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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. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Never a pen, ridiculous

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

    KDB wide

  3. R.C
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Yessss KDB brace!!!

    1. R.C
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Nvm stream is slow

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

      Watch the game then post LOL

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

      You mean brace himself to get taken off pens, lol.

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

    Kdb miss

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

    Justice.

    1. Robson-Canoe
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      for what?

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

    KDB miss

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

    :O

  8. Meinhoff
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Oh dear what a miss

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

    Missed

  10. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    KDDDBBBB MISSSSSSS

  11. ⭐ ABHISHEK - THE CURIOUS …
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hahahahha Missed

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

    Loooool

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

    Kevin the failure

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

    What a miss!

  15. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    KDB missed :-O

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

    omg

  17. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    He's human after all

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

    The premiership has becoming PATHETIC

  19. Londongeezaa
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Imagine owning KDB

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

      Hahaha.

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

    Really bad pen

    Could be off pens now

    1. Gobigorgohome
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Yes Jesus will take next one

  21. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    KDB misses pen

  22. Traction Engine Foot
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hahaha

  23. Pep Roulette
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    WTF KDB

  24. Gobigorgohome
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    JESUSSSSS ON PENNN NOWWWW

  25. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Lol

  26. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Oh dear

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

    Damn. Didn't see that coming.

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

    Where to go for City attackers? Pens a bit part of KDB's appeal

    1. Paul Psychic Octopus
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Ederson must be moving up the list.

  29. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Sick

  30. FISSH
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    I hate football now