| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  Donnarumma | MCI | C |
| Up |  Verbruggen | BHA | C, Vs |
| Down |  Raya Martin | ARS | A |
| Up |  Darlow | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Petrovic | BOU | B |
| Up |  Henderson | CRY | C |
| Up |  Mamardashvili | LIV | C, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up |  O’Reilly | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Gabriel Magalhães | ARS | A |
| Up |  van Hecke | BHA | B, Vs |
| No Change |  Hill | BOU | B, £ |
| Up |  Struijk | LEE | B, Vs, £ |
| Up |  Lacroix | CRY | A |
| Down |  van Dijk | LIV | C |
| Down |  Thiaw | NEW | C, Rest |
| No Change |  Kayode | BRE | B |
| No Change |  Cash | AVL | C |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Bruno Fernandes | MUN | A |
| Up |  Semenyo | MCI | B |
| No Change |  Palmer | CHE | C |
| Up |  Tavernier | BOU | C, £ |
| Up |  Ismaila Sarr | CRY | A |
| No Change |  Gordon | NEW | A, OoP |
| No Change |  Rice | ARS | C |
| No Change |  Rogers | AVL | C |
| No Change |  Anderson | NFO | B, £ |
| Down |  Szoboszlai | LIV | B |
| Down |  Wilson | FUL | A |
| No Change |  Stach | LEE | C, Vs, Inj, £ |
| Player | Club | Factors | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Change |  Haaland | MCI | C |
| Up |  João Pedro | CHE | A |
| Up |  Welbeck | BHA | A, Vs |
| Up |  Calvert-Lewin | LEE | C, Vs |
| No Change |  Bowen | WHU | B |
| Down |  Thiago | BRE | B |
Paul Our usual post-Gameweek delve into the data arrives, as we assess some of the most impressive performers over the previous round of fixtures.
Sunderland, West Brom and Tottenham Hotspur all supply us with a pair of standout options, while we check in on City’s key creator and a Southampton differential as the fixtures turn in the Saints’ favour.
Fantasy football
This is the West Ham player to get.
Ahead of the curve.
I agree
+42!
Agree. He looks sharp
Snoddy (CRY) to Siggy (SUN) for a hit this week or do it for free next week? Thanks
OMG De Bruyne
Summary for us non members? 😉
Our usual post-Gameweek delve into the data arrives, as we assess some of the most impressive performers over the previous round of fixtures.
Sunderland, West Brom and Tottenham Hotspur all supply us with a pair of standout options, while we check in on City’s key creator and a Southampton differential as the fixtures turn in the Saints’ favour.
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Sign up for the membership.
Time to ditch Walcott after this week
Is Son worth consideration again? Or is it Eriksen?
Yes, worth consideration. Though not as nailed as Eriksen.
Eric/Alli Son.
The son has already set
Not sure he's nailed which is a big issue. If he was he'd be straight in my team next week
I like Son as an option, I think he's fairly nailed whilst Lamela is broken, and could have easily outscored Eriksen last week who had some jammy points.
Longer term you'd want Eriksen for sure, but I'm considering going with both of them next week for their 2 plum home fixtures.
I think we're going to see a Charlie Austin exodus after his 62 minute goalless display on Sunday.
Too many options for Puel to tinker with now that Tadic is back in the fold and Boufal is playing well.
Exact cash for him to Iheanacho.
origi better option imo
It's a shame since his fixtures are so good
Not so sure, his fixtures are great and can't see anyone else becoming a great option in that price range, except maybe Wilson. Iheanacho and Origi are too short term I think
Agreed, that's why so many people will be forced to keep him.
I just have this feeling he's trending in the wrong direction and it's better to be ahead of the curve in ditching.
Not like they have any other remotely decent strikers thought.
I'm Irish and I find this offensive.
Ditched him while getting Sanchez. He brought me some good points but never convinced me for real like whole Soton
Which defence would you rather DITCH based on fixtures till after Christmas at least?
A - Stoke
B - Watford
C - Boro
A or B
Watford probably. Boro sound and Stoke have improved
Agree but those Stoke Fixtures are horrendous if you look.
Play Holebas this week then get rid.
Stoke are trending in the right direction with their new formation.
Prodl/Pieters/Friend
The logic would be Friend I suppose.
Before GW17 I sell Holebas and buy Boro if it helps you
Who are the PAIR of standout options for sunderland?
One shock one not
Defoe and?
0/2 🙂
Anichebe?
Watmore and Love
I bought Love this week. True story. (needed an enabler)
Niall Quinn and 'Killer' Kilbane!
Lyndon Gooch
Borini and Lens
Sessegnon and Cuellar
Quinn & Phillips. Best strike partnership that ever lived.
Gyan and welbeck
The big numbers article is worth the membership alone.
Agreed
Only article I have ever missed tbh.
Its the best members article but I dont think I could do without the members areal. Made me change from Aguero (c) to Sanchez (c) this Gw and made me 24 points
You could have given us lazy folk who never use the members area a heads up at least!
The stats in there are brilliant, given me an edge over all my ML rivals
Ha! sorry mate. Ill keep that in mind 🙂
🙂
What stat in particular made you change?
Very true !
Has the article swayed any people towards potential changes this week or next?
It's put a couple of players on my radar as potentials to bring in soon
Yes. I am now taking a hit to bring in the 5th last name in bold
I own him so I hope your hit pays off handsomely!
Average position map?
Did VVD + Williams to Cedric + Alonso -4. Was this a good move or not worth a hit?
Sound moves if you could only afford Alonso if it meant doing VVD to Cedric. Otherwise, the latter move is sideways.
Yeah that was the enabler
Or you could look at it as VVD to Alonso for free and Williams to Cedric for a hit
Grand then since it was an enabler.
KDB straight in my team. Those stats are really special
Pep though..
Shaping up to be a great differential
Over Alexis/Hazard?
Not for me Toyokio.
Stats are great
Only stats that matter in this game are goals and assists.
If we went by stats only, Tadic would be on everyone's team every year and we'd all be blanking every week.
Ha.
For gw 16 only-
A. Firmino(bou) + Alonso(sun)
B. Hazard(sun) + Evans(SWA)
Tough, probably A
Firmino plays mid*
Yeah but he basically plays in the front 3... I'll show myself out
Haha knew this was coming as soon as I typed it 😀
B imo
A for me just about
B. A Pulis team always has a chance of a clean sheet
1 CS in the last 10. He's become more attacking
Thoughts on the following or a hit
firmino to can
Redmond to hazard
Do you have Costa?
no, I have no chelsea cover because of poor team value
Don't sell Firmino this week.
I wouldnt sell Firmino with this fixture. Lets see your team...see if we can find other options.
Hmmm, your team is nicely balanced. Defence, Gundogan & Redmond could be upgraded, so I'd look at those - maybe try and get Alonso in?
Then next week look at Firmino if he blanks again...?
G2G? I have taken a -4 this week doing Aguero > Costa and Stanislas > Siggy
Boruc
Alonso, Cedric, Holebas
Sanchez (C), Hazard, Firmino, Siggy
Costa (VC), Austin, Wilson
Pickford, Allen, McAuley, Lenhian
0FT and 1.3 iTB
Lovely jubbly
kdb bandwagon anyone? Not sure if it's been mentioned here or not
Haven't seen any mention of him.
Yeah in for Sanchez next week
First I've heard. You're a visionary Bemba.
Should that be kpb? I miss the prince
I got Sanchez in this week but considering just enjoying the value gained and taking the hit for kdb, thoughts?
If you want a green arrow, do that move. Members article is so vital.
Thoughts are you have to be taking the p*ss.
Who?
Already did Sanchez ➡ Kdb for a -4.
Great article, I've missed the members area.
Zaha Siggy Anichebe
Want to bench Zaha.
Your thoughts ?
Tough, I'd be tempted to bench anichibe tbh.
I'm tempted to play him. SWA def 😀
Yeah but I think the stats in this article are misleading tbh and Hull are worse than Swansea. Flip a coin or just go with your gut.
Maybe I'm crazy but I would really bench Siggy...
Guys you'd be doing me a huge favour if you could answer this. A bit of research for another fantasy football game I play.
How many clean sheets over the next 6?
Bournemouth : bur LEI SOT che swa ARS
Chelsea : WBA sun cpl BOU STO tot
Everton : wat ARS LIV lei hul SOT
Liverpool : WHM mid eve STO MCI sun
Southampton : MID sto bou TOT WBA eve
Cheers
Bournemouth : 1
Chelsea : 5
Everton : 2
Liverpool : 1
Southampton : 2
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Will Claudio Ranieri be the Leicester manager come 2017?
It'd be a disgrace if he wasn't
This.
And even a bigger disgrace if Leicester were to be relegated
I would say so. While they're still in the CL it would be very poor form if he were to be sacked.
As much as i would love to see it they probably wont win the CL but i can imagine a scenario in witch they don't win a game in December
Yes. First Championship team to play in Champions League.
I said it on here around gw4 and got berated it is still very possible
Three seasons further down the line. First Conference team in Champions League.
Blackburn?
He won't be sacked if that's what you're asking.
I am expecting something more like leaving due to mutual consent or wording to that affect
He's qualified top of the group in the Champions League. Leicester completed football last season, they're just playing for fun now.
Absolutely zero chance he gets sacked.
As a Sunderland fan those numbers confuse me. Shows how clinical Defoe is and as beast as Anichibe is playing for us, he's not even on the same planet in terms of finishing.
Easy there.
Easy there what?
Anichebe's stats are great. You think he can be a real option in the long term? Or is it just a purple patch?
I think his stats are misleading.
Haven't watched you lot play recently, so I'll take your word for it. 🙂
He's playing unbelievable, I just don't see him going on a massive scoring run, even if his stats are unquestionably good.
Always liked him as player. Big, uncompromising, quicker than you'd expect - can be a real handful, but history shows us his goals record ain't great.
Big change here is that he's playing up top with another striker, and one who is a clinical finsher, so may have changed his game somewhat.
Short answer - no idea if it's just a purple patch. History says yes, but could be a different player now.
6 goals is the highest he's ever gone so it'll be interesting to see if he can keep up the form..
He's playing on the left of a front three, usually pinning the fullback and bullying him like he did with Simpson at weekend who he tortured. Couple weeks before anichbe played on right against the young 17yrd old who was in a LB for HULL. It's a tactic that's working wonders and coming back to the Leicester game it allowed PvA space to run in behind, hence an upturn in his stats.
I think anichibe is possibly in the form of his life and as such is bound to see profits of it through goals, however history tells us he'll never be prolific.
In terms of FPL I'd take defoe every day, even for £2.5/3m more.
Amazing to think it looked like Moyes was only one game from the sack not too long ago and now they look like they could very well pull it out of the bag i think given time Moyes will do great things with Sunderland imo
Personally think Moyes is very limited now as a manager. Just seems to have lost it tactically, and his defeatist, reactionary rhetoric puts a ceiling on how far a team will go. He will always play to not lose first, and that's fine with Sunderland but it means lower midtable is really best any team can expect with him.
But fair play to this transformation, you wouldn't tip them to go down now which is very surprising given early season form / history.
Yeah I must admit I'd wrote him off and wanted him out. A lot was down to what he was saying, as much as what the team were doing. We're growing in confidence though and I really think we could beat Swansea on sat, which would likely take us out of the relegation zone. When you consider we were sitting on 2pts after 10 games, I think that's an amazing feat.
That Swansea game is huge for Sunderland now a 6 pointer
Heaton ▪ Jakupovic
Cedric ▪ Holebas ▪ Amat ▪ McAuley ▪ Evans
Alexis ▪ Walcott ▪ Firmino ▪ Hazard ▪ Sigurdsson
Kane ▪ Austin ▪ Anichebe
3.5 ITB, 0 FT
A) Make Walcott => De Bruyne next GW
B) Jump on Alonso wagon, sell Amat or Evans
C) Do Anichebe => Costa downgrading Walcott, back to 3-4-3
C
B. I'd like a premium defender in there
Think this will be my team this weekend:
Heaton
Alonso Mustafi Williams
Hazard (c) Firmino Sigurdsson Snodgrass
Kane Austin Iheanacho
Subs: Foster, Alli, Amat, Pieters
Thoughts? Should I go Alli or Snodgrass in my XI?
I've got some obvious problems here - Deeney and Redmond being the obvious ones..
I've also got £2.1 but no FTs
Foster/pick
Walker/stones/holebas/Amat/pieters
Sanchez/firmino/ Wally/ Redmond/ fletcher
Costa/Kane/deeney
I'd like to do something like deeney - ineacho....
Is it worth the -4?
I'm 0.1 off wally + deeney ---> hazard and ineacho...
Maybe Redmond to Siggy
On a WC, any thoughts on this team please?:
Foster Pickford
Alonso Valencia Baines Lovren Ake
Siggy Sanchez Firmino Moses Can
Costa Bentekers Kane
Thanks!!
Too heavy defence and too light Moses / Can combo IMO
Lose Baines or Valencia to a cheaper option and upgrade one of your 4/5th midfielder.
I'd be careful of picking a 5th mid you'll want to start every week too. Just causes too many headaches.
I like it to be honest. Lots of options for xmas period and allows good rotation minimizing hits in the future month
Hello gentlemen!
Do you think willian can return to conte's starting 11 anytime soon now?
Yes
How can Conte ignore him after his performance after coming off the bench against City
Do not forget he was already in the 1st team before a unfortunate family bereavement and i for one have no doubt that he has regained his place
Recon Pedro starts over him if he is 100% for the weekend
Yep. He'll rotate with Pedro now he's back.
Yes, expect him to move into the starting 11 soon enough.
Would you play Anichebe (v Swans) and bench Can (v W Ham).
Or the other way around?
Only other option would be AOA benching Danny Rose (v Man U)
Anichebe or AOA.
Swansea look shot. Basically, do you think you'll have a better shot at AOA? If not, play it.
Aoa mate
Cheers lads, looks like an AOA opportunity, with Alonso & Cedric as the Defs.
They both have pretty plum fixtures.. if you're not prepared to play either of thim this week (AOA) then you shouldn't have both in your team!
Personally I'd play anichebe
Help me here lads. 1Ft
A) Austin -> Kelechi
B) Williams -> Cedric
C) Save
C..
Worth saving as Williams still has a good chance of clean sheet points
Not getting KDB now would just be mental.
You all know that people are going to knee jerk KDB now and he will get a hatrick! My rival has him so please stop the negative jinxing.
Why?
pssst... the article 😉
Heaton, Pickford;
Alonso, Cedric, Brunt, Cameron, Amat;
Sanchez, Hazard, Firmino, Siggy, de Roon;
Kane, Costa, Austin.
Got carried away with the hits this weekend (-12) but the team looks strong enough to be a WC team.
Aguero, Walcott, McAuley, Holebas > Costa, Sanchez, Alonso, Cedric
Hopefully I can bank the transfer this week and then do Cameron > Friend in the not too distant future.
That team looks like a dream.. very jealous. Who are you going to captain?
I did the same and took a -12pts hit this weekend
Pedro/Walcott/Gundogan >>> Hazard/Sigurdsson/Can
-------------------Karius-------------------
------Mustafi Koscielny Holebas------
--Lallana Can Sigurdsson Hazard--
-----------Costa Austin Kane-----------
SUBS:
-Pickford Barragan Capoue Francis
What do you think?
Probably San(c)hez.
Solid team, not too keen on having Lallana and Can but could prove to be an option over the short-term.
Maybe look at changing one of your Arsenal defenders to Rose/Aldeweireld/Alonso.
Do you think Costa captain for me? Or someone else?
Yeah, Can is to free up some funds- then likely to get rid of Lallana and Koscielny in the long term as will need Sanchez
Alonso is also a must
I'd captain Hazard over Costa.
Midfielders get more points for scoring and gain a point for CS too.
