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Starts for Lundstram and £4.0m defender in Sunday’s only Premier League game

The penultimate match of Gameweek 13 takes place at Bramall Lane, with Sheffield United entertaining Manchester United.

Kick-off in Sunday’s only Premier League fixture is at 16:30 GMT.

There is plenty of interest for Fantasy Premier League managers in this game, with David de Gea (£5.5m), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£5.4m), Harry Maguire (£5.3m), Daniel James (£6.2m), Marcus Rashford (£8.6m) and John Lundstram (£4.9m) all sitting in more than 10% of FPL squads.

All six of those players start in South Yorkshire today.

Anthony Martial (£7.8m), who is on the cusp of a double-digit ownership himself, also features in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s starting XI.

The Norwegian head coach has made just one alteration to his Gameweek 12 line-up, with Phil Jones (£4.8m) replacing the injured Scott McTominay (£5.1m).

Whether Jones is a like-for-like swap for the Scot in midfield or joins a back three remains to be seen, with Solskjaer saying ahead of kick-off:

Phil has been training well. He’s got experience of playing both central midfield and at the back. When you show the attitude he’s shown in training, it’s time for him to get a chance. Marcos [Rojo] is injured, Axel [Tuanzebe] isn’t really ready to come in so it was an easy option.

Brandon Williams (£4.0m) gets his second successive start at left-back (or wing-back), keeping the benched Ashley Young (£5.4m) out of the side despite the latter’s return from suspension.

Solskjaer said of that decision:

Brandon’s played really well in every game he’s played. I didn’t find any reason to leave him out. It’s a testing stadium for him to play at so it’s a good opportunity to show his mentality because his temperament is one of his strengths.

Chris Wilder makes two enforced changes from the side that drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur a fortnight ago.

Dean Henderson (£4.7m) – owned by just over 5% of Fantasy managers – is ineligible to face his parent club, so Simon Moore (£4.4m) deputises for the on-loan goalkeeper for the hosts.

The hitherto ever-present John Egan (£4.5m) hasn’t recovered from a calf injury so Phil Jagielka (£4.2m) gets his first Premier League start of the season.

Lys Mousset (£5.0m) and David McGoldrick (£5.4m) again start up front.

The Blades have kept clean sheets in three of their six home fixtures in 2019/20 and conceded just four goals in those half-dozen matches.

Solskjaer’s troops have won just one of their six away games this season and are yet to keep a clean sheet on the road.

Three of the Red Devils’ five away goals came at Carrow Road in Gameweek 10.

Sheffield United XI: Moore, O’Connell, Jagielka, Basham, Stevens, Baldock, Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram, Mousset, McGoldrick.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Jones, Maguire, Lindelof, Williams, Pereira, Fred, James, Martial, Rashford.

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  1. ClassiX
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    As a long-standing ManU supporter, I have to ask...how the feck does it feel like they're so poor at the moment, and yet they'll be 5th on the table tonight...???

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Because outside of the Top 4 - the rest are all playing crap.

  2. Woy_is_back
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Martial FAIL!!! Told ya 😉

    1. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Yes. Fair play.

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

      A forward that stands still vs 3 CBs? Hardly rocket science.

    3. Party time
        4 years, 5 months ago

        😆

      • BrutalLogiC
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Didn't you say United/Rash would blank?

    4. Don Kloppeone
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Lunds > Williams (-8) make sense?

    5. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Tiem to sell Lundtram

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

      Anyone with a full house of points on the bench?

      Cantwell & Greenwood should help. Maybe a Soy too and a playing GK.

    7. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      It's hard to argue with this Scholes XI https://youtu.be/VrTXUz2uE1A?t=18

    8. TheDragon
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Where is my Lundstram haul?!

    9. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      OMG mcburnie

    10. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      McBurnie G
      Robinson A

    11. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      3-3

      1. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        VAR handball time

    12. tm245
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      3-3!

    13. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      😳

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

      Did he handball it?

    15. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      VAR check for handball

    16. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Thought that was lundy

    17. _Ninja_
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Mcburny goal... Var check for handball

      1. _Ninja_
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Goal given

    18. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      LOOOOL

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

      Should he disallowed

      1. No Professionals
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Get out of here

    20. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      It will be surely be ruled out

    21. Waynoo
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Mcbernieeee

    22. FFSbet.com
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Hand

      1. FFSbet.com
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        shoulder

    23. Herman Toothrot
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Biggest team in the wor......

    24. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      No handball surely

    25. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      McBurnie better get a taxi tonight

    26. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      oh my, who thought this would be a thriller? I considered it ealier and was like nah its Sheffield

    27. Gobigorgohome
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      VAR TIME

    28. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Not handball

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

      Mane & this.

      United own VAR.

    30. Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Should stand

    31. ZeBestee
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Looks like a perfect Goal for me.