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Aguero returns to Man City starting line-up

Sergio Aguero (£12.0m) returns to the Manchester City starting line-up as Tottenham Hotspur come to the Etihad Stadium.

The Argentinian striker comes in for Gabriel Jesus (£9.5m), who drops to the bench.

Also coming out of the side is Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m), who has been replaced by the returning Bernardo Silva (£8.0m).

Pep Guardiola has opted not to rotate his full-backs though as both Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.5m) and Kyle Walker (£6.0m) retain their starting berths.

However, John Stones (£5.5m) drops out of the side altogether with a rectus femoris strain, so Nicolas Otamendi (£5.4m) comes in at centre-back.

Opponents Spurs have made just one change from the team that beat Aston Villa and it’s hard to argue that it’s the right one.

Christian Eriksen (£9.0m) featured only as a substitute in Gameweek 1 and transformed Spurs’ fortunes when he came onto the pitch.

Therefore, Mauricio Pochettino has put him back into the starting line-up for Gameweek 2, Lucas Moura (£7.5m) the man to make way.

Man City XI: Ederson; Zinchenko, Laporte, Otamendi, Walker; De Bruyne, Gündogan, Rodrigo; Sterling, Aguero, B Silva.

Spurs XI: Lloris; Rose, D Sánchez, Alderweireld, Walker-Peters; Ndombele, Sissoko, Winks; Eriksen, Lamela; Kane.

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  1. Ritchies Magic Hat
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    We need to talk about Kevin

    1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      We've been talking about him since pre-season. Catch up.

      1. Ritchies Magic Hat
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Yeah that’s why I’ve had in my team thanks!

        1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Neat! Great top post.

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

    Tempting to ditch Salah in favour of KDB

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

      Mane*

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

    Form is temporary KDB is permanent.

    Thanks Kev 😉

    1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You're welcome

  4. RealVirg
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Come on Bernardo pls don't be threatened, show that you are more than useless!

  5. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Too much options

    1. Ha.
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      * many

  6. Business Cat
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Is Lloris ever going to dive to try and make a save?

  7. seewhyaxe
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    season-keeper, KDB!

    1. gooberman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Until he gets injured again! Absolute bargain at 9.5m if he can stay fit. Big question mark over his fitness though. He broke down so often last season.

  8. LǝgleSs e|even
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Rubbish gw,
    Keeping Fraser instead of bringing Tony in was the biggest mistake.

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

      Tony?

      1. Mrcjcullen
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Tony Martial

  9. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Kinda want to keep KdB around now. How’s this for a -4?

    Auba, Wilson and Donk >>> Pukki, Sterling and Greenwood

    1. JONALDINHO
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I'd wait until gw6 for pukki

      1. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        ...he'll be 7.5m by then!

    2. S.Kuqi
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Doing something similar. Want to keep Kdb and bring Sterling in

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        I just did a straight Salah to Raz swap.

    3. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Pretty good moves

  10. N00B
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Why we dont have 3 City players in our squads ?

    1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      We do

    2. Moose™
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Rotation risk?

    3. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      1 only

    4. Rock n Grohl
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      KDB, Sterling and defender between now and 11 looks prosperous. Can't wait.

  11. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Need Son and KDB...but the numbers don’t add up

  12. JONALDINHO
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    KDB and Sterling(C) saving me after triple pool fail.

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      ok

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

    Foregoing Salah you can have KDB Sterling Son 11.0fwd

    1. Ha.
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Sold

    2. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I mean you could have Salah or Sterling

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

      Salah + Fraser > Son + KDB + 1.0 I'm thinking.

    4. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Thinking of a straight Salah > Raz swap myself.

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        And done.

      2. Dont_Win_Friends_With_Salah…
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Me too

    5. PogChamp
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      That's what i did but went Martial not Son.

      1. PogChamp
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Sterling, KDB, Auba, Martial.

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

    City's commitment to maintaining high standards is impressive.

    As they say - "you don't rise to the level of your expectations, you fall to the level of your training."

  15. Moose™
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Need to replace Digne (injury), Guilbert (missing), Robbo/VVD (to get a City Def and No Allison), Greenwood (to get Pukki in).

    Too kneejerky?

    1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You don't even know how hurt Digne is yet.

      1. Moose™
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Need to act fast, Pukki is gonna rise tomorrow.

        1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Pukki 'might' rise tomorrow on 64 right now. If you need to make all those moves just to get Pukki in not only did you not get his hat trick but you're also starting GW3 off down 8pts

    2. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      yes knee jerky, digne was on the pitch walkign around at the end. He is one of my main targets to bring in and you thinking of dropping him. If you have playign bench player than keep for sure. You will kick yourself if he is fine, or at least wait until team news at end of next week

  16. Guy Demel
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    This is good there's plenty of premium options to open the season - you can't have them all, which has been missing the last few seasons which had only a handful of premium picks performing, everyone had the ones scoring points

  17. Jay Jay Okocha
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    King to Pukki, fixtures be damned?

    1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      k

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

      Yes. Norwich play attacking football. They take the approach that the PL is full of weak teams that they can outscore and if they lose to the big boys then at least they will make it match.

      1. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Love that mindset. Wish more teams like Norwich adopted it.

        1. Business Cat
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Like Blackpool did all those years ago

    3. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      I would

    4. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Too late imo don't chase points. Wait till fixtures get better.
      Unless you're chasing the prise rise

      1. Nomar
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Do you not think that he is capable of scoring against anyone?

  18. Littlefish92
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Kane to kun could be on the cards hmm

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Not with NEW coming up.

  19. sirmorbach
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    If you had 0.5 itb and wanted to do Greenwood-Pukki, would you do
    (a) VVD-Montoya
    (b) Fraser-Ceballos
    (c) Keep both, wait

    1. Crystal Alice
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      B

    2. Hulk Smash
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      B could be a goer but I didn't watch the Arsenal match

      1. Crystal Alice
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Ceballos was man of the match

  20. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    There's Harry!

  21. twoplustwo
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Gwan KDB lad

  22. Kushal
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Vardy and fraser

  23. Avo24
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Salah-> KDB
    Wilson-> Kane
    the temptation is real

  24. Kushal
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Vardy fraser > Kdb Pukki

    Gives me attack of
    Kdb sterling salah trossard
    Wilson pukki

    Should i Pull the trigger?

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Aye

    2. sirmorbach
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      You just gave me an idea.

      But I'll wait and see how Vardy does tomorrow.

    3. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      weak forward line

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

      lol vardy has 2 amazing fixtures

  25. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Not falling into the KDB trap again

    1. Drexl Spivey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      When was he ever a trap?

      1. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        When he gets injured so often...not to say he will again, but...

        1. Drexl Spivey
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Last year, yeah.

          2017-18: 209 points, no injuries.

          2016-17: 199 points, 31 days off.

    2. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      what traps that, the one where you get suffocated with points? 😀
      But yea sucks, last season I had him triple captain for the double GW when he went off injured at 17mins first game, that really hurt

    3. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      The golden trap that's 200pts deep?

  26. TAT
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Wilson, Fraser + one out of TAA/VvD > Pukki, KdB, 6.9/6.4 or less defender?

    All for a -4, obviously.

  27. Emiliano Sala
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Why digne unflagged?

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      He is flagged but hidden somehow

  28. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    All the FPL pundits who said to be patient (and not aggressive) are muppets.

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

      wrong

    2. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Targeted aggression is the way to do well in this game.

      1. SADIO SANÉ
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 7 months ago

        Like Pukki at home to Newcastle?

        1. Yank Revolution
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 7 months ago

          Precisely. That was a Talent+Form meets Easy Fixture target with a little risk, but worth a shot.

    3. IRBOX ⚽
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Referring to Pukki? KDB?

  29. BENOIT
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Best striker for 6.9?

    Pukki? Barnes? Other?

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 7 months ago

      Both

  30. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 7 months ago

    Stop it, Kevin!