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Injury-hit Manchester United head to Tyneside in final Gameweek 8 fixture

The last Premier League fixture before the October international break takes place at St. James’ Park, as Newcastle United host Manchester United.

Kick-off on Tyneside is at 16:30 BST.

As anticipated, the Red Devils are without Paul Pogba (£8.4m), Anthony Martial (£7.5m), Luke Shaw, Jesse Lingard (£6.4m) and Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£5.5m) for this encounter.

Lingard, Pogba and Victor Lindelof (£5.4m) – who has picked up a back injury – make way from the team that drew 1-1 at Old Trafford, with Juan Mata (£6.3m), Fred (£5.3m) and Diogo Dalot (£4.9m) replacing them.

Ashley Young switches over to left-back to accommodate Dalot, with Axel Tuanzebe (£4.4m) partnering Harry Maguire (£5.5m) at centre-half.

There is still no league start for Mason Greenwood (£4.4m), who is only among the substitutes.

Marcus Rashford (£8.4m) again leads the line for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side.

Steve Bruce has rung the changes after the Magpies’ 5-0 thrashing at Leicester last Sunday.

Emil Krafth (£4.5m), Paul Dummett (£4.5m), the suspended Isaac Hayden (£4.5m), Yoshinori Muto (£5.3m) and Christian Atsu (£5.4m) all drop out, with Ciaran Clark (£4.4m), DeAndre Yedlin (£4.4m), Jetro Willems (£4.5m), Matthew Longstaff (£4.5m) and Allan Saint-Maximin (£5.4m) coming into the starting XI.

Not a single Newcastle player on show is owned by more than 5% of FPL bosses.

Rashford, Maguire, Daniel James (£6.2m) and David de Gea (£5.6m) all have double-digit ownerships, along with Greenwood.

Just over 100,000 FPL managers have captained Rashford for this fixture.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka, Yedlin, Schar, Lascelles, Clark, Willems, M. Longstaff, S. Longstaff, Saint-Maximin, Joelinton, Almiron.

Manchester United XI: De Gea, Dalot, Tuanzebe, Maguire, Young, Fred, McTominay, Andreas, Mata, James, Rashford.

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  1. Yankee Toffee
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Ole will be sacked by tomorrow morning

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Poch in

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

      After liverpool

      1. Yankee Toffee
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        why wait?

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

          Why tarnish the new manager with the embarrassment - Ole convenient scapegoat

          1. Yankee Toffee
            • 9 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            I see where you are coming from, I just think the IB is a good time to sort things out

    3. FPLGeezer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Which will achieve nothing.

  2. Debauchy
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Longstaffs' firing

  3. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Ole sack imminent

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Surely is though

  4. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Jetro bandwagon derailed

  5. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Time up for OGS. I think his worst decisions were to sell off Kaku, loan out Sanchez and not to replenish.

    1. Eze Really?
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      ManU NIL

      1. villa_til_i_die
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Puts you 3rd from bottom!

        1. Eze Really?
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Its worth it!

    2. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      I dont think he has anything to do with transfer decisions tbf.

      Woodward is the man you are looking for.

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

        ?

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

          Chong should have put on the captains armband himself.

          Rojo does not deserve to ware it.

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

        Don’t think that is quite accurate. When he took charge, he started benching Kaku and put faith in the “youngsters”. Then Kaku went rogue and wanted out. With Sanchez, united paying 80% of his salary and yet he is playing for Inter. All this can’t happen without the managers seal of approval.

        1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          He wanted Lukaku sold, clearly. He probably also wanted Ben Yedder signed as well however.

        2. FPLGeezer
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          It's very accurate. He started benching Lukaku because he wasn't fit enough which even Lukaku admitted he wasn't.

          Sanchez was a disaster of a signing. Ole is working to a budget and the fact Sanchez went late in the window when Ole had been talking up suggests it wasn't his call and that Sanchez wanted out too which is what rumours seem to be in United circles.

      3. FPLGeezer
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Don't try talk sense on here. Ole being sacked changes nothing but the ABU's will lap it up.

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

          @Ogie

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 6 months ago

    Rojo booked

    1. Pinturicchio10
        4 years, 6 months ago

        gw ruined

    2. HurriKane
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Salah captain is actually tempting against this dross

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

        United aren’t that bad.

        1. Top Lad Dakes.
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Lol

          1. Magic Zico
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            This 🙂 £400M squad or so

      2. Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Mane for me rn

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

      Please, please, please don’t sack Ole before the Liverpool game.

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

        It’ll be the following morning

        There’ll be way too much emotion attached to Liverpool’s 9th consecutive win coming in an embarrassing performance at old Trafford

        Wouldn’t be suprised to see several thousand empty seats either

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

          You go to or ever been to football or know anything about United. Not a chance there will be empty seats let alone several thousand ya div.

      2. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Captaining Origi?

    4. LǝgleSs e|even
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      This gw is just getting better and better isn't it..

      1. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Actually the end of big six era will need our orientation to adjust

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

      Only Man Utd could make the Newcastle attack look like vintage Barcelona...except for that Sinead O'Connor fella, he'll always be hopeless.

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

        It’s been 7 hours and fifteen days...

        Since you took my goals away...

        Ahhh, ahhh ahh ahhh ahhhhhhhh

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

          🙂 :)9

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

            That song only goes some ways towards expressing the feelings of many a Utd fan at the minute 🙁

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

      Im actually looking for a genuine advice here because there is so many options and im surelly gonna pick the wrong one. Please look at current team and advise on what would you do:

      GK: Heaton / 4.0
      DEF: Trent / Ota/ Montoya / Lowton / Lund
      MID: Salah / Sterling / KDB / Cantwell / Dend
      FWD: Wilson / Tammy / Haller

      All have solid fixture, thing is that i have 2Ft which i have to spend (at least one). What would you do here? O.1 itb
      Im looking at something like

      OUT: Salah, Haller, Montoya
      IN: Maddison, Auba, Pereira (-4)

      WC also intact. Please advise if you have better solution,..and cheers for having patient for long post

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

        Maddison Pereira and Auba all good picks. I just can't quite bring myself to ditch Salah. I'd be very happy to lose Haller and Montoya.

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

          Yeah, those two are my primary target to go...thing is they are in somewhat awkward price range and for a combined price of those two i cant really think who else would i bring

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

          Eventually haller and montoya for jimenez & ake? Exact cash

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

      Rashford plays for England.

      1. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Sancho will be preferred

    8. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      That horrible international break feeling...

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

      United, City and Spurs all having mid life crisis this season

    10. Sailboats
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Ole sacked in the morning hahah

    11. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Nice shot from fred

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

      Fred the Red!

    13. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      The board won't sack Olé for a while yet boys it's ok. They know it's their fault and that they can't attract many managers because they're an awful board. They love a yes man they can pin the blame on. We'll still have excellent entertainment for a while yet.

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

        hopefully the board will be like, Fergie didnt win anything for 4 years. Lets give Ole at least 4 years

    14. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Fred joins the list of overpaid nobodies.

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

        That's actually what my real life boss says too. 🙁

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

          😀

    15. KGFC
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Tbf, Rashford is very poor... all this talk that he is very young and still learning is bull crap. He’s played enough to start getting compared to someone like Sterling and see how he has grown into an amazing player. Ole overestimated Rash.

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

        Always hated the excuse that someone is young. Being young doesn't stop someone from being crap.

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

          Exactly... he is not showing the sort of improvement that he should have after being given such opportunities at MU.

      2. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        He's an upper midtable player in the right system imo.

      3. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        I can't think of any player in the last 10 years more overrated than Rashford. He wouldn't get in any top 6 team bar UTD imo

    16. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Fred wants to take the free kick 😆

      1. Debauchy
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Scraping the barrel

    17. Eat my goal!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Fred was 50mil didn’t you know!

      1. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        50p too much.

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

      Just an opinion but would Maxima not be better suited as a tap dancer or something like that not sure if he is a footballer 🙂

    19. dshv
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Help:
      WC ON:

      Pope
      Robbo, lundstram, kelly, soyboy, rico
      Sterling, mane, mount, maddison,dend
      Abraham, auba, wilson

      The question is

      KDB conolly/ ayew over Auba dendo

      Also to have salah over mane ?
      And is it worth to get TAA over robbo..

    20. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 6 months ago

      Fred, get off the pitch!

    21. Pinturicchio10
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Wow.

      • Rainer
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Last 5 minute highlight reel of Fred needed.

        Never seen anything like it before, a unique talent.

      • Fred54
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Saint-Maximin... like na useful Pepe.

      • eazy
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        Whats the WC template atm?

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

          3 Pool, 3 City, 3 Chelsea, Pope, Button, Lundstram, Vardy, Auba

          1. Top Lad Dakes.
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            3 city?

        2. Top Lad Dakes.
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          I’m currently looking at:
          Pope
          TAA Soyuncu Dunk Lundstram Rico
          Mane/Salah Sterling Mount Maddison Yarmolenko
          Auba Abraham Ayew

          Sterling could be KDB in which case I’d get Vardy. Yarmolenko and Auba cod I just got em in this week

          1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 6 months ago

            Kelly over Rico

            1. Top Lad Dakes.
              • 7 Years
              4 years, 6 months ago

              Had Rico since 4.0... if I can spare the 0.1 I will

              1. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
                • 7 Years
                4 years, 6 months ago

                Ah fair ok

        3. g40steve
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          3 Man U
          3 Watford
          3 Norwich
          2 Everton

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

          Pope
          TAA, Robbo, Ota
          Salah, KDB, Maddison, Mount
          Vardy, Wilson, Tammy

        5. LǝgleSs e|even
          • 8 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Triple up Liv again Utd!

      • Top Lad Dakes.
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 6 months ago

        As crap as this Toon side seem to have been...

        They’ve beaten Spurs and are beating United. Toon also beat City last season.

        1. Witty Pun: Not good at this…
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 6 months ago

          Bruce has always had an ok record against Top sides. It's when he plays literally anybody else that's the problem