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The Fantasy Flutter – Gameweek 8

In this week’s attempt to get the better of Paddy, we call upon Arsenal’s big-money signing to deliver the goods against Hull later today. We also place our faith in a couple of old Fantasy favourites who seems to be rediscovering the form of seasons gone by.

Arsenal’s home clash with Hull brings Alexis Sanchez onto this week’s radar. With the Gunners’ hit hard by injuries, their summer signing from Barcelona could prove the difference against Steve Bruce’s dodgy defence – Sanchez has scored in two of his last three league starts and with Paddy offering 3/1 on Sanchez to score and Arsenal to keep out their opponents, we’re willing to make this our bet of the week and fork out £4 on this one.

Out next stop is at the Etihad, where champions City entertain Tottenham in the Gameweek’s earl kick-off. Veteran midfielder Frank Lampard has looked reborn in recent weeks, racking up four goals and two assists in just six appearances across all competitions for Manuel Pellegrini’s side. With Yaya Toure arriving late back from international duties, there’s the possibility that Lampard could start this one – even if he’s benched, though, it’s worth noting that Lampard has scored as a sub in two of the last three Gameweeks and has the knack of punishing tiring defences. Paddy are prepared to offer 6/1 on Lampard to score and City to keep a clean sheet and we’re willing to shell out £3 for the Etihad encounter.

Our final flutter of Gameweek 8 sees us switch our attentions to Tyneside. Paddy are offering 25/1 on Papiss Cisse to score at least twice and the Magpies to register a clean sheet – given that the Newcastle striker has bagged a brace in two of his three appearances, he’ll fancy his chances against a Foxes defence that have shipped at least two goals in five of the opening seven fixtures.

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  1. Sadio
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    FPL is back!

  2. Arvin-ation
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    New Attacking Punts article up along with a Budget Alternatives article. 🙂

    http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/10/16/attacking-punts-gameweek-8/ - Punts

    http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/2014/10/16/budget-alternatives/ - Budget Alternatives

    Both are also up on my blog at http://thefplassistant.blogspot.com.au/

    Cheers

    😆

    1. Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Cheers arvin !

  3. Pedram
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Who would you captain ?

    1. Pelle
    2. Welbeck
    3. Di Maria
    4. Baines

    1. Microeconomics
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      3214

    2. NATSTER
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      2314

  4. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Splitting my head between Kun and Falcao for armband. Is having Falcao differential enough? Cheers

    1. Microeconomics
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Up to you if you want a punt. I would personally captain Falcao if it was my choice

      1. La Roja
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        This

        He is my captain

        1. TheSteel
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          What if you owned Aguero?

          1. La Roja
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            Good question

            Kun probably

    2. Fabreghastly
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Yes

    3. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Cheers guys

  5. Holmes
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Aguero-Cisse-Luka
    My forward line looks much better and exciting now 😎

  6. Microeconomics
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Should I do Naylor -> Baines for a -4 hit?

    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      No

    2. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Better to wait I think

    3. Microeconomics
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Thanks for your help. Not even sure if I want Baines

  7. Rolls-Royce
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hello guys, would appreciate a look at my team 🙂 Good 2 go??

    Forster
    Clyne Wilson Duff
    downing Sterling Fab ADM Siggy
    Costa Falcao(c) welbeck

    Bench: Elliot Downing Hutton Chambers

    1.0 in bank. 0FT.

    1. Microeconomics
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      I think you're G2G. Toss up between Siggy and Downing so either way you go is alright

    2. mookie
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      looks good

    3. Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      *sorry for double downing.

  8. New Ghost
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    @Arvin

    hovering over the confirm button. you?

    1. Arvin-ation
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Not exactly there yet...I usually leave these to the last minute 😀

      If we somehow get more news on Costa being out, I'll give him the boot.

      1. New Ghost
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        I know someone else who did it, and I wanna take the plunge too haha

        will you captain him if ever?

        1. Arvin-ation
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Yeap...I'm not an anti-Lukaku person 🙂

  9. mookie
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Adrian
    Bardsley, Janmaat, Clyne, Moreno
    Tadic, Sterling, Sigurdsson
    Falcao, Costa, Dzeko

    Mannone, Chadli, Boyd, Hutton

    3.2m ITB, 2FT

    Any reason why i shouldn’t do

    Janmaat ➡ Baines
    Dzeko ➡ Welbeck

    1. JasonG123
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Nope good transfers. I'd probably play Chadli over Bardsley as well.

      1. mookie
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        thanks

    2. Rolls-Royce
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      I'd just do the first one and save other FT, you may need it to get aguero nxt week.

      1. Rolls-Royce
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Also dzeko has top record against Spurs, so you can give him a week more.

        1. mookie
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          cheers, i’m afraid of Dzeko’s game time + i rate Spurs defence and i will get Aguero for Falcao next week

  10. Christina.
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Speak to me...

    Heaton
    Baines-Berty-Naylor
    ADM-Cesc-Sterling-Siggy
    Costa-Pelle-Ulloa

    McC-Duff-Hutton-Boyd

    2 FT,4.6ITB

    1. New Ghost
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Ulloa to Welbeck

      1. Christina.
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Doc.

        Why oh why don't I get the Wlebz love? Really want Walcott/Ramsey...but I guess save thing to do is get Welbz in the meantime.

        How did Walc go in the u21 game yesterday?

        1. President John F. Keninnsie
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Played 45 mins. Was quiet.

          1. President John F. Keninnsie
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            I didn't watch the game btw, just saying what I heard someone who watched it say on here.

        2. Billy Gilmore
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Played 45 mins

        3. New Ghost
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          lone striker of Arsenal. no giroud or sanogo, nailed on for 90 mins. has goals and assists in him.

          despite the ozil injury, alexis-cazorla-ox/walcott is great service to welbz.

          walcott had one blistering run where he skipped past 4 players and laid the ball to gnabry who had his shot blocked. looked like the walcott of old. subbed off at HT. overall he played decent.

          1. Christina.
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            Ta

    2. President John F. Keninnsie
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Hey how's it going?

    3. Sparrer
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      *cough*Welbeck*/cough*

    4. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Ulola –> Welbz

    5. Christina.
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Ulloa->Cisse...makes it possible for me to do

      A)Pelle/Cesc->Kun/Ramsey/Walcott OR
      B)Boyd->Walcott/Ramsey...and keep Cesc
      C)Pelle->Kun(if I'm lucky....have the exact funds)

      Any of the above for free next week

      1. President John F. Keninnsie
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        How about Heaton to Forster/Adrian this week and Fab + Ulloa to Chadli + Kun next week?

        1. Christina.
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Nah, stuff the keeper.

          Yeah, I forgot about Chadli...that's the other option next week.

          Chadli/KUn is cool, but then I don't have any ARS cover.

          1. President John F. Keninnsie
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            ARS cover isn't a must. Can't fit everyone in.

          2. Christina.
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            @Innsie

            What trannies did you do? Baines and Chadli in?

            Also no Arsenal?

            1. President John F. Keninnsie
              • 10 Years
              9 years, 6 months ago

              Yeah Baines and Chad for Bardsley and Fab.

              No room. Will try Walcott in in a couple of weeks.

              1. Christina.
                • 14 Years
                9 years, 6 months ago

                Nice

    6. La Roja
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Heaton to forster

      1. Christina.
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Move on.

        Nothing to see here slut.

        1. La Roja
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Biatch

          1. Christina.
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            x

            1. La Roja
              • 12 Years
              9 years, 6 months ago

              Xx

  11. mipola
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Whose on penalties for Arsenal with Arteta,Giroud,Ozil all out?

    1. New Ghost
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      caz or alexis most likely

    2. mipola
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      *Who's

    3. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Arteta is back

      1. mipola
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Nevermind then.

  12. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Worried that the Costa story may be true so I got rid for Sturridge just in case 😎

  13. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Still can't decide on my captain..... Adm, pelle or sterling

    Asks my 7 year old

    1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      He chose sterling.... Locked in...

    2. HNI
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Adm if i where u! I have to choose between aguero and costa! Cant decide AT ALL

      1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        I have costa but won't captain due to uncertainty...

        I would go kun if you

  14. HNI
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Guys which is best bet to captain??I am 100kish and not too desperate for a lift as its still early days but then i want a good top 1 k finish at the end so was thinking of a punt...
    1)Aguero
    2)Costa
    3)Di Maria
    4)Welbeck

    1. Yome
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      1

  15. CapFive
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Do Maria, or Sterling?

    1. mipola
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Sterling

    2. CapFive
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Di Maria obviously

  16. Microeconomics
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Who to bench in midfield?

    Eriksen - Downing - Siggy - Sterling - Hazard

    Thinking of benching Eriksen against MCI

    1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Yep

    2. Lord Flashheart
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Eriksen

  17. gers23
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Costa or Serg captain? Arghh

  18. Lord Flashheart
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Play one please:

    1 - duff (WHU)
    2 - Moreno (qpr)

    1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Moreno, but think he might be out... Not sure

      1. Lord Flashheart
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        ?
        Outt?

        1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
          • 12 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Bib theory...

          1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            I think

          2. Lord Flashheart
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            Strange.
            Thou the bib theory this week has Hendo out too... Unlikely.

        2. Wild Rover
          • 13 Years
          9 years, 6 months ago

          Bib theory nonsense. I'm sure he will play

          1. Old Schoolᴼˢ “disa…
            • 12 Years
            9 years, 6 months ago

            Yeah I agree but thought I would let him know possibility

            1. Lord Flashheart
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 12 Years
              9 years, 6 months ago

              Yes, every little bit of info might help - cheers!

  19. TheSteel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Play PvA or Moore?

  20. BeachBadger
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Think this is appropriate given the situation with Costa and for FPL in general. 😆

    For all those worrying about transfers, injuries, good fortune and bad luck.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX0OARBqBp0

    "The whole process of nature is a process of immense complexity and it is really impossible to tell whether something that happens in it is good or bad. Because you never know the consequences of the misfortune. Or, you never know the consequences of good fortune." ~ Alan Watts.

  21. Wild Rover
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Over 18,000 people sold Costa this week 😯

    Over 10,500 of them bought Sturridge 😆

    1. Billy Gilmore
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      500 bought Rooney 😀

    2. Holmes
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      I sold him too 😎

  22. gunner1994
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Ready to go?

    De Gea
    Terry Clyne Duff
    Downing Sterling Sigurdsson Tadic
    Costa Aguero Naismith

    Subs: Foster, Chadli, Dummett, Vlaar

    1. choppers13
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      yes g2g

  23. Doctor X
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Anyone with a link to the Costa three week story?

      1. Doctor X
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Cheers brother : )

      2. NATSTER
        • 13 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Had Mou said anything about this injury? I'm doubt.

      3. Rasping Drive
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        I think the Mirror had a story the last time he was supposedly injured, saying he was out for a couple of months. Who knows if it's a load of old cobblers!

  24. Pedram
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Can someone post the scoring odds for these 4 players ?

    Pelle
    Welbeck
    Di Maria
    Sterling

    1. Kirby
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      9
      5
      8
      8

  25. choppers13
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    worth doing chambers> baines and fabregas> downing

    no hit

  26. oven
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Silly to use a ft for a one week play of chambers > azpi to double up on Chelsea d?

    Rest of def is Ivan / Bertrand / Duff / Wisdom

    I would probably get chambers back in next week. Or just play Duff this week?

    1. Microeconomics
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      SILLY, don't do it.

      Unless you have 2 FT

      1. oven
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        Sorry, yes. 2 free transfers.

  27. Kirby
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Krul > Forster
    Schneiderlin > Downing

    For free, yes or no?

    1. oven
      • 10 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      I like it.

  28. keotes
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    Should I play Downing or Siggy?

    1. TheSteel
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Siggy 100%

      1. Purple Pants
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 6 months ago

        I've got the same dilemma. I've gone with Downing. He's in 2 or 3 of the Scout Pick teams too which reassures me

  29. Koflok
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    To fund Naylor -> Baines,

    Fabregas to
    a) Chadli
    b) Hendo
    c) Ox
    d) Downing

    Possibly for 1-3 weeks punt

    1. choppers13
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      D

  30. tom66
    • 11 Years
    9 years, 6 months ago

    (C) moved from Welbeck to Cisse....too risky?

    1. NATSTER
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 6 months ago

      Some risks. Not sure it's too much.