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Dugout Discussion October 2

Ronaldo and Pogba benched but Shaw fit to start for Manchester United v Everton

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Cristiano Ronaldo (£12.7m) has been left out of the Manchester United starting XI by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer for the opening Premier League match of Gameweek 7.

The most-owned forward in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) is joined by Paul Pogba (£7.8m) on the home bench, with the United boss making three changes from the side that lost to Aston Villa last weekend.

The injured Harry Maguire (£5.4m) is the other player to make way.

“Wednesday night was a big effort, big emotional and physical output, so we needed to freshen it up when it’s an early kick-off.” – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on his team selection

Edinson Cavani (£8.4m), Anthony Martial (£7.6m) and Victor Lindelof (£4.8m) are the three players who didn’t start in Gameweek 6 who make the line-up today.

Luke Shaw (£5.4m) is fit to start, meanwhile, having been a doubt for this game because of illness and injury.

Shaw was the most-sold player of Gameweek 7, with just under one million Fantasy managers offloading him.

Above: The most-captained players among the top 10,000 FPL managers

The Everton team news is much more straightforward: head coach Rafael Benitez makes one change from last weekend’s 2-0 win over Norwich City, with youngster Anthony Gordon (£4.5m) starting in place of the injured Alex Iwobi (£5.9m).

GAMEWEEK 7 LINE-UPS

Man Utd XI: De Gea, Wan-Bissaka, Lindelof, Varane, Shaw, McTominay, Fred, Fernandes, Greenwood, Martial, Cavani.

Subs: Henderson, Bailly, Pogba, Ronaldo, Lingard, Sancho, Telles, Matic, van de Beek.

Everton XI: Pickford, Godfrey, Keane, Mina, Digne, Doucoure, Allan, Gordon, Gray, Townsend, Rondon.

Subs: Begovic, Lonergan, Kenny, Holgate, Gbamin, Davies, Branthwaite, Whitaker, Dobbin.

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  1. el polako
    • 6 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Matic to the rescue 😉

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

    Rondon messes up doucoure assist

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    1. tiger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      there seems to be a pattern here

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      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        😛

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  3. BeWater
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Magnificent stuff from Doucoure.

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

    Docoure against Fred is such a mismatch

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    1. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Yep

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  5. Gandalf
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Come on Ole, it’s a sign of a strong manager to realise when you made a mistake. Get Ron on before the 30min mark..

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    1. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Cast a spell you fool! Make it happen!

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      1. Gandalf
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        Trying my best, some pretty strong magic needed for that one!

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        1. Mozumbus
          • 2 Years
          2 years, 6 months ago

          It was a spell already. You have to do something to break it. Thank me later.

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  6. Zimo
    • 5 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    If I'd known someone like Rondon could become a professional football player I would have gone for some tryouts.

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    1. BeWater
      • 3 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      He couldn't hit water if he threw a stone off a cruise liner in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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      1. Max City
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        He must've had a very strong arm then

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    2. The Knights Template
      • 10 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      He plays for meal vouchers at the bistro

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  7. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    McTominay will be carded surely

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    1. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Looks like he's let them all off

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  8. tbos83
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    What is it about these early ko's?

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  9. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    fight fight fight

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

    Ole stamping his alpha mole dominance over Ronaldo, showing who is boss

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    1. Monklane
      • 14 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Alpha mole. Quite right.

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

    Fight

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  12. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Some yellows incoming…

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  13. Ginkapo FPL
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Stir it up Pickford, stir it up

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  14. AIRMILES
    • 12 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Absolute handbags over nothing. Grow up, children!

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  15. EmreCan Hustle
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Shaw could get booked

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    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Nah

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      1. EmreCan Hustle
        • 11 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        With the season he's having....

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  16. The Knights Template
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Where's Les Boyd when you need him.

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  17. Nate(U)dog(ie)
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    The thing with Lingard is probably similar to that of VDB. Solskjaer is so tactically inflexible that, instead of trying to alter the formation to utilise them correctly, he wants to keep the same system even if it's not working. If he starts Lingard he'll play him wide or at CM where he isn't as good and VDB at CDM or CM, so instead of trying to give Lingard a go at playing 10 or VDB as an 8 (and giving Bruno a slightly altered role), he'll just play them in cup games where nearly the whole team is rotated or he'll chuck them on off the bench in games like this and just hope something happens.

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    1. Camzy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Ole is either tactically inflexible when he can't fit in all his attackers or too flexible and has no style/gameplan. The man cannot win.

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      1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        I've honestly never seen anyone say he's too flexible. I don't think his team has a particular style either mind but I've always thought he has no plan B

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    2. AC/DC AFC
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Hasn't a 4-3-3 become

      4-2-3-1 today?

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      1. Nate(U)dog(ie)
        • 3 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        I really don't think there's a huge variance in it with ManUtd, it always looks like they set up in much the same way but perhaps I'm wrong. When he adapted the 4-2-3-1 after project restart I think was a great move from him but he seems to not have much of a way out of that

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

      I prefer 2-1-2-1-1-2-1

      It’s much more tactically sophisticated

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      1. Max City
        • 7 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        5-1-4 can be a lot better than that

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  18. SEXY SOLO SAUCE
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    OMG HANDBAGS

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    1. Sandy Ravage
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Fendi?

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      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        2 years, 6 months ago

        😆

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  19. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Townsend sitter

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

      Good block

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  20. Rupert The Horse
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Shaw 1-0

    Finally IPL is back.

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

      Woohoo!!

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

        Oh no I actually fell for that grrr

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    2. Sandy Ravage
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Poor man's little master

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  21. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Everton look dangerous, nobody fears old toilet anymore.

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  22. Iceball
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    0-0 at HT, Ronaldo comes in and scores 2, happy ending..

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  23. Origi-nal
    • 7 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Apparently some players were hacked and had there teams deleted.

    I'd just like to know how I can delete my team?

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    1. Sandy Ravage
      • 8 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Ha ha!

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

      I think it was the FFS community trying to hack and delete mine for me

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  24. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Gray shot saved

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  25. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Gray denied

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  26. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Expecting Ronaldo to tell Ole he's coming on soon

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  27. Maeki2
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 3 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Gray good effort shot!

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  28. The Knights Template
    • 10 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Ronaldo warming up?

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    1. AIRMILES
      • 12 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      Just keeping warm, more likely. Not much effort to his jogging up and down the line.

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

      Yup, cold in Manchester today

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  29. martyhan
    • 11 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Was all set to wildcard but didn't. No thinking if all fit over international break just do ronaldo to lukaku and have a team of

    Sanchez steele
    Rudiger livramento azpi shaw coady
    Sarr salah Bruno gray brownhill
    Lukaku Antonio scarlett

    Or just wildcard?

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    1. Max City
      • 7 Years
      2 years, 6 months ago

      nice team I must say

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  30. DycheDycheBaby
    • 8 Years
    2 years, 6 months ago

    Gray has looked very good

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