The Dugout Discussion – Sunday

Lukaku (C) against SUN?

Pretty much Confident in 1) & 3) long term.

Lukaku is wasted with Mirallas playing.

1) Losing confidence quickly. Everton's midfield rarely seems to release him when he is making a good run or in space. I think he needs very good chances to score and teams are too wise to him for this to happen regularly.
2) Losing confidence quickly. An excellent player, but in a team that simply doesn't score enough goals and he isn't in the mix enough. If I had the spare transfers I would ship for Sterling/Januzaj.
3) Very confident. Was very unlucky with his conceded goal today (a deflection from an off target shot). Everton's defence looks very solid.

Indeed.

I think this is worse than Michel Owen's tweets

And you also knew he would score a goal, that would be ruled out by Hawkeye, right?

You say nothing about Rooney?

Surely whole event has to be over to have hindsight

Whits

or starts lol

if only coleman had got baps...

I think his pass completion or successful blocks, interceptions weren't enough.

yes Manone is pretty good to atm

i think not

Hahahahahahahahahahahahha.
🙂

Krul or Szczesny better options than Lloris IMO

Walcott --> Bentaleb for a hit

As you're only asking once...
A) Gj to Evans or C)

Espn.

for the winning side obviously

Martin Laursen

Terry?

Lescott got 8 i think

Alexander 9 for Burnley but not sure

I would guess that too

Vermalen use to be good

Don't know. Martin Laursen must have got a few.

Pre-prem by a couple of years but Bruce got 13 (19 in all comps) once.

me

Walcott for me

Safe play suarez

punt piay - remy

speronis another good one, for home matches against weak opposition tho

Marshall

Players score BPS points based on the following statistics (one point for each unless otherwise stated):

Playing in a game
Playing over 60 minutes
Scoring goals
Goalkeepers and defenders (4 points)
Midfielders (6 points)
Fowards (8 points)
Assists (3 points)
Goalkeepers and defenders keeping a clean sheet (4 points)
Saving a penalty (5 points)
For every 3 saves
For every 3 open play crosses
Creating a big chance (a chance where the receiving player should score)
For every 8 clearances, blocks and interceptions (total)
For every 8 recoveries
Providing 3 key passes
Making 3 successful tackles (net*)
Scoring the goal that wins a match
Pass Completion (after making at least 30 passes)
70% completion (1 point)
80% completion (2 points)
90% completion (3 points)

*Net successful tackles is the total of all successful tackles minus any unsuccessful tackles. Players will not be awarded negative BPS points for this statistic.

Players lose BPS points based on the following statistics (one point for each unless otherwise stated):

Conceding a penalty
Missing a penalty (-2 points)
Yellow cards
Red cards (-3 points)
Own goals (-2 points)
Missing a big chance
Making an error which leads to a goal
Every 2 errors leading to an attempt at goal
Being tackled 3 times
Conceding 2 fouls
Being caught offside 3 times
Missing the target with 3 shots

Data is supplied by Opta and once it has been marked as final will not be changed. We will not enter into discussion around any of the statistics used to calculate this score for any individual match.

Attackers get 8, midfielders 6, defenders 4.

Coleman didn't make enough passes or other defensive contributions to bring his BPS up. I think the real issue should be why Williams got a bonus point!

defs get 4 bonus
mids get 6 bonus
fwds get 8 bonus
per goal scored

No, they only get 4 , whereas strikers get 8.

agree on suarez v chel

will do remy v stoke as i dont have theo

Why wouldn't Silva start?

Why would you ditch Lukaku with his upcoming fixtures?

I went for Silva as I have ramsey & Ozil with no City cover.

Will eventually change ozil to theo with a FT

Very close call. Both have excellent fixtures.

Silva for 6 and 7's
Walcott for 2's and 12's

Depends on other cover imo

Yikes! Tough break(s).