Dugout Discussion

The Dugout Discussion – Sunday

After a day of tepid Fantasy returns, Sunday arrives with a double header that looks bristling with drama and points in equal measure. Quite simply, the stakes at Old Trafford and White Hart Lane couldn’t be higher – bitter rivalries, title and European place ambitions – the ingredients are all there. Sunday really should be a treat.

It all begins in Manchester, with David Moyes’ side attempting to maintain the little momentum they’ve gathered from back-to-back away wins and three consecutive clean sheets. That record will be tested to the full by a Liverpool side that’s simply overflowing with goals, delivered in the main by the feared partnership of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge. Fantasy managers will be focused on their performances today, whilst assessing the suitability of United’s assets ahead of their double Gameweek.

The day’s events conclude at White Hart Lane the North London derby – a fixture which has rarely disappointed in recent seasons. Chelsea’s defeat to Villa will have revived Arsenal’s ambitions somewhat but Arsene Wenger’s side cannot afford to drop points against their rivals if they are to get themselves back in the race. As for Spurs, they’ll be seeking a result to aid recovery after suffering hidings from Chelsea and Benfica in the past week. A win would put them firmly back in the hunt for a top four place and keep them on Arsenal’s tail.

Look to our Twitter feed for all the teamsheet tittle-tattle, while our Dugout Discussion chatroom is open to welcome those seeking out some real-time interaction during today’s matches.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    11 DGWers are in place....

    Mannone

    Coleman Koscielney Demel

    YYT Mata Colback Gerrard

    Suarez Sturridge Lukaku

    1 weak link (Colback) but I have high hopes for him vs Nor!

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  2. Tatty Bojangles
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Can we expect Gerrard to get at least 2 penalties every game? If so I may have to buy him.

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    1. thetinkerman
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      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      3* 😉

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      1. Cilly Bonnolly
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Three is still at least two. 😉

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      2. copps
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        should have been 4 as well. Woeful defending!

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      3. Tatty Bojangles
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        He's probably averaging around 2 penalties a game though at the moment right? 😆

        You're thinking in your head "He can't keep this up", but then everytime you check the Liverpool game's score, there he is 🙁

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  3. Optimus.
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    So much for Suarez staying below the radar..That differential is out the window 🙁

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    1. thetinkerman
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      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Shhh, keep writing how good Glenn Johnson was to distract them!!

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  4. Mourinho The no1
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Who would say that the best captain choices would be Gerrard and Lambert??? but they were. 😉

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  5. r0nh
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    41 points all out

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    1. GunsnRoses
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      With bonus ?

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      1. r0nh
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        yes

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    2. Mílanista
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      29(-12) all out 😎

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      1. GunsnRoses
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        You are the only one here bellow me. I know the feeling Balo

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    3. Captain Shirokov
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      36 here 😎

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    4. Cilly Bonnolly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      62 with bonus all out. 🙂

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      1. r0nh
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        -1 👿

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        1. Cilly Bonnolly
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          😀

          Sorry dude.

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  6. Mílanista
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Premier_League_Penalty_Statistics.html?ModPagespeed=noscript

    According to this Liverpool have had 9 PL penalties this season. It feels like about 7 of them must have been since January

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    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Gerrard's scored 8, missed 1 and Sturridge missed 1, so it's at least 10.

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    2. copps
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      considering their attacking style it should be

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    3. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      And 7 have been this year.

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  7. weetonyharris
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    if Suarez gets assist he will get the 3 bonus pts

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    1. GunsnRoses
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Oh great. Final nail in my coffin

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  8. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    No players in the next game 🙁

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    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Surely the game should be called off then.

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        🙂

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    2. Parm
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Van Persie was quality wasn't he?

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      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        I'll still keep him for the dgw, glutton for punishment

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  9. Grounderz
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Lost another H2H gameweek. Fed up. Taking Mata out even though he's got the doubles. Gerrard and Silva play better than him.

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  10. Parm
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    ONE SHOT ON TARGET

    ONE

    ONE

    Joke

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    1. Captain Shirokov
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Moyes out?

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      1. Top Drawer Jeff
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        No that would ruin the fun #Moyesin 🙂

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      2. Parm
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Nah, he's a World Class manager, treble next season for sure.

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      3. Camp No No
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Never!

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    2. Bolt-on
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      At home with Rooney and van persie - unbelievable

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  11. Sarnab
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Will Suarez get an assist for the first pen?

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    1. weetonyharris
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      i bloody hope so

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    2. Valar(Keith)
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Yup

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    3. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Should do. The rules say an assist is given to the player who earned the pen, Suarez earned it.

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  12. feizaiII
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Who is the best DGW defender? Skip Baines.

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    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Coleman.

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  13. SW6
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    68 with Kosc still to play. Delighted 😀

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    1. Captain Shirokov
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Jesus, fair play.

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    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      incredible score this week

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      1. SW6
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks y'all. Still behind in my H2H against ITWT though haha

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    1. Captain Shirokov
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      *sight 😉

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      1. Optimus.
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Works both ways 😀

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    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      its fergie who fecked em, not moyes

      this will have stung tho, 3-0 loss at home v us 😀

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      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        He probably done it on purpose to make his legacy seem better.

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    3. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      😀

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  14. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Liverpool have to now be favorites for the title. They'll likely thrash all of the smaller sides they have left (which we can't do) and have their toughest matches at home where they've been unbeatable. 🙁

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    1. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      No way. Liverpool can be really bad at times. I still think Man City are favourites. Silva the best creative player, Aguero best striker after Suarez, Kompany best defender, Yaya best centre midfield, too much I think.

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    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      city still have 3 games in hand which if they won would put them 1st

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    3. Chris_Fàbregas #DOOS…
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      City and Chelsea are still favourites for me.

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    4. Camp No No
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Chelsea still favourites as they've been all season. Stop listening to Mourinho's mind games. Incredible stuff, "City has advantage because they can still play those three matches" yeah, Chelsea having 9 point advantage at that point tells that its three matches that Chelsea can already count won, so stop kiddin me Mourinho, anybody will rather take 3 wins than 3 undetermined results.

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  15. ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Those saying Gerrards points wont continue... He's consistently scoring. It's not a one week bandwagon!

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    1. onionbarje
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      he gets points from pens, but pool have some tricky (diving) players in the box, so he will continue to score

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    2. In Like Flynn.
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      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I expect the same people said it about Yaya too.

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      1. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Yep..

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  16. The Shadow
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    I'm thinking of going full bandwagon mode to bring in Silva and Gerrard to give me:

    Boruc (davis)
    Coleman Evra Bardsley (terry olsson)
    Silva Gerrard Yaya AJohnson (januzaj)
    Suarez (c) Sturridge Giroud

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  17. Mourinho The no1
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Mata out of my TEAM, nowwwwww, I´m sick of him.

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  18. Epic Fail
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Is someone deleting things?

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    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Tm about?

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    2. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      If weird things seem to be getting deleted, try deleting your cookies.

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      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        I'm not that bothered. 😀 Just wanted to make sure I'm not going crazy.

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    3. In Like Flynn.
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Only the memory of my Fantasy Teams scores for this week.

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      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        How'd you get on across the games so far?

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        1. In Like Flynn.
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          • 13 Years
          10 years, 2 months ago

          Bad week Epic. Struggling for DGWers in most too. Hits and near the last of Transfers look to be on the cards in most.
          How's yours?

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          1. Epic Fail
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            10 years, 2 months ago

            I've all but given up. No matter what I do my scores are awful. Especially in Metro, I just can't catch a break.

            I'll stick it out until the end though and try some different tactics next season.

            The only game I'm doing anywhere near good is FPL. And even then it's still my worst rank in a few seasons.

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            1. In Like Flynn.
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              • 13 Years
              10 years, 2 months ago

              Strange year for a lot of us that would have considered ourselves decent thoughtful players.
              Metro is my best, still doubt I'll get to where I finished last year.

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  19. money face bandwagon
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    wc success for me. got in mannone gerrard coleman 🙂

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  20. jhill89
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    take a 4 pt hit for Rooney to Sturridge, Lallana to Gerrard?

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    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Seems decent.

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  21. Texas Pete
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Well, after the captaincy fubar I think I can probably say that that counts as getting away with it. Could have been so much worse.

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  22. FACUPARSE
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Hands up Suarez captainers

    \O/

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    1. Optimus.
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      o/

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    2. money face bandwagon
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      o/

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    3. GREENDREAMS11
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      yes. 🙂
      \0/

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    4. Captain Shirokov
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Well done, only vc here

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    5. pundit of punts
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      \O/ 😎

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    6. Bolt-on
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      0/

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    7. jhill89
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      o/

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    8. Sheldon420
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      \ /
      \O/

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    9. Crouch Potato!
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Yup 😉

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    10. GREENDREAMS11
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      so we all have another 10 points to come then ?

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  23. GREENDREAMS11
    • 14 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    after watching this Dzeko becomes a potential dgw striker, i was all set on Jelly but United were terrible

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  24. Mourinho The no1
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Forward to join SS, cheap, DZEKO OR JELAVIC???

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    1. Optimus.
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I might punt on Dzeko 😮

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      1. Chu Young Ping Pong
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        No, I have him. Don't get him!!

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    2. GREENDREAMS11
      • 14 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      I've been touting Jelly for weeks for it due to City being away to United but after that Dzeko is now a very good option surely

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      1. Mourinho The no1
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah, maybe, Thanks. 🙂

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  25. Cilly Bonnolly
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Got a tenner on Salzburg at 1/8. First of around sixty bets that'll turn that tenner into ten grand. 🙂

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    1. Camp No No
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      That 60 makes it so close to impossible that it explains why they would give you the ten grand if it went right. It won't, btw.

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  26. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Merson says nobody is scared of Man U anymore. Seems that includes refs 🙂

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    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      😀

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    2. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Although there was another pen that should have been given, and Rafael could have been sent off twice. Sturridges dive was very good as well

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  27. Fabio20
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Arsenal XI vs Spurs: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Gibbs, Arteta, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud

    Scout tweet missing a player?

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    1. Mourinho The no1
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Probably is Rosicky.

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    2. Wilshere Knowledge
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 2 months ago

      Rosicky

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      1. Demelbrush
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 2 months ago

        Thought he had pulled a Ro-sickie

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  28. jas5sk - Youtube channel
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Never imagined that Dzeko would seem like a better option going into a DGW than RVP

    Hell has frozen over

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  29. rozzo
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 2 months ago

    Is Shaw and Lalana to Demel and Silva worth a minus 4?

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