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Dugout Discussion – Arsenal vs Man City

After Gylfi Sigurdsson disappointed during Swansea’s goalless draw with Middlesbrough at the Liberty, Gameweek 30 comes to its conclusion with the small matter of a 4pm showdown between Arsenal and Man City at the Emirates Stadium.

Two of the top five captained players in this round of fixtures go head-to-head now, with Sergio Aguero and Alexis Sanchez handed the armband by 8.8% and 5.7% of Fantasy Premier League managers respectively.

Sanchez, certainly, is the most reliable of the pair, serving up a goal or assist in 13 of his last 15 league outings to clinch a place at the top of the FPL leaderboard.

Aguero has upped his output in recent weeks, though, with two goals and an assist in his previous four appearances.

Up against a defence that’s been breached three times in three of their last four league fixtures, the Argentine goes in search of a fifth double-figure away haul.

With Arsenal playing ten times in the remaining eight Gameweeks and City boasting nine fixtures over that stretch, the likes of Raheem Sterling, Leroy Sane, Mesut Ozil and Danny Welbeck also have a chance to impress, with the latter handed a third straight start by Arsene Wenger.

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  1. HuttonDressedasLahm
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Follow the sheep and get Coutinho or be different with Firmino???

    1. Adam West - Team Serbia for…
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Surely asking this question makes you a sheep therefore you should buy Coutinho .

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Follow the lahm.

    3. FPL Maldini
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      I go for Coutinho because he is cheapest one now , saves the stress

    4. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Cout

  2. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Fletcher to Zaha for a hit and bench Llorente worthwhile?

    1. Jonjo Shall_We? (Flowers - …
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Not many options in that range so I'd say yes
      But Llorente needs to go soon IMO so Tekkers could be an option too

      1. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 15 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Rather Gabbi over Benteke I think.

        1. Jonjo Shall_We? (Flowers - …
          • 8 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          The DGW, a chance of penos and saints fixtures in 33 34 makes me think otherwise
          Plus gabbiadini yet to return etc

          1. TorresMagic™
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • Has Moderation Rights
            • 15 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            True, time will tell.

    2. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      I think id do it.

  3. Sepp Blattered
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    What's the projections for DGW? I've been away..

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      5 games to get added to 37, Arsenal vs S'ton in 35/36

  4. Loker Joker
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Pickford (Heaton)
    Valencia, Alonso, Nyom (Amat, RFM)
    Mane, Alli, Siggy, Sterling (Clayton)
    Costa, Lukaku, Carroll

    Alonso, Mane, Costa --> Vert, Sanchez, Ibra? -8 yay or nay?

  5. Still Unsure
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Evening all. Quick 31 question

      I currently have McAuley (wat) and Maguire (MID) playing and I'm benching Alonso (MCI) and Lanzini (ars).

      Agree with that?

      1. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Yes just

    • Jonjo Shall_We? (Flowers - …
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Mane Kun Llorente to Sanchez Ibra and Tekkers for a -8?
      Will lose sale value on mane and llorente if they go down tonight

    • Kevtheotter
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      3rd time lucky

      Would love some help here

      Jaku
      Brunt Walker Alonso
      Eriksen Coutinho King Mane*
      Llorente* Kun Lukaku

      Foster Pieters Capoue Amat 1 FT 1.7 ITB

      A) Mane and Kun ---> Sanchez and Ibra -4
      B) Mane and Brunt ---> Sanchez and Yoshida -4
      C) something else?

      Cheers

      1. JÆKS ⭐
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        A

      2. Hooky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        B

    • Fpl Richie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Alli, Eriksen or Cout as the favoured mane replacement? Have no attackers for either team.

      1. Pique boo
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Alli

      2. :
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Alli. I think there's another 5 or 6 goals still to come from him this season.

    • Lizard Lips
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      I'm 5 points off top 1k but used my TC already and TV of £105.0, can I possibly achieve my top 1k dream?

      Heaton
      Alonso Valencia Daniels
      Erisken Coutinho Siggy MANE
      Aguero LLORENTE Lukaku

      (Pickfrod Fletcher MORI FRIEND)

      £0.3 ITB 1FT (NB: Injured players in caps)

      Team is decimated for next week which makes this even harder! What would you do here? WC?!?!

      1. Jonjo Shall_We? (Flowers - …
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        A lot of time to play for such small margins
        You could be 10 points inside 1k or 30 points outside it by end of the season
        1 GW at a time mate
        And well played

        1. Lizard Lips
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Cheers Jonjo, nervous run in awaits!!

          1. Jonjo Shall_We? (Flowers - …
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            All the best and hope you have your nails come end of the season

      2. Hooky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        I'd lose Mane and maybe RFM for a hit but no need to WC

    • ChristoBisto
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Play one :

      McAuley (Watford A)
      Davies (Swansea A)

    • Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Here's a helpful tip for anyone with an issue with the baps.

      Close your eyes, imagine Navas has Walker written on his shirt, open eyes.

      Problem solved, simples. 🙂

    • dhamphiir
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Need money to transfer Mane out to buy Sanchez
      A. Defoe --> Carroll
      B. Defoe --> Origi
      C. Siggy --> Zaha

      1. ryacoo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        B

      2. Hooky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        C

    • Sanguinista
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Kun or Zlatan GW32 onwards? Zlatan has an extra fixture but United have the Europa League to contend with. United also have a relatively tougher run in than City. Thoughts?

      1. ryacoo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        I was gonna sell Kun to Ibra this GW but decided against it now I think. If you have neither, I'd buy Ibra I guess, with the DGW in mind.

      2. Poor man's Igor Biscan
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        I was looking a week or two ago to do Kun to ibra myself, but city look to be free scoring now and Man Utd struggling, esp without Mata.

        For now I'm holding Kun and will reconsider Ibra soon

    • King Kohli
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Costa > Ibra worth -4?

    • ryacoo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Which ones to start:

      A) McAuley (wat)
      B) Baines (mun)

      1) Grant (bur)
      2) Jakupovic (MID)

      1. Sweetboi
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        A2

      2. Hooky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        A2

    • Lizard Lips
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Mark vs Torres is an epic battle! Go team Torres!

      1. Adam West - Team Serbia for…
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        I'm supporting Mark

      2. Hooky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Makes a change as they were both sheite last season 😉

    • Sweetboi
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      a) Mané + Kun > Alexis + Vardy (-4)

      b) Mané + Kun + Barkley > Alexis + Vardy + Son (-8)

      c) Mané + Sterling > Alli + Eriksen (-4)

    • We Will Klopp you
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      THOUGHTS:

      Team beforehand:
      Heaton (Grant)
      Alonso Fuchs Baines (Mawson Olsson)
      King Siggy Mane Alli (Lanzini)
      Lukaku Costa (V)ardy

      Wildcard Team:
      Heaton (Grant)
      Valencia Walker Alonso Gibson Mawson
      Siggy Mane Alli Firmino/Coutinho Sane
      Lukaku (V)ardy (Barnes)

      Thoughts? Do I pull the trigger? Any changes to proposed team? Firmino or Coutinho?

      1. Kevtheotter
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Mane is injured

        1. We Will Klopp you
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Sorry Mane shouldn't be in the wildcard team.

      2. Poor man's Igor Biscan
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Looks good.

        Would await further Mane news, didn't look good

        Also on a WC team, with 2 man frontline, surely you need Kun or Ibra?

        Maybe Cout over Firm.

        1. We Will Klopp you
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Thanks for your input, will take it on board, Ibra's fixtures look like hell and don't trust pep/aguero atm, I would want money itb for a Kane in move so will draft another.

    • FPL Maldini
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Yay or nay for -4?

      Lukaku, Sterling and Mané --> Zlatan, Sanchez and Coutinho

      1. Sweetboi
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Just the last 2.

    • JJJ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Sterling is not flagged, any reason given to why he came off at half?
      Recon he is safe to play against Chelsea?

      1. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
        • 10 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        pep said tactical

    • Sir_Durs8
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Heaton (Foster)
      Yoshida, Brunt, Valencia, Baines (Friend)
      Sanchez (C), Son, Siggy, King (Capoue)
      Lukaku, Aguero (Llorente)

      1FT, 3.1 ITB

      Ideal transfer is Llorente to Vardy but I'm 0.4 from that. Is it worth rolling the transfer over? It's a reasonable team and there may be some rotation as it's midweek games.

      If not, what transfers do you recommend? Not sure if anything is worth a hit. Still got my WC but don't believe it's needed ATM.

    • The Hindu Monkey
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      latest blog up on the weekend's football

      do enjoy and comment

      http://hindumonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/five-things-weve-learnt-from-premier.html

      1. Pinky Blinders
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Good read (as always). Have also been wondering about Wilshire not starting. Following his career just makes my head hurt.

        1. My Name Is Prince
          • 11 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          I reckon Howe places great emphasis on team spirit, cohesion, and so on, and is wary of distorting it with a loaned player from Arsenal... No other rational explanation for it in my mind anyway, as Wilshere is clearly their best player... Makes you wonder why the hell they loaned him in the first place, maybe Arsenal wanted the deal more than BOU...

    • Jude Rooney
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Just had it on good authority that Navas was 'busy' today therefore earned his 3 baps.

      We can all breathe now.

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Is business a recordable stat??

        1. HuttonDressedasLahm
          • 14 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Busyness

          1. Jude Rooney
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            Exactly - never heard such nonsense

      2. Hooky
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        He did actually have a couple of accurate crosses for a change so they probably felt sorry for him

    • HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      I'm thinking the fixture ticker is misleading for Arsenal

      WHM, big Andy can cause some problems as per
      cpl, in form
      mid, defensive especially at home
      LEI, in form

      1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        i find the ticker often misleading......and then the article 'strong/weak' is just a plain reading of the colours

    • Lizard Lips
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Heaton
      Alonso Valencia Daniels
      Erisken Coutinho Siggy MANE
      Aguero LLORENTE Lukaku

      (Pickford Fletcher MORI FRIEND)

      £0.3 ITB 1FT (NB: Injured players in caps)

      Need to shift Mane on, wanted to get Alexis but means ditching Alonso to Chambers or Aguero to Vardy. Could avoid Alexis and a hit and just do Mane to Alli. What would you do? Any help greatly appreciated as always team 🙂

    • Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      How's this wc team?

      Valdes, pickford
      Walker, valencia, Bertrand, barragan, Robertson
      Sanchez, alli, eriksen, zaha, grosicki
      Ibra, lukaku, gabbiadini

      0itb, grosicki and Robertson would be changed at some point to allow zaha upgrade after his double. Could also get origi as gabbiadini place holder this week and bench lukaku.

    • Zlatan Time
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Tadic or Sane?

      First to 3

      1. Zlatan Time
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        In prep for DGW

      2. FER FUSCH AKE
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        sane

        sane

        sane

        sane

        sane

    • FER FUSCH AKE
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      would it be risky if I triple up on man United's assets against Everton???

    • Rasping Drive
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      After SUN, Leicester have 4 away games on the bounce. Don't think I have ever seen that in the PL before.

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah, that is odd, and with UCL as well.....

    • Flynny
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Hi...Anyone know if lpool presser is tomo?

      Keen for some mane news before I move for origi.

      Thanks

      1. Adam West - Team Serbia for…
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Ask Ozil he seems to know I don't know how to find out