While Sunday brought a rather tepid conclusion to the weekend’s action, the lack of incident allowed us more time to digest the numbers behind the Gameweek so far. In this latest foray into the depths of our members data, we offer further insight on the performances of Adel Taarabt, Raheem Sterling and David Silva not only for this weekend, but the last four Gameweeks and season so far. As for Glen Johnson, well, we’ll let the numbers do the talking…
Just went to pick my team for next week, no transfers needed 😉 Will have 2 freebies next week for first time this season. Useful time to have them, protects my wc a bit also.
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I'm keen on doing the same but i have zero Chelsea or Spurs cover at the moment. I see you have both though
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Doesn't the prospect of no City coverage this week scare the sh!t outta ya?
Open ControlsCan't have them all 😉 Swopping any of my team this week could blow up in my face!
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Ughh. Don't get me started.
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Please don't. My FB is clogged up as it is without this site getting over run.
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Ya, seen it, quality, he was never a hitman anyway, Good riddance 🙂
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Team at the moment for GW18 (BANK = £0.2m, 1 free transfer):
Foster(NOR)
Johnson(FUL) Rafael(swa) Santon(QPR)
Michu(MUN) Sessegnon(sou) Sterling(FUL) Silva(RDG)
Suarez(FUL) Ba(QPR) Van Persie(swa)
subs - Begovic, Demel, Nelsen, Fellaini
Any suggestions on what to do this week? I have no Chelsea or Spurs cover at the moment so i guess Bale or Mata are both good options. Can't get either without a hit though, reckon it's worth it or just take my chances with the team above and bank a transfer?Open Controls
Save imo
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I'd save the FT until next week.
Open ControlsBank the transfer imo, Bale and Mata won't rise in the meantime.
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Very similar team and I'm probably going to do Fellaini > Mata/ Bale and Rafael > Gibbs/SomeoneElse
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Guess I'm in the minority, but I think Fellaini and Sess out for Bale/Mata (I prefer Bale if he's fit) and Taarabt/Puncheon looks worth a hit.
Open ControlsHow do you see the Chelsea and Spurs games going? Villa's recent resurgence makes that a tougher game for Chelsea than i thought it would have been a couple of weeks ago. Similarly with Spurs, i can't see Stoke being an easy game.
Open ControlsThat's true. I still would pick both teams to score at least 2 though, Stoke are good, but they haven't really played a good attacking side away from home (Norwich, West Brom, West Ham, Villa) since United in week 8. And even though they've been up and down, I still think Chelsea are a better team than the likes of Liverpool, who did control the game against Aston Villa.
Open ControlsYep fair enough, can't really argue with that
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Save, it's looking good.
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You are obviously willing to lose about 0.3m on Fellaini then yeah?
Open ControlsOh yeah he can piss right off
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Ok thanks boys. I'm not keen on taking a hit for either Bale or Mata. I actually think Aguero might be the only one i'd consider a hit for but i can't really drop any of my 3 forwards
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whos your captain this week? and maybe to save money you can donwgrade felliani this week in preparation for bale and mata next week. every 0.1m counts
Open ControlsYeah that isn't a bad plan i suppose although i'd really prefer 2 FTs next week. I can afford a 0.1 drop on Fellaini without it effecting my selling value so that gives me a bit of leeway
Open Controlsfair enough but if your deffo set on taking out felliani and pretty certain on bringing in bale/mata for sess then wont hurt to do the felliani transfer this week to whoever cheap mid your thinking of.
come the wildcard, you will be thinking if only i had an extra 0,1m lol. it always happensOpen Controls
A) Fellaini > Mata/Bale
B) Fellaini > Tarrabt
C) Fellaini + Sess > Mata/Bale + Tarrabt (-4 Hit)
My Front 8 is: Silva, Michu, Fellaini, Sess, Sterling, RVP, Suarez, Berb
1FT 2.5 in the bank
Any thoughts?Open ControlsA, Bale if fit.
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12th overall in Irish Times game for December, 500 for first at end of month. Could be sweet, any one here playing it?
Open ControlsJust FPL for me. Can't even handle UCLFF.
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Are there more than 12 participating?
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bench taarbat or sterling?
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tough decision 0.3 in the bank and 1FT
Pick one
A) Suarez & Fellaini --> Aguero & Pienaar
B) Fellaini & Defoe --> Mata & Beneteke
C) Fellaini & Defoe --> Silva & Beneteke
D) Cazorla --> Mata
E) Cazorla --> SilvaOpen ControlsI like the Aguero in part of option A. But I don't really like the Suarez out part.
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TIL 2 dimensions just isn't enough...
http://i.imgur.com/YO2Hg.gif
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http://i.imgur.com/FE27e.gifOpen ControlsI could look at those for hours....
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V cool
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Wordpress posts are pretty crap. Bring on a forum template! Meanwhile.... thoughts on team?
Begovic | Jus
Lowton | Sagna | Johnson | Cameron | Nelsen
Sess | Fellaini | Sterling | Michu | Bale
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The big talking 49ers are about to be taught a lesson.
Belichick + Brady have been looking forward to this one all season --- bring it on...... 🙂
New England 38 San Fran 13
Tune in to C4 and watch a proper sport.Open Controls
A proper sport? Oh brother.
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1/2 seems generous with PP I'm on it, well that is if the Steelers don't let me down.
Open ControlsOoooh, goody ... are the Pats back to cheating again? That's when they were their best!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EU1O-hGxggOpen ControlsI'm on -4.5, think the pats should cover
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So inspired by that Silva christmas schedule review I took a look at Agueros.
dec18 Arsenal H full game
dec21 Stoke H full game
dec26 West Brom A 74
jan01 Sunderland A on at 45 (lost 0-1)
jan03 Liverpool H 71
jan08(cup game vs man utd) full game
jan11(cup game vs Liverpool) full game
So as an analysis it looks like 1 game rest is probably something that Mancini has in the plans for all of his top guys as Aguero probably would not have played vs Sunderland had they been ahead.
Looking at the games where he got less minutes we probably see that the reason for a rest were the cup games, this year they have Watford on Jan 5 so that can be used to make reserves happy. They do have more strikers this year, but id still expect Mancini to use his best striker as much as possible.
Looking at the pattern from last year Id say the rest will come vs Norwich away, as this would be the most logical way of getting the most out of his players while getting them at least a 4 day break each game.Open ControlsThanks for this, this is comforting 😀
Open Controlsthey had some tough fixtures last xmas tho so he relied more on ageuro. reading at home is easiest game they have got so perfect chance to give reserves a chance maybe???
Open ControlsI thought so too. But after reading they have a 4 day rest until the SUN away game, than 3 days rest until NOR away and than 3 day rest until STO away. So my logic was based on Mancini not wanting to play his guys with only 3 days rest in such a compact schedule.
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His best striker is Carlito.
Open ControlsI personally dont think so but what is more important Mancini seems to disagree with you. Leaving him on the bench for most of the important games this season.
Open ControlsAnd those games -- Ars/draw, Che/draw, United/loss -- argue that a.) Mancini is wrong and b.) he'll eventually recognize it.
Open ControlsDraw with Liverpool, draw with Stoke, Loss to Villa in the cup, Draw with West Ham, Ajax and Everton and loss to Dortmund speak otherwise. Im thinking he knows what he is doing.
Open ControlsHe started those games, at least the PL ones, so I don't know what you are saying.
And being patronizing isn't support for your contention.Open ControlsIm not being patrionizing. You just brought out examples of tough matchups that have gone wrong bc of the benching of Tevez in your opinion, whereas they could have ended up that way anyway given the level of the opponents. At the same time Tevez has started many easyer fixtures and failed to produce anything.
Open ControlsChrist, I'm not cherrypicking anything, you claimed he had been benched for the "the important games".
In those games, where he did not start, City did poorly. There are obviously a lot of factors, but the derby showed you the value/worth of Carlos. If you want to think that Kun's the best, fine.
But you're wrong.Open Controls
ageuro is number 1 striker. he needs ageuro for big games. reading at home aint a big game thats what worries me abt bringing him in
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Good work. Care to link me up to the one about Silva you refer to?
Open ControlsIt was similar stuff a page back I think, but it was basically identical to this at least in terms of game time and minutes played. So it seems at least last year his plan was to give 1 game to his reserves.
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Thought this wouldn't happen but I'm swaying towards a punt on Silva, a player I don't really believe at all in for FPL. Feels so easy with the Jan WC to fall back on, and an easy swap to Bale when I want him.Open ControlsBale is probably the only big hitting mid who wont get rotated, but he has the suspension issue. Im going all in with Silva and Aguero so I was very interested in this. Im thinking that GW20 might be a rotation nightmare all round. Better get those benches healthy.
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Only a select few of the big players will get through this period without the random rest.
It will be carnage on Here when RVP gets his, which I am fairly sure he will.Open ControlsAbsolutely, im kind of hoping Rooney wont get his rest given SAFs statement last week on him needing to play to get fitter. Saying that I think Roo is more likely to get an early sub in more than 1 game when they are ahead but RVP more likely to start on the bench making captaining him less risky. Blaah pointess to think about, it will probably come out of the blue 😀
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Drop but not tonight
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Advice needed.
jussi beg
GJ mcauley demel (fonte & williamson)
mata fellani santi dempsey (sterling)
berb RVP ba
1ft, so tempted for fellani to pienaar, demsey to michu & berbs to torres.. 8 point hit tho is it worth it??!!!
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Have you considered Fellani or Dempsey to someone cheap , and Berbs to Aguero
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Fellaini just rose. I don't know about anyone else, but this didn't affect my selling price. If he drops 0.2m or 0.3m, i would then lose just 0.1m by keeping hold. Even so, i really can't see him dropping that much, i can see casual Fellaini owners just keeping hold of him. I don't think you should spend hits to get him out unless you don't have adequate replacements.
Open ControlsHe rose last night. But it's more than just price drops, carrying dead wood around Christmas could be bad.
Open ControlsI agree, this is why you need adequate replacement. I am getting rid next week for sure.
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I'm actually half thinking of losing that 0.1m so I don't need to take a hit this week...but he could fall 0.3m if the news spreads, no?
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I want either Silva or Mata this week but would have to take a hit. I'll probably hold Fellaini at least for another week. Might move Cazorla >>Silva this week though.
Open ControlsCazorla has Wigan coming up.
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Great point. The other great consequence of that price rise is that as a Santi owner and a Mata coveter, I can afford to wait until after tomorrow's match and Wednesday's cup tie and hopefully lose 0.1 maximum as I see what they do. Hate making transfers before all matches are clear.
Open ControlsMy problem is that I thought it was a genius idea to get kacaniklic to fund Aguero last week... Ergo I need somebody who will play. Fellaini must go 🙁
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Ba could be the man for the armband this week no?
Open ControlsWBA v. WHM - 0-0. Cole and Brunt with BP, but no WHM defender. WHM were under the kosh all game. Seems like they might save the BP for the attacking players when they were, er, successful. I am waiting to see how many blocks and cut outs Collins and Reid had. Yes, I had Reid in, so bitter.
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any news of bale, if he isn't starting v stoke I am getting rid.
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I'm thinking Betbatov /Fellaini out for Torrres/puncheon?
or should i be ditching suarez?Open ControlsOPTIMUS
Your cover is blown,
Cox by name, Cox by nature eh? 🙂
Pity I couldn't give Frankie Boyle a heads up before you went to see him, how was it actually?Open Controls
Furious Balotelli takes on Man City in tribunal over £340,000 fine for bad behaviour
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2248906/Mario-Balotelli-Manchester-City-tribunal-340-000-fine.htmlOpen ControlsTalk me out of doing Fellaini ➡ Taarabt ?
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Job done
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Don't do it.
Open ControlsWho would you choose for 8.6
Have Michu, Sterl, Caz and Yaya (RVP, Defoe, Giroud)Open Controls- Open Controls
Team is, Jask,
Baines, Johnson, Clyne
Puncheon, Mata Cazorla Michu
Defoe, Rvp Suarez
Bench, Begs, Demel, Hughes,Sterling Very tempted to captain Suarez, unsure about benching Sterling also, any thoughts appreciated.Open Controls
Who would you play?
Berbatov v (liv)
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Hello chaps and chapesses, sorry about the old Rooney 0 prediction, thought De Gea's 2 blocks would just squeeze him out the mix just.
Regarding a possible Myhill and Jaask confusion, whislt Jaask made 1 extra FPL save Myhill made 1 extra save in total if you include crosses caught/claimed, wouldn't look at distribution and things like that. If in doubt 'The Scout' explains all the bps at the end of the gameweek on the FPL site.Open ControlsCheers Appl...I mean Bap Chap
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We need you to step up your game as this is just plain unacceptable !!
Only joking, of course. I look forward to your insight after each run of games. Keep it up and thank you. Bo)Open Controls
Worth doubling up on City players due to favourable fixtures?
I've already got Silva, but was thinking of getting in Aguero/Tevez/Yaya...?Open ControlsI think that match could well be 3, 4 or 5-0, so is worth a punt, IMO...
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Ant advice.
I'm leading all my leagues.
Foster.begovic
Clyne nelson McCartney Enrique cuellar
Tarrabt michu Walcott Stirling sessegnon
Tevez Rvp Suarez
I Ft
Any ideas??
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A for the shorter term... less annoying pointless rotation from Mancini
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Ahead of the next game week... what would be the best transfer?
1) Ba to Tevez (home to Reading)
2) Fellaini to Mata (home to Villa)
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11 years, 4 months agowill bale be fit for nw? I remember AVB saying he will be out max till stoke trip faintly.....