Dugout Discussion
3 January 2018 4961 comments
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The penultimate fixture of the packed festive schedule gets underway at 7.45pm as Arsenal and Chelsea go head-to-head at the Emirates.

For the hosts, Alexis Sanchez has upped his output in recent weeks – after a slow start to the season, last term’s top scoring player in Fantasy Premier League has delivered points in seven of his last 10 league appearances.

That form suggest that the Chilean is likely to pose the main danger to a defence that’s conceded just four times in their previous 11.

Nonetheless, it’s Alexandre Lacazette who is the Gunners’ most captained player for Gameweek 22, handed the armband by 2.02%.

The Frenchman has been a consistent source of points at home, producing a goal or assist in seven of his 10 appearances, but he’s struggled for a cutting edge of late and failed to find the net since Gameweek 15.

A return to form could reignite interest in Lacazette ahead of four kind fixtures (bou CRY swa EVE) in as many Gameweeks.

Despite a run of two goals in the last nine Gameweeks, Chelsea’s Alvaro Morata (3.7%) is the top armband pick for this fixture.

That lack of form means that the Spaniard and team-mate Eden Hazard were among the top five most transferred out players for Gameweek 22, sent packing by 243,000+ and 207,000+ respectively.

Hazard has mustered just a single assist in five yet both he and Morata also have some decent fixtures ahead to arrest their recent declines – over the next five Gameweeks, Antonio Conte’s side host Leicester, Bournemouth and West Brom and also make their way to Brighton and Watford.

Encouragingly for Hazard’s owners, he looks set to return to a central role with the visitors rolling out a 3-5-1-1 formation.

The Gunners, meanwhile, welcome back Mesut Ozil from a minor knee problem, though injuries in defence means that Arsene Wenger is forced to field the likes of Calum Chambers, Rob Holding and Ainsley Maitland-Niles in his starting line-up.

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  1. Darth_Krid
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Two WOW moments in the space of 5 minutes,

    1. Evil Genius
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      One wow, one urgh.

      1. Darth_Krid
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 11 months ago

        I sold Morata for Aguero and have double Chelsea defence this week. Mightily relieved so far!

    2. Dr. DOOM
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      *LOL

  2. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Well done Chelsea defence non owners, no chance of a CS here.

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

    lmao the drama, no way that was a pen they didnt even touch him

  4. Jam0sh
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Double Chelsea clean sheet still alive

  5. FPL ZB
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    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    That save is world class

    1. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Great save alright

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

    I am getting ready for all the azaaaard posts, Cannae wait!

  7. Fred54
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Game's peaked too soon.

  8. Haggis
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    What is that chant?

  9. Differentiator
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Morata is a joke

  10. Sandy Ravage
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Hazard is currently making Sanchez look like a viable FPL pick

  11. Tcheco
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Morata will score today. Patience, owners

    1. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      can't see it

  12. Jack Burton
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    not a good game for having mustafi and azpi cracking game though

  13. Podge
    • 14 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Has Morata been on the Benylin or something ?
    Fell over himself there : lol:

  14. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Maitland Niles looking great any chance he keeps Kolasinic out of the team?

  15. Dušan Citizen
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    I think I will just sell Hazard and get Alonso.

    Plays more forward and gets more points for CS than him.

    1. ILOVEBAPS
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Same

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Get both Alonso & Christensen & ditch Haz

    3. walkman666
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      I did that last week, so far, so good, but I have 70 minutes of fearing a hazard goal in lieu of my coutinho blank and 1 point of the bench. I would rather be in your shoes right now!

    4. La Roja
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Is this something you just had recently discovered about Alonso?

  16. Dr. DOOM
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    AT Least its not boring

  17. Toothless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Maitland-Niles is looking energetic, apparently he is in 0.0% of FPL teams.

    1. SuperMane Returns
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Differential?

    2. Sandy Ravage
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      shame he's not classified as a defender

  18. aborg
    • 8 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Morata just vindicated my decision if selling him off last week! He is totally shit!

    1. aborg
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Of*

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      That miss earlier wtf

      1. aborg
        • 8 Years
        7 years, 11 months ago

        Exactly....how could you miss that?!? Even a defender would have scored there

  19. pakornk
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Points should be given every time Morata falls down.

  20. Rainer
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    MN is a talent

  21. Jar Jar Winks
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    same old cheating arsenal

  22. Bubz
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Pin the tail on the Morata

    1. Rainer
      • 9 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Do it quick before he falls over

  23. La Roja
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Maitland-Niles = Zaha

    1. Team Cruel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Racist

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

      Who is Maitland-Niles?? I mean I see him but who the fck is he, I thought it was Iwobi for the first 5 minutes LOL

  24. Forever In Our Shadow
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    What a great game so far. Can enjoy as I have no one playing in it. 8)

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      How does that work when so many own them?

    2. HamezMace
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Arsenal always entertaining, the Liverpool game was the best I’ve seen in years

    3. Patch
      • 8 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Oh daddy pig there are at least 3 goals in this game

  25. The Bandit
    • 15 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Sanchez has passed to M-N more times in 20 minutes than to Kola all season

  26. HamezMace
    • 11 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Why isn’t matlands-Nile’s getting booked there for the dive?

    1. Ravager
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Did they even protest?

      1. HamezMace
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 11 months ago

        He clearly gestures towards the referee

    2. ☆Khaz
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Wasn't a dive.

      1. HamezMace
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 11 months ago

        He wasn’t fouled, and clearly looks to the referee asking for the penalty.

    3. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      I think he just tripped over himself.

      1. HamezMace
        • 11 Years
        7 years, 11 months ago

        He did, kicked his own back leg

  27. pakornk
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    It's like Morata competing how crap he and the Arsenal defence can be.

  28. Granville
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 16 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Morata looks really rusty tonight

    1. Podge
      • 14 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Looks drunk

    2. Jam0sh
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Yep

    3. HamezMace
      • 11 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Looks like a guy who’s used to spending this week on a beach in Dubai

    4. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      You are being kind to him

  29. moz_1983
    • 13 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Courtois looking at a couple of save points at this rate.

  30. pakornk
    • 9 Years
    7 years, 11 months ago

    Adrian and Fabianksi rotate well?

    1. George Sillett
      • 10 Years
      7 years, 11 months ago

      Certainly do every time they pick the ball out of the net.