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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Also coming out of the side is Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m), who has been replaced by the returning Bernardo Silva (£8.0m).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
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    We need to talk about Kevin

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

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

      1. Ritchies Magic Hat
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

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

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

          Neat! Great top post.

  2. FPL Dakes
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Tempting to ditch Salah in favour of KDB

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

      Mane*

  3. el polako
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Form is temporary KDB is permanent.

    Thanks Kev 😉

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

      You're welcome

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

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

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

    Too much options

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

      * many

  6. Business Cat
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

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

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

    season-keeper, KDB!

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

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

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

      Tony?

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

        Tony Martial

  9. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

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

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

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

      I'd wait until gw6 for pukki

      1. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

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

    2. S.Kuqi
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        I just did a straight Salah to Raz swap.

    3. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Pretty good moves

  10. N00B
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Why we dont have 3 City players in our squads ?

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

      We do

    2. Moose™
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Rotation risk?

    3. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      1 only

    4. Rock n Grohl
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

  11. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

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

  12. JONALDINHO
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

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

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

      ok

  13. FPL Dakes
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Foregoing Salah you can have KDB Sterling Son 11.0fwd

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

      Sold

    2. Pumpkinhead
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I mean you could have Salah or Sterling

    3. tucaoneo
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

    4. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Thinking of a straight Salah > Raz swap myself.

      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        And done.

      2. Dont_Win_Friends_With_Salah…
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Me too

    5. PogChamp
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

      1. PogChamp
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Sterling, KDB, Auba, Martial.

  14. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month 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™
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month 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
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

      1. Moose™
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Need to act fast, Pukki is gonna rise tomorrow.

        1. Pumpkinhead
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month 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
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month 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
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month 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
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    King to Pukki, fixtures be damned?

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

      k

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

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

        1. Business Cat
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Like Blackpool did all those years ago

    3. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I would

    4. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month 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
        5 years, 1 month ago

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

  18. Littlefish92
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Kane to kun could be on the cards hmm

    1. Bobby Digital
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Not with NEW coming up.

  19. sirmorbach
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month 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
      5 years, 1 month ago

      B

    2. Hulk Smash
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

      1. Crystal Alice
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Ceballos was man of the match

  20. Rainer
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    There's Harry!

  21. twoplustwo
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Gwan KDB lad

  22. Kushal
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy and fraser

  23. Avo24
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

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

  24. Kushal
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month 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
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Aye

    2. sirmorbach
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      You just gave me an idea.

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

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

      weak forward line

    4. EMBOLOFAN
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      lol vardy has 2 amazing fixtures

  25. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Not falling into the KDB trap again

    1. Drexl Spivey
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      When was he ever a trap?

      1. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

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

        1. Drexl Spivey
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Last year, yeah.

          2017-18: 209 points, no injuries.

          2016-17: 199 points, 31 days off.

    2. have you seen cyan
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month 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
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      The golden trap that's 200pts deep?

  26. TAT
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month 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
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Why digne unflagged?

    1. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      He is flagged but hidden somehow

  28. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

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

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

      wrong

    2. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

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

      1. SADIO SANÉ
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Like Pukki at home to Newcastle?

        1. Yank Revolution
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

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

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

      Referring to Pukki? KDB?

  29. BENOIT
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Best striker for 6.9?

    Pukki? Barnes? Other?

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Both

  30. Rainer
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Stop it, Kevin!