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Guardiola wreaks havoc as Sterling, Cancelo and Stones all benched for Man City

Pep Guardiola has dealt Fantasy Premier League arguably the harshest blow of the season so far with his Gameweek 21 team-sheet.

Raheem Sterling (£11.6m), Riyad Mahrez (£8.1m), Joao Cancelo (£6.0m) and John Stones (£5.2m) are all among the substitutes as Manchester City host Sheffield United on Saturday afternoon.

Ilkay Gündogan (£5.8m), Phil Foden (£6.3m) and Ruben Dias (£5.9m) hold onto their starting berths amid all the changes.

Gabriel Jesus (£9.1m) returns to Manchester City’s line-up for the first time since the first match of Gameweek 19 while Foden and Ferran Torres (£6.9m) staff the flanks either side of him.

Aymeric Laporte (£6.0m) comes in for Stones at centre-back with Oleksandr Zinchenko (£5.5m) and Kyle Walker (£6.1m) on the left and right-hand side of defence respectively.

Sheffield United, as ever, line-up in a 3-5-2 formation with John Fleck (£5.6m), John Lundstram (£4.9m) and Oliver Norwood (£4.5m) in midfield while Rhian Brewster (£4.5m) and Oliver Burke (£4.2m) are up-front.

Also of encouragement for the Blades is a return on the bench for Oli McBurnie (£5.6m).

Manchester City are not the only team to rotate this afternoon as Tyrick Mitchell (£3.9m) drops to the bench for Patrick van Aanholt (£5.4m) to come in.

Jordan Ayew (£5.6m) and Michy Batshuayi (£5.7m) are paired up-front for Crystal Palace with Wilfried Zaha (£7.2m) dropping back to replace Andros Townsend (£5.6m) on the flanks of midfield.

Ruben Neves (£5.2m) and Adama Traoré (£6.0m) are on the bench for Wolves with João Moutinho (£5.2m) and new signing Willian José (£7.0m) come into the side.

Max Kilman (£4.0m) earns another start in the back-three while Romain Saïss (£5.0m) is not in the matchday squad.

West Bromwich Albion are in 5-4-1 for the meeting with Fulham featuring Robert Snodgrass (£5.7m) and Matheus Pereira (£5.6m) staffing the left and right-hand side of midfield.

And Ivan Cavaleiro (£5.3m) is the fall-guy at Fulham, dropping to the bench so Aleksandar Mitrović (£5.5m) can lead their 3-4-2-1 formation.

Gameweek 21 Line-ups

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita; Van Aanholt, Dann, Kouyaté, Clyne; Zaha, McCarthy, Milivojevic, Eze; Ayew, Batshuayi.

Wolves XI: Patricio; Kilman, Coady, Boly; Semedo, Dendoncker, Moutinho, Hoever; Neto, Willian José, Podence.

Manchester City XI: Ederson; Zinchenko, Laporte, Dias, Walker; B Silva, Fernandinho, Gündogan; Torres, Jesus, Foden.

Sheffield United XI: Ramsdale; Ampadu, Egan, Basham; Bogle, Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram, Baldock; Burke, Brewster.

West Bromwich Albion XI: Johnstone; Gibbs, Bartley, O’Shea, Ajayi, Furlong; M Pereira, Gallagher, Livermore, Snodgrass; C Robinson.

Fulham XI: Areola; Adarabioyo, Andersen, Aina; A Robinson, Anguissa, Lemina, De Cordova-Reid; Lookman, Loftus-Cheek; Mitrović.

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1,778 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Alright don’t get Raheem on now Salah captain sounds bettee

  2. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Torres is absolutely useless ffs

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Don’t speak ill of the mods.

      1. Fudgy
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        No I think Torres magic is class

    2. Zilla
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      He used to do price changes though

  3. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    No Pereira assist, no tweet from fpl about the goal. They forgot about this game 😀

    1. Sgt Frank Drebin
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      It will be given

  4. BenDavies
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    I think Premier League managers should be forced to consider the FPL ownership of their players when it comes to team selection. It's unfair to hurt so many managers with their wanton benchings.

    I'm drafting a petition to force PL managers to not drop players owned by 20% or over of FPL managers and if it gets 100,000 signatures it will get discussed by Parliament.

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

      lol someone hulk this

    2. Fudgy
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Pep is completely selfish he doesn't care about anyone but himself

    3. ivantys
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      FPL should change their rules to immediately make VC the C if C doesn't start. It's such a huge disadvantage if the manager decides to become a fraud that GW.

      1. Zilla
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        What if I want my captain for the 30 minutes he will play?

    4. FourLokoLeipzig
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      They can drop them as long as they tell us before the deadline... seems like a reasonable enough request to me

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

    Dias is awesome

    1. Cruyff Turn
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Steadily helped me climb to the top of my league since I bought him in gw 10.

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 1 month ago

        The Best Buy for city in a long time

  6. REDMOND IN SANDALS
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    just shows how important Cancelo is to city's build up

  7. Collie01
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    City look happy to keep possession and get a 1-0 win.

  8. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Goldie coming on

  9. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Need goals from Gundo and Sheffield

  10. tbos83
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    City are so much less threatening without Cancelo (I say this not being an owner)

  11. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    All City make 60’.

  12. Gudjohnsen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    At least I get my Mitchell CS from the bench.

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      LOL

    2. LFC19
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Unfortunately benched too

  13. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Jammy Dias owners banking the CS

  14. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Foden needs to see more ball with his vision of the game.

  15. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    We love captain fails week in week out

  16. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brewster 2 pointer! Miracles do happen 😆

  17. Big Mac 24
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Sheffield to score twice, stones to come on after that and equalise.

    Please

  18. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brewster off

  19. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ffs wish I went dias

    1. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Stones and Cancelo are both good options, just bad luck there Fudgy.

      #positivity4fudgy

    2. squits
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      #standwithfudgy #headupfudgy

  20. Mr. O'Connell
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Gundo haul at least

  21. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Bought DCL for a hit. Captained Cancelo and vice captained DCL. The rest is history.

  22. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brewster gets 2pts. Survives to 60'

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      A Brewster haul!

    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      The sunrises in the east

      Palace goal!!

  23. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brewster still due...

  24. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    8 from 4 including captain...

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Lmao

    2. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Still 7 well picked players to go.

      #positivity4fudgy

  25. aleksaa2
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Eze G

  26. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    C'mon Dias, climb those baps

    1. TheBiffas
      • 3 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      Cant u just be grateful with your 6

  27. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Eze for some!

  28. fedolefan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Brewdog 60 mins. Well done lad!

  29. Tasty Jerk
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Ezzzzzzzzzzzzeee

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 1 month ago

      🙂

  30. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 1 month ago

    Awful from Patricio.