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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. Magic Zico
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    Pogboom Bruno assist!

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  2. el polako
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    Off

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  3. FPL Scoop
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    K blew it up now ref!

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  4. have you seen cyan
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    ffs Fab, cant you get a CS

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  5. Weeb Kakashi
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    West Ham are themselves to blame here.

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  6. Pukki Party
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    Let's draw some lines

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  7. Danstoke82
    • 11 Years
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    What a belter that was

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  8. NULL-X-VOID
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    regardless of the decision, that strike was so beautiful

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  9. Begbie.
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    Yeah that's out but they can't overturn it.

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  10. WVA
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    Who was saying about whether Pogba could prove his worth earlier?

    Bruno pen now to claim double figures and all three BAPS

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  11. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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    Surely went out

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    1. The Train Driver
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      How can you see that?

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      1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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        Use the lines

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      2. el polako
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        He's got glasses.

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      3. Weeb Kakashi
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        Looked out to me as well

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  12. Alex_thekid
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    Goal

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  13. Steve The Spud
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    That’s an unbelievable finish from pogba to be fair

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    1. NULL-X-VOID
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      at least someone is looking at that phenomenal strike like wthhhh

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  14. Duke Silver ☑
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    They can't look at the ball going out right?

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    1. Paul Psychic Octopus
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      Lino should have

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  15. diesel001
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    Goal given.

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  16. TorresMagic™
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    1-1

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  17. g40steve
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    Goal given

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  18. MagicMessi
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    To guys trolling pogba you don't know football it's Solsjkaer fault he's a world class player

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    1. Leaf
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      Genuine world class .

      Would love him at my club

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    2. Simon69
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      Punctuation is so important.

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  19. FPL Scoop
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    Bruno assist not in app?

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    1. FPL Scoop
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      Nvm

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    2. TorresMagic™
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      Delete the app.

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  20. Steve The Spud
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    If it can’t be proved with technology then it stands, simple

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  21. TorresMagic™
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    3 - Pogba (30)
    2 - Rice (29)
    1 - Soucek (28)

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  22. The Bandit
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    Linesman fail

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  23. Paul Psychic Octopus
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    That's the same Man U linesman who didn't give the Maguire handball in the first half.

    Henderson's ball looked miles out of play.

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    1. Steve The Spud
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      Brunooooo pen to seal it

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  24. diesel001
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    Even Moyes don't know if that went out and he is on the touchline

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  25. Flair
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    VAR with another fail?

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  26. Fer Fuch's Ake
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    100% ball went out but no way for VAR to overturn without a drone camera

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  27. Party time
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      Wow Bruno. You are amazing tbh

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    • DandyDon
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      Just DIE Var. What the hell were they even checking that for!

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    • Chalobah's Witness
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      no way to check that but I think it was inside the field.

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    • Captain Vantastic™
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      Jesus Christ Bruno is a machine.

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