Dugout Discussion

Dugout Discussion – Swansea City vs Liverpool

Gameweek 24 concludes at the Liberty Stadium as Swansea City entertain Liverpool at 8pm.

The visitors boast two of the top five captains in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) for this round of fixtures, with both Mohamed Salah (13.8%) and Roberto Firmino (3.6%) in exceptional form ahead of their trip to south Wales.

Captained by 19 of the top 100 managers heading into Gameweek 24, Salah has returned double-digits on 10 occasions, with a goal or assist in 13 of his last 14 league appearances.

Firmino, meanwhile, has delivered 46 points across his last five starts, which includes two goals in a 5-0 win over the Swans in Gameweek 20.

The Reds’ rampant form had a marked impact on the FPL market ahead of Saturday’s deadline – in terms of transfers in, both Firmino (275,000) and Salah (233,000), along with team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (111,000), were among the 10 most popular trades.

The latter retains his place on Jurgen Klopp’s teamsheet in light of his goal and assist in last Sunday’s win over Man City.

Still only costing 5.7, Oxlade-Chamberlain’s claim as a budget midfield pick is enhanced by a schedule that pits the Merseysiders against Huddersfield, Southampton, West Ham and Newcastle in the subsequent five Gameweeks.

At the other end of the pitch, we’ll get the chance to monitor Virgil van Dijk’s impact on the Reds’ rearguard – the January signing has recovered from a hamstring complaint and starts under Klopp for the first time in a league match.

For the hosts, Jordan Ayew has another opportunity to impress as a budget striker option.

Costing 5.1, he was the fourth most transferred in (154,000+) player for Gameweek 24 – the Ghana international has netted in three of the last five and was also on the scoresheet in last week’s FA Cup replay win over Wolves.

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  1. Gooner97
    • 10 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    0-1 Matip 94'

    1. Deulofail
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      ban for time travel

    2. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      94 inches? Are you related to Lukaku?

      1. FC Hakkebøf
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        2/10

        Not the symbol for inches buddy

        1. Epic Fail
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Well, 94 feet would have been even more ridiculous. 😉

  2. LewanGOALski
    • 12 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    thoughts on Christensen ➡ VVD?
    Already have Alonso as well

    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      I’m looking at this

    2. DV8R
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Maybe from GW28

  3. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    I need VVD. Christensen GTFO of my team.

    1. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      VVD to pull his hammy on 58 mins....

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        AKA do a Christensen.

        1. Jairzinho
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Thanks for pointing it out!

  4. Sims
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Salah Cappers puzzled and confused searching for the brace he was supposed to get

    1. Hazz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Yes we are.

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
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      • 14 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Not this again...

    3. diesel001
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Bit early still. This guy did come of the bench and score a brace earlier this season.

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

      LOL @ SIMS for being a twerp

      1. Ron_Swanson
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        this

    5. SuperMane Returns
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      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Are we forgetting the 55 mins to come?

    6. Toffeeman (A retired FPL ma…
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      A Salah capper here. I got Kane & Firmino but no Kun (waiting for Jesus resurrection). Salah just lost a MF CS bonus. Salah 'walking like Egyptian' Expecting 20 x 2 pts+ from Salah vs bottom-feeding Swansea

  5. SuperMane Returns
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    • 7 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Naughton thought he was an Osprey then.

  6. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    Naughty goal threat 😮

  7. Ragabolly
    • 14 Years
    6 years, 4 months ago

    I am developing my own script to check the current top 20k teams and calculate my rank given specific performance of remaining players (calculate not just estimate, it should be almost exact bar auto subs) .

    As an owner of Salah (and Firmino) but non capper and sitting now at 5k OR

    In case of Salah brace (~13 points) and Firmino doing fine (~9 points), I pretty much stay at 5k !
    In case of Salah blank (3 points) and Firmino doing fine (~9 points), I rise to 4k
    In case of Salah brace (~13 points) but Firmino blanking (3 points), I also stay at 5k!

    In summary, Salah owners & non cappers, we should be fine!

    1. Rik Waller
      • 6 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      okey doke

    2. Licious Lizard (delete acc)
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Firmino won’t get 3 point for blanking

        1. Ragabolly
          • 14 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          my bad, it's a typo, put in the algorithm as 2 not 3

      • TorresMagic™
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        • 14 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Firmino 3 and 9 points, same rank = script needs improving.

        1. Ragabolly
          • 14 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          3 is a typo 🙂

          1. TorresMagic™
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            • 14 Years
            6 years, 4 months ago

            2 and 9 is even worse.

            1. Ragabolly
              • 14 Years
              6 years, 4 months ago

              There is no room for error in the code, just get all teams that can join the top 10k in case of Salah, Firmino, mane get max of 15 pts, calculate exactly what each team gets given the expected points then sort. I am pretty confident of the results

              1. TorresMagic™
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                • 14 Years
                6 years, 4 months ago

                Unless Firmino has 100 EO, your system is flawed.

                1. Ragabolly
                  • 14 Years
                  6 years, 4 months ago

                  I understand your point but it's not that simple. You will have to look at the combination of teams that have either one of Salah or Firmino or both and whether they captain either. Then it's possible that Firmino getting more points doesn't make much difference due to the relative ownership/captaincy between Salah/Firmino

                  1. TorresMagic™
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                    • 14 Years
                    6 years, 4 months ago

                    What does a combo do if Firmino scores? Still has the same number of owners in the top 10K/20K. Majority have Salah it's like 11 Salah captains to Firmino 1. I guarantee you'll have a better rank if Salah got 13 and Firmino 9 by whatever 3 points is compared to Salah 13/Firmino 2.

                    1. Ragabolly
                      • 14 Years
                      6 years, 4 months ago

                      Okay good point of Salah being in all teams. Now, you have around 20% Salah cappers, and around 70% Firmino owners. If Salah does well, then the 20% have an edge, but not all of them have Firmino. The Salah cappers and Firmino owners go up, the Salah cappers, non Firm owners slightly on the rise, the Firmino owners something in between, the non Firmino owners go down.

                      Just trying to understand how it goes, but the script is doing nothing fancier than adding the points to the top 20k teams and then sort them and check where I lie.

                      1. TorresMagic™
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                        • 14 Years
                        6 years, 4 months ago

                        The distribution of the 20% captains for Salah(91% owned) and the near 70% for Firmino is the bigger factor. Every Salah points add roughly 1.1 and Firmino points adds 0.7. If you think Firmino scoring 2 points(0.6 gain for owners) or 9(2.7 gain for owners) equals the same rank, I give up 🙂

              2. TorresMagic™
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                • 14 Years
                6 years, 4 months ago

                Would love to see how you are doing this btw.

        2. Jairzinho
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 13 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Eagle eyed Torres!

    3. Dacra
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      This is making my plan of Zanka to Van Dijk look more likely.

      Alonso - VVD - Alonso defence looks good to me.

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        If only that were possible.

        1. Dacra
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          It is?

      2. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Double Alonso, nice

      3. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        What's "this"?

        1. Dacra
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          VVD looking good.

          1. Deulofail
            • 8 Years
            6 years, 4 months ago

            Against Swansea?

            1. Deulofail
              • 8 Years
              6 years, 4 months ago

              How about now?

      4. Syd.
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        2 Alonsos look good to me

        1. Wild Rover
          • 13 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Trumped 😉

          1. Syd.
            • 14 Years
            6 years, 4 months ago

            🙂

      5. It’s gonna Ben Mee
        • 10 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Two Alonsos is great

      6. Dacra
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Hah, other Alonso is Jones, my bad.

      7. Gothenburgsaints
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        If you can find the money, upgrade to Alonso instead of VvD

        1. Dacra
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          0.1 short.

    4. BON
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Swansea should be embarrassed to call themselves a professional football team.

      1. Dannyb
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        I hope they go down.

      2. Hotdogs for Tea
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Lol @ you 😉

    5. Toffeeman (A retired FPL ma…
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      How do I report my captain Salah for a robbery against me? He missed a great chance to score.

      1. Deulofail
        • 8 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Laboured 4/10

        1. Teror
          • 9 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          You're being kind

          1. Deulofail
            • 8 Years
            6 years, 4 months ago

            I am a kind man

    6. How Mina You
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Fair play to Swansea - given the lack of significant talent at their disposal, they're doing what they can to keep Liverpool at bay. Can't fault a sound tactical approach that seems to be working so far. The only issue will be what happens if, and quite possibly when, they do concede.

    7. Dr Dream
      • 11 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      That's enough of this kak....

      Film time...

      1. Epic Fail
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Which film you going for?

        1. Deulofail
          • 8 Years
          6 years, 4 months ago

          Passion of the Christ feat. Sanchez as Judas

      2. Ron_Swanson
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri is good - watched it last evening

    8. Royal5
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Boring game.

    9. Futile Tinkering
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Mourinho does the same thing against top sides.

    10. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Gomez is mediocre at best.

    11. Gudjohnsen
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      This game needs some magic from Coutinho.

    12. Teror
      • 9 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      A. Arnautovic + Choupo-Moting (play 3-4-2)

      B. Pogba + Milivojevic (play 4-4-2, Mili on bench)

    13. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      This is the most bored I've been since Spurs vs Southampton

      1. Hazz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        This is definitely much worse.

      2. Teror
        • 9 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        I found the first half quite entertaining

    14. SAKA AND EMILE SMITH ROWE
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Robertson started 9 of last 10 games, not bad for 4.7m

    15. Ghost Gooner
      • 10 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Wow, Swans playing out from the back v Pool. Ballsy stuff

    16. Ron_Swanson
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Virgil owners looking good so far

      1. Jairzinho
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        LOL

      2. OldBenKenobi
        • 7 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Jynx it

    17. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      VVD Baps

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Get out of my team VVD

    18. Jairzinho
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Mawson 1-0

    19. OldBenKenobi
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Ffs!

    20. TheTinman
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Swans playing some good stuff here

    21. Manchesterford Utd
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      YES. Now can Liverpool come alive?

    22. Differentiator
      • 8 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      Just realised Tarroll ain't playing! Hopefully not perma dropped 🙁

    23. Gobigorgohome
      • 12 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      THERE GOES VVD CSSS

    24. Syd.
      • 14 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      lololpool strike again

    25. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      6 years, 4 months ago

      VvD assist

      1. Wild Rover
        • 13 Years
        6 years, 4 months ago

        Assisting the assister