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. Bolasie
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Pick 2 of Silva, Yaya and Gerrard.
    Yaya and Gerrard, right?

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    1. asdasdasdadasdasda
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      yup

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    2. Obi Wan Elokobi
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Silva and Yaya personally

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    3. Bolt-on
      • 13 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Yaya and silva for me

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    4. SW6
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Silva and Yaya imo.

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    5. feizaiII
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Silva Gerard

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    6. jonnybhoy
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Silva and Gerrard

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    7. beric
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Right

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    8. Brouhaha
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Im going for all 3 if that helps??

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  2. Obi Wan Elokobi
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Is the Ox worth having over Sterling or Sissoko?

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    1. Give The Todd Some Love
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Definitely over Sissoko

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    2. jas5sk - Youtube channel
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Over Sterling imo.

      DGW might be the only time to play Sissoko

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    3. tm245
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I committed to Sissoko but I can see the merits of any of the three.

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    4. Obi Wan Elokobi
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I meant should I get him instead of one of those two, sorry should have been more clear but obviously he is

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    5. Pepereina Pizza
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      ramsey set to come back soon.
      Ozil will eventually be healthy every week.

      and isn't Wilshere playing again before end of season?

      If i could believe AOC would get a weekly start, I'd buy him immediately.

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      1. Obi Wan Elokobi
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Completely put me off him now :p Think I may just go Sissoko as he's nailed on and may get an assist in one of the games

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  3. feizaiII
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Have Coleman, thinking Fonte -> Evra. Have other better option?

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    1. feizaiII
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Zaba?

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    2. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Zaba/Kosc or downgrade to Chester/Williamson/Bardsley/Curtis

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  4. The Chosen One...
    • 11 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    WHAT!! the cheat Studge got a YC?

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  5. Djerbil
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Just sneaked through 58-55 vs a guy with a OR 150 in TM's FPL Open

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  6. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Sublime shot.....

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  7. Total Foot 5 - romario 11
    • 10 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Bigger Downward Spiral: pik one

    1-Spurs
    2--Mun
    3--both are falling knives

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    1. asdasdasdadasdasda
      • 10 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      2 definitely

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  8. jas5sk - Youtube channel
    • 12 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Giroud dead

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    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Trying to sneak off for an early bath and trip to the team hotel 😉

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      1. jas5sk - Youtube channel
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        A little Xbox and some loving waiting for him maybe 🙂

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        1. Jafooli
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          You know it......

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    2. The Chosen One...
      • 11 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Happens about 5 times every game

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  9. Bolt-on
    • 13 Years
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Is Flanagan nailed on? 4.3 is a bargain for team in such form with a double

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    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Agreed, hoping to get him myself, however now need to think about what to do with that sack of carrots called Mata.

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    2. Obi Wan Elokobi
      • 12 Years
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Nailed on plays his heart out every week and Rodgers likes him

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      1. Bolt-on
        • 13 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Thanks to both

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  10. JT's Dog
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Mannone
      Zaba, Coleman, kos
      Toure, Gerrard, rosicky, hazard
      Lukaku, saurez, sturridge

      This was my planned team for next week
      Not sure it is worth it now considering the score they would have got this week.
      Is it likely it would score high two weeks in a row

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

        this was a wc team tho no?, thought you were saving

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        1. JT's Dog
            10 years, 1 month ago

            No decided it was better to go this week, so did it sat night.
            Thought there was danger of being priced out a few options in next few weeks and didn't want to go with miralles in team

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      2. Big_Andy_GAWA
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        How and when did Sturridge get the yellow?

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        1. Sif
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          celebration of suarez goal

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          1. Leaf
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            For dancing ?

            I hope so , if I was a ref is book him for it

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        2. Jafooli
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Retrospective for the last time he did that dorky goal celebration.

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      3. The 12th Man
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Bellamy > AJ, Sterling or Sissoko?

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        1. tm245
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          You can't lose.

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        2. kaythevillain
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Surely Sterling, Liverpool in great form and play some in both games no doubt

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          1. The 12th Man
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            aye was going with AJ but stopped in my tracks to think about Sterling. Both players get subbed so I guess your right, If I want one of them it should be Sterling.
            If I do this it means benching Hazard next week who play Arsenal.

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      4. Courtois in the Rye
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Do you prefer:
        A) Rodriguez, Lallana and Puncheon out and Yaya, AJ and Lukaku in (9 DGWers)
        or
        B) Rodriguez, Lallana and Mata out and Yaya, Gerrard and Lukaku in (8 DGWers)

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        1. jonnybhoy
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          A

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        2. Kip
          • 10 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          A)

          you can ditch mata afterwards

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          1. Courtois in the Rye
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Cheers all. Loathe to ditch a DGWer - doesn't seem to make sense but Mata has been so awful I'm fearing a drop/rest.

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        3. Brouhaha
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          B

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      5. jonnybhoy
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Will Suarez get the assist?

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        1. Marouane Fellatio
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          No chance

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        2. Bolasie
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Maybe

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        3. Valar(Keith)
          • 14 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          For sure. Patience. Unless fpl break a rule they ve had for 5 plus years

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      6. Colonel Shoe 肝池
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        3-0 tho, 3 frickin nil 😀 😀 😀 still think city will jump us, its al whether chelsea feck up

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        1. Lawrø
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Everything's coming up Millhouse! 😎

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

            😉

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      7. Sif
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        3 Points (13 BPS): Gerrard
        2 Points (10 BPS): Johnson
        1 Point (9 BPS): Agger Allen

        Suarez on 7BPS, will he get points once assist added?

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      8. creative
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        I'm taking a 4 point hit for the double - and the ox is getting regular game time due to all the arsenal injuries. Which combo is better;

        Yaya & AJ
        Yaya & Ox

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      9. dribbler
        • 14 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        did sturridge get a yellow?

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        1. Brouhaha
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Not that i noticed whilst watching game

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        2. Sif
          • 11 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          celebration of suarez goal, commentators mention it whilst camera was elsewhere.

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      10. Iamjack
        • 11 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        djebril ..sarnab .. were u speaking bengali ?

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      11. isacki: full casual
        • 12 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        I got points from Oxlade-Chamberlain.

        😮

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        1. jas5sk - Youtube channel
          • 12 Years
          10 years, 1 month ago

          *fist bump*

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          1. isacki: full casual
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            THE FAITHFUL ARE REPAID

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            1. jas5sk - Youtube channel
              • 12 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              Not right there 🙁

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              1. isacki: full casual
                • 12 Years
                10 years, 1 month ago

                He's just so good though, expect a lot more of that. Been waiting for Wenger to play him ever since I got him for SUN sto and he was benched twice.

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                1. isacki: full casual
                  • 12 Years
                  10 years, 1 month ago

                  He just needs to shoot next time 😉

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      12. Holmes
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Will Yaya's price rise tonight? Wanna bring him but would like to wait if possible

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      13. Werkself
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        10 years, 1 month ago

        People earlier claimed Suarez will get the assist on the Rafael hand ball penalty after the game because that's how it's done. But Allen's assist on the Jones penalty was given immediately. Can someone explain the seeming contradiction?

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        1. JT's Dog
            10 years, 1 month ago

            That was a foul through contact, so think they always get given straight away.
            Not certain if saurez will happen

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            1. GREENDREAMS11
              • 14 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              it should do JT, I was just looking at the rules ;

              Penalties and Free-Kicks
              In the event of a penalty or free-kick, the player earning the penalty or free-kick is awarded an assist if a goal is directly scored, but not if he takes it himself, in which case no assist is given.

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          • Brouhaha
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            The only difference i can see is that was a tackle and the other a handball

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          • GREENDREAMS11
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            probably because the Suarez pen was due to a hand ball, needs reviewing i would assume, The Allen pen was a foul, more clear cut. It should be an assist nonetheless.

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            1. Leaf
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              Don't think so

              It's just hand ball , no assist involved

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              1. GREENDREAMS11
                • 14 Years
                10 years, 1 month ago

                really, surely Suarez has earned the pen ?

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                1. Leaf
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 14 Years
                  10 years, 1 month ago

                  He has ,doesn't he always , but not sure they get awarded

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                  1. GREENDREAMS11
                    • 14 Years
                    10 years, 1 month ago

                    if it doesn't, no biggie. Its just how I had interpreted what the rules say.

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                    1. Leaf
                      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                      • 14 Years
                      10 years, 1 month ago

                      I'm Probably wrong then

                      Don't care much either way , have him but not as capt (that was RVP :-()

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                • 10 Years
                10 years, 1 month ago

                wrong. Mertesacker had one earlier in the season when he headed the ball onto someone's hand.

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              2. Valar(Keith)
                • 14 Years
                10 years, 1 month ago

                It always has

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          • Werkself
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Those 3 points plus 2 Baps x2 (c) would come in pretty handy...

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            1. GREENDREAMS11
              • 14 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              yeah, its a 10 pointer if you captained him.

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        2. JT's Dog
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Is it snowing in London or has top row in WHL got coke habit

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          • FPL Notebook (John)
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Had Gerrard for 9 game weeks since his return from injury.

            7 goals and 3 assists 🙂

            He's saved a lot of my weeks!

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            1. Klopp's Kids
              • 10 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              I want to get him in but I have Sturridge, Suarez and Flanagan!

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              1. FPL Notebook (John)
                • 10 Years
                10 years, 1 month ago

                Similar problem with me and not being able to get Lallana.

                Have JRod and Boruc/Davis in goals.

                For some reason, Gerrard was the first name (after Suarez) i wanted in my Jan wildcard.

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                1. Klopp's Kids
                  • 10 Years
                  10 years, 1 month ago

                  Good choice. Liverpool have enough trickery to win more penalties. Flair everywhere, even Henderson!

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          • asdasdasdadasdasda
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            I didnt get gerrard till now thinking that no. of penalties given to liverpool will be at max 5 because last season they rarely got a penalty.Now I will have to get gerrard it seems.I have no problem with liverpool getting penalties as I support liverpool 😉

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            1. Klopp's Kids
              • 10 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              Imagine if he scored all three!

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          • dribbler
            • 14 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            and suarez lost a load of bps too???

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            1. Sif
              • 11 Years
              10 years, 1 month ago

              yes, 10 to 7... 🙁

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          • Give The Todd Some Love
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Oh dear

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          • Total Foot 5 - romario 11
            • 10 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            as a 4th Mid if short of funds:

            1--Rosiky
            2--Sisoko
            3--THud

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          • SW6
            • 11 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Good work Ox, need to keep your differential status.

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          • Essan
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            10 years, 1 month ago

            Could have sworn I saw Suarez on 2bps ..... Oh well, still on 59 + Kos

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