Dugout Discussion

Aston Villa v Man City team news: Haaland starts again

Aston Villa v Manchester City brings to an end a roller-coaster day of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) action.

Kick-off at Villa Park is at 17:30 BST.

There is just one change apiece for the two sides playing this evening.

Douglas Luiz replaces Emiliano Buendia for Villa, who look to be packing the midfield in preparation for their free-scoring visitors.

New signing Jan Bednarek is on the bench but Leander Dendoncker, who had a sore throat as of Friday, isn’t part of the squad.

Pep Guardiola’s solitary alteration unsurprisingly sees Kevin De Bruyne return to the starting line-up, with Julian Alvarez dropping to the bench.

Jack Grealish and Nathan Ake are fit enough to be substitutes for the visitors.

All of that means another appearance for Erling Haaland, one of six City players to start all six of their league matches so far in 2022/23.

Haaland comes into this fixture off the back of two successive 17-point hauls and was transferred in by a further 834,616 FPL teams ahead of Gameweek 6, pushing his ownership past the 75% mark.

He was by some distance the most-captained player of the week, too, with almost 5.4 million managers handing him the armband.

GAMEWEEK 6 LINE-UPS

Aston Villa XI: Martinez, Digne, Mings, Konsa, Cash, Ramsey, Kamara, McGinn, Luiz, Watkins, Bailey.

Subs: Olsen, Chambers, Augustinsson, Young, Bednarek, Coutinho, Buendia, Ings, Archer.

Manchester City XI: Ederson, Cancelo, Stones, Dias, Walker, Gundogan, Rodri, Silva, Foden, De Bruyne, Haaland.

Subs: Ortega, Wilson-Esbrand, Lewis, Ake, Gomez, Grealish, Palmer, Alvarez, Mahrez.

GAMEWEEK 6 RESULTS SO FAR

Wolverhampton Wanderers1 – 0Southampton
Tottenham Hotspur2 – 1Fulham
Nottingham Forest2 – 3Bournemouth
Newcastle United0 – 0Crystal Palace
Chelsea2 – 1West Ham United
Brentford5 – 2Leeds United
Everton0 – 0Liverpool



1,258 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Basically gained 3k with Haaland cap and cancelo! Arsenal will be much the same with EO!

    Roll on the Brighton game!

  2. R.C.
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Three bad ref decisions this GW, sort it out PL!

    1. Digital-Real
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Which 3?

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Newcastle
        West Ham
        Villa?

    2. Third Eye Vision
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      What about VVD raking Onana and it not going to VAR?

      Red card all day.

  3. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Rank plummets from 650k to 1M ... gracious goodness!

  4. SAUCY SALAH
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Kane cappers the winners with the clean sheet!

    1. R.C.
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Kane = Haaland this Gw

      1. SAUCY SALAH
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        😎

  5. Deulofail
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Just bought Trippier. Playing the market like a madman this season with the early moves. Will calm down after the WC or the WC.

    1. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Good move

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks. Sold Collins; will bench Neco. Annoying because I started the season with Trippier, then sold him in GW3 for James as part of a hit

  6. Total Slotball
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    It’s Spurs year

  7. Nate(U)dog(ie)
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Well I didn't get destroyed by not going with Haaland or Salah captaincy, dare I dream?

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      If you enjoy posting this type of relief post every week 😛

      1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
        • 4 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        I feel like all FPL is "thank goodness X didn't haul" sometimes, nobody celebrates their players actually getting points

    2. The Mentaculus
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      All eyes on dat guy now!

      Quite relieved with KDB (C) - green arrow

  8. FOO FIGHTER
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    I have given Bailey so much hell but I want to thank him for something and that is:

    Putting the final nail in the current template.

    All said and done, I will still not own Bailey at any time this season.

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Good.

      Please don't mention him again.

      It's not all about you

      it's rather boring like a 4 year old.

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

      You're writing like it's the final lines of an American TV show episode, like Scrubs or Only Murders in the Building. Like there's a lesson to be learned - or contrived - out of somewhere.

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        it's hardly the final nail in the coffin for the template.

        A budget pick scoring.

    3. Ninja Škrtel
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      As a Foo Fighter how are you not at Wembly right now?

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        he's more of a thunder something

      2. el polako
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Parents didn't want to take him.

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

      You actually think you're the main character

    5. chocolove
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Awe you smart****

  9. Rainer
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    We need to talk about Cancelo...

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      And James

      1. jack88
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        And trent / robbo

    2. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Why

    3. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Can sell o

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

    Vlla robbed

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Villa

    2. el polako
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      West Ham too, corrupt refs favour the rich.

    3. BobbyDoesNotLook
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Yep. At least one point for them but could be three.

  11. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Maybe Alvarez starts at Sevilla?

    Cash out and Young back perhaps secured the point for Villa.

    1. Digital-Real
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      No way, it's a tough game

  12. Jon Snow
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Big at the back truly in the mud, might be time to stack the front line

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Only 3 slots up front 1 taken by Haaland ...

  13. jack88
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    City was so wasteful. Pep should have rotate a bit. They seemed impatient, tired

  14. Piggs Boson
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Do you think Arthur Melo will fix Liverpool's midfield problem?

    1. jack88
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      No.

    2. Philosopher's Stones
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      The problem is more than just one single player fixing it. They've not been quite cohesive as a unit as they were before.

      1. Piggs Boson
        • 13 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Do you not think Thiago's absence is a big reason for that?

        1. Philosopher's Stones
          • 4 Years
          2 years, 2 months ago

          It is, but still only a part of the reason. Nunez and Diaz both seem quite new and will take time to gel. Miss Mane's press up front. As you mentioned, Thiago has been a miss. But mostly Mane's press upfront has been a major miss. I'm sure they'll start gelling at some point, but they won't be as ruthless as before for quite sometime imo.

    3. PartyTime
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      No

  15. They are eating the dogs
    • 2 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    GW6 points? I have only 47 points but still got the green arrow.

    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah hasn't been a good week.

    2. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Thanks for the 'only' points message

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

      26

    4. laGan1n1
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      57 + Rashford

    5. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      38 Veltman, Martineli, Jesus to play

    6. Gunners in Haaland
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      25. Feel better now?

    7. Hits from the Bong
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      56 with 4 to go, top 3 million here we come!

  16. Philosopher's Stones
    • 4 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    43 with Sanchez, Martinelli and Jesus to go, all three who are heavily owned. Roll on GW7 I guess.

  17. 272MK
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    If I take James Robbo TAA 's 1 pts each, add it to Mo(3pts) and Cancelo (2pts)

    Then it'll look like only James Robbo TAA fail me this gw

  18. FDMS All Starz
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Right, rest of the team looks fine but I’ve got Ederson/Robbo/Cancelo/Cucu with 2FTs, who is priority to ship out?

    Need funds to upgrade either one of
    Archer to Mitro/Isak/Toney
    or
    Dasilva to Zaha/Sterling/Bruno

  19. Miguel Sanchez
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    What happens to TAA this week?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      *happened

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

      CL rotation.

    3. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Milner

  20. One for All
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Henderson
    Trippier Taa Culu Saliba
    Martinelli Diaz Salah
    Jesus Toney Haaland

    Forster Andreas Walker Murphy

    1FT 1.3 ITB

    A) Salah to Sterling
    B)Culu to Trippier to Dalot

    Any other suggestions guys?

    1. Maeki2
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      pool fixtures getting worse Salah -> KDB then Diaz -> sterling

      1. One for All
        • 6 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Good moves that's true, thanks.

  21. jack88
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Double defence Isn't working this year so far. Big teams are struggling. Wingbacks are playing deep unlike last season.
    Meanwhile Brighton, palace castle etc are value magnet

  22. Ninja Škrtel
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    52, Sanchez, Martinelli and Jesus to go. Green arrowssss

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Nice

    2. Dannyb
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      57 with Ward Jesus and Gross left,been a woeful start so this is nice.

      1. Ninja Škrtel
        • 10 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        nice one!

  23. Digital-Real
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Bailey sucking FPL managers in again. Don't do this to yourself

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Some will tell you he is 'explosive'

      Do not fall for it!

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

        Foo fighter, this here comment has singlehandedly saved me from a terrible fate. Thank you so much

      2. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        he exploded today

        give it a rest Randox bloke.

  24. GoonerGirl
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    So many dodgy decisions today. I'm not looking forward to the Arsenal game tomorrow, just know we're going to get so many dodgy decisions against United. It inevitable.

  25. Dannyb
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    United are gonna smash Arsenal tomorrow.

    1. laGan1n1
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Rashford - Arsenal 2:0

    2. Piggs Boson
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      God I hope so.

      Ramsdale, Zinchenko, Partey and Odegaard might all be out injured.

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        And Elneny!

    3. GoonerGirl
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      With dodgy decisions, you're probably right, not because United are any good.

      1. Dannyb
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        Hahaha

  26. lordkippe
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    34 with Martinelli, Jesus & Sanchez left. Pretty bad week.

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

    26 with dunk, martinelli and jesus, anyone worse?

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 5 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      29, red arrows

      Jesus, Gabriel and Saliba to go.

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

        Similar to me then

    2. Scrumper
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Yup, 23 with Jesus, Marti and Saka to go

    3. Nate(U)dog(ie)
      • 4 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      21, Martinelli, Jesus, Estupiñan and Welbeck(C) to go

      1. AC/DC AFC
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        2 years, 2 months ago

        hope Welbeck pays off for you.

        1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
          • 4 Years
          2 years, 2 months ago

          Cheers, good luck to you for tomorrow too

    4. F_Ivanovic
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      23 from 7... went from 4th to 16th in my main ML. lol

    5. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      41 and another green for now with Arsenal and Brighton tomorrow.

  28. lilmessipran
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    From 1.1 mill to 2.1 mill live rank...elite numbers

  29. AC/DC AFC
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Haaland 3 point bonus tho.

  30. PartyTime
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 2 months ago

    Toney sellers well & truly buried

    1. Piggs Boson
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      Never owned him before.

      Thankfully I like rolling in the MUD.

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

      o/

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

      Nearly captained Toney only had the balls to VC him over Haaland

    4. The Abyss
      • 11 Years
      2 years, 2 months ago

      So’s Peter Sellars.