Fantasy Premier League Focus – Gameweek 4
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A Gameweek 4 average of 40 points, with Robin Van Persie returning a two point armband haul, sums up the type of weekend many of us have just endured. Let’s quickly draw a line under it, then, as we review the Scout League leaders and analyse the current transfer patterns ahead of next Saturday’s deadline:
Scout League Standings
Renoir Buffon is the new leader of the Scout League after racking up 47 points in the previous Gameweek. His decision to draft in Dimitar Berbatov for a four point hit paid off and slightly made up for Robin Van Persie’s two point captaincy return, while the likes of Jussi Jaaskelainen, Steven Pienaar and Carlos Tevez all chipped in with attacking points as Renoir moved to 11th in the overall rankings.
Asriel Chen had a bit of a miserable week. The previous world number one accrued just 28 points, with only three players – Tevez, Branislav Ivanovic and Mark Noble producing the goods. Asriel still sits second in the Scout League and 28th overall. Dave Fitzgibbon is a new entry at number three after accumulating 54 points. A strong defence, which includes Ivanovic, Rafael and Kyle Walker racked up two clean sheets and an assist, which Santi Cazorla, Jermain Defoe and captain Carlos Tevez were his main protagonists as he moves up to 33rd overall.
Andy Fox sits in fourth, with 58 points accrued – the most of our top five this Gameweek. Doubling up on the Chelsea defence, with Ivanovic and Petr Cech, proved a masterstroke, while Kieran Gibbs and Rafael also picked up points at the back. Further up the field, Pienaar, captain Cazorla and Tevez provided four assists between them.
Nick Morley makes up the top five. The third of our featured players not to have Van Persie amongst his ranks, Nick had Chelsea duo Ivanovic and Ashley Cole to thank for 14 points in defence, while Kieran Gibbs and Asmir Begovic also chipped in with 13 between them. Jermain Defoe and Carlos Tevez were the men to do the damage up top as his team returned 56 points – enough to earn him 55th spot overall.
For the Contributors, Big Dunc holds steady at the top after a 41 point haul. Rafael, Ivanovic and Guy Demel produced clean sheets at the back, while Pienaar, Cazorla and Tevez all produced assists.
The Market Trends
It’s no surprise to see Dimitar Berbatov lead the way for transfers in after his brace against West Brom last Saturday. The Bulgarian has already risen twice in price to 7.1 after 70,000 Fantasy managers snapped up his services. West Ham pair Jussi Jaaskelainen and Winston Reid have been acquired by a combined 75,000 new owners after the Hammers registered their third clean sheet in the opening four Gameweeks – with (SUN, qpr, SOT, wig) amongst their next five, Sam Allardyce’s side have every chance of maintaining their defensive resolve.
Arsenal trio Kieran Gibbs (29,000), Santi Cazorla (20,000) and Lukas Podolski (31,000) have also seen a rise in ownership after picking up the points last weekend, while elsewhere in north London, Jermain Defoe’s brace at Reading has enticed 27,000 Fantasy managers to take a punt on his services ahead of (QPR, AVL, sot, WIG) in the next six Gameweeks.
Alexander Buttner and Alex Kacaniklic have been drafted in by 16,000 and 23,000 respectively, though question marks hang heavy over their first-team prospects for United and Fulham – rotation looks likely to affect both players. With three goals in his first two matches for Sunderland, Steven Fletcher has acquired 19,000 new suitors; priced at 7.0, he offers a strong mid-price option for our front three.
Mladen Petric has been the most offloaded player thus far – 37,000 have moved on the Fulham forward, with a transfer to Berbatov the most obvious one here. The Newcastle defence has been deserted in their droves – injuries to Tim Krul and Danny Simpson has seen a combined 40,000 managers jump ship, while Fabricio Coloccini has also been sold on by nearly 12,000.
David De Gea’s owners have had enough. Benched for both United’s last two games, he has dropped in price since the weekend, having been transferred out by 23,000 – the cut-price security offered by the likes of Jaaskelainen frees up plenty cash for investment elsewhere. Shinji Kagawa has also seen something of an exodus – his failure to feature in the win over Wigan saw 18,000 move on the Japanese midfielder. Fernando Torres has also seen a loss of faith; a blank at QPR convinced 20,000 to part company with the Chelsea forward, though with home clashes against Stoke and Norwich in the next three, he could well be set to capitalise.
**We’ve rolled out this article a second time around due to some technical gremlins earlier. Apologies for any inconvenience.
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September 18 at 6:59 pm
Maximerized- Feel Free To Join This FPL League @ 401-764. FPL League "Only" For Indian Posters- 401-53820. UCL League- 1209439-421151 says:
Man City-
Hart, Maicon, Kompany(C), Clichy, Nastasić, Nasri, Javi García, Barry, Silva, Y. Touré, Tévez
September 18 at 7:03 pm
Scratch says:
Tevez lone striker doesn’t bode well for FPL
September 18 at 6:59 pm
The Parmtree says:
Real Madrid: Casillas, Varane, Pepe, Marcelo, Arbeloa, Khedira, Alonso, Essien, Di María, Ronaldo, Higuaín SUBS: Adán, Ramos, Coentrão, Kaká, Özil, Modrić, Benzema.
September 18 at 7:02 pm
Daniel says:
Essien oooohh myyy goddd
September 18 at 7:02 pm
Just_Ty says:
what a bench!
September 18 at 7:02 pm
Daniel says:
what the f is jose doing
September 18 at 7:06 pm
mo says:
He thinks city will tire like they did in the second halves during the start of the season. Plus he loves throwing a spanner into the works
September 18 at 7:15 pm
Munsoned says:
lol, that guy has not used a spanner in his entire life
September 18 at 7:09 pm
chuiku2 - Join my UCL Fantasy Mini-League Code: 167750-421493 says:
The special one teaching a lesson to whoever opposes him by putting them on the bench
September 18 at 6:59 pm
ManTree(v2!) or just JAY! says:
Hi all
This is my team after a wildcard in GW3.
I am considering Bale in for Cazorla for my free transfer this week- opinions?
Foster
Baines, Davies, Demel,
Hazard, Cazorla, Michu, Yaya Toure,
Tevez, RVP, Fletcher
Subs: Begovic, Guthrie, Cuellar, Gorkks
Thank you
September 18 at 6:59 pm
The Beard says:
Looks like im going to have to just sit with 2 non starters. Pastore (c) uh oh …
September 18 at 7:00 pm
Mr. Paul With the ICE-CREAM says:
COUNTLESS REFRESHES
September 18 at 7:00 pm
bdwhite91 says:
City XI
Hart, Maicon, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Silva, Yaya, Tevez, Balotelli
September 18 at 7:04 pm
Eunuch Jelly says:
Looks good for Zabaletta this weekend surely?
September 18 at 7:05 pm
bdwhite91 says:
Now that I got rid of him, yes.
September 18 at 7:00 pm
Snake Juice says:
Picking Acerbi was always going to be a ridiculous move. Who started the movement?
September 18 at 7:02 pm
JKisthe1 - Los Colchoneros 2 - The Revenge says:
Milanista
In fairness he started at the weekend, and it was Milanista who put us on to Nocerino last year
September 18 at 7:02 pm
Pratik - Tottenham under AVB are simply 50 shades of fecked up!!! says:
To be honest, Milanista’s recommendations in the past worked out really well – Nocerino last year.
And he did say it was a punt, not a guaranteed starter. No (or only partial) blame attached to him.
September 18 at 7:04 pm
Daniel says:
but i have money to upgrade him. i have 1m. f.ikng site
September 18 at 7:05 pm
isacki - losing makes winning sweeter says:
Milanista, but A) it’s UCL so I’m not too bothered and B) at least it was just a 4.5 defender.
September 18 at 7:00 pm
kurbalija1820 says:
wtf is this shit why cant I log in, stupid uefa
September 18 at 7:01 pm
Bemba Da says:
NEW POST
September 18 at 7:01 pm
Berba Djerbil (aka) Calcio Catania says:
excuse Me sirs’..
This is Uefa.com’s RM team:
Cassilas, RAMOS, Pepe, Arbeloa, Coentrao, Khedira, Alonso, Modric, Di maria, Ronaldo, Higuain
September 18 at 7:01 pm
fatherted says:
Anyone actually logged in??
To Euro that is
September 18 at 7:01 pm
The Parmtree says:
Ramos now in the team on the UEFA site?
September 18 at 7:02 pm
RafaMC says:
UEFA Site = Bunch of muppets.
September 18 at 7:02 pm
The Red Viper says:
Only change I really wanted to make was Uchida to Gibbs, so this isn’t too bad. I have faith in Reus (C)
September 18 at 7:02 pm
Maximerized- Feel Free To Join This FPL League @ 401-764. FPL League "Only" For Indian Posters- 401-53820. UCL League- 1209439-421151 says:
This is the correct lineup(UEFA posted a wrong one earlier). Apologies for posting that.
RM-
Casillas(C), Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Fábio Coentrão, Arbeloa, Khedira, Xabi Alonso, Modrić, Di María, Cristiano Ronaldo, Higuaín
Man City-
Hart, Maicon, Kompany(C), Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Silva, Y. Touré, Tévez, Balotelli
September 18 at 7:02 pm
chuiku2 - Join my UCL Fantasy Mini-League Code: 167750-421493 says:
Only Serero from my current team is on the bench…
Rest all starting… Hopefully Ibra will score plenty of goals and then I wont have to change captain to Messi tomorrow…
September 18 at 7:07 pm
Eunuch Jelly says:
I don’t know if Serero is on my team or not. I quicly tried to switch him to Babbel and got to the point where I pressed “confirm”, and then it started churning and came up with page not found. Did the switch happen or not?
September 18 at 7:02 pm
YekiM says:
Let me in!! No team for me then
September 18 at 7:03 pm
Snake Juice says:
Reus hat trick. Book it.
September 18 at 7:06 pm
Le Gooner says:
All lineups:
Dortmund:
Weidenfeller, Subotic, Hummels, Piszczek, Schmelzer, Kehl, Gündocan, Götze, Reus, Bcaszczykowski, Lewandowski.
SUBS: Langerak, Felipe Santana, Bender, Leitner, Grosskreutz, Perišic, Schieber.
Ajax:
Vermeer, Alderweireld, Moisander, Blind, Van Rhijn, Poulsen, Eriksen, De Jong, Sana, Boerrigter, Babel.
SUBS: Cillessen, Veltman, Dijks, Sulejmani, Schøne, Serero, Lukoki.
Dinamo:
Kelava, Šimunic, Tonel, Vida, Calello, Ademi, Sammir, Pivaric, Brozovic, Rukavina, cop
SUBS: Mitrovic, Ibáñez, Vrsaljko, Kovacic, Carrasco, Alispahic, Beqiraj.
Porto:
Helton, Maicon, Miguel Lopes, Alex Sandro, Otamendi, Lucho González, João Moutinho, Defour, Martinez, James Rodríguez, Varela
SUBS: Fabiano, Danilo, Mangala, André Castro, Iturbe, Kléber, Atsu.
Real Madrid:
Casillas, Varane, Pepe, Marcelo, Arbeloa, Khedira, Alonso, Essien, Di María, Ronaldo, Higuaín
SUBS: Adán, Ramos, Coentrão, Kaká, Özil, Modric, Benzema.
Manchester City:
Hart, Maicon, Kompany, Clichy, Nastasic, Nasri, Javi García, Barry, Silva, Yaya Touré, Tévez
SUBS: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Lescott, Kolarov, Rodwell, Džeko, Agüero.
Olympiacos:
Megyeri, Maniatis, Modesto, Machado, Contreras, Holebas, Manolas, Torossidis, Fuster, Abdoun, Djebbour
SUBS: Carroll, Ibagaza, Fejsa, Siovas, Greco, Mitroglou, Diogo.
Schalke:
Unnerstall, Höwedes, Papadopoulos, Fuchs, Matip, Holtby, Jones, Barnetta, Neustädter, Farfán, Huntelaar
SUBS: Fährmann, Uchida, Kolasinac, Afellay, Höger, Draxler, Pukki.
PSG:
Sirigu, Silva, Alex, Maxwell, Jallet, Ménez, Matuidi, Chantôme, Verratti, Pastore, Ibrahimovic
SUBS: Douchez, Camara, Armand, Nenê, Bodmer, Lavezzi, Gameiro.
Dynamo:
Koval, Danilo Silva, Mikhalik, Taiwo, Khacheridi, Veloso, Yarmolenko, Garmash, Kranjcar, Brown, Raffael.
SUBS: Shovkovskiy, Betão, Vukojevic, Gusev, Bogdanov, Ninkovic, Mehmedi.
Montpellier:
Jourdren, Bocaly, Yanga-Mbiwa, Hilton, Bedimo, Estrada, Belhanda, Cabella, Saihi, Mounier, Camara
SUBS Pionnier, Congré, Stambouli, Marveaux, Jeunechamp, Herrera, Aït-Fana
Arsenal:
Mannone, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Diaby, Arteta, Santi Cazorla, Gervinho, Podolski, Giroud
SUBS: Shea, Koscielny, André Santos, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Coquelin
Málaga:
Caballero, Gámez, Weligton, Demichelis, Monreal, Camacho, Joaquín, Eliseu, Isco, Portillo, Saviola
SUBS: Kameni, Sergio Sánchez, Iturra, Duda, Buonanotte, Santa Cruz, Juanmi.
Zenit:
Malafeev, Anyukov, Bruno Alves, Lombaerts, Lukovic, Shirokov, Zyryanov, Fayzulin, Denisov, Kerzhakov, Hulk
SUBS: Zhevnov, Cheminava, Lumb, Bystrov, Bukharov, Djordjevic, Kanunnikov.
AC Milan:
Christian Abbiati , Mattia De Sciglio, Philippe Mexès, Daniele Bonera, Luca Antonini, Antonio Nocerino, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Mathieu Flamini, Urby Emanuelson, Nigel de Jong, Giampaolo Pazzini
SUBS: Marco Amelia, Ignazio Abate, Mario Yepes, Kévin Constant, Massimo Ambrosini, Bojan Krkic, Stephan El Shaarawy.
RSC Anderlecht:
Silvio Proto, Olivier Deschacht, Bram Nuytinck, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Marcin Wasilewski, Lucas Biglia, Sacha Kljestan, Guillaume Gillet, Kanu, Dieudonné Mbokani, Massimo Bruno
SUBS: Thomas Kaminski, Behrang Safari, Roland Juhász, Dennis Praet, Ronald Vargas, Olexandr Yakovenko, Tom De Sutter.
September 18 at 7:08 pm
Scratch says:
Cheers
September 18 at 7:09 pm
pontus says:
Thanks!
September 18 at 7:09 pm
dykeypunk says:
Wow nice one cheers. Now come on uefa get your bloody site up and running.I have Ozil as captain aaaaaaaaargh
September 18 at 7:10 pm
The Beard says:
Good effort *doffs cap*
September 18 at 7:06 pm
megatron x says:
Sharma, sharma, sharma, sharma, sharma, shameleon…. you come and gooo. you comme and go o o oo ooo. dang it, this cricket is gettin to me.
September 18 at 7:07 pm
dykeypunk says:
Come on uefa. I have Ozil as my captain
September 18 at 7:10 pm
bdwhite91 says:
UEFA gave out false info…
Ramos isn’t starting. Tevez is the lone striker with Javi in the hole.
September 18 at 7:11 pm
The Beard says:
Useless
Eejits!
Fooked
Again!
Anyone want to play this game instead
?
September 18 at 7:11 pm
emperikal says:
Thankfully all my players are starting and had my team set or I’d be in shambles right now! Ibra (C) about to get ‘er done.
September 18 at 7:12 pm
bdwhite91 says:
Ugh, I want Garcia now!
September 18 at 7:15 pm
The Beard says:
20 mins until deadline (I think) and still no access, is there some special password, or magic words I need to say?
September 18 at 7:15 pm
Captain Berbarossa - arrrrrrr!!! says:
What a shambles!
September 18 at 7:22 pm
Silly Sausage says:
Still down…ahhh. Berba or Fletcher for the weekend?
September 20 at 10:51 pm
BlueBalls says:
Have I missed something? What happened to petric?