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De Bruyne and Foden benched as Guardiola makes six changes for Saints clash

Manchester City face Southampton in the penultimate fixture of Gameweek 33+ and the last Premier League match to take place on a busy Sunday afternoon.

Kick-off at St Mary’s is at 19:00 BST.

Rotation was always a possibility after City’s hectic week in league and cup and Pep Guardiola has made six changes to his starting XI from the side that beat Liverpool on Thursday.

The most high-profile changes see Kevin De Bruyne (£10.8m) and Phil Foden (£5.3m) drop to the bench after their double-digit hauls in Gameweek 32+.

Benjamin Mendy (£5.5m) and Kyle Walker (£5.6m) also make way in the full-back positions, while Rodri (£5.4m) and Ilkay Gundogan (£5.2m) are rested in central midfield.

There is better news for owners of Riyad Mahrez (£8.6m), who starts after his benching against the newly crowned league champions.

Raheem Sterling (£11.7m) and Gabriel Jesus (£9.6m) also keep their places in attack, while Aymeric Laporte (£6.3m) and budget FPL defender Eric Garcia (£4.5m) start again at centre-half.

Joao Cancelo (£5.1m), Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.2m), Bernardo Silva (£7.7m), David Silva (£7.3m) and Fernandinho (£5.1m) are the other players handed a recall.

Ralph Hasenhuttl has made three changes from Southampton’s 3-1 victory over Watford, meanwhile.

Che Adams (£5.3m), Jack Stephens (£4.4m) and Stuart Armstrong (£5.2m) are handed starts, replacing Shane Long (£4.6m), the injured Jannik Vestergaard (£4.5m) and Will Smallbone (£4.5m).

Adams joins Danny Ings (£7.3m) in attack, with the in-form striker looking to continue his push for the Golden Boot on the south coast this evening.


Southampton XI: McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Stephens, Bednarek, Bertrand, Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Redmond, Ings, Adams.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Garcia, Laporte, Zinchenko, Fernandinho, Silva, Bernardo, Mahrez, Jesus, Sterling.

FPL Lessons Learned from Gameweek 33+

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  1. 1zverGGadeM
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Lol @ me benching McCarthy and Bertrand this week 😀

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Logical. Couldn't have predicted this.

    2. Zilla
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Ouch

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

      Right moves, don’t let that eat you up.

  2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Pep will probably start Sterling up front now midweek

  3. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Armstrong close at wrong end

  4. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bilva lmao

  5. Forza
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    KDB range......

  6. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Free kick edge of box. KDB surely.

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bit too close I think

  7. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Is it the right week to Bench Boost?

    McCarthy
    TAA | Digne, Holgate (SOU) | Doherty, Saiss (shu)
    KDB | Fernandes | Pulisic
    Kane | Rashford

    Martinez | Mahrez, Foden (NEW) | Greenwood (avl)

    I've put the least likely to play on the bench for illustration purposes.

    Wolves and Everton have in-form defences (barring an uncharacteristic failed experiment for Wolves against Arsenal yesterday), while Southampton and Sheffield are not high-scoring teams.

    Foden and Greenwood both have a great chance of starting. The stars may not align like this again this season. However, Mahrez may be due a rest, with Foden potentially being his replacement. Could still do something from the bench if that's the case.

    I don't plan to improve my keepers ever, so I don't really want to factor them into the decision. The last two weeks would be better fixtures for them, but I don't think it's important enough to cause me to wait.

    Why shouldn't I do it? TAA likely to have a rest? Fixtures not good enough for defenders? Are you sure? What do you think?

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I would

    2. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      1.3 ITB and 1FT if I need to make a change, but not convinced I do yet.

    3. Karhumies
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      34+ has great fixtures to BB. I am using BB myself. With MCity players, it's always a roulette no matter which GW you want to BB.

  8. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Here it is congratulations Kdb captainers

  9. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Free kick - last kick of game probably. Kdb up......

  10. The Red Devil
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    FK
    Kdb goal incoming

  11. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Score Kevin now please !

  12. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bury this Kevin

  13. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    KDB TIME

  14. Collie01
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Let Jesus take it!

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

      Saints fan?

      1. Collie01
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Nah, have Foden and KdB but actually wanted Southampton to hold on as reward for their efforts!

  15. Syd.
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Southampton don't deserve to concede

    They have been heroic

  16. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    last chance

  17. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    KDB's moment...

  18. Iceball
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Chelsea defender or double Liv, VVD? Instead of AWB(make way for Greenwood)

    1. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Chelsea

  19. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Smallbone coming on pitch

  20. DandyDon
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Why on earth didn’t Bernardo shoot! He’s been bad tonight I think

    1. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Luxury player

  21. The Red Devil
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Kdb misses

    1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Good

  22. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    3 most frustrating things in FPL:

    Missed captain and
    Bench haul
    Red arrow.

    Have them all.

    Tempted to do 8pt hit. Martial and Foden in. Should i do it?

    1. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Sleep on it

    2. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Do it

  23. OrmskirkFC
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    I've got a decent amount of money coming down to my Son(C), Kane, Alli versus his Pickford + 18 points. Nervous match tomorrow.

  24. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Smallbone man of the match

  25. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Game over

  26. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    City lost...Southampton are the new champions of football

  27. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    WHAT A POOR FK FROM KDB

  28. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Sheikh Mansour smashing his piggy bank for some Messi money as we speak...

  29. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Jesus should take FK

    1. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      He shouldn't be on the pitch.

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

    KDB is finished.

    1. nolard
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yeah. Will end up at Villa or Everton in two years.