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Pogba back in attacking midfield as Matic returns

Paul Pogba (£8.9m) owners will be delighted to see Nemanja Matic (£5.0m) back in the side for Manchester United.

The Serbian international has missed the last three Premier League matches with injury, which forced Pogba to sit deeper than usual.

Matic’s return should allow the Frenchman to play a more advanced role in midfield once again, against an Arsenal defence with just one clean sheet in the last six Gameweeks.

Also of note is the fact that defender Diogo Dalot (£5.3m) has been named in front three once again.

He played there against Crystal Palace and Southampton, lining up on the right of Romelu Lukaku (£10.8m) at the Emirates Stadium today.

Marcus Rashford (£7.6m) also keeps his place although we will have to wait and see whether he plays centrally alongside Lukaku or out on the left flank.

Arsenal manager Unai Emery has named both Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£10.8m) and Alexandre Lacazette (£9.4m) in the starting line-up for the first time since Gameweek 25.

He has also gone with a back-three of Sokratis Papastathopoulos (£5.1m), Laurent Koscielny (£5.4m) and Nacho Monreal (£5.4m) while Sead Kolasinac (£5.0m) and Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£4.4m) occupy the wing-back spots.

Arsenal XI: Leno; Sokratis, Koscielny, Monreal; Maitland-Niles, Ramsey, Xhaka, Kolasinac; Özil; Lacazette, Aubameyang.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Young, Smalling, Lindelöf; Diogo Dalot, Fred, Matic, Shaw; Pogba; Lukaku, Rashford.

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  1. LǝgleSs e|even
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    lol arsenal attacking

    1. G-Whizz
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      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      lol Arsenal scored...

      1. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        LOL!

  2. Hybrid.power
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    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    The wife is after going ahead and booking a night in a hotel next Friday. Doesn't she know I need to plan for the blanks??

    1. Monklane
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Dames

      1. Hybrid.power
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Right?

    2. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      That's probably why she's leaving you at home 😉

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        😀

  3. Jack Frost
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Is gw35 the big multi team DGW?

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Maybe 32 aswell

  4. My heart goes Salalalalah
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    De Gea?

  5. tm245
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Granit!

  6. Debauchy
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Get in

  7. TorresMagic™
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    • 14 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Oh no.

  8. Burger
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    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Jackie, 1 nil

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      LOL

  9. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Wtf

  10. Hazz
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    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Xhaka OMG

  11. Monkey Hanger
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Laca assist.

  12. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    DDG very poor

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Worlds best LOL

    2. Stay Back
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Windy down there

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Jurgen is that you?

    3. Stay Back
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      I'll have to swerve answering that...

  13. Ógie
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    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    DDG howler 🙁

    1. FPL_Gyarados
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Not really, the swerve caught him off guard. Clever shot

  14. Poseidon.
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Omg how’re we losing

  15. Silecro
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Boom Xhaka Laca

    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      You’ve waited so long 😀

      1. Ginkapo FPL
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Think its Boom Laca Xhaka as well

  16. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Boooo Laca

  17. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Dafuq Dave? 😀

  18. Chenku╰☆╮
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Xhaka captain yes

    1. Stay Back
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      You taking the Swiss? 😛

  19. Jack Frost
    • 13 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    If I have 2 free transfers, can I use one up before I use the free hit chip? Don’t want to waste a free transfer.

    1. Burger
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      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      No

    2. TorresMagic™
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      • 14 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      no

      1. Jack Frost
        • 13 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks, I’ve been distracted these past four weeks, not on my game this year. Btw thanks for every kindness from Torresmagic. I played in your last man standing league in my first year 2010-11. And though I am old as dirt now , kind of remember I did well. Thanks TM

  20. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Gonna make this simple :
    For 31 and 33...

    A) VVD, Son, Pogba, Moutinho, Rash
    B) Ake, Mane, Hazard, Fraser, Wilson (-16)

    1. Burger
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      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      B, but 48 hours ago.

      1. TorresMagic™
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        • 14 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        😀

      2. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Love hindsight 😉

    2. THFC4LIFE
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      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      B will outscore A

      1. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Hits worth it then? Surely

    3. Eytexi
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      B: those players will collectively score 16 more than VVD over 2 weeks.

      1. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        A fat amount of hits it is

        1. Eytexi
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Must be scary but good luck! I reckon having FH32 will be worth it.

          1. Tsparkes10
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Excited tbh. Rival has no FH so guessing he's going to be without an 11 or taking hits so I'll just have fun with it

            1. Eytexi
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              He's lost in your back pocket by the sounds of things.

              1. Tsparkes10
                • 5 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                Well he's 80 points ahead now and I was 80 ahead before Christmas... So he's laughing atm but it's not impossible

  21. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Terrible from De Gea. Nothing to do with "swerve" or "the modern football" bs, he just misjudged the shot completely.

    1. Stay Back
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Wind up?

  22. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Boom Xhaka Laca, unfortunately

  23. S3
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    SMEs pls help:

    1) Son and Sterling to Hazard and Lanzini (-4) have 10 to play GW 32
    2) Son, TAA, Sterling to Mane, Diop, Hazard (-8) have 10 to play GW 32

    Using FH in 32

  24. Champ
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    • 13 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Best keeper in the world

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Over here & over rated

  25. LǝgleSs e|even
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    This is what happens when you Vape DDG

  26. Eytexi
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Got a FT to burn with FH32:
    King to Wilson an option?
    Or am i just chasing points?

    1. Champ
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      • 13 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Not really. Wilson been pretty consistent when playing. Good fixtures

      1. Eytexi
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        I probably shouldn't have asked two contradictory questions haha, so you think it's a good idea?

  27. Forza
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    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    DDG must have Xhaka (c), ban him for match fixing.

  28. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    My mrs is away for work from Thursday to Saturday evening.

    She knows I need to plan for the blanks.

    1. Burger
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      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Ultimate blank planning 😎

  29. tucaoneo
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    What a shot! Look at the trajectory.

    1. FPL_Gyarados
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      It was such a clever shot.

  30. Monkey Hanger
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Been so difficult to predict this season, how Chelsea, and Arsenal are going to perform one game to the next.