The Dugout Discussion - Gameweek 1 - Man United vs Swansea - Best FPL Tips, Advice, Team News, Picks, and Statistics from Fantasy Football Scout

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Verbruggen

O’Reilly
Senesi
Hincapie

Semenyo
Saka
Wilson
Foden

Ekitiké
Haaland
Thiago

Kelleher
Rodon
Clyne
Kroupi

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Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Semenyo	BOU	7.5m	87.7%	Likely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	96.0%	Likely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	100.2%	Very Likely
Palmer	CHE	10.3m	100.0%	Likely
Wilson	FUL	5.6m	82.9%	Maybe
Bowen	WHU	7.5m	90.5%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.9m	87.6%	Unlikely
Marc Guiu	CHE	4.2m	87.6%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	84.6%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	80.0%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	8.6m	67.6%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.6m	73.9%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.8m	67.1%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	69.7%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	69.7%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	68.2%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	66.8%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	15.0m	63.6%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	66.4%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	64.0%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	61.9%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	63.1%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	60.6%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	57.8%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	56.4%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	56.1%	Unlikely
B.Fernandes	MUN	9.3m	47.2%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	51.3%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	48.0%	Unlikely
Romero	TOT	5.0m	50.7%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	49.9%	Unlikely
James	CHE	5.6m	48.7%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	47.6%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	47.7%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	40.6%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	39.3%	Unlikely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	39.2%	Unlikely
Wilson	WHU	5.8m	39.5%	Unlikely
Leno	FUL	4.9m	38.4%	Unlikely
Cherki	MCI	6.5m	31.6%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Lammens	MUN	5.1m	108.9%	Very Likely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	100.8%	Very Likely
João Pedro	CHE	7.3m	98.7%	Likely
Elanga	NEW	6.6m	100.5%	Very Likely
Mayenda	SUN	5.3m	100.3%	Very Likely
Rodon	LEE	4.1m	100.3%	Very Likely
Muniz	FUL	5.4m	100.2%	Very Likely
Gudmundsson	LEE	3.9m	100.1%	Very Likely
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	94.2%	Maybe
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	99.6%	Maybe
Neave	NEW	4.4m	99.0%	Maybe
Enzo	CHE	6.6m	94.2%	Maybe
Irving	WHU	4.4m	94.9%	Maybe
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.5%	Unlikely
McKenna	BOU	4.0m	94.9%	Unlikely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	92.5%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	92.4%	Unlikely
Bentley	WOL	4.0m	92.7%	Unlikely
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	93.6%	Unlikely
Sels	NFO	4.7m	91.3%	Unlikely
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	93.6%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	93.1%	Unlikely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	91.6%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	91.9%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	89.6%	Unlikely
Yarmoliuk	BRE	5.0m	90.6%	Unlikely
Worrall	BUR	3.9m	88.9%	Unlikely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	89.3%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	86.9%	Unlikely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	86.9%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	86.3%	Unlikely
Danso	TOT	4.3m	86.7%	Unlikely
Munetsi	WOL	5.4m	85.1%	Unlikely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	85.7%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	85.0%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	84.9%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.3m	78.7%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.4m	81.8%	Unlikely
Aina	NFO	4.7m	83.4%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	83.5%	Unlikely

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Watchlists

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Sus
Up	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:16am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	C
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Inj
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	C
Up	Andersen	FUL	C
Up	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
Up	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:28am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	B
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Szoboszlai	LIV	C
No Change	Minteh	BHA	B
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	A
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs, Sus
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:34am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	C
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	B
Down	Welbeck	BHA	C, Rest
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B

Last updated: 13 Dec, 2025 10:43am

Dugout Discussion

The Dugout Discussion – Gameweek 1 – Man United vs Swansea

16 August 2014 2747 comments

Mark

And we’re underway. All our deadlines have passed and the season is here. It all starts at Old Trafford.

Normally the home of trophies and glory, this season United will host teams bereft of silverware but still buoyant, thanks to the Louis van Gaal revolution.

There’s room for optimism. A goal-strewn pre-season accompanied by all the right noises from the manager carries United into an opening day clash with Swansea who are asked to take up the role of sitting ducks. However, the visitors will have other ideas. With the bulk and pace of Wilfried Bony and Bafétimbi Gomis at their disposal, Garry Monk’s side have the weapons to disrupt a make-shift United back-line. It’s going to be interesting.

There should be goals. There should be points. Our expectations are raised by the fact that the world and his wife have the armband on Mr Rooney. The familiar tide of joy and frustration is just minutes away.

Fantasy Football and The Dugout Discussion has returned and it feels good. Enjoy the game.

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Nicks93
11 years, 4 months ago
Well atleasy you guys chose bojan over siggy. I fancied a QPR cleanie and played rio instead of siggy going 433
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1. Rupert The Horse
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Not sure what to say.
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Fiorentina Turner
11 years, 4 months ago
You know it's bad when your wife calls you an idiot for benching Siggy
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1. Jafooli
  11 years, 4 months ago
  😆
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2. Bøwstring The Carp
  11 years, 4 months ago
  😆
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3. Billy Gilmore
  11 years, 4 months ago
  😆
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4. Absinthe Minded
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Benched siggy, played young & bojan
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Robareid
11 years, 4 months ago
That last minute Siggy -> Hendo is looking mighty foolish right about now. Oh well, I'll live.
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1. Rupert The Horse
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Done a similar thing myself.
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2. Kirkibost
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Same here
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3. Leight Arrival
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Can't believe I did it.
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4. loff
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Done the same. Oh well.
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Blue Lion
11 years, 4 months ago
Young......score a goal you noob!
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1. Syd.
  11 years, 4 months ago
  He could score in a whore house with £50 stuck to his knob
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  1. Syd.
    11 years, 4 months ago
    Couldn't
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Raheem's perm
11 years, 4 months ago
So it's not even 3pm yet and I already want to change three of my carefully thought out team that I was settled on a couple of hours ago. FML!
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Syd.
11 years, 4 months ago
C'mon Swansea
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Bøwstring The Carp
11 years, 4 months ago
Why would you bench Siggy? Seriously
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1. President John F. Keninnsie
  11 years, 4 months ago
  +1
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2. Milner4eva
  11 years, 4 months ago
  attacking rotations make 0 sense to me
  
  leave rotation for defenders
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3. HuttonDressedasLahm
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Form over Fixture
  
  It had good form, it was sensible
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  1. caio89
    11 years, 4 months ago
    It???
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4. EAGLES (0 Chelsea players)
  11 years, 4 months ago
  6mil is too much monies to bench
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5. Mr_Partridge
  11 years, 4 months ago
  we all thought United would win
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6. Billy Gilmore
  11 years, 4 months ago
  I did in UFPL
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Yome
11 years, 4 months ago
I can see there are still a lot of noobs here benching Siggy against a decimated United defense, oh dear!
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1. gravless
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Mental
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  1. Yome
    11 years, 4 months ago
    I don't want to know the rest of their season, what a mistake!
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2. jaguar shark
  11 years, 4 months ago
  guilty. err.
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aehii
11 years, 4 months ago
Young still taking free kicks.
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1. Jafooli
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Not getting them past the first man
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Mr_Partridge
11 years, 4 months ago
Young assist coming up
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1. brookisbabbling
  11 years, 4 months ago
  POOR
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Rupert The Horse
11 years, 4 months ago
So Good Son.
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Dempsey
11 years, 4 months ago
anyone else have rooney, jones and siggy?
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1. KelvinMateus
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Yes
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2. Wouter
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Yep. Shame I have Mata as well, should probably have chosen Silva or Fab.
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Pepin - RIP Absinthe
11 years, 4 months ago
Bojan to outscore SIggurdson and all is well in the world 🙂
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1. Absinthe Minded
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Or he doesn't play!
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MJ6987
11 years, 4 months ago
Mata will be a bargain at 8.7
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1. Jafooli
  11 years, 4 months ago
  😛
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2. Syd.
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Might be tempted at 6.5m
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JeremyBentham
11 years, 4 months ago
Somewhere, amongst all of this, David Moyes is watching with a cheeky little grin on his face.
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Well you know, Triffic
11 years, 4 months ago
MOYES OUT
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1. 4-4-who?
  11 years, 4 months ago
  The sacked one casts a long shadow ...
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Elf and Witness
11 years, 4 months ago
Ultra happy = have siggy and is captain
Happy = have siggy
Meh = if you have him on the bench
Pissed = have to buy him in

7 mil by the end of the month?
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Sleep Talk
11 years, 4 months ago
I've got to stop with offensive rotation. It always ends in tears..
Come on Austin, prove me wrong.
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1. yankee82
  11 years, 4 months ago
  Haha in the same position as you
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Willis.
11 years, 4 months ago
Gomis is pretty hench
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lifes a pitch
11 years, 4 months ago
brilliant from siggy again
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MJ6987
11 years, 4 months ago
Jones nailed on for baps surely
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aehii
11 years, 4 months ago
United are somehow worse than last season.
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Mr_Partridge
11 years, 4 months ago
Gomis looks so slow
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McSauce
11 years, 4 months ago
Mata --> Siggy 0.5m to be made aswell! Mata down 0.2 siggy up 0.3
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Well you know, Triffic
11 years, 4 months ago
Gomis needs to take off his predator costume.
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Billy Gilmore
11 years, 4 months ago
Gomis on fire
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Willis.
11 years, 4 months ago
Great tackle from Jones
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dribbler
11 years, 4 months ago
wow i like gomis
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Hazard for Ballon D'or
11 years, 4 months ago
So I need atsu to not come offhe bench for the 12-13 points.
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Blue Lion
11 years, 4 months ago
Gomis..beast!
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