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.

3,325 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Yes Wolves lads!!!!

    Now for Captain Kun to come to life

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

      Yeah
      You have Jonny ??

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

        Nah Jimi, Jota and Doherty

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

          Great
          Same here bro
          I think we're scoring the 100 this gw finally 😉

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

            On 91 (-4) post baps atm. Need Kun and Laporte to smash it!

            1. Salah’s Sonnet
              • 12 Years
              4 years, 11 months ago

              Same, REALLY need Laporte and Aguero to perform

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

                Kun Cap?

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

              Yeah
              Raz © & Kun f for me

    2. Party time
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Yes bud it feels good in this bunker. Still hope we get a goal from Jonny & Jota 🙂

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

          A goal from Jota is already more than I thought I’d get from him

          1. Party time
              4 years, 11 months ago

              I chose him over Deulofeu. Not so bad afterall. Atleast he scored 🙂

      • TheDragon
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Will sterling ever score against united?

        1. Bobby Digital
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Yes

      • DV8R
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Everyone scoring apart from my captain Jimi 🙁

        1. Bees4Lyf
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          THIS

        2. Effe
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Me too

        3. Planet Head
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          There's life in him, but not as we know it

        4. Royal5
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Erm a few of us have Sterling (c)

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

        Wenger out. 😉

      • Party time
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Alright Nuno. You can give Jiménez a rest now 😉

        • Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          What has happened to City.....

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

            Nerves.

            1. Salah’s Sonnet
              • 12 Years
              4 years, 11 months ago

              Yeah, don’t understand why though when United are shocking

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

            United turned up 😉

          3. how now brown cow
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Spurs players looked knackered yesterday. Think they are all tired.

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

          100 up. Thanks Wolves. The seasons gift that keeps giving !

          1. FPL_Gyarados
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            95 here but should get 100 when reaching 60mins.

        • FPL Pillars
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Kola owners don’t feel so bad now.

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

            Things could be completely different if he was on the pitch

            1. FPL Pillars
              • 7 Years
              4 years, 11 months ago

              If you say so.

        • Bring the Cavalry
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          It’s quite hard watching zinchenko, so bad.

        • 420king
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Lovely to see that Wolves have scored 3 and Jimenez(c) is blanking.

        • Amey
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          All right !!
          I'm sorry all.
          I brought Jimenez on WC gw 34 for the first time this season 😀

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

            Silly boy.

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

              🙂

          2. Big boy Bowen
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            We really have jinxed him Amey

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

              Yep

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

            Damn you, had him all season!

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

              🙂

          4. FPL_Gyarados
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Quick, sell him now so we can get some goals!

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

              Ha ha

        • Maddamotha
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Relax, Jimenez will score in the 2nd half. 5-0 Wolves

          1. Effe
            • 13 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Hope you’re right

          2. FPL_Gyarados
            • 10 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            The dream

        • Royal5
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Can't understand why City don't shoot more from distance. Ddg is in very poor form.

          1. TorresMagic™
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            xG explains it.

          2. FPL Daniel
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            8% SOB are converted

          3. Sgt Frank Drebin
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Shooting from range and loosing the ball is ineffective really. The key is to shoot only from good positions in which City are masters.

        • Big boy Bowen
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          1 and a 1/2 games, 3 goals and NOTHING from Jimenez.

          I truly have jinxed him as a first time owner!

        • SHOOTER MCGINN
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          ML leader now too far ahead. Comfortably in second place. Rank getting hammered. Nothing to play for season over.

          See you next season. Enjoy.

        • JELLYFISH
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          this is gonna be another Wolves 4-0 win with zero Jimmy involvement. Why on earth did I captain him...

        • Chucky
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Need jimmy capo goals
          ASAP or I will quit

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

            This

        • FPL Daniel
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Sterling is running like and looks like can't control the ball this game. Don't like what I see from him till now

        • Infamy, Infamy
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Arsenal are so Spursy. Hahahahaha

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

            Last 4 in the CL? Hasn't happened for 10 or so years

          2. WVA
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Except spurs always win right at the end

        • Magic Zico
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Anyone watching Arsenal game? How bad are they, what a HT scoresheet!

        • diesel001
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Pogba showing some ability and effort tonight.

        • chaser123
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Maybe I should reconsider getting rid of Vardy this week.....

          1. FPL Daniel
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Yes keep him

        • Waylander
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Jonny over Cathcart seems so obvious now... 🙂

          1. Party time
              4 years, 11 months ago

              🙂

          2. FPL Daniel
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Jimmy to Zaha or keep?

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

              keep of course

            2. Olivier Bernards watch
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 10 Years
              4 years, 11 months ago

              keep

          3. The Wise Owl
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Hey TM, what's the current safety score? I'm on the edge of my seat here.

            1. FPL_Gyarados
              • 10 Years
              4 years, 11 months ago

              Probably 100 at this rate

          4. Tsparkes10
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Rashford looking lively tbf. Will probs do KDB, Lukaku to Salah, Rashford

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

            Sterling shot saved fffssss

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

              Would've been Aguero assist too

              1. Salah’s Sonnet
                • 12 Years
                4 years, 11 months ago

                Absolutely typical

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

            Sterling shot saved by DDG

          7. g40steve
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Sterling close

          8. Party time
              4 years, 11 months ago

              This is the Jonny Attack!