No luck for us dedicated hard working professionals this year!

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          🙂

  6. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Emery deserves to lose out on 4th and the EL. What a joke.

    1. TheDragon
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Good ebening to you

    2. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Why?

  7. Forever In Our Shadow
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Laura Woods. Hello.

    1. TheDragon
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Raise your standards - 100s of hours of make up and hair doesn’t make you good looking

      1. Forever In Our Shadow
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        I dont have standards. I am very similar to Pogba. 😉

    2. Tsssst
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      She's the English Blake Lively

  8. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Agree with Keane 100% on this.

    1. TheDragon
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Ye completely - what they’d give for a Keane now

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

    About to find out how close to the beach Wolves are!

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Hopefully they score 3 before going on the beach again 😛

  10. Thick Of It
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Has anybody got any blockbuster bench boost scores out there?

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I've seen one with 45
      Triple Brighton Defense & Deulofeu

      1. Thick Of It
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Ouch, my league leader has the same.

    2. JohnCarewCarew
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Me sir! Me. Look at me. I’ve got 31 with Jota’s 15 to come.

      1. Thick Of It
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        A fair haul whatever Jota does.

    3. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      21 plus some (Leno 2+? , Duffy 8, Dunk 8 Murray 3)

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

      Here's a cracker: https://fantasy.premierleague.com/a/team/188894/event/35

      In the top 10K, still has bench boost available. Did not play it.

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

        ...that's painful

        With that bench, surely he intended to play it!?

        1. moment
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          One would have thought, given he also has TC left and there's only 3 weeks left in the season.

        2. Not again Shirley
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Yes he definitely intended to play it.

          Not sure why they were on his bench to start with though

  11. Amey
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Arsenal & Chelsea in EL
    Spurs in CL
    United might sneak in with a CL position if things go our way.
    😮

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Think one of Arsenal and Chelsea will get into the CL by winning the EL

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Yeah
        Hopefully it means loosing attention in PL 😉

  12. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    All starting except twerpolasinac.... cmon jimmy capo and jota punish them ..... 😀

    1. T444
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I implore boly to assist their goals

  13. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    I'm so angry after that interview with Pogba, I can't wait for him to do one.

    1. I Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      What has he said?

      1. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Basically came out with a load of cliches, wasn't good enough against Everton, get heads down, need a reaction etc. If I remember correctly, he did an interview saying the same stuff after a defeat earlier in the season by Brighton or West Ham. He's completely full of BS, if he cared then he'd have actually ran at one point in the last half dozen or so games.

    2. Tsssst
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I missed it, summary?

    3. Maddi Son
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Not usually a fan of Roy Keane but glad he instantly called out his BS interview.

      1. Here's Tom with the We…
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Roy Keane is the best. So straight talking

        1. Old Man
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          You must be joking- Roy Keane is a complete a******.

          1. Here's Tom with the We…
            • 12 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Nope not joking at all. Sky should’ve broken the bank to get him in as a pundit.

    4. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      What happened bro ??

  14. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    jiminez ans sterling blanks please fpl goods

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

      you said goods so your wish won't be granted.

      1. Make Arrows Green Again
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Goods are the new gods. Welcome to endgame capitalism.

  15. Tsssst
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    No goal fest tonight with the way United have lined up, 541 ffs

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Utd have to park the bus and try to use Rashford and Lingard's pace against Kompany and Laporte. Would be looking to get Kompany sent off if I were a Utd player.

    2. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      3 out of those 5 are Young Darmian & Smalling 😀

  16. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    ac milan vs Lazio is the game to watch

  17. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Come on, Wolves. Just turn up!

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

      I can confirm they have turned up.

      1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Get in!

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

        16% possession

  18. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Sterling vs United
    Games 15
    Goals 0

    I got this guy for a -8 (sold Duffy, Vardy) and made him captain...

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Time to put that record straight then

      1. Team Cruel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        No chance. He said he's a United supporter in the interview.

    2. fclackless [Brazil Nuts]
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      A hatty of assists is fine

    3. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      There is always First time 🙂

    4. G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I went Jimenez so you could end up with more points than me tbh...

  19. 1zverGGadeM
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Where is Stonesey?

    United will take this

    1. T444
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Ashley young to score and utd to win is 30 to 1 on paddy power

      1. 1zverGGadeM
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        This

      2. Not again Shirley
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        For a reason!

  20. T444
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    7 starters incl captain tonight to make or break my season . I'm statistically bound to hit something
    7/44*100 = 15% of all points scored tonight are mine

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Points are not equally spread. Players will get different scores.

      1. T444
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Just let aguero get 5+ points. I'll be content with that

  21. Old Bull
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Not impressed. We’d had a goal this far into the game yesterday

  22. aborg
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    No Kola !! Bloody hell. Hope you lose Emery....fed up of all your useless rotations !

  23. sirmorbach
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Lads, d'y'all think I can save my ft?

    Team:

    Fabianski / Guaita
    Robertson / TAA / Pereira / Doherty / Rice
    Salah / Pogba / Maddison / Fraser / Deulofeu
    Agüero / Rashford / Jiménez

    1. G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Ask after the games, anyone could get injured...

  24. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Imagine being auba,so close to winning the golden boot and your manager constantly drops you from every other game. Pathetic

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Auba had a sinus operation. Clearly had an issue and they probably thought sort it now before it gets worse

    2. Bolivian Seaman
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      he had an operation

    3. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Try doing some research, it was health related, not tactical.

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

        Point still stands regardless of what happened this particular game. Auba is wasted at arsenal

    4. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      we know now why he's played so little the past GWs

    5. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I think he had to have a procedure of some sort.

  25. Bruno Bruno!!
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    10 minutes no jiminez action game over

  26. Baked baines
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Wolves well and truly on the beach!!!!!

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      This reminds me of the old joke about Bullseye game show winners being from Wolverhampton (very much inland) and being given speedboats.

      1. Baked baines
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        hahaha

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

        ...plenty of canals round that neck of the woods 😉

  27. FPL price manipulators are …
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    GW fail

  28. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Jimmy make me proud my capo 🙁

  29. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Wow Wolves triple up looking like a massive fail

    1. George James
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      18 mins in mate. Calm down

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Lol just banter. Nervous banter

  30. McSauce
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Doherty YC

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Ah jesus

    2. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Great.

    3. sminkypinky
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Hah! Figures.

    4. Old Man
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Wonderful .... sigh.

    5. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Makes me feel like a pre 60 sub is on the cards.