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Lars Hamer

The wheels have well and truly come off at Manchester City. They followed their 4-0 home loss to Tottenham up by throwing away a three-goal lead against Feyenoord.
This kind of run is unprecedented in the Pep Guardiola era. But what does it mean for Fantasy Premier League?
City are still making chances: they had 23 shots against Spurs and Erling Haaland (£15.1m) scored two against Feyenoord.
However, they are leaking goals, with Josko Gvardiol (£6.3m) in particular having had a torrid time and was at fault for at least four of the seven goals across the two matches.
Sell City players and do not look back until their form turns.

Gameweek 12 review
Matheus Cunha (£7.0m) scored two in Wolves’ 4-1 win at Fulham to make it a return of 28 points in two games and his next five games are Bournemouth, Everton, West Ham, Ipswich and Leicester. It is no surprise he is the most transferred-in player this week.
Joao Pedro (£5.6m) has also returned double-digit hauls in his last two games, racking up 23 points despite only playing 88 minutes.
Last week’s article called for managers to bring Cole Palmer (£10.9m) and Nicolas Jackson (£8.0m). Jackson scored one goal for 12 points and Palmer had one cleared off the line by his own player.
Ditch Haaland and line up with budget forwards and a stacked midfield.
Speaking of midfield, Bukayo Saka (£10.2m) scored 13 points and has a decent run of fixtures, while the return of Martin Odegaard (£8.2m) will only boost the chances he gets.
Looking at my own side, Various Artists fell 20,000 places to 400,000th in the world.
My starting 11 scored 58 points, nine above the average, but annoyingly, my bench scored 26, a common occurrence for me this season.
Pedro Porro (£5.5m) got a goal and a clean sheet, and Dominic Solanke (£7.6m) bagged an assist as I foolishly thought City would put Spurs to the sword.
Dean Henderson (£4.4m) saved a penalty to earn seven points.

Triple up, captain headache
Looking at Gameweek 13 and beyond, stacking up on Chelsea and Arsenal players looks very appealing.
As mentioned above, Arsenal have been bolstered by the return of key players and the only coming games you would expect them to struggle in are against Brighton and Spurs in Gameweek 19 and 20, respectively.
A triple-up is not vital, but I am looking at two or even three of Gabriel (£6.2m), Saka, William Saliba (£6.0m) and David Raya (£5.5m).
Chelsea are also at the beginning of a decent fixture run: check out my line-up for my favoured three players.
This week, over 550,000 managers have ditched Haaland and that means for once, there is actually a selection headache when it comes to who will wear the captain’s armband.
Mohamed Salah (£13.1m) faces City and has a good record against the champions, scoring seven and assisting four in 14 Premier League meetings.
However, Chelsea host Aston Villa, who have only kept one clean sheet all season which is appealing to Palmer owners.

Lars’ line-up
Matz Sels (£4.7m) is in net, with Ipswich at home for Nottingham Forest. My defence is Gabriel, Virgil van Dijk (£6.3m), Levi Colwill (£4.5m) and Porro.
In midfield, it is Bryan Mbeumo (£7.9m), Palmer and Salah (c). I was burned last week by thinking City would turn it around. I am not going to let that happen again.
Jackson, Chris Wood (£6.6m) and Solanke are the front three.
Henderson is on the bench and Morgan Rogers (£5.4m) will come in if Gabriel is genuinely injured, though it looks like his late substitution against Sporting CP on Tuesday night was precautionary.


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With Liverpool away at the weekend, it’s time to offload your Manchester City players in FPL, including Erling Haaland (left). Photo: AP

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I was burned last week by thinking Pep Guardiola’s side would turn it around, I won’t let that happen again


I was burned last week by thinking Pep Guardiola’s side would turn it around, I won’t let that happen again.


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