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Sterling, Mahrez and Aguero all start as City host Wolves

Three Premier League matches kick off simultaneously at 14:00 BST today, as the Europa League continues to play havoc with the domestic calendar.

Manchester City entertain Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Etihad, while Arsenal host Bournemouth and Chelsea make the trip to Southampton.

City are of course without the injured Kevin De Bruyne (£10.0m) for this clash but most of their other popular attacking assets start against Nuno Espirito Santo’s side, with Raheem Sterling (£12.1m), Sergio Aguero (£12.2m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.7m) making Guardiola’s starting XI.

Bernardo Silva (£7.9m) is benched, however, along with Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.5m).

Benjamin Mendy (£5.9m) is not in the squad after suffering a hamstring injury, so Joao Cancelo (£5.3m) looks set to deputise at left-back.

Mahrez was the most-bought player of Gameweek 8, having been acquired by just over 440,000 Fantasy Premier League managers.

Sterling and Aguero were the most-captained players of this weekend, with each City asset handed the armband by over 1.1 million FPL bosses.

Diogo Jota (£6.1m) misses out for the visitors with a toe injury.

Raul Jimenez (£7.1m) is joined up front by Patrick Cutrone (£5.7m) as Santo reverts to a 3-5-2, following his dalliance with a 3-4-3 in recent weeks.

Matt Doherty (£6.0m) is among the substitutes so Adama Traore (£5.0m) plays at right wing-back.

Mason Mount (£6.7m) and Tammy Abraham (£7.6m) both make Frank Lampard’s starting XI at St. Mary’s with Fikayo Tomori (£4.7m) earning his fifth straight league start at centre-back.

N’Golo Kante (£5.0m) is fit to line up in central midfield, while Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5.9m) gets his first league start of the campaign.

The Saints bring in Yan Valery (£4.8m) and Shane Long (£4.7m) for Cedric Soares (£4.9m) and Sofiane Boufal (£5.5m).

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) keeps up his ever-present record in the Premier League this season, while there is another start for youngster Bukayo Saka (£4.5m).

Dani Ceballos (£5.5m) replaces Lucas Torreira (£4.8m) in Unai Emery’s only change from the 1-1 draw with Manchester United last Monday.

Ryan Fraser (£7.1m) has recovered from the illness that forced him to sit out Gameweek 7 but is only among the substitutes at the Emirates.

Eddie Howe has named an unchanged starting XI from the 2-2 draw with West Ham United, meaning another run-out down the left flank for Joshua King (£6.3m).

Dominic Solanke (£5.4m) again supports Callum Wilson (£7.9m) in attack.

The only three FPL assets who are yet to blank this season – Wilson, Aubameyang and Aguero – are all in action this afternoon.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Chambers, Papastathopoulos, Luiz, Kolasinac, Ceballos, Xhaka, Guendouzi, Pepe, Aubameyang, Saka.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, Stacey, Cook, Ake, Rico, H. Wilson, Lerma, Billing, King, C. Wilson, Solanke.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Cancelo, Rodrigo, Gundogan, D Silva, Sterling, Mahrez, Aguero.

Wolves XI: Rui Patrício, Boly, Coady, Saïss, Traoré, Dendoncker, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Rúben Vinagre, Jiménez, Cutrone.

Southampton XI: Gunn, Valery, Bednarek, Yoshida, Bertrand, Romeu Vidal, Højbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Redmond, Ings, Long.

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Azpilicueta, Zouma, Tomori, Alonso, Jorginho, Kante, Mount, Willian, Hudson-Odoi, Abraham.

2,355 Comments Post a Comment
  1. SB007
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundstram kelly dunk emerging as essentials on consistency basis.

  2. teneighty
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    As a non owner of Auba and Sterling this gameweek could have gone a lot worse.

    1. SB007
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      This

      1. FPL Forward Thinker
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        This again

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

      Neat way to put it instead of lol @auba and sterling owners which you really meant 😉

    3. Karhumies
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Auba(C), Aguero(VC), 47 points overall and green arrows everywhere. I have very mixed feelings about this GW.

  3. Cok3y5murf
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lost to Norwich and a fatigued Wolves. Joke club.

    Facing their bogey club up next as well

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

    So proud of my 6 points from my triple City.

    1. SB007
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      I’m proud of my 4. Watch the casuals rise in rank!!

      1. SB007
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Correction. 3. Zinc got me a zero.

        Happy for my Pukki point now!!

      2. FPL Forward Thinker
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        To be fair : the casuals own the big premier assets too

  5. Ask Yourself
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    3 bats willy
    2 abraham

  6. TAT
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    33 points all out. Any worse?

    This sure decides playing the WC or not…

    1. FourLokoLeipzig
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Think that’s fine this week

      1. TAT
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Everywhere I look in my mini leagues, there are people with 45+ points…

  7. Jimmy Boy
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    What an awful GW. Not even Auba could save me this time

    1. bench boost for every gamew…
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      I knew city would struggle and put armband on auba but nothing goes this season. Before i made move from kun to auba mane was cap. Well. Liverpool 8 points ahead. Wow

  8. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Sterling cappers, yet another fail.

    Salah will be back 🙂

  9. Manani
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    don't think i will be keeping Ota for my WC lol.

    think KDB will be my only city for a while

  10. Boomerang V
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    37 points on WC

    This can’t be happening 🙁

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

      How you looking?

      1. Boomerang V
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Team is linked. I guess I will take a fpl time off until IB is over. Too depressing

  11. Emiliano Sala
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    At least my captain didn't blank
    Pepe(C) 12 points lol

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Well done!

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

      Gg

    3. Arteta
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      That's actually huge this gw. Well played!

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

      Wow. Well played

    5. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      3 goals along with your captain returns

      Good job: green arrow for you

  12. FC Hakkebøf
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    49 pts and captain fail. Yet still enough to go from OR: 245k to 118k

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      49 is good this week.

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        i have 49, before my -12 🙁

    2. villa_til_i_die
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      How do you work your rank out already?

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        livefpl

        1. villa_til_i_die
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Cheers guys

      2. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Live.flp

    3. villa_til_i_die
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      41 after baps, green or red?

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        green

        1. villa_til_i_die
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Hope so!

        2. FPL Forward Thinker
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          This

      2. FPL_Crisis
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Well I got a dismal 31 and went from 26k to 60k

    4. Party time
        4 years, 5 months ago

        51 points with captain fail, I will gladfully take that

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

      Aublank is a lovely sight.

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Aubamablank

      2. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        It is not

      3. Business Cat
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        It's absolutely beautiful. Especially when paired with Callum Wilson's first blank of the year 😎

    6. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      How are KDB sellers getting on?

      Hard to believe he was only 9 points behind the scores of Mahrez, Son, Sterling, Auba and Kun combined... always looked a dodgy transfer tbf

      Norwich & Wolves both beat Man City without him too, something tells me city can’t get him back quick enough 😉

      1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Fine if fpl let him drop so I don't lose more than .1 . On wc so nowt to lose

        1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          It was an almost zero risk move on WC to be fair

      2. Qaiss
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Hows your rank getting on Maximus?

        1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          All the better for not engaging in the madness that seemed to engulf certain KDB owners last week 😉

          (note:CERTAIN owners, not ALL owners - there were some scenarios where it may have made sense, wildcards etc)

          1. Qaiss
            • 8 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            I agree on the last part 😉 was a mistake but ah well, hope he drops in price tonight

      3. villa_til_i_die
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Keeping KDB, someone will pay for this, just hope it ain’t villa in 3 wks time!!

        1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
          • 14 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Id imagine there’s another 8 or 9-0 backlash bubbling now for the coming GW’s - with KDB pulling the strings in all likelihood

      4. Pacer.
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Yeh KdB out a massive fail. 2 transfers wasted

    7. Party time
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Very good for Pep. I am so delighted

        1. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Knighthood for you

      • Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Cue the Liverpool haters who'll think it's a fix. Somehow!

      • Bartowski
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        That quite frankly is a f*cking ridiculous result. And a very good reason to never bet on football.

        1. Not again Shirley
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          You are absolutely correct. Had a conversation with a mate the other day about betting and said you will only win at betting if bet high on low odds but the Man City games against Norwich and today stress that is also bad idea. For example, I was thinking of sticking tonne on city not to lose and that would have reaped winnings of about 8 quid!

          The Celtic game today also confirms the massive favs don’t always win.

      • Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Got to love it when Ceballos scores more than Trent, Sterling, Salah, Aguero and Auba. Jesus

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

          And when will that happen ? In Fantasy land ?

      • Party time
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Cool kids did Salah > Sterling yesterday

        • FPL ElasticO
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Which premium options should we consider??
          City are inconsistent, Liverpool are not in-flow & no other better options in FPL.

          1. Business Cat
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Liverpool 8 wins from 8...not in the flow!?

            1. FPL ElasticO
              • 9 Years
              4 years, 5 months ago

              I mean not winning comfortably ..... CS not coming as well.

        • Salah’s Sonnet
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Season over after 8 gameweeks in, worst season ever in the whole entirety of the game.

          1. FPL ElasticO
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Yes absolutely....you can't build your team around any proper consistent premium assets as was there in the previous seasons....

        • Pacer.
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Just rage transferred

          Sterling to Mane
          Pukki to Abraham

          Had exact change

          Hairy IB for me

        • diesel001
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Pep will still be 'so happy' after the game though.

        • Ask Yourself
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          This GW looked to be 100+ Potential when I saw the fixtures. Lol.

          1. FPL ElasticO
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Premium players are not up to the mark & City are nothing without KDB proved twice....

        • Eat my goal!
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          All set for Utd to close the gap to second!

          1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
            • 13 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Lol

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

            😀

          3. TAT
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Typical Ole luck will help him again.

        • Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Pep's at the wheel.

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

            😀

          2. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Smashed into Poch whilst both rubber backing the debrit of Ole's bus that plunged off the cliff after the Chelsea game

            1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
              • 14 Years
              4 years, 5 months ago

              * rubber necking

              1. Epic Fail
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 13 Years
                4 years, 5 months ago

                Rubber backing 😀

                1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
                  • 14 Years
                  4 years, 5 months ago

                  Hahaha

        • HTL
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Traore essential

        • FOO FIGHTER
          • 4 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          I think Pep is kicking himself now as the KDB 'injury' could have been a ploy for him not to play for Belguim. I do not think Pep will be keen on resting KDB again after this result lol.

          1. tm370
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            He is obviously injured