It’s an altogether depressing experience trying (read struggling) to muster up a Sunday knee jerk when there is only one game and that game happens to be Blackburn against West Brom. With the greatest respect to the two teams involved, from a fantasy football and an entetainment perspective, if I could have handpicked a game I was less interested in I would have found it an impossibility.
Sometimes these games sparkle however and can provide an opportunity to scout for potential players going forward. Sometimes they can even be better than the Rolls Royce games between the big boys. Unfortunately on both counts this didn’t materialise.
It remains to be seen whether the Paraguayan can return to the form he displayed when he was being assisted by a certain David Bentley and at 6.5 on the Official FPL game there are surely better prospects elsewhere. Hoilett on the other hand caught the eye for his absolute screamer of a goal and a busy contribution to Blackburn’s win. He stood out in the game as one of the main sources of attack for Rovers but at 4.0 and down as a striker, rather than out wide where he plays in reality, he really doesn’t provide any real prospect of finding a way into our fantasy football teams.
West Brom struggled yet again away from home and the pressure on Roberto Di Matteo is growing as his team trundles through a dip in form. The Baggies do however have a double gameweek forthcoming both games of which are at home. Thoughts of investment in players like Chris Brunt and Peter Odemwingie, who although both quiet today are always good for a goal or assist, should not therefore be tempered by the Midlands club poor away record.
Fact – this game had the most ever different nationalities participating in one game in the Premier League. That was probably the only thing I found interesting from this game.
