634x258 Dugout Discussion

The Dugout Discussion – Sunday

24 August 2014 6148 comments
Mark Mark
Share:

Sunday serves up a trio of Gameweek encounters, with Thursday’s Europa League ties pushing Hull and Tottenham’s home fixtures alongside Man United’s trip to the Stadium of Light.

Events begin at the KC Stadium and White Hart Lane, with Steve Bruce’s Hull hosting Stoke and Mauricio Pochettino’s Spurs facing a London derby clash with QPR. Fantasy managers will be focused mainly on the latter, with Christian Eriksen the top owned asset on show from the early kick-offs.

Attention then turns to the North East, with Louis van Gaal’s United outfit taking on Sunderland in a bid to get their season underway following the opening day defeat to Swansea. With a staggering 48% ownership, Wayne Rooney remains the headline act, while Juan Mata’s 19% ownership will be holding out for returns in order to stem a tide of sales that have already seen the Spanish playmaker drop in price.

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

6,148 Comments Login to Post a Comment
  1. RabMac
    • 12 Years
    11 years, 3 months ago

    Did not manage to watch the Spurs game and was wondering if someone could tell me how Adebayor, Eriksen and Lamela performed today.

    Thanks

    Open Controls
    1. Irish Madridista ⭐
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Adebayor - Played brilliant.

      Lamela - corner assist and 2nd assist from a nice dribble and cross, looked dangerous.

      Eriksen - horribly unlucky, hit the bar with a free kick and bounced off the line, had a few shots blocked to..

      Open Controls
      1. RabMac
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Cheers mate. 😀

        I had a strong feeling Lamela would come good.

        Open Controls
    2. HUMZAH96
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Adebayor was decent, got a goal. Just the normal from him

        Eriksen hit the post from a free kick, but apart from that he was good but not much of a direct goal threat

        Lamela was on point today, oozing confidence and got 2 assists, could have had a goal too. He out performed Eriksen today

        Open Controls
      • Mary
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        3 of them were outstanding! best game lamela has played for spurs! Eriksen a constant threat and desperatly unlucky not to score, he was playing furthest forwrd of all the midfielders and was invlced in everything! Adebayor was Adebayor, just looks on form and hungry atm and when he's like that he's a good fpl option

        Open Controls
        1. Mary
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          *involved

          Open Controls
      • Gimli son of Gloin
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Excellently.
        All good options.. too soon to call which is best really.

        Open Controls
      • BruLee
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Lamela has the potential to explode when playing against a shitty defence like QPR. Other than that, Eriksen all the way.

        Open Controls
      • RabMac
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Thanks for all the replies. 😀

        Think I will stick with Eriksen for now and look at exit for Caulker and possibly Giroud instead.

        Open Controls
    3. Irish Madridista ⭐
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Bojan really did look terrible..

      Open Controls
      1. Holding Mee Bong
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Did try to warn people...

        Open Controls
    4. pundit of punts
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Adebayor has been good today.

      Open Controls
      1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 16 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        He usually is. Doesn't get any credit.

        Open Controls
      2. SW6
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Excellent imo.

        Open Controls
      3. Irish Madridista ⭐
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        He impressed me alright..

        Open Controls
      4. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        As Doosra said, he always plays well. So many top forwards to chose from though 😕

        Open Controls
        1. Piggs Boson
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          choose*

          Open Controls
          1. Doosra - ☭DeclanMyGenius…
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 16 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Very few. Actually.

            http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/939/

            Open Controls
        2. pundit of punts
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Might be my Jovetic replacement.

          Open Controls
      5. Mary
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Tottenham could arguably finish as high as man utd and liverpool! Thier main strikers all cost over 10.5, adebayor is 8.5 so i think he's fantastic value and i'm glad i started with him

        Open Controls
    5. aehii
      • 12 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      So Dier still not nailed?

      Open Controls
      1. Gaz Downright
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        nah, he will lose his place to humphrey the horse very soon

        Open Controls
    6. ADucksBehind
      • 14 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Up to 10th in UFPL. Cha Ching 😀

      Open Controls
      1. Lanley Staurel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        No way! I'm 11th...... 😯

        Open Controls
    7. Lanley Staurel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      ToalFPL price changes back. Old news?

      Open Controls
    8. A Wild Lurker Appeared
      • 11 Years
      11 years, 3 months ago

      Barring any suspensions/injuries, I'm going to do the following:

      Eriksen and Caulker -> Lamela and Bertrand (Free)

      Sound good?

      Open Controls
      1. Wilshere Knowledge
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Getting Lamela is a bit sideways.

        Open Controls
        1. A Wild Lurker Appeared
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Thats what I thought till I looked at the stats. Eriksen only managed 3 take ons, 1 of which was successful. Lamela attempted 11, of which 6 were successful. He also looks more explosive and involved than Eriksen, who was unlucky but just looked slightly too pedestrian at times for my liking.

          Open Controls
      2. HUMZAH96
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Sounds good, Lamela was better than Eriksen today, but who is to say Eriksen won't be better next week?

          I like your name and pic btw

          Open Controls
          1. A Wild Lurker Appeared
            • 11 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Ha, thanks buddy. Yes he could very well be, he is on set pieces after all. See the above reasoning for why I'm contemplating the switch though. Just an unlucky day!

            Open Controls
        • Valar(Keith)
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Eriksen to Lamela reeks of kneejerking.. and you'll kick yourself if you miss out on Caulker's goal the coming week 😉

          Open Controls
          1. A Wild Lurker Appeared
            • 11 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Caulker just frustrates me though, and its annoying how he kept missing open headers. He could score next week you're right, but QPR look like conceding at every attack right now which means Caulker would have to score every couple of games or so just to keep a respectable score, which seems unlikely!

            And see my above reasoning for Eriksen v Lamela decisions..

            Open Controls
        • Holding Mee Bong
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          A lot of eriksen owners will jerk to Lamela because of the high to low ownership. maybe keep caulker for one more game

          Open Controls
          1. A Wild Lurker Appeared
            • 11 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Bit hard to stay with him, he's become a bit of a drain. I'd rather get Bertrand in for Saint's decent fixtures.

            Open Controls
            1. Holding Mee Bong
              • 11 Years
              11 years, 3 months ago

              If bertrand gets 2 points though you could be a lot of points worse of if caulker gets a cleansheet with the -4. I personally dont think taking a hit for defenders is worth it

              Open Controls
      3. Planet Jo
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Position 2.74 million is not exactly great 🙁 but have high hopes of my (relative) differentials…
        Lamela, RVP, Young today.
        YaYa, Jovetic, Coutinho tomorrow.

        Open Controls
      4. andres
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Bego gilks
        Terry debuchy caulker (CHESTER wisdom)
        Siggy rambo sterlind s.DAVIS (marney)
        Costa roo GIROUD

        3.0, 1FT

        How do I fix this??

        Open Controls
      5. Gonna mesut up
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        What's the verdict on chadli then? Didn't watch the game either...

        Rotation risk im guessing?

        Open Controls
        1. Kip
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          yup

          Open Controls
        2. FPL Daniel
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          New Lallana

          Open Controls
        3. dribbler
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          despite his price I think I'd like to see him play a couple of away games to make sure he's really in the team

          Open Controls
      6. Valar(Keith)
        • 16 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Cheers nip. Eriksen stays no matter what for me i think. 8 million is a bargain price. if he falls to 7.9 and i sell him i know i'll just want him back asap 🙂

        Open Controls
        1. Valar(Keith)
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          eh.. reply fail. now to worry about Davis, Chester, Caulker, Debuchy and owning terry instead of ivanovic.

          Open Controls
        2. ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          He will explode soon

          Open Controls
          1. Valar(Keith)
            • 16 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Yup.. not panicking 🙂 .. gonna have faith in Caulker for one more week too. 4 shots in the box today 😯

            Open Controls
      7. ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Rooney corner, Phil Jones header into the net,

        That's all I want.

        Oh and a clean sheet,

        and a mata blank...

        Shame I have no bearing over how the game goes

        Open Controls
      8. FPL Daniel
        • 16 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Naughton to:
        dummet
        Clyne
        Bertrand
        PVA
        Other suggestion but no Naylor. Up to around 5m

        Open Controls
        1. OPTA FPL
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          4,9?

          Open Controls
        2. Valar(Keith)
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          i like Bertrand.. playing on Tadic's side of the pitch and both of em combining well. should be good for many assists over the season.

          Open Controls
        3. laGan1n1
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Dummet

          Open Controls
          1. RamaJama
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Nailed on?

            Open Controls
      9. Piggs Boson
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Chester will be back for WHM. Worth keeping.

        Open Controls
        1. Sarnab
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Surely if its a 1 game ban

          Open Controls
        2. Not Irish
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Yeah, holding as long as it's only one game.

          Open Controls
        3. MJ6987
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Yeah, it's no biggie

          Open Controls
      10. Sarnab
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        @Bego owners

        Save the planet , Go Green

        Open Controls
        1. Billy Gilmore
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          He's even worse 😆

          Open Controls
          1. Sarnab
            • 14 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            😆

            Open Controls
      11. Spurs Forever
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        2 ft and .5 in the bank
        who to get for blackett, caulker and begovic

        Open Controls
        1. Hazard for Ballon D'or
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Van aanholt
          Bertand
          Forster

          Open Controls
      12. Not Irish
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Adebayor looks a decent Diouf replacement.

        Open Controls
      13. Rambo Motin
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Will Ivanovich rise more than 0.1 this week?

        Open Controls
        1. Kip
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          with the Dier bandwagon properly launched he probably won't in my opinion

          Open Controls
      14. Hazard for Ballon D'or
        • 11 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Interesting that Daley blind is first playing for Ajax today and secondly that he is playing central midfield. Would be a great signing for united.

        Open Controls
      15. tm245
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Think you need a bigger sample size to declare someone a failure after only two gws, in most cases, but given price and productivity so far how many mistakes do you feel you might have made in selecting your original 15?

        Baines and Caulker for me, so far.

        Open Controls
        1. Hazard for Ballon D'or
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          3 maybe 4

          F.luis
          Young
          Atsu
          Definetly

          Adrian
          Possibly

          Open Controls
        2. SC not pearls before swine
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Chambers and jovetic. But I knew the risks.

          Open Controls
      16. Hammers Select
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Game week 2 are you over yet?

        Very poor weekend 🙁

        Open Controls
      17. Irish Madridista ⭐
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Does Guzan rack up many save points against the big teams?

        Horrible fixtures but Villa are defending well enough with Roy in the picture threatening them if they concede..

        Open Controls
      18. Captain Shirokov
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Surprise, surprise. Bojan was just another pre season fail, who'd have thunk it?

        Open Controls
      19. BantamPhil
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Diouf » Dzeko

        No brainer

        Open Controls
        1. Not Irish
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Him or Ade for me. Not keen on doing it before Dzeko plays tomorrow.

          Open Controls
        2. Kip
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Ade

          Open Controls
          1. BantamPhil
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            City vs Stoke at home though

            Open Controls
      20. ACCOUNTING ON CHRIS
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Anyone think Sunderland will win today?

        Open Controls
        1. Wilshere Knowledge
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Almost certainly. 😉

          Open Controls
        2. Mary
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          wouldn't suprise me tbh

          Open Controls
        3. Holding Mee Bong
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Rodwell FGS

          Open Controls
        4. Danny x-factor
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          0 - 0 is the ideal result for me. Still can't remember how I put Mannone in goal instead of Krul.

          Open Controls
        5. rickardinho
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          2-1 sunderland. van persie goal to send everyone panicking

          Open Controls
      21. Judas
        • 12 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        As a non-siggy owner with Eriksen, is it silly for me to not make that transfer?

        Open Controls
        1. Mary
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          eriksen will come good for sure! hard to know

          Open Controls
        2. Kip
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          no

          ship someone else to get sig in

          Open Controls
          1. Judas
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            id have to ship silva, ramsey or sterling...

            Open Controls
        3. Irish Madridista ⭐
          • 15 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          I'd fancy Eriksen to win overall but the 1.7m of a difference could swing it the other way...

          Open Controls
        4. Gonna mesut up
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          just watched the motd highlights and siggy looked great and lively. at his price there has to be a way to fit him in.

          Open Controls
          1. Judas
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            not really?

            http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/32847/event-history/2/

            Open Controls
        5. tm245
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Can you switch to 3-5-2?

          Open Controls
          1. Judas
            • 12 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            already downgraded Bojan ro naismith and still dont have enough for Marney ---> sigg

            Open Controls
            1. Sebbo29
              • 11 Years
              11 years, 3 months ago

              you'll have to do it via DEF then as well. Either Ward for a 4.0 DEF or Jones for a 4.5 / if my calculation is correct you would need to save another 1.0 Mio from DEF, right?

              Open Controls
      22. Sarnab
        • 14 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Lovren
        Debuchy
        P.Jones

        Choose one to sell

        Open Controls
        1. Coaly
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Lovren, closely followed by Jones

          Open Controls
        2. Chris_White
          • 14 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Lovren

          Open Controls
        3. Del Monte
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          I have these exact 3, hard to say which one to sell as neither have kept a clean sheet yet.

          Jones has the easiest fixtures tho

          Open Controls
        4. Valar(Keith)
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          Debuchy's fixtures are bad and Arsenal looking shaky. i dunno though.. see how liverpool look tomorrow and Manu look tonight

          Open Controls
        5. rickardinho
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          phil jones won't play if united switch to 433 soon. they're not gonna get cs's either. would be my pick by far

          Open Controls
      23. Coaly
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        Should I transfer out Caulker, Chambers or save? 0 itb. Who for if you would use a FT on one of those

        Open Controls
        1. Valar(Keith)
          • 16 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          im keeping Caulker and doing Debuchy to Naylor 😯 .. need 1 million and i value Caulker's goal threat chance more than Debuchy's CS chance over the next few weeks. Dont trust arsenal's defense at all atm

          Open Controls
        2. rickardinho
          • 11 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          caulker will come good. he was inches away from scoring at the death today and being +8 instead of 0. sunderland next, no reason to kneejerk

          Open Controls
          1. Coaly
            • 13 Years
            11 years, 3 months ago

            Price fall though. And yeah I saw, it's just their shambolic defence that damages his value at 5.0

            Open Controls
      24. Natas
        • 15 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        I need to decide now for the season, please help. diego Costa with lamela or ericksen, or hazard with adebayor. Leaning hazard adebayor for pks, but ericksen looked mighty dangerous today. Diego Costa doesn't seem up to speed yet.

        Open Controls
      25. Del Monte
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        11 years, 3 months ago

        On for a rubbish week!! 🙁

        36 with only PvA Jones Sterling & Rooney to play

        Open Controls
        1. Wilshere Knowledge
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          36 GW's to recover! 😀

          Open Controls
        2. Gonna mesut up
          • 12 Years
          11 years, 3 months ago

          It's not over yet, had weeks like this turnaround in one game before.

          Open Controls

      You need to be logged in to post a comment.