We delve into the Gameweek 3 data this evening in our first members article of the week. Up front, we assess Bournemouth, Chelsea and Liverpool’s lone forwards, whilst there’s plenty to analyse in the centre of the park, as we take a look at some standout statistics from Villa, Palace, United, West Ham and Norwich.
Simple question: is Ozil to Silva worth a hit?
Yes.
yep
No, not imo.
Nope
I think so
replied above
As did I 😉
Not when Arsenal are playing Newcastle anything could happen
Like a Thauvin hat trick? 😉
That would be beautiful
I'd prefer Wijnaldum hatrick though as he's in my team
Just looked it up, Arsenal have only scored 4 times in the last 4 games at St James'.
It's a sign.
I'm starting to worry that this is some kind of sabotage...
I'm not that smart. I haven't got the PhD yet. 😉
Really?! I'm surprised by that. Surely the 4-4 draw was within the last 4 seasons and they've definitely scored against us since then.
That was 2010/11, last 4 games have been:
2011/12 - 0-0
12/13 - 0-1
13/14 - 0-1
14/15 - 1-2
Good sign as a Mertesacker owner though!
Its the Fibenachi sequence! 3 goals incoming!
Isn't one of the games when Gervinho grazed Joey Barton with his fingernail and Barton went down like he was punched by Mike Tyson
Cheers all, 50/50 then! Long term I'm almost certain Silva will outscore Ozil by a reasonable margin, but selling for a hit ahead of playing Newcastle is risky.
Yeah, I'd hold for a week if you can.
A hit for a long term can be a bargain. I say you go for it!
my friend just joined my money league with the team name 'benteken to the top'. but as he's bottom of the table, 'benteken from behind ' wud be a more suitable name, amirite. (but, as and bottom. 3 bum puns in the space of 4 words. huzzah
First year as a member and loving these 'big numbers' articles in particular. Some of the observations however beg the question 'why are some players consistently hitting bigger numbers than last year'?
For example, take Naughton - vastly improved on last year. The reason is the addition of Ayew who notionally plays on the right but actually plays in the centre, allowing Naughton lots of space to attack down the right.
Swansea seemingly play with two main wide men (montero and Naughton) and get two men into the box (gomis and Ayew). In effect we have two great OOP options at Swansea this year
Note to self: keep an eye on naughton
Good point. It's also worth considering stuff like this when players get injured. ie an ayew injury and dyer taking his place say, would greatly reduce the attacking threat of naughton
Also saw this with Alexis last year. People still falling over themselves to get him in but his price tag is a joke when arsenal have all players fit as points get shared around
Arsenal injuries are just around the corner 😉
I'm playing with these 3 ways to get Liverpool and Chelsea attacks.
A: Benteke + Pedro ... with 4.5m mid like Westwood
B: Pedro + Coutinho ... with Wilson as cheapie
C: Coutinho + Costa ... with 4.5m mid
Which pair would you pick ?
A or C.
B looks sound to me.
All of them look good. A for me
The problem are they all look good. 🙂
It's hard to pick the route to go.
A
On Mane to start this week, but in the event he sits, who should I use as first sub?
Payet (liv)
Francis (LEI)
Huth (bou)
In the order you have them, I think.
Cheers, I go back/forth flipping the first two
i agree^
i think so, someone said locked until friday i think.
A.reply fail to Tranny Baps
Reply fail level top of the page
that's how i roll.
Top, top post.
It's aok (Y)
Price changes are stupid
Make the game more interesting really
Is anyone running a 4-4-2 or 4-3-3? I know the conventional wisdom seems to be to run a 3-4-3 but taking an early look at points scored, is that justified? Are defenders just scoring well due to an above average number of clean sheets through GW3 (19 ) or are the BPS changes having an impact too?
I would avoid making any hard conclusions about formation based on these past weeks. They've been a bit of an aberration.
I think the lack of home wins has something to do with it.
There aren't enough Kolarovs for 4 at the back to be profitable imo
Hunch rather than data based - Seems to be more attacking returns than you'd expect for an average 3 wks
OK cheers guys, will keep an eye on it.
46% of the top 10k players played 442 last week. Followed by 24% 3-4-3 and 11% 3-5-2
I'm going for it. 4 at the back this week and while top teams continue to look defensively solid.
Non-Aguero WC team:
Butland - Mccarthy
Azpi - Sagna - WBA (5m) - Francis - Gomez
Sanchez - Yaya - Haz - Shaqiri - Sterling
Benteke - Wilson - Ighalo
Thoughts? I know it's controversial to go without Kun, but I feel that midfield could potentially make up for it. Still tinkering 🙂
Sketchy imo. I would perhaps drop sterling for the likes of Mahrez for instance, or have you never had him in your team? BUT it's a good team, no doubt bout that 🙂
I'm just not fully sold on Mahrez. He's in my current WC squad purely for the price rises. Having no Kun really does wonders. It is a massive risk though.
I think Sterling will look very good on the pitch but in terms of FPL output, the points will continue to be hogged by Silva and Yaya in midfield.
Note also that Sterling has been first to go off recently, and I see this trend continuing as City look to add more steel towards the latter stages of matches.
Need Kun and Kolarov imo.
But the team is not bad at a all. Pedro could be a better shout than Hazard atm. Shaqiri is a hit or miss. Strike force is a little too light for my liking. 7/10
Isn't this much better ?
Ruddy - Rudd
Azpilicueta Darmian Kolarov - 2 X 4.5
Silva Hazard YayaToure Mahrez Sanchez
Gomis Wilson - Ighalo
forward from weak team, what i guess
put benteke or aguero instead of hazard or alexis
Trade azpi for kolo
Sagna for another nailed 5-5.5 range. He isn't nailed and zabeleta will return
Strong MF, but your attack is way to weak and it makes it really hard to get Kun or costa if they go off.
i would also grab mahrez
Find away to get costa or aguero. That's just my opinion
I deleted all the German names from my mobile phone
It's now Han's free
Corellian, Han Solo is. Not German.
His Grandad was German
I deleted all the Swiss names from mine.
I'm on a roll.
Will Mané play this weekend?
Even if he does, he wont score much imo
So who Rose and fell today guys?
Danny and Marouane of course.
Stickied.
Hazard fell finally.
Mahrez and Lukaku rose.Good man. Thanks
Is Doos around?
Just wanted to know what do you feel about Payet's prospects now when Sakho maybe our being arrested.
Does it dampen the moral of the team as a whole or Payet now would have more chances of goals?Has no-one on this site even heard of Habeas Corpus. Or understood it?
The moral is not great, on account of two poor performances, not on account of some dubious arrest warrants ...Point taken...
If you keep aside the fact that you support them, do you feel West ham will beat Liverpool?
Who here moderates community submissions? I have submitted an article on GW4 captaincy, is it likely to hit the site in time?
What corpse? Who's dead?
i've heard of it, read it's definition at least twice in the past, and still don't know what it is 😀 but my brain is faulty and only retains fun information
see. that apostrophe is proof 😀
Doos is using it in the layman sense that you can't detain a person without conviction and sentence. Don't bother with the legal definition.
Who is alleging that Sakho is wrongfully detained? Surely he is back home by now?
depends if he's injured or not. He certainly won't be locked up next week
West Ham have had a bid for Yilmaz accepted, so there may be a new forward for Payet to work with 😉
Have a feeling this week's bandwagon trades could set up to be like the Rooney Ramsey > Tadic Aguero trade around GW6-8 of last season - won't pay off immediately but over the next 2-3 GWs could be huge.
Question is - which of the bandwagons? Yaya or Silva & Diouf or Wilson?Silva and Diouf. 😉
Problem I have with Diouf is his goals (or as far as i've seen anyway) have mostly been easy tap ins or off defensive errors - doesn't strike me as a striker who makes his own chances. Not convinced on the Stoke attack yet.
Not too sure about Wilson, but he's got a good goal pedigree at least.
You could say Wilsons have been tap ins and defensive errors too - but they all count.
this season's goals for Wilson at least.
His youtube highlights look good 😆 😆I've gone for Wilson - but that's because it's all I can afford. Would probably prefer Diouf, to be honest. Wilson will get me a price boost, but is more difficult to replace if/when a transfer needs to be made, so I'm factoring this in too.
Silva nd Wilson imo
Silva and Wilson
Hazard going to drop tonight?
Looks that way
Unlikely
Hm. I Have Eriksen doubtful and a potential drop on Hazard.
Don't know who to transfer out.Why do you think unlikely mate?
Wildcard sellers and sits 99 on fpl stats I think he will survive
Risky business but im gonna rely on you! on your head be it 😉
Falls are harder to predict.
He most likely will drop at some stage this week all the same.Before a home game to Crystal Palace?
Seems like a crazy time to sell last seasons top scoring mid doesn't it?
He's had a huge number of net transfers out but because of high ownership his % owenership decrease and net transfers out to ownership ratio aren't as high as they have been for other players that haven't decreased in price.
If I had to guess no price drop tonight.Before Saturday then?
Possibly, I wouldn't worry about it though his price will shoot back up when he gets his annual fill of goals and assists at home to Crystal Palace/Pardew!
I agree and you won't need the transfer to get him back plus the inevitable reshuffle because you have spent the cash.
Submitted an article on captaincy for GW4 which includes an in depth write up on why the knee-jerk sale of Hazard may burn people this weekend. Keep your eyes posted!
Any mods here atm?
Yep
Hi 🙂
Hi !
Morning Peasant
Hey TM :o)
Well, I had a Vespa and a Parka.
Was there a follow-up, or did you want to see if you could get away with swearing??
Which MOD deleted my sensational bit of research on the Carling Cup games? That took me all evening!
b'stards
bowstring the thief??????
I've been Ocean Elevened. Massive thief!
He would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids..
Did you start before kick-off?
Payet out for ...
A) Chadli
B) Coutinho
C) Ayew
D) Shaqiri
E) Keep Payet
E
D
Transfers are too valuable to be doing swaps like this. E.
😆
Neil's back! 🙂
+1
I like B for this week
First of all, why do you want to ship him out?
Give him some time. One or maybe two blanks don't mean he'll not deliver..Cheers guys! Keep it is
E
Gave in and pushed the WC button last night. My best midfield performance so far has come from Hendo's 4 points last week. Westwood has outscored all of them (Fab, Ramsey, Theo then Payet) whilst sat on my bench! Can anyone 'beat' that?
So many midfielders have been shocking so far!
I was a wreck before Mahrez this week.
Decided 5 mins before deadline that I was going to do Hendo to Mahrez for a hit but had connection problems and missed it. He's in my WC team now though (of course)
No attacking midfield points so far!
But then I've only had 1 goal and 2 assists from my whole team over the 3 weeks so far.
67 points total, almost bang on 2 points a game from each player.Ouch! You win. Are you wildcarding?
Pulled the trigger this week, have never done as badly as this in one GW, let alone 3 in a row. Definitely a week late on the wildcard, as price drops have already hit me hard.
-3 from Jenkinson this week was the final strawI was hit by all the price drops last week too. The season starts here!
This is terrible, what was your GW1 team?
Ruddy, Rudd
Ivan, Ward, Jenkinson, Huth, Mings
Walcott, Fabregas, Milner, Ritchie, Sinclair
Aguero, Rooney, Sakho
Its easy to look at it now and say it was terrible, huh?You were very unlucky there mate, so many good players having blanks, and I'm guessing you benched Ward GW2! 🙂
Yup, Ward sat on my bench with half the score of the rest of my team combined. Scores 23, 23, 21. OR 2.5m -> 2.9m -> 3.1m.
There were less than 2.9m players in GW1!
Ah well, onwards and upwards. I underestimated Liverpool, United and City's defences so avoided them and picked many of the wrong attackers. I really thought Walcott would start. Fabregas managed to cover Hazard's points very well as i hoped he would.. Trouble is Hazard has also done sweet FA.
Ouch Archie, similar boat. 27, 28, 36. WC in play. gL to us both!
Yeah, good luck to you too.
Got to get the decisions right now on the wildcard if i want to make up ground though!
Mahrez is just like Ramsey and Kane in past seasons and yet I'm baffled he's not on 100% ownership
People holding out because they "missed the time to buy", he's still cheap and has 3 double figure hauls in a row
Godlike
That and 40% of teams dead already
Im as impressed the only striking difference here is
Kane and Ramsey play for top 6 teams!
This isn't to say I don't like Mahrez but this is key for me. When Ramsey doesn't look great he still has Sanchez slotting him the lay-off or Giroud giving him the ocassional second ball, If Mahrez isn't running the show, his supporting cast is Albrighton and Ulloa, which is a lot less promising to say the least.
Michu had done it tho at a week team
For half a season. For the record I like Mahrez short term but he'll peter out sooner or later
Right now, it's not logical not to have him.
Is there one player that is more essential at this very moment?Aguero. But then Mahrez for sure.
True, just. Though it's difficult to single out one city player when you consider their prices and how the points are shared amongst the big guns in the team.
Anyway, I'm over-analysing!
No FT. Have to play Gomis and Ayew against a defensively sollid MAN. FTL.
Any suggestions?Think of the long game. They're both good picks.
Thanks. Ayew yes, Gomis I am not sure. may sell after price rises for Benteke or Costa next week.
Play One?
A) Darmian (swa)
A defence that is yet to concede, BAPS magnet and some attacking threat.
B) Gomis (MUN)
An inform Swansea side with all crosses coming towards him. Gomis vs Blind too and on penalties. Attacker tooB) easily B don't look at A
A. UTD may not score much but they will always keep CS
always. 38 clean sheets and new invincibles confirmed.
Gomis
Can't see united keeping a CSNever bench a 7m forward. If you are looking at benching a 7m forward, ask yourself why in hell you even own him.
This man makes a good point. It's not like Gomis has played poorly so far either
Have the same situation, I'm benching Darmian because he will most likely pick another yellow, if not a red and I doubt the keep a clean sheet. I bet someone scores early and the game opens up
Im goingvwith gomis and i want gomis to score
Will we see any 3.9m defenders by the end of the week?
Only if you are looking in the wrong direction
Turner looks like falling
Here's hoping. The 0.1m makes all the difference for my WC team.
Bench one:
A) Huth (bou)
B) Francis (LEI)
C) Williams (MUN)
It depends.
If you have Mahrez, bench Francis.
If you have Wilson, bench HuthHuth
Are there any question marks over whether Sakho will play this weekend after his arrest?
Wasnt he arrested like 2-3 weeks ago?
He was lifted again today for threatening to kill a witness in his pending case... allegedly.
This can't be true
Hahah
WOW, how is this not all over the BBC Sport Website?
Because they concentrate on more credible stories. These look like contrived allegations.
Looks very suspicious.
He was arrested before the start of the season. Why would it effect him now?
even if he starts, West Ham will do well to score against Pool, and so far Sakho has only got one assist with all the goals WH have scored.
Sell sell sell
Does anyone else think van Gaal isn't serious about playing Fellaini up front and that it's just a ploy to try and reduce the price of some forward he's trying to bring in (or some nonsense along those lines)?
With his height and ability to hold of the defenders he his not a bad as striker.He wont score that many goals,but he will draw/hold the defenders and allow the likes of mata,deepay,rooney to score the goals. Basic idea is to create space for other goal scorers
I think he's deadly serious unfortunately. Most likely he plays behind Rooney, which despite his absence of pace, passing ability and general clumsiness, is his best position. Januzaj probably out.
Evening gents. Having just stumbled out of the pub after going to the Newcastle game tonight, I am feeling in generous spirit. So I will share with you all my evenings insight...
Thauvin and janmaat down the Newcastle right are going to bring in consistent fpl points when the fixtures turn kind. Watch this space.
That one is on me.
Night allThey play for Newcastle though, their fixtures will never be kind, bad luck Jonathan.
They couldn't even beat Man Utd ffs.
I do think Thauvin could do well... Janmaat always scores a surprising amount of attacking points but is seldom talked about here.
My Dad would look decent against Northampton Town.
Thauvin was great going forwards but he won't be able to not defend like he did tonight.
I'd imagine he'll play on the left to provide for Mitrovic, with Sissoko staying on the right.
Anything of fpl significance tonight guys? Injuries etc
I notice Mings started... Hope he breaks the bloody first team soonMany things, Bowstring has posed a link of my work at the top of the page. Tells you everything you'd want to know about tonights games.
That's great. Thanks
You're welcome.
Sinclair got a hatty inc a pen, just like in pre season which was the reason we bought him 🙄
You 😉 I knew he was a fraud,just didn't spot Mane being a fraud haha
Tempted to dump Gomis for a differential in Rondon after the window shuts. West Brom have some very tasty fixtures coming up, everyone is piling on Gomis and I don't know whether he'll keep up his scoring run. Opinions?
Keep Gomis, he is the focal point of the attack and has good fixtures after the United game.
sell GOmis
What does he have to do? 3 goals in 3 games
never get bonus, fixtures turn harder
Yer I dumped him for Lukaku this week. Don't think he's the greatest striker I've seen.
Not in Luk's class anyway and his celebrations are cringe worthy.
Wait till Gomis loses form and/or Rondon gains form. WBA are not prolific & Rondon may take time settling coming from a Russian league.
Whats with all the excitement about Richards?
Cheap, nailed and got a CS first GW.
how is he better than other 4.5's?
None of the others were band members of the Rolling Stones.
Cheap, nailed on and got la CS first GW.
Fixtures
And good BPS
