{"id":644769,"date":"2024-08-15T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=644769"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:37:17","slug":"fpl-tips-manchester-united-players-gameweek-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/08\/15\/fpl-tips-manchester-united-players-gameweek-1\/","title":{"rendered":"FPL Gameweek 1 Tips: Top Three Manchester United Players to Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United will kick off their Premier League campaign on August 16 against Fulham at Old Trafford. Kick-off is at 20:00 GMT. Here are the three best FPL Gameweek 1\u00a0picks from Erik ten <\/span>Hag’s<\/span> side going into the new season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three Manchester United Players To Start For FPL Gameweek 1<\/span><\/h2>\n

Bruno Fernandes ( \u00a38.5 Million)<\/span><\/h3>\n

Bruno Fernandes is the creative fulcrum of this Manchester United team and began his season with an assist for Alejandro Garnacho in the Community Shield\u00a0<\/span>defeat<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to Manchester City. Despite yet another productive campaign in 2023\/24, Fernandes will remain at the same price <\/span>and,<\/span> with a reasonable start to the season for United, he could hit the ground running in this 2024\/25 season.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With 15 goals and 13 assists in 45 appearances in all competitions last season, Ten Hag will <\/span>be looking<\/span> to his Portuguese Captain and talisman for inspiration this season <\/span>once again<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alejandro Garnacho ( \u00a36.5 Million)<\/span><\/h3>\n

A 1.5 million price increase for Argentine winger Alejandro Garnacho reflects his breakout season last time out, scoring ten goals and providing five assists in 50 appearances for Ten <\/span>Hag’s<\/span> side. Despite competition for places, his versatility and sparkling form in 2023\/24 should ensure him a spot in a refreshed Red <\/span>Devils’<\/span> side for Gameweek 1 and plenty of attacking returns.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joshua Zirkzee (\u00a37.0 Million)<\/span><\/h3>\n

Manchester <\/span>United’s<\/span> second summer signing <\/span>Joshua<\/span> Zirkzee<\/span> could start on Friday evening against Fulham, given the injury sustained by Rasmus Hojlund against Arsenal during the <\/span>club’s<\/span> USA tour. A \u00a335 Million capture from last <\/span>season’s<\/span>Serie A surprise package Bologna, Zirkzee was instrumental in Thiago <\/span>Motta’s<\/span> side securing Champions League qualification, scoring nine goals and providing five assists as the Italian side finished 4th.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Something of a number 10\/number 9 hybrid, the Dutchman, formerly of Anderlecht and Bayern Munich, offers a new dimension to the Manchester United attack and could be worth a punt in Gameweek 1 and the early weeks of the season as Hojlund recovers from injury.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Manchester United will kick off their Premier League campaign on August 16 against Fulham at Old Trafford. Kick-off is at 20:00 GMT. Here are the three best FPL Gameweek 1\u00a0picks from Erik ten Hag’s side going into the new season. Three Manchester United Players To Start For FPL Gameweek 1 Bruno Fernandes ( \u00a38.5 Million) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5004,"featured_media":629508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[2811,3007],"class_list":["post-644769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-fpl","tag-fpl-picks"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}