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Pogba and Rashford fit to start as Greenwood faces bench duty again

Manchester United take on Arsenal this evening in the final match of Gameweek 7. Kick-off at Old Trafford is at 20:00 BST.

There were a few surprises upon the release of the teamsheets, the biggest of which saw Marcus Rashford (£8.4m) named in the United starting XI.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had, without explicitly ruling the England striker out of the Monday night clash, strongly suggested that Rashford would struggle to recover for this meeting with the Gunners in Friday’s press conference but the most-sold FPL asset of this week maintains his ever-present record.

All of which is bad news for the 20% or so of Mason Greenwood‘s (£4.4m) owners who started the budget FPL forward in Gameweek 7, as the teenage forward is only among the substitutes.

Paul Pogba (£8.4m) has also recovered from the swollen ankle he aggravated in the EFL Cup tie against Rochdale last week and returns to the midfield.

Pogba replaces Nemanja Matic (£4.8m) in the double-pivot, while Jesse Lingard (£6.4m) ousts Juan Mata (£6.3m) from the number ten role.

There is no Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£5.5m) in United’s starting XI, meanwhile, with his place in defence being taken by youngster Axel Tuanzebe (£4.4m).

The Red Devils have revealed that Wan-Bissaka misses out because of tonsillitis.

Unai Emery has made two changes to his starting XI from the team that beat Aston Villa 3-2 last weekend.

Ainsley Maitland-Niles (£5.1m) is available after returning from suspension but only makes the bench, with Calum Chambers (£4.4m) replacing him at right-back.

Dani Ceballos (£5.6m) also makes way, with Lucas Torreira (£4.9m) promoted to the line-up.

Hector Bellerin and Kieran Tierney (both £5.4m) aren’t involved despite their return to first-team action in the EFL Cup last week.

Budget midfielder Bukayo Saka (£4.5m) – owned by just 0.1% of FPL managers – gets his second successive start and joins Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) and Nicolas Pepe (£9.4m) in a front three for the visitors.

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Tuanzebe, Lindelöf, Maguire, Young; McTominay, Andreas Pereira; Lingard, Pogba, James; Rashford.

Arsenal XI: Leno; Chambers, Sokratis, David Luiz, Kolasinac; Xhaka, Guendouzi, Torreira; Saka, Aubameyang, Pépé.

Lessons Learned from Gameweek 7

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  1. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    honestly Saka looks better than Pepe and he is 4.5

    1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      My niece is 4.5 and she looks better than pepe, too

      1. Hy liverpool
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Lol

  2. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Oh my god! The standard of this !!!!

  3. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Steady on, if they carry on like this a game of football might actually break out.

  4. aborg
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Pepe is crap after all...thought he was much better in previous games and got him in instead of Son. Guess he is not used to playing in heavy rain !

    1. Cok3y5murf
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      He has not looked good in any game

    2. Spab
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      I got him instead of Son too. I regret it.

      1. aborg
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        I guess we will have to get rid of him. Problem is that Auba will cost my team too much changes to bring him in !

  5. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Anyone knows until which GW Laca is out?

    1. MTPockets
        4 years, 6 months ago

        all arsenal have said is back in october

    2. Albrightondknight
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      This is putrid hard to know who's the worst.

    3. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Bahahaha

    4. Hy liverpool
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      That free kick... Wtf is wrong with this game

    5. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Xhaka made captain by 4 votes, other 7 players got 3 votes

      1. Free Hat
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Tbh, I dont know which one of Ars would make a decent captain of that bunch.

    6. RAFA THE GAFFA
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      This is dreadful

    7. Vlad Tepes
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      This game is so bad, looks like a regulation battle

      1. Hy liverpool
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Burnley vs villa was a great game compared to this

      2. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Regulation :p

      3. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Governance....so boring. Agree.

      4. Vlad Tepes
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Haha ye such a boring game

    8. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Pepe SOT.

      Mishit!

      1. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Leave off the Mi

    9. Sid1891
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Not watching
      But is it really that bad?

      1. mojoindojo
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Worse

      2. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        May not bother with the second half

      3. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Everyone is lying in unison.

        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Tory Boy, hating the unions...

      4. Sid1891
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Sad to here really
        Used to be a proper game...

    10. mojoindojo
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Pepe is horrible

    11. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Be Pogba: pass it to arsenal
      Be Auba: pass it out of play
      Be fan in crowd: vomits

    12. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Shocker, you rush a player back from injury and he's feeling it again.

    13. FPL Forward Thinker
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Darren Fletcher was a bigger asset to United than Pogba will ever be.

    14. Lanley Staurel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Pépé has the look of a £6.5m midfielder.

      1. mojoindojo
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Still overpriced him

    15. Ginkapo FPL
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      I've owned Pepe all season.

      1. TheDragon
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Wow

      2. mojoindojo
        • 10 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Had him for 2 weeks. Got him over KDB....

      3. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Condolences.

      4. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Shouldn’t that be “My name is Ginkapo and I’ve owned Pépé all season”.

        1. Ginkapo FPL
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          There has just been something else to do

    16. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Liverpool and City are Mercedes and Ferrari, these two are a Reliant Robin and a unicycle

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        An insult to unicycles everywhere

      2. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Lol

      3. Fred54
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        They are the Williams actually, lots of history and still a good following but not much to show for it.

        1. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Maybe Franks wheelchair

      4. Sid1891
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Forgot Williams!

        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          I didn't.

          1. Sid1891
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            Certainly not !

    17. Spab
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      I've got a statue of him in my garden. Should have got Son done instead.

    18. The Mighty Hippo
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      This game is Auba's audition to get into my team. He's not convincing me so far....it may have to be Kun or Harold that gets the nod instead.

      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        I think Auba has proven he doesn't need to pass an audition. Crap or not in this game he will get plenty of goals.

      2. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        you cant judge Auba on this game, lack of service tbh. Its mainly him providing the service!

      3. The Mighty Hippo
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        You're right of course, he's already proven his personal quality...but if he's in a team that can't support him and supply chances then there isn't any point in getting him in.

    19. have you seen cyan
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      passed up going to the library for this

      1. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Paint a wall at half time.

    20. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Donker 3pts or Greenwood cameo? What should I cheer for ?

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Take the 3 pts

      2. TheDragon
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        You’ll be getting the Greenwood cameo so cheer for him to come on sooner than later

      3. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        3 points or 1?

    21. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Starting 11's from both these teams look like someting out of a Sunday Pub match. The benches are laughable too.

      1. MTPockets
          4 years, 6 months ago

          best league in the world

        • Hy liverpool
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Ceballos only

      2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Looking forward to Keane at half time

        If anyone can be relied upon to be scathing & uncompromising surely it’s him

        We don’t need some sugar coated cliche’d politically correct vanilla nonsense - we need swearing, anger, ideally even fists smashing into the table, and a chair or two being thrown

        1. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          That's why Keane is a crap manager. He thinks shouting at the players will make them magically improve their base ability and will get him results.

          1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            He doesn’t have the patience to deal with the modern day player and/or club administration

            Not many do - maybe a handful of people in the world

            Keane has the warrior gene and it’s just not in his nature to compromise or humour what he views as sub-standard effort & ability - that personality got him from a cork council estate to Being the most dominant central midfielder in Europe - so understandable that he wouldn’t change

            Still can’t believe he took Sunderland from championship relegation zone to the premier league

        2. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          This is absolute garbage, I cannee believe eye cort da ferry for this Norn-sense.

        3. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          It'll be the highlight

      3. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Bring on Greenwood you coward.

      4. Come on you Kante
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Will kdb play vs wolves?

        1. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          50:50

        2. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          If fit and chosen.

        3. FPL Forward Thinker
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Yes

          1. Come on you Kante
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            Is it worth swapping him for mane for this game week?

        4. LordRougeGrog
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Pep and his team analyse a whole heap of in-game and training data on each player. The rest patterns strike me as scientific as much as anything, so second guessing Pep without access to those same data is a fool’s errand.
          I’d like KDB to start on Saturday but if his numbers suggest he is tired/tiring then benching will happen.

      5. tisza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Games between these 2 used to be season highlights.
        This is just bland rubbish.

        1. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Insult to bland.

      6. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Simone Pepe?

        Simone PooPoo more like

        1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Laughed too hard at this...