Our usual post-Gameweek article for members arrives this evening as we delve deeper into the data for the first round of fixtures. Leicester’s two-goal hero, Man City and Southampton’s chief creators, Swansea’s improved goal threat and an eye-catching cameo from Arsenal’s Chilean all come under analysis.
In Manchester United's history...the Club they have beaten the most no. of times is Aston Villa!
Yeah, but I think a few teams could say that.
No there's not. There's only one... "the club Man Utd have beaten most"... How can there be multiple answers to that?
I would say, though, that stat is skewed by the longevity of each club in the top flight, but how long in recent times Aston Villa have been average in that top flight. Many average teams have probably been relegated at points and returnedChill Bud! It was tongue in cheek.
Thanks for the replies. Now need to decide between
a. hendo
b. ayew
c. Montero
d. shelvey
Might just pick straws!
Really tough, depends on what you do with the extra money! ayew if money wasn't an issue, but it is!
The extra cash could come in handy when I want to bring in kun or sanchez in the next few gws. Which is why I thought of shelvey. I could bring in Ayew or Hendo at 7m but wont free up any cash for later. That's my dilemma.
Have there been ay price changes today or are we waiting another hour or so
Should come at around 7am again.
Nope. It's already happended, around 3am. Back to BAU
Shouldn't be any tonight.
But Darmian and Gomez rose last night.
Check stickies.
What he said ^
There were only drops, no risers, and it reverted to the normal time from last year!
Happened around 3am UK time. No risers and a few fallers including Bamford
Already knee jerked my trade:
Wally --> Ayew in order to fund Kun next week so I'm not stressing out.
Anyone need any advice?
RP:
Schmeichel (Schwazer)
Cedric Coates Mert (Azpi Turner)
Ozil Mahrez Sterling Mane (Fabregas)
Sakho Rooney Benteke
A. Fabregas > Ayew
B. Save FT
Thanks to the fine people on this forum for the advice on team selection. Finally settled for this GW and holding my FT.
G2G
Butland (Ruddy)
Ivan Kosc Gomez (Cedric Huth)
Hazard Sterling Wally Ibe (Mahrez)
Defoe Rooney (c) Pelle (vc)
Play Cedric or Alderweired for GW 2?
Cedric IMO
Aldy
cedric
Can u not play both? Two nice home fixtures. Who are your other DF's?
I have Shaw and Gomez in team for GW 2 , And Huth, Alder, Cedric as subs to choose from
Ok then Toby so
Toby
Toby
Both? Who are your other options?
Has anyone an idea why Advocaat opted to leave out captain John O'Shea...?!?
He's been crap for a while.
Kaboul was awful though. May get a sniff back in the starting XI.
Good chance to come back. Wouldn't expect too much improvement.
so you pretty much sayin i better get rid of him asap?
No, don't think they will get many CS even with easy fixtures. O'Shea could be back after leaking 4.
Nathan Baker of Aston Villa, 13.7% ownership? What am I missing?
People probably saw a 4.0 defender who had played in the past and put him in their teams.
Casuals didn't know who would start apparently.
Most points for a 4.0 last season.
casuals think he started
"Check stickies" they says.
But where is the stickies? Do you have to scroll every page looking for greens?Sort by sticky up the top of the page.
Wow! Thanks. I have been scrolling pages for years..
Sort by Stickies in the drop down at the top
Sort comment by: Stickies
go to the tab above these comments and sort comments by Sticky Comments First
There is a scroll down menu on top of comments page. The default is sort comments by date. Change it to sticky comments first
Thanks all. It seems like everyone knows this.
Feel a little stupid now.
Right guys need some help.
Should i continue with Team A.
Or Wildcard now to get Team B?
A.
Ruddy
Mertesacker Azpilicueta Ward
Walcott Sterling Payet Depay
Rooney(c) Benteke(vc) Deeney
(Rudd, Huth, Wanyama, S.Taylor)
4m itb
Or
B. (Wildcard)
Ruddy
Mertesacker Azpilicueta Huth
Sanchez Silva Payet Sigurdson
Rooney(c) Aguero Deeney
(Rudd, Oxford, Wanyama, S.Taylor)tldr:
A) Ward, Wally, Sterling, Depay, Benteke
B) Oxford, Sanchez, Silva, Siggy, Aguero
I'd take BYou're telling him to WC then? Madness.
good point don't WC if you've not activated it yet.
Stick with A.
A.
Not much change in your wildcard team, which is a good barometre.Wait IMO.
Do not WC. Too late anyway.
Thanks guys.. when do u feel will be a good time to WC then? As i was concerned about wallys price fall.. and fear aguero and sanchez returning
GW4 has been the consensus before GW1. The crappy GW has people doing u turns.
gw18 for me 🙂
stick. you could work Aguero in there no problem
Don't wildcard..its gw 2..at least give it till gw 4. Lot of players are not 100% yet..you will probably regret it
Please RMT,
Cech
Ivanovic Darmian Cresswell
Depay Hazard Silva Cazorla Mata
Deeney Ighalo
Butland Dann Ward Vydra 0 million ITB 1FT
Hazard ~ Sanchez, or save FTUnbalanced...Don't like it..Love the Defense though...
If only he could play 5-5-0
I'm hoping Watford can be involved in big scoring games and when palace play a team who aren't going to score against them i play ward and Dann
Having good 3 strikers is a must to perform well...or at least 2 good strikers..
Looking to drop my defence plus attack to do Vydra to Aguero
Myhill Hennessey
Azpi Koscielny kolarov
Hazard Waly Sterling Milner
Rooney pelle Defoe
0 itb. How would u improve this lot
Really liking West Ham's fixtures in the next 6 and when I read Jeanz's post about Payet vs Ayew, I have been tempted even more.
Here's what I have for now.
McCarthy
Koscielny - Cedric - Coates
Hazard - Walcott* - Mane - Milner
Kane(c) - Rooney (vc) - Wilson
1 million in the bank.
Obviousy, Walcott to Payet gives me a much needed 1.5 for Rooney to Aguero straight swap.
If I do save the transfer however, I have another week of 'explosives' from Theo if he starts and time to assess the whole PL in general.
Also, I don't have a plan for Sanchez yet.Missed the bench
Courtois* - Westwood - Huth - Saylorreally depends on how comfortable you are wally's game time. if you don't think he'll get a decent run, it makes sense to get payet in (particularly do to his favourable fixtures coming up).
I am as clueless as everyone on Theo. Ruth did make a good point, if he doesn't get games when Sanchez is out, how do you expect him to get games when he is fit?
I always wanted Sanchez to be my Arsenal attacker, but didn't expect him to come back so soon.TM makes a good point. if Wally drops 0.1 you can't do the transfers as planned. Maybe keep a close eye on the price rise websites and make a call when you have to.
Cheers Jeanz. And thank you for the insight on Ayew vs Payet. I was on Ayew and didn't even consider Payet before I saw your post.
I say save. You can always do the double swap for Payet next week. I contemplated the same thing with Lens, think I'm sticking with Feo for another week. Night and Good luck AK!
Thanks Acqua. Night. Good luck to you too. 🙂
Good chance Walcott is 8.9 before Payet has played.
There's that. And it will rule me out of doing Walcott to Payet.
I did Walcott to Payet last night...
I take it you're getting Sanchez in soon then? What's your plan?
Sanchez isn't a definite but he's a possibility. Have various potential plans:
- Get Gomis in for Wilson (hit this week)
- Hazard to 9m / Rooney to Aguero
- Hazard to Sanchez, Ivanovic to 5m, Rooney to Aguero
- Hazard to Silva, Ivanovic to 6m, Rooney to Aguero
Either way it doesn't look like Hazard has much more time in my team 🙂
I want to try and not wildcard early but that's always a possibility too.The 4th looks very appealing.
Having said that, I think it's too early to rule Hazard out already. He's a guy who's scored at least 190 points in the 3 seasons he has played in the PL. Given how he has matured well and the season he's had last year, he's only going to grow on it.
Having said that, I do believe, that when Costa is on the field, it basically kills his goal threat, does have a better assist potential though.
Off to bed.
Goodnight all.Night Acqua
night 🙂
Goodnight
Evening
night mate
Night Eliteness.
Not sure who to run with for my premium defender spot. I have 6.0 budget.
Azpli, Kolorov, Kompany, Darmian? Any other thoughts?Kola or Darmian
I'd still say Koscielny. Though out of those, I'd go Kompany or Darmian
Not Kompany. Any of the rest are fine. Kolorov if you have a decent reserve, Azpi is the most nailed.
Should've gon darmian but now his price rose, if kolotov plays he could be a good buy
i dont think united defended well against Spurs. Weren't cohesive as a unit IMO. Stick with Chelsea defence
I like to have a premium defender I stick with for the whole season. It was JT last year. In the long run, I reckon it's a beneficial move. I've gone the JT route this year as well, and added Koscielny because I didn't need to spend that much £ for the rest of the team. At some point one of the two will go though.
yeah. normally i would lock in chelsea but they don't have a great run of fixtures. have put azpli in for now...
Don't forget to enter LMS.
Only 24 points needed in GW1 to qualify.I guess I should defend my final place from last year, but currently I'm in 15 leagues.
You can enter after GW20 if you qualify.
Surely you can find some space 🙂if i entered before gw1, do i have 're-enter'' for this gw?
No, once in the league you stay until I removed. I just changed the league starting to GW2 for this week.
Great.
Yes I will find place, first I had to join some mates leagues for a couple of months until they lose interest.
But doubt it Im still qualified when GW20 arrives.
Got a stunning 24 point this GW.Get the safety score each week and you'll win 🙂
Play one out of: Azpil, Huth, Targett
Currently pick AzpilUgly one, if it was Ivan, I'd pick him.
Tempted to play Targett.Targett
Huth ahead of Azpi in subs
yea i agree with the others, targett followed by huth and azpli
Is Montero a viable alternative to Ayew?
Ayew is more advanced so probably no.
I think he'll do well, but I think the price difference reflects the likely points difference.
Not expecting any more points from my defence this week than I got last week.
Hopefully the mid and forwards can actually do something this time around though 🙂I am actually expecting 3/4 CS
Koscielny, Ivanovic and Ruddy all playing away from home
My only home playing defender is Sunderland!similar to mine. a few clean sheets wouldn't entirely suprise me
Yeah have only Kosc from these..
yikes.
Clean sheets are so unpredictable early season 🙂
I am expecting around 2 clean sheets, rather hoping. Koscielny away at Palace, though Palace under Pardew have been immense at home, and Sunderland against Norwich, although Norwich looked very different from how they were 2 years back in the PL
Double Up for me 😎
SUN (Panti Coates) & SOT (Cedric Targett)
Hazard or Sanchez
Hey guys, please help me with my team :
Fabianski
Alderweireld - Cedric - Bellerin
Haz - Wally - Mane (vc) - Mahrez
Kane (c) - Wilson - Rooney
Bench : Hennessey, Anya, Morgan, Turner
I've got 2.5 in the bank to try and get Kun in the next week.
I was really tempted to go with Mane as my captain for the GW. Your thoughts?Just seen that my 3 heavy hitting MD's are 3 of the top 4 trasnferred out MD's this GW......here's hoping they come back to bite those people in the bum.
Why is a SOT player top of all four watchlists?
Good question!
Fixtures!
Scoring goals. The defensive ones are more fixture based.
Gomes
Koncielny Holebas Ivanovic
Hazard Mahrez Mane henderson
Deeney Rooney Kane (c)
subs: Ritcie Mings Bacuna
I have no idea for this gameweekBench and captains good to go? A (three-faced) coin toss between Sakho, Sanchez and Gomis, for captain.
Mignolet
Alderweireld, Cedric, Gomez
Payet, Hazard, Sanchez (VC), Mahrez
Sakho (C), Gomis, Aguero
McCarthy; Azpli, Oxford, WestwoodLooks solid
mahrez over oxford yea?
Wildcard team?
yeah i hit it andy. too much carnage and too many moving parts to get the big three in.
Looks good then! Hopefully there aren't a bunch of new standout options in GW2 🙂
Granted, it's not a fantastic looking team. I'm not entirely convinced by Gomis and Sakho in my forward line and Gomez and Oxford aren't long term picks. But it's a lineup structured around a friendly 6-7 weeks of fixtures and the cheap defenders should see some slight improvement in my TV.
That is a brilliant team! Wildcard?
I don't think Sakho (c) is necessary when you have both Payet and Sakho in there.
Just read that Demi said he'll stop posting if Sanchez doesn't start, and since he's the man of the lineups, I think Sanchez (c) is very tempting, but then again, it depends on how much you trust Demi.
My order of preference:
Sanchez
Gomis
Sakhocheers AK. I'm very tempted but it's high risk. in Gomis and Sakho you know you will get 80mins plus...
Not sure owning Payet stops Sakho being an option. Really like Sakho captain this week.
I agree with you. I am a man of prudence though and I like to hedge my bets, especially in the beginning of the season. If WHU fail to score by any chance, that's trouble for the week.
If this was my Wildcard team, I wouldn't have Gomez and Oxford in. Transfers waiting to happen.
I would own just one of Sakho or Payet...
Fixtures are so good!
still..Sunderland and Saints fixtures are also good
great fixtures. once things get tough, there are good mid-price midfield downgrade options (granted that there is less choice up front).
Downgrade azpi and do Payet to coutihno
I am thinking that Firmino will eat away at some of Coutinho's appeal.
aye...fair enough. It would give you a route into Pool's attacking points leaving Sakho to cover West Ham though.
It's what I've done.
Hi everyone.
A while back on here I came across a browser add-on that generates statistics for your mini-league.
Does anyone know the name?
Myhil
Azpi, gomez, cedric, (richards, oxford)
Walcott, sanchez, ayew, payet (obertan)
Kane, pelle, benteke (c)
I only have walcott because im assuming he'll start this week and needs to prove himself.
I have 2.5 in the bank. Slowing saving for aguero by the time weel 4 comes around.
Thoughts. I need a bit of help. This is from my wildcard by the way. Way off the pace gw1Sorry if it's dumb ass but...any chance of a double rise for any of the 5?
nope..
I don't even know the price rise rules yet. Anyone with ideas on how it works?
check Diva's community article
I read Cedric's history but still put him in my side. Yellow card magnate! What possessed me to go against my instincts? The game against Everton will be the decider whether to keep him.
He will be consistent in getting YC and Assist...
