The ScoutCast – Episode Ninety Four – Resumption

Dilley chilley 😉

I have Sterling Michu Mata Fellaini Bale / Berba RVP Ba
and even I'm struggling to convince myself not to WC.
I'm thinking Michu > Mata(c) for a hit, but Michu will then cost .3/.4 more to get back in.

With your front 7 I'd stick and use the WC ready for GW24 or 25.

gone for ba myself.
did you see his cameo against swansea? Pretty impressive

Ba looks more fun

Ba will start 1 game from the bench + Mata has been rested recently so more likely to play both, I reckon.

Therefore I think Mata will get more minutes to do more.

Leaning towards Ba at the moment just for explosive potential and ownership, but that changes between Haz/Mata/Ba/Luiz every 10 minutes or so.

Mata will get more game time imo.

Ba.

Mata

Ba.

lambert i think.

Lambert because he will be the highest scorer this GW.

Save wc

save WC. Your team is already good.

Berba vs Wigan
Ba DGW
Cuellar plays at home
Mata DGW

Repost

Gibbs!

Good One!

nope.. good idea.

DEFINITELY more fun, but slightly more risky.

thats the way to go

Even more fun: Puncheon(c).

'Azar ftw.

Btw I kept that buggu. You may come to regret that moment of extremism 😀

It's all about Gibbs (C)

Ramirez 😉

A A A! Cech won't be back until Arsenal at the very earliest from what I gather.

Turnbull is a dead duck, so you might as well do B). Although I wouldn't do that myself.

A

Im hoping the pressers clear up a few issues first. Would say wait for them too.
but A if nothing unexpected is announced.

I'm not sure the Turnbull situation is at all clear at the moment. I would wait until the pressers at least before deciding, but if Turnbull looks solid I'd go with A.

It's more like Bale vs Suarez as you might not play the other two.

i 'd rather have 3 front than Bale and Ruiz

Suarez averages 6.36 points per 90 minutes
Puncheon averages 4.6 points per 90 minutes
Total of 10.97 over 90 minutes

Ruiz averages 5.84 points per 90 minutes
Bale averages 6.68 points per 90 minutes
Total of 12.53 over 90 minutes

Apparently everyone has copied my plan of bringing in Chelsea players and captaining Ba.

Juan.

I don't know. Should you? 🙂

do it. ba 2 goals and 1 assist this gameweek. Bookmark this. Thank me later

You should, indeed.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/01/10/article-2260015-16DA5016000005DC-469_634x431_popup.jpg

have a peek, go on. 😀

B

B

Would change with Ba this DGW if for free.

Ba currently on 3rd highest ownership, and rising (849,622)

Berba for the differential.

For a hit? keep

Quite. I have restricted myself to Ba only, on the grounds that he is a new toy ...

what you say is quite true. But rafa is under huge pressure now. some chelsea fans even saying that they won't be turning up for matches until he's sacked. So am pretty sure mata will start both. Though he's likely to get subbed off early if they score a couple of goals early, which i see against southampton

Nice post! 😀

He can't rest Mata & Ba if he's learnt his lesson.

Absolutely. The best we can do is make an educated guess and hope we get lucky.

He doesn't exactly have a big squad to work with here.

Rafa is really into the amount of ground covered by players in a game. His whole thing is their fitness levels and how much they can run around. This is part of why he sometimes makes odd looking decisions about who to bench. You can try and second guess him on the basis of who has look tired etc but you don't know what's gone on in training. Don't try and apply any logic, basically, because Rafa often makes counter-intuitive decisions.

I think everyone is at equal risk. So really you just pick who has highest ceiling to score in the DGW

Interesting that when Oscar has played under RB he has started at CAM 3/4 times in the PL, and Mata has been rested those games.

Moses does change things, but I get the impression that RB does not really like starting the 3 amigos together.

See the post above this one! 😉

Just a stab in the dark, but I think neither will start both games.

It's just a guessing game, but I think Mata will start both, Ba will start versus Stoke and get a cameo versus Southampton OR start together with Torres (less likely).

Mata

Lampard could be inspired or an utter disaster. I`d play safe'ish with Mata.

I think so. All or nothing, eh?

No

Don't think so, Azpil could be the one to get rested if Terry comes back.

Maybe not.

😕

😯

😈

Lambert and Berbatov

The Bale ones pissed me off, as he missed RDG 😡

Yes. 😉

I would rather that they gives pens for shirt tugging in the box...
They should prioritize that first.

Torres' sending off against United was ridiculous though.

easy to say when you are not a player. Think from their point of view. I play a lot of street football. Sometimes against older and much tougher guys. Last week took a pretty bad tackle. can't still walk properly. the thing was i knew he was going to put his leg. but i still went with it. now when i think about it, i should have probaby dived

There's so much bleating in the press about diving that it's inevitable refs will start brandishing yellow left right and centre. But they still miss blatant dives anyway, and sometimes incorrectly label a foul a dive. Basically some refs are better than others, end of story.

Diving is officially termed "simulation" for a reason - anything which is simulated is a dive. The referee has to judge whether the player was simulating. As Neville points out this is fairly commonplace behaviour because sometimes legitimate fouls are missed because the player stays on their feet. The solution then IMO is not to choose between going hard or soft on divers but by making better decisions by using video technology like virtually every other major sport with a brain. Instant replay punishments for divers and foulers could then be handed out with greater confidence and in the same way confidence in the sport would increase.

I've got no time left for our dinosaur like authorities who are really purist about never using video aids.

It's annoying me because it seems referees are applying a false dilemma - "if it's not a penalty, he must have dived". There's a third option which seems to be overlooked - there was contact, and the attacker has been knocked over, but it was a fair physical challenge. Not a dive; not a foul. It's called a contact sport...

Mig and Wilson (when Wilson's back of course).

2

Bego and Wilson

Mignolet, Federici and Wilson ...

Demel for 22 and 23 tbh

Demel!!

Sunderland signed a new defender, Kader Mangane.

But that should actually be a good sign as Rose wouldn't play defender then?

I can see a Ba > Torres swap in the Stoke game... maybe with 15 minutes to go.

I think he will play 27 minutes against Southampton. Don't you?

not going to get 90 maybe 70-75 against stoke

Depending on how Torres plays early doors in the 2nd game at home to Soton will force Rafa's hand, the crowd were baying for blood by the time he finally took Torres off vs Swansea.
I personally hope he plays them both in the 2nd one from the start, they are at home and will need to take the initiative.

i'd be happy if Demba did get 90 against Stoke

Yeah it won't let me do Michu > Mata without a hit 🙂

Yeah. They put 3 extra zeroes at the end of my overall rank. 😕