Dugout Discussion

The Dugout Discussion – West Bromwich Albion vs Liverpool

In the first of two Easter Sunday fixtures, we drop by the Hawthorns at 1.30pm as West Bromwich Albion entertain Liverpool.

Unsurprisingly, Jurgen Klopp recalls both Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino after both emerged from the bench to grab a goal apiece in the 2-1 win at Stoke last weekend.

Coutinho’s strike – his third in as many matches – made him the sixth most transferred in player for Gameweek 33, with over 89,000 new owners.

In light of the Brazilian’s recent output, it’s no surprise to learn that the he is the most captained player for today’s early kick-off, with 77,887 FPL managers handing him the armband.

As the only team without a Gameweek 34 fixture, sales of the Baggies main men are likely to escalate over the next few days.

Indeed, both Ben Foster and Gareth McAuley are the top-ranked keeper and defender for transfers out since yesterday, with over 8,000 FPL managers already ditching the latter.

After being withdrawn before the hour-mark in each of the last two league fixtures, the McAuley exodus was well underway last week, with over 44,000 FPL managers drafting out the centre-half ahead of yesterday’s deadline.

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  1. RamaJama
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Kane, Aguero, Sane, Alli, Alonso

    1. RamaJama
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Reply fail

    2. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      So you want to beat Aguero and think Alli is not mental ?

  2. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    As long as Coutinho and Origi stay quiet I am happy.

  3. Les Bleus
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Lol at all those people criticizing Pullis, seeing as where WBA is in the league with the team they have.

    It's almost as though Pullis doesn't care about your FPL teams.

    1. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Not a fan of his style of play but given his resources, I have some level of respect for what Pulis does. His teams go to the beaches once they hit 40 though. Maybe the Chinese investment at WBA allows him to improve next season even further.

      1. Les Bleus
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Oh, I definitely hate his playing style too. I'm just saying that I don't think WBA fans/board cares when they're flying high.

    2. Sims
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      With the money we spend we really should be playing better football. I'm a wba fan and with the money I pay I expect better football

      1. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        You are greedy IMO. Suggest you sack Pulis and then enjoy being relegated.

        1. Sims
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Yes because palace and Stoke got relegated after sacking him oh wait

          1. diesel001
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            Last time I checked Palace and Stoke were below West Brom in the table. So much progress at those clubs since Pulis left. So much that they are below his current club in the table.

      2. Dr Dream
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Yes you should...and you actually have the players to do it. I thought Pulis had changed at mid seasonish....but not so....

        1. diesel001
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Why change a winning formula? To break into the Top 7 they would have to spend big. That is not going to happen.

          1. Dr Dream
            • 11 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            He does a good job but it's pigging awful to watch sometimes.

          2. Sims
            • 7 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            I was at the game the other week and fell asleep 20 mins in. Woke up at 80th minute I want my money back

            1. diesel001
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 2 months ago

              Become a West Ham fan then. You'll watch some exciting football and can tear into Bilic when you lose.

  4. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    "Early team news vs Chelsea
    An early suggestion is United will be playing six defenders.

    United, of course, went three at the back to match Chelsea in the FA Cup game but since then they’ve lost Smalling and Jones to injury. Mourinho suggested earlier in the week he had no choice but to retain Bailly and Rojo, yet they could be joined by a wild card today.
    It’s suggested the six defenders are all defenders. That is still ambiguous in regards to certain players, but it throws up the possibility of someone like Tuanzebe or Fosu-Mensah starting, which would send eyebrows raising skywards."

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      This was spotted at the end of the article too:

      hey guys, which new chips do people suggest need to be added in FPL. most if not all people seem to agree that AOA is a shire
      chip.

      I wish there could be a chip where one goes with a full first 11 of a single team for a particular game week once a season or a chip that allows you to make one substitution even when the gw has started.

      1. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        We've had enough fun on Gabbi's expense..He'll know not to post the same message 3 times in a row

    2. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      "send eyebrows raising skywards." ahem 😳

    3. goriuanx
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Mourinho parking the bus shocker.

    4. Jazz!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Same tactic as we tried vs Chelsea in the cup then. We were 6 atb there too, it was working very well tbh until Herrera ...

  5. Egyptian Giza
    • 7 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Does Klupp look like brick top?

    1. dark91
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Klopp*

    2. dark91
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Now it rhymes better with (Brick top) 😉

    3. Funkdoc
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Do you know what nemesis means?

      1. Egyptian Giza
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Sorry I don't know what that means

      2. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Semen spelled backwards

      3. Funkdoc
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Do u understand what I'm saying to you right now?

  6. SuperDan
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Pick one for next week only:
    A) Jakupovic (wat)
    B) Valdes (bou)(sun) -4

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

      B

    2. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Jaku

  7. F4L
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    I already regret moving from 3-5-2 to 3-4-3 this week 🙁

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

      I have 353. It's difficult but C'est la vie.

      1. Les Bleus
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Wish I could play with 12 players 🙁

      2. F4L
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        I have King as my 5th mid as well

    2. Jigger & Pony
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Kane Ibra Kaku

      *scenes if Ibra is rested today

      1. F4L
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        yeh got that front three; thinking I should have just dropped Ibra for Kane, and not Sanchez

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

        cest LA vie means "it's life" ??? doesn't it

    3. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Tis the season for 3-5-2

      1. F4L
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        ive always messed it up this season; started with 3-4-3, moved to 3-5-2 at the wrong time, now moved back to 3-4-3 at the wrong time as well

  8. Jigger & Pony
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Brunt needless foul... results in goal from nowhere. Can't bear this Pulis team.

  9. George Sillett
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Where's the noob who was predicting 2 goals and an assist " you heard it here first"for Origi this morning ?

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

      Was it Sims?

      1. Sims
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        I sold origi for benteke. Dig that

    2. Sims
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Probably the same place as the noob who thought games end at HT

      1. George Sillett
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        At least part a of the plan has worked - it has attracted a reply from a confirmed member of the noob society.

        1. Fitzy.
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          😆

        2. Sims
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          What was the other part of the plan? Make yourself look like a member too?

          1. George Sillett
            • 8 Years
            7 years, 2 months ago

            It's that member icon which gives the game away or haven't you managed to work that out for yourself ?

            1. Sims
              • 7 Years
              7 years, 2 months ago

              U disrespectful stupid idiot

              1. George Sillett
                • 8 Years
                7 years, 2 months ago

                I wish that I had a grasp of poetic prose and sophistication that you obviously have.

                1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
                  • 12 Years
                  7 years, 2 months ago

                  To be a disrespectful stupid idiot or not to be?

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

              😀 😀

              You should have added a "Do you understand what I'm saying to you now" though 😀

        3. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
          • 12 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Two idiot name callings in a couple of days ..

          *raises handbag*

  10. F4L
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Haz to run riot today

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

      So he's going to get a red card for rioting ?

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Alonso field day if Valencia is rested again 🙂

    3. GOTHAM City F.C.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Hopefully not 😛

  11. The Man Pastore
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    What would you do with this team?

    Pickford Heaton
    Alonso Baines Davies Robertson Friend
    Alli Zaha Siggy Tadic De Roon
    Kane Aguero Lukaku

    1FT / 2.0ITB

    A) Aguero + Siggy --> Ibra + Hazard (-4)
    B) Aguero + Siggy --> Ibra + Mkhi (-4)
    C) Aguero + Robertson --> Ibra + Gibson (-4)
    D) A or B + Robertson --> Gibson (-8)
    E) Other suggestion

  12. fedolefan
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    This needs to end 1-1 with a West Brom goal.

    1. Pasqualinho
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      I'm pretty sure it can't end 1-1 without one.

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      A WBA goal would be required, correct!

  13. F4L
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Is Karan around? Who do you get off the bench if Valencia doesn't play?

    1. Karan14
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Brunt. -.-

      1. F4L
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        lol, you've beaten me anyway I think; need a miracle in the game later on

  14. niloh1
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    How does origi look

    1. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Not great

    2. CloudSky
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Poor. But so does the rest of the team.

    3. Fowler23
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Lack of service

    4. Sterling is £11Mill..…
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      touched the ball like 3 times maybe

    5. Winston.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Useless

  15. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Brunt is on course for NULL points

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

      Surely he is on course for 1 point which he will get after 60 mins . Unless Pool score again then he will be on course for 0 points

      1. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Watch this space

  16. Ravager
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Playing around with WC. Which do you prefer?

    A.

    Hennessey (Pickford)
    Alonso Bailly Yoshida Gibson Holgate
    Sanchez Alli King Zaha JWP
    Benteke Ibra Kane

    B.

    Hennessey (Pickford)
    Alonso Rojo Yoshida Gibson Holgate
    Hazard Eriksen King Zaha De Roon
    Lukaku Ibra Kane

    1. Winston.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      B

      1. Ravager
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Appreciate the reply.

  17. ekul the lokonga enthusiast
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    praying for a 0-0 in the man utd/chelsea game cos that game will defo be a draw

  18. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    I hereby proclam on this auspicious day that we will be celebrating a Coutinho and Bobby goal and assist a piece

  19. Differentiator
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Guys leave off Sims. He supports Arsenal, that's as much torture as a man can take

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

      😎 from a Spurs fan

    2. F4L
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      he's probably a plastic Arsenal fan; he will be a Spurs fan soon no doubt

      1. Sims
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah spurs look like the next big thing. Still undecided about it though

    3. Sims
      • 7 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      I don't support arsenal anymore...theyve shown no respect to us fans...was an arsenal fan before last season and earlier this season though. Wanted Leicester to win last season because of the whole underdog thing

      1. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Turncoat

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

        lol

      3. George Sillett
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Surely when you support a football club you do it for life . What have Arsenal FC done to you personally which is so bad ?

        1. nkhoughton
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Maybe it depends who's playing on TV

      4. Tired and weary
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        You just don't change team. Ever.

  20. Winston.
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 2 months ago

    Decisions, decisions....

    Which of these?

    A. Heaton, Siggy, Origi to
    Valdes, Zaha, Benteke

    or

    B. Davies, Sanchez, Origi to
    Gibson, Zaha, Kane

    Thanks.

    1. Pengen
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      A

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

    valencia needs to start or am getting Brunt's zero. really painful considering I had Maguire(7) as the third Sub, played lowton(1 point).

    1. MTPockets
        7 years, 2 months ago

        He won't start. I have McAuley again.

    2. Camp No No
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      How many matches do you think that PVA starts in DGW34?

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

        1

        1. Camp No No
          • 10 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Which one, and why that and only that? Or is it "which one ever, but only one due to rotation with Schlupp"?

    3. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 2 months ago

      Hal will be sent off shortly

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Would be better for WBA than bringing Rondon on!

      2. MTPockets
          7 years, 2 months ago

          I'm afraid he can't do that.

      3. F4L
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        worth watching the Brom game?

        1. HazardAGuess
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          No.

      4. F4L
        • 9 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Firmino isn't really that good a footballer; Sanchez would be the perfect fit for that Pool cf role

      5. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Pulis' press conference is going to be gold!

      6. Kaneyonero
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        When is coutinho coming on for his hattie?

      7. Sim Simma
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Sturridge should be brought on for Origi

        1. F4L
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          yes plz

      8. fantasyfiwip
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Struggling to pick 5 defenders I want for GW 37.

        The 3 I'm 99% sure I want are:
        Yoshida
        Alonso
        Davies

        Stephens would put me over 3 Southampton players with Gabbiadini, Forster and Yoshida.
        Valencia probably won't play 3 and the fixtures aren't great.

        Got Maguire and Koné pencilled in at the moment but I'm not happy.

        Any ideas?

        1. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Bavies wont be starting come 37...

        2. Caleb's Kitties
          • 9 Years
          7 years, 2 months ago

          Holgate

      9. Espen8
        • 7 Years
        7 years, 2 months ago

        Rondon works so much more for the team compared to Kanu