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Jota and Firmino both start as Jesus returns for Man City’s clash with Liverpool

The Premier League winners and runners-up in each of the last two seasons clash at the Etihad this afternoon.

Manchester City v Liverpool gets underway at 16:30 GMT.

Debate has raged this week over whether Diogo Jota (£6.4m) or Roberto Firmino (£9.2m) would get the nod to join Mohamed Salah (£12.4m) and Sadio Mane (£12.0m) in the Liverpool attack but, in the end, both players start for Jurgen Klopp’s side.

Barring any curveball formation choices, the Reds’ boss seems to have opted for a similar 4-2-3-1 set-up that he trialled in the Gameweek 6 win over Sheffield United.

Klopp has made two changes from last Saturday’s win over West Ham, with Jota replacing Curtis Jones (£4.4m) in one of those alterations.

Joel Matip (£5.4m) is in for Nat Phillips (£4.0m) at centre-half in the other.

Pep Guardiola has also made a brace of changes from Gameweek 7.

Gabriel Jesus (£9.3m) is back to lead the line, with the Brazilian making his first Premier League appearance since the opening weekend of the season.

Ilkay Gundogan (£5.4m) also returns to the heart of the City midfield, with Riyad Mahrez (£8.3m) and Bernardo Silva (£7.4m) making way.

There is again no place in the hosts’ starting XI for Phil Foden (£6.6m), who hasn’t started a league match since Gameweek 5.

It’s not often that we can say that the majority of City assets are differentials in FPL but that is the case at present, with Kevin De Bruyne (£11.5m) the only member of Guardiola’s squad who boasts a double-digit ownership.

They are even less popular within the top 10k, with Kyle Walker (£6.1m) – who sits in 8.15% of these squads – the most-selected option.

Salah is by some distance the most-owned player in this fixture, both within the top 10k (65.34%) and overall (46.9%).


Manchester City XI: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Laporte, Cancelo, Gundogan, Rodrigo, De Bruyne, Torres, Sterling, Jesus.

Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Gomez, Robertson, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Jota, Firmino, Mané, Salah.

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  1. WVA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    0-0 please

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

      Henderson Rodri 1-1 please

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Too much luck needed for that.

    3. Meinhoff
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Nearly impossible

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

      Wouldn't mind 0-0 tbh.

    5. Ze_Austin
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Sorry

  2. Kodap
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    What should i do with this lot?

    Martinez (Steer)
    Trent - Coufal - Lamptey (Dallas & Taylor)
    Salah - Son - Zaha - Podence (Burke)
    DCL - Werner - Kane

    1ft & 0.4m itb!

    1. JBG
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Get Son out for Rashford or Zyiech.

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

    Reguilon/Son/Kane ➡️
    PVA/Bruno/Vardy - 4?

    Sick of spurs and need to shake things up oner IB

    Have money tied up for Bruno➡️Kdb of city show signs of improvement..

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

    Trent please score 🙁 worst GW ever...

  5. Hattrick Harry
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Pool can’t create anything, just watching and running around and finally getting tired

  6. Coaly
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Saiss to Zouma or Cancelo?

    1. JBG
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Zouma GW9. Cancelo GW10.

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

    Penalty Liverpool

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

      Here we go

  8. Hattrick Harry
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Peno pool

  9. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Liverpool penalty!

  10. Meinhoff
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Pen for Liverpool. Come on Mo

  11. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Season of penalties

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Keeping Kane than, selling Son

  12. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Trent please take it

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Good one

  13. Zilla
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Salah pen incoming

  14. squ1rrel
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    McCarthy - Steer
    Chilwell - Cresswell - Justin - Shaw - Ferguson
    Salah - KDB - Rashford - Podence - Anguissa
    Kane - DCL - Wilson

    0.5 ITB, 2 FT, WC available

    Ideas? Podence and Shaw are priorities to get out, right?

  15. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Don’t know why walker gets so much hype, loves giving away penno’s

    1. Bada Bing
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      He's a terrible defender, always late and lunging.

      1. Steve The Spud
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        Poor mans aurier

  16. Limbo
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Pen!

  17. WVA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Penalty Salah, so obvious, ML rival still has him captain after missing the deadline

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

      can't be much of a rival if he's missing deadlines can he.

      1. WVA
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 5 months ago

        He's inside the top 100k so he's pretty good

  18. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    A penalty only for the captainers.

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      Not this GW, owners getting benefit this time.

    2. The Wanton Trader
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 5 months ago

      ..... 😉

  19. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Salahhhhhh Goooaaaaal

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

    Salah G

  21. Pep Roulette
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Salalalalalalalahhhh

  22. FPL Blow-In
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Anything but a Liverpool clean sheet, I beg you, pleeeaaassseee!!!

  23. The Wanton Trader
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Go Mo...!!

  24. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Always captain salah

  25. Dynamic Duos
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Yessss Salah

  26. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Son cap over Salah hurting...

  27. sminkypinky
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Well taken penalty.

  28. ivantys
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Stupid foul not given to city earlier, useless ref

  29. seewhyaxe
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    TGFS!

  30. ClassiX
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 5 months ago

    Great camera angle for that pen.