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Fernandes and Rashford benched as Solskjaer rotates for West Ham trip

5 December 2020 1939 comments
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Bruno Fernandes (£10.9m) and Marcus Rashford (£9.5m) are surprise inclusions on Manchester United’s bench for Gameweek 11.

Yes, you read that right, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has opted to rest both of his key players for the trip to West Ham, in a week when Fernandes was the most-captained player worldwide and the second-most inside the top 10k (16.6%).

It is the Portuguese international’s first league benching of 2020/21 and could end his run of double-digit hauls in away matches this season.

Donny van de Beek (£6.7m) and Paul Pogba (£7.7m) come into midfield while Anthony Martial (£8.7m) and Edinson Cavani (£8.1m) start together for the first time in the Premier League, we suspect the former is on the wing with the Uruguayan leading the line.

With David de Gea (£5.4m) absent from the matchday squad, Dean Henderson (£5.3m) makes his first Premier League start of the campaign.

West Ham’s only change is up-front, following the news that Michail Antonio (£6.2m) would miss out on Gameweek 11.

That sees Sebastien Haller (£6.1m) return to the side, supported by Pablo Fornals (£6.5m) and Jarrod Bowen (£6.3m), the latter registering 80% of his attacking returns at home.

Those two attacking midfielders keep Saïd Benrahma (£6.0m) out of the team once again, despite the Brentford loanee assisting in each of his substitute appearances so far this season.

As expected, David Moyes keeps faith with the three-man defence of Aaron Cresswell (£5.2m), Angelo Ogbonna (£4.9m) and Fabian Balbuena (£4.4m), which sees Arthur Masuaku (£4.5m) and Vladimir Coufal (£4.6m) retain their wing-back berths.

West Ham United XI (3-4-2-1): West Ham XI: Fabianski; Cresswell, Ogbonna, Balbuena; Masuaku, Soucek, Rice, Coufal; Fornals, Bowen; Haller.

Manchester United XI (4-2-3-1): D Henderson; Telles, Maguire, Lindelof; Wan-Bissaka; Pogba, McTominay; Martial, van de Beek, Greenwood; Cavani.

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  1. Mr Arsenal
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    • 13 Years
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    ManU and Arsenal are mid table teams at best. Really really bad.

    How times have changed!

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  2. Eleven Hag
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    Mahrez vs Telles will be interesting next week

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    1. DA Minnion (Former great)
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      Both on the bench.

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      1. Orion
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        Nah... Mahrez will get the start imo

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      2. Eleven Hag
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        Will Shaw be fit ?

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  3. Rainer
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    Who's the better player; Pogba or KDB?

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    1. dshv
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      Hahahahah fres

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      1. dshv
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        Fred*

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    2. Mr. O'Connell
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      Pogba in his prime. KDB on current form, though.

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      1. FPL Blow-In
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        Kdb is head and shoulders above Pogba

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      2. OverTinker
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        Lolz

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      3. Steve McCroskey
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        It scares me that people can think like this

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      4. Mr. O'Connell
        • 13 Years
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        Hmm, sarcasm detector must be broken.

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    3. DA Minnion (Former great)
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      I'm better than Pogba.

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    4. Mr Arsenal
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      Which one won the WC?

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      1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
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        Mustafi won the WC, so better than Messi :P?

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        1. Mr. O'Connell
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          They play different positions

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          1. Mr. O'Connell
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            Hard to compare

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      2. No Professionals
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        Is that a serious comment?

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    5. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
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      Don't disrespect KDB like that...

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    6. OverTinker
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      There’s days they have come up with Bruno vs KDB 😀

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      1. Gobigorgohome
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        Bruno is better than KDB

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        1. Jindaljain
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          He plays with team

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        2. OverTinker
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          It will end the same as Pogba vs KDB though

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    7. Gobigorgohome
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      Pogba
      he won World Cup

      what KDB won???
      😉

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    8. Zimo
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      Fabian Delph

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    9. Weeb Kakashi
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      KDB is by far the best midfielder in the league and World right now.

      Its not even close tbh.

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  4. Mr. O'Connell
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    If he's not subbed on at half time, he must be injured and won't be featuring (Bruno).

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    1. No Professionals
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      I own him, want him to come on and blank (KDB c)

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      1. Mr. O'Connell
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        Well me too. I only have 8 players this week.

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    2. AnfieldLad
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      If he’s not fit enough to come off the bench when they’re losing why would they even put him on the bench

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    3. Bragazeti
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      Ole's mind games aren't working out as planned

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  5. FPL Blow-In
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    Ole in a tough spot again. Brings on Bruno - united are labelled a one man team. Let’s the team try and fight for positions and come back - poor decision by the manager if they don’t manage to win.

    Ole at the wheel

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    1. Baps Hunter
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      This time I think he shouldn't bring Bruno, at least yet. So therefore...

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    2. El Presidente
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      The problem is his tactics! What the hell was that???? 2 SUPER slow players in midfield and 3 strikers playing up front?????

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  6. Gobigorgohome
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    Bruno Rashford on

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    1. Defcons are for Kinnear
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      Comeback Kings

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  7. Defcons are for Kinnear
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    Ole should've left Bruno out completely and said he's picked up a knock, which he has.

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  8. GE
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    Martinez, Grealish, Walker and Bruno in my first XI 🙁

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    1. No Professionals
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      Martinez and Grealish not playing must have come as a shock

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      1. GE
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        Haha 😉

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  9. Mr Arsenal
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    ManU will need to get into the WH’s penalty’s box to get their customary penalty, that’s the problem..

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  10. Joey Tribbiani
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    lol Bruno is on
    Penandes FC

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  11. circusmonkey
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    Big 2 warming up

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  12. Defcons are for Kinnear
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    Put your bets on a Manchester United penalty. It's like printing money

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  13. FPL_Motty
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    Soucek a great enabler and will be perfect bench cover over christmas

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    1. grumpyman
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      Yeah was thinking of upgrading to Jota but not so sure now.

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    2. Calculated Risks
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      Definitely. So much happier I spent the 0.4 to get him in for reed of Fulham. Not leaving my team now

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    3. FPL DONKEY
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      Was going to get rid this week for Raphinha, but yeah might keep him now and use him as bench cover over Xmas as you say

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  14. diesel001
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    Fernandes and Rashford on
    Cavani and Van De Beek off

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  15. ALegendJ
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    Rumours on twitter that Salah to be rested tomorrow and they say source is _pauljoyce. I do not see anything on his timeline though

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    1. thetommy14
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      Just a predicted lineup don't take it seriously

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    2. TorresMagic™
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      BS atm.

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    3. AnfieldLad
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      I believe he did a predicted lineup for an article and didn’t include Salah. Don’t believe it was anything official/ coming from Liverpool, more like his opinion

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    4. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
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      Here is hoping.

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    5. ‘Tis the Season
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      https://twitter.com/watch_lfc/status/1335268117673553922?s=21

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  16. Lord.
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    Here comes the cavalry

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  17. Mr. O'Connell
    • 13 Years
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    Everyone celebrating Soucek bench points. Scenes when Villa v Toon is rearranged for midweek.

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    1. Gobigorgohome
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      after deadline can not happen

      it will be next GWb

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      1. Pipermaru
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        I don't think Premier League care about FPL deadlines 🙂

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        1. Lord.
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          It’s too late for more practical reasons

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          1. Pipermaru
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            I fully agree that it won't happen but claiming that it's because of fpl deadline is just funny.

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  18. Salan
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    Ole, so why didn't you just start Bruno and Rashford? Genius.

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  19. mgilbert86
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    • 13 Years
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    For next week,

    A) Ziyech + Vardy -> Salah + Wilson
    B) Ziyech + DCL -> Salah + Brewster
    C) Ziyech + Fernandes -> Salah + Jota

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  20. g40steve
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    Rashy & Bruno on!

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  21. Vazza
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    Bruno (c) here we go....,

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    1. Party time
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        Lol

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    2. Do I Not Like Orange
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      Looks like Bruno's back on the menu boys!

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      1. GENERATION X
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        Back in the red zone for sure

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    3. Duke Silver ☑
      • 11 Years
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      Poor Donny. Pogba always gets a pass.

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    4. Hazz
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      Couldn't even let me have my Coufal CS. How rude.

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    5. have you seen cyan
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      Ole clearly lying about a Bruno injury if he is on already, the deceit runs deep in this club from players to manager

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    6. Pukkipartyy
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      This Bruno resting gonna cost for Ole...

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      1. Pukkipartyy
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        Oh. Sry.

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    7. RED PILL
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      Soucek has been getting me points when ive needed them. Bought him in my GW 5 wildcard team. 4.9 million bargain, hes going nowhere.

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    8. Jindaljain
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      5 years, 4 months ago

      Guys Bruno Goal & assist about to come

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    9. WVA
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      DO NOT get your hopes up about Bruno guys!

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    10. Weeb Kakashi
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      Bruno get your YC already

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