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Man City v Chelsea team news: Haaland benched as champions make nine changes

Having secured their third Premier League title in a row on Saturday, Manchester City welcome Chelsea to the Etihad Stadium for their final home game of the season.

Kick-off is at 16:00 BST.

As for the all-important team news, Pep Guardiola has ripped up his usual team-sheet and makes nine changes from the side that beat Real Madrid on Wednesday.

That means Ederson, Ruben Dias, John Stones, Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne, Jack Grealish and, most importantly, Erling Haaland are all on the bench.

Kyle Walker and Manuel Akanji are the only players who keep their place in the starting XI, which includes Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden and Julian Alvarez as the front three.

As for Chelsea, they make five alterations, as Frank Lampard brings in Kepa Arrizabalaga, Wesley Fofana, Cesar Azpilicueta, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kai Havertz.

The players to drop out are Edouard Mendy, Benoit Badiashile, Mateo Kovacic, Noni Madueke and Joao Felix.

GAMEWEEK 37 LINE-UPS

Manchester City XI: Ortega, Walker, Akanji, Laporte, Gomez, Lewis, Phillips, Mahrez, Palmer, Foden, Alvarez

Subs: Ederson, Stones, Dias, Rodri, Grealish, Gundogan, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Haaland

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Fofana, Silva, Chalobah, Azpilicueta, Loftus-Cheek, Enzo, Gallagher, Hall, Sterling, Havertz

Subs: Mendy, Koulibaly, Chukwuemeka, Pulisic, Mudryk, Ziyech, Fofana, Madueke, Joao Felix

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640 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Bubz
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    What a horrendous game of football

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Welcome to Chelsea

  2. JBG
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Lol Pep is such a troll, don't own Akanji. Just laughable.

    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Most owned City player benefitting from this CS is Walker with 0.7% EO

    2. Livinginapool - Top 100 Any…
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      I do.

      Sums up this week.

      Sums up this season.

      I need to make better decisions tbf. Can't really blame Pep...

    3. DycheDycheBaby
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Pep hates FPL with a passion 😀

      1. The Ilfordian
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        1 year, 3 months ago

        Haha, it’d be great if he was genuinely a FFS member and trolling us for fun

    4. Deer-in-headlights
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Benched him for a single game weeker.

  3. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Subbing off Akanji for Stones on 50 something mins...so Pep

  4. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    This game is so fun.

  5. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Snoozefest

    1. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Plus

    2. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Could have been a thrashing if Arsenal had beaten Forest and Pep went full strength

  6. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    I am sure pep follows FPL updates on twittwr

  7. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Lewis Hall most threatening player.

    1. Boss Hogg
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      And also a National Trust stately home in Sussex.
      Probably.

      1. Monklane
        • 15 Years
        1 year, 3 months ago

        Me and the Mrs got married there.

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Lewis Haul?

  8. Make United Great Again
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Boring

  9. Free Hat
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    When I wanted saves I didnt expect it would be the city gk making them

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      It's more frustrating bringing in a City keeper and City keeping CSs, but he gets hence for two of em.

      1. Free Hat
        • 5 Years
        1 year, 3 months ago

        Understandable. But on other hand an ederson benching in one of these two wasnt totally out of the picture. Just didnt expect it to be this game

  10. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Wow this is so exciting. Make one more sub pep.

  11. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Sterling offside

  12. Salalalalah
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Ortega 5 saves while kepa 0, Chelsea doing better than City somehow

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Ederson threatened to turn Ortega into a blue haired freak if he dare conceede.

    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Don’t think Ederson has made 5 saves in a match all season to run salt in the wound!

  13. fish&chips
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Just seen my ultra differential colwill got an assist. Beautiful!

    1. RICICLE
      • 2 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Absolute joke if it sticks, didn’t even touch him

      1. fish&chips
        • 14 Years
        1 year, 3 months ago

        Really? Didn't see it. Hopefully no dubious assist panel as I think I'm the only person that owns him

  14. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Time to sub off Chenku.

  15. Piggs Boson
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Raz > Vinicius Jr

  16. Mr. O'Connell
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Ederson racking up the saves here

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      🙁

  17. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    City have given up attacking it seems

    1. Chenku╰☆╮
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      No..they are just happy to be on the pitch.

  18. DycheDycheBaby
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Stones being the goat as we always knew

  19. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 10 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Raz is special.

  20. DandyDon
    • 5 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    So annoying Stones and Ederson aren’t hauling this week! Should have been great picks with Stones already being rested last week.

    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      It's an anticlimax to the season.

      Hopefully gw38 is better and during this week too.

      The final game of competition football often falls flat too.

      A summer off football it is.

  21. Fintroy
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Keep the Robot on the bench please Pep...

  22. Ady87
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Really, really needed that Akanji CS.

  23. fantasist
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    That's the closest we will get to a Mahrez goal

    1. DycheDycheBaby
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Yeah 🙁

  24. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Haaland just sat down and Grealish warming up

    1. The Ilfordian
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      I think you’ll find Grealish is getting a hattrick. Someone informed us of this earlier

  25. fusen
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    That was such a soft foul.

    1. AgentRed
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Alvarez and Mahrez double up would be a dream for me

      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        1 year, 3 months ago

        Timing

        1. AgentRed
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          1 year, 3 months ago

          Ha yess!!!

          1. AgentRed
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            1 year, 3 months ago

            Argh looks like handball

  26. fantasist
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Alvarez G
    Mahrez A

    1. fantasist
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Handball

  27. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Mahrez A

  28. _Ninja_
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Yes Alvarez

    1. _Ninja_
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      1 year, 3 months ago

      Var check

  29. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Foul

  30. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 3 months ago

    Handball