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Barkley and Mount both start as Pulisic drops to the bench

The final fixture of Gameweek 1 takes place at 16:30 BST as Manchester United welcome Chelsea to Old Trafford.

There weren’t too many shocks upon the release of the teamsheets but perhaps the headline news was that both Mason Mount (£6.0m) and Ross Barkley (£6.0m) – rather than one or the other – start together in Frank Lampard’s first Premier League starting XI as Chelsea manager.

Christian Pulisic (£7.5m) is the man to make way, with the USA international dropping to the bench.

Pedro (£7.0m) completes the trio of attacking midfielders lining up behind lone striker Tammy Abraham (£7.0m).

N’Golo Kante (£5.0m) is only fit enough for a place on the bench, while Willian (£7.0m) and Antonio Rudiger (£6.0m) miss out.

Harry Maguire and Aaron Wan-Bissaka (both £5.5m) are handed their competitive United debuts but Daniel James (£6.0m) is only a substitute.

Andreas Pereira (£5.0m) instead gets the nod and will line up in ‘the hole’, with Jesse Lingard (£6.5m) on the right flank and Marcus Rashford (£8.5m) stationed on the opposite wing.

An ‘out of position’ Anthony Martial (£7.5m) is reportedly set to lead the line.

Budget FPL forward Mason Greenwood (£4.5m) is on the bench, meanwhile.

Chelsea XI: Kepa, Azpilicueta, Christensen, Zouma, Emerson, Kovacic, Jorginho, Mount, Barkley, Pedro, Abraham.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, McTominay, Pereira, Pogba, Lingard, Rashford, Martial.

Lessons learned from Gameweek 1

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  1. TheTinman
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Barkley wagon deflated

    1. Pukki Blinders
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 9 months ago

      usually they deflate after 2-3 weeks, this one came early

  2. Hairy Potter
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Meh, Barkley's one pointer keeping Dunk points on my bench.

  3. Herman Toothrot
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Get. Greenwood. On.

  4. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Heh, Barkley.

  5. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Martial G

  6. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    MARTIAL LAW!

  7. La Roja
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Martial

  8. The Wanton Trader
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Toonnyyy!!!

  9. Andy_Social
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    MARTIAL!!!!

  10. Ze_Austin
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    YEEEEESSSSSS!!!

  11. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    My man Tony 🙂

  12. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    phew Trossard basically covers Barkley 😀

  13. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Martial

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 9 months ago

      >Fraser

  14. TOBY1
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    7.5 for a oop midfielder is well worth it - no matter how bad he's playing! haha

  15. TheTinman
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Tony Martial. I'm sorry.

  16. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Martial risk pay off.

  17. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Lampard learning a harsh lesson today. You play Championship players in the PL (Abraham and Mount) and you will lose.

  18. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    What a cross!

  19. Grounderz
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    GOAL MARTIAL

  20. DV8R
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Martial punt pays off

  21. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Fack...

  22. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Tony Martial scores again!

  23. TAT
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Plenty of United fans in the mini league I'm playing in. They're having a fantastic gameweek now…

  24. ⭐ ABHISHEK - THE CURIOUS …
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Martial will make mockery of that price .... 🙂

    Thanks FFS

  25. Yank Revolution
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    OH HAI RASH!!

  26. Danstoke82
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    United running riot here

  27. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Wow Rashy

  28. Andy_Social
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    BOOM BOOM!!!

  29. moment
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    wheels off the lampard wagon

  30. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 9 months ago

    Lampard OUT