Champions League Picks – Matchday 1

Hi guys,

have had a very busy weeks now starting a demanding new educational program, so have not had the time to hang around these forums or spending much time on my team. Luckily, my team is not totally screwed.

So would love some advice.

Migs, Boruc
Mert, Terry, Reid, Coleman, Chester
Walcott, Silva, HBA, Snodgrass, Kim Bo-Kyung
Soldado, Benteke, Lambert

Bank: 1.0

What single move would you do with this team? Would you do WC?

Would really love some input!

Probably not the answer you're looking for, but it's an absolute both for me..... I had both this past week and don't plan on moving either anytime soon unless Lamela comes in and proves he's worth the extra $1 mil over Eriksen.

If you can't go with both for whatever reason, I rate Michu a bit higher as he's more of a goal threat imo

Michu more of a goalscorer than Eriksen.

IMO Michu will outscore Ericsen. Lamela should be the one you should compare Michu with.
Would you do Cout--->Michu tonight before the price fall?

Michu more likely to get goals

Eriksen more likely to get assists

Michu more likely to get bonus

Michu will play as lone striker when Bony out

Soldado and Lamela have yet to start scoring in earnest for Spurs, there's a lot of goals to share there

Michu and Bony are the only two really expected to score goals regularly for Swansea, and Bony is having both fitness troubles, and it seems a bit of trouble adjusting to the new team and/or league

Both have Europa league games as well, but Eriksen is on a bigger club where the manager can afford to play a completely different 11 in the Europa league than in the Prem

help?

Really don't think Eriksen is in a danger of rotation. Like GW 1 and 2 showed, Spurs have almost no creativity in the final third and Eriksen fixed that instantly

I've went for Draxler but I am not that knowledgable about German football.

Draxler

Farfan on pens when Huntlaar not playing

I would do it now... Who are your other midfielders?

its also telling me to Capt Walcott for 5 of the next 6 weeks WTF?

Forca Forca Forca ahahaha. We all saw Soldado..

cheers pepin

be quite about Soldado C 😉

i wanna have true differential this gw

Really good table that Pepin

Pepin - you are misleading yourself. Have a look at this:

http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/2283/

and then this:

http://members.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/my-stats-tables/view/939/

Crazy stats! Was not expecting them figures for spurs .. Great stuff Eva

No WC needed. Just take a hit and reassess next GW.

Maybe Lambert > Giroud & Silva > Michu/Eriksen/Moses

1FT spare or 2?

No, they all go towards one week. Only difference is you can sub on players if you get an underperformance in day one and you can change the armband as well

Same round, but captain change and substitutions allowed.

No, same round. But you can switch players and captaincy. There's also points for recovered balls (benefits defenders and defensive mids), no BAPs, and extra subs are just -2

Try splitting your team into 1st and 2nd day split. At end of each first day you can sub players for next day players and change your captain if you think the next day guys will do better. Always start your first day players no matter how poorly you expect them to be.

Mine captain too..is he stil on pens?

Makes me want a Spurs defender as well. And convinced me to keep Soldado.

Cheers Pepin 🙂

nice one 🙂

Soldado C looks even better now

Superb article, great work ITYT. People should give it a read as its a great insight into how AVB is implementing his Porto system at Spurs. Note the overloading, attacking full backs (especially on the overloaded side) and one of the midfielders in the 4-3-3 drifting forwards.

At Porto the goals were shared by the three forward players, with the left wing-forward cutting in (Hulk) Followed by the center forward (Falcao) and the right wing-forward/winger Varela. Belushchi was the midfielder pushing up to support Falcao and/or overloading Hulk's side, with Sapanaru, the right back marauding forward and occupying the gaps Hulk would leave.

As it stands it wouldn't be too outlandish to make the following comparisons:

Hulk: Lamela
Falcao: Soldado
Bellushci: Eriksen
Sapanaru: Kyle Walker

Crafty managers should keep an eye on the Spurs' team sheets and draft in some of those players in 'key' positions for Spurs, if they're confident of AVB's lineups post Europa League.

Thanks!

I'd go with Sam and Licht. Josue is too much of an unknown for me and love the OOP potential for both Sam och Licht.

Sam + Lichsteiner is what I'm rolling with

sam , lich

Who is Sam?

Definitely B.

A and get Kroos as well.

A

B even though I am not sold on the value of neither Mkih nor Aubameyang

No Barca 😯

Shouldn't be.

I think they'll give the new kid a run.

Balotelli and Cavani

Balo and Cavani

Villa & Kiessling

Balotelli and Villa

Michu.

Coutinho to HBA, and then upgrade a striker?

Coutinho to flavorful cheapie

Campbell to Bentenke or Sturridge

OR

Coutinho to flavorful mid-price

Lambert to Bentenke or Sturridge

flavorful = price rising hotness

prefer Bentenke over Sturridge myself

Sweet jesus. FIFA14 isn't out yet sir.

Yes, but you are 58 years old yourself right?

Susan Sarandon, the OC

original cougar

thought prices are protect *after* flag removed

flag just makes the numbers required to move larger, not impossible

methinks right?

I'm with ya there!

The cool kids are doing Aaba (c) 😎 YOLO

never a doubt

oh this changes things, sold him as I didn't think he would.

I'm surprised how few people have picked Porto players. They're mostly underpriced, and Mangala has huge scoring potential for a CB. He will pick up the odd booking for his aggressive style though.

At 4.5 Josué is bargain, but even though he's nailed on for tonight, he might not be for the following GWs. Defour will be back from suspension and Varela has just come back from an injury, as well as Quintero making a claim for the starting 11.

He'll definitely get minutes every game though, and as I've mentioned on another post, if he's on the pitch, Josué will take spotkicks.

Just 2. Nolan > Eriksen

how many free transfers you have?

how much money in bank you have?

Bernard and Josué

Josue & Bernard.

Definitely Josué and Bernard.

Josué is definitely starting tomorrow and will most likely take spot kicks (took the last three, successfully).

Don't know if Bernard has been starting at Shakhtar, but the kid is impressive and should start, with the potential of scoring lots as well as setting up.

I think BFS will be on Ravel's case for a while. Collins.

Ravel for the flair

Collins for safety

I'd go Ravel