We cast our analytical eye over the weekend’s data after last night’s match at Selhurst Park drew a line under the numbers from Gameweek 8. Plenty of big names impressed – Arsene Wenger’s new playmaker, City’s attacking twosome, a revitalised Belgian’s display at the Bridge and a certain Uruguayan all come under the spotlight…
Ey Jaf. I'm expecting a Baines goal/assist. Definitely no if it's for a hit - if a FT, I'm not sure.
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Nah, free transfer, Don. The bonus is that it frees up 2 mill for an upgrade in midpark to a ramsay or an Oscar.
Open ControlsThat's a plus. Tough choice, can't really make up my mind. The extra cash could be golden, I'm upgrading HBA -> Oscar next week as well.
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With Ramsey's obvious drop in form (disaster yesterday), who do we replace him with? I'm thinking Lallana or Townsend.
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A bit trigger happy today, are we? I agree that yesterday's performance was poor, and I think that the return of Cazorla, and later Walcott, will take some of the attacking responsibility off the young lad's shoulders. But then again that might just be me hoping since I never got on board the bandwagon.
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So many players i want to get in.....but in what order without taking hits and who to get rid of...aarrgghh
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I would focus on players that are rapidly rising in price first as you may have to pay 0.5m more in a few weeks. I wouldn't be in a hurry to get Schurrle, Yaya or Glenda. Hazard and Benteke good options, probably Hazard first after this week is done. Silva has to be a better option now than Yaya, cheaper and far more attacking.
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Should I swap c from Lewandowski to Ronaldo or stick with 16 points!
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hey can any one tell me how to remove a player from a league in ucl fantasy who is admin ???
i m trying what is the processOpen ControlsWith Ramsey's obvious drop in form (disaster yesterday), who do you bring in for him? I'm thinking Lallana or Townsend.
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Just for fun, this is the WC team I had in mind:
Boruc, McGregor
Mert, GJ, Lovren, Rangel, 4.0
Oscar, Michu, Ramsey, Januzaj, Morrison
Aguero, Benteke, Suarez
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Anyone considering Rafael? Brought him in for Collins who was dropping.
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Hows my team looking for this week?
Migs
Vidic - Lovren - Chico
Michu - Ozil - Paulinho - Barkley
Lukaku - Rooney(c) - Suarez
Bench: Lewis - Amilfitano - Coleman - Rosenoir
Still got my FT for this week but don't see any transfers worth using it on. Am i right?Open Controls
Captain Ronaldo or Ibra tonight?
Also is Lopez set to start or will Casillas be in?Open Controls
Buggumark this post, folks:
Giroud will not start this weekend.Open ControlsIt could happen, but I'm not convinced yet.
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Open ControlsNope. Imo Giroud looked a bit knackered last night. For club and country he's played a lot of games of late. I honestly think Bendtner will start, it is only Palace after all.
Captain is a massive gamble, no doubt about it, but I'm feeling quite confident with it.Open ControlsHave you transferred him in? I'm right behind you btw in the Puffinboy league, only 2 pts.
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Even if you are right (1) why is bendtner anywhere near your team in the first place and (2) do you not have a better option in your squad for captain such as Suarez, Sturridge or ozil?
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not a chance
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See youre in agreement with me 🙂
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I bought Alex Ferguson's autobiography.
I thought I'd got to the end but six more pages appeared.
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Any transfers needed this week? Wildcarded last week - took out Rooney, Mirrales, Ramsey..
Vorm (Lewis)
GJ Baines Clyne (Terry Turner)
Janujaz Oscar Michu Lallana (Barkley)
Suarez Sturridge Lukaku
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As Martinez backs up Kone to do well soon, do you think it will impact Lukaku's chance to start?
Ozil - Barkley - Ramsey - Michu
Lukaku - Sturridge - Giroud
Is it worth -4pts to do Lukaku --> Suarez ?Open ControlsNo.
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Morning lads
If you got a spare five minutes I wouldn't mind your thoughts on this
4-3-3
Boruc
Zabs, GJ, Chico, Evra
Ozil,Hazard,Michu
Benteke, Lukaku, Suarez
Subs : Davis, Barkley, Ravel, Rosenior
I've tried to stick with players that are not rotation risks I.e agueroOpen ControlsBench Zab, play Barkley or Ravel.
Open ControlsHandy team. I'm not sure about Hazard. When there's lots of cheaper mids getting the same points, he seems poor value imo. He's done nothing for 7 weeks so I'm not what all the love for him is about.
Prefer to see Giroud upfront too. One Arse seems underdone.Open Controls
Can we quote from the article? 'Cuz I'd like to talk about this:
"...a total of 8 touches in the opposition box was double his previous season average and led to a couple of goals from 3 attempts; given he had managed a total of 5 shots over his first four appearances, the German’s upturn is obvious here."
Is that the conclusion we should make from those stats? I don't want to be a downer, but the way that paragraph read to me was that he's scored at an unsustainable rate from his 3 shots on target, which itself was way more than we could usually expect from him .: we can expect him to be the assist monster we always knew, and not much more for now.
I'm not saying that Ozil won't prove himself to be good value necessarily - just based on a sampling of the last 5 games I'd like to see him manage >1 goal attempt consistently before I dump 10.6m of my budget on him.
tl;dr I don't think an "upturn is obvious" at all from 1 game.Open ControlsIt's a members article so don't think quoting is appropriate
Open ControlsI'll respect it if a mod wants to remove the comment but I think quoting the minimum possible *in the comments section of this very article* is reasonable enough. If we can't talk about it here with other like-minded folk where can we talk about it?
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Ozil's mindset seems to be always give it to a person in a better scoring position. Because of this I would always expect him to have not many shots, and a good conversion ratio.
Open ControlsOzil has a fine conversion ratio. For the season he's on 2 goals from 7 shots on target which is 1G/3.5SoT. The question is; how long is it going to take him to get another 3.5 shots on target? Is he going to keep tallying 3 a game, or is it going to drop back down to less than 1?
Open ControlsI doubt it'll stay as high as 3 per game - as always, this depends a lot on the opposition. I would agree with you when you're not treating the Norwich match as the norm.
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Mornin'!
Any Hull watchers around? when turner's back, who are we expecting to drop out of the side? Rossineor or Faye?Open ControlsYou mean Chester, right? It's likely to be Rosenior who drops out.
Open ControlsD'oh. Yes I meant Chester. Sorry
Already have Chester but may need to dip into the Hull defence to fix my boneheaded purchase of Ben Davies.
Has to be a nailed on Hull'er or Jonas Olsen @ Norwich (he has played the last three, they have a decent run til Jan WC and he's 4.2m)Open ControlsOlsen's a fair shout - or go sideways and get a Swansea replacement.
Open ControlsYeah, could do that too
Would just require an extra hit (to free up cash for Lukaku>Benteke)
I don't mind taking hits on points-scorers, but I'm not expecting a great deal from any of the über's
Serves me right for not checking Davies' injury outOpen ControlsIf you're hell bent on Lukaku to Benteke then you should really take the risk on the cheap defender. Olsson will not score as well as the Swan but, as long as you don't have to play him every week it won't be too big a gap.
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Having a dreadful season! worst in about 5 years!!!! anyway hows my team looking ?
Migs (Daniels)
Clyne, Dawson, Rosenoir (Wilson, Chester)
Oscar, Michu, Barkley, Ben Arfa (Ward-Prowse)
Suarez, RVP(c), Giroud
0.1 in bank, used my free transfer Oscar in Lamps Out
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Fragile defense. But attack looks great
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I'm considering captaining Soldado this week instead of Giroud, Sturridge, Michu.
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I wouldn't say Soldado is a risky pick this weekend
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Too risky imo. Goldado/Spuds needs to find consistent form first.
Open ControlsI have a feeling that Spurs (and Soldado) will start to click. Although it's probable that I will not trust my instinct and I change the captaincy at the last minute to Giroud 😀
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Stalinist Fergie 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2tSxrNPLSEOpen ControlsTorres if you still about thanks for responding to my fa cup query a few hours back. I got called into a meeting and forgot to check the replies until now. I find work is constantly getting in the way of my full time fpl hobby. Looks like Crawley town gatwick march on to the preliminary third round. When key here we come
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You're welcome. Well done. 🙂
No idea where the next round will be displayed.Open Controls
*wembley
Open ControlsTop 3 scorers this GW
RvP
Vertoghen
Bentdner
I know Bendy is a bit 'out there' but Giroud looked done in the second half last night. Used to play as lone striker when i was younger and it is a bloody tiring role.Open ControlsYes, KOL. You taking a ride on the Bendy Bus too?
Open ControlsTempted mate, would be a bit of a punt but cant see Giroud starting and nothing else seems to be hitting for me right now. Palace looked awful against Fulham. Ozils through balls and set plays will rip them apart.
Open ControlsAgreed. Palace are woeful, there'll likely be bags of goals in this for Arsenal. He'll get plenty of chances and I think a decent score.
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He's a professional footballer. 3 days rest is plenty.
Open ControlsHe's played every game this season though. I just think with Chelsea, Liverpool, Dortmund and United up next he'll get a bit more of rest. Arsenal in their current form could destroy Palace with Bendy up top.
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Im not going to lie i dont even know who he is. Googled him and it was a bit after then.
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Giroud will get 60 minutes then Bendy. Who did you play for?
Open ControlsHmm maybe, just a local Sunday league team until drink took over my Saturday nights 🙂
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is dawson a sure pick as a starting XI player?
What about Chiriches?Open ControlsNeither probably - they'll be battling for the same spot if AVB wants to move Vertonghen in from Left Back.
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Water meter lady 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KDCkwWic88Open ControlsWhat are all the Eriksen owners doing?
Open ControlsThe watchlist is a bollox. Sure Michu & Baines may be deemed good picks but to list their form as 'A' is tripe. Both with virtual blanks for last 3 game weeks. How is that form?
Rant over.Open ControlsThere's a fairly direct correlation between Watchlist/RMT Tool/Scout picks performing badly and most FFS Users being outside the top 200k.
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10 years, 6 months agoWhat would you do:
A) Hang on to Zabaleta
B) Straight swap to Walker
C) take a hit for Terry + Lallana/Townsend/Januzaj (tough choice...)
Current full team:
Mignolet Lewis
Zaba Coleman Vidic Chester B. Turner
Ozil Michu Barkley Ramsey BArfa
Giroud Rooney Sturridge