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Sunday Dugout Discussion

18 September 2011 1746 comments
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Yesterday’s slim fantasy pickings has undoubtedly heaped the pressure on today’s four Premier League games to deliver. The Dugout Discussion chatroom will take you through them all, starting at White Hart Lane with Tottenham Hotspur versus Liverpool and culminating in Chelsea’s visit to champions Manchester United.

In and amongst those back-to-back games, two of our Europa League representatives, Stoke City and Fulham, take on Sunderland at the Stadium of Light and Manchester City at Craven Cottage respectively.

The “Super Sunday” opener kicks-off shortly, and here are the all-important team sheets…

Tottenham XI: Friedel, Walker, Kaboul, King, Assou-Ekotto, Kranjcar, Parker, Modric, Bale, Adebayor, Defoe.

Liverpool XI: Reina, Skrtel, Carragher, Agger, Jose Enrique, Henderson, Lucas, Adam, Downing, Suarez, Carroll.

Catching the eye are the big strike-partnerships both sides have named. Jermain Defoe and Emmanuel Adebayor continue upfront for Spurs, whilst Liverpool’s Luis Suarez and Andy Carroll start together for only the second time in the league this season.

Another headline is the return (to the substitutes bench at least) of Rafael van der Vaart, and it’s worth remembering he is not in Spurs’ Europa League squad.

Feast or famine, the Dugout Discussion chatroom will be here for you all day.

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  1. Gnu
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    New post, ya boo sucks, I preferred the old one 😉
    Come on Dzeko.

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  2. Dynamic
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Come on Silva, Dzeko, Brown, Rooney and De Gea <3

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    1. everyday, i'm shufflin…
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      +1 .. I'm waiting for team news with Dzeko in starting line-up.

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      1. The Red Viper
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Waiting for news that Dzeko has scored a hat trick. 😉

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        1. tezzaboy7
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          14 years, 4 months ago

          Waiting for news that Dzeko is benched. Then doesnt come on.

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          1. Tim Cahill
            • 14 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            No 1 min for Dzeko would be nice, just so people dont get there subs score

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            1. tezzaboy7
              • 15 Years
              14 years, 4 months ago

              I am one of those people tho.... Altho all those that have him captained would be bitterly disappointed.

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  3. njfsdkffslkf
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Cool cool no VDV. Just lovely.

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    1. applebonkers
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      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      everyone, and i mean everyone warned you off him this week

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      1. njfsdkffslkf
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        I know I know

        Prob too many gambles. And finding him saying "i am fit to play and expect to play v Liverpool this week" made me want him when i saw it in BBC article

        Just hope Suarez does nothing now. Wants this week over already.

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        1. The Finnisher
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Brilliant, could be 9.5 come the end of the week 😉

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  4. applebonkers
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    as each week goes by with him in the side kranjcar gets more tempting

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    1. beslowbowler
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      +1

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    2. The Rock
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      What's the story with Lennon?

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      1. applebonkers
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        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        no idea, not even on the bench today. kranjcar is 6 mil i think too

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  5. The Red Viper
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Dzeko(c), Rooney, Young, Nasri and Jose Enrique! C'mon!!! 😀

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  6. Gnu
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Jamie Redknapp talking up the Bale/Skrtel match up, is Skrtel playing RB then?

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    1. Hated, Adored but never Ign…
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Him or Carra. Carragher has played there before so I would say it is more likely to be him.

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    2. CFCTom
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Yes

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    3. The Red Viper
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Bale is playing on the right wing, cutting in. Skrtel is LB.

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      1. Gnu
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        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Eh, I don't think so. Are you forgetting about Enrique?

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        1. The Red Viper
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          My mistake 😀 I meant to say Jose...and i even have him in my team.

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      2. CFCTom
        • 14 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Wrong.

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    4. applebonkers
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      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      he's played there for the last 2 games

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  7. Chairboy
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Enrique, Silva, Young, Roonster, Kompany and Mata all on display today and 33 already in the bank - nice!!

    Think Jarvis come to the end of his useful for me - passenger in an otherwise decent FL tam.

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  8. A-Team
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Not sure I can see a scenario where Adebayor, Assou-Ekotto, Agger, & Adam all score good points in this game, but I can dream...

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    1. ColeHole
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      I hope you win FPL.

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    2. applebonkers
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      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      1-1 adebayor goal from an assou ekotto cross and agger header from an adam corner

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    3. 1966 was a great year for E…
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Love your work. Have you got a real team as well?

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      1. A-Team
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Yep,

        http://fantasy.premierleague.com/entry/56258/event-history/5/

        😉

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        1. 1966 was a great year for E…
          • 15 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Traore benched? Village 😉

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        2. The Red Viper
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          QPR overload! 😮

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  9. alfast1c
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Kompany, A.Cole, Brown, Silva, Rooney(c), Dzeko, Suarez! CMON!

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  10. The Red Viper
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    I swear if this is the week Sessegnon scores. I will snap!

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    1. beslowbowler
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      If not this week he'll do it next week 🙂

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    2. Cheggers
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Im gona bet on him scoring today

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  11. Chazza
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Wow. I'm loving the look of a balanced team with coverage from all the top sides (bar Tottenham but I'm not too worried about them running riot) but it throws a huge spanner in the works when a big team runs riot each week (obviously e.g. United and City thus far).

    Anyone think it's worth having just one attacking player from Arsenal, Chelsea, United, City, Liverpool or rather double up on United/City ?

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    1. Chazza
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Ooh if VDV drops to 9.5 then Mata -> VDV = I have some kind of coverage from all of the 'big 6' :). Hmm, intriguing indeed.

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  12. Andy1
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Which is the best wildcard tem:

    Given Vorm
    Enrique Kompany Smalling De Laet Simpson
    Silva Mata VDV Dyer Moses
    Rooney Suarez Best

    or

    Given Vorm
    Enrique Kompany Smalling Bosingwa Simpson
    Silva Mata Barton Sinclair Moses
    Rooney Suarez Yakubu

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    1. Andy1
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Or

      Given Vorm
      Enrique Kompany Smalling Bosingwa Simpson
      Silva Mata Arteta Dyer Moses
      Rooney Suarez Best

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      1. gledy
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Best, Dyer, Moses, Arteta... Really??

        And even Mata and Suarez are not certain of returns according to value.

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        1. Andy1
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Who would you suggest instead?

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          1. gledy
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            The likes of SWP, Petrov, Walters, Agbonlahor.

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    2. gledy
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Neither, but with B you get to play an extra player, considering how fat Yakubu is.

      BTW I don't think anyone should go without either Aguero or Dzeko. Especially Aguero is someone who could easily score 25+ and assist some 10 as well.

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  13. Demí
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Holy shit.

    What.a.goal.

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  14. exammy
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Sigh, league leader has modric

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  15. mo3000
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    class goal, Modric. Doubt he'll do it again though.

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  16. Kostja
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    gd damn!!! 😀

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  17. denial
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    What a goal Luka!!!

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  18. Portsmouth Bubblejet
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Get well soon Maarten Stekelenburg, who came off second best yesterday when that clumsy oaf Lucio left his foot in during the Roma-Inter match. Ouch.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiaJuD-EfV0

    The former Ajax keeper was knocked out cold and carried straight off to hospital, but fortunately may have avoided serious injury. It didn't look good at the time though:

    http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/maarten-stekelenburg/nach-lucio-unfall-da-war-nur-dunkelheit-20021230.bild.html

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    1. Anorak
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      Ouch indeed. Didn't look particularly malicious though.

      The youtube doesn't show it, but it would be typical Lucio to have still been rolling around on the floor afterwards anyway. Definitely from the Didier Drogba school of blouse wearers.

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  19. cucumber
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    what a goal.

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  20. FPL Daniel
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    That would have been Chelsea goal

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    1. denial
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      eh?

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    2. shivamutd
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      lol

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    3. CFCTom
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      We should have signed that Modric fella'.

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      1. King Eric, in America
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Sad state of affairs for you lot when a guy who scores once in five matches is a 'should have signed' 🙂

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        1. CFCTom
          • 14 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          Yeah, thats right, we only waned Modric for his goals...
          Sad state of affairs indeed. 'You lot'? Bit of a tribalistic phrase for someone who is essentially an armchair/plastic Manure fan- and therefore a glory supporter.

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          1. King Eric, in America
            • 15 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            You saw the :), right?

            Possibly you understand the intended humor?

            Wow, you are a sensitive bare-nerve today, aren't you? 'You lot' is just shorthand for Chelsea Supporters - take it down a notch, son.

            FYI: the 'plastic' fan thing is the last, desperate vestige of a weak argument.

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  21. Hate that rotation
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Crap, Suarez gonna score coz Carroll is starting. I sold him for Odem. What a mistake.

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  22. Anorak
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Luka - I love you

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  23. Drip Doctor
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    WOW

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  24. Test Eagles
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Enrique... where?

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  25. King Eric, in America
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Is Jamsie around?

    I'm wondering if he'd fancy a Gentleman's Bet on the match later ...

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    1. Akers
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      See if he'll have a gravatar bet. If you lose you have to change your grav to a Chelsea crest and in Jamsie P loses he has to don a United crest for a week.

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      1. King Eric, in America
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 4 months ago

        Those were the sort of things I was thinking of for the bet ... except I was perhaps looking to negotiate a ban on his '12th Man' drivel for the season ... a community service on my part if Utd wins 🙂

        He'd also have to promise not to shift accounts/identities for the week, as well.

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        1. Akers
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          "12th Man drivel"

          Yes, this!

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        2. jamsiep
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 4 months ago

          I prefer the gravatar idea.

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          1. Akers
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            Can't bear the thought of not being able to make those little comments?

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            1. jamsiep
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              14 years, 4 months ago

              Indeed.

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          2. King Eric, in America
            • 15 Years
            14 years, 4 months ago

            Heya James ... won't bite on the 12th man? 🙂

            Alrighty then, whoever loses has a grav change to the other's club, until next Sunday?

            And, as this is a Gentleman's Bet, can we stipulate that we won't play bad call/card/ref/offside goal etc. games? Just a straight up, whoever loses the game switches grav?

            After the Cheggers/FPL opening affair, I'm a bit leery - so no disrespect intended by the specificity of the bet. 😀

            Let me know if that sounds amenable to you - it'll add more spice to an already tasty match --

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            1. Akers
              • 16 Years
              14 years, 4 months ago

              "the Cheggers/FPL opening affair"

              Not aware of this incident, please elaborate.

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              1. King Eric, in America
                • 15 Years
                14 years, 4 months ago

                I have it buggu'd somewhere, but the upshot is:

                When we were all waiting for FPL to open, Cheggers came on about 7-8 p.m.-ish my time (EST) and stated that he 'guarantees' that the game would not open 'tomorrow'.

                He stated that if it did, he would announce that Rooney was his favorite player, or somesuch.

                The game - of course - then opened about 20 minutes later. I asked him to make good on his guarantee, and he played semantic games with 'tomorrow' ... I called him on it and said he lacked integrity - to which he agreed. So he deserves credit for candor, I guess.

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    2. CFCTom
      • 14 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      All irrelevant. Chelsea WILL win.

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  26. Tim Cahill
    • 14 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Adam yellow

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  27. Demí
    • 15 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    I remember a bet before the season which was, Charlie Adam to get more Yellow cards than Goals.

    Should've taken it

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    1. Chazza
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      That seemed quite likely before the season started! What kinda odds were on that?!

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  28. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Suarez is a lairy git isn't he.
    Adam with obligatory yellow card, I see.

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  29. sinusoidal
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 4 months ago

    Eurgh. Not an ideal start, suarez second half hat trick to return the natural equilibrium.

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  30. Duckbill
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    14 years, 4 months ago

    nooooo could have done with that goal

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    1. Akers
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 4 months ago

      I knew it was offside.

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