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Thiago	BRE	7.2m	99.2%	Likely
Sarr	CRY	6.3m	84.0%	Likely
J.Timber	ARS	6.3m	105.5%	Very Likely
Henderson	CRY	5.0m	92.0%	Likely
Schade	BRE	6.9m	91.8%	Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.6m	97.1%	Likely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	81.3%	Unlikely
Šeško	MUN	7.3m	83.8%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.6m	86.2%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	75.1%	Unlikely
Stach	LEE	4.7m	76.7%	Unlikely
Diouf	WHU	4.0m	77.4%	Unlikely
Gakpo	LIV	7.3m	77.0%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.1m	71.5%	Unlikely
Gordon	NEW	7.2m	67.7%	Unlikely
Aït-Nouri	MCI	5.7m	69.5%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	66.1%	Unlikely
Senesi	BOU	5.0m	10.3%	Unlikely
Lammens	MUN	5.0m	63.3%	Unlikely
A.Becker	LIV	5.4m	72.9%	Unlikely
Richards	CRY	4.4m	59.7%	Unlikely
João Pedro	CHE	7.7m	28.4%	Unlikely
Wan-Bissaka	WHU	4.1m	60.9%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	9.8m	53.1%	Unlikely
Kayode	BRE	4.5m	53.3%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.6m	44.6%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	51.8%	Unlikely
B.Fernandes	MUN	10.1m	7.1%	Unlikely
Gravenberch	LIV	5.5m	59.0%	Unlikely
Damsgaard	BRE	5.6m	47.2%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.8m	3.9%	Unlikely
Justin	LEE	3.9m	52.1%	Unlikely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.4m	46.7%	Unlikely
M.Salah	LIV	14.0m	25.3%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.5m	12.8%	Unlikely
Rodon	LEE	3.9m	45.7%	Unlikely
Aaronson	LEE	5.4m	48.2%	Unlikely

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Chalobah	CHE	5.6m	99.1%	Likely
Cash	AVL	4.8m	89.3%	Likely
Perri	LEE	4.5m	106.7%	Very Likely
Angel	WOL	4.8m	86.8%	Likely
Foden	MCI	8.1m	100.4%	Very Likely
Mbeumo	MUN	8.7m	78.2%	Likely
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.7m	75.8%	Maybe
Lucca	NFO	5.5m	99.1%	Maybe
Martinez	AVL	5.1m	86.8%	Maybe
Alleyne	MCI	4.0m	85.5%	Maybe
Gnonto	LEE	5.2m	91.1%	Unlikely
Carvalho	BRE	4.7m	93.8%	Unlikely
Pope	NEW	5.1m	87.5%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.6m	60.2%	Unlikely
Poveda	SUN	4.8m	92.2%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.1m	90.2%	Unlikely
Tchaouna	BUR	4.9m	90.5%	Unlikely
D.Leon	MUN	4.2m	89.5%	Unlikely
Heaton	MUN	3.9m	86.3%	Unlikely
Cherki	MCI	6.4m	76.4%	Unlikely
Dorgu	MUN	4.2m	75.4%	Unlikely
Soler	BOU	4.0m	86.6%	Unlikely
Lewis-Skelly	ARS	5.1m	82.0%	Unlikely
Clarke	ARS	3.8m	80.8%	Unlikely
Spence	TOT	4.2m	77.3%	Unlikely
Digne	AVL	4.5m	77.4%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	80.3%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	6.8m	66.4%	Unlikely
Isak	LIV	10.3m	75.6%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.9m	73.9%	Unlikely
Milenković	NFO	5.1m	74.4%	Unlikely
Mané	WOL	4.5m	2.1%	Unlikely
Brobbey	SUN	5.4m	41.7%	Unlikely
Bruun Larsen	BUR	5.3m	71.9%	Unlikely
Weiss	BUR	4.3m	73.7%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	57.7%	Unlikely
Diakité	BOU	4.2m	68.3%	Unlikely
Tarkowski	EVE	5.7m	60.2%	Unlikely

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No Change	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
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No Change	Darlow	LEE	C, Vs, £

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No Change	van Dijk	LIV	A
No Change	Gabriel Magalhães	ARS	A
No Change	Hill	BOU	A, £
Up	Ballard	SUN	B
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A, OoP
No Change	Andersen	FUL	C, Rest
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	C, Inj
No Change	Kayode	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Cash	AVL	C, Inj
Up	Rodon	LEE	C, Vs, £

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No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Salah	LIV	B
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	A
No Change	Wilson	FUL	A, Inj
No Change	Dango Ouattara	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Rogers	AVL	C
No Change	Ismaila Sarr	CRY	B
No Change	Rice	ARS	B
No Change	Tavernier	BOU	B, £
No Change	Anderson	NFO	A, £
No Change	Stach	LEE	B, Vs, £

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Ekitiké	LIV	B
Up	João Pedro	CHE	A
No Change	Bowen	WHU	B
No Change	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	C, Vs

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GW30 Chip Poll

Dugout Discussion

20 November 2022 601 comments

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The first match of the 2022 World Cup takes place at the Al Bayt Stadium on Sunday afternoon, as hosts Qatar meet Ecuador in Group A.

Kick-off is at 16:00 GMT.

Qatar have largely operated in a 3-5-2 formation and look set to continue in that shape today, with the experienced Akram Afif and Almoez Ali in attack.

$4.0m ‘keeper Saad Al Sheeb – currently owned by 5.1 per cent in the official FIFA game – also starts.

Hassan Al-Haydos, meanwhile, is named as captain.

As for Ecuador, Brighton and Hove Albion’s Pervis Estupinan and Moises Caicedo both start, with teammate Jeremy Sarmiento named among the substitutes.

Another $4.0m goalkeeper – Hernan Galindez – is included in the starting XI, while former West Ham United forward Enner Valencia leads the line.

MATCHDAY 1 LINE-UPS

Qatar XI: Al Sheeb, Al Rawi, Khoukhi, Hassan, Ro-Ro, Al Haydos, Boudiaf, Hatem, Ahmed, Afif, Ali

Ecuador XI: Galindez, Preciado, Torres, Hincapie, Estupinan, Plata, Mendez, Caicedo, Ibarra, Valencia, Estrada

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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 3 months ago
the keeper actually made a stop from a ball hit directly at him amazing skills!
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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 3 months ago
Whomever Capd Valencia today was a genius!
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1. Hazz
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Ben Crellin https://twitter.com/BenCrellin/status/1594365194720972800
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Freshy
3 years, 3 months ago
That was an Orange Card
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It’s gonna Ben Mee
3 years, 3 months ago
Have Ecuador changed their national anthem? I didn’t recognise it ahead of the game:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1arJHhz6TxMV50SNvSmGnV?si=H0wIJrnmTE2hmmj_yqhEzQ&context=spotify%3Aartist%3A5XTxV2ifoYkmNb13Gb6cKz
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The Philosopher
3 years, 3 months ago
Do we think Ecuador will do anymore touchdowns today?
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1. DBW - Slug's Mortgage …
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Hope not
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jacob1989
3 years, 3 months ago
This game is an example why we should NOT have 48 teams in the world cup.

Is really brazil vs qatar, Germany vs Mali or England vs Jordan required in the next World cup?
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1. banskt
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Wait until Iran defeats England.
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2. Drexl Spivey
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Always a dark horse amongst them to cause an upset (at least in the group stage).
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3. The Philosopher
  3 years, 3 months ago
  32 countries out of 195 reaching the world cup is one country out of every 6 countries reaching, which is good enough for me. Lots of opportunities still for every country to reach the world cup in the current format imo.
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4. It’s gonna Ben Mee
  3 years, 3 months ago
  But but but all that money?
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5. Jafooli
  3 years, 3 months ago
  More FIFA gravy trains need fuelled, so more teams needed for the cash to be passed around
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  1. Louis_Sans_Balls
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Exactly! it's all about padding pockets and pilfering, never about the sanctity or quality of the game pffff
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Bank$y
3 years, 3 months ago
What’s the ffs league code for World Cup?
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  https://play.fifa.com/fantasy-classic/join-league/01CLYNZG
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2. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  love the profile name. cheers!
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  1. Bank$y
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Ta
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Alan The Llama
3 years, 3 months ago
How did Qatar win the Asia Cup? Are Japan, Australia, Iran and Saudi Arabia all worse than this Qatar side? Seems unlikely.
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1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
  3 years, 3 months ago
  No idea. They seem awful
  
  Although Greece did win the euros
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2. The Philosopher
  3 years, 3 months ago
  If Qatar can buy FIFA, imagine what they can do to the Asian football federation.
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  1. Louis_Sans_Balls
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Exactly! Money talks my friends
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3. jacob1989
  3 years, 3 months ago
  I watched some of the asia cup games. Qatar were impressive and won it fair and square. Their no 19almoez was on fire. Scored 9 goals in asia cup 2019
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MFC86
3 years, 3 months ago
Quick transfer question - my Ecuador keeper isn’t playing (yes I know i should have checked before the deadline ). Can I now use one of my free transfers to bring in Pickford for example and get his points from the Iran game or will the person I bring in only score points the next match day/game week ?
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1. gart888
  3 years, 3 months ago
  If you transfer out a locked player the person you transfer in will also be locked.
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2. Mozumbus
  3 years, 3 months ago
  He's locked player now, so the player you transfer in will not get points this MD
  You can sub in the other GK in your team though
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  1. MFC86
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Thank you
    I’ll just use my sub
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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 3 months ago
Wow! look at all those sexy ladies! 🙂
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1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Please don’t sexually objectify women
  
  Thanks
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  1. Louis_Sans_Balls
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Sarcasm much mate?
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  2. Dušan Citizen
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Oh God...
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2. Drexl Spivey
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Out past their bedtime.
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Jafooli
3 years, 3 months ago
This game has the most cards (five yellows) in a World Cup opener since Germany versus Bolivia in 1994 (six yellow cards and one red card).

You know a games shiiiiite when BBC starts rolling out stats like this….
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  LOL I still think the Germany drubbing of the Saudis in 2002 was worst and that was even a good German team
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2. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  worst team still has to be UAE in 1990 but Qatar may just have a go at that
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Jafooli
3 years, 3 months ago
Also BBC
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1. The Philosopher
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Wrong site
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  1. Louis_Sans_Balls
    3 years, 3 months ago
    LOL
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  2. Jafooli
    3 years, 3 months ago
    😛
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jacob1989
3 years, 3 months ago
Qatar has dominated the 2nd half.. In possession.. Or maybe ecuador are content with just 2-0 win
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1. Alan The Llama
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Ecuador 2-0 up, foot off the gas.
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2. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  or scared of what might happened to them if they pour it on thick, watching over shoulders 😉
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Firminooooo
3 years, 3 months ago
Where is my Galindez points?
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1. George James
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Hopefully will show after games updated?
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The Senate
3 years, 3 months ago
Any team ever been through a World Cup without a single SoT before ?
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Good question
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Dušan Citizen
3 years, 3 months ago
https://twitter.com/FPL_Banger/status/1594209577716789248 Wow
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  that is impressive!
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NABIL - FPL otai
3 years, 3 months ago
Galindez hooollldd
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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 3 months ago
what a miss! lucky for him it was offsides
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lions
3 years, 3 months ago
This group looks interesting now - Ecuador on course for 6 clean sheets in a row - will be tough games v Senegal and Netherlands
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  I went back and forth on my predictions, in the end went with Senegal to make it out
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lions
3 years, 3 months ago
England play next, World Cup really starts tomorrow at 1pm?!
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Yes! This is just a dress rehearsal, part of the pre-opening ceremonies
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nerd_is_the_werd
3 years, 3 months ago
Easily the worst opening world cup game of all time.
And imo, #1 for worst world cup game of all time, can't remember a worse one.
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Germany vs Saudi Arabia 2002 lol
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lions
3 years, 3 months ago
Germany v Bolivia was poor but the Diana Ross miss in the opening ceremony got us through it- they didn't show the opening ceremony on the beeb - was it on iplayer?
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jacob1989
3 years, 3 months ago
If ecuador go out of group stage bcoz of goal difference, they have only themselves to blame
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1. lions
  3 years, 3 months ago
  True, you'd expect Netherlands to score a few
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  1. jacob1989
    3 years, 3 months ago
    If Senegal beat Qatar 3-0 and assuming ned beats everyone, Senegal only need a draw vs ecuador
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lions
3 years, 3 months ago
Qatar fans get excited when they have a chance!!
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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 3 months ago
that would have been an impressive strike
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They are eating the dogs
3 years, 3 months ago
Host of the tournament have never lost the opening game. Host of the tournament also never bribed anyone to host the tournament. Karma is a b*tch.
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Indeed! so much for home field
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2. Marvin.
  3 years, 3 months ago
  Russia did.
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jacob1989
3 years, 3 months ago
Though Qatar played poorly, stats show they lost only 2-0.. So its not like a huge embarrassment in WC history
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lions
3 years, 3 months ago
Prediction for the Argentina v Saudi Arabia game? Opening games for teams usually bitty and most coaches would sign up for any kind of win
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  I went in all in for Argentina
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2. It’s gonna Ben Mee
  3 years, 3 months ago
  I predict Argentina will win
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  1. Louis_Sans_Balls
    3 years, 3 months ago
    Whoa!! going out on a limb there are we? Quite bold! 😉
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3. jacob1989
  3 years, 3 months ago
  5-0
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  1. Louis_Sans_Balls
    3 years, 3 months ago
    6-0
    
    Place your bets lads! Who wants the over under action?
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Louis_Sans_Balls
3 years, 3 months ago
I love how Spanish broadcasters can make even the most shyt match sound exciting, they're actually calling it an electrifying opening match! lol
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nerd_is_the_werd
3 years, 3 months ago
Is there any merit in Sepp Blatter's words after he declared it was a mistake to award Qatar the World Cup...... ONLY after he left FIFA, accepted millions in bribes, and "somehow" escaped jail sentencing (with even more bribery)?
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1. Louis_Sans_Balls
  3 years, 3 months ago
  I love how that comedian mocked him on live teli, it was the best! lol threw money at his face, priceless!
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