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, 2 days ago

    Booooooo dammit

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

      Good top post 🙂

  2. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Dave needs to go.......

  3. Weak Become Heros
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    KDB to Bilva it is!

  4. Pat Bonner
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    DDG should save that

  5. super zlatan
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Wow

  6. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    It’s not their year. Again.

  7. Tempestic
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Come on united please

    1. Tempestic
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      That feels so filthy

  8. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Yassssss citehhh!!!! United fan here

    1. Marvin Moon
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      Clearly not.

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

      😆

  9. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Aguero wide fffffffsssss

  10. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Kun close

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

      Off the post

  11. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Aguero just wide

  12. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    City tails up now. This could get ugly

    1. tambourineman
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      Tevez coming on?

  13. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    City in 3rd gear now

  14. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days 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, 2 days ago

    OMG Lingard you tard!!

  16. OldBenKenobi
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Maybe Brendan can help us out instead? 😆

  17. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Jessie misses a sitter

  18. IRBOX ⚽
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Aguero post

  19. 1zverGGadeM
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Lingard FFS :@ :@ Miss of the season!

  20. Chi not God
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

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

  21. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Bilva and Döner points. Yawn.

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

      Racist

      1. Royal5
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

        Eh?

    2. Mo Mané Mo Problems
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      Racist

    3. Planet Head
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      Tut tut

  22. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Jimmy please fffs do something

  23. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Should be 1-1 if Lingard wasn’t crap

    1. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      0-0 if ddg wasn't crap

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

        How the mighty have fallen.

      2. IRBOX ⚽
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

        DDG couldn’t do anything - Shaw was at fault

  24. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Go away United now, I need that city cleanie

  25. Cojiro
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 days 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, 2 days ago

      anewpla.net

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

      gargatron

      1. Cojiro
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

        Cheers, I'll have a look

    3. Cojiro
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      Cheers all

  26. Don Kloppeone
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days 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, 2 days ago

      Just hit the post

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

        I know. Watching. If only that earned points

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

      you aint a liv fan

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days 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, 2 days ago

      Then you are not a real fan

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

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

    4. Poseidon.
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      Your not a real fan bro

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days 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, 2 days ago

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

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

        Regretted it as soon as I wrote it 🙁

    6. El Matador
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      U should be ashamed to be a Liverpool fan

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

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

    7. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      FO

      1. The Mighty Hippo
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 days ago

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

    8. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

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

      1. Don Kloppeone
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 days 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, 2 days ago

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

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 days ago

      k

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

      Awesome!

  28. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    La(c)a looking likely?

  29. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Citeh getting a double cleanie in a DGW is just wrong

  30. aborg
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 days ago

    Lingard messes two good chances!