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Manchester United line up with a wealth of attacking pace and talent for their Gameweek 31+ meeting with Sheffield United.

Paul Pogba (£8.3m) returns to the starting XI for the first time since Gameweek 7 after impressing as a substitute against Spurs.

The Frenchman sits alongside Nemanja Matić (£4.8m) in midfield, supporting a powerful front-four.

Anthony Martial (£8.0m) retains his centre-forward berth, supported by an attacking midfield trio of Marcus Rashford (£8.9m), Bruno Fernandes (£8.7m) and Mason Greenwood (£4.3m).

Simon Moore (£4.3m) comes in for Dean Henderson (£5.3m) in the Sheffield United goal, with rotation taking place elsewhere in the Blades’ side.

Phil Jagielka (£4.1m) comes in for the suspended John Egan (£4.6m), with Jack Robinson (£4.0m) retaining his place in light of Jack O’Connell‘s (£4.6m) recent injury.

Meanwhile, David McGoldrick (£5.4m) and Lys Mousset (£4.5m) are handed rare starts up-front and John Lundstram (£4.9m) is back in midfield.

Wolves look equally dangerous ahead of their meeting with Bournemouth as they go with the 3-4-3 shape that helped them get the 2-0 win over West Ham.

That means a first start since the Premier League resumes for Adama Traoré (£5.7m), supported by Matt Doherty (£6.4m) in a wing-back role.

Diogo Jota (£6.4m) starts once more, supporting Raúl Jiménez (£8.2m) who garnered some captaincy attention for Gameweek 31+.

Owners of Everton assets will be encouraged by the Norwich line-up named by Daniel Farke.

In a big statement of intent, he has dropped Teemu Pukki (£6.5m), Todd Cantwell (£4.7m) and Emi Buendía (£6.0m) to the bench, opting for largely second-string attackers at Carrow Road.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£6.5m) and Richarlison (£8.3m) are the main Fantasy draws among Carlo Ancelotti’s men, both starting up-front together in the favoured 4-4-2 formation.

Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has shuffled his attacking pack once more, desperate to make a breakthrough at Newcastle.

He has named the same back-four but lines up an attacking midfield trio of Trézéguet (£5.2m) and Anwar El Ghazi (£5.5m) either side of Jack Grealish (£6.4m) in support of Mbwana Samatta (£5.7m).

Despite the recent upturn in Fantasy interest, out-of-position midfielder Keinan Davis (£4.3m) finds himself on the bench.

Villa face a Newcastle side with the joint-most number of clean sheets in home matches this season, featuring the in-form Allan Saint-Maximin (£5.4m) in attacking midfield with out-of-position FPL defender Matt Ritchie (£5.3m) on the other flank.

There are also starts for budget options Jamaal Lascelles (£4.3m) and Federico Fernandez (£4.6m).

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, Wan-Bissaka; Matic, Pogba; Rashford, B Fernandes, Greenwood; Martial.

Sheffield United XI: Moore; Robinson, Jagielka, Basham; Stevens, Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram, Baldock; McGoldrick, Mousset.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka; Rose, Lascelles, Fernandez, Manquillo; Hayden, Shelvey; Saint-Maximin, Almirón, Ritchie; Joelinton.

Aston Villa XI: Nyland; Targett, Mings, Hause, Konsa; Luiz, McGinn; Trezeguet, Grealish, El Ghazi; Samatta.

Norwich City XI: Krul; Lewis, Klose, Godfrey, Aarons; Tettey, McLean; O Hernandez, Duda, Rupp; Drmic.

Everton XI: Pickford; Digne, Holgate, Keane, Coleman; Bernard, T Davies, Gomes, Iwobi; Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.

Wolves XI: Patricio; Saiss, Coady, Boly; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez, Traoré.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale; A Smith, Aké, S Cook, Stacey; Stanislas, Lerma, L Cook, Billing, Brooks; C Wilson.

FPL Lessons Learned from Gameweek 31+

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  1. Chief Break-Everything
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Richarlison is Aubameyang in disguise

  2. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Utterly useless. Never captaining again

  3. SuperMane Returns
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    DCL daisycutter

  4. Bruce Lee
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    I see what's happening here - Utd are putting their good players on now

  5. Christina.
    • 16 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Lateriser to win FPL for Nirvana.

    Martial(c)

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

    He hasn't blanked since his first GW and chooses to do it now. FFS.

    1. WVA
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Sorry mate my bad probably

  7. Dog and Fox
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    9 players has played, 8 has scored points, the last one is mye C!!!

    1. FPL Scoop
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      I feel you

  8. Party time
    6 years, 1 month ago

    New article: Bruno Fernandes gives his owners peanuts

    1. Bruce Lee
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Someone make this man chief editor

      1. SuperMane Returns
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Class 🙂

  9. WVA
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Bruno captain here.

    Still feel I picked the right team and fixture to captain someone from, as has been my season very unlucky not to get anything

    1. YoungPretender
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Feel the same. Just didnt work out on this occasion.

    2. Utopsis
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Agreed.

  10. Stupendous
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Dcl and Richarlison on WC

    That worked then.

  11. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Is Rashford worth 0.9m more than Martial?

    1. The_Fish
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      No

    2. Flynny
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Very hard to say....martial in the mood tho

    3. Royal5
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Watch Martial go 5 games without scoring now. So inconsistent. Up there with Firmino.

    4. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Get both

    5. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Probably not given the extra CS and goal points

    6. james 101
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Arguable

      I got rash martial and Bruno to cover the bases

      (And was still a bit worried about pogba before the game if I’m honest!)

    7. g40steve
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Possibly, Rashford supplied two Assists

  12. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    average twerp bruno get out of my team..

  13. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Now if Salah can do nothing it will top off a great gw

  14. Bartowski
    • 15 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Weird considering how everyone has marvelled at Sheffield Utd to see Newcastle, a team everyone thought would struggle to stay up, three points behind them and no eulogies whatsoever.

    1. diesel001
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      I've said on here before that Bruce is doing a good job (surprising me in that). The one thing he has done well is to introduce pace into the attack with Saint-Maximin. Made a big difference to Almiron and therefore their attacking threat.

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

    Happy with Salah captain and he hasnt even played yet

  16. FPL_Devil
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Maguire goal to make me happy??

    1. Positive vibes
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Yes

  17. Bruce Lee
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Where are the Bruno cappers who lol'd at Son(c) yesterday?

    I just wanna talk

    1. Champions League Varane
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      I captained Son but Son will scoreb

  18. Pukki Party
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Cant wait for my 3 clean sheets to get ruined in the final 5 minutes.

    1. Pukki Party
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      There goes one..

  19. The Yorkshire Pirlo
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Lesson learned. Never follow the sheep.

    Went Rashford, Richarlison over Kane, Martial 🙁

    1. Gamst - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 16 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Dude, just please...

  20. Chucky
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    lascelles CS gone 😀

    1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Phew

    2. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Really? Yes!

  21. nerd_is_the_werd
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone keeping Fernandes after this match?

  22. FPL Scoop
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Ffs Holgate benched over Lascelles goes brilliantly too. Crap

  23. Champions League Varane
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    FFS benched Justin for Lascelles

  24. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Villa goal. It's all going Pete Tong

  25. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Poor Lascelles owners

  26. Zilla
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Rough with the smooth, Bruno blank but rest of the team did well so could be worse to say the least.

    1. Bruce Lee
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      Good attitude pal, as opposed to throwing outta the window

      1. Zilla
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 1 month ago

        Cheers mate, years of fpl does that 😀

  27. Party time
    6 years, 1 month ago

    We Martial owners deserve a triple proce rise before next deadline please

    1. Champions League Varane
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 1 month ago

      This!

  28. Tinkermania
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    If it wasn't for the penalty last week, Bruno would have been 2, 3 points from last 2 games

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

    Feels good going Ritchie over Lascelles...

  30. Fudgy
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 1 month ago

    Knew Lascelles concedes all along. Nightmare.