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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
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.6m	99.7%	Likely
Rúben	MCI	5.6m	97.0%	Likely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	98.0%	Likely
Palmer	CHE	10.3m	97.3%	Likely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.5m	98.6%	Likely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	90.7%	Unlikely
Bowen	WHU	7.5m	86.1%	Unlikely
Marc Guiu	CHE	4.2m	85.1%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	86.0%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	74.4%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.9m	78.4%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	78.3%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.6m	70.7%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	68.8%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	67.6%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	67.4%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	67.5%	Unlikely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	68.5%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	65.5%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	63.5%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	61.7%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.5m	47.0%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	58.5%	Unlikely
Haaland	MCI	15.0m	55.6%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	56.0%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	56.6%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	56.4%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.8m	43.2%	Unlikely
Ekitiké	LIV	8.6m	43.5%	Unlikely
Romero	TOT	5.0m	51.9%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	51.1%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	48.7%	Unlikely
James	CHE	5.6m	48.8%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	47.8%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	46.6%	Unlikely
Wilson	FUL	5.6m	31.7%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	41.7%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	36.8%	Unlikely
Wilson	WHU	5.8m	40.2%	Unlikely
Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	5.1m	43.2%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Anthony	BUR	5.3m	108.6%	Very Likely
Minteh	BHA	6.2m	104.7%	Very Likely
Longstaff	LEE	4.9m	103.2%	Very Likely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	102.2%	Very Likely
Eze	ARS	7.8m	92.9%	Likely
Ndiaye	EVE	6.4m	96.4%	Likely
Mayenda	SUN	5.3m	99.9%	Likely
Muniz	FUL	5.4m	100.8%	Very Likely
Rodon	LEE	4.1m	100.6%	Very Likely
Gudmundsson	LEE	3.9m	100.1%	Maybe
Jordan	BUR	4.0m	99.7%	Maybe
Elanga	NEW	6.6m	98.7%	Maybe
Neave	NEW	4.4m	99.4%	Maybe
Lammens	MUN	5.1m	92.9%	Maybe
McKenna	BOU	4.0m	95.2%	Maybe
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	93.7%	Maybe
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.4%	Unlikely
Morgan	BRE	4.4m	95.1%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	92.7%	Unlikely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	92.7%	Unlikely
Irving	WHU	4.4m	91.5%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	93.1%	Unlikely
Yarmoliuk	BRE	5.0m	94.3%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	92.1%	Unlikely
Bentley	WOL	4.0m	91.5%	Unlikely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	90.9%	Unlikely
Worrall	BUR	3.9m	89.2%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	90.7%	Unlikely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	90.5%	Unlikely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	89.2%	Unlikely
João Pedro	CHE	7.3m	85.3%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	88.7%	Unlikely
Sels	NFO	4.7m	85.8%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	86.7%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	87.9%	Unlikely
Danso	TOT	4.3m	85.9%	Unlikely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	85.2%	Unlikely
Enzo	CHE	6.6m	81.2%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	83.7%	Unlikely
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	88.2%	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

Dugout Discussion – Sunderland vs Middlesbrough

21 August 2016 1535 comments

Mark

Gameweek 2 rolls into Sunday with a lunchtime Wear-Tees derby clash.

Sunderland play host to a Middlesbrough side that earned a draw in their opening home encounter with Stoke City on day one. David Moyes’ side also emerged with some credit from their first fixture, losing out to Man City by a narrow 2-1 margin having equalised via a Jermain Defoe goal.

Defoe will once again carry the goal scoring burden for the Black Cats today, who are without Fabio Borini due to a toe injury. Moyes gives home debuts to Donald Love, Paddy McNair and Adnan Januzaj, while Papy Djilobodji earns his full debut at the back.

Aitor Karanka begins to rotate his Boro troops by bringing in Cristhian Stuani for Albert Adomah. Victor Valdes misses out with a training ground knock, opening the way for Brad Guzan to earn his debut in goal.

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Podge
9 years, 3 months ago
Negredo hattie pleeeease
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1. TheSteel
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Negredo down
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  1. Podge
    9 years, 3 months ago
    🙁
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2. Make United Great Again
  9 years, 3 months ago
  -1
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nevertrustbony
9 years, 3 months ago
Why's valdes not starting?
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1. Zikry
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Karanka has Heaton on the bench in fantasy
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2. Trigg ⭐️
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Injury.
  
  Club not sure how serious yet.
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  1. nevertrustbony
    9 years, 3 months ago
    cheer
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Vasty Deep
9 years, 3 months ago
Love looks nailed on then?
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1. Samirich
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Looks like he's nailed.
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Geri-hatricks
9 years, 3 months ago
If my previous bench scores of 3, 7, 10, 5, 7, 7 and 9 are anything to go by, Friend should keep a cleanie, score a goal and get 3 bps.
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Samirich
9 years, 3 months ago
McNair is playing in midfield I guess, should be a better pick than Love.
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El Patron
9 years, 3 months ago
Score prediction

Sunderland-Boro 1-2
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1. Oooof
  9 years, 3 months ago
  1-1
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2. Shearer & Sutton
  9 years, 3 months ago
  0-0
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Oooof
9 years, 3 months ago
Watchlist for this game:

Januzaj
D. Love
Djilobodji
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Big Sum
9 years, 3 months ago
Januzaj, welcome to my team
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1. Jimmers
  9 years, 3 months ago
  More reputation than end product
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Jinswick
9 years, 3 months ago
Best 1 week punt(s)? WCing for GW4...

A) Gray -> Long/Rondon
B) Firmino -> Tadic/Barkley
C) Firmino & Kane -> Tadic/Barkley & Zlatan(c) (-4)

Foster
JEvans, Targett, Stones
Mahrez, Hazard, Redmond, Firmino
Aguero, Kane, Gray

Jaku, Friend, Amat, Capoue
Bank 0.0m, 1FT
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1. Trigg ⭐️
  9 years, 3 months ago
  The Zlatan wagon is flying at the minute. Tempting for you just to get him in.
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2. The UnderAcheivers
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Why are people moving gray out?
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Samirich
9 years, 3 months ago
Looks like he's nailed. And they have some relatively good fixtures coming.
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Piggs Boson
9 years, 3 months ago
I'm on the side of Love.

Go Black Cats!
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1. Trigg ⭐️
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Ban
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  1. Piggs Boson
    9 years, 3 months ago
    And here's the side of hate 😉
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    1. Trigg ⭐️
      9 years, 3 months ago
      Friend v (De)foe
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      1. Piggs Boson
        9 years, 3 months ago
        🙂
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  2. Wild Card this!
    9 years, 3 months ago
    No love for Love?
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    1. Trigg ⭐️
      9 years, 3 months ago
      Big love for MFC
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Vatroslav
9 years, 3 months ago
The players from todays matches aren't highly owned I think, right?
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1. Jimmers
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Payet, Negredo and Defoe the highest owned today (and Carroll who's out injured)
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2. kapulasta
  9 years, 3 months ago
  After yesterday average team had 10.2 played, top10k 10.6, so no, they are not, many teams don't even have one
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Mr. Blonde
9 years, 3 months ago
Could be some very good options in the Sunderland side - have my eye on Watmore and januzaj
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Give The Todd Some Love
9 years, 3 months ago
Januzaj looking v sharp early on
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Ashwatts93
9 years, 3 months ago
Heaton coming on for me instead of Valdes makes me feel better after benching Gray and Maloney yesterday
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JAC THE CAT
9 years, 3 months ago
I think it's likely Cabaye stays on penalties as he's got a decent record on them and is still the star player for Palace.
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JLAEST
9 years, 3 months ago
My current team:
Foster/Heaton
Valencia/Morgan/Stones/Friend/Amat
Firmino/Hazard/Lamela/Redmond/Capoue
Gray/Ibra/Kun

Two main weak links, I believe: Morgan (not too conviced about Leicester's form this season) and Firmino. Also Gray worries me even after the goal and assist, as I'm not sure about what Burnley will be able to do through the season. I have 2 FT at the moment.

Current idea is Firmino > Barkley (Firmino not convicing me and Liverpool have an horrible run of fixtures coming). Any better replacement? Any other suggestions?
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1. Podge
  9 years, 3 months ago
  looks good
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Jamie_GAWA
9 years, 3 months ago
Did Benteke get much game time at the Euros?
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1. JAC THE CAT
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Nope
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  1. Jamie_GAWA
    9 years, 3 months ago
    I'm sure he's been training hard at Pool and been playing for the u23s?
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Oooof
9 years, 3 months ago
Good run by Janners
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John Barnes
9 years, 3 months ago
m rooting for sunderland here, as a Rhodes owner, m very sore with their manager, not even in the bench?????
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1. zaydon
  9 years, 3 months ago
  تبوله؟
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  1. John Barnes
    9 years, 3 months ago
    salad??
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2. zaydon
  9 years, 3 months ago
  كبسه؟
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  1. John Barnes
    9 years, 3 months ago
    lol
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Leaf
9 years, 3 months ago
Gaston Ramirez , time to save my season 🙂
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1. Rich_20
  9 years, 3 months ago
  I will settle for a brace
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  1. Leaf
    9 years, 3 months ago
    Seems fair
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The Generalator
9 years, 3 months ago
Eriksen to Sterling ?
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money face bandwagon
9 years, 3 months ago
bojan ramires or townsend?
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Piggs Boson
9 years, 3 months ago
Gooch looks quite good.
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1. Rich_20
  9 years, 3 months ago
  Prefer blue wckd
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zaydon
9 years, 3 months ago
Anyone have iphone link for the game plz?
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1. John Barnes
  9 years, 3 months ago
  if there is, pls tell me too
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Oooof
9 years, 3 months ago
What a goal
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⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
9 years, 3 months ago
OMG stuani
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Smurf
9 years, 3 months ago
Gutted Barkley has risen. Really want him in but that extra 0.1m means I can't.
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liiusions
9 years, 3 months ago
Eriksen + Deulofeu -> Ozil + Ramirez? (2FT) Assuming Ramirez looks good today
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Trigg ⭐️
9 years, 3 months ago
YESSSSS
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