It’s time to delve into the Gameweek 8 Opta data now, in our first member’s article of the week. A host of midfielders jostle for our attention, as we check in on Southampton, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Stoke’s top performers.
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It's Sanchez vs Aguero for me in the captaincy. Sanchez has the better fixture but Aguero has an extra day to recover. If Sanchez were rested tonight it would make the decision a whole lot easier
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Aguero benched also makes the decision easier
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against barca?
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woah just saw. mental.
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Isaac Success.
Do we think this man is worth a punt?-
that punt is bound to be a success
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Eight week form tables are up. You will be amazed how many goals Leicester have comceded in their last Eight home matches
http://Www.triggerlips.com-
Interesting. Wasn't fancying Tekkers versus Huth and Morgan, but now less so.
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Have had Fuchs the past few weeks in a rotation, hasn't let me down but hoping for more assists and BAPs over the next few juicy home games
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Massive numbers
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Have to find a way to bring in De Bruyne in a couole of weeks, the big nipumbers show he looks much better thsn Sterling whoseems to be tsiling off a bit. Another blank by Sanchez could make it a tempting swap, keeping Walcott as the Arsenal coverage
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I have some sketched plans to bring him GW 11 for Ozil.
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Agree with the Sanchez to De Bruyne swap.
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He always does great when Aguero's not playing
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Yeah depends on how Sanchez looks. Could also downgrade Aguero to any other in form striker on pens and with good fixtures.
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Baines to Holebas for -4 will leave me on -8 :/
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Think I'm gonna hold another week on this one.
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I did it on a free but I'd hold if I were you unless you can't get 3 defenders out
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Evening lads.
Ok, what next for me?
Cech
Lovren Holebas Pieters
Sanchez Firmino Sterling Antonio
Kun Lukaku Deeney
Pickford Amat Robertson (inj) Carrick
1FT 0,2 ITB
A) Robertson > Smith
B) Sterling > Walcott
C) Antonio > Lallana
D) Carrick > Fletcher
E) Hold-
C or hold
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Did B, would do it again
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Heaton
Clyne Amat Vertonghen
Antonio Firmino Snodgrass Sterling
Ibrahimovic Lukaku Aguero
Pickford Capoue Collins Evans
If you had that squad this week what transfer would you make?-
Need Walcott for sure
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Aguero benched!!1
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Great news!
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Unless it a sign something is not right
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Crikey. Could be just the motivation he needs to start banging them in again.
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Wow, no longer first choice?
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Imagine if Holebas picks up his fifth yellow this week and misses Hull(H). Heartbreaking
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Guys i need some help - how to fit in walcott?
Valencia - Clyne - Holebas - Collins - Amat
Allen - Sanchez - Sterling - Firmino - Punch
Kun - Ighalo (gosh here's another issue) - Lukaku-
Forgot to mention .8 itb and 1 ft
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https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/788795760833916928
KDB playing as a striker!-
Or Sterling maybe
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Or Nolito
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Bravo Kolarov Otamendi Stones Zaba, Gundogan Fernandinho Silva Nolito Sterling, KDB
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KdB up top, or Nolito?
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KDB according to city's lineup graphic
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Interesting. Has he ever played CF before? Doesn't seem like it would suit his game, really.
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Think he did once under Mourinho vs United. Or was that Schurrle. Not sure
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Schurrle did.
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Nolito much more suited ..kdb playing a false 9?
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Yeah, it's probably some weird Pep formation.
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CITY XI | Bravo, Zabaleta, Otamendi, Stones, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Gundogan, Silva, Sterling, Nolito, De Bruyne #FCBCity #mcfc
CITY SUBS | Caballero, Fernando, Aguero, Maffeo, Clichy, Sane, Navas #FCBCity #mcfc -
Stanislas, Bolasie or Redmond?
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Wow aguero dropped
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Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Gibbs; Cazorla, Coquelin; Walcott, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Sanchez
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Surprised Walcott not given a rest
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May be taken off early
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At Emirates. #afc team: Ospina, Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Gibbs; Cazorla, Coquelin; Walcott, Ozil, Oxlade-Chamberlain; Sanchez.
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Welp, that made my substitution easy (and a waste of a transfer on Iwobi, but oh well).
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I'd say rested, not dropped. Same with Monreal.
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Guardiola comments in the press about aguero is worrying
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Even with the comments I didn't expect him to be dropped for their biggest game this season
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What about it?
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Said aguero needs to man up
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It is strange. Hard to believe he would rest anyone for this match so obviously Aguero either dropped or does not fit the tactics wanted
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After a draw i guess, but i could tell Pep not to bother, no way they keep Barca out.
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What comments?
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Why Aguero dropped again? Time to ship out lol?
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I'd guess the reasoning is similar to Sturridge at Liverpool. Doesn't do enough defensively for a game against Barca.
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A) Lose Aguero and upgrade Sterling to KDB
B) Lose Sanchez for KDB. Change Sterling to Ozil and keep Aguero.
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I think a Southampton midfielder could be decent but them fixtures put me off
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Tadic the only one I'd consider and he's horribly frustrating
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I do like him, Redmond also looks good value at 5.9?
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Not touching Redmond again
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I don't like those fixtures either.
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Does anyone know where I can see all the UCL lineups on one page?
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Thanks. That's much better than I hoped for 🙂
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If anything this shows aguero isn't guaranteed a start
Pep will choose his team based on the opponent. The days of aguero being that main man maybe over. I honestly think pep prefers kdb and sterling and those are his favourites-
There's no challenge in the PL equivalent to a game against Barca though.
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Fine point. Evidence so far suggests that in PL, Kun plays.
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It's a scary scary world we live in now when we can't bank on aguero starting big games !
Crazy stuff IMO
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Wenger seems to be learning - don't rest players early in the CL, get the wins under your belt then you can rest players later if you need to.
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Which combo?
A) Austin and one of Alli/Son/Lallana/Coutinho
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Well...crap. I went from having too many players on the bench and nowhere to put them to potentially not having enough. So what do I do here?
Semper (Oblak coming in)
Fuchs (5) - Dani Alves (6) - Coates (1) - Guerreiro
Saul - Iwobi - Mahrez (8) - Otavio (5)
Ronaldo (14) - Aguero
Bench: Grimaldo, Kimmich, Suarez.
I definitely need a replacement for Guerreiro. Iwobi is on the bench. Aguero too. Assuming all of my bench are named as starters, is there a point in hoping either Iwobi or Aguero come good off their respective benches or should I just do Aguero > Suarez, Guerreiro > Grimaldo and Iwobi > Kimmich? And what of Ronaldo? Stick with (c) or pin it on Suarez, Kimmich or Saul and hope for the best? -
KDB edging closer to the 'essential' status.. Looking forward to shoehorning him into my team, his stats are godlike..
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Has something happened to Kun?
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Tactical decision?
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Hope so.
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Any point to do Sterling -> Alli? I have 2 FT and no urgent "issues"
