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4 March 2017 1776 comments
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Saturday’s events come to an end at Anfield as Liverpool play host to Arsenal.

While the Gunners sat out Gameweek 26, Jurgen Klopp’s side suffered a reverse at Leicester City on Monday night having been heavily backed by Fantasy managers through Sadio Mane, who had claimed 366,000 new owners.

Mane will look to revive his fortunes following Monday’s blank, after scoring a spectacular strike against the Gunners at the Emirates Stadium back in Gameweek 1.

Philippe Coutinho scored 15-points on that occasion, triggering a huge early season bandwagon. Notably, the Brazilian scored his first goal since Gameweek 11 in Monday’s defeat to the Foxes and fired in six attempts – signposting another big performance this evening, perhaps.

For Arsenal, the pre-match build-up is dominated by Arsene Wenger’s team selection, with Alexis Sanchez left on the bench as Danny Welbeck and Olivier Giroud start up front. The Gunners look set to play more direct, in a bid to counter Liverpool’s high pressing game, with Sanchez presumably to feature as Wenger’s “plan B” this time around.

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

  1. Parm
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    The Kamil Grosicki bandwagon is officially open for business.

    1. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Tough choosing between him , king and a west ham mid.

      1. Parm
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Grosicki has SWA, eve, WHM, MID, stats are on their way up.

      2. Carlton P
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        I'm tempted to get Carroll and Coleman in, go 4-4-2

    2. fedolefan
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I wanted to get him this week and was even recommending him this week. I didn't because I soon realized after the Burnley game that Hull won't score more than once often. I realize Grosicki is likely to be involved in virtually every goal but I'll get him the moment I'm convinced they can score more than 1.

    3. Fred54
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Been dropping his name all week.

  2. Carlton P
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Stick to 3-5-2 or go 3-4-3?
    Mane l eriksen l Alli l sterling l siggy
    Kun l kaku l dio
    Alli > firmino?

    1. Sonny “The Hitman&rdq…
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Alli to King for more durable strong fixtures over the next 3-4 matches; Pool fixtures go south

      1. Carlton P
        • 10 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        I almost did alli > king before this week

  3. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    G2G for a hit?

    Heaton
    Coleman - Baines - Brunt
    Mane (C) - Firmino - Coutinho - Siggy
    Lukaku - Llorente - Carroll

    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Yes

    2. Sonny “The Hitman&rdq…
      • 9 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Kaku captain

    3. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Wowzers, really gone all out there mate

  4. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 14 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    id phillips dead as a prospect now?

    worth getting king in instead?

    1. 1966 was a great year for E…
      • 15 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I would think Pulis will be rushing him back after today's performance.

      1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        yeh im guessing its the injury rather than performance......im loathed to spend a hit on someone who should play 28

    2. Stats Don\'t Lie
      • 11 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Looking at king, grosicki and lanzini as replacements

  5. 1966 was a great year for E…
    • 15 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    I know these are annoying, but who wins?

    A) Pickford, Baines, Alonso
    B) Grant, Coleman, Lukaku +1

    1. FISSH
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      B

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Hopefully B with Grant scoring negative.

    3. La Roja
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      B

      1. 1966 was a great year for E…
        • 15 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        That's what I like to hear 🙂

  6. FISSH
    • 13 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    15 points from 3 players. not too bad

    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      I got 19 points from 2

      Pity those 3 WBA idiots got me 4 between them

      1. James101
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        V nice!!

      2. DNML
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Those 3 idiots got me 2 🙂
        Ok, Baines instead of Phillips, but still...

  7. Defochibe
    • 16 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    Drop Aguero or Defoe for Llorente?

    1. James101
      • 12 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      Watch how he does first?

    2. TorresMagic™
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 16 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      The one that doesn't get injured tomorrow.

      1. Defochibe
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Good idea, thanks a lot..

  8. James101
    • 12 Years
    9 years, 1 month ago

    27 from 5. Better than I expected today tbh.

    13 player equivalent to play (eg counting kun as 6).

    So how many of you are still realistically hoping for 100?

    1. Parm
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      It is always possible. Hat-trick and max bonus in both games gives Kun triple cap 17 * 3 = 52 alone.

      1. Parm
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Soz 104

        1. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          102*

          1. Parm
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Sorry Sir.

        2. Lawrø
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          'mare

          1. Parm
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Absolute weston super

      2. TorresMagic™
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 16 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        😯

      3. James101
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        True.

        But do you currently think you will?

        1. Parm
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Dunno, I have fails from two West Brom defenders and Ibra so odds are stacked against me.

      4. Stats Don\'t Lie
        • 11 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        *102

    2. keeney
      • 14 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      44 (-8) with Kun (c) DeBruyne Stones Allen Grant Lukaku to play, eyes set on breaking the 100 point mark

      1. James101
        • 12 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Nice

    3. MTPockets
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Hoping somewhat less than yesterday.

    4. Disco Stu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      9 years, 1 month ago

      My team for next week

      Foster
      Coleman/Brunt/Smith
      Mane/Siggy/King Phillips
      Lukaku/Llorente

      Agurero/Sanchez/Holgate/Amat/Grant

      Beat use of free transfer

      Replace Pillips with Morrison and play with 10

      or

      Replace Holgate with a Hull Defender

      1. MTPockets
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Looks good. I'd wait on Phillips news.

      2. VFORVANDETA
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        15 points from 6 players.Not bad.

      3. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        9 years, 1 month ago

        Question.

        If Aguero doesn't start against Sunderland, KDB becomes my captain.

        Will I lose any extra captain points KDB gets against Sunderland if Aguero then starts against Stoke?

        1. Dacra
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Yes, if Aguero plays at all in any game, Kdb never becomes your captain.

        2. diesel001
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Yes. Your captain can only be one player. If he scores 0 and 1 then so be it.

        3. Syd.
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Just eat a tin of cold beans

        4. Flynny
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Yes!

        5. The Wizard of Ozil
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Joking orrr?

          I take it KDB is your vice captain then? He will only be activated as your captain if Aguero gets ZERO minutes over the 2 games.

        6. Spike ⚽️
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Aguero remains your capt

        7. TorresMagic™
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • Has Moderation Rights
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          What are you on about now?

          1. Syd.
            • 16 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Just the usual nonsense he spouts

          2. fedolefan
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Do you have a spreadsheet for him? He's finally learned to interpret those.

        8. MTPockets
            9 years, 1 month ago

            shut up

          • Lawrø
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            *grabs pitchfork*

        9. Bruno Bruno!!
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Does anyone know the average number of hits taken this week amongst top top 10k

          1. T444
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Totalfpl.com

        10. Cousin Greg
          • 11 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          I have 6 Agueros left to play. That is Unreal!.......

        11. leocarter27
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          So I can't afford Mane. Help pls?!

          Firmino or Coutinho?

          1. Over Midwicket
            • 14 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Firm I think but it's a lottery

          2. FirminoIsBetterThanYou
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Firmino for me still playing up front

          3. VFORVANDETA
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Firmino

        12. Over Midwicket
          • 14 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Grosocki or Brady for the next few? Grosocki better fixtures but worse team, Brady worse fixtures but bap whore

          1. Stats Don\'t Lie
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Grosicki, brady, king, lanzini. All good options. So many good players to replace Phillips with its ridiculous

        13. Egyptian Giza
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          point average today will be .. ?

          1. diesel001
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            15

          2. T444
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            18

          3. Ridcully
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Top 10,000— 20

            Overall— 17

            https://fpldiscovery.wordpress.com/

        14. T444
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Ibra to llorente no brainer ya?

          1. Flynny
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Guess so.

        15. FirminoIsBetterThanYou
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Do Phillips to King tonight, to avoid price drop, seem good?

          1. Ha.
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            No

          2. DA Minnion (Former great)
            • 13 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Why get rid of Phillips. He might be fit for next week when players will be few and far between.

            1. Vinyl78LP
              • 16 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              I'm keeping unless absence confirmed, more likely to regain his place also after Albion tanking today.

        16. diesel001
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Team for next week:

          Jaku
          Baines - Brunt - Holgate - Fernandez
          Siggy - Firmino - Phillips
          Lukaku(c) - Rondon - (Aguero)

          Grant - Sanchez - De Roon - Luiz

        17. PvA
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          27 with 5 played decent?

          Green or red at 200k OR?

          1. Ridcully
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Above average, so I would guess so.

            1. PvA
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              -4 too

              1. Ridcully
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                Averages:
                Top 10,000— 20
                Overall— 16

                Still above average, so probably.

        18. Hotdogs for Tea
          • 10 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          7 of the 8 players due to have a price rise don't have a game in GW28 !

        19. Egyptian Giza
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          is Coutinho becoming Liverpool's David Silva?

          1. We Will Klopp you
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            If you mean in the sense that he isn't a good fpl player but is an excellent player in real life terms, then no. He is getting into good positions but just seems to have lost his shooting boots.

        20. Smoky Johnson
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Siggy or Firmino?
          Already have Mané.

          1. AdamB
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Siggy. More consistent and cheaper.

            1. Smoky Johnson
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              Thank you!

        21. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
          • 16 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Kun better get a hattrick tomorrow. Lowest scoring day ever today 🙁

          1. Vinyl78LP
            • 16 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Have faith, I was at wits end last Saturday night and Kane then bagged 40 the day after...

            1. diesel001
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              This. Exactly the same for me after Kane(c) and Eriksen hauled on Sunday.

        22. AdamB
          • 9 Years
          9 years, 1 month ago

          Would it be wise to start investing only on Arsenal, United and Southampton players after GW28?

          1. MTPockets
              9 years, 1 month ago

              Depends on wildcard plans.

              1. AdamB
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                Assuming there will be two DGWs, I'm planning to save the wildcard for the last one.
                I'm thinking if it would be worth it to plan early for the first one.

                1. Vinyl78LP
                  • 16 Years
                  9 years, 1 month ago

                  Not got on one left personally, but if did would use it gw37 as can load the team fully on dgw players and only have to deal with one more gw38 with an imbalanced team.

          2. Differentiator
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            On -12 for next week. Would you move it to -16 to do Phillips -> Mane if it's confirmed he's out?

            1. TorresMagic™
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 16 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              Yep

              1. Differentiator
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                Good stuff. Savaging my points total, but in reality recoup quite a lot of that back immediately (barring any Zlatanesque behaviour)

            2. PvA
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              What on earth are you on -12 for?

              1. Differentiator
                • 10 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                Dead. Wood. Is. Going.

                Stanislas, Ibra, Aguero, Sterling. None need to be kept.

                1. PvA
                  • 9 Years
                  9 years, 1 month ago

                  Ibra yes
                  Stan yes
                  Aguero hasn't even played
                  Sterling hasn't even played

                  1. Differentiator
                    • 10 Years
                    9 years, 1 month ago

                    Still need offloading

            3. Prøfeßör …
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              As good as a time as any to take a -12/ -16.

              I would do Phillips to Mané even if Phillips is confirmed to start.

          3. We Will Klopp you
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            G2G for a hit?

            Heaton
            Coleman - Baines - Brunt
            Mane (C) - Firmino* - King - Siggy - Morrison
            Lukaku - Llorente*

          4. Garlana
            • 11 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Just one more gameweek till I get rid of Rondon, can't wait

            1. fedolefan
              • 11 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              Rondon - Phillips, same difference.

          5. Bruno Bruno!!
            • 10 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Just realised Im getting 1 point from amat for the injured Phillips 🙂

          6. FPLtfs
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 9 Years
            9 years, 1 month ago

            Planning to make 2-3 moves. Want to wait, but safe to do one of them tonight, want to make some profit.
            Sterling -> Siggy tonigt?
            A) Do it!
            B) Wait

            1. TorresMagic™
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • Has Moderation Rights
              • 16 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              Who are your other mids?

              1. FPLtfs
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                Randolph, Heaton
                Alonso, Coleman, Baines, Brunt, Friend
                Mane, Sterling, Antonio, Phillips, de Roon
                Kane, Aguero, Lukaku

                Current team. The plan is Aguero, Sterling, de Roon -> Llorente, Siggy, Coutinho

            2. diesel001
              • 9 Years
              9 years, 1 month ago

              A

              1. FPLtfs
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 9 Years
                9 years, 1 month ago

                thanks!