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The Dugout Discussion – Tuesday

Gameweek 34 continues apace with Hull City playing host to Liverpool in a 7.45pm kick off. The Tigers look to build momentum after a 2-0 victory at Crystal Palace marked their first win in seven matches. Meanwhile, the Reds arrive at the KC Stadium off the back of a 0-0 stalemate against West Bromwich Albion, searching for only their second win in five outings.

Hull boss Steve Bruce will hope for a repeat performance of the Eagles clash, in which they fashioned the second-most shots on target (seven) of any side so far this Gameweek. Senegalese frontman Dame N’Doye remains the Tigers’ principal goal threat after netting twice at Selhurst Park, while Robbie Brady – who engineered the second most chances (five) among all midfielders on the weekend – keeps his place on the left as Steve Bruce names an unchanged XI.

Raheem Sterling’s abundance of owners will want more from the Jamaican-born wide man after he failed to register a single shot at The Hawthorns. Philippe Coutinho, on the other hand, mustered nine efforts on goal against the Baggies but has now failed to find the net in his previous six league starts. With two assists and four goals in seven appearances, Jordan Henderson is the form man for the Merseysiders and his prospects will be boosted by the absence of Steven Gerrard this evening. The Reds skipper drops out in the visitors’ only change as Brendan Rodgers hands Mario Balotelli another start up front.

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  1. Heels_Over_Head
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    BBC stats say Liverpool have had the ball 68% of the time.

    Doesn't really seem that way.

    1. Mull
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Filoshofee.

    2. Klopp's Kids
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      80% last game 😛

  2. ebow14
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    All the build up about chelsea/liverpool/leicesters defence and it's hull who get two clean sheets!

    1. Norco
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Murphy's bloody law.

    2. Shakshuka
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Cmon they all got clean sheets in the first game, and Chelsea + Leicester still have a good chance

      1. MMN
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Leicester have a good chance of a cleanie? Mate I wish you were right (Schmeichel and Huth owner).

  3. PGR
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    How much longer? Really hope N'Doye nicks a goal in stoppage time like he did last game!

    1. Spatburgunder
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      He's been subbed

      1. PGR
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Oh! Damn!

    2. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      He's off mate

    3. lifes a pitch
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Lol

  4. Limbo
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    And it all looked so good on Saturday. Weak.

  5. Jax
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    reading goal

    1. Optimus.
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Youre reading wrong

  6. fatherted
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Don't care how sh1t Liverpool have been.

    #stones1stsubforMoreno

    1. Heels_Over_Head
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      congrats !

    2. Les Bleus
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      #LuckySonOfA

      1. fatherted
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Bout flipping time. Lol

  7. 1justlookin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Seems daft after the DGW but is anyone else seriously considering bringing in Cambiasso for GW 36?

    1. MBK 42
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      You and no-one else 😉

      1. 1justlookin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        You don't know that.

    2. MMN
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      You mean GW35?

  8. The Raging Bull
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Raheem Sterling actually believes he is a good player!

  9. Sif
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    All that Sterling/Coutinho/Henderson dilema was pretty moot then...

    1. Heels_Over_Head
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      well, they were all pretty even

    2. Limbo
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Mooticulous

    3. lifes a pitch
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      It was mooted way too much

  10. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Comeee oooooon Skrteeeeeel!!!!

    1. Limbo
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Please. Stop. This. Now.

  11. Woy
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    McShane was a great gamble 😀

    71 pts so far, 5 to play inc haz (C)

  12. Wouter
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    As it stands, Ivanovic (C) might've actually been the right call.

    1. Wouter
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Until Hazard scores a hatty tomorrow obviously

  13. Rupert The Horse
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Did anyone expect Harper to be the top scoring player this week? 17 points it looks like.

    1. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Dawson

      1. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Christ you are right. You're always around to correct my little mistakes.

    2. Heels_Over_Head
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      is he going to get the BAPs?

      1. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Yes 2.

      2. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Maybe 3

  14. Raddy
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Didn't watch the game, but pool have had 69% possession and 9 SOT. Have they been a little unfortunate perhaps?

    1. Spencer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      No.

      1. Rupert The Horse
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Yes 2.

        1. Rupert The Horse
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Fail

    2. Ser Football 42
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Henderson deff. Should of scored

    3. mojoindojo
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      9 SOT players? Seems about right

      1. Raddy
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Bazinnnga! 😉

  15. ASR11
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Lol @ Liverpool

  16. LOCO ABREU
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    9saves harper?

  17. TorresMagic™
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Great win by Hull

  18. Heels_Over_Head
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Harper owner joy

    1. Rupert The Horse
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Wow

  19. UnitednationsXI
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Booom!! Dyoye and harper success!!! 😎

  20. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Whoever bought a Hull defender for this...

    cpl, LIV
    ARS
    BUR
    tot
    MUN

    deserves the points. Palace and Liverpool = 2CSs? Really?!

    1. UnitednationsXI
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Got in harper on a WC..yay

      1. JK - Cønt ⭐
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        McShane here

      2. JK - Cønt ⭐
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Might nick 3 BAPs

    2. FantaCity
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Me ... I played him, they got 2 Cleanies ... his name is Bruce 🙁

    3. ellelelle
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      takes stones.

      and having stones wouldn't hurt either.

    4. Mull
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Still a bad decision no matter what the result.

      1. ellelelle
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Hardly a bad decision when it has paid off so dramatically. It was a risk, and I'm sure most people calculated that risk. No risk no reward!

      2. lifes a pitch
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        I don't get this logic. Based on the probability at the time it wud have been incorrect but in hindsight it ws obviously a brilliant move.

      3. MMN
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        How good the decision was doesn't change after the outcome.

        1. lifes a pitch
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Of course it does...u just didn't have the insight to make the decision at the time.

          1. Mull
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            You can only make decisions based off of the information you had before the deadline and nothing really pointed to Hull doing anything.

            1. The Machine
              • 10 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              Maybe those that wathced tjem thought they were just unlucky?? We can never know. Benefitnof the doubt goes to the one that wins.

              Im shocked youre at it again

              1. lifes a pitch
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                Exactly. Ppl who failed to make the correct decision think they knew everything and weighed all up correctly. Obviously this game isn't an exact science so whoever gets the points made the correct decision.

                1. MMN
                  • 10 Years
                  9 years, 1 month ago

                  Whoever gets the points made the correct decision? So if I played Stones Cleverly and Sanchez (Villa's Sanchez) I made the correct decision? Pleeeeease.

                  1. Mull
                    • 12 Years
                    9 years, 1 month ago

                    Finally someone gets what I'm trying to say.

                    1. MMN
                      • 10 Years
                      9 years, 1 month ago

                      Most get it, a few don't.

              2. MMN
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                I'm not saying Hull were lucky, I'm just saying there was nothing to suggest their defence was worth investing in. N'Doye maaaybe worth a punt but even he was up against an inform palace and a very tight pool defence (and without a goal in his last 4 games or whatever)

    5. Hibbopotamus
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      For me at least, it was more of a "well I have him sitting here and it's a double, so why not." Figured 4 pts guaranteed was better than risking a blank

      1. MMN
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Hardly 4 points guaranteed considering most would expect them to concede 2 in one of the 2 games with ease. But I see your logic.

    6. MMN
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      It was a poor decision and the outcome doesn't change that. The decision is made with the information we have at the time.

  21. Danstoke82
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Glad I resisted making Sterling my capt. Over to Hazard then, not expecting much but one can hope!

    1. ellelelle
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Hazard can't do much worse..!

      1. Danstoke82
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Hope not. Any return from Haz will be a blessing!.

        Yet again, I take Sterling on and he is sh1t.

        Never again!

  22. deathorglory
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Newcastle are going down

    1. Camp No No
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I think that will turn when the players realise they actually are going down. They're playing like shite because they thought they have nothing to play for anymore, and are playing against teams that are fighting against relegation. Once they start that fight, they should win those other teams.

  23. JK - Cønt ⭐
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    3.9

    12 point DGW

    Paul McShane you absolute here

    1. JK - Cønt ⭐
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      here?

      Hero

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I owned him for his goal in GW31 aswell....Legend 😀

  24. Hibbopotamus
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    And I was this close to benching McShane for Toby. What luck.

  25. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    McShane 😎

  26. FPL Daniel
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Its over for Sterling captains

  27. goriuanx
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Worrying, embarrassing and disgraceful. Up the reds though 🙁

  28. Hypnos
    • 9 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    ignore Hull they said..

  29. Lyonnais
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Liverpool DGW fail !

    1. Wings of Steel
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Skrtel +11 ?

  30. The Enlightener
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks Chester.