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Sterling and Bernardo benched as Guardiola starts both Aguero and Jesus

The final match of Gameweek 22 sees Aston Villa play host to Manchester City. Kick-off at Villa Park is at 16:30 GMT.

Ever the slippery one with his team selections, Pep Guardiola has sprung another surprise by naming both Sergio Aguero (£11.8m) and Gabriel Jesus (£9.5m) in the starting XI for the first time in the Premier League this season.

That spells bad news for Raheem Sterling (£11.8m), who is benched for the second successive Gameweek; that previously hadn’t happened this season or last.

Bernardo Silva (£7.8m) and Kyle Walker (£5.8m) also drop to the bench after their run-outs in the Manchester derby in midweek.

Kevin De Bruyne (£10.6m) starts his 14th Premier League game in a row.

Dean Smith has handed Danny Drinkwater (£4.4m) an Aston Villa debut and understandably looks to be treating this game with a lot of caution, sacrificing Trezeguet (£5.2m) from what had been a 3-4-3 in Gameweek 21.

Frederic Guilbert (£4.4m) is only among the substitutes, while Matt Targett (£4.4m) remains out injured.

Jack Grealish (£6.5m) is again handed an advanced role in the hosts’ attack, along with Anwar El Ghazi (£5.5m).

Grealish was the most-bought Fantasy Premier League midfielder of Gameweek 22.

De Bruyne is the second-most-popular captaincy choice this weekend and was handed the armband by 17.98% of the top 10,000 FPL managers.

Grealish and De Bruyne are the only two players on show at Villa Park who have double-digit ownerships within the top 10k.


Man City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Fernandinho, Stones, Mendy, Rodrigo, D Silva, De Bruyne, Mahrez, Jesus, Aguero.

Aston Villa XI: Nyland, Konsa, Mings, Hause, Elmohamady, Luiz, Drinkwater, Hourihane, Taylor, Grealish, El Ghazi.

2,333 Comments Post a Comment
  1. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Villa Pen

  2. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Lol dive?

  3. MITHRRANDIRR
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Will Grealish take it?

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

      No

  4. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Bottom of my ML was out of it and decided to throw a hail mary, WC'd to a forward line of Aguero(C), Jesus and Rash, he's on 104 lol.

  5. Fishy
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Kdb and vardy to mahrez and aguero for 2 fts???

  6. FPL ZB
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Captained my second lowest scorer in Vardy. Even in a good week I can’t get a captain right! Makes dropping someone in order to afford Alisson tricky too

    1. bench boost for every gamew…
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Same here. Ang grealish off pens. Uh

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

    Oh ffs

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

    If Grealish misses...

  9. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    What’s Jack doing????????

  10. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    El ghazi on pens

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

    KDB cleanie locked!

  12. TheDragon
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Grealish not taking it!!!

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      lol oh ffs

  13. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    El ghazi taking the pen. Grealish owners in tears lol.

    1. Vlad Tepes
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      ...

  14. Pukki Party
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Grealish not taking it

    1. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Brilliant

  15. Coys96
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Are you being serious? Grealish isn't taking

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

    i wanted to take a short 2 week punt on either mahrez, richarlison or madisson.

    Guess which one I chose?

  17. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Give the pen for the fans who stayed

  18. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Grealish isnt on pens

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

    This would be serious jam but I expect him to miss

    1. sunzip14
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 3 months ago

      Yes he missed to take it

  20. The_Fish
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    I thought not having KDB as captain, Kun or Mahrez would be a big rank killer. Only dropped from 17k to 21k.

  21. pedro-tacuara
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Ironically, Pep roulette saving the day: Sterling (c) KDB (VC) and Mahrez (i've owned for 3 gw's). Aguero is the best tho, what a goalscorer.

  22. Zladan
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    Trez hitting.
    Rival owns Mendy.

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

      Oooh El Ghazi even

  23. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    He could be grabbing that as captain and wanting in the England squad

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

    Hahahaha

  25. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    give it to grealish u dumbo

  26. Stupendous
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    90 mins ago Aguero wasn't nailed.
    After 90 mins today Aguero still isn't nailed.

    Nobody should be rushing to scrap their team up to bring him in, regardless of how amazing he is!

  27. Dirty Harry
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    And at this point so literally have no idea what to do with my struggling red arrow team

  28. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    El ghazi g

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

    El Ghazi G

  30. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 3 months ago

    El ghazi triple cappers happy