We delve into the Gameweek 20 data this evening in our first members article of the week. Wayne Rooney’s upturn in attacking potential arrives under analysis, whilst we also cast an eye over midfielders from Spurs, West Ham, Arsenal and Newcastle, before assessing Liverpool and Leicester’s threat in the final third.
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Need a poll up in here. For those who have both Mahrez & Alli w/ no other attackers on the same team, which are you playing and why?
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Not qualified to answer but I'm playing Mahrez and benching Alli.
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Scratch the no other attackers actually. I'm sure most people have Kane or Vardy.
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Mahrez for me. Alli will play deeper if Dembele is back, right?
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According to Bonkers this week you should be playing Alli and Mahrez and npbenching Kane
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I can't bring myself to do that!
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Bottomed. Play AoA chip? If not, who should I bench?
Butland
Bellerin - Ogbonna - Ward
Silva - Ozil - Payet - Mahrez
Lukaku - Kane - Aguero
Hennessey ; Alli - Moreno - Dawson-
Replied. Alli works.
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Alli
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Ok RMT... since we never get enough of it.
Butland (Rudd)
Bellerin Ward Walker (Simpson Dawson)
Ozil KDB Silva Mahrez (Stanislas)
Lukaku Aguero (c) Kane-
Pretty gun team
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good lord triple MCI attack.
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Nice team, maybe a bit City overkill though with KDB, Silva AND Aguero?
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Because they are so expensive one of them can easily become Sanchez as he recovers.
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😯 triple MCI attackers?
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MCI has 4 homers in next 6. PLUS away to WHM and SUN are good scoring games. All the stars are aligned.
Deliberately took out a City defender for this.
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Unbelievable result in the Bonkers captain poll this week. Expected Aguero to walk it, but he has been pipped at the post by a rank outsider.
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Alli or Sigurdsson?
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John Terry
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Rooney
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My guess as well.
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Way more unusual than Rooney, i had to triple check to make sure something was not wrong
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its probably a defender? toby?
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Butland?
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Ivan?
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Real guess is Payet
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Dann
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When will you post it?
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A week Thursday.
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Yaya toure
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Carroll?
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Could well be this if 4 games is the time frame
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That was going to be my guess too: Andy, not Tom. 😆
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Chill guys its Terry bonkers has had a meltdown
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Hey...you never know 😉
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In a few days, should really wait until after FA Cup games
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@Diva you have an email 🙂
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Would you be interested in giving up Vertonghen instead of Lamela?
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in exchange for?
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Two tugs, one peck on the cheek.
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*Woops, wrong website 😳
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Same trade, just Vertonghen instead
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lol for Campbell? he's not getting more than 4 starts from here on out
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Stones?
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I don't really want Campbell now the gameweeks have ticked by. I can offer up Olsson or we can do Campbell for Campbell.
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Nothing is untouchable if the price is right.
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You guys in 2nd div of knocks and niggles? 😀
Who had Boruc this week?!! (I had him in 3rd div)
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Simpson to Williams for a hit? Of course after evaluating the week games and pray for no injuries.
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No need!
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Other defenders are Ward, Bellerin, Alder and Moreno
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Nay
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The ideal week to wildcard is......
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when your team needs it or near a DGW
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When you need it. But maybe around a DGW depending on who is in it, either to get players in for it or to clear them out after.
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same as long as you can..
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*save
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this might be interesting to Dmhomag
City did have a nice pile of fixtures early on i.e GW8 - 16 (6 homers out of 9). And this is how they fared points wise:
KDB - 15 5 3 5 3 2 16 2 1
Silva - 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 3
Kun - 25 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 0
We know what happened in GW 8 (6-1 against NEW). And in GW18 it was a one-man show from KDB in GW18, and again it was avery lowly opponent in SUN).
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The zeros were mostly injuries. That scuppers the best laid plans.
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Yeah injures are just irritating and something we can't plan with.
Not trying to be a jack*ss but those 6 homers out of 9 are not that easy imo. Spurs and Palace at home? Those teams can be really tight at the back
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hardly fair to two players who missed the majority of the games. Only Silva's disappointing in ppg.
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Yeah can't ignore the fact that they were injured a lot but when they were given the chance it was not all gold and shining too.
ppg is a good indicator I know but homers are no forgone conclusion attacking-wise, especially if you have TOT & CPL.-
Well nothing is your just tipping the odds in your favour.
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Maybe I'm bias but hey, I still got 2 MCI attack here (KDB & Kun) so it's not that I don;t trust them to do good things.
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Point is that nothing is certain, but that does not stop you trying to plan ahead. When stars align that way for City fixtures and given their class and quality and now fitness I had to go for it.
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Yeah planning ahead is good.
If you feel the victory at Watford is a stepping stone for City to turn things around in the near future then it's justifiable to triple up their attack. Best of luck for that
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That really is a worthless showing of stats as wasn't Aguero and Silva injured in this period? All is shows is that KDB was fit and the other two didn't play, how can it help to gauge if a triple up is worth it?
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I think tripling up is a great idea and shall also be doing it if Aguero survives, back to back home games is a great time to try it and if it fails than Silva will become Sanchez after Arsenal play Chelsea.
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So this is my team, pretty 'okay' tbh but there's some ideas.
Butland - Henessey
Kosc - Bellerin - Toby - Evans - 4m
Ozil - KDB - Mahrez - Arnie - Gosling
Lukaku - Kane - Vardy
Should I
a) Vardy -> Ighalo + 1 FT
b) Bellerin Vardy -> Williams/Creswell Ighalo
c) Gosling Vardy -> Siggy Ighalo
Either moves will allow me to upgrade Kane/Lukaku to Kun later on.
Dilemma is I really want Siggy for SUN but means probably no Payet, and
if I were to downgrade an Arse defender, I'd rather do it now (liv sto CHE) rather than later.-
C 😉
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b imo
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I think you should lose one of your ARS defender. Kos if you wanna play it safe with Belle, the fullback if you;re feeling punty with Kos.
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Anything here worth a -4? Would you change any of the bench?
Butland
Smalling / Ward / Cresswell
Siggy / KDB / Ozil / Alli
Kane / Iggy (c) / Lukaku
Subs: Gomes / Mahrez / Dawson / Moreno-
No. I'd play Mahrez over Alli.
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Really? Leicester won't have Vardy and will be playing a solid Spurs defence. Then again it is Mahrez
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Mahrez has been good in away games, and his ownership makes him harder to bench, imo. Nothing wrong to play Alli though, it's up to you.
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It's a tough decision for sure. Guess i'll decide after the FA Cup games
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this, although it's not popular around here
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@Billy, let's do some trade
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You want Danny Green again? 😆
Nice trade with Acqua btw, I have no idea how he's doing that well with a team like that.
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Right then, am I lining up correctly?
Butland | (McCarthy)
Bellerín | Anderweireld | Souaré | (Moreno | Dawson)
KDB | Ozil | Yaya | Payet | (Mahrez)
Ighalo | Kane | Lukaku
I'm not sure who to bench out of Mahrez & Ighalo and Souaré & Moreno. Team looks weak when I type it out.-
AOA?
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Used
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Lots of people shipping Vardy... wouldn't you fancy him for Villa or it chances are he'll be injured?
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He will be fit and will be a genuine captain option as Villa are dire.
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So my 3 defenders this week aren't great
Dier (LEI)
Kolarov (EVE)
Moreno (ARS)
Probably a good week to play AOA and spare me the whole play/bench Mahrez/Alli decision ya?-
Yeah, AOA isn't that great a chip anyway.
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Play the 3rd defender vs 8th attacker game.
If you think the attacker will score well compared to the defender then it's a decent option.
When the blanks come around, AoA might be better to use then.
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797 qualified for GW21 in LMS.
Check the community article if you haven't entered to see if you qualify.-
survived so far..
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What would be the best GK rotation at the moment, for the coming GWs?
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who needs rotation when you have Butland !
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Bournemouth 13/2 to get relegated hmmm....
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A lot longer then when they first got the injuries.
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Butland, Hennessey
Toby, Smalling, Kolarov, Koscielny, Dawson
Ozil, Ramsey, Mahrez, KDB, Alli
Lukaku, Vardy, Iggy
2FT 2.2 in the bank.
Thinking of doing Ramsey > Payet and Kolarov/Kosc > Cresswell for free and playing 5 mid (bench Vardy)
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Yup, nice team.
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Best defender 4.5 m or under to bring in?
a) Ward
b) Wolly
c) a.n. other-
Daniels or Smith
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Hmm Bournemouth don't keep too many cleanies though
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That's starting to change with 3 in the last 6
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Ward Smith Olsson (when fit ) Simpson Britos
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thoughts on Arnautovic (c) punt
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huge gamble
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Don't like his hair cut
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dislike the man bun?
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Yes
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ESPN FC @ESPNFC
Real Madrid and Chelsea could swap Gareth Bale and Eden Hazard.
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BS 😕
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I prefer Hazard to Bale tbh
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Zizou is a big fan of Hazard.. I prefer Hazard too.. hope he stays and gets back to form..
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Yep....Bale is nice too but Hazard is more suited to Chelsea imo
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Welcome to the rumour mill. This is just the Arsenal rumours from one transfer window.
https://arsenalssillyseason.wordpress.com/2014-winter/-
Balders , any views on Oscar ?
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meh, he's somewhere between 10 and 20th on my midfielders list
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Is your list sorted by SoT? And is it last 4 weeks or last 6 weeks?
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Cos last 4 weeks , Oscar stats have been pretty good Imo
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no and no, its a mental general outlook list.
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Mou in charge-
Oscar = 8 succ. final third passes per app.
Since Mou got the sack-
Oscar = 17.5 succ. final third passes per app.
What do you make of this? Or its just a co-incidence and cherry picking of a stat?-
More team possession? I don't really look at f1/3 passing numbers
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Ah..that would explain it.. Although we had like 30% of possession against United....also since Mou , he is playing more minutes
I am just liking Oscar from the last 4 matches. He has been immense from the eye test. (Both offense and defense)
Did you know that he averaged 3.20 shots p90 last season in the PL?! Its pretty good , better than Hazard even-
yeah but his minutes were always cut short under Mou so he was dead to me as an fpl asset.
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Hiddink loves him ! He has been our best performer. I rate Oscar much more than Willian in a FPL perspective. Although Willian is better defensively , Oscar is much more of a goal threat
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interesting, link to this last part?
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here are the quotes from our twitter acc.
Guus says Oscar is the number one penalty taker which is why he took the penalty. #CFC
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Cheers EH
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Is he under or over Coutinho in your mental list? 😉
(You can answer freely , IE and BF are not online) 😉-
Rough list at the moment:
Tier 1
Sanchez, Mahrez, YYT, KDB, Walcott (CF)
Tier 2
Ozil, Silva, Sterling, Payet, Siggy, Alli, Lamela
Tier 3
Ramsey, Walcott (RW/LW), Barkley, Lamela, Eriksen, Antonio, Oscar, Willian, Pedro, Stanislas, King, Bolasie, Coutinho-
King and Stanis in Tier 3...Yikes!
I don't rate them at all! Or is this list FPL relevant only? If that is the case , nice ranking system , I would add Wijnaldum in tier 3 fwiw-
fpl relevant only bearing in mind upcoming fixtures.
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Okay..Bolasie is injured
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Wijny can go in tier 3.5, just ahead of tier 4 😛
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I love that Lamela is in Tier 2. I really rate him but Alli is cheaper , so prefer Alli in FPL
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yeah haha, you can see I had him in tier 3 to start then made a judgement call at the end to put him in t2, forgot to delete him out of t3 though 😛
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Just noticed that lol
Alli is playing as striker acc. to average positions too...OOP alert!
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Wow! You predicted the Bamidele Alli!!! 😯
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The papers literally name every player in the football leagues system as going to move somewhere. Every player in that list (over a hundred of them) were linked with Arsenal between October 2013 and Jan 2014. Matt Macey and Semi Ajayi were the only two that actually joined our system in that window. The point is don't believe deals are being done until bookies stop taking bets on a move and the clubs confirm it.
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Well said...its ridiculous hearing Neymar being linked to Man United! 😆
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Grav check 😀
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I see what you did there
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Benching Alli next GW is madness imo.
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Time to bring back Payet with his upcoming fixtures ?
bou - new - MCI - AVL - sot-
I would adopt a wait and see strategy , atm , Siggy and Alli are better picky imho
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Yep. Give Payet one or two more weeks then bring him in. Alli or Siggy the better transfers this week.
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Alli scores against Everton and the bandwagon picks up. Seriously, you guys crack me up sometimes.
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He looked good when he came on against Liverpool, like he was never injured. If there are no new injury reports he's in for me.
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this
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Arsenal against Illori next Wednesday 😆
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This is the week Wally, Ramsey, Giroud comes off 😉
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I am keeping Wally then 😛
Do you see Wally , Gru and Sanchez starting all together?-
I'd put it at say a 40% chance of happening
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Cheers!
You going too (K)un too?-
yeah thats a no brainer for me assuming fitness.
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Anything worth -4 ?
Gomes
Bellerin Azpi Smith
YYT KDB Ozil Siggy
Vardy Kane Lukaku
Howard Mahrez Olsson Simpson-
Nope.
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cheers
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How is this for next GW?
Save or do something like Moreno- Williams?
Butland
Toby, Ward, Bellerin
Kdb, Mahrez, Ozil, Arnie
Lukaku, Aguero(c), Kane (vc)
Schmeichel, Francis, Stanislas, Moreno
1.1m, 1 ft-
Save
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Save, until the cup games at least.
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Your pick of these...? As a target when all fit...
A. Alli, KDB and Sanchez
B. Payet, Yaya and Sanchez
C. KDB, Payet and Alli
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Long term B
short term C
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Here's a query for my fellow DZers...
I'd previously considered this a no brainer, but I'm questioning it this morning. Play one of these...
Bellerin (liv)
Alderweireld (LEI)-
Toby
Liverpool have done well against the big teams this season and Leicester probably without Vardy-
That's where I was leaning, after considering Bellerin a no brainer.
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Then again with Coutinho picking up an injury and the possibility of Can having to move into central defence due to injuries... it's a coin flip really, Leicester always create chances
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Both ideally. Rest of your defence?
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The other two I intend to play are:
Ward (avl)
Williams (SUN)
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I would be tempted to bench Ward tbh. Its a do or die game for Villa. Pardew is losing the plot at Palace imo. Palace play away...I prefer Toby over Bellerin fwiw
I would rank your defs in this order - Williams , Toby , Bellerin , Ward
100% bench Moreno-
Thanks Eden. I may well do that.
And yes, despite being a Liverpool fan, Moreno is 3rd sub this week!!-
Sturridge may play , so I understand if you bench Bellerin
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Long way to go. Who knows what's gonna change? I may end up with injuries that force me to play all 4.
Cheers mate
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play both unless u own Azpi n Iva
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Cheers mate
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Bellers - Can't leave a 6m defender on the bench vs a full injured liverpool team. If you really wanna go balls out play all 4
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Alderweireld is a 6M defender too! 😉
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Toby every time. Esp if Vardy is out injured.
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Cheers Balders!
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Balders, you got my confirmation for the doubles tournament?
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yes thanks, just seen it 🙂
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