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. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Booooooo dammit

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Good top post 🙂

  2. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Dave needs to go.......

  3. Weak Become Heros
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    KDB to Bilva it is!

  4. Pat Bonner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    DDG should save that

  5. super zlatan
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Wow

  6. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    It’s not their year. Again.

  7. Tempestic
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Come on united please

    1. Tempestic
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      That feels so filthy

  8. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Yassssss citehhh!!!! United fan here

    1. Marvin of all he surveys
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Clearly not.

    2. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      😆

  9. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Aguero wide fffffffsssss

  10. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Kun close

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Off the post

  11. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Aguero just wide

  12. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    City tails up now. This could get ugly

    1. tambourineman
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Tevez coming on?

  13. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    City in 3rd gear now

  14. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Oh no, we are losing! So gutted we just conceded a goal to City which means Liverpool won't win the league.

  15. McSauce
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    OMG Lingard you tard!!

  16. OldBenKenobi
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Maybe Brendan can help us out instead? 😆

  17. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Jessie misses a sitter

  18. IRBOX ⚽
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Aguero post

  19. 1zverGGadeM
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Lingard FFS :@ :@ Miss of the season!

  20. Chi not God
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    looking more likely that I'll crack the 100+ points...
    helluva week for the bench boost chip.

  21. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Bilva and Döner points. Yawn.

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

      Racist

      1. Royal5
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Eh?

    2. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Racist

    3. Planet Head
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Tut tut

  22. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Jimmy please fffs do something

  23. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Should be 1-1 if Lingard wasn’t crap

    1. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      0-0 if ddg wasn't crap

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        How the mighty have fallen.

      2. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        DDG couldn’t do anything - Shaw was at fault

  24. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Go away United now, I need that city cleanie

  25. Cojiro
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Can anyone remember the site (or better, have a link to) where you can find stats like captain points and bench points missed out on for your team for the season?

    1. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      anewpla.net

    2. moment
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      gargatron

      1. Cojiro
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers, I'll have a look

    3. Cojiro
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Cheers all

  26. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    (K)un do something!!! I know I’m a LIV fan and this is against my real life wishes but I will allow it this once!

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Just hit the post

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        I know. Watching. If only that earned points

    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      you aint a liv fan

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Ok I said the wrong thing! This place has got to me!

        No way of proving but I’m a HUGE Liverpool fan. Anyway appreciate the barrage!

    3. TheTinman
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Then you are not a real fan

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Ok so I admit I want one FPL goal and then a Utd late hattie

    4. Poseidon.
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Your not a real fan bro

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Spur of the moment brain fart. This stupid game (FPL) takes up too much of my time.

    5. *Reformed-Character*
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Wow you are NO Liverpool fan - what an absolutely dreadful thing to say.

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Regretted it as soon as I wrote it 🙁

    6. El Matador
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      U should be ashamed to be a Liverpool fan

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Christ people are really getting nasty on here. It was a stupid comment

    7. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      FO

      1. The Mighty Hippo
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Is the correct answer to the pub quiz question: "Fe... Fi...?... Fum"

    8. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Dont ever call your self a fan of any club.. it means a lot more mate..

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Really didn’t expect people to go in so hard after one stupid comment said in spur of the moment.

        Used to like this placd

  27. Planet Head
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    117 points and 3472 OR, never done this well before, get in!

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      k

    2. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Awesome!

  28. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    La(c)a looking likely?

  29. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Citeh getting a double cleanie in a DGW is just wrong

  30. aborg
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Lingard messes two good chances!