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Sterling and Cancelo survive Man City rotation as Foden and Walker miss out

Raheem Sterling (£11.4m) and João Cancelo (£5.5m) have made surprise appearances in the Manchester City starting XI for Gameweek 11.

The two players missed out on the win over Burnley last time out and featured extensively in midweek Champions League action.

That had convinced many that the pair would be benched in the following Premier League game but they both start against Fulham.

Sterling plays on the left-hand side of an attacking midfield trio, joined there by Kevin De Bruyne (£11.7m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.4m) while Cancelo is preferred to Kyle Walker (£6.2m) at right-back, rather than left, which sees Benjamin Mendy (£5.9m) make a second Premier League start in a row.

Pep Guardiola has been previously known to favour a rotation policy where players miss the first match of a three-game week and play the second two in succession, even if they are close together.

Ferran Torres (£6.9m) and Walker had recently strung together consecutive Premier League starts but neither one features in the first XI today.

The former is on the bench, while Walker is not in the squad at all, although Guardiola has reported that he is not injured. That’s about as classic Pep as we’re ever going to get.

Gabriel Jesus (£9.4m) leads the Manchester City attacking line while De Bruyne appears to be in a number 10 role rather than a member of a central midfield trio.

Meanwhile, Fulham are unchanged from the side that won 2-1 at Leicester, which sees Ivan Cavaleiro (£5.3m) act as a lone centre-forward, Ademola Lookman (£5.0m) and Bobby De Cordova-Reid (£5.3m) providing the width either side of Ruben Loftus-Cheek (£5.9m).

For the second Gameweek in a row, Tom Cairney (£5.3m) and Aleksandar Mitrović (£5.6m) are named on the bench.

Manchester City XI (4-2-3-1): Ederson; B Mendy, Stones, Dias, Cancelo; Gündogan, Rodrigo; Sterling, De Bruyne, Mahrez; Jesus.

Fulham XI (4-2-3-1): Areola; A Robinson, Andersen, Adarabioyo, Aina; Zambo Anguissa, Reed; Lookman, Loftus-Cheek, De Cordova-Reid; Cavaleiro.

2,311 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Fudgy
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 11 months ago

    I sold Cancelo for a -4

    1. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Knee must be swollen

    2. Amey
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Awesome

    3. Pacer.
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      top top post

    4. Sandy Ravage
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Come on Lookman

    5. Joey Tribbiani
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      fudgy...
      positive thoughts. positive thoughts. positive thoughts.

      1. The Sociologist
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Happy place happy place

    6. hewittj1
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Same

    7. Botman and Robben
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Splendid.

    8. badgerboy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      F's in the chat boys.

    9. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      You are smart

    10. Hect.OR 98th
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      I got him last week. You just have to hold for a while. Make a decision, assess it over time, not on the basis of one week and people's predictions.

  2. Amartey Partey
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 11 months ago

    No city players over here. Shitting myself.

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      No wonder.

    2. Joey Tribbiani
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      wondered what that smell was 😮

    3. Amey
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Behind a sofa ? 😉

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

      Shitting gets through the filters. But not b*ner.

      1. Amey
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Banter is always welcome

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          So is an erection

          1. Deulofail
            • 8 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            Oh boy that doesn't sound as good as I'd hoped.

          2. Amey
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            This one got through then 😀

            1. Deulofail
              • 8 Years
              3 years, 11 months ago

              As Santa said to the kid on his lap

              1. I'm out of name ideas
                • 7 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Did you think this would improve things?

                1. Deulofail
                  • 8 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Things are definitely on the up!

    5. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      You're in for two hours of rain.

      1. DA Minnion (Former great)
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Pain

        1. Amartey Partey
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Raining pain for sure.

        2. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Rurple Pain. Rurple Pain...

    6. Salan
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Brave man.

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

    It’s the hope that kills.

    1. Begbie.
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Sterling owner? 😉

    2. Party time
        3 years, 11 months ago

        It kills. It really does

    3. Amey
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      I can smell FPL points already 😆

      1. WVA
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        You know better than to hope for captain points, Jesus, Sterling and Mahrez goals all assisted by Stones haha wish you all the best though mate!

        1. Amey
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Ha ha
          Same to you

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

      1-2 Fulham please

      1. Amey
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        I offer you an advise.
        Go have a walk. This might be painful !

        1. WVA
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Got it on live to get the pain over with swiftly

          1. Amey
            • 6 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            Wow
            You have guts 😀

    5. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Go on Cancelo, channel your inner De Bruyne and have a stormer of a match

    6. Cok3y5murf
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Jesus (c) because he is "due"

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 15 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        like it. Would’ve brought him in but couldn’t justify selling Kane vs Arsenal.

      2. Joey Tribbiani
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        effective ownership around 6%, I need him to go mental

      3. MagicMessi
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Hope he scores 4 goals

    7. have you seen cyan
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      no point picking Antonio is there, drives to work in a St Johns Ambulance these days. Over xmas he will be a bad pick you'd assume. Bowen and Bamford it is I guess.

      1. Amey
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        No wonder. Plays for an idiot of manager who runs him to ground !

        1. have you seen cyan
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          lol

      2. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Agreed

      3. The Sociologist
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Love Antonio on his day, so fun to own and to watch. Made of glass though.

    8. Twisted Saltergater
      • 15 Years
      3 years, 11 months ago

      Does Pep have a problem with female reporters? Is always off with them when he’s asked a question.

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        He and Aguero are wingmen

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • 15 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          You might be on to something

      2. have you seen cyan
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Twisted, I thought this might interest you. Theres been 22million comments on this site, you replied to comment number 1. http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/1

        1. Twisted Saltergater
          • 15 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Wow, I wish that was true! I think it’s more likely that they purge comments older than 10 years?

          1. have you seen cyan
            • 5 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            yea we were talking about it yesterday, we think the site got changed and rebuilt so likely it wasnt the first ever comment, but the first comment with its current format.

            1. Twisted Saltergater
              • 15 Years
              3 years, 11 months ago

              Ah yep, I remember the new site being launched. Had no idea I commented on the first post though... but I was on a lot back then!

        2. Ginkapo FPL
          • 13 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Thats the new site, not the old one

          1. have you seen cyan
            • 5 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            yea true, still impressive though. What makes me laugh is the first comment of this site layout was someone asking about City rotation lmao

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

          22 million comments 😯 Wow

        4. SAUCY SALAH
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          🙂

      3. Party time
          3 years, 11 months ago

          He is shy

          1. Twisted Saltergater
            • 15 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            Could be. I used to kick girls in the playground I fancied. Best way of showing it.

        • Jolly Good
          • 9 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          I wonder how many of those 22 mio are Agueroooo

      4. mookie
        • 11 Years
        3 years, 11 months ago

        Big test for Karma. Can she deal with all these City owners patting each others back before a ball is kicked?

        1. Red Red Robins
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 4 Years
          3 years, 11 months ago

          Thats all im reading too haha

        2. Party time
            3 years, 11 months ago

            Hoffentlich ein toller abend mit Lieber Hakim

          • Party time
              3 years, 11 months ago

              unser Kapitän mit den Leckereien.

              Hopsgenommen

          • The Mandalorian
            • 12 Years
            3 years, 11 months ago

            Good luck KDB owners

          • Party time
              3 years, 11 months ago

              It is that time of the year when Kevin goes missing

              1. badgerboy
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 9 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                That would make a good premise for a series of films.

                1. Party time
                    3 years, 11 months ago

                    🙂

                  • Free Hat
                    • 5 Years
                    3 years, 11 months ago

                    😀

              2. TheBiffas
                • 3 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Hi guys should I sell Watkins?

                1. Deulofail
                  • 8 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Hi guy, why?

                2. Amey
                  • 6 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Yes

                3. yousunkmybattleship
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 15 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Bit late now

                4. MagicMessi
                  • 12 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  No way u kept him through blank

              3. sully29
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 10 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Having done Sterling > KDB(c), it seems entirely inevitable that Sterling will haul.

              4. Stuck in the Mudryk
                • 9 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Cancelo blank and KDB haul please

              5. teneighty
                • 9 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Mitro second choice now?

                1. TRIPOS TOPPER
                  • 6 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  hardly started all season

              6. The Tinkerman
                • 9 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Anyone else so confident that Cancelo wasn’t starting that they sold him as part of a -4?

                Was pretty sure I wouldn’t field XI without selling him 🙁

                1. HippY
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 14 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Transferred him in for a -4 this morning. Even the stupid ones get lucky sometimes 🙂

                  1. Dr. Ante Pavlovic
                    • 7 Years
                    3 years, 11 months ago

                    Who says we're the stupid ones?

                  2. The Tinkerman
                    • 9 Years
                    3 years, 11 months ago

                    Same here, needed the cash. Got Lamptey in for him, fingers crossed!

                2. Scots Gooner
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 8 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  It was going to be a weekly annoyance anyway. No biggie

              7. HippY
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Some bizarre luck...

                I delayed bringing Jota in because of Europe/covid etc.

                Then this morning I crazily brought in Cancelo for Kilman -4, because I was 0.1 off being able to bring in Walker.

                1. bench boost for every gamew…
                  • 7 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Just the opposite. Bought in Walker because j could afford.

              8. Egg noodle
                • 14 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Sterling captainers group hug
                \o/

                1. Amey
                  • 6 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Maintain social distancing !

                  1. teneighty
                    • 9 Years
                    3 years, 11 months ago

                    Yeah, only virtual hugs allowed!

              9. yousunkmybattleship
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 15 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Let’s go Anguissa!

              10. The Reptile
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 13 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Is Burnley defence an option now for 4.4 defenders, Lowton, Daniels etc?

                1. Joey Tribbiani
                  • 4 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Daniels?

                2. Iwantmorepointsthanks
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 10 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  yes

                3. Botman and Robben
                  • 8 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  It is

              11. teneighty
                • 9 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                I need to get rid of either Vardy or DCL to afford Salah in. Who would you keep?

                1. Huddersfield
                  • 9 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  same situation. getting rid of DCL
                  78 points 0.5 profit

                2. CRO KLOPP
                  • 7 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Who are you selling for Mo in midfield?

                  1. teneighty
                    • 9 Years
                    3 years, 11 months ago

                    My initial plan was Grealish but now I've swayed towards Son.

                3. HashAttack
                  • 7 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  I'll be selling DCL

                4. teneighty
                  • 9 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  Cheers guys!

              12. Huddersfield
                • 9 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                KDB (C)appers unite
                \o/

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

                  Feels dirty when so many have given him the armband.

              13. Pedi
                • 5 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Fuiham 1-0 win would be sweet

              14. SAUCY SALAH
                • 7 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                COME ON STERLING!

              15. Botman and Robben
                • 8 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                My KDB(C) hit better pay off.

              16. DA Minnion (Former great)
                • 12 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Let the pain begin.

              17. Weeb Kakashi
                • 8 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                First time ever with triple attack.

              18. Rupert The Horse
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 11 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                LETS GO MAHREZ CAPTAIN!!!

                1. LickymyUmtitis69
                  • 3 Years
                  3 years, 11 months ago

                  LOUD NOISES!!!!!

              19. Weeb Kakashi
                • 8 Years
                3 years, 11 months ago

                Atleast 4 here please