Dugout Discussion

The Dugout Discussion – Newcastle vs Arsenal

Newcastle United and Arsenal clash in the first head-to-head of a bumper Saturday schedule. The Magpies are looking to build having shocked many a Fantasy manager by holding Manchester United to a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford last time out, while the Gunners will be seeking to avoid their third blank in four matches.

With one win, loss and draw to their name already this campaign, it’s difficult to know what to expect from the Toon at St James’ Park. If they are stand any chance of rebuffing Arsenal’s advances, they’ll certainly want to concede less shots inside the box (10) than they did in their previous home clash against Southampton.

The Gunners have tallied more goal attempts (61) and shots inside the box (42) than any other side this term yet lay claim the worst shot conversion rate (3.3%). Clearly Arsene Wenger will be demanding his forward contingent to be more ruthless as they attempt to make up ground on Manchester City in the title race.

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  1. thegaffer82
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Have the pick from all the 3:00 games. Which one to choose you reckon?

    1. Brian (Not the Messiah)
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Bournemouth! 🙂

    2. FPL Daniel
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      The champions obviously

    3. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Stoke - West Brom

    4. Adam West - Team Serbia for…
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Liverpool vs West Ham

    5. Rödallegabomb ᴿᴮ
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Kolarov

      1. Nabs Kebabs
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        this

    6. SW6
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Chelsea - Palace will be a good game I reckon

    7. Numb
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Has to be City from an FPL pov

    8. Nabs Kebabs
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Bournemouth-Leicester for entertainment

    9. Tadic is the new Eriksen
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      City

  2. RubeRx
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    How many BPs for Walcott?

    1. 7shadesofsmoke
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      😆

    2. Pariße
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      -1 actually

    3. Tadic is the new Eriksen
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      About as many as Mitrovic

  3. Weasel Boy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    If Pedro performs today it's. .
    ...Sanchez > Pedro

    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Definitely feeling that one as well

  4. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Kolarov early goal and FFS will go down again

  5. OPTA FPL
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Only Ramsey looks good today

    1. Royal5
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      😯

    2. Touré De Force
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Did you watch the game? Bellerin, Coquelin, Monreal, Sanchez all had good games

      1. OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Sanchez good game? lol
        about 100 fail passes

        1. Touré De Force
          • 13 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          We're talking about real life football here.

        2. Camp No No
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          In reality, 12 missed passes.

    3. Mull
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      "It's gotta be the hair Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal, you just don't see it nowadays!"

  6. Jaffalicious! #SomosCubanos
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Sanchez owners look on the bright side, we got a clean sheet point! 😀

    1. Tadic is the new Eriksen
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      And he'll probably do really well against Stoke too.

      1. Essan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        aye, another clean sheet point 😀

    2. Weasel Boy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      This

      But he's still going

  7. Parm
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Sánchez looking good once again but not coming up with the goods. 😕

    1. Parm
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      And why do all my mini-league rivals have Cech ffs

      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Tell me about it

  8. Would an idiot do that?
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Weekends like this that I wonder why I pay for Sky Sports

    1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      id wonder anyway

  9. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 8 months ago

    Who will score the next own goal for Arsenal? Panti? Catermolle? Put your bets

    1. Pariße
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Coates

    2. Worzel Gummidge
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Do you ever shut up.

    3. Canadian Football
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Giroud in the middle and theo on the rw. Freaking obvious. Why can't we get see it?

      1. Canadian Football
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Or sign a class striker!!!!!

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

        Theo is terrible, give ox a run of games on the right

        1. Captain Peacock
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          Ox was equally pants today too. Just got lucky his off target shot was deflected in.

    4. Berkan
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Where can we check how many bonus points players got?

    5. maff
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      right, I have all 11 of my players in these 3pm games. and they are all at home. here comes 37 points

      1. Tadic is the new Eriksen
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        😀

      2. Would an idiot do that?
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        37 is better than 22

    6. Pariße
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Walcott's baps: -1

    7. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Need Silva to have an epic game today

      1. ARKANOIIDE
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Would love it 🙂

      2. Bertzeiner-m
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        join the club

    8. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      One game down and no prizes for guessing who sits at the top...Attacking stats for the GW so far..

      http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/4671/

      Fat lot of good it did again.

    9. Vasty Deep
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Best Stoke defender?

      1. Jax
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        None

      2. Touré De Force
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Muniesa

    10. Hands Guber
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      And so the fickle sheep of fantasy football start thinking 'Alexis,blank; Hazard,scores; Hazard is now the essential one. Until next week'.

      Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

      1. Greenbackbøøg…
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Would love that to happen

      2. In Like Flynn.
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Happens every season.

      3. Schurrle-Hazardous
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Pedro* scores

      4. Forza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Thankfully it calms down when we have more data to judge on.

    11. johnbarnes
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Koscielny 1 bonus pt?

      1. Jax
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        nope

      2. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        No.

    12. Greenbackbøøg…
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Are Ozil owners definitely selling this week?

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        I think so

      2. johnbarnes
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        yes, then Koscielny>Kolarov after the Stoke game.

    13. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      -4 from 0 so far

      Any good?

      1. Jax
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        brilliant

    14. money face bandwagon
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Did sanchez really look good? Not sure why i feel arsenal is poor in general

      1. Jax
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        ah he'll come good eventually.

      2. Royal5
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        He didn't.

      3. Numb
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Not really.

    15. Hypnos
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Koscielny > Kolarov for -12 turned out to be a mistake

      1. Jax
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Kolarov hasn't played yet.

      2. OPTA FPL
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        it's only -4 by itself

      3. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Unless Kolarov gets a hattrck

      4. Valar(Keith)
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        You did kosciely to kolarov to koscielny to kolarov?

    16. Geordienufc1
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      I'm going to put it out there that I'm proud of that performance. Our only attacking outlet wrongly sent off 15 mins in, given the circumstances I was very happy with how we defended.

      As for arsenal, I wasn't impressed at all. Build up very slow, created very few clear cut chances despite the man advantage, poor tactics from Wenger in keeping Walcott on for so long over Giroud. As a Sanchez owner, I'm worried by their impotence.

      1. Nabs Kebabs
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        parked the bus at home, tried to injure opposition = pride 😕

        1. Geordienufc1
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          You're joking.

        2. Geordienufc1
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          What on earth are you supposed to do after your striker gets sent off after just 15 minutes against a possession-dominating team like arsenal.

          And I think the suggestion that that was a leg-breaking tackle from mitrovic, or indeed that any of those were dangerous tackles is laughable.

          Sorry to be blunt, but that's honestly how I see it. Of course I'd never applaud attempts to injure players.

      2. Touré De Force
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Don't worry - Walcott won't start up front for a while again.

      3. Camp No No
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Wrongly sent off? Please.

        You didn't manage one single shot, in fact hardly one single attack after having conceded a goal. It doesn't matter how well you defend if you have absolutely no attack at all, because that way you're sure to lose anyway and will get relegated.

        Also, Arsenal got 6 shots on target inside the penalty area, missed 2 crazy clear-cut chances in 6 yards box. That's not great defending, that's massive luck (for your part, even if that luck was just that Arsenal forwards can't shoot).

        1. Geordienufc1
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          I profoundly disagree, sir, on every point, but I know that there is no use arguing. You saw it one way, and I another. I won't dispute your entitlement to that opinion.

    17. Eden Hazardous
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Coates benched......ugh! Williams to come in for Coates

      1. Tadic is the new Eriksen
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Not a bad sub to have coming in at all

      2. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Blessing in disguise

        1. Eden Hazardous
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          Let us hope so

    18. Mr. O'Connell
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Coates, Saylor, Mert, Ozil... might as well just hit the WC button now (have double Saints, Depay and no Kolarov). No brainer right?

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Calm down first

      2. Tadic is the new Eriksen
        • 11 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        I would

    19. Dynamic Duos
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Why can't Sanchez bloody finish?

      1. MattysFantasyFooty
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Tell that too Walcott couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo

      2. Captain Peacock
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Disappointed as I am, he did ok in the chances he had, just got unlucky. The problem is he was playing too deep and didn't make runs. They were putting in a half effort, or so it seemed.

      3. Ryan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        He's never in a position to finish. Always shoots from hopeless positions with defenders all around him.

        1. Brian (Not the Messiah)
          • 14 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          have to take a shot eventually.

          1. Ryan
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 12 Years
            8 years, 8 months ago

            He's impatient

    20. MattysFantasyFooty
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Walcott is terrible- Arsenal fan

      1. Tinydancer
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        here here

        1. Tinydancer
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          Been saying it for years tho , even when he was scoring lots of goals he takes away so much from the team

          1. Camp No No
            • 10 Years
            8 years, 8 months ago

            Yup. And when he does what he did tonight, he is absolutely negative.

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

            He is very poor will never understand why they gave him a bigger and new contract and he's barely done anything for the past 2 years

      2. Dynamic Duos
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        And Sanchez he couldn't even score v 10 men

      3. PainInDiaz
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Fickle Arsenal fan*

      4. Captain Peacock
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        They need to ditch this concept of a striker and just play 4-6-0 like Roma used to, with Sanchez at false 9.

    21. ralfb
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Why did ozil not play

      1. MattysFantasyFooty
        • 10 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Knee injury

    22. Dušan Citizen
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Best site to watch games online?

        1. Dušan Citizen
          • 10 Years
          8 years, 8 months ago

          Where have you been, genius? I didn't recognize you. 😛

      1. Eden Hazardous
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        youtube

      2. Brian (Not the Messiah)
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        epl site

      3. Jax
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        Can't ask that

      4. Ryan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 12 Years
        8 years, 8 months ago

        A legal one

    23. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      8 years, 8 months ago

      Coates, Cedric, Mane

      all need to leave

      thank feck i still have the wc