Yesterday, we rolled out the first in a two-part series of Members articles focussing on team stats over the first three Gameweeks so far. Having assessed the performances from an attacking perspective, we turn our attentions to the men at the back, analysing a variety of key performance statistics from a defensive point of view:
Gotze, Fabregas, Ozil, Di Maria, Xavi, Boateng or Pirlo???
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How many times do you intend to post each question?
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barton... r u fecking deaf?
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Kindly feck off!
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guys wat u think of going for newcastle defense..currently it looks weak bcz of injuries...are those injuries really serious?
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Should I get this player or that player, or maybe that other one... and also should I get him instead of him and if I do that do you think I should do the other thing instead...???
Can everyone here pick my team for me and tell me when your done, thanks...Open Controls
Your team looks good IMO , you happy to go without Rvp ?
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Your rank similar to mine 400k ish but you fin very high last year 400ish are you dissapointed with your overall start or will the cream rise ?Open ControlsIt's still very early... I'm not panicking yet, I know I will climb soon...
If I'm not in top 50k by GW10 then I'll be concerned...Open Controls
haha, amen brother
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Just made my first draft for cl fantasy and looks like I have
5 players for first matchday and then 10 for next, not good right?
Stupid that My Team page doesn't show if the player is going to play
home or away! I don't even remember for what team some of those
players are playing....and what the hell is going on on those zenit
players i-window and summary/fixtures "info"!Open Controls
With the current groups it's difficult to find a right balance...
I have 10 from matchday 1 and 5 from matchday 2...Open ControlsIt's not that bad to have more players playing on the second day... it just means that next week you'll have them playing on the first day...
I think it's more important to make sure you have rotating goalkeepers, so if the first one playing on the 18th doesn't get a clean sheet then swap him out for the guy playing on the 19th...
That, and also have a good captain option for both days too... having Messi and Ronaldo kinda sorts that out for me...Open Controls+100 regarding the GKs...
I also have Messi and Ronaldo but little worried about Ronaldo's group...Open ControlsYeah had sirigu and malafeev until noticed they play on the same day.
Currently having messi, rvp, pazzini in front - pretty much thinking that messi will do something in every game. But have to admit, it's very dangerous to go without ronaldo...Open Controls
IT is so stupid you cant' see if they play home or away
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Ye, who do you think I should play in my team, Xavi, Fabregas, Iniesta, Messi, Busquets, Affelay, Sanchez or Pedro???
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Why are you a Wallis fan? That guy is awful at fantasy football. Rohn I can understand.
Open Controlsyeah agree with you there... he used to be fun to read when he pretended he couldn't speak english.. may have to reconsider as he's become a little boring
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There's still one more spot available in the "The JPT 2012 final was epic" fan club.
Open Controlsu and bubbles having a rematch this year..?
Open ControlsA 4th replay might just be pushing it.
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And it really was epic. Not many finals have re-rematches. Are we going to have another battle later in the season?
Open ControlsNow that you are begging....
Sounds like an idea.
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I think there is. But for a budget of 100M Messi and Ronaldo are something like 40m. So I believe you must choose one of them
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KOL, how was the Scotland Serbia game? I only got to see about about 20 minutes of it. Both teams look decent or was it a bit drab?
Open ControlsI think if there was another 90min both teams wouldn't score
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Morning mate, both teams were decent aye, although we lacked a finishing touch. Unsurprisingly Kolarov was their best attacking threat. Unhappy with the result as we should be winning all of our home games but id say a draw was a fair result. Away from the pitch it was a great day. Love being in the Tartan Army, win lose or draw we never disappoint in the post match piss up
Open ControlsHah, I can imagine the beers and whiskey were flowing nonetheless! 😉
Ah, fair enough. Suppose the good thing is that most teams will take points off each other so a massive points total won't be needed for 1st or 2nd.Open ControlsIndeed. Bagpipes playing beer getting downed, ah cant complain at all.
I agree although with that I think our group will be one of the groups where the 2nd place team doesnt get a play off place 🙁Open Controls
Serbia were there for the taking, but Levein is still too negatively minded...
We have the players to be causing any team problems, but Levein seems to insist on playing that headless chicken upfront on his own...
I'd like to see some changes in personnel for the Macedonia match... and Rhodes deserves his chance IMO...Open ControlsCan't Fletcher and Levein kiss and make up? He's a goalscorer for sure.
Open ControlsThe problem is with Fletcher not Levien. He has done all he can, Fletchers not interested so neither am I now.
Open ControlsIn fairness, if I was the Scotland manager and a player text me to tell me he didn't want to be considered for selection, I would have done the exact same thing...
That was pretty poor form from Fletcher to do that...
Granted, he would make us a better team...Open Controls
Its hard not to agree with this. He started against Australia and done well, i'd give him a chance.
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I would even play Mackie before Miller tbh.
Miller has been a grand servant for us but he was out on his feet for the last 25 mins. It seemed that everyone inside Hampden realised that a change was needed except Levein.Open ControlsI really like Mackie too. We've got an abundance of attacking mids just not many out and out strikers.
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gents, tryin to crawl into a better rank so am opt for wc this week. can u be so kind to RMWCT below:
Foster (begovic)
barnet cuellar jenkinson baines (gorkss)
cazorla hazard hba michu (guthrie)
rvp (c) tevez (lambert)
balance: 0!
Is this team looks OK, or do i need to do somemore changes to improve?
pls help..any thoughts are appreciated..thanks!Open ControlsIt's great but play Lambert over Barnett.
Open Controlsok thanks, lambert shld increase the chance of scoring against arsenal then chance of CS for barnett even at home..
any other thoughts?the rest looks ok huh? (although on paper..heh)Open ControlsNope the rest is great. Be prepared for Jenkinson to not play when Sagna's back though.
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http://www.chelseafc.com/news-article/article/2913143
Maybe it is old news but Cesar (Chelsea) finally in action.Open Controls
Morning all. Quick question, how many "transfers in" does it take to rise a players percentage .1 of a % on http://development.totalfpl.com/pricechanges
E.G. Carzola is on 95.8% at the minute with 87 transfers in , how may till he reaches 95.9?
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I use this site i find it easier to work out
http://www.fiso.co.uk/crackthecode.phpOpen ControlsWhy do you care about 95.9% ?
Open ControlsI just bought him. Give it a couple of minutes and refresh. It should be on 95.9%.
You can thank me later.Open Controlsup to 106 now but still at 95.8. Thought it might be 100 transfer in for a .1 rise but obviously not
Open ControlsI'm assuming you want to buy Santi prior to him getting to 9.1m?
Open ControlsJust curious as to how the percentages rise thats all
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It should be about 35 transfers as about 34472 transfers are required for a price rise.
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Your theory to back that conclusion up? Cause I went to tfpl's price changes on saturday of the first gw, and Michu rose first day itself, after calculating the trasfers in by the % going up, it came down to around 20,000 transfers in for 0.1 rise.
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It's very accurate now.Open Controls
Yup, this.
Approx 35k transfers for 100% price rise according to FISO and Total FPL, so 35 transfers for 0.1% increase.
Cazorla probably doesn't quite go up tonight, tomorrow I reckon.Open ControlsIf that. He's moving at a snails pace atm.
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Hi all i have had a dreadful start to season and could do with some input. My WC is active and just wondered if i could get a few opinions on this team. many thanks.Also have no spurs cover so another option is Yaya out for maybe Dembele and upgrade Defender.
Also a choice between
A Sterling or
B Guthrie
Begovic/Foster
Jenkinson Demel Cuellar Clyne Figueroa
Michu Hazard Sterling Cazorla Yaya
Berbatov Tevez Van Persie
Only 0.2 left in bankOpen Controls
Guthrie for me as he covers Michu's shite fixtures.
Open ControlsGood point.thanks
Open Controlswould you ever bench Michu though?
Open ControlsNo. Guthrie and Lambert to rotate for me. Once I bloody well own Lambert.
Open ControlsSo you'd bench Lambert who scored twice and assisted in about 100 minutes of football against the 2 best sides in the league?
Have a look at Michu's goals, no way he will score like that against good teams.Open ControlsLambert/gutrhie roatate perfect home /away from around gw 13. So I will look at doing that once I own Lambert(hopefully next week). But, yeah at the end of the day I won't play Guthrie much.
Until swans stop scoring there is no way I'm rotating Michu.Open ControlsId be inclined to bench Michu well before benching Lambert, 3 of Michu's goals have come from horrible defensive errors, and I havent seen the one vs Sunderland.
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Yes.
Open Controlsok fair enough... I have Guthrie but never plan on playing him. He's a sub to come on if someone doesn't play.. that's it...
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Probably not.
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Also much less rotation risk
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What is your grav of? I can't seem to visualise it....
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jackoffasaurOpen Controls
Ok one more Question then
A HBA
B Pineaar (isnt he a doubt?)
Many thanks for all inputOpen ControlsA
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A. But could u have both?
Open ControlsYeah he's a "doubt"...
As in, they made up an injury so he could miss out on the Internationals and be back fresh for GW4...
As an owner, I'm very OK with this...Open ControlsMany thanks for reply maybe hold on till closer to match day to make this decision.
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Morning.
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bit of a dilemma, the mrs could drop any day (due on Thursday), do I do my planned 4 point hit now or wait?
Ade & Al Ahmadi > Pog & Carzola
Team is
Jaask, Begovic,
Baines, S. Taylor, Jenkinson, Demel, Clyne
Hazard, HBA, Peinaar, Michu, ******
RVP, Tevez, *****Open ControlsDepends do you have internet on your phone?
If so then no.
Also Carzola likely to go up if you are tight on funds.
Good luckOpen ControlsYes i do have the net on my phone. Still might do it tomorrow night (after Spain game). hopefully his price won't have risen.
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Ade might well start(with a bang!) and expect Villa to do well... I prefer Lambert in place of Pog if in case you want to do it...
Open Controlscheers mate. I take it thats not for the team I've got? lol
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RB – CB – CB – LB just like everyone else's back 4.
Open ControlsI'd like to suggest that you offer responses to others first before you ask any more questions like this... It will give people more incentive to reply to you...
Quid pro quo and all that...Open Controls
Would you be interested in his opinion? 😉
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Open ControlsHaha, probably not tbh... 🙂
But still, he needs to get into the habit of at least offering it every once in a while... instead of this incessant and constant stream one line questions ...Open ControlsI think most people are realising how it works with him and he's going to struggle to get serious replies from anyone soon - these things work themselves out eventually 🙂
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Great team duel in the tomorrows game Scotland vs Macedonia Morrison vs Popov
Details below :
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/goran-popov-cant-wait-to-take-1315701Open Controls2-0 Morrison
Open ControlsAnd Ibraimi tipped again to score against McGregor 😀 like last year
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sqQ8RvYfELA#!Open Controls
Please rate:
---Jussi(Begovic)----
Cuellar-Saylor-Gibbs(Davies,Demel)
Michu-Cazorla-Hazard-Bale-(Guthrie)
Berbatov-RVP(c)-Tevez
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Looks sound. I wouldn't have gone for Bale, but reasonable minds can differ. Is there not still some concern about Davies? Didn't Laudrup just get in a free-transfer def? Worth looking into.
Open Controlsyes i knew that when i picked him. at the end of the day hes a 4.0 swansea defender. More than a steal. Ill just change him to Clyne again if he doesnt get nailed in the coming weeks.
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So you did;
Rudd > Begovic
Baines > Cuellar
Gunter > Gibbs
Kagawa > Cazorla
Clyne > Davies
Graham > Berbatov
For a 20 point hit?Open ControlsWell....?
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Just like every other WC team on here...
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Thoughts on this team, I'm on wildcard,
Jussi begovic
McAuly s.taylor jenkinson cuellar hughes
Michu hazard yaya fellani guthrie
Rvp tevez jelavicOpen ControlsEVEs all in the wrong places imo!
Open ControlsI think you should not have Fellani and Jelavic, I'd drop Fellani for someone cheaper and maybe get someone else other than Yaya as his luck might run out. Nice team otherwise.
Open Controlsi'd go fletcher or berba or lambert over jelavic as u hv fellaini already..
u're not into cazorla?Open ControlsI'd probably drop jelly man too.
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I think Jelavic is a good punt, ok he looks a little overpriced for a 3rd striker but personally I believe he'll get a lot more points than Fellaini over the next 10 games.
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Ha!
Building my WC I found out my current team has only 15 players from 15 different team - and I like this team:
Foster begovich
Vertonhen brains saylor gorkss Cuellar
Hazard cazorla michu nolan Maloney
Rvp lambert tevez
Can work? Anyone ever tried 1 player per team league?Open Controlscertainly spreading the risk. But at least 5 of the teams are going to loose every week.
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Open ControlsIf a team loses per say 3-2 , this means there are 2 goals any likely 2 assists on offer, this can also be said of 1-1/0-0 ,
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Chaps could I have your opinions on the following please.
A. Peinaar, Pog
B. Guthrie, Fletcher
Jaask, Begovic,
Baines, S. Taylor, Jenkinson, Demel, Clyne
Hazard, HBA, Carzola, Michu, ******
RVP, Tevez, *****
A gives me Everton coverage in Peinaar, although I have Baines, but I reckon peinaar is one of the bargains this year. Obviously pog / Guthrie would just be bench fodder.Open ControlsPienarr owner here so not impressed by him.
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be patient with Peanuts mate, he will come good 😉
Open Controlssorry daniel, i don't know what you mean. In not impressed by him are you saying your happy with him?
Open ControlsMeans I have him form the start and not happy with his points till now and his potential for future points too. Meaning if I was on WC I would surely sold him by now
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Just finalising my WC team.
Pienaar + Podolski
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Barfa + Berba
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Notoriously unreliable toon ITK just tweeted that colo is out for a month. He is probably just guessing, so don't do anything with this information until you hear something more concrete, but i would certainly have a plan B, if your current WC draft has toon defenders!!
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Open ControlsIts only that cwarr07 guy, and he is wrong 99% of the time. So no need to hang ourselves just yet. But he has been known to get one or two right in his time!!
Open ControlsI'm a natural pessimist - prefer to be pleasantly surprised if I'm going to be surprised at all 🙂
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Amazing what 12 months can do - would have driven him to another club myself this time last year, got a real soft spot for him now 🙂
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Seriously, is Perchinio now worth a spot in my WC team?
Open ControlsI wouldn't. He has improved massively, but our defence without colo is likely to be leaky!
Open ControlsProbably not - it's a bit like when everyone got Hilario last year because Cech was out, Chelsea conceded goals (because Cech was out) and then everyone needed to transfer him out because it was only a short-term injury.
Slight potential for some relatively low short-term gains followed by definite need to transfer him out. Avoid imo.Open Controls
If he can keep up his form of the 2nd half of last season, he is an able deputy for most defenders. But colo is the glue that holds us together, so can't really be replaced
Open ControlsAbsolutely - Colo makes our defence.
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He's one of those I've been keenly following right from preseason... Won't bank on Toon's def expecially after all these injury concerns..
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Damn n Blast. Morning CM.
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Djokovic me thinks, more experienced player and all that.
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Djoker for me.Open ControlsGoing with Murray for some reason! The man's just too talented not to win a grand slam!
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Best CL defender for 5.5??
Open Controlsconfused. wildcarding and 1 more spot left for 4m defense, which 1 shld i take?
1. o'brien (afraid he won't play when mc'cartney back from injury)
2. barnett (can i expect cs from him?)
3. clyne
*for long-term..currently choosing barnett. already have gorkss
also for 3rd striker
1. lambert
2. graham
3. disanto
4. long
currently choosing lambert.
this is for long-term...appreciate ur comment. thanks!Open Controls
demel. and get davies instead of gorkss if you can
definitely lambert!Open ControlsLaudrup is close to signing ex-Ajax LB Dwight Tiendalli - Davies is not going to get much/any gametime, surely?
Open Controlsi wish i can have demel..but nope short of 0.1m..if i pick demel then i wouldn't hv lambert..team value only 101.5m..arghhh!
specifically can have a combination of 10m for 1 def & 1 forward..so who wld u reckon? can't resist on lambert long-term..or is there any other better forward less than 6m?Open Controls
Which two should i have in the next gameweek? Opinions? Pls??
Baines, Ben Arfa, Rafael, RiiseOpen ControlsWhat do people think about Sexy Assaidi for Liverpool as a prospect?
Look at his first goal in this video, both amazing and unbelievably arrogant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz3O9ojTolMOpen ControlsWhat an arrogant finish that first backheel was 🙂
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