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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. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    NO WAY

  2. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Not owning lundy is torture

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

      This. ridiculous tank drop coming up...

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

    OMG, Lunds again!!!!!!!

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

    sterling getting frustrated, yellow

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

    Lundy brace WOOOOOWWWWW

  6. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundstram G

    Sheffield Utd 2-0 Burnley

  7. twoplustwo
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Nearly benched Lundy

  8. J ⚒ Gimme ur Mané
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    LUNDY BABY!!

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

    Lundy on a triple!! Jesus

  10. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    IF OTA COMES ON IMA CRY

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

    Sterling yellow and if replaced by Mahrez half time would be disaster!

  12. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lord Lundstrum double

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

    Get our defenders on Pep!

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

    Lund, i adore you

  15. tm245
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundstram is FPL platinum.

  16. Clintymints
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!!!!!

  17. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundstram more like LundSTORM of FPL points. amirite guys?

  18. the Penman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Half expected this site to have crashed by now. Lundstram! 2 goals!

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

    These Man City defenders better come on and block Lund benchers.

    1. DantheManinaPan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Hehehe

  20. CloudSky
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundy already better than last years AWB.

    1. Tasty Jerk
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Yep, we done well getting £55 Million there, not same play for them.

  21. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundstraam!!!!

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

      Hatty?

  22. Stef rocks
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    OMG the king of FPL scores again - Lundi hatti incoming !!!

  23. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    NO WAY

  24. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundstram single handedly saving his owners

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

    Saints lose at home 9-0 and are now leading away against arguably the best team in the prem.mindboggling.

  26. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Pukes everywhere. No Lundstrom.

  27. Ha.
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Honest question: why would you not play Lundstram against Burnley at home?

    1. twoplustwo
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Yeah who knows

  28. Am sorry to say again it�…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    I saw someone on here who benched Lundstram and Mousset LOOOL

  29. R.C
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Mark didn't get Lundy

    Mark went for City and Pool def double

    Mark knows

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

    Everyone has him, points not much use

    1. All de Gea no iDier
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      1 in 3 not everybody. And some will have benched him