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Manchester United bring out big guns as Wolves switch to 3-4-3

Manchester United line up with a wealth of attacking pace and talent for their Gameweek 31+ meeting with Sheffield United.

Paul Pogba (£8.3m) returns to the starting XI for the first time since Gameweek 7 after impressing as a substitute against Spurs.

The Frenchman sits alongside Nemanja Matić (£4.8m) in midfield, supporting a powerful front-four.

Anthony Martial (£8.0m) retains his centre-forward berth, supported by an attacking midfield trio of Marcus Rashford (£8.9m), Bruno Fernandes (£8.7m) and Mason Greenwood (£4.3m).

Simon Moore (£4.3m) comes in for Dean Henderson (£5.3m) in the Sheffield United goal, with rotation taking place elsewhere in the Blades’ side.

Phil Jagielka (£4.1m) comes in for the suspended John Egan (£4.6m), with Jack Robinson (£4.0m) retaining his place in light of Jack O’Connell‘s (£4.6m) recent injury.

Meanwhile, David McGoldrick (£5.4m) and Lys Mousset (£4.5m) are handed rare starts up-front and John Lundstram (£4.9m) is back in midfield.

Wolves look equally dangerous ahead of their meeting with Bournemouth as they go with the 3-4-3 shape that helped them get the 2-0 win over West Ham.

That means a first start since the Premier League resumes for Adama Traoré (£5.7m), supported by Matt Doherty (£6.4m) in a wing-back role.

Diogo Jota (£6.4m) starts once more, supporting Raúl Jiménez (£8.2m) who garnered some captaincy attention for Gameweek 31+.

Owners of Everton assets will be encouraged by the Norwich line-up named by Daniel Farke.

In a big statement of intent, he has dropped Teemu Pukki (£6.5m), Todd Cantwell (£4.7m) and Emi Buendía (£6.0m) to the bench, opting for largely second-string attackers at Carrow Road.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£6.5m) and Richarlison (£8.3m) are the main Fantasy draws among Carlo Ancelotti’s men, both starting up-front together in the favoured 4-4-2 formation.

Aston Villa manager Dean Smith has shuffled his attacking pack once more, desperate to make a breakthrough at Newcastle.

He has named the same back-four but lines up an attacking midfield trio of Trézéguet (£5.2m) and Anwar El Ghazi (£5.5m) either side of Jack Grealish (£6.4m) in support of Mbwana Samatta (£5.7m).

Despite the recent upturn in Fantasy interest, out-of-position midfielder Keinan Davis (£4.3m) finds himself on the bench.

Villa face a Newcastle side with the joint-most number of clean sheets in home matches this season, featuring the in-form Allan Saint-Maximin (£5.4m) in attacking midfield with out-of-position FPL defender Matt Ritchie (£5.3m) on the other flank.

There are also starts for budget options Jamaal Lascelles (£4.3m) and Federico Fernandez (£4.6m).

Manchester United XI: De Gea; Shaw, Maguire, Lindelof, Wan-Bissaka; Matic, Pogba; Rashford, B Fernandes, Greenwood; Martial.

Sheffield United XI: Moore; Robinson, Jagielka, Basham; Stevens, Fleck, Norwood, Lundstram, Baldock; McGoldrick, Mousset.

Newcastle United XI: Dubravka; Rose, Lascelles, Fernandez, Manquillo; Hayden, Shelvey; Saint-Maximin, Almirón, Ritchie; Joelinton.

Aston Villa XI: Nyland; Targett, Mings, Hause, Konsa; Luiz, McGinn; Trezeguet, Grealish, El Ghazi; Samatta.

Norwich City XI: Krul; Lewis, Klose, Godfrey, Aarons; Tettey, McLean; O Hernandez, Duda, Rupp; Drmic.

Everton XI: Pickford; Digne, Holgate, Keane, Coleman; Bernard, T Davies, Gomes, Iwobi; Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.

Wolves XI: Patricio; Saiss, Coady, Boly; Jonny, Neves, Moutinho, Doherty; D Jota, Jiménez, Traoré.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale; A Smith, Aké, S Cook, Stacey; Stanislas, Lerma, L Cook, Billing, Brooks; C Wilson.

FPL Lessons Learned from Gameweek 31+

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  1. Chief Break-Everything
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Richarlison is Aubameyang in disguise

  2. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Utterly useless. Never captaining again

  3. SuperMane Returns
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    DCL daisycutter

  4. Bruce Lee
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    I see what's happening here - Utd are putting their good players on now

  5. Christina.
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    Lateriser to win FPL for Nirvana.

    Martial(c)

  6. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    He hasn't blanked since his first GW and chooses to do it now. FFS.

    1. WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Sorry mate my bad probably

  7. Dog and Fox
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 10 months ago

    9 players has played, 8 has scored points, the last one is mye C!!!

    1. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      I feel you

  8. Party time
      3 years, 10 months ago

      New article: Bruno Fernandes gives his owners peanuts

      1. Bruce Lee
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Someone make this man chief editor

        1. SuperMane Returns
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 10 months ago

          Class 🙂

    • WVA
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Bruno captain here.

      Still feel I picked the right team and fixture to captain someone from, as has been my season very unlucky not to get anything

      1. YoungPretender
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Feel the same. Just didnt work out on this occasion.

      2. Utopsis
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Agreed.

    • Stupendous
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Dcl and Richarlison on WC

      That worked then.

    • Rainer
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Is Rashford worth 0.9m more than Martial?

      1. The_Fish
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        No

      2. Flynny
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Very hard to say....martial in the mood tho

      3. Royal5
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Watch Martial go 5 games without scoring now. So inconsistent. Up there with Firmino.

      4. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Get both

      5. Sun Jihai
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Probably not given the extra CS and goal points

      6. james 101
        • 12 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Arguable

        I got rash martial and Bruno to cover the bases

        (And was still a bit worried about pogba before the game if I’m honest!)

      7. g40steve
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Possibly, Rashford supplied two Assists

    • Chucky
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      average twerp bruno get out of my team..

    • tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Now if Salah can do nothing it will top off a great gw

    • Bartowski
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Weird considering how everyone has marvelled at Sheffield Utd to see Newcastle, a team everyone thought would struggle to stay up, three points behind them and no eulogies whatsoever.

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        I've said on here before that Bruce is doing a good job (surprising me in that). The one thing he has done well is to introduce pace into the attack with Saint-Maximin. Made a big difference to Almiron and therefore their attacking threat.

    • Silecro
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Happy with Salah captain and he hasnt even played yet

    • FPL_Devil
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Maguire goal to make me happy??

      1. 007 [RoboKlopp]
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Yes

    • Bruce Lee
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Where are the Bruno cappers who lol'd at Son(c) yesterday?

      I just wanna talk

      1. Champions League Varane
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        I captained Son but Son will scoreb

    • Pukki Party
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Cant wait for my 3 clean sheets to get ruined in the final 5 minutes.

      1. Pukki Party
        • 6 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        There goes one..

    • The Yorkshire Pirlo
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Lesson learned. Never follow the sheep.

      Went Rashford, Richarlison over Kane, Martial 🙁

      1. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Dude, just please...

    • Chucky
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      lascelles CS gone 😀

      1. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Phew

      2. Magic Zico
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Really? Yes!

    • nerd_is_the_werd
      • 4 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Anyone keeping Fernandes after this match?

    • Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Ffs Holgate benched over Lascelles goes brilliantly too. Crap

    • Champions League Varane
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      FFS benched Justin for Lascelles

    • Forza Papac
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Villa goal. It's all going Pete Tong

    • Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Poor Lascelles owners

    • Zilla
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 10 months ago

      Rough with the smooth, Bruno blank but rest of the team did well so could be worse to say the least.

      1. Bruce Lee
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Good attitude pal, as opposed to throwing outta the window

        1. Zilla
          • 6 Years
          3 years, 10 months ago

          Cheers mate, years of fpl does that 😀

    • Party time
        3 years, 10 months ago

        We Martial owners deserve a triple proce rise before next deadline please

        1. Champions League Varane
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 10 months ago

          This!

      • Tinkermania
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        If it wasn't for the penalty last week, Bruno would have been 2, 3 points from last 2 games

      • The Train Driver
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Feels good going Ritchie over Lascelles...

      • Fudgy
        • 4 Years
        3 years, 10 months ago

        Knew Lascelles concedes all along. Nightmare.