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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. RAFA THE GAFFA
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    TOOOONY

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

    Omg
    Bruno A

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

    That's how its doneee

  4. 7shadesofsmoke
    • 11 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    warming up my pineapple

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

      Plenty of lube

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

    People forgetting they went behind to Bournemouth too

  6. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    I like Martail and Rashs relationship, despite competing with one another. Always happy to help or see the other score

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

    Martial G

  8. FFSbet.com
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Tonyyyyyyy beast

  9. George Agdgdgwngo
    • 14 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Yes bruno

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

    TONNNNYYYY C

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

    Get in Anthony

  12. Pep Roulette
    • 6 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Tonyyyyyyy! Yessssss!

  13. Robson-Canoe
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 8 months ago

    Where are the haters now?

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

    Martial absolutely essential

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

    Damn it Martial

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

      2 minutes of feeling positive then BANG

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

    Absolute worst case scenario goal as a non Martial owner and non Bruno capper

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

      same

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

    What a goal.

    FPL heaven.

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

    Amazing

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

    FFS

  20. Party time
      3 years, 8 months ago

      MARTIAL CAPTAIN

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

      🙁

    • Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Okay, game over, get Bruno off!

    • goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Not owning Martial has been an absolute rank killer

      1. GOTHAM City F.C.
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Will you get him now?

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

        Got him on my FH for next GW so inevitable blank incoming.

    • Amey
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      I think I'm in love 😀

    • JELLYFISH
      • 11 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Not owning Martial is killing me

      1. DandyDon
        • 5 Years
        3 years, 8 months ago

        Martial better option I think but not owning Bruno’s been killing me. As he’s so heavily captained didn’t really want Martial to score that! Me 5 pts Bruno captainers 6 and many of them have martial to so another red arrow no doubt. Just to difficult to swap out someone for him now.

    • Bury94
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      11 point goal right there

    • JJeyy
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      My captain let’s go

    • DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
      • 10 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      11 point goal

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

        18 points in 23 mins luvverly

    • diesel001
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 8 months ago

      Man Utd so much better when they just move it quickly. Either dribbling it or with the one touch passing.

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

      MMMMMAAAARRRTTTTOIIIIIIIAAAAALLLLLLLL

      Stunner Tony

      Love this lad

      Love them all

      What a front 3

      #WeHaventGoneAwayYouKnow