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Sterling, Foden and Aguero on Man City bench for trip to Spurs

Raheem Sterling (£11.5m), Phil Foden (£6.5m) and Sergio Aguero (£10.3m) are named on the bench as Manchester City visit Tottenham Hotspur.

The Englishman was dealing with a calf injury during the international break, so his lack of involvement in the starting XI is less damaging to Fantasy Premier League managers than it usually would be.

Ferran Torres (£6.9m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.2m) are handed the wide-forward roles in Pep Guardiola’s 4-3-3 system, either side of Gabriel Jesus (£9.3m), who has scored in both of his Premier League starts this season.

However, his days as a reliable asset may already be coming to a close, considering Aguero’s return to full fitness.

The Argentinian has been missing since the Gameweek 6 draw at West Ham and, named on the bench tonight, is sure to complicate predictions of Manchester City line-ups once more.

There has been rekindled interest in Guardiola’s defence in recent weeks, João Cancelo (£5.5m) and Ruben Dias (£5.5m) at the heart of that – both of them starting in Gameweek 9.

There will be plenty of eyes on the Spurs line-up too, of course, as Harry Kane (£11.0m) and Son Heung-min (£9.5m) remain hugely popular Fantasy assets, and both start for Jose Mourinho’s side.

In fact, only Bruno Fernandes (£10.7m) has been captained by more top 10k managers than Kane.

Tottenham Hotspur XI (4-2-3-1): Lloris; Reguilón, Dier, Alderweireld, Aurier; Højbjerg, Sissoko; Son, Ndombele, Bergwijn; Kane.

Manchester City XI (4-3-3): Ederson; Cancelo, Laporte, Dias, Walker; De Bruyne, Rodrigo, B Silva; Torres, Jesus, Mahrez.

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  1. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Really good match 🙂

  2. Manani
    • 12 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    brought in Cancelo, Ziyech and Grealish this week. At least I didnt sold Son lol

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

    Had my shirt off then ffs lol

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

      What a sight!

      1. 4-4-who?
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Season ticker holder? North Bank lower me - missing it so much!

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Lol oh dear

    3. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      On a promise ?

  4. King Carlos
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    What has happened to City defense? Bring kompany back? Lol

    1. Scholes Out For Summer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      less about City defence, more about Spurs front 3

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

    Whoa! What did lamptey do???

    They won! Last min red?

    1. King Carlos
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      2 yellows in the ladt 5 mins

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

        Wow

        1. King Carlos
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          The latter yellow was BS imho

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

      Grealish v/s Lamptey - what do you expect?

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

        Feir

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

          Fair that is

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

      2 late ycs. Was unlucky i thought.

    4. Pompel
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      ffs, first on bench if Sterling doesn't come on

  6. Saïss Doesn't Mat…
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Moment of silence for those of us who sold the spurs pair

  7. Collie01
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Rodri should have done better. Free header at Lloris. KdB unlucky not to have returned so far

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Rodri you plonker!

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

    Spurs looking good.

    Just can’t get transfers right. So many good other options that it felt hard to justify son and Kane.

    All week back and forth, then get rid of son to cover Chelsea. Wrong as usual

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Let's just transfer out one of the most highest scoring players in the game...

  9. The Chosen One...
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Son season keeper

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

      This, so much this

        1. FPL Blow-In
          • 11 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Lol

    2. Manani
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      keeping Both Son+Kane as long as they perform. They dont look to stop scoring any time soon

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

        This ^

    3. Saxe-Gotha
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Yep. No reason to get rid of him.

    4. Salan
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      No doubt. Forget about what fixture issue, it's rubbish.

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

      You can't have them all though, I'm going with Kane Vardy Bruno Salah so can't afford him

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

    Funny how so many FPL managers try to project what will happen in the next 6 weeks based on the performance of one game or even the first 10 minutes of a game. 😀

    1. Sanchit
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      What's even more funny is the fact that people justified selling Kane who has 15 returns in 8 games.

  11. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    "The counter-attack for the tough fixtures" theory for TOT starts showing?

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      the only tough game is Chelsea imo, still see a draw there

      1. Scholes Out For Summer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Nah only tough game is Arsenal, as they actually defend. Still not convinced about Chelsea defence against quality opposition.

    2. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Chelsea are better for Kane compared to Son imo

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        or Alli, I wonder if we see a surprise Alli inclusion. Its possible

        1. Scholes Out For Summer
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Dele's done.

          Mourinho hates players who complain. See Danny Rose

          1. have you seen cyan
            • 4 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            Alli isnt done, Jose just wants to see fight from him. He would be very fired up to prove that vs Chelsea. I go out on a limb and say Alli will start vs Chelsea and haul if he does

            Its a big trust of Jose to do that, if Alli fcks it up he may well be done

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

        Penalties?

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

    Son sellers BTFO... Always a silly transfer

    Son is a season keeper

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      I am considering getting KDB for him.next week

    2. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Zzzzzzzzzz. Could set my clock by the monotonous predictability of the nature of your comments.

  13. BenDavies
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    "LOOK WHERE THE F*CKING LINE IS"
    "it's a circle"

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

      Was that Dier?

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

        KDB

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Think it was KdB.

    3. KAALI_DAAL
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Lol

  14. TRIPOS TOPPER
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    the "fixtures" approach is a total fallacy

    Villa CS vs Arsenal and not vs Brighton
    Son scores vs Man U and Man City

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      I disagree. On average it is a good call

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        This.

        You can't extrapolate a theory out of one or two carefully selected incidents.

        Fixtures matter, absolutely. How you determine a good fixture is the tricky bit however...

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

      Villa beat liverpool 7-2 and lose to Brighton.

      Forget fixtures. Always form

      1. Scholes Out For Summer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        based on form, Villa should have dominated Brighton

        1. Magic Zico
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Barkley

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

          Villa had more possession more shots on goal, on target etc. Just couldn't take the chances..

    3. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Same with Spurs last GW vs. worst team in the league West Brom (was very close to a 0-0)

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

      UpSiDe ChAsiNg

      1. Shifty
        • 10 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        so cringey this term.

        poor LR suffering trying to live up to the hype of his theory.

        1. Custard Gannet
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Seeing him pretending to be ok with his decisions so far on social media is actually hard to watch.

        2. George Sillett
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          Maybe if you read the article properly you would appreciate that he doesn't use this approach all the time. Why is it a cringey term ? What would you call it instead ?

          1. TRIPOS TOPPER
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            points chasing

            1. Shifty
              • 10 Years
              3 years, 4 months ago

              hahah

              or 'points hoping'

          2. Shifty
            • 10 Years
            3 years, 4 months ago

            found one of the uPsiDe ChAsErS

            1. George Sillett
              • 8 Years
              3 years, 4 months ago

              N0bhedd. Great to see you happy to criticise without offering any alternative whatsoever in return.

  15. Pacer.
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    It was one of those decisions where if you kept and they failed badly then you could just move them on with that information, but if you got rid and they hauled then you'd look back and wonder what on Earth you were thinking getting rid of the one or both of the two best players in the game.

    I didn't have any idea really what would happen but with those decisions it's easy to choose which way you'd rather fail

  16. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    oh gawd I forgot I had Guaita

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

    Currently on 4 points from 5 players after my -4 for Salah > Bruno(c).

    Martinez 1
    Lamptey -1
    Grealish 1
    Kane 1
    SON 6

    1. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      All depends on captain

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Only been 20 mins, plenty of time for Grealish.

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

      Two of them got 70 minutes to play.

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

      I'm doing worse

  18. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Who sold Son and who captained him or Kane?

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

      Kept him because I had other problems in my team. Will defo keep for now.

      1. fr3d
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        With how reactionary you are, that'll last for 2 hours

  19. Dennis System
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Any one spotted recently that man city are really terrible

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      As I said elsewhere, last time they played like the Citeh you'd except was GW1.

      1. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        GW2*

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

      Lol City have been good

    3. George Sillett
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Lol. Garbage.

      1. Old Man
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        Harsh. He has something of a point - the table doesn't lie.

        1. George Sillett
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 4 months ago

          I don't think that they can be termed "really terrible". Under performing maybe.

    4. Dennis System
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      I was after dias, aguero and kdb next week (-4) for robbo, son and jimmy....

      But now thinking f that

  20. rnrd
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Højbjerg has transformed that spurs team this season

  21. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Has Kane ever scored against city?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Twice

    2. Sanchit
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      For sure he has

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

        Sorry about the laziness guys. Could have googled it.

  22. Shifty
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    son has sooo much space. good chance he gets more than 1 return.

  23. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Plan was Son > KDB GW10 ... and I always said 'regardless' his form ... now I am being properly tested!

    1. Collie01
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      To be fair KdB could have already had a goal and assist

      1. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 4 months ago

        True

  24. ClassiX
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    So, this is probably going to jinx him, but Alderweireld not doing too much wrong so far...

    1. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Toby is a decent fantasy option tbh, just when fixtures permit
      His long balls are pretty good

  25. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Great game

  26. tsm
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    What’s Kane’s role, is he still hanging back?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Central defence atm

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

      The engine in Spurs counter attack.

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

    No chance I come out of this with a Reguilon cleanie or return ffs

  28. CRO KLOPP
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    OMG laporte

  29. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 4 months ago

    Laporte goal

    1. ChickenTikkaMoSalah
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 4 months ago

      Handball check

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

    Laporte goal