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Wolves rotate as Rashford starts for Man United

Nuno Espirito Santo has already begun the rotation process ahead of Wolves’ FA Cup semi-final next weekend.

Raúl Jiménez (£6.8m) and Matt Doherty (£5.4m) were both named on the bench for the Double Gameweek 32 trip to Burnley.

Diogo Jota (£6.1m) keeps his place leading the Wolves line, while Joao Moutinho (£5.3m) starts in midfield.

Elsewhere, there was good news for those with Marcus Rashford (£7.6m) in their squads as he was confirmed as starting against Watford.

The England international has been deployed up front alongside Anthony Martial (£7.2m).

Romelu Lukaku (£10.8m) and Jesse Lingard (£6.7m) were named among the substitutes although there was no place in the match squad for Victor Lindelof (£5.1m) after his wife gave birth earlier this week.

It’s Phil Jones (£5.1m) who is paired with Chris Smalling (£5.6m) at centre-back for Manchester United.

Meanwhile, opponents Watford have rested some players but have made fewer changes to their attack than Wolves as they prepare for the FA Cup semi-finals.

Troy Deeney (£5.9m) and Gerard Deulofeu (£5.7m) start up front of the first-choice four-man midfield.

Intriguingly, it’s in defence where the Hornets have made a change, with Craig Cathcart (£4.5m) on the bench, allowing Miguel Britos (£4.3m) to start.

Daryl Janmaat (£4.9m), Christian Kabasele (£4.4m) and Adam Masina (£4.3m) keep their places in the side after starting against Manchester City in Gameweek 30.

There was good news for those invested in Crystal Palace assets as Vicente Guaita (£4.2m), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£4.5m), Jeffrey Schlupp (£4.5m), Luka Milivojevic (£6.3m) and Wilfried Zaha (£6.9m) all start.

There was some rotation for Brighton ahead of their involvement in the FA Cup semi-finals as Martín Montoya (£4.3m) and Bernardo (£4.2m) come in at full-back.

Chris Hughton has gone for a front-three of Anthony Knockaert (£5.2m) and Alireza Jahanbakhsh (£6.7m) either side of Glenn Murray (£6.3m).

Burnley keep faith in their front two of Ashley Barnes (£5.7m) and Chris Wood (£6.2m) while Jeff Hendrick (£5.2m) reclaims his starting berth on the right flank from Johann Berg Gudmundsson (£5.5m), who drops to the bench.

Brighton XI: Ryan; Bernardo, Duffy, Dunk, Montoya; Bissouma, Stephens, Pröpper; Knockaert, Murray, Jahanbakhsh.

Southampton XI: Gunn; Bertrand, Yoshida, Bednarek, Valery; Højbjerg, Romeu; Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Redmond; Ings.

Burnley XI: Heaton; Bardsley, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Barnes, Wood.

Wolves XI: Rui Patrício; Saïss, Coady, Boly; Traoré, Dendoncker, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Jonny; Cavaleiro, Diogo Jota.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita; Wan-Bissaka, Tomkins, Dann, van Aanholt; Meyer, Milivojevic, Schlupp; Townsend, Batshuayi, Zaha.

Huddersfield XI: Hamer; Smith, Schindler, Kongolo, Durm; Bacuna, Hogg, Mooy; Pritchard, Löwe; Grant.

Leicester XI: Schmeichel; Ricardo Pereira, Morgan, Evans, Chilwell; Tielemans, Ndidi, Maddison; Gray, Vardy, Barnes.

Bournemouth XI: Begovic; Clyne, Mepham, Aké, Daniels; Brooks, Gosling, Lerma, Fraser; King, Wilson.

Man United XI: de Gea; Young, Smalling, Jones, Shaw; Herrera, Matic, Pogba; Mata; Rashford, Martial.

Watford XI: Foster; Janmaat, Kabasele, Britos, Masina; Doucouré, Capoue; Hughes, Pereyra; Deulofeu, Deeney.

1,221 Comments Post a Comment
  1. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Not a United fan, but always nice to see a player making it from their academy to an indispensible first team member. Well done, Marcus.

    1. DAZZ
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Agreed. Similar with TAA.

    2. Amey
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Assisted by one from your academy 😉

      1. DAZZ
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Who was your third city player in the end amey?

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          B Silva 😉

      2. Differential C (Mark)
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Love the boy. No hard feelings from him moving to United. Great lad.

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Absolutely.
          Recovering from that horrific Injury too 🙂

    3. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Yeah he's class, out of Jose's shackles now too.

  2. theodosios
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Awful Palace...Can't imagine what Spurs will do to this team...

    1. Gonzola
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Bet Palace are terrified after they destroyed Southampton last prem game.

    2. European Bob
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Lose probably

  3. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Any chance Doherty sits out both games and plays zero minutes?

    1. Limited & Mediocre Mana…
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      2%

    2. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Who’s your 1st sub?

      1. SPorting
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Bilva?

      2. Bubz
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Rice

    3. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      V unlikely imo

    4. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Less than 0%

  4. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Duffy and Schlupp lets go boyos

  5. SPorting
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hamer racking up the points.

  6. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Delu's compression thigts making his nose bleed.

  7. Tcheco
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Decisions like picking Lindelof over Shaw on FH is why my ranking is so horrible

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Long way to go.

    2. RAFA THE GAFFA
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Logically it made sense on 9YCs but I agree Shaw looks better when watching. My rival went Shaw because he does no research and just picks whatever and is much better than me haha

      1. Tcheco
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Yellow cards aren't a factor since it's only for 1 GW + been reading about Lindelof being in labor for a few days

        1. Tcheco
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Just realized the YC means he'd miss the second game oops

          1. IRBOX ⚽
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Wow

    3. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Honestly, with all of the info and doubts about lindelof, I wouldn't have picked him. I wouldn't have picked Shaw though because of the yellow cards

  8. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Why did I think picking two Palace players on a free hit would be such a good decision?!

    1. Mambino
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      cos Huddersfield are turd

  9. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hoooold Brighton

  10. SEXY SOLO SAUCE FOR THE LAS…
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Nice easy switch of Boruc to Hamer then

    1. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Whats up with Boruc?

      1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE FOR THE LAS…
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Dropped by the looks of it

    2. potatoace
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Have both

  11. The Tinkerman
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Dunk and Schlupp, come on you mugs. Need something from the both of you today.

  12. Avo24
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    So all of the expensive asset fail until this poont

  13. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Is Boruc okay?

    1. HamezMace
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Yes, just rotated today though

  14. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Batshuyai can't even score v Huddersfield. Chelsea reject

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      😛

  15. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Matrial sleeping there. Could've been an easy tap in.

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      He does that a lot.

    2. LewanGOALski
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      True. Should follow the ball till the end

  16. The Train Driver
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Love the Smalling - Jones partnership. Looks so scrappy but oh ao effective..

  17. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Shooooot Rasher!

  18. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Young down, feeling something

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      No. Please no

    2. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Reported

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        ?

  19. Patch
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Sensing Penalty Heaven Nearby

    #Patch

  20. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Ashley Young seems injured

  21. The Train Driver
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Young bullet dodged...

  22. Maddamotha
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Young downnnnn

  23. The Tinkerman
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Any reliable place for live GW rank?

    FFFix has me on a red arrow despite being well above GW and top 10k averages.

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Livefpl.net

      1. The Tinkerman
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks!

  24. Begbie.
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Brighton better get the finger out. Doesn't sound good for CS hopes

  25. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    I own Schlupp but want palace to concede because I didn’t go with Tomkins.

    Bitter much ? 😉

    1. Smurf
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Why what’s Tomkins done?

      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        He was rumoured to not be starting. So I went for Boly and ignored the palace defensive double up I was on most the week

    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Palace double up never seemed worth it for one game with me - will probably get humped against Spurs. Almost went United double up though. That could have gone either way pairing DDG with Shaw or Lindelof

  26. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    "Ashley Young is down after Roberto Pereyra falls on top of the Manchester United captain during a challenge.

    That's going to hurt but Young, after some treatment, is up on his feet and able to continue.

    1. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      From BBC sport. Hang in there boy!

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        HT should help.

  27. Royal5
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Martial has been very poor

  28. The Tinkerman
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Oriel Romeu on for max baps, outscoring Sterling.

    1. Pompel
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      First on bench. Lets hope Jiminez is rested for both!

    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Haha was joking earlier about hoping he wouldn’t come off bench. Not so sure now. Surely he’ll come on if still losing against Burnley though.

  29. potatoace
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Oriol on 3baps

  30. barracuda
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Was Kun/Pep faking the injury?

    1. Yank Revolution
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      No. But likely precautionary.