Next up in this week’s series of articles focusing on goal threat are the forwards. Having analysed the midfielders yesterday, we turn our attentions to the men up front. First, we take a look at the potential hinted at by our very own ICT Index before digging deeper into the Opta statistics, highlighting a variety of crucial attacking indicators from the top 20 forwards in terms of goal attempts over the first seven Gameweeks of the new season…
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Damo
You still about?Open Controls
More stats to confuse me.
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In fairness to Suarez & Defoe, they're really into having a few shots. Think I'll get Suarez. Ah well.
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I just watched the rerun of WBA v Pool opening day. Suarez must have missed around 4 glorious chances. No way can he be picked ahead of Berb and Ba.Open ControlsHe is frustrating, quite very. Potentially the best (c) option this week tho. I'm so bored I've done countless permutations, gradually becoming a little insane. I'll take an 8pt hit this week. That's what time can do, abhorring a vacuum'n'all that.
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So RVP should have stayed at Arsenal...
Open ControlsCould work out better for Arsenal and their all round performances that he didn't. Good old doctor hindsight.
Open ControlsI know.
I dont mind that he chose to leave, its just the timing of it. Every season he said that he wasnt happy with the lack of ambition shown by Wenger's transfer policy. Wenger buys Cazorla, Giroud and Podolski and then RVP leaves! Maybe he had been told to leave in order to finance the moves, in which case it is understandable.Open Controls
I don't have to be a member to know that Suarez squanders a ridiculous amount of chances but has 'bags of potential' and is eventually 'going to explode'
saying that, I do own him.
Come on Bucky O Hare!Open ControlsCaptain this week.. 😎
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Santi (C) v Norwich
3 Assists 1 Goal and 3 bonus points for the little Spaniard 😀Open ControlsDamn is that all. 🙁
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Santi is a great choice this week, can easily see arse scoring 4/5 and him having a hand in most of them
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Wish I had him, oh well, missed that bandwagon.
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Is anyone else considering crouch after this gw?
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Friedal
Rafael Demel Baines
Michu Nolan Barfa Bale
Rvp(C) Di Santo Tevez
Currently 38,319th.Open Controls
i wouldn't captain vp against stoke.
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Open ControlsYeah? No arsenal coverage worries me
Open ControlsI have Santi. Team is linked.
Open ControlsJussi
Ivanovic Hughes Baines
Hazard Santi (C) Morrison Pienaar
Tevez RVP Fletcher.
11,337.
Might do Fletcher to Berba if he's fit later on in the week.Open ControlsGood rank, good team....santi captain could be the difference. I would berba too. Not sure on morrison for the next 2 though...i just transfered him out to nolan for 2 then get him back him.
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I'd captain Nolan.
Open ControlsThat could be a good shout scroobius hmmmm
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Friedel 😕
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Jussi
Baines Vermaelen Ivanovic
Michu Pienaar Santi(c) Silva
Berba Podolski FletcherOpen ControlsNice team but think mine nicks it, close though
Open ControlsRank:863-if you know something i dont, please let me know!!
Open ControlsNice rank that. you've obviously done well all season...im taking about this gameweek only...i personally think il outscore u. Just my opinion.
Open Controlsyeah but i am really hoping to push this good start and finally get a decent rank this season- so i need all the help i can get.
Currently i have torres instead of podolski so if you have any advice at all,...?Open Controls
my teams gonna take yours apart 😛
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If only mirallas was classed as a midfielder he would be in my team, stats are impressive and he plays on the wing!
Open ControlsSame he's almost an OOP but to the negative
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Foster, Fed
Baines, A.Cole, Demel, R Benett, Hangeland
Hazard, Bale, Sterling, Maloney, Pienaar
RVP, Tevez, Graham
1ft. 0.2m
Any advice on transfers? A lot of issues in the team.Open Controls
Hazard to Cazorla.
Graham to Lambert next weekOpen Controls
Cape Verde, population 567,000, have just beaten Cameroon 3-2 on aggregate to qualify for AFCON 2013. Earlier on, Ethiopia squeezed past Sudan on away goals (5-5 on aggregate).
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hmmm.. Rvp
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let'snot start that debate again 😉
Open Controlsi'm keepin.. struggled to get him in and will struggle again later when i want him back. gonna leave him in and work my team around him
Open ControlsSeason keeper for me bar injury. Had him since gw 2, although hes not really explosive atm hes ticking along fpl wise with 5 and 6's which im happy with for now. Rooney back will help massively, he can now stay forward and let rooney do the work for him
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let'snot all other Suarez instead... 😉
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Go Felix! highest skydive in history on it's way!!!
Open Controlswhich channel?
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The commentator can't help but use the americanised version of his name. Bumgardener.
Unfortunate.Open Controlswhat height does he begin?
Open ControlsHe's cheating.
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Suarez stats are brilliant as him
Open Controlsrvp's stats are bad but i'd still trust gettin value out of rvp @ 4 million more over suarez
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Hint: Check his shot conversion rate and goal conversion rate
Open Controlsi dont care...as manny he taking that amount of chanses he will score
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Perfect summation. Brilliant yet an utter letdown.
Open ControlsEnjoy it. You'll be dining on that for the rest of the season. 😉
Open Controlsi'll enjoy in this week hattrick 🙂
Open ControlsI love your optimism Forca. But infectious it ain't. 😉
Open Controlsafter 6 Capitan fails this season it's time that Suarez deliver +15pts 😉
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I would like to remind you that Suarez has scored more than 1 goal in the PL only twice in his PL career 🙂
Open Controlsi would remind you that Suarez has scored more goals than RVP in carrer and he is much younger
Open ControlsRVP came good in last 2 seasons
look at his stats before
he has been very poor in his first few years in PLOpen Controlsno he didnt
apps goals
2004–05 41 10
2005–06 38 11
2006–07 31 13
2007–08 23 9Open Controlsoh dear,you dont even know how LONg RVP playing for Arsenal
those are Arsenal stats
Suarez destry RVP in every aspect of football game,END of STORYOpen Controls
LOL at Graham stats and him even mentioned in here
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guys, wats your opinion about reading defense? iam planning to captain suarez..i have santi too..really confused :O
Open ControlsSanti is not a very good C option IMO- does not look like one to produce explosive scores. Suarez on the other hand could get lucky with the amount of shots he is taking.
Open Controls?I've watched every Arsenal game and Santi takes 3-4 shots every game i've seen him and is on most set pieces, and has a brilliant final pass. defo not a modric or even a silva type. top scorin mid imo
Open ControlsI mean that he is not a C option more like silva who will get stabile assist in most games and will pop up with an odd goal. If you watch the games than you know most of his shots are from outside the box. And conversion rate for shots outside of the box is about 5%- so unlikely to get 2 in 1 game what you would like from your captain.
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reading have been conceding goals. Suarez is a genius one week then so frustrating the next.
But i am going to captain him.Open Controlsi rate reading's defense over norwich actually.. both are pretty horrendous though. cant go wrong either way
Open ControlsSuarez at home would make sense.
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Any owners of Hazard and not Cazorla not doing the Hazard-Caz transfer?
Open ControlsI have both and looking at Hazard -> Silva/Mata to free up cash for McAuley -> Gibbs/Vertonghen
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It is a good transfer, I have Cazorla and planning to do Hazard to Bale
Open ControlsIn the same boat myself but have Mata instead. I keep changing my mind every day
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The Devil makes work for idle hands.... 8pt hit and still got 4 yellow/amber flags.. 😀
Open ControlsSpill the beans WR, what you gone and done? *prepares the straight jacket...*
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Cazorla Gera Berbatov 😀Open ControlsI take it you couldn't do just Caz and Berbs... Can't think you do a further -4 for Gera?
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Gera, nice
Open ControlsSlipped under a lot of radars, has scored more points than Maloney despite playing three games less.. 😉
Open ControlsThere is a reason he slipped under the radar...
Open ControlsYep, he was injured for three games....
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The lack of differentials on here is strange. I might go for Lukaku if I knew he'd start, but my Popov punt has failed so far. Good luck with it!
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Why is there no talk of Torres? He has been very consistent this season and offer absolutely no threat of rotation
Open ControlsI would like him but there are too many forwards options, most cheaper.
Open ControlsRVP/Tevez/Aguero/Ba/Berbatov/Fletcher/Lambert/Rooney/Jelavic/Crouch....... plus Torres
Pick only 3 and click checkout. 😉Open ControlsI already have Ba and Jelavic but selling RVP is the idea I am toying with and Torres could be a great buy. He is very very under the radar
Open ControlsIf you have no other Chelski cover it's not a bad pick. So many points scorers in their line up you may have to be patient.
Not being on pens at 10m is a deal breaker though.Open Controls
Good job Mirallas is classified as a forward or there would be too many Toffees to choose from.
Open Controlsi would choose him over Pienaar anyday if he is classed as midfilder
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It's rare that I actually think beyond my fantasy team, but who do you guys think will win the league this year?
I have to say I can't see a front runner. I'd be interested to see how well you think Everton will do as well.Open ControlsUnited. And 6th.
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It's probably going to be a 3 horse race between the Manc teams and Chelsea. I'd love to see Everton in the top 4, but more realistically they will do what Newcastle did last year - finish in a Europa spot, and definitely finish as the top team in Liverpool. It's probably going to be Arsenal rounding up the top 4 followed by Spurs and Everton.
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Tranmere will be the top team in Liverpool!
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one suggestion to this type of articles:
it should be able to have an interactive table, where we can click on things like 'goal attempt in box' and sort them in that order, instead of the default oneOpen Controls
Yep, good point although the user based tables coming soon (next week hopefully) will allow us to create the tables above and share them up, linking in articles so you not only get full interaction but the ability to retrieve the table whenever you want and apply filters.
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RMWT...
Begovic, Jaask
Baines Caulker Wisdom Hughes Cuellar
Santi Bale Pienaar Routledge Sterling
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Ok scouters , current squad
Jas , begovic
Rafael , Baines , Gibbs , Clyne , Gunter
Bale , fellani , Maloney , carzola , Michu
Suarez , Rvp , lambert
Ok have decided this to get :-
Aguero for Suarez
Walters for Michu
So this week fellani has to go to fund this (reluctantly but injured and fixtures stiffen ish)
Choices (that both rotate nicely with Maloney )are:-
Taarabt - rotation risk , but likes a shot
Sterling - cheaper , better team ...but so far poor stat of 1 shot per 89 mins
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is rooney a useful pick now ?
Open ControlsI think Felix is going to fail ;x
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Current defence:
Foster Bego
Baines McAuley Demel Nelson Clyne
Freeing up funds to upgrade McAuley, budget of 6.7m --> thinking Vertonghen/Gibbs/Sagna
Any others that could hold hands with Leighton in my team each week and rotate the other 3?Open ControlsKolarov, you know you want to..... At his price you can stand the no shows, (which should get less frequent) 😉
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Begovic, Jaaskelainen
Baines, Gibbs, Clichy, Cuellar, Clyne
Mata, Michu , Sterling, Cazorla , Fellaini
Lambert , Suarez , Aguero
1ft. 1.6m
Any advice on transfers? A lot of issues in the team.Open ControlsDinamika...whos that in ur grav????? Sterling to nolan
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You would then have a 6m+ player to bench every week from your front 8. Sterling is a great budget option id keep. Maybe clichy to a more reliable and attacking defender? Upgrade Michu after this week?
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Felix is going to fail I think.
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