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Aguero starts for much-changed City as Guardiola benches De Bruyne

Pep Guardiola has rung the changes for the final match of Double Gameweek 30+, which kicks off at the Etihad at 20:00 BST.

Burnley are the visitors to Eastlands, where Manchester City defeated Arsenal five days ago.

There are only three surviving members of Guardiola’s starting XI from that 3-0 win over the Gunners, with Ederson (£6.0m), David Silva (£7.3m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m) keeping their places.

That means that Kevin De Bruyne (£10.6m) and Raheem Sterling (£11.7m) are both rotated out of the side, with the two premium Fantasy Premier League midfielders only among the substitutes.

Sergio Aguero (£11.8m) gets his chance up front, meanwhile, with Gabriel Jesus (£9.6m) making way.

Aymeric Laporte (£6.3m), Kyle Walker (£5.6m), Benjamin Mendy (£5.5m), Ilkay Gundogan (£5.2m) and Eric Garcia (£4.5m) are the other City starters from midweek who drop out of the City line-up, with all bar the concussed Garcia on the bench.

Guardiola has changed his entire back four, with Joao Cancelo (£5.1m), Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.2m), Fernandinho (£5.1m) and Nicolas Otamendi (£4.9m) tasked with keeping Burnley at bay.

Phil Foden (£5.1m), Bernardo Silva (£7.7m) and Rodri (£5.5m) are also recalled further forward.

Sean Dyche’s side are missing the sidelined Chris Wood and Ashley Barnes (both £6.1m), so Matej Vydra (£5.3m) and Jay Rodriguez (£5.7m) are paired together in attack for the visitors.

Josh Brownhill (£4.8m) makes his first Premier League start, while Matthew Lowton (£4.2m) returns from an enforced lay-off at right-back.

Not only are Burnley hit by injury, they are also without four players whose contracts are due to expire at the end of the month: Joe Hart (£4.2m), Jeff Hendrick (£5.4m), Aaron Lennon (£4.6m) and Phil Bardsley (£4.3m) are not even among the substitutes as doubts linger over their futures.

Four academy products make it onto Dyche’s under-strength bench as a result, with two goalkeepers among the seven substitutes that the Burnley boss has named.

De Bruyne is the most-captained player of Double Gameweek 30+ both overall and within the top 10k.

Over half of the managers inside the top 10,000 handed the armband to the Belgian.

Aguero was captained by 26.74% of those elite managers, meanwhile.


Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Otamendi, Fernandinho, Zinchenko, Rodrigo, D Silva, Foden, Bernardo, Mahrez, Aguero.

Burnley XI: Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor, Brownhill, Westwood, Cork, McNeil, Rodriguez, Vydra.

Double Gameweek 30+ FPL Lessons Learned

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  1. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Let's bleedin go Kev!

  2. Mikeharbrw
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Think Mahrez made 60 because Dyche subs went first lol

  3. Legendary!
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Did Mahrez make 60?

    1. Peter Ouch
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      just

      1. Legendary!
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Phew

  4. Twisted Saltergater
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Yay, 2 extra points for KdB

    1. Pat Bonner
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Sure he’ll get involved in the points soon enough

  5. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Flashbacks to Cedric-gate 😆

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

    YES KDB

  7. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Nope Mahrez went off at 59mins

    1. Hect.OR 98th
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Shame, can't complain about two goals and an assist in a DGW

    2. Mikeharbrw
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      He was on the pitch when skys clock was 60

    3. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Was still on the pitch at 60:02

  8. FPL_Devil
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    I feel bad for Burnley. You are losing 4-0 and de Bruyne comes on. Also now I’m happy both of my city players are coming on

  9. Taking the Mkhitaryan
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Anyone who shouted McBurnie needs to delete their FPL accounts.

    Desperate

  10. waltzingmatildas
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    What do you reckon to firmino as a punt replacement for Aguero?

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Out of one frying pan and into another

      1. waltzingmatildas
        • 13 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Hmm probably right

  11. Nightcrawler
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Those few seconds could play a part in baps too if city get more goals

  12. L'Aeroplanino
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Mahrez saved for chelsea again

  13. HollywoodXI
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Mahrez walked off the pitch at 60:10

    1. Rinseboy
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      yeah that would be harsh not to give 60 min points. There would be uproar

  14. corderz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Free hit or Wildcard, that is the question

  15. Scholes Out For Summer
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Sterling please Pep

  16. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    score burnley please

  17. Big_Andy_GAWA
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    It needs to get to 61 minutes, no...?!

    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      no

    2. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      0:00 - 0:59 counts as the first minute, so no.

  18. DandyDon
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Amazed he is risking KDB for 30 minutes in this game

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Why? It’s easy

  19. Mr. O'Connell
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Sterling ent coming on is he?

  20. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Mahrez stepped off the pitch after 60:00

    Not getting the extra two would be a bit unfair.

  21. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Mahrez knows.

    Didn’t walk off at nearest point.

    FPL Legend!

  22. badgerboy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    My stream is on a lag. Mahrez was still on the pitch until about 60:18.

  23. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    KDB in, here comes my red arrow 150% EO blimey!

  24. The Red Devil
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Think Mahrez starts next game too, considering he came off early

    1. Sailboats
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Dont even try to predict these things bro. No one knows whos gonna play apart from Pep

  25. Ronny Sandstone
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Son and Bergwijn overkill on a FH?

    1. Shakshuka
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Im considering Son and Kane 😀

  26. Kroos Kontrol
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    My luck with punty City captains. It's a miracle i'm still top 30k...

    > Captained Sterling vs nor. 90 mins, blank (ahead of Mane vs Newcastle)
    > Captained Sterling vs WAT. 0 mins. got lucky with kdb vc.
    > Captained Aguero vs AVL. 15 mins. Took a -4 to bring him in.
    > Captained Sterling vs avl. 0 mins. bad VC. Took a -4 to bring him in, chose over Mahrez who got 2 goals. Didn't do Aguero due to past experience, but both him/Jesus start.
    > Captained Aguero vs WHU. 90 mins, blank (this was a wildcard team, got lucky i had a plan of Aguero -> Jimenez).

    And then, after lockdown...

    > Captained Aguero vs ARS. 10 mins, does enough to show he'd get a hattrick. Still just 10 mins.
    > Captained Aguero vs BUR. 45 mins, injured.

    I'm never doing Man City punts again, the losses are too big for the occasional gain.

    I've made enough moves this season to be comfortably top 10k (KdB since GW1 with Salah+Sterling, Salah -> Mane in GW7, Rashford in GW10, Grealish before Christmas, DCL for all his hauls, Son for his penalty-taking hauls, got TAA/Lundstram/Soyuncu early etc etc) - but have completely messed up here. Top managers consistently when they get early bandwagons, make sure to capitalize on it. However, I seem to mess those up by not focusing enough on captains/playing XI.

    Maybe next season, I'll make sure to not do 2-3 week punts, even if it's the explosiveness of Aguero/Sterling - and focus more on extracting the best from my playing XI without transferring in bargains.

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Nice brag

      1. Kroos Kontrol
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        I'm not bragging lol, im just trying to make myself feel good ("look I made all these moves, my fantasy team isnt a total disaster")

  27. JammySprat
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    60 mins 20secs, good work mahrez

  28. Stoic
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    My GKs - Leno and Nyland
    A) Play Nyland (new)
    B) A hit to get in Pope for long term
    I think Burnley are solid against weak teams

  29. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Laporte and KDB get involved

  30. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Foden g jesus a