We delve into the members data this evening and assess the weekend’s ten fixtures. Everton and United’s misfiring frontmen, Villa’s aerial assault under Tim Sherwood, Palace’s improvement since Alan Pardew took the helm and QPR’s in-form wide man are amongst our Gameweek 26 topics.
No
I would agree
Having seen McShane play for Ireland I agree . He will make a mess of things this week and then be dropped next week
They're obviously due.
Yep. I got Bruce in especially 😎
- Dgw? Try it you might like it!
Double gameweek - how much do you really have to lose?
A lot of people (maybe rightly so) aren't seeing much value from the double game week ahead. Spurs fixtures are congested and QPR aren't exactly a team you'd put much faith in.
But on the flip side, double game weeks are fun so why not get involved? I know Spurs aren't City or Chelsea but they're still decent and while the attacking players might get a rest do you want to take the risk of your main rival captaining Kane for 4 DGW goals when you've opted to captain Aguero in fear of Kane getting rested?
Swansea (h) and QPR (a) is quite an attractive double for me. Spurs have averaged 2.2 goals per game over the last 5 home fixtures and QPR have shipped 1.9 goals over the last 5 away fixtures. There will be goals and you know who'll be scoring them? Kane, assisted by Eriksen! 🙂
I would definitely agree that Spurs defensive returns have been poor but I still feel a defender warrants some thought with these fixtures and going forward you can afford someone like Rose in your team. I'll certainly be opting for a full house of defender + Eriksen + Kane.
Rotation is a worry but I feel you can overthink this. The last time I didn't captain a DGW striker for fear of rotation? Berbatov when he scored 5 goals. I ended up going for Nani (c) because he was guaranteed minutes.
Austin is a tricky one - as the recent hot topic has shown QPR haven't been as great at home as we think and Austin hasn't been doing particularly well aside from penalties. But again, there's no reason he can't bag a goal or two over the double. For those of us with Defoe it almost feels like a punt you can't ignore. I can understand Giroud owners not going for it but Austin should definitely be a consideration for many.
To end - it's a double game week, embrace it, celebrate it and get involved..........you know your rival will be.
+1
Could not agree more ! this game is all about having fun, isnt it? 😉
I think it's supposed to be, sometimes forget that though!
It's not much fun when you wake up after a double gw and see your team in bits before then proceeding to spend months trying to get it back in order again.
I'm going to be sensible, keep Giroud and not get a Spurs defender. Every GW should be fun, not just DGW's.
but you should have double the fun next week 😉
Ah, see, its overrated just there. Its 1 extra game, not 10 😉
Hahah touche 😉 you should have a 1/10th more fun 😉
True but this is a double!
You're probably right with Giroud but I think I'm going to get Rose. Even past the double at his price he's decent enoughHonestly, I don't think Spurs will get a clean sheet and I'm really happy with my defence. To me it would be an unreasonable transfer, but to others with a load of duds such as Wisdom I can understand.
Yeah I hear you. He'll probably come in for Baird for me so its really not an issue. Might also get rid of Jones.
Who would you be replacing Jones with, I'm in the same situation. Considering Cresswell after his Chelski/Arsenal gameweeks?
Never miss out on a Dgw. That's what I say 😀
Hear hear! I'd be much more worried about what I'd miss out on from the double than what state my team might be in the next week.
Sharp analysis.
I'm certainly planning one or both of the following:
Walcott/ADM -> Eriksen
Defoe -> AustinHas to be Walcott out of those two. ADM is nailed, Walcott is far from it.
Defoe to Austin seems like a no brainer to me.
Most of the biggest DGW hauls in recent times have been down to one huge performance - see Yaya's Fulham hattrick, and Suarez murdering Norwich.
Kane destroying both QPR and Swansea? 🙂
Kane is whom I have and who will be there for the DGW.
I am not taking Eriksen.
Perhaps will consider Rose later, but not really trusting Spurs' defense for a CS, be it against QPR or anyone else! 🙁
Panti
PVA Clyne Dawson Baird
JWP Mane Sanchez ADM
Giroud Kun
(Hamer Terry Haz Kane)
No FTs and 0.5 ITB. Would you WC or ride it out?
Wirth that team ride out the storm. fielding 11 in a luxury this week.
ride out
4pt hit to get JWP out for possibly Moses?
Teams in bits mate so you will prob need to wc soon but not sure if next week is the one to do it either. I'd be very tempted to play the wc and set it up so that you can get eriksen next week to bring your dbl gw players to 4 and it will allow you to sort out that dbl saints midfield and baird, hamer and pva problems.Thanks Dino, am actually considering that JWP mvoe and getting Moses or Walters.
Would much prefer to WC on a DGW when I'll see some big rewards for it, WCing next week when Spurs have a DGW and Liverpool have Burnley at home and City have Leicester at home is more appealingYeah this week is not ideal but I think you are looking at possibly only 8 starters this week so you could make up the points even with bringing in a Liverpool players this week and another City player if you want (better than having a non playing player). The way City have been playing that game could be a fairly high scoring one too so no need to avoid their attacking players imo.
Who are the Hull nailed on defenders?
john terry
He plays for chelsea
Wolly the best Stoke defender?
At the moment he seems to be yeah
They have so many injuries I guess we won't know for certain until they are all back, but for the forseeable , yeah!
Thank you both
Not the best, but the only
stay away from stoke defence until they get a cb fit that isn't wilson. Their cs record with him in the team is awful.
I'm now starting to reconsider my planned transfer of Albrighton to Ibe/Cork. 5th mid bench fodder I don't really care who it is for the season, was just looking to get someone to play for me in this blank GW.
But what if I just kept Albrighton, and sold Terry for Fonte instead? Would be a double up with Clyne, but saints have better fixtures and we know how good their defence is. Chelsea defender could always be brough back in. Thoughts on this please?
I would do Terry ➡ Fonte.
Or Bertrand?
Yeah probably Bertrand. More attacking.
Probably the more sensible thing to do but I don't think Southampton will keep as many clean sheets from here onwards
So would you ditch Albrighton and keep Terry; or sell Terry?
Sell Terry
Saints double up has worked multiple times this season. Considering it myself soon albeit maybe for Toby.
Good move. I've been considering something along these lines and would probably do it in your position.
For the DGW would you lose any of these to get Eriksen?
Silva Hazard Sanchez Cazorla
Was planning Cazorla but he is still consistently getting points, albeit mostly from penalties!That's a tough one. I'm probably going to sacrifice Di Maria to do it but you're right, Arsenal are doing well and Cazorla can't stop scoring pens!
Yeah tough, but you don't need two arsenal IMHO. Sanchez will refind form, class is perminant form is temporary and all that, so corzola to go for me.
cheers guys
Take the points you've had so far from Cazorla and move on.
Eriksen in.
The Daily Star reckon RVP will be out for 2 weeks. Good news for the rest of the league
*Man Utd
Falcao(c)
Wilson to start ahead of Falcao
Good news for Man Utd more like.
Wait, or did you mean good news for everyone that he's not out for longer?
Just ignore me, I'll sit here quietly.yep 🙂
Hope to see Rooney + Falcao getting a shot up front together.
I don't. Either Rooney lone striker with Mata behind or Wilson should start.
What to use my extra FT on this week?
Foster
Clyne, Jones, PVA, Kosc
Puncheon, Boyd, Sanchez
Aguero, Defoe, Giroud
Bench: Panty, Eriksen, Haz, Terry
Bank: £0.4m
-Puncheon ---> Moses
-PVA ---> Dawson
-Defoe ---> Someone?PVA to Dawson looks good and can keep long term
World Class strikers come to the PL and do not do as well as their reputation suggestions they should. What do we think the reason for this is? Im thinking of players like - Shevchenko, Falcao, Torres (to an extent).
These are world class players but fail to make it in the PL. Do we think the media have an effect? I am not accepting going away to Stoke or QPR (cold tuesday night or not) is tougher than going away to Valencia or Roma.
Shevchenko and Falcao were past it when they came to the PL, Torres was amazing for Liverpool until injury.
I think it's got less to do with players coming to England, but players moving clubs full stop. Plenty of examples of successful Prem players moving clubs and not doing as well. Torres a good example, and all the Saints a more recent example. Horses for courses.
Fair point , mate
Torres was on the wane before he even joined Chelsea, his last few months at Liverpool were poor. That was just a huge mistake by Chelsea.
And Lallana has done well at Liverpool, I think he's just been lumped in with Lambert and Lovren. I think Lovren's improved in the back 3 recently, and Lambert can't get a game.
I think sometimes because of the money involved people forget that footballers are still people affected by lots of things in life. Moving to another country is different for many people, some love it and some just don't get on.
It could be something as simple as not getting on with the lifestyle changes and that affecting the football. Torres is a really weird one though considering he did it at Liverpool. Maybe the price tag put too much pressure on him? Maybe they didn't play to his strengths?
Would like to see Falcao given some more time but its not looking good for him either.
Why is Torres there? He was one of the best in the world at Liverpool.
I meant Torres at Chelsea.
That's nothing to do with adjusting to the PL though.
But in that you can't say that he just came to the PL
Torres was amazing for Liverpool, but i think just fell away after losing that extra burst of pace and it was strange that chelsea bought him. Falcao coming after a serious knee injury, so not the same player. Shevchenko also coming when past his best.
Torres was amazing when he came to the PL, I think Shevchenko and Falcao were/are just past it. Other strikers are great when they arrive - Aguero, Torres as I said, Costa, Van Nistelrooy, Bergkamp, Tevez etc. Obviously there can be an adjustment time, but truly great, peak strikers usually do the business in England.
Zola
The endDidn't Torres have an operation to get him to play in the World Cup with the knowledge it could harm the rest of his career? He lost a yard of pace and was never the same again but he was class before that. I think it's the pace of the game mainly. Some players just can't adjust to it, Shevchenko being one. Others it takes a season to adjust. Remember how bad Drogba was in his first season? I still think Falcao could do it if the team was up properly.
*Set up
I think it is physical thing.
The difference between the lowest and top club in the epl is not as great as in other leagues. I'm not saying that the EPL is the best league in the world or anything just that the top clubs are not as good as top clubs in other leagues and the bottom clubs are not as poor as the bottom teams in other leagues. This means players get less rest during games (as the other teams genuinely have a chance of beating their team) or through rotation (as managers can't afford to rest their best players as much).
I think that EPL teams suffer in Europe for the same reason. Other European teams are so far ahead of the majority of their league that they can play at 70% and still win comfortably meaning that they are fresh for all their European games.
Some advice on my plan please. 🙂
Team atm- (Got 2 FTs)
Foster - Myhill
Terry - Alderweireld - Bellerin - Wisdom - PVA
Sanchez - Hazard - Walcott - Mane - Ameobi
Aguero - Sturridge - Kane
This gw - Hazard+Wisdom ➡ Silva+Cawson for free. (Gives me 12 players this week)
Next gw - Terry+Walcott ➡ Eriksen+Vertonghen for -4
GW 29 - Eriksen ➡ Hazard for free.
Pros-
-Gives me 12 players this gw for free when most won't have 10.
-Gives me a nailed on Vertonghen over a rotation risk Rose.
-The entire thing costs only -4
Cons-
-Buying Hazard back for 0.4m more
Thoughts please? Sorry for the long post.Cons
That 0.4 loss on hazard will come back to haunt you.
This game week you could still score low with the wrong 12.
Pros
This game week combined with a good DGW could see you leap the ranks.
I'd er on the side of caution over these two weeks.
Think I may well be screwed this GW. Have Hazard, Ivan, Eriksen, and Kane on a blank and Wisdom and PVA in my defence. And also Bellerin.
1) Chances Bellerin plays this week?
2)
a) Wisdom -> a cheap (but playing) defender (McShane?) and save FT transfer for next week and play 9 men this GW
b) Wisdom -> Cheapy, PVA -> another playing cheapy, take a hit next week and play 10 this week
c) Wisdom, PVA -> cheapies, Eriksen -> Sterling (?), take a hit this week, reverse this tranfers next week, play eleven this week and take another hit next week for MOAR SPURS?
d) Take hit as above, then wildcard next week to optimise for DGWsI feel your pain, have three blankers and Baird, PVA, JWP and Mane. Beginning to think it's really not worth shifting a defender for a fellow budget defender, especially a team like Hull.
Maybe Wisdom > Dawson though?
Austin haven't blanked more than twice on a row all season. Consistent
It's a tricky one, two home fixtures but neither of them particularly appealing. Not sure it's worth sacrificing Giroud (qpr) or Kun (LEI) to get him in
Spurs will be shattered by then, and Ars has UCL after right?
Could be a good time to play both to be honest?Plus he has shown that he can score against big boys with decent fixtures after.
Even a shattered Spurs will thump QPR. Arsenal too.
Stuck in the FPL doldrums of late, 6 red arrows have seen me drop from 13k to 30k and nothing I'm doing seems to be arresting the slide. As a result FPL is feeling increasingly like a chore - any suggestions for how to turn things round? Team for next GW is below, currently planning to save FT and get in Eriksen plus a Spurs defender but open to any other suggestions.
Forster
PVA Bellerin Jones Lescott
Mane Downing Sanchez ADM
Giroud Aguero
Hamer Hazard Terry KaneSell Hazard for Silva, then bench PVA?
Not much I can think of to be honest
Probably just hold. Sanchez(c)Tempting but have a lot of value tied up in Hazard and historically I have never got on with Silva. Food for thought though, maybe I should look at switching Hazard to a playing heavy-hitter.
I had the same history with Silva until this week
Any of these worth a hit? Probably only fielding 8 as it stands:
a) Baird > Haidara
b) PVA > O'Shea/Bellerin
c) JWP > Moses/WaltersB to Bellerin (tomorrow pending)
Or possibly
C though can't decide which? Trying to choose myself
clyne/Terry -> Vert/ Walker next week for a hit ?
Yes or No ?
will use 2 FTs as
Defoe -> Austin
Walcott -> EriksenNo
Dgw blinkersNot for a hit.
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Hahahahahahahahaha what on earth do I do? 1FT (willing to -4 too) & £5.1m itb.Terry to Bertrand.
Play Bertrand, bench Kane.
PvA lost his place then... aaaaah no
How do you know for sure?
Even if he was rested (I think he was dropped), they kept a cleanie so surely the same defence starts.
What to do this week? 2ft 0 ITB.
Current team for this week is:
Foster
Fonte Wollscheid Lescott PVA Bellerin
Sanchez Cazorla Moses
Aguero Defoe
Pants Kane Hazard Fab
I only want to do 1ft this week to have 2 for next.
Thinking Fab (9.3) out, suggestions? Preferably someone who can be a short and long term fix... Coutinho? Frees up some money for DGW too.
Erikson and possibly Rose to come in for DGW.
It's Champions League time, 50quid on which do you fancy?
A) BTTS @ 4/7
B) Barcelona to win and BTTS 3/1
C) Draw 12/5
D) Aguero and Messi both to score 5/1
E) Under 2.5 goals 23/20
F) Drawn 1st half Barcelona 2nd half 9/2
Where's your money at?BTTS seems guaranteed.
Over 0.5 first half goals.
Bet in-play and odds should rise to 1.40
Think it will be quite cagey to start off with
over 10 corners @ 6/5
interesting grievez
Aye, city always get their fair share of corners and your bet isn't beaten till the end of the game.
I always back corners where teams have attacking wingers/wing backs
I'm currently ranked 284,503 overall 😎
However despite this great rank, have decided to sell my team to this highest bidder.
Bidding starts at 15p.
Good luck all and look forward to see you finish off my great work.15p is a bit steep to kick off I think. You don't want to frighten people off.
I'll start the bidding at 5p for you Timbo, the rest can start at a5p.
I'll give you -1p since this is a free game and a rubbish rank 🙂
😮
Can't you just switch with that freak?
You get good rank and maybe he can live with that 284 503 rank 'pressure'.
i'd say if you started playing the game now you'd beat that rank in a week or so
Lies! I just checked your linked team and your up in the 20,000s... Unless... unless you have duplicate teams too! More drama!
I don't know whether I can bring myself to put the armband on Sanchez. Does anyone else really struggle with captaining players against the team they support?
First rule of fantasy, loyalties mean nothing.
I don't want to resign myself to Everton conceding a few goals, and it ruins any captaincy success (unless he bags a hat trick in a 4-3 Everton win).
Not sure why it would ruin captaincy success, the result will happen anyway, surely it would ease the pain knowing you have profited from disaster in some small way?
It might ease the pain slightly, but surely FPL is all about enjoyment, and it would be strange that the greatest possible source of FPL enjoyment - a huge captaincy haul - would actually be something I'd dislike.
Fantasy Football > Football
Betting>Fantasy Football>Football
this
Football will always be more important than Fantasy Football to me, I'll always care more about Everton's results than my FPL results.
Not at all 😀
Just don't wAtch the gameLeicester scored both goals on Sunday after Vardys pace out wide changed things
Sanchez has pace out wide
Make of that what you willI'm not saying he won't do well, just that I won't want him to do well, and I don't like cheering against my captain!
I support United so its very unlikely I'd captain a player against us anyway but no I wouldn't struggle to do it if required.
Rose for a Rose!
I need to ditch Rose for one week to field 9 at best but see hes about to rise 0.1 in 2 days.
do i keep him or swap-out now and feel the burn later when i want him back?
Also if he rises by 0.1 and i keep him through the rise do I profit anything at all?
Need 0.2 up from buying price to get a profit.
Worth doing Colback > Ki (or even Ibe?) for a -4?
If I don't I've only got 10 players, with the risk of 9 if Bellerin doesn't play (or 8 if PvA doesn't). Burnley at home, could pay off.
I have done Colback to Fletcher -4.
I'll get 2 points minimum back immediately as I need him to make up 11. A goal or assist puts me in plus. Additionally I have saved 0.4 on my (usually benched) 5th midfielder. Fletcher is absolutely nailed on if I ever need him. For -1 or -2 I am happy with that.
don't think so
Is Alderweireld dead?
no he's just resting
in peace?
🙂
Dead excited to return to the team this week!
Chosing who and how many defenders to play for the DGW is going to be tough:
Clyne (CPL)
Rose/Vert (SWA, QPR)
Koscielny (QPR)
West Brom (AVL)
Terry (WHM)
-Who would you start?
-Would you play 4 and bench your 4th mid?
-Is it worth keeping Terry for the blank followed by WHM away?depends on the rest of your team. do you have 4/5 midfielders you want to play?
clyne,rose/vert,kos. you can sell terry imo and get ivan later
Spurs games.......
Played EL Thursday
Played PL Sunday
To play
@ Fiorentina Thursday
Cup final Sun
H v Swa Weds
@ Qpr Sat
Austin(c)Will be Kane (c) for me. No doubts about that.
I'm struggling to see past Aguero at home to Leicester even though Kane has two games.
No struggle needed. Aguero v Leicester is an obvious pick as it stands.
It's not.
*waits for 500 word response*
😆
Surely Kane is the obvious pick?! 2 games v 1 for Aguero. They've been been scoring extremely similarly recently.
I'm assumiing he thinks Kane will be benched for 1 of those games, hence Aguero. If not, i don't get it
I still feel Kane is the more obvious pick.
Both scoring similarly and Kane has the potential for an extra game.Yeap, this. It will be Kane who will have 95% captaincy in the top 10k, not Aguero.
I hope so. That's what I'm counting on.
Of course Kane is the most obvious pick. That doesn't make him the best. 😉
True. Just like last week when you labeled Costa the obvious pick
Yep. Can't win them all. 😉
Spurs have 4 games in 9 days and the DGW are the last 2 of those, also the easiest. I doubt Kane will play 90 in both games. Spurs will be tired.
I'll take a fresh Aguero at home to Leicester without a 2nd thought. City have no fixture the weekend following and Aguero will likely play the full 90.
I'd also be happy captaining Sturridge (Burnley, h) if I had him. I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed by DGW returns.
I think the cup final result might be key, win and Spurs will be on a roll, lose and heads might drop.
Teams that win the League Cup quite often regress afterwards.
Have many had a shot at the top 4 though? I can see why a mid-table side would decline.
Spurs have no shot at the top 4. Nowhere near good enough.
Defence v Fiorentina Davies Fazio Chiriches Vertonghen
Defence v West Ham Rose Dier Walker VertonghenApart from this being a meaningless jumble of guesswork and wishful thinking, you have forgotten the League Cup final on Sunday.
For those still with WC, what week are you planning to use?
waiting for future dgw
Around 33/34
Why no Lloris love? No 3 in gk ranking and DGW! Thinking him/Kane and depending on situation to not mess up your team def/Eriksen. Am I missing something?
Lloris is a decent pick but personally I'm happy with my Pantmillion / Foster partnership so will stick with that and go for Rose.
Good pick...and relatively safe. Good fixtures afterwards as well.
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9 years, 2 months agoHull have kept one clean sheet in their last 15 away matches and Stoke have scored in their last 5 home matches. Don't think Bruce/McShane are even worth a transfer in this week