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Aguero, De Bruyne and Sterling start as Mendy and Cancelo are benched

Six Premier League matches get underway at 15:00 GMT today, with Liverpool and Manchester City among the dozen teams in action.

Sergio Aguero (£12.1m) has been named in Pep Guardiola’s starting XI for the first time in the league since Gameweek 8.

Just shy of 300,000 Fantasy managers sold the Argentina international in the lead-up to Gameweek 11.

Raheem Sterling (£12.1m), Kevin De Bruyne (£10.2m) and David Silva (£7.7m) also start.

Nicolas Otamendi (£5.4m), Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m), Benjamin Mendy (£6.0m) and Joao Cancelo (£5.3m) are the victims of Guardiola’s rotation roulette, however, with all four benched.

The Saints have made three changes from last Friday’s hammering by Leicester, with a switch of goalkeepers among the alterations.

Mohamed Salah (£12.4m) is fit to start and joins Roberto Firmino (£9.5m) and Sadio Mane (£11.9m) in a familiar-looking front three.

The Reds’ back four is unchanged, too.

Fabinho (£5.5m), who is on four yellow cards, is benched, with perhaps one eye on next weekend’s clash with Manchester City.

Jack Grealish (£5.9m) has not recovered a calf injury and misses out, with Anwar El Ghazi (£5.5m) replacing him.

Unai Emery has recalled Mesut Ozil (£7.2m) to his starting XI for the first time in the Premier League since Gameweek 5.

Nicolas Pepe (£9.3m) makes way for the German, while Granit Xhaka (£5.3m) is excluded from the matchday squad as expected.

Nuno Espirito Santo sticks with the side that started Wolves’ 1-1 draw at Newcastle last Sunday.

Todd Cantwell (£4.8m) has been benched for the first time this season, with Onel Hernandez (£5.3m) taking his place.

Graham Potter has named the same 11 players who started against Everton last Saturday, meanwhile.

West Ham are also unchanged from last weekend, while Steve Bruce recalls Isaac Hayden (£4.4m) and Jonjo Shelvey (£5.0m) for the Longstaff brothers.

There is only one change to the starting XIs at Bramall Lane, with Lys Mousset (£4.9m) replacing Callum Robinson (£5.3m) for the hosts.

Chris Wood (£6.2m) misses out again for Burnley.

Arsenal XI: Leno, Chambers, Papastathopoulos, Luiz, Tierney, Guendouzi, Torreira, Ozil, Ceballos, Lacazette, Aubameyang.

Wolves XI: Patricio, Dendoncker, Coady, Saiss, Doherty, Moutinho, Neves, Jonny, Traore, Jimenez, Jota.

Aston Villa XI: Heaton, Guilbert, Engels, Mings, Targett, McGinn, Nakamba, Douglas Luiz, El Ghazi, Trezeguet, Wesley.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Lovren, van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Lallana, Salah, Firmino, Mané.

Brighton XI: Ryan, Montoya, Webster, Dunk, Burn, Gross, Pröpper, Stephens, Alzate, Maupay, Connolly.

Norwich XI: Krul, Lewis, Godfrey, Tettey, Aarons, Trybull, Buendia, McLean, Stiepermann, Hernández, Pukki.

Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Fernandinho, Angelino, Gundogan, Silva, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero.

Southampton XI: McCarthy, Valery, Bednarek, Stephens, Vestergaard, Hojbjerg, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Armstrong, Ings, Redmond.

Sheffield United XI: Henderson, Basham, O’Connell, Egan, Baldock, Fleck, Lundstram, Norwood, Stevens, McGoldrick, Mousset.

Burnley XI: Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil, Rodriguez, Barnes.

West Ham XI: Roberto, Zabaleta, Balbuena, Diop, Cresswell, Rice, Yarmolenko, Noble, Snodgrass, Felipe Anderson, Haller.

Newcastle XI: Dubravka, Yedlin, Fernandez, Lascelles, Clark, Willems, Almiron, Hayden, Shelvey, Saint-Maximin, Joelinton.

2,302 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Sterling already 2 dispossessions

    1. @persecuted_by_mods
        4 years, 4 months ago

        World class players tend to lose the ball almost every time they touch it. These days at least

        1. Differentiator
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          *Worst class

      • Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Salah matching him there too.

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

      Southampton only played Man City on Tuesday. Southampton will have learnt how to keep it tight from that game.

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

        Good one

      2. Differential C (Mark)
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        You would think so.

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

      Solskjaer has now lost more PL games as a manager than Jurgen Klopp, despite taking charge of 104 fewer games.

      GGMU!

      1. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Just sent this into a group chat filled with utd fans ! 😆

    4. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I brought Sterling in because Mark said Mendy was nailed. If he hadnt given that advice I would have kept Salah. All the blame will be put on this site if Sterling (C) fails today...

      1. SB8
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Take responsibility for your team and actions!

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

          This

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

        No, the blame is on you. You don't have to listen to anything people say, you choose to.

      3. Pukki Blinders
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        100%

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

        You think a player just back from injury will play every game

        Particularly when there are two more important games ahead

      5. rozzo
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Thats why your rank is rubbish.

        Do your own thing not copy everyone else

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

          Always chasing

      6. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Good catch

      7. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        lol, good afternoon mate.

        1. Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Good evening, having a good Game week so far? I have 1 from 1 with our favorite troll C. Wilson!

          1. The Ejiptian King
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 4 months ago

            3 from 2 before the 3pms, Wilson and Martial, that Wilson booking disgusted me. You getting rid of him?

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

        Give a man a fish... teach a man to fish...

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

      Saints parking the bus. City finding it hard to penetrate

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

        Mood killer when that happens

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

          Always ruins the mood for me when the bus driver chucks us off.

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

            Wait. I dont know you IRL do I?

            Cos that happened to my mates literally the other night. Weird coincidence 😆

      2. Differential C (Mark)
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        They shoudl cross it towards the Left CB area. Jannik and Jack wont know how to head a ball.

    6. Monkey Hanger
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Ozil used to be 10.5mil in his heyday.

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

      Mendy will be on if this keeps up.

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

      Wesley should score but he forget to head the ball.

    9. Free Hat
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Theres still fluid in Salahs foot I reckon

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

        He’s not right at all.

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

        There is, but it’s easy to play with it still

      3. @persecuted_by_mods
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Yeah doesn't look right, however positionally way more central today thankfully

          1. Free Hat
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 4 months ago

            If only he would keep the ball now

        • Brosstan
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          I sure hope so for his sake.

      4. Jindaljain
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        10 minutes up no goals? Lol

      5. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Any goal yet?

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

          King G Smith A

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

          Noppppppppe

      6. WWF
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Sorry for advising to buy Martial everyone. My bad.

        1. Wild Rover
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          No worries, I didn’t

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

        Unable to watch the City game but Aston Villa should be ahead already against Liverpool, two great chances

        1. Dr Van Nostrand
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Nah just the one the 2nd chance was offside

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

        Salah is never going to score when he’s carrying around all that fluid!

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

          He will

        2. Free Hat
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          His actions arent really fluid...

      9. Differentiator
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Good ebening

      10. DAZZ
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Saints 1-0

      11. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        G SOTON!

      12. tm245
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Wow

      13. La Roja
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        JWP

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

        Hilarious

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

        JWP G
        Armstrong A

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

        Jeez 6 games almost a quarter of an hour in and no goals?

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

          lmfao timing

      17. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        OMG Ward Prowse

      18. Sif
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Hahaha!

      19. Forza Papac
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Banter

      20. HurriKane
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Ederson howler

      21. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        city looking so slow and nervous in the build up

      22. Monkey Hanger
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        JWP GOALLLLLLLLL

      23. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        That's what happens when you leave otamendi out. 🙂

        1. adibo
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Otamendi is bad

      24. El Matador
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Serves Pep right for benching Mendy

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

          Lol yesssss