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Dugout Discussion – Swansea vs Newcastle

After Burnley’s Chris Wood condemned Crystal Palace to a fourth successive loss, we turn to the Liberty Stadium in Sunday’s second, and final, fixture at 4pm.

Having grabbed their first win of the season in the previous round of fixtures, Swansea now have the chance to play their way into our plans ahead of an outstanding upcoming home schedule.

From Gameweek 6 onwards, Paul Clement’s side entertain Watford, Huddersfield, Leicester, Brighton, Bournemouth and West Brom in their subsequent six matches at the Liberty.

With that in mind, Tammy Abraham- at just 5.5 – has the chance to emerge as a valid option for our three-man frontlines.

After opening his account for the season at Selhurst Park, the on-loan striker grabbed a goal and assist for England U21s over the recent international break. He’s partnered by Jordan Ayew, with Wilfried Bony on the hosts’ bench.

The Swans’ new arrival Renato Sanches is fast-tracked into the starting XI after joining on loan from Bayern Munich on transfer deadline day. Over 116,000 Fantasy Premier League managers acquired the Portuguese international ahead of Gameweek 4.

Similar to their hosts, Newcastle are also braced for a strong run of matches in front of their own fans – five of their next six home matches sees Stoke, Palace, Bournemouth, Watford and Leicester visit St James’ Park.

New boy Joselu leads the line again after scoring on his first start in the 3-0 win over West Ham last time around.

At 5.5, he could rival Abraham in the budget bracket up front, though Christian Atsu’s prospects in midfield are dealt a blow as he drops to the visitors’ bench.

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  1. Speédy
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Nice header from Lascelles

  2. diesel001
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Tom Carroll. Nailed, attacking threat and on set pieces. Couldn't ask for more from a £4.5m FPL midfielder.

    1. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Goals, Assists ??

      1. laplana
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        They will come...

      2. diesel001
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        He's £4.5m - stop being greedy. He'll get you 100pts this season. That usually costs you £5.0m in FPL so be grateful for the £0.5m.

      3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        If he's on most set pieces they will inevitably come

    2. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Some assists might be nice.

    3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Yep, looks good

    4. gatekeepa
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Best 5th mid by far. Certainty/price/potential/set-pieces

  3. Sterling is £11Mill..…
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    if we were all footballers and could choose our positions what pos you be?
    I think im going for right wing and I like to cut in alot

    1. _figu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      False 9

    2. Captain Roberto
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      centre-mid player manager

      like Souness at Rangers

      got to grow an afro-perm and a power-stash though

    3. Business Cat
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      GK...cos I'm lazy 😉

    4. G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Left winger.

  4. Captain Vantastic™
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Sell Hegazi or Stephens?

    1. thorvaldsson
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Both

  5. laplana
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Us Tom Carroll owners have been painfully unlucky. 🙁

    1. Sim Simma
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Just bench him like the rest of us

      1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Silly benching him home v Newcastle

        1. Turbolag
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          Silly benching your 4.5 5th mid?

  6. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Sanches should be off

    1. Sendmelentils
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      It looked like he got the balls to me

  7. Sim Simma
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Sanches retrospective ban for that

    1. Captain Roberto
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      he is having an odd game

      kick to the nuts. what was he thinking??

    2. Andriy Shevchenko is Back
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      He's taken a lot of hits and wants to show he's a man too. Poor guy...

  8. tm245
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Crotch injuries galore this half.

  9. laplana
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Sanches will be very very lucky to escape a ban. Disgusting and vile.

    1. Alan The Llama
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      lol

  10. Ode
    • 6 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Murphy looks like Dele Alli's brother

  11. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Nice touch from Tammy

  12. Sterling is £11Mill..…
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    come on Tammy give me goals, my team is a failure

  13. DAZZ
    • 9 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Carroll 3bps atm

    1. Nomar
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      How?

      1. Eddie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Lots of successful passes and crosses

        1. Nomar
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          Him and Fabs both on max baps.

          Playing both today so I'll happily take that if it stays that way.

          1. Eddie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            6 years, 8 months ago

            Strange watching this game and hoping for a 0-0 draw as long as Carroll keeps making passes.

  14. VFORVANDETA
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Is Ayoze even playing?

    1. Hairy Potter
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Usual filling in gaps in the pitch when not in possession and random flicks that rarely pay off when the ball comes to him. He used to be at his best running with the ball in the inside left channel, but rarely seems to do that now.

  15. Elwood
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 8 months ago

    Can some try and load Marks WC hot topic. When ever I try to the page hangs up. Everything else works on here.

    1. MTPockets
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Fine for me

    2. EL_FENOMENO
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Chances of Hazard starting vs Arsenal ? Probably will get a cameo in midweek in CL.

      1. Andriy Shevchenko is Back
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        I think you got it. A cameo midweek and a start vs the gunners

    3. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Carroll is a bap beast

      1. Rainer
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Mini Eriksen 😎

    4. Mateja
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Willian and Mane to Kdb and Mahrez worth -4 ?

      1. Podge
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Probably

    5. thorvaldsson
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Its weird not having any on playing on a Sunday.

      1. Turbolag
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        You're not missing out.

        Source: Heaton owner

    6. The Man Pastore
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Foster Elliot
      Davies Cedric Mee Dawson Hunnemeier
      Alli Pogba Ramsey Atsu TCarroll
      Kane Lukaku Firmino

      2FT / 0.8ITB

      A) Hunemeier -> Naughton and save other FT
      B) Dawson + Lukaku -> Alonso + Morata
      C) Something else? if so, what?

      Thanks!

      1. KUNingas
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Nice team. A

      2. S.Kuqi
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        A

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

      Sanchez a bit naughty on the pitch there, copin a feel

    8. money face bandwagon
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      just did lukaku + bailly -> davies + kane

      1. Eddie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Good kneejerk imo, why not wait though?

        1. money face bandwagon
          • 10 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          think bavies is rising in price and i have to do a -4 if i miss the price rise

          of cos i know a match is going on but it seems no matter what happen it will not affect this transfer hahas

          1. Eddie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            6 years, 8 months ago

            Champions League though...

            1. money face bandwagon
              • 10 Years
              6 years, 8 months ago

              rather than doing a definite -4 i might as well take the risk

      2. Elwood
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Not a great plan IMO.

        Davies is not nailed on.

        1. Business Cat
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          ...except he is

        2. Eddie
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          Nailed until Rose back no? Good for next few weeks and great fixtures.

          1. Elwood
            • 12 Years
            6 years, 8 months ago

            Not nailed on then if there is someone on the road to recovery to replace him, esp with upcoming fixture congestion.

        3. dunas_dog
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          He is for foreseeable future

        4. money face bandwagon
          • 10 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          the risk is there i agree! just hope he will hold on for the next few

    9. Eddie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Anyone know what's up with RLC?

      1. We Will Klopp you
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Not fully recovered from the groin injury he had before the international break

        1. Eddie
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          That's fine then. Thanks.

    10. S.Kuqi
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Might just play TC as a 4th mid. There really isn't much options for 6.0 or under

      1. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        One scored 18 yesterday.

        1. S.Kuqi
          • 11 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          but blanked 3 gws in a row. Impossible to predict which cheapish mid will do well.

      2. Hotdogs for Tea
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Him or Chalobah or RLC are a good 4th choice rotated with a 4th defender

      3. tisza
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        not sure what people expect from budget players partiularly mids & strikers.
        If you're paying budget prices then an average PPG of 4-4.5 is really a maximum expectation.
        In this case I've got a Carroll/RLC option for 4th mid to enable a more expensive forward line of Lukaku-Jesus-Firmino.
        A lot of sides seem to be starting 2 "budget" mids to either enable Kane, Alonso or a couple of other more expensive defenders

    11. Where dahoud at
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Is coutinho worth being put in now ????

      1. Podge
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Klopp is probably wondering the same thing

        1. Where dahoud at
          • 6 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          Lol, its where he plays him tho???? Iv salah atm but hes a rotation risk

      2. Mateja
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        nah

    12. dunas_dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      For -4 to sort out defence
      Hegazi to Jones
      Danilo to Davies

      Giving
      Foster Elliot
      Bertrand Kolasinac Jones Davies Long

    13. Sterling is £11Mill..…
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Is Alli > Eriksen stupid? Im just droppinng behind so far. Need some guaranteed point bringers and I thought Alli would be but now im not so sure. Think I will wait another week, but if Alli blanks again and Eriksen is in the points ffs

      1. EL_FENOMENO
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Hold. He will get full 90 mins in the coming weeks, while Eriksen will get subbed off around 70th min if Spurs are winning.

        1. Kun Tozser
          • 8 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          Like yesterday 🙂

        2. Sterling is £11Mill..…
          • 7 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          yea that was my logic, I know Alli will deliver but Eriksens consistency is incredible

      2. Eddie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Erickson seems to be on fire, but Alli will get in the points too. If nothing else pressing and it's for free I think Erickson is the better pick so I'd do it.

      3. El_Shaw
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        I'd stick with Alli. He's banned for first three champions league games so is less at risk for rotation than Eriksen.

      4. dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Keep Alli

      5. Sterling is £11Mill..…
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        ok thanks guys so Alli appears the sensible pick due to max minutes, I will ponder it

      6. The Big Fella
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Patience. Alli won't be playing in the CL

    14. JJJ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      had 2 FTs, just went Mane and Dann to Salah and Davies.
      Just hope Liverpool still have the attacking prowess without Mane, they missed him last year when he was out.

      1. Elwood
        • 12 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Liverpool didn't do well without mane last year during ACON.

      2. Reed_Rothchild
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Salah gives them pace with Mane out which is what they lacked last season.

    15. That Was Easy!
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Foster, Elliot
      Stephens, Bertrand, Jones, Mee, Long
      Willian***, Eriksen, Pogba, Phillips, Carroll
      Kane, Lukaku, Firmino

      What do I do here?

      A) Willian > Rambo
      B) Willian + Stephens > Chopu-Moting + Davies (-4)
      C) Willian someone else?

      1. S.Kuqi
        • 11 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Maybe just keep Willian and asses options?

        1. That Was Easy!
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 8 months ago

          Yeah, considering it, but not too keep on taking the price-drop given I have nothing ITB (Rambo looks a solid pick to me)

          1. S.Kuqi
            • 11 Years
            6 years, 8 months ago

            Out of those option get Rambo. Altough Ayew for West Ham could be worth a punt

            1. That Was Easy!
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 9 Years
              6 years, 8 months ago

              Cheers, interesting idea. Will see how he goes tomorrow.

    16. Kane Train
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 8 months ago

      Stephens > Davies yes or no

      1. dunas_dog
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 8 months ago

        Yes