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

    I knew I should have captained Vardy

  2. Tambling5
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lundy first on bench! Don't bring on Mendy , Pep. Foden and Mahrez please, but not for Kun!

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

      Enjoy the Lundstram points!

      1. Tambling5
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Thanks phew!

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

    Villa are all over Liverpool, lol

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

    Am I crazy to think that Ben Mee is better than VVD?

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

    Doherty limping

    1. Marvin Moon
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Nobody cares about Doherty anymore. Lundstrum has usurped him.

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

    Salah off. Fail.

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

    Mousst off
    Sharp on

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

      Already on this train.

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

    Origi and ox coming on

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

    omg I just realised I could get a lesser spotted Heaton cs today 😀

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

      Ox worldie incoming

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

    Team 8
    Bench 35

    🙁 🙁

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

      Rough.

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

    There I was getting optimistic

  12. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Just get saves, Pope. A pen save even.

  13. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Origi to save them again

  14. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Salah off

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

    Need Mendy to stay on the bench. Any chance?

    1. DF
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Nah

  16. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Salah get out of my team yah waste of space...

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

      Ballsy

    2. Taking the Mkhitaryan
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Absolute witch doctor

    3. Danno - Emre Canada
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Lessons

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

      Mark has been usurped

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

    Bayern getting hammered 5-1, Barcelona losing. Crazy day

  18. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Can I give this whole week a red card?

  19. Egg noodle
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    TAA is such a liability

    1. Egg noodle
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      In fpl

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

    Mendy & Mahrez needed Pep!

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

      That’s not how you spell Otamendi

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

    Lundstram on to beat Vardy's points from last GW!

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

    Aguero puts a header over the bar

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Ffssssss

  23. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    0, 1, 2 for Kun since I got him on WC rather than go for Vardy.

    Captained the last 2. Lovely stuff. I know what move I’m making

  24. Bartowski
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Should've captained Nakamba

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

    Mendy needed

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

    Mendy looking warm

  27. MiLK2018
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Is Pope to Gazzaniga a good move?

    1. grumpyman
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Wish I had your team Pope out is about my 7th ranked fire to put out.

  28. hueycho
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Aguero cant handle the pressure....sigh...

  29. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Lucky pen is the only way City score here.

    1. Marvin Moon
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      And Liverpool by the looks of it.

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

      Technically, this isn’t true