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Unchanged line-ups for Man United and Southampton as FPL bosses eye Fernandes

Fantasy Premier League managers can take increased encouragement from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as he 2019/20 season winds to a close.

The Manchester United boss has named an unchanged side yet again, allowing the likes of Bruno Fernandes (£9.0m), Mason Greenwood (£4.9m), Anthony Martial (£8.3m) and Marcus Rashford (£9.0m) to retain their Fantasy appeal.

“We’ve had a decent amount of recovery days in between, which we won’t have the rest of the season now. We picked the short straw in that respect, but we picked the long straw at the start of this period. Didn’t feel we needed to change.” – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

All eyes will be on the Portuguese international tonight, as he was chosen as the overwhelming favourite for the Gameweek 35+ captaincy by this season’s current top 10,000 Fantasy managers.

56.3% of them made the decision to hand Fernandes the armband this week, at least 41.4 percentage points more than any other option.

It was Mohamed Salah (£12.5m) who finished a distant second, backed by just 14.9% of managers at that level before his blank against Burnley.

At the very least, those who captained Fernandes will be feeling somewhat protected, as he goes into this Southampton match with an effective ownership in the top 10k of 151.7%.

Meanwhile, Danny Ings (£7.4m) remains a key player on the Fantasy scene, still sitting in 28.6% of squads worldwide.

His owners can probably feel more encouraged ahead of tonight’s trip to Old Trafford than they realise, considering Ings’ and Southampton’s away record this season.

The forward has netted in every single road trip since the Premier League’s restart while the Saints have the fifth-best away record this season (27 points from 17 such matches).

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

Southampton XI: McCarthy; Bertrand, Bednarek, J Stephens, Walker-Peters; Redmond, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Armstrong; Ings, Adams.

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  1. Ady87
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Anti-United fans on the last page back under their rocks already LOLZ

  2. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Well that was an enjoyable few minutes.

  3. Niho992
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Rash (C) let's go !

    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Well played

  4. SHOOTER MCGINN
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Aaaaaand there it is

  5. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ffffffff!!!!!

  6. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Bruno playing deep today.

    1. It’s gonna Ben Mee
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Yup, the GW I decided to captain him. Figures

  7. Oggle22
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Here we go had jota and Rashford since the restart transfered both out this week for Vardy and Greenwood

    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Vardy scored
      Greenwood is playing still

      1. Oggle22
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Thing is jota and Rashford were my differentials but couldn't go another week watching Greenwood smash it for my ML rival

  8. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    United and Southampton players owned.

    None involved in either goal.

  9. Right In The Stanchion
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Here they are like flies round sh*t when they score.

  10. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martial assist 😀 sold rashy lol

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Sold Rashy for the money, wasted the money and the hit.

      Ugh.

  11. Bubz
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Annoying that it had to be Martial to assist it but will take that

  12. TomSaints
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    So far so good only owning Rashford and Fernanded.

    5-4 saints win - Rashford 4 goals on track.

    1. TomSaints
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Finally above 30 points haha

  13. Boomerang V
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    At leat Rashford! I was going to captain but chicken out 5 minutes before the deadline and went with Bruno 🙁

  14. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Pobga assisting the assister

  15. Fudgy
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    No martial assist ???? WHt

  16. Camzy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Damn that feels good. Martial > Rashford. Come on Rashford, save my week!

  17. OverTinker
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Tony Assist

  18. Brosstan
    • 9 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martial showing Firmino how to play the striker role

  19. Champions League Varane
    • 5 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    COME ON

  20. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Nice persistence from AWB in the build up too - lovely ball for Bruno before his cross

    1. Piggs Boson
      • 12 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      AWB is very good at playing in tight spaces. You can tell he used to be a winger.

  21. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martial G

  22. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martial G
    Bruno A

  23. denial
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Absolutely guaranteed rashford goal

  24. Hazz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martial GOAL

  25. Greek Freak
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    OMG MARTIAL

  26. KGFC
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Amazing week keeps getting better... Sold Son and Rash for Salah and Greeny for -4... Damn it!

  27. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
    • 10 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Rashers holders finally rewarded on the stats

  28. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    What’s the EO of..
    Bruno
    Martial
    Greenwood
    ?

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      200%
      200%
      200%

      Or at least should be

    2. Karhumies
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      At 300k-400k OR range:

      Bruno 122%
      Greenwood 61%
      Martial 49%
      Ings 36%
      Rashford 26%
      AWB 21%

  29. g40steve
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Martial G

    1. g40steve
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Bruno A?

      1. @persecuted_by_mods
          3 years, 8 months ago

          Yup

    2. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Oh ffs