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Jesus absent from City squad as Aguero gets his first league start in a month

The final match of Gameweek 19 takes place this evening, with Wolverhampton Wanderers in action against Manchester City.

Kick-off at Molineux is at 19:45 GMT.

There are no shocks from Nuno Espirito Santo, who names the same team for the fifth game running.

Indeed, over the last ten Gameweeks (including this one), Romain Saiss (£4.4m) is the only member of the starting XI who isn’t an ever-present – and even he only missed out in Gameweek 14 due to suspension.

That means that Adama Traore (£5.3m), Raul Jimenez (£7.5m) and Diogo Jota (£6.1m) again form a three-man attack for the hosts, who appear to be in their usual 3-4-3 set-up.

There is an unexpected absentee in the Manchester City squad, with Gabriel Jesus (£9.6m) not involved due to illness.

In his place, Sergio Aguero (£11.7m) makes his first league start in over a month.

Aguero had been absent until last weekend with a groin injury but had a brief cameo at the Etihad as Pep Guardiola’s side beat Leicester City 3-1.

The only other change to the City starting XI sees Rodri (£5.4m) recalled, with Ilkay Gundogan (£5.2m) dropping to the bench.

Kevin De Bruyne (£10.5m) and Raheem Sterling (£11.8m) start again for the visitors, who face Sheffield United in less than 48 hours time.

Wolves’ Gameweek 20 fixture is at Anfield on Sunday, meanwhile.

Santo’s troops won the reverse fixture of this game 2-0, with Traore and Jimenez both registering double-digit hauls after combining for Wolves’ two goals.

De Bruyne missed that game through injury and it remains the one league fixture that City haven’t scored in this season.


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

Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Mendy, Rodri, Mahrez, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Sterling, Aguero.

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  1. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    So so so lucky. Sterling is awful there. How the hell do you miss twice

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Pretty easy if you are crap at penalties.

    2. Nat89
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Cant believe he scored the tap in....it was more than 3 yards out!

  2. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    2 PM on FPL for Sterling currently 😆

  3. Mo Mane Mo Salah
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Sterling, tap in king.

  4. More Cowbell
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Can someone fill me in. Raheem missed 2 pens and has now scored?

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Scored rebound on his retake

    2. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Yes

    3. BIG TONES
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Yes but the first one doesn't count irl or in fpl due to retake

  5. nerd_is_the_werd
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Happy Sterling owner, let's hope he scores a couple more!

    1. Nat89
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      He is absolutely trash mate

  6. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Sterling (C). Rash. Greenwood. No Vardy.

    Mark simply knows

  7. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    At least nobody serious has Sterling

    1. HurriKane
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Mark has him captain

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

        Exactly. Nobody serious

      2. Woy_is_back
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        He has a bad or though

    2. Predator
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Your history is not serious either

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        OK that was good :p

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

    Imagine that was flipped with Mane winning the pen & Salah retakes.

    LiVARpool....

    Pep would implode 😀

    1. Tempestic
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Yeh for real...

  9. Hy liverpool
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Wolbes fans singing.. F off VAR

    1. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      It has been sung by plenty of other fans

  10. Regin
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Change this crap encroachment rule!!!! It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Now i go out if the cup due to a crap senseless rule! How is having a boot O.5 mm a disadvantage to the penalty taker? It wasn't even a penalty to begin with. They just wanna keep the title race alive. Beat this cheating city team. C'mon wolves

    1. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      It's crazy, Bilva was encroaching about 2 yards yet Wolves get massively punished (pen retake) for barely having a foot in. Joke

      1. Nat89
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        He clearly isnt in box if you watch replay

        1. Nat89
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Bilva i mean

      2. @persecuted_by_mods
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Not true man, why are people so biased

      3. Scoop77
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Saying having a boot 0.5mm over is ok is like saying if the ball is 0.5mm over the line it shouldn’t count as a goal. There has to be a line and there has to be a law

    2. theoldgit
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Pep rotation after playing with 10 for most of the match

    3. camarozz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Anything happening in city game?

      Am I missing much?

      1. tucaoneo
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        The usual. Sterling scored a tap-in.

    4. fantasyfog
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      let's go wolves (jimmy)

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

      Pep was absolutely livid even when sterling scored in second attempt after he told to change pen taker

      Sterling going to get dropped next gw for sure

    6. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      What drama in the first 25 minutes alone.

    7. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      So what do we think KDB captainers ? Lost chance ?

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Nah game will open up more now - Wolves need to chase

      2. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        It's not good let's face it

      3. Yank Revolution
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        I fear we will not be juhuuing today

    8. BobB
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      B Silva encroached the retake....so it only applies to defenders?

      1. Feanor
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        It only applies to players who touch the ball after the penalty is saved.

        1. Nat89
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Exactly, if a player he had not encroached cleared then would have played on and no retake

    9. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Raheem is a joke

      1. Camino Aleatorio
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Universally detested player

    10. CheesyZoot
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Could we be in for record first half injury time?

    11. Bucket_
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      That was absolutely, utterly farcical.

    12. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Sterling keeps piling up bps.

    13. Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Kdb captainer checking in 🙂
      Ah I see...

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

      If Coady shaved his head, its no re-take 😀

    15. Brosstan
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      How is this trashlord on penalties...

    16. Railwayman
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Still can't believe KDB isn't even the fourth in line for penalties, how is that possible dear God...

    17. WVA
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Does anyone still think this game isn't all luck?

      1. Railwayman
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        This week most certainly is.

        1. WVA
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          Every week is

      2. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Partly, you'd like to think over 38 gameweeks it evens out

        1. WVA
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          No way

    18. Woy_is_back
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      KDB playing too deep 🙁

      1. Camino Aleatorio
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Thank MCI’s low IQ keeper for getting a red card

        I think Ederson would be trash collector if not a footballer

        He would walk around picking up plastic bags while listening to hip-hop

    19. FCSB
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Just want to make this weeks moves so that I can stop thinking about it and put my mind at rest:

      1. Henderson >> Ramsdale
      2. Kelly Tammy >> TAA Greenwood [-4]

      Note: if 2 then I will do 1 next week.

      Thanks
      Henderson
      Aurier Soyuncu Rico
      KDB Mane Salah Grealish
      Abraham Vardy Jimenez

      McGovern Kelly Lundstram Dendoncker

      Cheers

    20. BENOIT
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      As shambolic as VAR is, they corrected Dean's mistake. Mahrez clearly had his foot trodden on.

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

        VAR did its job twice.

      2. Feanor
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        And I don't blame the ref for missing it in real time.

      3. Collie01
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        But he also dived.

        1. g40steve
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 3 months ago

          You would dive if some stood on your foot while running?

      4. Camino Aleatorio
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        Dive - I would have given a Mahrez a straight red for wasting my time.

      5. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        The idiots in the cometary box missed it.

    21. SteJ
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Penalty probably right, his foot was stood on.
      Retake for encroachment looks incorrect for me

      1. Feanor
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        It wasn't incorrect. The encroaching player who cleared the ball after the save.

      2. Predator
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 3 months ago

        You are wrong