Dugout Discussion

Dugout Discussion – West Ham vs Liverpool

Liverpool’s top four ambitions come under scrutiny in Sunday’s next encounter, as Jurgen Klopp’s charges make their way to the London Stadium to face a buoyant West Ham United.

Boosted by last Friday’s 1-0 victory over London rivals Spurs, Slaven Bilic’s side will provide a stern test of Liverpool’s credentials; the Hammers have kept three successive clean sheets heading into this match.

The Reds will surely look to Philippe Coutinho for inspiration.

The Brazilian is comfortably the top owned asset on show in this afternoon kick-off, with the midfielder still part of 18.8% of squads.

He has suffered from significant recent sales, however: more than 221,000 managers have moved Coutinho out of their squads over the previous two Gameweeks. A modest 14-point return over his last four Gameweeks, featuring just a single goal, proved damaging.

Coutinho’s profit from this match is likely to have the main impact on our Gameweeks, then, with only minor interest elsewhere.

Roberto Firmino – part of 10.5% of squads – misses out, while Daniel Sturridge earns a rare start, his first since Gameweek 20.

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

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  1. Lav
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 27 mins ago

    Well based on the averages that last game meant nothing.

  2. Pep says
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 26 mins ago

    Mon Hammers

  3. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 25 mins ago

    DS15 😎

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 22 mins ago

      Limps off after 14mins, after another mediocre performance

  4. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 24 mins ago

    COYI

  5. Chucky
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 24 mins ago

    no players in this game...

    1. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 22 mins ago

      Same....1-1 both OGs please....

  6. Brap.
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 23 mins ago

    Really hope this won't be a stinker

  7. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 23 mins ago

    Is this the day Liverpool mark their return to the pinnacle of football? Outsiders to lifting the CL trophy next season?

    1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 19 mins ago

      They should hope for tough draws in UCL as they best big teams

  8. Sims
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 22 mins ago

    This is like last year's Europa final for Liverpool

    Definitely rolling over

    1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 19 mins ago

      You're still here?

  9. We Will Klopp you
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 21 mins ago

    Liverpool! Liverpool!

  10. acidicleo
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 21 mins ago

    come on pools...

  11. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 20 mins ago

    As a Coutinho owner is it good news that Firmino is not playing?
    They are going with 2 strikers 🙁

  12. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 20 mins ago

    Early thoughts on how to finish the season?

    Would love two punts.

    2ft, 0itb.

    Cech
    Alonso / Monreal / Yoshida
    Sanchez / Hazard / Alli / Sane / King
    Kane / Jesus

    Pickford / Stephens / Holgate / Anichebe

    1. acidicleo
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 18 mins ago

      downgrade haz (depending on sanchez injury update) and upgrade yoshida...

      1. Ibracadabra
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 17 mins ago

        Only if Haz stars vs Watford. If rested, he should play vs SUN. Otherwise agree with this.

    2. JustPark
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 16 mins ago

      Hazard and probably Anichebe/Alli out. Not sure for who yet though.

  13. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 20 mins ago

    Are there two more differing player attitudes in the same team than Milner & Sturidge?

    1. Sims
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 19 mins ago

      Wilshere and sanchez

      1. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 18 mins ago

        Good call or Giroud & Sanchez

        1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 16 mins ago

          I was thinking of Giroud,Sanchez but Sanchez gets frustated a lot

    2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 19 mins ago

      Giroud,Cazorla

  14. The Architect of Anarchy
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 19 mins ago

    There should be a chip which allows us to have two Captains or which multiplies Vac's points by 1.5 .

    Aoa.is useless .

    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 18 mins ago

      You're calling yourself useless?

      1. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 17 mins ago

        Choice.

      2. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 17 mins ago

        😆
        This deserves a lot of upvotes

      3. Jafooli
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 17 mins ago

        Berbilly sighting 😮

      4. The Architect of Anarchy
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 17 mins ago

        Damn!!

      5. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 17 mins ago

        😆

      6. Somalion
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 15 mins ago

        Top notch

      7. The Overthinker
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 10 mins ago

        Brutal

    2. ⚽️ Dingo ⚽️
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 18 mins ago

      Or just scrap the stupid chips.

    3. svasei - Up (?) the Rovers
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 14 mins ago

      Or a chip that cancels knee jerking for a month. Could potentially be worth one hundred points.

    4. acidicleo
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 12 mins ago

      good point...
      or maybe sell the unwanted chip for some budget...

  15. Sánchez
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 19 mins ago

    Do people think the big DGW us the right week to bench boost?

    2 seasons running I've used it on that week and twice now I've had disappointment.

    3 no shows yesterday and that was after a -8 to get Walcott Stones and Valencia out (each had a dgw but was imo too risky of not playing)

    Then regardless, I get no shows from another 3 (Gabbiadini Gibbs Ward Prowse) and the weeks not over yet.

    Almost every other week all 15 play, but at season end DGW time, everyone rotates. So is it even worth using BB on a big DGW?

    And its not that hard to plan for 11 DGW players in such a week.

    Thinking next season I might BB earlier on as it seems to go to waste on a week like this

    1. Sims
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 17 mins ago

      I think the early dgws are the best time to use it. Too many pointless games result in rotation

      1. Sánchez
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 15 mins ago

        This is my thinking on why its a waste. Likes of my triple Southampton who have nothing to play for. Tripled up in advance of dgw x2 but really let down. Same with man utd europa rotation. Too many either with other priorities or on the beach attitudes or being rested etc

    2. Ibracadabra
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 14 mins ago

      Agree, used mine in GW35 and picked up 20 pts from Pickford, Zaha, Stephens and Calum Chambers. Was ridiculed prior to that but spoke to about rotation and the nailed on status at the time of all four of those players who ALL had home games. Happy in retrospect, but of course an element of luck that Puel rotated so many SOU assets and the highly owned budget keepers like Jakupovic and Pickford failed in the same week.

    3. acidicleo
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 13 mins ago

      i think its just hard luck..
      i wc eed in gw36 in preparation for bb in gw37..
      and had 25 points in bench on gw36... and around 10 this gw,,,!!

    4. Pierce34
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 12 mins ago

      It depends on a lot of things, especially on whether the DGW teams have something to play for. There would still have been some rotation for rest but nowhere near as much.

      For me personally, I seriously considered BB last week, and it would've worked - 25 points on my bench compared to almost nothing this week. If the teams in the big DGW next year have nothing to play for, I'll change my strategy.

    5. Sánchez
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 8 mins ago

      Answers here seem to confirm SIMS view that a regular dgw like 36 are a better option

  16. frenchfries
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 18 mins ago

    Benchboost update:
    Jakupovic (0)
    Stephens (0)
    JWP (0)
    Holgate (1)

  17. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 18 mins ago

    Surely studge is better central. Origi useless.

    1. nkhoughton
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 15 mins ago

      Sturridge played on wing once upon a time

  18. Forza Papac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 17 mins ago

    Bit of a nothing game this in FPL terms

    1. ⚔★Vibudh★⚔
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 15 mins ago

      Coutinhooooo

  19. gemmalmr92
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 17 mins ago

    Schlupp 12 points on my bench 🙁
    Odds of both Gibbs and Valencia playing neither game? Haha desperate times...

    1. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 16 mins ago

      Very high . Gibbs won't play I feel it

    2. Pierce34
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 15 mins ago

      Not bad odds actually.

    3. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 15 mins ago

      Gibbs not playing is possible, its hamstring injury I guess, so should be out

    4. JustPark
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 12 mins ago

      They both won't. I think.

    5. acidicleo
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 10 mins ago

      gibbs 99% valencia 90%

  20. liiusions
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 16 mins ago

    Biggest game for us this season. Please don't do a Liverpool, Liverpool

  21. nkhoughton
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 16 mins ago

    It's nice to watch a game with 0 impact on ml can actually relax

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 14 mins ago

      Thats what Andy Carroll is also saying 😉

  22. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 15 mins ago

    cmon you red men

  23. thunder_mike
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 15 mins ago

    NBC Sports just showed a shot inside the Spurs dressing as part of there coverage, didn't look like any surprises in lineup.

    1. thunder_mike
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 15 mins ago

      It showed the shirts hanging up.

  24. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 15 mins ago

    Come on lanzini, deal the hammer blow to Liverpool my son

  25. fedolefan
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 15 mins ago

    Please Hammers!!!

  26. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 13 mins ago

    Sturridge injury bingo

    I'm going with 37 mins

    1. Sánchez
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 12 mins ago

      I'll go half time dressing room niggle

    2. Jafooli
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 12 mins ago

      43mins

    3. Legomane
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 12 mins ago

      47, will forget to properly warm up prior to coming back on for 2nd half

  27. Legomane
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 13 mins ago

    Autopilot chip:
    Automatically selects the optimum XI and Captain choice from your XV.

    1. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 11 mins ago

      =luck chip

      1. Legomane
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 9 mins ago

        The Capoue realisation chip

    2. Sánchez
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 mins ago

      That's not a bad shout if trying to come up with a replacement chip to AOA that's actually got value and isn't daft.

  28. Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 12 mins ago

    Come on pool. Knock that smug smile of Wengers skeletor like withered face

  29. Sims
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 12 mins ago

    Lovren reminds me of the guy from 50 shades of grey

    1. Somalion
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 10 mins ago

      Stevie Wonder thinks so too

  30. Jafooli
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 11 mins ago

    Byram close....