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21 August 2016 1535 comments
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Gameweek 2 rolls into Sunday with a lunchtime Wear-Tees derby clash.

Sunderland play host to a Middlesbrough side that earned a draw in their opening home encounter with Stoke City on day one. David Moyes’ side also emerged with some credit from their first fixture, losing out to Man City by a narrow 2-1 margin having equalised via a Jermain Defoe goal.

Defoe will once again carry the goal scoring burden for the Black Cats today, who are without Fabio Borini due to a toe injury. Moyes gives home debuts to Donald Love, Paddy McNair and Adnan Januzaj, while Papy Djilobodji earns his full debut at the back.

Aitor Karanka begins to rotate his Boro troops by bringing in Cristhian Stuani for Albert Adomah. Victor Valdes misses out with a training ground knock, opening the way for Brad Guzan to earn his debut in goal.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. pundit of punts
    10 years, 1 month ago

    60 points all out.

    Average week.

    1. Numb
      10 years, 1 month ago

      With Aguero / Ibra and one of them captained?

      1. pundit of punts
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Aguero(c)

        No Ibra. Got him now though.

    2. Podge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      68 not happy after my Ibra C start

    3. Venom Snake
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Better then being below par.

      Good score

    4. Jamie_GAWA
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Same score, not happy

    5. vuleeeee
      10 years, 1 month ago

      90

    6. Dušan Citizen
      10 years, 1 month ago

      70

    7. Neto
      10 years, 1 month ago

      74

  2. Hybrid.power
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Please no last minute bonus point changes. I want 2 from Negrado so I hit 80 🙂

    1. Epic Fail
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Wouldn't you rather have 3?

      1. Hybrid.power
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Stuani is owning the 3. Van Aanholt is creeping up on Negrado

    2. Worzel Gummidge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Do you only ever post talking about your team and your points?

      1. Hybrid.power
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Do you want to talk about the weather?

        1. Jazz!
          10 years, 1 month ago

          😆

        2. Worzel Gummidge
          10 years, 1 month ago

          No but try and answer some questions about going on about your team and your points and me me me

          1. Hybrid.power
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            10 years, 1 month ago

            You can go through my comment history and see that I do also answer questions

  3. Venom Snake
    10 years, 1 month ago

    My rival is so lucky.

    Had Kun(c) and Ibra both score braces.

    1. Numb
      10 years, 1 month ago

      What a tosspot

      1. Numb
        10 years, 1 month ago

        You just can't legislate for jamminess like that

        1. Venom Snake
          10 years, 1 month ago

          😆

    2. Hybrid.power
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      10 years, 1 month ago

      How is it luck? Is it luck if a player that you have scores?

    3. Podge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Thats not luck 😆

    4. Ayew Holding Mee Cork
      10 years, 1 month ago

      How is that lucky?

    5. noquarternt
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Ridiculous. So lucky! Get him to pick your lottery numbers!

    6. Bellerinmondo
      10 years, 1 month ago

      great differentials too

  4. Rolls-Royce
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Miralles worth a punt?

    1. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Not for me. Too hot and cold

    2. Worzel Gummidge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Not for me. Bolasie maybe. People seem to like Barkley

    3. King Kohli
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Don't see too many other options for 6.5 or 7m, assuming you have Redmond

  5. Mark-O
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Karanka is obsessed with Downing

    Poor fantasy asset but plays almost all 90' since last season

    1. noquarternt
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Has to play him I think. Karanka nearly walked out of the job after the club signed Downing. Huge fight over the owners telling him to pick him. A January transfer window I think.

    2. Shifty
      10 years, 1 month ago

      point being?

  6. arthadox
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Southampton are versing Sunderland, good time for Redmond/Long Captain?

    1. Mr. Grv
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I'd Stick with my kun

    2. noquarternt
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah I guess there are no other proven strikers thrashing them in around the league.

    3. Bellerinmondo
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I like this use of 'versing'

  7. Hurricane Gilbert
    10 years, 1 month ago

    56 all out completely devastating gameweek, with big points on the bench again and a loss against my biggest rival in the H2H after that PvA goal. Can only get better (jinx) from here 😉

  8. Jamie_GAWA
    10 years, 1 month ago

    What did your defence score this week?

    Mine scored 10

    1. Viper
      10 years, 1 month ago

      27 from gk + 3 defenders

      1. El Patron
        10 years, 1 month ago

        BAN 🙁

    2. Mr. Grv
      10 years, 1 month ago

      11 , ha suck it

    3. Nabs Kebabs
      10 years, 1 month ago

      8 but only played 2 at the back

    4. Podge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      same

    5. Jigger & Pony
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      10 years, 1 month ago

      7
      6 1 6

    6. One Man
      10 years, 1 month ago

      13, or 19 including goal keeper

    7. noquarternt
      10 years, 1 month ago

      22

    8. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      10 years, 1 month ago

      10. 1 more than my midfield. Attack scored 41. Obviously lacking balance.

    9. vuleeeee
      10 years, 1 month ago

      39

    10. MTPockets
      10 years, 1 month ago

      10 inc gk

    11. Venom Snake
      10 years, 1 month ago

      15.

      Shaw scored 11 of them.

    12. Eden Azzzar
      10 years, 1 month ago

      24

    13. La Vida Latte
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      10 years, 1 month ago

      33 including keeper

  9. Viper
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Noble a decent bet @ 14/1 first scorer

  10. anish10
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Carroll > negredo
    Vardy > Ibra
    Sanchez > ozil

    All look good for a -4? Only way I can afford Ibra is to take Sanchez out

    1. Epic Fail
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah

    2. Worzel Gummidge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Looks reasonable.

  11. El Patron
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Friend, you are not my friend. No cs 🙁

    1. Neto
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Watmore my Friend? Mutch Love

    2. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I don't generally expect a CS in a local derby. Was hoping he'd score!

  12. Crouching Tiger
    10 years, 1 month ago

    LOL at people who lolled me for taking Gray out for Negredo. Same points 😉

    1. Nabs Kebabs
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Waste of a transfer then. I use mine to increase points.

      1. Crouching Tiger
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Negredo better long-term and fixtures wise I think.

        1. Shifty
          10 years, 1 month ago

          gray looked very good, so did Burnley.

          Both good picks.

    2. One Man
      10 years, 1 month ago

      The world is a jungle Tiger!

  13. boooobah
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Really pleased with my team atm (ranked top 10k) and have 2 FTs. Only player that is annoying me is Firmino.

    Would you:

    a) Transfer Firmino (probably to Barkley)

    b) Change my 4.0 keeper who doesn't play to Jaku and my 4.0 defender who doesn't play to Amat the activate bench boast ASAP to take advantage of 15 players who will all start.

    1. Epic Fail
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Save

      1. boooobah
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Might as well make some kind of transfer as have 2 FTs though

    2. ZombieEaten
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Yeah

    3. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Don't really get your question, but if you need to use a transfer look at the player that hasn't performed for you, look at his fixtures and see if there is a better fit out there for the same price.

      Don't use your chip

  14. Clumsy Sakho
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Any chance 46 will scrape through LMS?

    1. Venom Snake
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Possible but I doubt it. Relatively high scoring week

  15. Worzel Gummidge
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Would you rather have Lamela or Redmond?

    1. Mr. Grv
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Red

      1. One Man
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Same

    2. Neto
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Redmond

    3. Pavsboot
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Redmond

  16. Greenbackbøøg…
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Best 5.0 mid?

    1. One Man
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Capoue or Moloney (Long term)

  17. DrunkPhilosophy
    10 years, 1 month ago

    So 27 on my bench last week and I was like okay, at least I have the players.

    Another 27 this week...

  18. Fantasy Challenged
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Good Boro victory there!

    I've decided to use my 2 FT this week to get Vardy out for Ibra, but can't decide who to take out in midfield and for who. Help please!

    A) Firm --> Barkley
    B) Firm --> Lamela
    C) Townsend --> Gaston
    D) Other??

    Rest of midfield is Hazard, Tadic and Capoue with Kun and Gray up front.

    Shot lads.

    1. Norman Conquest
      10 years, 1 month ago

      a

    2. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      10 years, 1 month ago

      A

      1. One Man
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Same

    3. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      10 years, 1 month ago

      B

  19. Sihproma
    10 years, 1 month ago

    67 Pts, seem average week

  20. CelticBhoy1
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Thinking of bringing Sterling in.

    Thoughts?

    1. Clumsy Sakho
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Just no

      1. CelticBhoy1
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        10 years, 1 month ago

        Lol! Is he really that bad an option?

    2. Crouching Tiger
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Was a bit tempting but went for Barkley.

    3. Alan The Llama
      10 years, 1 month ago

      8m for someone playing up front for a free scoring City. Probably going to do it myself.

    4. Worzel Gummidge
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I would be worried about rotation. Auger or nothing for me atm.

  21. Tronity
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Vardy and Deulofeu > Ibra and Fletcher
    2FTs and Capoue becomes my 4th midfielder/Fletcher my 5th

    1. BERGKOP
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Yes

      1. BERGKOP
        10 years, 1 month ago

        * Ah didn't read Capoue 4th mid bit for some reason. No.

        1. Tronity
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Ah really?! Think Vardy and Deulofeu outscore Ibra and Capoue?

    2. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Capoue still not fourth mid material

      1. Tronity
        10 years, 1 month ago

        It is debatable whether Deulofeu is at the moment though! And without it I'll be missing out on the Ibra points.
        Could be a massacre against Hull and I think a lot of people will captain him.

  22. BERGKOP
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Gosh that's an interesting West Ham line up :S

  23. PnutButterWolf
    10 years, 1 month ago

    I've been reading the articles/forums on this site for a while now and without doubt my fantasy performances have improved due to the common sharing of knowledge (wisdom of the crowd so to speak - everybody inputting their individual chinks of knowledge to create a shared source of information). It occurred to me that we could use this abundance of knowledge to predict results. Basically if a group of us with a history of high rankings, say inside the top 100,000 (i think this would be a decent indicator of ones ability to predict successfully) focused on 4/5 matches per gameweek and made a prediction for each; we could amalgamate those probabilities and i'd be interested to see how accurate they turned out. Ideally, Monday participants would form an informed opinion and then alter that as the week progressed based upon - research, injury news, reading the views of others etc. then offering a final probability on Friday. Would anyone be interested in this?

    1. THE Wild Rover
      10 years, 1 month ago

      😀

      1. PnutButterWolf
        10 years, 1 month ago

        would you get involved?

        1. THE Wild Rover
          10 years, 1 month ago

          Being good at FPL doesn't mean you are good at predicting scores. I'm crap at both 😉

    2. Venom Snake
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Sounds like you're recruiting me to count cards at the casino

      1. PnutButterWolf
        10 years, 1 month ago

        I am! i'd share the knowledge though

    3. Tommy Tynans Left Shin Pad
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Barely have time for FPL mate sorry

    4. Oooof
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Let's start with this game.

  24. Cato Fong 你好
    10 years, 1 month ago

    According to FPL Gareth Barry is on 19,124 transfers, when so is his price likely to rise.....ie, how does it work...

    1. Bleach †
      10 years, 1 month ago

      no, not even close to rising

    2. Jigger & Pony
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Should rise when he crosses 80k net transfers in

    3. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Wow. As if people actually use there FTs to chase Gareth Barrys points. This is a sad world.

      1. Tronity
        10 years, 1 month ago

        He's a Ibra enabler!

    4. Epic Fail
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Get to to around 100 and price changes.
      http://www.fplstatistics.co.uk/

  25. Bleach †
    10 years, 1 month ago

    so thoughts what to do with Firmino and Mahrez, give more time?

    1. Swanny18
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I got rid of them both this week to bring in Haz and Barkley

    2. One Man
      10 years, 1 month ago

      I'm holding Mahrez

  26. FULLSERVICECOVER
    10 years, 1 month ago

    transferred gray out for carrol,hes not even on the bench..this stuff makes me sick

    1. Shifty
      10 years, 1 month ago

      odd transfer after seeing Liverpool's defensive performance last week.

      But i feel ya, spent 4 FTs last season getting Carroll in and out at time periods last season. got a couple of returns but nothing much to justify the transfers.

      Good fantasy asset but inefficient use of transfers to warrant a spot in my team. Never again.

      1. kijsberg
        10 years, 1 month ago

        To be fair Gray only had 1 shot versus Liverpool IIRC, with Burnley just managing a total of 2 shots. Scored on both, won't happen every week.

    2. Pavsboot
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Long season mate but geez thats unlucky.

  27. Davidinho
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Do keepers not spend their most of their professional lives practising making saves and getting up quickly ready for the next one. Watching that PvA goal, Guzan takes so long to get up.

    Bitter Friend owner here 😛

  28. Greenbackbøøg…
    10 years, 1 month ago

    Is Watmore nailed?

  29. Scotty B
    10 years, 1 month ago

    64 all out this week which is around average I suppose. 3 problems though. Carroll, Ramirez & Routledge need to go one by one. Who should be first to go?

    1. Pub Crawl to the Townsend
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Andy obvs

  30. ViewsFromThePo6ba
    10 years, 1 month ago

    A) Sterling +Tadic (keep) or Cazorla
    B) Ozil + Redmond

    Which one?

    1. Pavsboot
      10 years, 1 month ago

      Like the look of B although there's a chance you might be a week too early on Ozil.

      1. ViewsFromThePo6ba
        10 years, 1 month ago

        I can't take drops on Firmino or Tadic.