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The final fixture of Gameweek 1 takes place at 16:30 BST as Manchester United welcome Chelsea to Old Trafford.

There weren’t too many shocks upon the release of the teamsheets but perhaps the headline news was that both Mason Mount (£6.0m) and Ross Barkley (£6.0m) – rather than one or the other – start together in Frank Lampard’s first Premier League starting XI as Chelsea manager.

Christian Pulisic (£7.5m) is the man to make way, with the USA international dropping to the bench.

Pedro (£7.0m) completes the trio of attacking midfielders lining up behind lone striker Tammy Abraham (£7.0m).

N’Golo Kante (£5.0m) is only fit enough for a place on the bench, while Willian (£7.0m) and Antonio Rudiger (£6.0m) miss out.

Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka (both £5.5m) are handed their competitive United debuts but Daniel James (£6.0m) is only a substitute.

Andreas Pereira (£5.0m) instead gets the nod and will line up in ‘the hole’, with Jesse Lingard (£6.5m) on the right flank and Marcus Rashford (£8.5m) stationed on the opposite wing.

An ‘out of position’ Anthony Martial (£7.5m) is reportedly set to lead the line.

Budget FPL forward Mason Greenwood (£4.5m) is on the bench, meanwhile.

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Zouma, Emerson, Kovacic, Jorginho, Mount, Barkley, Pedro, Abraham.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, McTominay, Pereira, Pogba, Lingard, Rashford, Martial.

Lessons learned from Gameweek 1

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  1. stuarto
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Meaty French Forehead v Slabhead

  2. Agger
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Rashford Rashford Rashford..

    1. Agger
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      8.5m for a Man United striker in an attacking team, who's now ready to reach his potential? And you choose Wilson and Vardy?

      1. Differentiator
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Rashford is not particularly good.

        1. Agger
          • 10 Years
          6 years, 11 months ago

          Better than Mbappe and Henry mate

        2. Yank Revolution
          • 14 Years
          6 years, 11 months ago

          Strong disagree

        3. @persecuted_by_mods
          6 years, 11 months ago

          Bit harsh, stats are up there with most superstars when they were young and he's arguably played for the worst utd teams especially attacking wise

  3. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Was excited by the prospect of cheap-ish Chelsea assets ... delaying the interests now

  4. La Roja
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Young coming on for Shaw

  5. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Stop it, Dakes. Stop that knee twitching in the direction of United players.

  6. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Chelsea's defence is shocking, ofc Utd attackers are scoring points

    1. The Train Driver
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Lol

  7. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Emerson has had abfaitnfew shots today. Not that I'm going anywhere near out defence, however.

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      "a fair few"

  8. Carlton P
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Fraser > Martial?
    Really didn’t want to make a transfer after the first week but 7.5 for a nailed OOP united striker is a no brainer right?

    1. Differentiator
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Nah, Villa next

      1. LOL LINGARD SCORED
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Fraser deserves the Villa game I think. Plus Martial away to Wolves. Will see what happens next week

    2. Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Looks a good shout.

    3. Cok3y5murf
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      If it's such a no-brainer, why don't you already have him, kneejerker?

    4. JIMMY TUGGINS
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Planned to do it after Villa but I'll do it this week if he's gonna rise.

    5. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Possibly
      He could be 7.8m by Wednesday

  9. bryant
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Bilva to martial is the move right?

    1. Podge
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      I would

  10. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Wowzer, top 10k average up to 75 points now

    1. JJO
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      that average is nonsense

      1. moment
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        it's not the actual top10K average this week. True Top10K will be 100+ a fair bit.

      2. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Probably a better guide to a real average of proper players than the overall average
        It's the first 10,000 IDs and it's usually the keen FPL players that sign up straightaway when the site reopens

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      It's only the 1st 10K IDs.

      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Likely to be only serious managers so its a fair estimate of an average of good managers.

    3. jtreble
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Where do you see that? FPLDiscovery seems to be down

      1. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        https://www.livefpl.net/top10k
        It's only the first 10k IDs, but it's IMO a sensible guide to real players as they usually register to the game first
        Wondering if this is the highest scoring GW1 we've had

        1. jtreble
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 11 months ago

          Thanks. A 10K average of 75 seems low though.

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

    Let the horses Ron Ole.

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

      Run ffs

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

        It's a nice name...

  12. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Fair play to those with a United defender, lovely CS to start the season.

  13. EL tridente
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Sigurdsson and King to Kean and Martial next GW?

    1. thepeen555
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      I wouldn’t do Kean yet. See how he settles in

  14. Abusive_Sgt_Daelrhos
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Moura to Martial and Barkley to McGinn?:D

  15. Yank Revolution
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    James coming on...

  16. thepeen555
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    On comes lightening McQueen

  17. The Train Driver
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Smart move Lamps, get Kante in, you don't want to get humiliated...

  18. Pukki Blinders
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Chelsea bringing on a DM at 3-0 down. Wowie

    1. Davido989
      • 15 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Giving their best player minutes before a European final. It makes sense.

  19. Wirtzle Gummidge
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    And now Lingard to Greenwood please Ole.

  20. Agger
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Dancing in the living room, Rashford Rashford

  21. Flynny
    • 11 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Martial to triple rise?

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      At least.

    2. Differentiator
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      l.o.l

    3. thepeen555
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Prob will fly up from the jerkers

    4. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      x2 maybe,he is not the only bandwagon out there.

    5. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Only triple?

  22. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    AWB rashford & martial essential

    1. Agger
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      That's the spirit. Inspire the price rise

    2. Pukki Blinders
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      May aswell add Young, Lindelof and Mctominay to the list too

  23. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Why on earth didn’t Kante start? Their best player by a country mile

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 17 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Coming back from injury.

  24. QUEN
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    What a weird week this is. Most of my players have returned, but not to the extent that sterling Kane and Rashford have, so I will be at the bottom of most my leagues.... love fpl

    1. TAT
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Most of my mini league rivals have 1-3 United players. I'm already chasing.

    2. Dannyb
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Going without Sterling was always going to be a bad move. Will be in the top 2/3 players this season.

    3. jdp219
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Same here. All in our ML I just looking at each other like, this can't be possible.

  25. Catsandhats
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    How did Siggurdson look yesterday? Didn’t see the game and need to know if he’s worth giving a chance or a worth jumping on martial...

    1. Differentiator
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      He was fine. Absolutely mad to sell with those fixtures

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

      Some chances but didn’t take them ... Digne looked great

  26. Nr.10
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    After this game what do you think about Mount? Wanted to change to him but now I am not sure. Anyone else to consider in the same bracket ?

  27. PogChamp
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    No Salah, Sterling(v), Aubu(c). 80 points. Got out of jail.

  28. jdp219
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    So, Rashford's second goal wasn't VAR'd, but the City one was? A bit confusing.

    1. Dannyb
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Was clearly not offside though

      1. jdp219
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 11 months ago

        Not arguing the goal.

        I'm confused how Sterling's armpit was "clearly" offside enough to warrant the VAR.

  29. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    What shall I do with:

    A. Milivojevic
    B. Barkley
    C. Jiménez

    1. Jafooli
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Top of da pages. It’s a sign, gonna replace all three donkey kongs.....

  30. Agger
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 11 months ago

    Wan Bisakka to set up Paul Pogba for a goal and I might jizz my pants

    1. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 11 months ago

      Your mother will be so proud.