Dugout Discussion

Dugout Discussion – Man City vs West Ham

After a stilted stalemate at the Hawthorns, it’s fair to say that we’re looking forward to some fireworks from the tea-time kick-off.

Manchester City host West Ham United at the Etihad as they bid to keep pace with Manchester United and Chelsea and make it three wins from three.

Pep Guardiola makes two changes, introducing Gael Clichy at left-back for Aleks Kolarov and handing a start to Nolito at the expense of Jesus Navas.

The Hammers are again without Dimitri Payet, with his absence surely set to lead to another mass exodus in FPL terms.

Slaven Bilic has changed shape in a bid to repeat last season’s victory in Manchester, recalling Angelo Ogbonna to a three-man rearguard.

Former Manchester United starlet, Ashley Fletcher, makes his first Premier League start up front in a 3-5-2 setup. Sam Bryam drops to the bench, whilst Håvard Nordtveit misses out through injury. Manuel Lanzini is fit enough for the bench.

All eyes will be Sergio Aguero – he heads into this encounter backed with the captaincy by 32% of FPL managers, just 1% less than Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who stalled with a two-point return at Hull on Saturday.

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

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  1. Ziro
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Kun hattie please

    1. Robe Wan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Bigtime

    2. Podge
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      1 will do

    3. Gazpilicueta
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      pleeeeeease

  2. THE REAL RON ⚽
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Which poster on here manages this site: http://anewpla.net/fpl/live/ ..?

    Found a bug so was going to let them know...

    1. Bubz
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Fusen I think

      1. THE REAL RON ⚽
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        That's the name I was thinking too. Too many tools out there, so wasn't sure! Thanks. 🙂

    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      o/

      1. THE REAL RON ⚽
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Reply fail? 😉

        1. Jafooli
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          😮 😛

    3. Ziro
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Fusen

      1. THE REAL RON ⚽
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Ta. 🙂

  3. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    That's not how you do the ostrich light shadow, Pep.....

  4. Kaneyonero
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Cmon (C)un

    1. Kaneyonero
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      4th comment as well lol

  5. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Reckon kun will get 9 pts again

    1. Henryyy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      13

  6. Costa Nostra
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Lol @ Pep talking up Kolarov as the "best" CB he's seen play and then promptly bench him.

    1. Polaris - The Mortal Coil
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 8 months ago

      Classic. He used to talk highly of opposition players before pretty much every game in the Bundesliga too. It's a thing with Pep.

  7. Licky
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 8 months ago

    Come on Arthur!

  8. Worzel Gummidge
      7 years, 8 months ago

      SOU have 3 ok fixtures up to GW14. CPL have great fixtures. FT after the ITB will be Redmond to Punch I think.

      1. Rich_20
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Thinking the same, or King. Did punch play well?

        1. Worzel Gummidge
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Haven't watched the highlights but apparently yes. Assist and 2 Bonus. No.10 in that team will get points IMO.

        2. Mr. Blonde
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          But CPL are muck...

      2. BenDavies
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Aguero (C)'ers raise your hands!

        1. Jimmy Boy
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          aye

        2. Les Bleus
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          \o/

        3. Lawrø
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          \o/

        4. Kaneyonero
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          o/

          1. Lawrø
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            He said hands goddamit

            1. Kaneyonero
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Only have 1 🙁

        5. ★Kuntheman★
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          \o/

        6. Podge
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          o/

          1. Les Bleus
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Did you not see him type HANDS?!

            1. Podge
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              and I raised 1 of my hands

        7. Bubz
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          \o/

        8. Piggs Boson
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          \`[T] /

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

          lo__
          |
          /)

          1. Les Bleus
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            😀

          2. Jafooli
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            😀

        10. Vedas
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          o/

        11. Moin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          \m/O\m/

        12. Henryyy
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          ^

        13. cheekumz
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          o/

        14. Belsunz
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          FTW

      3. red devil 7
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        city 3-0 wham
        aguero hatty

        1. Lawrø
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          2-0

          Aguero brace

        2. Moin
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          3-3

      4. Jimmy Boy
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 8 months ago

        Is it worth swapping Barkley for Mirallas to improve my wc team elsewhere?

        1. Worzel Gummidge
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Yes.

        2. Feeling_blue
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 8 months ago

          Is Holgate nailed?

          1. Worzel Gummidge
              7 years, 8 months ago

              No

          2. ★Kuntheman★
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            44 pts, Aguero(c), Sterling, Stones to go. Now is where things get interesting. 🙂

            1. Henryyy
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              thats a good score mate

          3. Jonathan Feddema
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Foster/Robinson

            Williams/Morgan/McAuley

            Capoue/Barkley/Mane/Pogba/tadic

            Aguero/Ibra

            Walker/Collins/Diomande

            A. Pogba/Tadic/Walker > Ozil/Lamela/best remaining 5 or below def (-8 hit)
            B. Pogba/Tadic/Morgan > Ozil/Lamela/best remaining 4.4 or below def (-8 hit)
            C. Tadic > Lamela
            D. Tadic > Cazorla
            E. Tadic > Antonio

            First 2 gw have not gone well

          4. Crouching Tiger
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            My defense this week 8+9+7+8+6. So nice.

            But I captained Ibra so now I'm sitting behind a sofa and hoping Aguero won't explode...

            1. Bubz
              • 10 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Bloody hell

            2. Lawrø
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              I hope Aguero destroys you

            3. Podge
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              6-9-8-Stones for me
              Kun(C)

              1. Son is Rising
                • 13 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                Valencia, Shaw, Evans, Stones?

            4. ekul the lokonga enthusiast
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              I got 16-11-2-2

              Gray ibra blanked.

              Roll on the aguero hattie

          5. BPlease
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Captain Kun! xd xd xd

          6. Gassemannen
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            A: Williams, Sanchez and Benteke

            or:

            B: Walker, Cazorla and Vardy?

            1. Les Bleus
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              A no question

            2. Rougie
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              A.

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

            Was Ibra the most capped player?

            1. Jimmy Boy
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              yeah

          8. Jimmy Boy
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            How does this wc team look? All suggestions and comments welcome. Gone for the expensive, quality midfielders

            Cech - Pickford
            Valencia - Walker - Evans - Williams - Pieters
            Hazard - Sanchez - Mane - Mirallas - Capoue
            Aguero - Defoe - Diomande

            1. Podge
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Can you ump Mane and get Ibra ?

              1. Jimmy Boy
                • 7 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                Would have to be swapping him for a £4.5 and then still wouldn't quite have enough for Ibra, so no I can't

          9. Sánchez
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Aguero to miss a penalty, score an own goal then get a red card please

            1. Kroosin'
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              After scoring 5.

              1. ekul the lokonga enthusiast
                • 8 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                Thats more likely

            2. BPlease
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Might as well be hit with a meteor with those odds. Not this week!

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

                😀

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

            Please don't be one of those days.. You know the ones, Aguero is Capt in the last game, you are bursting with anticipation and then he limps off after 10 mins

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

              I love those days

              1. Wild Rover
                • 13 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                There's been a few 🙂

            2. mipola
              • 11 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              That is painful to even read.

            3. Count of Monte Hristo
              • 11 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              A little piece of me just died reading that.

          11. Dušan Citizen
            • 10 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            After this, there are no PL for 2 weeks. 🙁 So drink it, suck it in.

          12. TeddiPonza
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            A. Alexis and Puncheon/Januzaj

            OR

            B. Özil and Mirallas/someone else up to 6,9m

            ?.

          13. FPL Footy Show Pod
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            7th in my ML but nobody around me has Kun as captain.... Come on lad get 7 goals and 2 assists for Stones

          14. ekul the lokonga enthusiast
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            People settle an agument for me quick???

            Suarez or aguero??

            Im back aguero cos i think hes the better finisher and has better movement off the ball. Suarez work rate unquestionable but i only think people exaggerate him cos hes a scorer of great goals. Both aguero and suarez have identical PL goal records.

            Thoughts?

            1. red devil 7
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              suarez

            2. goriuanx
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Luis Suarez

              1. FPL Footy Show Pod
                • 7 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                King luis but it runs close

            3. Podge
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Suarez at his best was terrifying for defenders, Kun not so much.

            4. Sánchez
              • 11 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Suarez much better in my view
              No way aguero would have carried Liverpool like Suarez did

              1. goriuanx
                • 13 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                Suarez took Barcelona to a different level too

              2. ekul the lokonga enthusiast
                • 8 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                I think thats what aguero is doing now.

                Aguero has scored 100+ goals in less than 140 apps. Thats incredible

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

                  With a much better team around him and still 4th last season

            5. The Donald
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Suarez is a better player

            6. Lawrø
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Suarez by quite some distance imo

            7. Count of Monte Hristo
              • 11 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Suarez

          15. Squires FC
            • 10 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Aguero captaincy percentage?

            1. Wild Rover
              • 13 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              32%

              1. FPL Footy Show Pod
                • 7 Years
                7 years, 8 months ago

                Don't let us down Kun!!!!

            2. Black Panther
              • 9 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              32%

            3. Lawrø
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 8 months ago

              His effective ownership in the top 10k was 150% I think 😯

              (Please someone correct me if I'm wrong about that)

          16. Optimus.
            • 13 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            33 points with Stones and Aguero (c) to go

            Would love to hit my 1st ton of the season!

          17. Scotty B
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Heaton
            Mcauley Williams Shaw
            Sanchez Cazorla Fer Hazard
            Diomande Aguero Ibrahimovic
            Subs Jaku Capoue Stones Amat

            Anyone else going with Sanchez & Cazorla?

          18. The Donald
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 8 months ago

            Aguero drifting wide...

            out of my team

          19. Worzel Gummidge
              7 years, 8 months ago

              Man city, Arsenal or Chelsea for the title IMO. Yes, I said Arsenal 🙂

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

                I was thinking Arsenal too, before the season. They've got what they needed, they just need to not *** it up now.