Dugout Discussion

Dugout Discussion – Arsenal vs Bournemouth

After Stoke’s narrow win at Vicarage Road, we now make our way to the Emirates as Arsenal entertain Bournemouth at 2.15pm.

Having led the line against PSG in midweek, Olivier Giroud drops back to the bench, despite netting five times in his last five appearances across all competitions.

Alexis Sanchez is stationed up front, then, with his 22% FPL owners looking for an improvement on the form that has seen him score in just one of the previous six Gameweeks.

Certainly, we need the Chilean to step up in a weekend where Liverpool pair Philipp Coutinho and Roberto Firmino, along with Chelsea’s Eden Hazard, failed to deliver the goods.

Utilised off the bench against PSG, Theo Walcott returns to the starting XI, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain also finding a place in the hosts line-up.

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  1. Sims
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 5 months ago

    FOR A 4 PT HIT

    Coutinho lukaku Firmino

    TO

    Kane Sanchez Zaha

    Yes?

    1. jurgenklopp.8
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 5 months ago

      don't sell firmino, he was brilliant yesterday, unlucky to not be in the points.

  2. VFORVANDETA
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 5 months ago

    68 with lukaku to go

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 5 months ago

      Y be smug?

    2. Lawrø
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 5 months ago

      Well done

  3. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 5 months ago

    Cmon wally gwg jump Xhaka

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 5 months ago

      Is it likely?

  4. BrockLanders
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 5 months ago

    Giroud down at the end there holding back of leg..

  5. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 5 months ago

    What kind of name is Arlo ffs

  6. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 5 months ago

    Got exact money to do Cou, Kun > Alexis, Kane for free? Y/N?

    1. Dedalus1
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 5 months ago

      No

    2. BrockLanders
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 5 months ago

      Don't sell Kun

  7. Jay_
      7 years, 5 months ago

      Is Theos gf/wife the same one he was with as a school kid?

      1. Sims
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 5 months ago

        Why?

        1. Jay_
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Makes me feel genuinely happy for them as family to be be brutally honest. Lot of gold diggers out there

            1. Sims
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Yeah. That's good to see

        2. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Yes

        3. Numb
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Are you thinking of Andy Johnson?

          1. Jay_
              7 years, 5 months ago

              😀

          2. Ógie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Ffs I pay all this money to Sky and BT and i still have to watch my beloved ManU in a dirty grainy stream 🙁

        4. rooneysfirsttouch
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          SAN(C)HEZ!!!!!! 😀

            1. rooneysfirsttouch
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Stalker :/

              1. Sims
                • 7 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Not sure what's worse. The original comment or the attempt to go off topic

                1. rooneysfirsttouch
                  • 7 Years
                  7 years, 5 months ago

                  What´s worse is your overall ranking aaawwwwwwww snap 😀

            2. Sims
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Lol that's pathetic

          1. FPL Virgin
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            #Rovered!

        5. PvA
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Thanks Sanchez

          I love this game

          1. FPL Virgin
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            😀

        6. Bubz
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          What a hilarious interview from Theo. He's so programmed to say it's all about the team result that he said "It's all about the family, but good for me personally too" about his own baby being born 😆

          1. Sims
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Loooooool

          2. Fred54
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Heh.

            To paraphrase his famous Playstation quote "I just toggled her X...."

          3. Lawrø
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            😆

          4. Davidinho
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Hahahaha

          5. Rh4ziel
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            lol

        7. Bolivian Seaman
          • 13 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          walcott really doesn't have a footballing brain 'I think it was a shot by nacho to be honest' - no it wasn't

        8. Dr Dream
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Played my "get out of jail free" chip this week.

          No Aguero and captained Coutinho....and managed 66pts all out.

          1. Numb
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            What chip is that?

          2. Debauchy
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            V,,Nice,,Wakey

        9. Js31
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Sanchez making us all pay for shipping him out for Hazard

          1. Demí
            • 13 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            In two weeks time:

            Hazard making us all pay for shipping him out for Sanchez

            1. GS456
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Hope you are right.

            2. Lazarus Star
              • 10 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              I've kept both (and Kun)

          2. Costa Nostra
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Have them both

            1. Js31
              • 9 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Who's the 'premium' player you don't have to afford them both?

        10. Arteta
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Alexis in my team since first draft in the summer. Anything less than 200 points this season will be a big disappointment.

          1. tm245
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Likewise. I just haven't figured out when to captain him yet.

          2. FPL Virgin
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Keep the faith, Ozil

        11. Fred54
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Shall I tell you something funny?

          I need Lukaku to save my GW.

          1. GS456
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            I need Austin!

            1. Ellam9
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              I need both

          2. Numb
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            😆 that's a good one!

          3. FPL Virgin
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            I've got Lukaku captained 🙂

        12. GS456
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Well, Sanchez to hazard is looking rather silly now.

          Is coutinho > Theo a good move?

          1. rivercityransom
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            theo might not be nailed for much longer

            1. GS456
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

          2. Debauchy
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Yep

        13. Odikostar
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Who is this Sims guy at southampton?

          1. jurgenklopp.8
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            dunno

          2. Unbowed Unbent N'Golo
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Ha yeah right, bound to score a hatty

        14. GoonerByron
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Done Coutinho -> Sanchez before last GW and obviously gutted..

          Coutinho + Fuchs -> Sanchez + Nyom worth -4?

          1. GoonerByron
            • 12 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            *Sanchez -> Coutinho

          2. Odikostar
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            haha :/
            yes

        15. Viper
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Hazard, Coutinho & Lukaku -> Sanchez, Moses & Kane -8

          What could possibly go wrong?

          I really want Sanchez back. Those bloody '6 weeks out' rumours 🙁

          1. Kermit Special
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Calm down dude. I advice u get both hazard and sanchez,

            1. KingNidge
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              This

            2. Kermit Special
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              from gw 15

          2. Numb
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Taking Hazard out for an 8 point hit? Quite a lot!

        16. Spg76
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 5 months ago

          Joe Allen not guaranteed a starting place for Stoke next week.

          1. Spg76
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            *next GW

          2. rivercityransom
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            how come?

          3. Sims
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            He is

          4. GS456
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            He will be. Shaqiri will move back to the wing

          5. MTPockets
              7 years, 5 months ago

              ?

            • Spg76
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              He'll stick with winning team

          6. Lecky Legs FC
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            0.1 short of Siggy how does Coutinho & Stanislas > Walcott & Son sound for free?

            1. diesel001
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Terrible

              1. jurgenklopp.8
                • 8 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                -1

            2. jurgenklopp.8
              • 8 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              not sure about son, but there isn't much choice at that price

              1. Lecky Legs FC
                • 8 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Yeah I was thinking Milner now instead of Son takes pens and at £6.6 it isn't half bad.

          7. Badger Badger Mushroom Mush…
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Cout, Haz, Lukaku done to Sanchez, Kane and Pedro.

            Cost me minus 8 but I'm happy with my team now for a while.

            1. Fred54
              • 9 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Now or before this GW deadline?

            2. DantheManinaPan
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 10 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Selling Hazard was a bad idea. He has looked extremely good in the last couple of games despite not scoring. Way better than Kane for the time being imo.

              Good luck proving me wrong

              1. Badger Badger Mushroom Mush…
                • 7 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Pedro looking just as good for much less

          8. Jonny Sutt
            • 9 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            A) Austin and £9.2 midfielder (I'm on payet ATM)
            B) £4.6 forward (thinking big vic) and Sanchez

            I have aguero, Costa, hazard, Pedro, firmino and Allen

          9. Lazarus Star
            • 10 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Is it ok to feel slightly smug I held on to both Aguero and Sanchez. Both of them were very very close to going last week.

            It does make that Coutinho captain fail a bit sweeter.

            Aguero is the new Lukaku.

          10. istanbul05
            • 10 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            Best defender for £4.5m or under? Already have Kosc, Amat, Holebas and Evans..

          11. Revival
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 5 months ago

            On 50 points so far with Coutinho (c)...not sure how to feel

            1. Numb
              • 9 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Smug?

            2. Wilshere Knowledge
              • 10 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              That's a green arrow. So happy.

            3. Lawrø
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              That's quite a bit above average I think

            4. Hybrid.power
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              59 with coutinho captain and Austin left. In delighted, after such a terrible few weeks

            5. MTPockets
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Avg 34 so far.

            6. DantheManinaPan
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 10 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Just got here... What happened to Holebas?

              Also very pleased to see the Aguero and Sanchez sales backfired. If I hadn't capped Coutinho I'd be feeling very smug.

            7. Hooky
              • 9 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              66 with Lukaku and Austin to go. Top 100k here I come 😆

              1. Optimus.
                • 13 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                500k is where it's at

                1. Hooky
                  • 9 Years
                  7 years, 5 months ago

                  I'll be back there in a couple of weeks I'm sure

            8. Mull
              • 12 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              I think I'm going to WC and get rid of Aguero. The only game I'd captain him in the next 4 weeks is Watford(H) and that looks like a game where they'll be plenty of rotation from Pep. It could backfire massively but it seems like a good risk with plenty of upside if it goes well.

              1. DantheManinaPan
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 10 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Don't do it!

              2. Lawrø
                • 12 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Step away from the computer

              3. Revival
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 11 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                City have best away record in the league, Kun is captain material against anyone home or away

                1. Mull
                  • 12 Years
                  7 years, 5 months ago

                  Aguero vs Chelsea or Arsenal is not as good as players like Kane, Hazard and Sanchez when they they have easy home fixtures. I firmly believe that if you're not going to captain him he isn't good value so I've decided to take a risk and go without for a few weeks.

            9. Kaneyonero
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 5 months ago

              Get lost Sanchez owners, jammy

              1. Bubz
                • 10 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Im not a Sanchez owner, but there's not anything jammy about it. One of the best fpl players there is

              2. DantheManinaPan
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 10 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Not jammy.
                If you sold him you did so knowing this was not only possible, but likely

              3. Hooky
                • 9 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Jammy pluckers picking good players. Thinking out of the box

              4. HurriKane
                • 11 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                huh hater spotted

                worked his socks off. well deserved

              5. Wilshere Knowledge
                • 10 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Really? That performance was easily worth the points.

              6. Mull
                • 12 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                Arsenal's best player at home to Bournemouth. 😆

              7. Conk
                • 9 Years
                7 years, 5 months ago

                As far from jammy as it gets, he was incredibly dangerous every time he got the ball