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Fulham v Man Utd team news: Shaw starts, no Sesko

20 September 2026 279 comments
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The final match of Gameweek 5 – and the last Premier League fixture before the three-week international break – sees Fulham and Manchester United square off at Craven Cottage.

Kick-off is at 16:30 BST.

TEAM NEWS

Man Utd boss Michael Carrick makes just one change from the Manchester derby.

Luke Shaw returns from injury and replaces Patrick Dorgu, who drops to the bench.

Benjamin Sesko is absent from the matchday squad. That means Matheus Cunha is likely to start up front for the visitors.

Carlos Baleba meanwhile is named among the substitutes.

Fulham are unchanged from their goalless draw with Liverpool in Gameweek 4.

LINE-UPS

Fulham XI: Leno, Castagne, Affengruber, Bassey, Robinson, Berge, Charles, Bobb, King, Iwobi, Garcia

Subs: Lecomte, Andersen, Larsson, Smith Rowe, Palacios, Angel, Sessegnon, Muniz, Kevin

Manchester United XI: Lammens, Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Shaw, Tielemans, Mainoo, Mbeumo, Fernandes, Rashford, Cunha

Subs: Darlow, Dorgu, Mazraoui, Yoro, Baleba, Santos, Mount, Zirkzee, Lacey

LIVE GAMEWEEK 5 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE

Fulham v Man Utd team news: Shaw starts, no Sesko

You can follow all the day’s action via the Live Gameweek page, which you can find in the all-new FPL Toolkit section.

Here you can track the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out.

And there’s also the all-new Match Centre to explore. Here, you’ll find stats, heatmaps, rolling xG graphs and more on every Premier League fixture.

A lot is free for all, with Chief Scout Members getting full access.

Enjoy!

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  1. thegaffer82
    1 month, 20 days ago

    My least favourite part of the gameweek as a Man Utd fan - getting to watch us play 🙁

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    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      I think I’ve cracked it from an FPL perspective. I’ve removed all Utd assets. Was sick of watching them do crap IRL and then my fpl team crap also. At least this way when they do well I’m happy and if they do poor I’m really annoyed but not at fpl.

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  2. ViperStripes
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Garcia to save my GW....

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Good pick

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  3. el polako
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Is being Spanish one of the key qualities required to be a manager in the PL?

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    1. panda07
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Yes Spanish and Basque if possible.

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  4. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 20 days ago

    One of the worst ever GW I've ever had, 26 pts with Mbeumo and Maguire to go ...

    FH and WC in the next two weeks inevitable 😛

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    1. More Tragic
      1 month, 20 days ago

      I fancy Mbeumo to get something.
      Slabhead not so much.

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      1. Bobby Digital
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Mbeumo brace coming

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        1. PartyTime
          1 month, 20 days ago

          Either that or Mbeumo head injury

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    2. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      24 points with only Bruno and Mbeumo left, probably WC

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    3. Jacquet or chips
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      You’re not trying hard enough. My worst was 14pts. The next two weeks I had 70 and 84, though.

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  5. chocolove
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Semenyo haul because of that Sunderland young and reserve LB, is it right?

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 month, 20 days ago

      No, Semenyo played most of the game on the left and got all his points from there.

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    2. F4L
      1 month, 20 days ago

      some very tidy finishing

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  6. Supersonic_
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Wildcard and BB in 7

    Draft 500

    Verb
    Cal De Cuyper Hall
    Bruno Gross King Semenyo* Tav
    DCL* Robot

    Leno Gonzalo Konsa Gvardiol

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    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      What is the * and may not want to play DCL (ars)

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      1. Supersonic_
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Undecided

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  7. Bobby Digital
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Let's go Mboomooo

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    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      About time for Bruno to be back on the goals again too

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      1. Bobby Digital
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Agreed

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  8. F4L
    1 month, 20 days ago

    king time

    bobb just getting better as well. should be goals in this

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  9. Mr.K
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Is FPL's own price change prediction accurate? Never used it before - if it even existed before this season!

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 month, 20 days ago

      New thing for this season and has been accurate as far as I know

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      1. Mr.K
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Thank you!

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    2. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Do the RAC know anything about cars?!

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      1. fusen
        1 month, 20 days ago

        It'd be more like does VW know anything about Golfs

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        1. Eat my goal!
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 month, 20 days ago

          The state VW is in financially I’m not so sure

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    3. fusen
      1 month, 20 days ago

      It'd be crazy if it isn't accurate when they control all of the logic for moving prices up and down.

      If anyone can tell us the likelihood it would be the official site

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      1. Mr.K
        1 month, 20 days ago

        I mean, you're not wrong. However...

        Firstly, I know for a fact, that many seasons people have used non-official price predictors. As I said, I'm not sure if this existed before but if it DID exist, there must have been a reason for people opting out of it.

        Secondly, having worked for some tech and software companies that shall not be named, I can tell you that a feature like this mysteriously not really working accurately at all would not reach even top 10 of the crazy things that happen in the tech world.
        ´

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        1. AC/DC AFC
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 month, 20 days ago

          It's new and transparent and accurate

          Live FPL still interprets it better

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          1. Mr.K
            1 month, 20 days ago

            Cheers!

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  10. The Philosopher
    1 month, 20 days ago

    People on this website advised me to keep Cherki and sell Semenyo last GW.

    I want monetary compensation from this website.

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    1. Bobby Digital
      1 month, 20 days ago

      A lot of people told me to get rid of Semenyo for MGW too. Glad I didn't.

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      1. The Philosopher
        1 month, 20 days ago

        No monetary compensation for you then mate.

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        1. The Philosopher
          1 month, 20 days ago

          Congrats on the Semenyo points though.

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    2. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush!

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      1. The Philosopher
        1 month, 20 days ago

        How many birds worth a willie in the nillie though?

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    3. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Cherki did well as well tbf and GW1 and GW2 more than make up for it

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      1. The Philosopher
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Didn't have Cherki for 1 and 2. Bigger compensation may be in place!

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        1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
          1 month, 20 days ago

          I know but I try to consider a player’s performance before I had them.

          Think what we’ve seen will be the case though, they will score virtually the same point this season, Semenyo more explosive but Cherki more consistent and perhaps a tad more nailed

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    4. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      You sound like a virgin.

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      1. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 month, 20 days ago

        But that was the joke(?), I guess.

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    5. GCHILD2K16
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Still a good call. Semenyo wong play Sunderland or like that each week. He is usually cello taped to the sideline under maresca system. Cherki in the 10 is closer to goal and will haul more regularly.

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  11. fusen
    1 month, 20 days ago

    I want Fulham to lose here so they are more likely to get relegated than the team I support but in FPL I don't want either Bruno or Mbuemo to score

    I'm probably asking a bit too much...

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  12. JBG
    1 month, 20 days ago

    MU yet to concede a goal, progress

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    1. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Early days….

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    2. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Probs be a cleanie now everyone sold Shaw and he’s 4.3

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      1. JBG
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Sold Maguire and Lammens(who I'd start) on WC.

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  13. Pixiesavy
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Who to captain next week?
    1- Kostoulas
    2- Saka
    3- palmer

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    1. Pixiesavy
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Anyone want to give a tip?

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  14. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Is there something wrong with official FPL-site? It is telling me that I bought J P at 7.6, his price is 7.8 atm, but SP only 7.6 instead of 7.7

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    1. JBG
      1 month, 20 days ago

      No that's right..

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    2. fusen
      1 month, 20 days ago

      I bought JP at 7.5 and his selling price is 7.6, with a CP of 7.8

      You need the price to go up 0.2 for each 0.1 you get

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      1. fusen
        1 month, 20 days ago

        The key part is it is rounded down

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      2. Baps Hunter
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 month, 20 days ago

        I know that. But I bought him at 7.6 and he is 7.8 now. So his SP should be 7.7, not 7.6.

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        1. Baps Hunter
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 month, 20 days ago

          This is only on the pitch view, list view shows 7.7

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    3. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      People on WC can sell him now and then buy back to bank 0.1 million, but we others are basically being forced to wait him to rise again and to hope that he doesn't get injured again before that etc.

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  15. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 month, 20 days ago

    If utd lose does Carrick go?

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    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Don't think so, they don't want to spend immediately, probably by Christmas if no improvement on results

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    2. JBG
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Nah

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    3. Amartey Partey
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Nope. Who’d they get as interim, Carrick?

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  16. Esraj
    1 month, 20 days ago

    This Affengruber guy is good. Has shored up Fulham's defence.

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  17. pundit of punts
    1 month, 20 days ago

    So many mids from 5.5 to 8.5 doing consistent points that Bruno, Palmer and Saka look overpriced.

    Pick one of the premiums of your choice based on captaincy and get a defense that’s grand might just be the play.

    I’m looking at a defense of Calafiori, Konsa, Muharemovic, Vuskovic and Silva by GW 10 and enjoy the DefCons.

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    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      I am not selling Hall. Gvardiol has somehow managed to get points in every game so far.

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    2. Warby84
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Trafford/Leno
      De Cuyper Muharemovic Konsa Cali and Gvardiol is my back 7

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    3. GCHILD2K16
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Not bad plan but you need gvardiol and jacquet or araujo over silva and konsa. You could also upgrade muharemovic and vuko to boogle and de cruyer.

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  18. PartyTime
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Affengruber manhandling Mbeumo

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  19. Jet5605
    1 month, 20 days ago

    51 all out thanks to Hall and GroB. I'll take that and hope Man U assets blank.

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  20. PartyTime
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Two like for like teams. Toothless, boring, no zeal teams. In 2008, who would have thought that Manchester utd would turn out to be as dead as the wooden chairs at Craven cottage?

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    1. JBG
      1 month, 20 days ago

      MU fans (me not included) have been screaming for possession fotball and controlling matches for years. This is what we get, LVG esque.

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    2. Zalk
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Every team will go through that at some point

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    3. Jacquet or chips
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Plenty of us who watched them for twenty odd years before Ferguson.

      Ferguson was the exception at Utd, it was pretty much like this all through the seventies and eighties. Rubbish.

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  21. Esraj
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Fulham the better side in the first quarter.

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  22. Esraj
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Bruno hits the bar.

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    1. Warby84
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Post, shot off target

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    2. Bobby Digital
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Post*

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  23. Bobby Digital
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Bruno will not score nearly as many points this season

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    1. JBG
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Said something similar to that the start of the season. Won't be surprised if Mbuemo outscores him

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    2. mixology
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 month, 20 days ago

      That’s pretty obvious, respectfully. Massively overperformed Xa. By the looks of it this season, Haaland, Bruno, Gabriel all won’t justify their price tag

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      1. JBG
        1 month, 20 days ago

        Specially Bruno and Gabriel

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        1. mixology
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          1 month, 20 days ago

          I actually think Haaland is the most overpriced. No Pep. 15.6 million is an absolute budget killer.

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          1. JBG
            1 month, 20 days ago

            Him and JP only reliable ST

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            1. mixology
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              1 month, 20 days ago

              So Much value in defence and midfield. 1 striker is viable. I have Isak but I’ll admit he’s not exactly great value either lol

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  24. F4L
    1 month, 20 days ago

    how inspired is lammens today argh

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    1. JBG
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Denying King... who I brought in this GW.

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    2. Zalk
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Very

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  25. pundit of punts
    1 month, 20 days ago

    I’m sold

    Buying King this GW for sure

    Can’t pass up on 3 promoted teams with him being on such form and Arbeloa as the manager

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    1. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
      1 month, 20 days ago

      I want him too but unsure on doubling up on 2 x 5.5s (Groß other one)

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      1. pundit of punts
        1 month, 20 days ago

        They are doing points and team functioning well

        Wouldn’t want to pass up on another potential Mahrez of Leicester

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  26. Rice Krispie
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Choose one for the unbinding process.

    A) What is MU?

    B) Who am I without referencing even a single thought?

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    1. Zalk
      1 month, 20 days ago

      I'll answer both: An underperforming entity

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  27. KAPTAIN KANE SERVES THE PAI…
    1 month, 20 days ago

    United 13 shots already

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    1. Warby84
      1 month, 20 days ago

      Leno not tested once, Lammens 4 times

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  28. JBG
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Carrick saw Brumo work perfectly as a pure 10 last season, so he ended pushing him forward as a ST when playing with Cunha. 1000 is play

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    1. JBG
      1 month, 20 days ago

      IQ*

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  29. DeSelby
    1 month, 20 days ago

    Going to be thinking for the next three weeks the best way to get King into my team. Because of team structure it's going to take my two FT. Nuts.

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  30. Esraj
    1 month, 20 days ago

    What a shot by Rashford. Caressing into the goalkeeper's gloves.

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