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22 December 2018 1368 comments
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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, 4 months ago

    Lingard will himself take the penalty.

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      And scores

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

    Pogba not on Pens ?

    1. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

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

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

    Lingard on pens.

    Essential.

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

    Pogba brushed aside by Young !
    I like that .

  5. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 4 months ago

    Wow Lingard stealing penalties from Pogba

    1. ᶠᶦˡᵗʰʸLucre $$$
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      He will be blocking him on Twatbook for that

  6. diesel001
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago

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

        • Zladan
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 4 months ago

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

      2. diesel001
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

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

    2. Zilla
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      JLINGZZZ

    3. THE SHEEP HUNTERS
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Great no Pogba Pantomime penalty.

      1. My Name Is Pepu
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Painful sight

    4. Ha.
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Pogba > Lingard (-4)?

    5. Regin
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        Yep!

    6. fr3d
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        You can have 8 attackers.

      2. Epic Fail
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Bring in Kane and Hazard before the transfer window.

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

      United the cheaper version of City?

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

      1. dvdguy
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Less rotation lottery to worry about

    8. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      laugh out loud Pogba

    9. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 4 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

    10. osceola31909
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

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

      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        martial

      2. Zladan
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Martial.

      3. For Fuchs Sake
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

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

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

        Martial

    11. EMBOLOFAN
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      lingard should be deducted points for being in that JD advert

    12. JustPark
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Bad day for Gunnarsson.

    13. Deulofail
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        Arteta didn't bother.

        1. Deulofail
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 4 months ago

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

      2. EMBOLOFAN
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

          Yeah

    14. Pacer.
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        You've been in a weird mood today.

        And that's coming from me!

        1. Pacer.
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        One flew over the Vauxhall 's nest.

    15. TerryVenables
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Crazy people recommending Digne over Shaw with them fixtures.

      1. RamaJama
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Think Utd will get cs again from now?

        1. TerryVenables
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 4 months ago

          More chance than Everton

      2. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

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

    16. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 4 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

    17. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Mourinho must be squirming 😀

      1. My Name Is Pepu
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Respect man respect.

    18. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

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

    19. Orion
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 4 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?

    20. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        This
        Triple up?

      2. For Fuchs Sake
        • 16 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Exactly and Arsenal struggled against Cardiff

    21. Alex_thekid
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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, 4 months ago

            Calm down.

        2. badgerboy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 4 months ago

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

    22. For Fuchs Sake
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Lacazette to who for one GW before the WC?

      1. Epic Fail
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Kane

      2. My Name Is Pepu
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        Rashford. Might as well jump on the wagon.

      3. Ha.
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 4 months ago

        ....Rashford?

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

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

    23. My Name Is Pepu
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 4 months ago

      Rashford close

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

      Rasher wagon delayed.

    25. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 4 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, 4 months ago

        This