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Dugout Discussion April 13

Lukaku leads the Man United line as Rashford benched

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Romelu Lukaku (£10.8m) has the potential to turn around what has proved to be a rotten Double Gameweek 34 so far, but only for a selection of managers.

The Manchester United striker, owned by just 4.4% overall, has kept his place in the side after disappointment against Barcelona midweek.

With more shots on target than any other player in their last four Premier League matches, he is chasing his 10th goal against West Ham in his 11th match against them in this competition.

His power as a differential option in Double Gameweek 34 has been made stronger by the fact that Marcus Rashford (£7.4m) has been named on the bench in order to keep him fresh for next week’s Champions League second leg.

He is joined among the substitutes by centre-back Victor Lindelöf (£5.0m), Phil Jones (£5.1m) coming in for him.

With Luke Shaw (£5.0m) suspended Marcos Rojo (£4.9m) starts at left-back, with Diogo Dalot (£5.3m) filling in for the banned Ashley Young (£5.7m) on the right.

Former Manchester United forward Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernandez (£6.1m) leads the West Ham attack today with Marko Arnautovic (£6.8m) missing out thanks to an illness.

Man United XI: De Gea, Dalot, Jones, Smalling, Rojo, Fred, Pogba, Mata, Lingard, Lukaku, Martial

West Ham XI: Fabianski, Zabaleta, Ogbonna, Balbuana, Masuaku, Rice, Noble, Lanzini, Anderson, Snodgrass, Hernandez

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  1. FPL Pillars
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    Lol @ all of us

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

      Worthy top comment, sums it up.

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    2. Naboo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Ban

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  2. LǝgleSs e|even
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    DDG and Hazard, both deserve to be with better teams. I hope at the end of the season they succeed with their moves away.

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    1. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Ditto the best player in the team you support.

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  3. The Tinkerman
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    0 pts for all of my defenders.

    Robbo on the bench. Peppering my angus.

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    1. Peter Ouch
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Why on earth did you bench Robbo

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      1. Whats the Huth
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Chelsea

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        1. Peter Ouch
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Best full back in the league, 9 assists

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          1. Whats the Huth
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            I know. I started him.
            Benched TAA

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          2. Amey
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Best fpl asset this year*

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            1. The Tinkerman
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Agreed.

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          3. The Tinkerman
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Don’t disagree but Brighton players and Doherty looked more appealing on paper, particularly with Haz form. For me it came down to Robbo vs. Deeney. Went for the attacker.

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            1. Peter Ouch
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 5 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              I wouldn't say that doh looked promising.
              South in a good run and wolves fail to keep cs all year.
              Didn't include any wolves def in my wc, probably the only good thing I did haha

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

                It's great to have hindsight isnt it?

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                1. Naboo
                  • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                  • 11 Years
                  5 years, 1 month ago

                  Tbf I agree that any Liv def better than wolves this week. I put taa ahead of Doherty in my team east decision imo

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      2. The Tinkerman
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Tough fixture, 2 of my back 3 have a DGW and the other was Doherty, playing Southampton.

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        1. Whats the Huth
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          DGW blindness

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          1. The Tinkerman
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Easier with hindsight, but yes. I saw Hazard playing his best football in years and didn’t fancy a pool cleanie, BHA had Bournemouth first, who seemed to be on the beach and then Cardiff. I now assume I will be wrong about all of those assumptions.

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

              That Bournemouth score is simply out of prediction. It's the same team who lose only 0-1 against ManC

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        2. The Tinkerman
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          It was Robbo or Deeney, I went for Deeney. Still fancy him vs that ARS defence.

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          1. Naboo
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 11 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Should have been Robbo vs Doherty. And Robbo should have really won out, any week

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    2. F_Ivanovic
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah benching Robbo was crazy.... Liverpool had better CS odds than Wolves did against Southampton + has similar/slightly better attacking threat than Doherty.

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      1. F_Ivanovic
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        fwiw I played both TAA and Robertson - hope I'm rewarded with that decision but wouldn't surprise me if I'm not!

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    3. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Robbo has more points than any forward.

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  4. bitm2007
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    19 points on WC, after getting rid of Pogba, Fanderson, Rondon and Frasar, with Salah, Mane, Robertson, Hazard, Luiz, AWB, Calvert-Lewin and Foster from last weeks squad still to play, I would have been on for a bumper score.

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  5. toystory2wasok
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 1 month ago

    the point of DGWs is to play the odds by having 2 games instead of 1. or in the case of brighton, 4 games instead of 2. a failure 1 week does not make the WC a failure. you have 3 more goes.

    ideally we would have got 4x 6pts but that seemed fairly unlikely.

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    1. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      we go again!

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    2. MTPockets
        5 years, 1 month ago

        indeed

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      • Whats the Huth
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        It’s Brighton mate

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      • George Sillett
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Problem is though 4x shite as opposed to 1 X shite.

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        1. Gnu
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Some game and win for your boys today.

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          1. George Sillett
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            What a match that was . Still outside chance of the playoffs .
            PUSB

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            1. Gnu
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 14 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Defences on top then 🙂

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        2. toystory2wasok
          • 10 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          right but they’re cheap with it, so the rest of my team is also stocked with premium players who play twice next week, that i wouldn’t have been able to afford if i’d stuck with my premium SGW defenders

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      • Rash
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        My Brighton boys wont be around to see games 3 and 4

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      • Hotdogs for Tea
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Avoiding trash is also useful, no matter how many games they have 😉

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    3. BooYaKasha
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      What a WC horror show

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    4. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Top 10k average hits 20!

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      1. EMBOLOFAN
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        pre or post baps?

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        1. how now brown cow
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Post

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      2. The Tinkerman
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        On 21pts, I’ll take it 😀

        After 7 players and captain 🙁

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    5. EMBOLOFAN
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      rash close...anyone else got him?

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      1. Whats the Huth
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Me

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        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          believe

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    6. Top Lad Dakes.
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Good chance for Rash there

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    7. Niho992
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 1 month ago

      Fraud Solskjaer plays more defensively than Mourinho did.

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      1. MTPockets
          5 years, 1 month ago

          nostalgia pick

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          1. Niho992
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            He s going to be sacked before new year.

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      2. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        My captain is a 6ft 4 striker whos strengths are heading and scoring tap ins... He's playing rw.

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        1. LǝgleSs e|even
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Lukaku?

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        2. The Ejiptian King
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          He also doesn't seem to be able to make a 5 yard pass.

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          1. Tsparkes10
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            He's so bad.

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        3. MrZ
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          He's been playing there before & shone there. Not this time

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          1. Tsparkes10
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Awful. Martial just as bad

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        4. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          OOP 😉

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          1. Rash
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            POO

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      3. Fpl Richie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Are either of Mariappa or Kiko likely to play both of the doubles?
        Just sizing up a Valery replacement just in case and lack funds.

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        1. WannabeScout
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I think carhart will be nailed

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        2. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Mariappa of the two, with Janmaat about.

          Holebas might be out for longer than just this GW, I'd hold till Friday and maybe look at Masina if you can.

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          1. Fpl Richie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            0.1 itb. Can only afford 4.2.
            Bednarek is another option but I have Gunn.

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      4. Bubz
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Could really do with a Rashy goal

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        1. Whats the Huth
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I’ll celebrate wildly

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      5. WannabeScout
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        This has quickly turned into a support group with all the Pre WC players stepping up and Brighton defense goin to crap

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        1. Whats the Huth
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Always been crap let’s be honest

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          1. WannabeScout
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Someone summed it up nicely up top "you don't pick up trash no matter how many games they play" lol so true

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      6. WVA
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        34 with Salah Hazard TAA and Ryan to go, may scrape into top 10k at this rate.

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        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Well done bro !!

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        2. Whats the Huth
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Well done. I’m on 38 now. With salah. Hazard. Robo to go.
          Pogba and rashy in this game.

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        3. WannabeScout
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          49 with Ryan, Duffy,Laporte, Salah, camarasa and deeney

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        4. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          might go top 100

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      7. XabiAlonso
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Oh why do I have 3 Brighton players in my team
        😆

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        1. WannabeScout
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          When u say it out loud it does sound silly eh?

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        2. Fpl Richie
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Death or glory

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      8. Poseidon.
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Some of these tackles... bit of protection would be nice ref

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      9. Nightf0x
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Siggy vardy -4 to

        A) fraser jota redmond
        B) wilson laca deney firmino

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        1. BooYaKasha
          • 12 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Knee jerk royale

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      10. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        United probably on track to losing more money by having to sack managers and pay out their contract compensation.

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        1. Marvin of all he surveys
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          They were mad to make any decision before the summer in my opinion.

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        2. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          soldkjaer can return to his level (not winning the norwegian league)

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      11. Rik Waller
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Anyone who forgot to trigger the WC on Friday will be laughing.

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        1. Whats the Huth
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          But -54 though

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          1. Rik Waller
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            I mean the people who left it to last min to do it. I almost forgot myself and had to blast out a WC team in an hour before heading out on friday. Hadn't even looked til then

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        2. BigBillyBass
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          What’s the benefit of waiting til the last minute to activate your wildcard?

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          1. Amey
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            You can help in price rise/falls with the transfers

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          2. F_Ivanovic
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Help towards the price rises of the players you bring in by a miniscule amount.

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          3. BigBillyBass
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Gotcha thanks

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        3. We Will Klopp you
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Doubt they'd still have all their bgw players, they'd have ditched them for dgw players and be on a crazy number of point hits. So yes they would be laughing... Laughing uncontrollably as they descend into madness, that is.

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      12. Shultan
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Just got home & checked the
        Fraser & Wilson who i sold on WC 31 points my 8 new WC players including 13 points

        Lol at me with triple brighton defence

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        1. WannabeScout
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          You along with many others so.... Don't feel too bad

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      13. Niho992
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Are you going for BOU assets next GW or players with DGWs?

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        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          not making kneejerk unplanned transfers after a wc no

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          1. Niho992
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Me too.

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        2. We Will Klopp you
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          If you've found a working delorean, I call dibs.

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      14. The Tinkerman
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        How bad did Valery injury look?

        I’d rather sell Dunk than him this week.

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        1. EMBOLOFAN
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          he’s fine was cramp or something

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          1. Marvin of all he surveys
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Benchwankers cramp?

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        2. Amey
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          One complete week 🙂
          Hopefully he'll be fine. Don't wanna use FT on him

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        3. HollywoodXI
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          I was at the match. He took a tough tackle, stayed on but was taken off shortly afterwards as a precaution. He wanted off unaided, not in pain and high fived all his team mates before taking his seat on the bench (where no ice packs etc were applied). He’s fine.

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          1. The Tinkerman
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Good stuff, cheers. Dunk to a cheapie like Bednarek I think.

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          2. Fpl Richie
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 8 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Cheers Hollywood - that's good news

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      15. Longlatini
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Come on Leeds!

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        1. XabiAlonso
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Bukake?

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          1. Top Lad Dakes.
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Oi

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          2. Longlatini
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 1 month ago

            Had to Google it but yes!

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            1. Marvin of all he surveys
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 1 month ago

              Oh go on you liar.

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              1. Longlatini
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 6 Years
                5 years, 1 month ago

                😉

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      16. LǝgleSs e|even
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Chicharito unhappy he cant stay on the pitch against his old team

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      17. Emiliano Sala
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        No one talking about the game lol

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        1. Top Lad Dakes.
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Disappointing

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        2. LǝgleSs e|even
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          Oi!

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      18. Iceball
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        11 points from 7 with 7 to go, ouch...

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      19. Albrightondknight
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        It's like the ghost of FPL past.

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      20. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        Lukaku Capt fail

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        1. Tsparkes10
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          If only I knew he was playing rw 🙁

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      21. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 1 month ago

        DUFFY (c)
        Dunk
        Ryan

        I’d have never forgiven myself if I hadn’t gone for it. It was a good opportunity

        Good luck all

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        1. Richd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          11 points with 8 and Duffy captain to go

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        2. F_Ivanovic
          • 8 Years
          5 years, 1 month ago

          There's going for it and then there's just madness. Even if they pick up a CS next week you still have to waste a transfer on a brighton defender/GK now most likely.

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