This evening’s Members article takes a look over the action in Sunday’s Community Shield showdown between Arsenal and City. Having assessed Alexis Sanchez’ display our lunchtime Technical Area post, we delve into the data to discover for any hints of form ahead of the weekend Gameweek 1 deadline.
Not sure how people are going about a 3-4-3. While Rooney and Costa seem the obvious choices for slots one and two, the third spot has no great options!
Unless you're adding Sturridge and sacrificing your midfield, are there any real options? Giroud and Dzeko seem popular, but are they really that great when you can consider swapping one of them for a 9.0 midfielder in a 3-5-2?
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How is this fron 8 a'lookin?
Eriksen, Ramsey, Aranautovic, Sterling
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Very promising front 8. Arnautovic a real differential. 3 strikers from teams who will score a lot too.
Please can I get some opinions on my team? Any feedback appreciated.
Begovic/Krul
Lovren/Debuchy/Morgan/Bruce/Wisdom
Fabregas/Mata/Ramsey/Sterling/Mutch
Rooney/Bent/CostaOpen Controlslovren and debuchy a waste. look at their fixtures, very bad. dont just get people because they are exciting new signings.
Your mids are great, however again having costa and fabregas is a waste. only costa needed.
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It's pretty template so ok. Dzeko and arnie are the most debatable inclusions in my mind but nothing wrong with them
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Arnie > Young (Do it)
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only 3 more sleeps left 🙂
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Please RMT
COURTOUIS GILKS
CAHILL JONES CHAMBERS NAYLOR BARTLEY
MATA STERLING RAMSEY SIG MUTCH
COSTA ROONEY AUSTIN
* could potentially change chambers and Naylor into 4.0 mils, Mutch to aluko and Austin to fletcher, allowing me to bring on Erikson or lamela for sig.
Opinions??Open ControlsDecent First XI and sounds like you've worked out your transfer options too. I think Aluko, Fletcher and Eriksen/Lamela would be handy options to bring in.
Open ControlsCourtois is a bad pick. not a guaranteed starter with cech still around and he is overpriced. balance your defence a little more. mids are good but ive never liked siggy
Open ControlsWell my reasoning is I already have Costa and Cahill as chelsea players and originally had fabregas with Begovic in goal. By having a Chelsea keeper, who is guarenteed a huge amount of clean sheets, I was able to fit sterling into my team. My thought behind this was that courtouis ( if he starts) and sterling will gain more points than Begovic and fabregas. What do you think?
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Anyone think aluko could be a great 5.0 mil OOP with the news of long to Southampton?
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Did a draft league for the first time on Fantrax today.
Would definitely recommend it. First 5 rounds of draft are predictable but after that its pretty randomOpen Controls
I'm off to live in a field with music for a week with no internet, so this is it!!
Foster
Cahill | Chambers | Davies
Hazard(vc) | Ramsey | Barkley | Cabella
Rooney(c) | Costa | Jovetic
Subs: Myhill, Faurlin, PVA, Bruce
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Let us talk about Yaya Toure...
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I don't really have any clue about fantasy football, but I did it for a few weeks last year. Anyway made this team with help from someone, so any help would be good!
Krul - Myhill
Debuchy - Wisdom - Luis - Shaw - Ward
Lamela - Mata - Ramsey - Arnotovic - Puncheon
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I'd scrap Wisdom as he isn't guaranteed starting player.
Attack looks good although not sure about Arnautovic as he's looking poor in pre-season.
Maybe the following would be better...
Sigurdsson. Mata. Hazard. Marney. (Young for UTD has had a great pre-season but bit of a punt)Open ControlsHi thanks, who's Marney play for?
And ok, I'll look for someone to change WisdomOpen Controls
Woodward has supposedly set off to Cardiff to wrap up a deal on Di Maria. Thoughts?
Open ControlsThen I'll need to rejig my team!
Open ControlsLVG could face the same sweet worries as well. Di Maria is a winger, right? Surely he can't play RWB, I smell a change of formation and tactics if the deal goes through.
Open ControlsWhich makes Young AND Januzaj both invigorating prospects and a proper bargain at their FPL price.
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How did Ashley Young play today?
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who is the most likely to play 4.0 defender?
Open ControlsIve gone with Hutton
Open ControlsIn terms of nailed-on-ness I'd go Moore or Hutton
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A Hazard Ramsey Dzeko
B Sterling Carzola Costa
which is better?Open ControlsWilson played most minutes pre-season so may be ok for GW1 but after that who knows
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So do you guys reckon Kelly would be nailed on or just back-up ?
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Debuchy or Lovren?
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lovren
Open ControlsWell Liverpool are shit defensivly but Arsenal are without both their 1st choice defensive pairing so can neither work ?
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Impossible to gauge how Liverpool will be defensively this season, certainly unwise to use last season as a measure methinks.
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i have both, but if i had to choose just 1, then Debuchy, purely because of fixtures.
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mata(C)
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Quick bit of help.
1) Eriksen or Sterling??
2) Best cheap defender??
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Anyone here doing the Sun dream team? What does your team look like?
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Jelavic or Steven Fletcher?
Shane Long is no longer with Hull.Open Controls
Hazard or Fabregas from the start is making my head spin. It would be easier to downgrade from Haz
But his pre-season form and WC has not been inspiring - He's a lock for around the 200 point mark but if he get's off to a slow start then you could be playing catch up
So the question is:
Haz - Rambo - 8M - Henderson/Siggy - 4.5
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B.
I think Fabergé hits the ground running then everyone says shit he plays Leicester next week and you've got yourself a rise out of him to buy Hazard.
Did Hazards value not drop a bit last season when he bombed the DGW?Open Controls
I think b
Open ControlsCheers lads, hopefully Fabregas will shine - I think Hazard may have dropped, I just keep thinking about his start the season before last
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I like the Fab/Mata combo as well. United's fixtures are just so cake, there will surely be a lot of points for Mata.
Open ControlsAgree that Mata should pick up the points in the hole with those fixtures, would be concerned about going without him too
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I'll ask this now it's calm down a bit. Which would you prefer from A or B?
A). Henderson, Fabregas, Mata
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B). Young, Hazard, SterlingOpen Controls
Is anyone else got Tadic on here or is it just me?
Open ControlsJust you. Can wait one week as opening fixture isn't great for him anyway.
Open ControlsIve just put him back in today
With the arrival of Long im hoping he will get some decent assist returns if Pelle turns out to be a donkeyOpen ControlsI've been thinking about him. I can kind of sell him to myself as "Lallana: maybe with penalties!" But I'm starting with Silva/Ramsey/Eriksen/Mata, so surely one of them will flop/get injured and it will be easy to swap later...
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I think I'm almost there..just one little problem left:
A) Chambers,Cahill and Long( if Sout)
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B) Debuchy,Luis and Bojan
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Anyone know where Wakey's been? Is he on hols? I always get so many new ideas from his little musings on here....sorely being missed right now.
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Stuck on Eriksen vs. Sterling.
I realize Sterling may be poor in GW 2/3, but I'm afraid of a bandwagon/price rise if he scores well in first week. Could be required GW4+. And its not like Spurs have amazing fixtures over that interval.Open ControlsGood point
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Couthino
Open ControlsHaha - been burned there before. I realize it is irrational but I need confirmation before I got there.
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I personally like Eriksen. It feels like he's been underpriced by a million to me. I guess Lamela could push him out wide and he could be less effective but he was really really productive last year. Sterling certainly has the talent to do the darned thing though...
Open ControlsThanks...I'll think it over more.
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Just got back from the Chelsea, match......10 minutes of it were great!
Open ControlsHazard or Costa?
Open ControlsCosta for sure, IMHO Hazard is a great pick, and will do very well.
I expect Costa to be in the middle of everything, he is the answer to Cheslea.
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What about the 80?
Open Controlsmix of players, not much going on. but in the first 10 minutes Costa scored twice, and looked fully on his game.
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Schurrle looked great, absolutely fantastic if u ask me, he took a lot of free kicks and corners, I cant believe that he wont start games, but thats what everyone says.....
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if you could list your top 3 5M, 4.5M, 4M defenders i will be very happy (;
Open ControlsWhats Shelvey like? Does anyone have him?
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