With the final double Gameweek of the season almost upon us, we turn our attentions to the Opta statistics to assess the recent form of Arsenal and Sunderland.
Using the team profile data, we take a look at both sides displays from Gameweek 30-36 – a period of time that saw them play six times apiece and one that coincides with Dick Advocaat’s arrival at the Stadium of Light.
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Nice.
Wow. Wish I was in your position!
Cheers, but then finding the right 3 ARS players is like a lottery here.
If you can call having three Sunderland players lucky... 😀
tbh I'm not feeling that lucky with the 3 SUN I got (Panti PVA Defoe), but the DGW pattern this season is still intriguing, i.e AVL QPR HUL LEI 😉
It isn't tough tbh 😉
Unfair to them with very low TV.
You should try it too, since I think your team has too much SOT 😉
Mine is only 103.something 😀
I'm confident with triple Southampton, going to smash Villians 😉
Wow, fair play to you.
As long as Benteke is in the goals, good luck with that! 😀
Chelsea and Pool have nothing to play for. You not worried that those players are expensive junk now, in fantasy terms?
I think Liverpool will be going for it as it's Gerrard's last Anfield game.
This. I think I made a mistake by selling Hendo, but at least I still got Skrtel.
Very nice, to me one SUND def/gk and Defoe might be enough. Its who to bench that would worry me!
Cheers Sab. SUN gk+def and DEfoe and 3 ARS mids for me. Mind you, I do not even take hits 😉
Yes, bench is killing me. Hopefully Mour will do it for me.
Good luck with it
thanks man
Pantimillions (Kasper)
Terry, Skrtel, Morgan, (Wisdom/Baird)
Sterling Coutinho Sanchez Ozil (Cambiasso)
Ageuro giroud Benteke
Currently benching Cambiasso?
Only .1m itb
Any better transfer ideas? Or should I save, 1pt in my last mini league and the guy NEVER takes hits...
Sterling -> Milner/Navas?
or
Baird -> PVA (1week since I won't play him in 38)
nope, gtg.
2 FTs in GW38 is better than double up SUN defense in DGW37 imo, despite the fact that I'm actually doing the latter.
Agree, keep hold of the FT.
2 transfers to go for it if needed in the last week does sound pretty good.
😛 cjeers....I think 🙂
Baird to PVA sounds good. Can you afford?
Just but it would be a 1week move...
Morning! Bored at work and the end of year voting articles inspired me to do this (rather than the dull reports I have piling up). These are fantasy football picks, not real life ones.
GK- Forster- 13 clean sheets in 29 starts and all for starting price of 5.0
DF-Ivan- Get Ivan from the start and play him in every game. Must follow this next year
DF-Terry- Plays every minute of every game, keeps clean sheets and scores goals
DF-Clyne- To be fair this could have been Bert easily. Cheap, attacks and got clean sheets
MID- Hazard- Obvious.
MID- Silva- Love this guy in ‘real football’, just have patience when he blanks for 2 in a row
MID- Sanchez- Top quality real player and very nearly top scoring midfielder in fantasy, best PPG aside from Aguero
MID- Fabregas- Assist machine, plays all the time
FW-Aguero- 3rd best striker in the world? Got have him, pure class
FW-Kane- Points for cheap
FW-Costa- Snarly, fouling, elbows out. Does his job, scores goals.
Notable mentions-
- Fabienski-Another cheap route to points
- The 4.5/4.0 GK combo from one team- The way forward? Foster and Myhill was 8.5m and scored 144 points.
- Jagelika- Solid points, plays all the time, cheaper than Baines or Coleman, a few goals
- Bertrand- Him or Clyne? Flip a coin
- NTaylor- A personal choice, got me lots of points for a small outlay
- Bellerin- Better PPG than Cahill
- Austin- Harsh he didn’t get in my first X1
- Pelle- On fire for a bit, was great to be on him at that point
Any thoughts? Aside from Haz/Fab/Silva and Sanchez I struggled to find any midfielders worth a mention.
I've loved having Benteke around. Plus he pulled the old Lukaku trick, of blanking after forcing everyone to bring him in.
I like every bit of your selection, fromt he starting XI tot he notable mentions.
Also worth mentioning is Kolarov 😉 I'm actually serious. Decent points almost every time he hit the field.
Kolorov nailed on start all season is the stuff of dreams!
Siggy deserves a mention for his early-season form.
True, maybe Downing too?
Downing now had like 15 games blank, not deserved it
Kos, ddg, siggy missing from second list
yep.
Tadic. Legend for me 🙂
5 Chelsea is surely against the rules!
Aguero is not "the 3rd best striker in the world". He is the best.
Obviously Messi, Ronaldo, Suarez, Neymar, Mueller, James Rodriguez and others are better all-round players. But they are forwards, not strikers. As a pure striker, Aguero is the best there is.
That's why it's so inexplicable that Pellegrini took so long to give up playing 4-2-2-2 with Aguero out of position. He deserves to be sacked for that alone.
lol! sorry but as pure striker its Ronaldo by a waltz.
Disagree
Koscielny & Sanchez owner..
I am leading my ML by 66 points and don't need a differential..
Giroud or Ramsey as 3rd ARS player?
I've gone for Giroud ... he's such a stinker that he'll score this weekend with a cheeky tap-in and then do nothing else.
I am afraid of not owning him 🙁
Gerrard red card this weekend?
I hope not, despite hating Liverpool I respect and admire him as a player ...
Think he'll have a free pass to go around kicking lumps out of everyone.
Will be a goal or a red card.
Koscielny + Sanchez owner here
A. Fabregas >> Ramsey (1 FT)
B. Vardy + Fabregas >> Giroud + Larsson/Gomez (-4)
C. Vardy + Fabregas >> Ramsey + Defoe/Graham (-4)
Please suggest, thanks.
A
A
I shouldn't be worried about not owning Giroud?
Don't be worried.He's been almost Remy-esque when I've owned him..& I got him again 2 weeks ago
In fact, I've owned both Gru & Remy for 3 weeks during this season, Remy's points: 1,2,0, Gru's points: -2,2,2 🙁
Team for the DGW.
Pantil,
Terry, Skrtel, PVA,
Sanchez (c), Ramsey, Hendo, Hazard,
Kane, Aguero, Giroud
Subs. Schmeichel, Duff, Cambiasso, Schlupp,
1.3m in account. 1ft
1. Save
2. Hazard- Silva
3. Cambiasso- Gomez (Hendo 1st sub if Hazard doesn't play) Sunderland playing a full strength Chelsea next tho.
4. Kane- Wickham/Defoe
5. Other- then what?
Thank You.
I like 3. Henderson will be playing second fiddle this week
2 prolly. cambiasso has good gw38
Manuel Pellegrini set to stay as Manchester City manager next season (Guardian)
Carlo will replace him imo
Klopp to Real Madrid?
Strange what is happening there. Nasri and Jovetic are top players, so I don't know if it's personal issues. Yaya has to be replaced.
Nasri has been injured but also slat his dummy out along with Dzeko, which is why they aren't featuring. Expecting them both to move on
Jovetic isn't good enough
I think it's great how Real Madrid spent £195m on their front 3 and they get knocked out by their own academy player. 😆
Hahaha!
Someone browses r/soccer...
Davis, Myhill
Terry, Clyne, Moreno, Morgan, Dawson
Sanchez, Hazard, Silva, Ramsey, Boyd
Aguero, Benteke, Kane
1FT, 0.5 in the bank
Any suggestions what to do with this lot?
Davis out for Ospina
Clyne -> Kos
Davis -> Ospina
Liverpool have agreed a five-year contract with Jordon Ibe, which will be signed next week. The 19-year-old winger, who broke into the Liverpool senior side this year and will be a key member of Brendan Rodgers’s plans next season, will be tied to Anfield until at least 2020. An announcement is expected shortly after the final home game against Crystal Palace on Saturday.
- Telegraph
Good morning DZ. Still smiling for that Juventus win.
Anyone actually thinking PVA is a viable option ? i cant see a sunderland clean sheet and attacking returns is a gamble...
His stats are good and he's cheap as chips, what's not to like ?
He's got 2 games
Nobody give them a chance of a cleansheet against Everton
He was Sunderlands most attacking player against Everton
Would you take PVA over Gomez and Wickham?
I've had PVA all season and I got Gomez last week
Ramsey, Ozil or Santi. Still can't make up my mind! Reckon the Welshman gets the nod, actual points rather than "points potential" wins out, surely?
Hello RD! That Robin Friday film is getting closer to being made...
Ramsey is in my team, partly sentimental but also as he knows how to score. I'm not sure looking at stats helps when there's only a couple of games and there's not much in it between the three. Over the long term it might help but for now got to go with the gut.
Hi MnL! Nice to see you on here, old timer 🙂
Haven't seen much news about the film, but will look forward to it if it arrives.
Agreed on Ramsey, might have to sell Hazard to accommodate which I think will work out. Good luck in the last 2 gameweeks.
I sold Hazard last week but thinking of a plan to get him in for GW38. Potential to cause some damage, not just to Sunderland but to my minileague chances. I'd be happy enough doing Hazard to Ramsey this week.
Good luck to you too!
I'm hoping my mistake will come good. I went Ozil but wish I'd gone Ramsey
Ramsey is the best provided he plays both
I may have all 3 😯
Already have sanchz and giroud
1ft 2.3 itb
1) hendo to caz
2) hendo to ramsey
3) haz to ozil
4) mcshn to kos
2
4. keep hendo. stupid to trade him out now
Gerrard wil play next game, so hendo wont be in penalties and ramsey may play 2 games
4
If i get ramsey
My defence wil be
Terry skrtl pva
Would u still suggest kos over ramsey
umm take Rambo then
Best non Sanchez captain?
Ramsey/Koscielny
Giroud.
How not to play FPL by yours truly:
Up to GW36 I had 448 pts from my capatain and 588 pts from my vice.
I took 104 pts in hits of which 16 were necessary.
If I swapped my captains around and played the game correctly for hits I would have 228 more points.
I am 24 000th on 2 050 pts. Increase by amending poor choices that would be 2 278 my rank would be 259.
What I did gain was money but my closest rival in the mini league has 102.5 compared to my 108.3.
A learning curve for sure.
Correct that I would be 28th.
Increasing TV is extremely important till jan wildcard.
I agree entirely but I am still a stupid A---hole.
mignolet
terry/ toby/ PVA
hazard/sanchez/henderson/ramsay
aguero/vardy/giroud
davis/vlaar/young/sclhupp
1ft 0.8 ITB
what would you do?
few options:
a. young to gomez (but i like young for gw38, and i dont mind him this week either, can see him getting returns against Manure's shitty defence)
b. vardy to defoe (i dont like either)
c. save
d. hail mary: hazard to arnotovic 😉
So is the general consensus that No.1 OR will go Haz -> Ramsey this week?
I need a differential (c) so which of these would you do?
A) Silva -> Santi(c)
B) Baird -> Kos(c), benching Terry (who No.1 will start)
C) Haz -> Ramsey(c) and hope he does something else
Panti
Terry, Skrtel, PVA
Haz, Silva, Sanchez, Gomez
Aguero, Kane, Giroud
Schmeichel, Schlupp, Baird, Albrighton
Bank 2.2m, 1FT
I would do A. Stats are backing up for explovsion.
Edging this way also. It's a risk, but since he has Terry is it worth benching him for Schlupp? I can see the SUN:LEI game petering out to a 0-0 since a point will be enough for both teams, plus with a weakened CHE team perhaps they will concede away at WBA?
Agree. Sun-Lei will be tight game and I'm expecting 0-0 aswell.
Not sure about benching Terry but you need to do things differently if you want to reach that top spot.
with the amount of points you're behind you HAVE to go against the grain and hope the fantasy gods are in your favour.
go option A and bench Terry
Yeah, agreed. Annoyingly he will likely start Morgan which kind of negates Schlupp, so will be relying on attacking points.
You think he'll definitely lose Haz? Seems quite a risk given how highly owned he is and how strong a captaincy option he is next week.
A if he has Silva
Yeah, he does. I'm just not so sure he'll ditch Hazard this week as he'll probably want to (c) him next week and would have to lose Sanchez/Silva to get him back, both of which are also highly owned and with a decent fixture.
If I had hair I'd be tearing it out if I were in your position. How are the nerves?
Never backed it
I was only one who opted Juventus 😎
Who is more likely to be rested this week? Hazard or fabregas?
Hazard
Haz more likely to score though imo
What do people prefer out of double arsenal midfield (have Giroud) or defender, mid, and Giroud
Defender, Midfielder, Forward
Two mids and Giroud. Arsenal midfielder has more point potential.
Double midfield.
My preferred choice would be 2 mids and 1 Def however as you have Giroud I prefer one of each Def and mid
Look at this team, what would you do?
Panti
Fonte PVA Morgan Bellerin
Fabs Hazard Sanchez Hendo
Kane Aguero
£1.8M ITB & 1FT Mannone Pelle Boyd Baird
a) Fonte>Kos
b) Pelle>Giroud (and bench Fonte)
c) one of the above PLUS Fabs/Haz>Silva
d) something else
I'm getting rid of Hazard and Navas for Ramsey and Gerrard.
Script is written I feel for Gerrard to do well.
Out of those , a
Thanks buddy, am not feeling the Giroud love and therefore thinking Fonte to Kos or Fabs/Haz to Ramsay. Trouble with the latter is I reckon my rival will do that move plus hard to choose between Haz/Fabs to lose
Only one goal for Skrtel this season. Hopefully he bags another this weekend.
After 2,2,1 he owes me that.
Bench 2.
Ivanovic, Terry, Moreno, Vardy, Benteke
Benteke and Vardy
I was looking at Moreno and Vardy. Benteke on the bench seems daft. I may as well drop for Giroud
Plus I have Mignolet. So easier to bench Moreno
Would never ever bench Tekkers.
Moreno and Vardy imo
Moreno & Tekkers
Moreno and Terry
Lol, I knew you would say Terry. It's a headache deciding. Would you play any of those options over PVA?
Morning Doos, I hope you got some sleep! I've just spied your wildcard team, had a bit of trouble with Sanchez & Silva did we?
Mignolet
Ivan, Bellerin, PvA
Hendo, Hazard, Silva, Sanchez
Kun, Kane, Benteke
Krul | Boyd, Bertrand, Vlaar
1FT, 0.4ITB
A) Hazard -> Ramsey FT
B) Hendo/Bertrand -> Ramsey/Wasilewski for a -4
If it makes any difference, I wouldn't be playing either Bertrand or Wasilewski for the remainder of the season, it would be to purely fund Hendo -> Ramsey. Thoughts?
A for me but why no Cazorla?
Cheers. Yes that is another option, can't separate the two though.
Tekkers -> Welbz 😉
Hahaha 😀
A
Ta. Ramsey or Caz?
I'm going Ramsey but could go any way.
Yeah that's exactly the way I'm feeling at the moment
Think hendo will have a good game against palace. Depends on what you think haz will do in the final game.
Probably A for me
Cheers mate. If Hazard falls/Ramsey rises 0.3 in the next two weeks I can get Hazard back for 38 doing the reverse move.
Cheers mate. Ramsey or Caz?
Neither. Silva to Ramsey/Cazorla/Ozil is a better move. Silva had his last haul of the season last week. Hazard will get his next week.
Also I would play Bertrand over Benteke if you want the best chance of points this week. 😕
Cheers Ruth, interesting points. I planned to do Silva -> Ramsey/Caz but as you can expect it's hard to sell after a massive haul. How do you know it is his last though? 😉
Really? But Soton have hardly kept a clean sheet in the last 5 (or something like that) and Villa have been scoring frequently lately?
You can call it a hunch or anything but I've seen Ruth's thoughts and 90% of them were true. At first I didnt believe it but somehow he got something that made his analysis came true. One of it was the Ndoye in Hull DGW.
City aren't playing QPR at home again. 😕
Their last fixtures are winnable but not easy. I wouldn't expect huge scorelines. So I wouldn't bank on another Silva haul and don't think you need both him and Aguero.
As for Southampton, they have levelled off a bit but are still a very good defensive team, especially at St Mary's where they have conceded 4 goals in the last 6 games with 4 clean sheets. A point would almost certainly be enough for Villa and I doubt they will over commit. So personally I'd rather have Bertrand than Benteke this week.
@ Der Wall - Maybe I got lucky with N'Doye. There were sound reasons behind the pick but he hasn't scored since.
A bertie/skrtel to kos
B hazard to rambo
C ivan/vardy to pva/giroud (-4)
PANTI (schmeichel)
cresswell ivan skrtel (bertie hutton)
OZIL ALEXIS hendo hazard (boyd)
vardy aguero kane
1 FT, 1.3
A
Who would you bench in that case?
Sell Skrtel and bench bertie/hutton
A
B
3 ars mids not to much?
Not imo. Giroud has become donkey once again and its Arsenal mids who are scoring for them.
You are member take a look Doosra's midfield marauders table
Yeah, i know my stats 🙂 however somehow worried 3 is to much... Definitely want rambo in there tho!
Still think Skrtel is worth holding onto, A for me with Bertrand since you already have two arsenal mids
Bench ivan or cresswell?
Cresswell
Cress
Actually thinking od ditching ozil for another ars mid for -4...
Completely madness.
Thank all. Some great responses!
Anyone here think that Juventus actually have a chance against Barca?
Nah, easy win for barsa
I do.
Yes, definetely
Of course. They are a defensive rock and capable of a 1-0.
Hey George Bailders, how's the Dead Team going?
Not sure it beats Simon March now.
It's a good question I've not looked into, perhaps check back tomorrow?
Here's a rough team
Fabianski
Terry, Clyne, Bertrand
Hazard, Sanchez, Silva, Hendo/Chadli
Aguero(c), Kane (vc), Austin
Heaton, Siggy, Lescott/Yoshida
thanks, I'll come back to it.
Might be stupid Q but does those public stats tables update automatically?
In the members area? yeah, as soon as OPTA pipes the raw data over
Ok. Thanks.
9 years, 9 hours agoI see a lot of people struggling to fit in 3 ARS while holding onto their key players@assets.
I think I'm lucky enough to be able get 3 ARS (including Sanchez) + 3 SUN while keeping the likes of Ivan, JT, Skrtel, Haz, Kun and Benteke. This is despite having a considerably low TV.