With the international break affording us time to reflect on proceedings, we roll out the first in a series of three members articles. Starting with the defenders, we assess some of the standout contenders across the first three Gameweeks of the 2014/15 campaign.
Mata > Sterling.
get sterling you need liverpool cover
Be patient? And look for Utd presser, you still have a week. Relax
mata to sterling probably
no chelsea attack though? 😕
Bego
Ivan - Wisdom - Dummett - Duff - Moore
Haz - Ramsey - Sterling - Siggy - Marney
Costa - Rooney - Dzeko
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or shall I WC and have:
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Bego
Ivan - Clyne - Hutton - Wisdom - 4.6
Di Maria - Ramsey - Sterling - Siggy - Marney
Costa - Falcao - WelbeckSimplified:
a) Dummett, Duff, Moore, Haz, Rooney and Dzeko
b) Clyne, Hutton, 4.6 def, Di Maria, Falcao and WelbeckB
I have nearly the same team as you and I find it offensive you're thinking of wildcarding. I'm considering saving a transfer.
I am also offended
On my WC. Mirallas vs Tadic is one of my biggest dilemma. Both have the share of set-pieces with Tadic presumably takes Penalties as well. Mirallas is more clinical in front of goal, hitting the form, plays more like a RF. Tadic so far had strong underlying stats so it may be just a matter of time. I'm liking both players' potential so thought about this new idea of integrating them in 3-5-2 set up. I know most of you think 3-4-3 is the way to go but I think 3-5-2 is a viable alternative for it. If it goes horribly wrong can always switch to 3-4-3 with just 2 transfers.
Krul, Elliot
Moreno, Jones, Clyne, Wilson, Moore
Hazard, Sterling, Sigurdsson, Mirallas, Tadic
Aguero, Costa
Good team for 3-5-2? Your thoughts?
Cheers in advance. 🙂Wouldn't be me personally, if I was playing 3-5-2 I'd put Naismith up top he's only the same price as a 5.5 def, Tadic and Mirallas? I ain't sure tbh but that change might as well bring you to a template 3-4-3 with Ramsey playing and I'm guessing your Grav won't let you get Fabregas and I feel strongly you will need a United mid/forward in there too.
Differant no doubt but will it get you a top 10k finish is the real q.Mira will have liv and mun later... So Tadic is safe, Mira for more short term. Yes I would say that you need flexibility to change to 3-4-3 (even with cheap FW)
no ramsey or sanchez?
maybe mirallas and tadic to one of the arsenal mids and henderson?
I've got a puncheon Vs Zaha headache for my transfer... (Silva out :O)
what position do you think Zaha will play?
who would you get out of the 2?Difficult question. But looking at last season's form, I'd go Punch
Zaha defo. Surprised puncheon dint give a transfer request when Warnock signed 🙂
How will you improve this backline? 0.9 ITB
Terry - PvA - Chambers - Yoshida - Moorechambers/yosh to Clyne
Yoshida to Bertrand and Chambers to Coloccini
Yoshida is toast. If you 2 FT Terry>Ivan and Yosh>Duff/Wizz. If only one trf maybe the latter.
Yep only 1. My biggest worry is Chambers and Yoshida. I think Clyne is a good option...
He is, but Yosh is 4m and you only have 4.9 with him. So Yosh will be on your bench with 0.3, not enough to upgrade him, hence you need to look t a playing 4m def (not 4.1 Hutton with his fixtures).
whos ivan
Ivanovic
so changed my WC team around to this...looks ok?
Begovic
Ivanovic Moreno Colo
JWP Sterling Hazard ADM
Adebayor Naismith Costa
Subs - Gilks, Siggy Taylor Hutton
Hey, would you with this team, 2FT and £0.
De Gea
Cahill, Coloccini, O’Shea
Siggy, Ramsey, Henderson, Erikson
Costa, Sturridge, Rooney
(Gilks, Chambers, Chester, King)
Krul in goal
Play one of Coloccini (sou) Wisdom (EVE) Caulker (manu)
Don't really fancy any to keep a cs but maybe Caulker will find the net?
Ta 🙂
Coloccini
Double Newc?
between colo and caulker
have a feeling whichever one you bench will get the points
Kun or falcao??
Kun
See who gets injured on international duty first!
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WC team
Naismith + Zaha or Welbeck + Marney?
If I go with A, I will probably bench Siggy for Chelsea game and play both Zaha.Never bench Siggy.
So Welbeck and Marney then? And bench Marney.
I can't get Zaha, Naismith and not play them whereas bench Marney is an easy desicionThen go for the easy decision 🙂
lloris
janmaat azpl lovren
ramsey zaha sterling siggy fabregas
costa lukaku
myhill welbeck wisdom taylor
my wildcard team, any suggestions?
0.4 itbLoris > krul then upgrade Lukaku
to who?
Drops/rises last night?
No rise. Skrtel and one more fella dropped. 🙂
Check stickies
Skrtel and H Boateng dropped...no-one rose 🙁
I think I'm going with Mané (c) this week. Thoughts?
Crazy to (c) an unproven premiership player. They need time to settle in.
crazy imo
crazy but entertaining...
Tadic, Cabella or Mirallas?
tadic
Is he on pens?
With dejong gone cabella should continue being on all set pieces n penos. That being said.. tadic
Not FPL related.
Why have the formations using a Libero being abandoned by teams. Yes I know football should be an attractice attacking sport but defending is also part of the game.
Having a libero was the basis of catennacio. I have seen just Mourinho use it effectively. For those who don't know what a Libero is, it's a position that a player takes between the goalkeeper and laat line of defence. He plays the role a bit like sweeper and you can say is given a free role in defence. He has to cut out through balls or track runs of players behind the defence line.
It is not parking the bus but an effective tactic which can be used by less technically gifted teams to achieve good results. This is what won Italy the World cup and several champions league titles for the Italian clubs. And all their defenders are considered legends and not killers of football.
Hate to see genious tactics like see getting extinct in the modern game.*attractive
*last
*this*genius 😉
Yeah and that too 😳
A lot of teams like to play the high line now. I'm not sure why this. I think it's for pressing the opposition. And therefore sweepers and a libero aren't used anymore.
Teams try to play high line to compress the field of play for their opponents but clever players who play off the shoulders of defenders can easily beat the offside traps amd destroy teams like this.
Chelsea who have been superb so far hasn't played a high line, on the other hand AVB was one who loved high lines and look at what happened to his teams in premier league.
Another example can be taken of barca getting humiliated by Bayern. Bayern easily played through their high line
Let's not forget Bayern getting humiliated by Real last year this way. 😀
Pep and his high lines. I bet a team coached by him would never win the premier league.
Dunno, could be. You needthe right personel to play it successfully of course. Pep's barca destroyed Utd in the CL finale - but had always difficulties with Chelsea (and Milan). Would be interesting to see!
Football is always evolving, they will go back to it one day. Tika taka is almost dead, the hoof up to the big centre forward died a decade ago. Maybe everyone will go 3-5-2 with wingbacks or maybe not... 😉
The modern day libero is kinda the 8/6 atm i guess. Moved in front of the defence to be more dense in midfield and due offside. Can't see it coming back the old school way except rules get changed.
I can see the underdog teams shifting back to it. Even Greece used this on their Euro cup winning run. Nothing to do with the rules.
I didn't know it was called that. Today I have learned something.
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Cheers!
After spending the whole week wonderin who to swap eriksen for ive decided to keep for sun and WBA. If he does well il get my money back n a good option. If he does badly I swap to tadic who im sure will start a bandwagon over the next few weeks. Now what to do with jovetic? Got a million in the bank and terry/debuchy as expendable money banks if reqd
go for welbz or ade imo...downgrading debuchy/terry won't give you enough to get studge/falcao/balo/kun/costa/rvp will it?
Debuchy downgrade gives me balo. Terry gives me falcao. Might just save my transfer this week and do the terry downgrade next week tbh
Keeping a spurs midfielder is the right choice. I had eriksen for 3 games it hurt. But they do well against poor sides.
You could go dzeko as he think he will be first choice and is still potent, has had a bad start though. Ade is still good. Or you could try welbeck.
I'm guessing you have naismith too and you're probably jealous of people bringing in Falcao/balo etc. But Adebayor can score as many as them in that spurs team.No naismith. I like goin big upfront. Team is
Krulliott
Terry caulker debuchy chester hutton
Eriksen sterling ramsey siggy Albrighton
Costa rooney jovetic.
Dont like half my team but may end up savin a transfer! Nexy week terry n jovetic to 4.0 n any striker in the game sounds good
Hold. Save.
Don't you all feel Balotelli @ 10 is bit costly and Adebayor @ 8.6 for eg. could score similar to him being the lone Striker & Penalty taker of his team? Balotelli is also a Red Card waiting to happen...
Of course, I think Adebayor is under the radar. I think people assume he might be a rotation risk. Dzeko is another. He always does well.
Love ade. And I do think he ll do well. Shame ive gone the eriksen route :). If I go ade I know il end up downgradin him oly in a few weeks when welbeck looks in form :).
Bego
Ivan - Clyne - Hutton - Wisdom - 4.6
Di Maria - Ramsey - Sterling - Siggy - Marney
Costa - Falcao - Welbeck
On WC, would you stick with this or go Aguero + Naismith instead of Falcao + Welbeck?
City have two tough games so could go with this and then make that change for GW6Aguero+naismith. I don't understand all the 'he might get injured' stuff. If he does, just swap him.
The problem with Falcao is he doesnt get assists and key passes etc, he scores awesome goals but you don't get points for overhead kicks etc. He will always be down on bps even if he scores.
So what?
Who cares if he scores each game like Costa.. I'd be happy with 6pt each week.
same dilemma
hardly any Price Changes in the last few days
I thought that was the whole reason why people were wildcardingAlways the same on international breaks. Wednesday to Wednesday transfers slow to a crawl. The risk takers have already done their transfers and those who guard against injuries will wait until the internationals have finished.
I see you got a new DP. Noice. Team id 100 again?
Hello Mr Sabbatical. No - I was a LateRiser this year - ID in the 2000s.
Ah nice to see. Hows the start been Pasq?
Also how did you know?Saw your announcement. Good decision, I think. With Giroud's injury you would have been severely disadvantaged this year. 50k start - which is much better than last year.
Hahaha 50k is a decent start. Ya wanted to take it easy for a season. Definitely going to be back next season. I miss it.
bit too slow this time with the changed algo
It was but it seems that WC transfers don't count towards NTI and the huge numbers of early transfers made are driven by those on WC.
Most FPL Managers waiting for after the int'l matches to be over or until the end of next week before making transfersWC transfers don't count ???
This is apparently what TFPL have said in the past and now.
Triggerlips was ranting yesterday about the pricing system being broken spoiling the game but then his strategy on his WC was to save money by avoiding price drops and make money on double risers neither of which has happened so far.yes it was all for to see that the Price Change system has been improvised from Day 1 , it was foolish to expect similar effects on the WC building team value like previous years
Is Arsenal likely to play Sanchez and Welbeck up front? Or will Sanchez return to his wide role?
I think Welbeck has been bought as a CF , Sanchez will probably go to wide left with Theo on the right
Welcome back Theo.
So many options this year.
Where the hell I'll fit Theo..
Yep. sanchez can't play centre forward, well at least not yet. Wenger wants a striker there, he tried walcott and now sanchez, it doesn't work. Welbeck will be CF
Arteta - Ramsey
Walcott - Ozil - Sanchez
Welbeck
Predictions for the top 6 this season?
Chelsea
Man City
Arsenal
Liverpool
Spurs
Man UnitedChelsea
City
Arsenal
Liverpool
Man Utd
Swansea
Hutton and Di Maria or Ivanovic and Henderson?
I think Ivan is a season keeper either way.
the conventional wisdom is wait and monitor new players but Di Maria is soooooo tempting
Haven't been on here much so forgive me if this has already been answered, but are FISO and/or Total FPL fixed yet?
Thanks.no
Wonder how much that De Jong injury is going to hurt Newcastle? The only front 7 player they've had that scored so far is the kid Aaron's!
I think Cabella will be really useful but for another month he doesn't exactly have anyone to pass to who can finish
#bringbackHBA
which defence to we rate higher on here?
Burnley or Leicester?
tough one..i'd go with leicester..
Yea I think so too.. But the 4.0 option for Leicester seems to love a yellow, taking away all baps.
Might go with Burnley!
Burnley, had best defense in championship last season. The reason they got promoted
I currently have Krul - Elliot as my GK's. At what point would changing to a different 4.5/4.0 be beneficial? And to which combo?
not hard to look at the fixture list mate.
you should've started with guzan / given, and now swap to krul / elliott.
January wildcard
not worth two transfers to swap out your keepers imo. only change on a WC
No risers last night. I really regret using my wildcard now.
If you used it just to make money then you chose the wrong season to do it.
OOF
Fab, Di Maria, Sterling, Siggy
Costa, Naismith, KunHas anybody seen TorresMagic?
Not since '05
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Morning everyone..
with my top 8:
rambo-fabregas-siggy-sterling-lamela
rooney-costa-fletcher
now i'm thinking 343 instead of 352, with which I started with,
so should I go:
rooney, fletcher, lamela ------> aguero, welbeck, fodder
I can't find any other way to squeeze kun in..Why not just lamela and fletcher out for 4.5 and welbeck?
Coz he wants to have Kun
9 years, 8 months agoLads
What would be your priority here ? 0.5 to spend.... Has thought doing silva to Fabregas but that was before the arrival of di Maria et al making mata's position unclear
Krul
JT, Cahill, Naughton
Ramsey, mata , Siggy, silva
Rooney, Aguero, Fletcher
Elliott , Marney, Moore, Bruce