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Paul Pogba (£7.8m) returns to the Manchester United line-up as the Red Devils travel to Cardiff City on Saturday evening.

The Frenchman has been absent for the last three Premier League Gameweeks under Jose Mourinho, but new manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has shown faith in him.

There are also starts for Marcus Rashford (£7.0m) and Anthony Martial (£7.3m) with Jesse Lingard (£6.7m) joining them in thr forward line.

Meanwhile, Solskjaer has gone with Luke Shaw (£4.9m), Phil Jones (£5.1m), Victor Lindelöf (£4.8m) and Ashley Young (£5.7m) for his back-four.

Neil Warnock made no surprise selections for Cardiff as Callum Paterson (£5.3m) continues to lead the line, with Victor Camarasa (£4.6m) operating just behind him, Josh Murphy (£4.8m) and Junior Hoilett (£5.0m) on the wings.

Cardiff City XI: Etheridge; Cunningham, Bamba, Morrison, Ecuele Manga; Arter, Gunnarsson; Murphy, Camarasa, Hoilett; Paterson.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Shaw, Jones, Lindelof, Young; Herrera, Matic, Pogba; Martial, Rashford, Lingard.

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  1. My Name Is Pepu
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Lingard will himself take the penalty.

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      And scores

  2. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Pogba not on Pens ?

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Ashley Young asked him to step away. Lingard wanted to take it as he won the pen.

      1. Epic Fail
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        Shouldn't matter what Lingard wants. What a cuck.

  3. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Lingard on pens.

    Essential.

  4. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Pogba brushed aside by Young !
    I like that .

  5. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Wow Lingard stealing penalties from Pogba

    1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      He will be blocking him on Twatbook for that

  6. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Man Utd just going for it. All of them want to score or assist, even the CBs.

    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Solskjaer can't change the team after this performance. Time to put Huddersfield to the sword in front of the Old Trafford faithful.

      1. MTPockets
        7 years, 6 months ago

        You'd think, but this is Solskjaer. Loved his rotation at Molde

      2. Zladan
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        He’s already said he will be rotating with the amount of games we have.

    2. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      This game proves that when Utd beat City last season, they basically disregarded Mourinho's tactics after HT.

  7. Zilla
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    JLINGZZZ

  8. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Great no Pogba Pantomime penalty.

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Painful sight

  9. Ha.
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Pogba > Lingard (-4)?

  10. Regin
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Watching manu is like watching an ugly a** girl turn into a damn beautiful girl by changing hairstyle, dress, confidence,, etc..

    1. For Fuchs Sake
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Yep!

  11. fr3d
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    How are we going to fit in 5 man utd attackers when we can only have 3 🙁

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      You can have 8 attackers.

    2. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Bring in Kane and Hazard before the transfer window.

  12. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    United the cheaper version of City?

    Buy a ticket, or two, and hope you get a winner every week.

    1. dvdguy
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Less rotation lottery to worry about

  13. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    laugh out loud Pogba

  14. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Great thing is all the main Utd players like Pogba, Martial, Rashford etc are all unlikely to be rested or rotated over the xmas fixtures

  15. osceola31909
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    So, who's the best Man U midfielder option?

    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      martial

    2. Zladan
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Martial.

    3. For Fuchs Sake
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      I'd say Pogba, because he''l play each game and be involved

    4. waitinginthelonggrass
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Martial

  16. EMBOLOFAN
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    lingard should be deducted points for being in that JD advert

  17. JustPark
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Bad day for Gunnarsson.

  18. Deulofail
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    I'd love to be a United supporter right now. Didn't even get this sense of relief and belief by the replacement of Arsene, which we wanted to some extent for years.

    1. JustPark
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Arteta didn't bother.

      1. Deulofail
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        He applied for the job, but there was no temporary position.

    2. EMBOLOFAN
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      truly euphoric feeling to sack one of the most successful managers in the world and replace him with the guy whose last job in the uk saw him get sacked by a championsip club

      1. Deulofail
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        Yeah

  19. Pacer.
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    While I only wish Solskaer the very best, especially as sheringham and Olly is one of my all time face partnerships, and while I'm very happy that any team is no longer playing mmourinh's anti football, this has all the utterly wonderful hallmarks of the lunatics have taken over the asylum and I am really looking forwards to the absolute car crash ahead

    1. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      You've been in a weird mood today.

      And that's coming from me!

      1. Pacer.
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        Yeh I'm quite hammered now, let's be honest though, United are totally off the wall here. It's fun right now, but...

    2. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      One flew over the Vauxhall 's nest.

  20. TerryVenables
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Crazy people recommending Digne over Shaw with them fixtures.

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Think Utd will get cs again from now?

      1. TerryVenables
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        More chance than Everton

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Huh, after weekend Everton face Burnley, Brighton, Leicester, Bournemouth and Southampton. I can't recommend Digne enough.

      1. TerryVenables
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        Bunch of them are away games. Manu have 4 out the next 6 at home. Better fixtures imo

  21. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    - I did Auba Brooks > Sane Rashford -4
    - Captained hazard
    - ML h2h took -16 and got Lingard, they new United pk taker and goal scoing machine and ive lost

  22. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Mourinho must be squirming 😀

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Respect man respect.

  23. My Name Is Pepu
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Looks like all United players are running with some kind of nitro booster up their aaarse.

  24. Orion
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Please help lads...
    Fabianski
    Alonso TAA Doherty
    Haz Sterling Siggy Fanderson
    Kane Laca Jiménez

    Hammer Digne AWB Gibbs-White

    2 FTs, 0.1 ITB... What’s wrong with this team?

  25. It’s gonna Ben Mee
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Yes it’s Cardiff but I haven’t seen Man Utd playing with passing tempo, movement, combinations, pace and press for a very long time.

    1. Alex_thekid
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      This
      Triple up?

    2. For Fuchs Sake
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Exactly and Arsenal struggled against Cardiff

  26. Alex_thekid
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Man utd score over 2 goals away this season for the first time, coincidence I think not. The shackles are finally of let the stallion's run free!!

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      I bet Ssolskjaer has barely had any input, the players are just playing because Mourinho is no longer there.

      1. For Fuchs Sake
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        Rubbish, they still have to work to his system and will be on the end of his team talk/ training

        1. Epic Fail
          • 15 Years
          7 years, 6 months ago

          Calm down.

      2. badgerboy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 6 months ago

        Yeah, he's only had two training sessions with them.

  27. For Fuchs Sake
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Lacazette to who for one GW before the WC?

    1. Epic Fail
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Kane

    2. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      Rashford. Might as well jump on the wagon.

    3. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      ....Rashford?

    4. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      I've seen Rashford mentioned once or twice tonight, could be worth a look?

  28. My Name Is Pepu
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Rashford close

  29. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Rasher wagon delayed.

  30. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 6 months ago

    Utd playing like City and OGS has not had time to work on much, probably just told them to go and express themselves and to enjoy it.

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 6 months ago

      This