Spot the Differential
9 December 2017 738 comments
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Last week was simply spectacular for our three differential picks, with Everton’s Gylfi Sigurdsson, Southampton’s Charlie Austin and Liverpool’s Philippe Coutinho all getting on the scoresheet, producing a whopping 34 points in total.

So for our latest choices, we’ve headed back to Anfield to select another member of the “fab four,” while a former team-mate of Sigurdsson and Spurs’ in-form attacker also make the cut.

Wilfried Bony

After registering his first goal of the season last weekend, Swansea City forward Wilfried Bony gets our vote ahead of this afternoon’s home clash against West Bromwich Albion.

The Ivory Coast international produced an eye-catching five goal attempts in the 2-1 defeat to Stoke City, which was only bettered by Arsenal’s Alexandre Lacazette and West Brom’s Jay Rodriguez among Fantasy Premier League forwards in Gameweek 15.

Having completed 90 minutes in each of the last three matches, Bony’s sharpness is beginning to return following a couple of seasons in the wilderness at Manchester City and on-loan at Stoke.

In his last full season in south Wales back in 2013/14, Bony totalled an impressive 17 goals and four assists.

While he may struggle to reach those heights in this Swansea side, at just 5.7 in FPL he could provide a possible solution as a cheap third forward.

This afternoon’s match-up looks crucial for the Swans, who dropped to the foot of the table last weekend.

West Brom arrive at the Liberty Stadium having failed to keep a clean sheet in their last six away matches.

They have also conceded more headed chances (42) than any other side, which is an area where Bony can pose a threat – he is joint-first for headed shots among Swansea players with five, despite only playing 484 minutes this season.

Owned by just 0.3% of managers, the striker may be worth considering as he plays three of his next four matches in front of his own fans.

Son Heung-min

A favourable match-up at home to Stoke has us turn back to Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Son Heung-min.

The South Korean is in many ways destined to be a strong differential in any given Gameweek, with the lack of certainty surrounding his start meaning his ownership is always likely to remain low.

But on the back of a goal last weekend in the 1-1 draw with Watford, and having started Spurs’ last six home matches, we’re confident he’ll keep his place in the starting XI.

Son has scored three goals over the last seven Gameweeks, and has tallied 31 points over that period – more than both Christian Eriksen (21) and Dele Alli (23).

Part of just 1.6% of squads, Son has impressively averaged a big chance every 179.25 minutes this season, superior to both Eriksen (624.5) and Alli (205.33).

Stoke travel to Wembley having given up 35 big chances, more than any other side, while they are second to only West Ham United (32) for goals conceded, with 30.

The Potters have lost 4-0 in each of their last three meetings with Mauricio Pochettino’s side, with Son registering two goals and an assist when the two teams met at the bet365 Stadium last term.

Available at 7.9 in FPL, and with a favourable home fixture against Brighton and Hove Albion to follow on Wednesday night, Son could prove to be a very effective short-term differential.

Sadio Mane

While all the talk of a Liverpool midfield double-up has revolved around Mohamed Salah and Philippe Coutinho, it would perhaps be foolish to overlook Sadio Mane.

His two goals in the 7-0 demolition of Spartak Moscow in midweek received few plaudits, but were more evidence of a player who is also capable of big returns.

Mane’s FPL ownership has been falling, with more than 24,000 managers shedding the Reds midfielder since Saturday’s deadline.

Having been handed a rest in last weekend’s 5-1 win over Brighton, he is arguably more likely to avoid the same fate over the next three Gameweeks.

Despite injuries and suspension limiting the Senegal international to just eight starts, he has still registered four goals and three assists.

Interestingly, he has the same number of big chances created as Salah (three), who has played over 500 minutes more, and one more than Coutinho (two).

The rampant Liverpool attack come up against Everton in the Merseyside derby tomorrow.

Despite keeping clean sheets in their last two matches, the Toffees still rank fifth for the most big chances conceded over the last four Gameweeks, with eight, and are yet to keep a clean sheet on their travels.

Mane also has history against Everton, having scored in both meetings last season, including a dramatic late winner at Goodison Park.

Liverpool’s fixture list over the next few weeks (EVE WBA bou ars SWA LEI) is also very kind, adding further appeal to the 8.2%-owned midfielder.

While Mane (9.4) is currently losing out to Salah and Coutinho in terms of popularity, he has the ability to match and even better their output.

If you’re in desperate need to make up lost ground against rivals in your mini-leagues, it could be worth taking a chance on the former Saints wide man to find his best form over the next few Gameweeks.

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  1. AzzaroMax99
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    News about Mee, Salah, Morata? Anything?

    1. waldo666
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Nothing new

  2. Jack Burton
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    mane was my differential until his red card few months back he did ok for me aswell

  3. Park the bus
    • 15 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Start Wilson or RLC?

    1. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      I'm starting both. Normally I'd choose the more expensive one but still maybe RLC.

    2. 8ull5hit
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Same problem, gone RLC

  4. Bury94
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Already done Jesus to Morata this week, would you do Vardy and Silva to DCL and Hazard for a -8 or just wait til next week and take a -4?

    1. Duffy Dunk
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Yes

    2. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      I'd wait.

  5. Gustavo
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Play two of:

    A) Naughton (wba)
    B) Mee (watford)
    C) Daniels (palace)

    1. waldo666
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      BC

    2. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      AB

    3. drughi
      • 16 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      BC

  6. wowBOBwow
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Young (MCI) or Choupo (tot)?

    1. waldo666
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Young

    2. Botman and Robben
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Young

  7. Weilong7
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    de gea (elliot)
    bavies moreno mee christensen 3.8
    carroll silva salah ramsey richarlison
    kane morate wood

    silva and wood for hazard and non playing forward for a hit worth?
    Or Kane and Carroll to bring hazard in?

    Tot of getting hazard who is essential or can I afford to wait a week?

    1. Jay_
      8 years, 7 months ago

      You’ll only have 3 playing defs, including Davies then. And a non playing forward. Carroll only sub. Looks dodgy if you don’t captain Haz

  8. Jay_
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Play:

    A) Speroni & Ward

    B) Pope & Choupo

    C) Pope & DCL

    Cheers 🙂

    1. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      A

  9. Botman and Robben
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    GTG?

    Do I play Jones over Mee?

    Fabianski
    Mee Otamendi Monreal
    D.Silva Hazard Salah Richarlison
    DCL Kane(C) Vardy

    Elliot T.Carroll Jones Daniels

    1. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Very nice team. I would play Mee over Jones.

    2. Botman and Robben
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Cheers

  10. FPL AXE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Daniels out for...
    A: Sakho?
    B: Femenía?
    ....and....vote!

  11. Paramaribo
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Start A) Tarkowski or B) Doucoure ?

    1. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      B

  12. JustClasie
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Chaz looking like a good differential i reckon hell bag one or two against the gooners

  13. Tom Heat-is-on
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    de Gea
    Alonso · Daniels · Morgan
    Hazard (vc) · Salah · Richarlison · RLC
    Kane (c) · Morata · Wilson

    subs: Elliott · Tarkowski · Klavan · Romeu

    Yes/no?
    A) GTG
    B) Right players in the field
    C) Correct bench order

  14. Yordan Letchkov
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Who to play:

    Gross or RLC
    Duffy or Francis

    1. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Gross
      50/50

    2. thom830g
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      I would go Gross and Duffy

      1. doublyG
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        This

  15. Who Ate All Depays?
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Play any 1?
    A) Niasse
    B) Francis
    C) RLC

    1. Tom Heat-is-on
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      RLC

  16. Gaz_b
    • 16 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Are clean sheet and anytime goal scorer odds listed in one place anywhere online or on FFS?

    1. G-Whizz
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • Has Moderation Rights
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Clean sheet and fixture odds
      http://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/17125391

  17. thom830g
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Start two of

    A) Ward
    B) RLC
    C) Daniels

    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      A & B

    2. ooooo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      AB

  18. Team Cruel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    "We've got to start grinding out results" - Ben Davies

    Spurs to go for 1-0 victories from now on?

    1. BobBradleysOpportunity
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      5-4 with 5 from haza

  19. The Red Devil
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Start-
    Duffy
    Daniels
    Captain-
    Hazard
    Salah

    1. ooooo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Duffy
      Hazard

  20. ooooo
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    g2g?
    DDG
    Azpi Otamendi Ward
    Salah Hazard Richarlison RLC
    Kane(C) Morata Abraham

    Elliot Dunk Choupo Yedlin

  21. BrockLanders
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Liverpool match could easily be called off tomorrow. Echo have already put out an article talking about it and snow is forecast most of the day..

    1. BobBradleysOpportunity
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      salah to tom carroll?

      1. doublyG
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        No brainer!

  22. Ha.
    • 10 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Quick captain poll please?

    Torn between Arry and Az

    1. ooooo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Kane

      1. doublyG
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        Haz. I'm just worried about rotation risk, but I am the only one here who seems to be worried about it

        1. GreenArrows
          • 9 Years
          8 years, 7 months ago

          Haz. I think we all are but it is what it is

  23. Reddonkeyham 42
    • 12 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Pope
    Trippier , Kolasinac, Azpilicueta, Duffy
    Groß, Surman, David Silva,
    Jesus, Kane, Morata

    Elliot, Loftus-Cheek, Cork, Otamendi
    2 free transfers. Any help would be appreciated. Thinking Jesus and Silva out for murra and salah. Then upgrade the midfield week after, then take out Kane

    1. doublyG
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      I'd get Haz in before Salah. Better fixture this week

  24. CloudSky
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Reckon nothing new regarding weather and Coutinho?

    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Big threat of cancellation

  25. Dog and Fox
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Would you transfer out moreno thats injured or francis with bad upcoming fix? Thanks

    1. BrockLanders
      • 11 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      He needs to go

    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      moreno today with the weather issue and injury

  26. Cheshire Duck
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Pick 3 to start :
    A) Gomez (EVE)
    B) Kabasele (bur)
    C) Daniels (CRY)
    D) Maguire (new)
    E) Lukaku (MCI)

    1. ooooo
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      D E(can't bench a 11.5mil striker- sell him) B

      1. G-Whizz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        *11.3

  27. Colonel Shoe 肝池
    • 14 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    why anyone is risking bringing in coutinho today is beyond me with all the weather news.........
    those of us who have made our bed are now subject to the snow lottery

    1. The Bandit
      • 15 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Not to mention that he didn't train yesterday

      1. Colonel Shoe 肝池
        • 14 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        that seals the deal

      2. G-Whizz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 8 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        He had a day off so avoid him at your own peril...

      3. ChelseaGuy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        8 years, 7 months ago

        Really?

  28. Silva’s Left Nut
    • 9 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thoughts on Sterling?

    1. El_Shaw
      • 10 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Starting to do well against the Euro now.

    2. Colonel Shoe 肝池
      • 14 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      i sold for cout, but reluctantly......... pep does my head in tho with his rotation

  29. Johno99
    • 11 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    DDG ELLIOTT

    MEE ALONSO DANN DANIELS DUNK

    RLC SANE SALAH CHOUPO ZAHA

    KANE MORATA ABRAHAM

    2 FT - any tips? Thinking 2 or 3 of Choupo, Dann, Sane, Daniels out?

  30. Yozzer
    • 8 Years
    8 years, 7 months ago

    Thinking of losing Morata for lacazette. I'm expecting morata not to start

    1. Yozzer
      • 8 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Anyone else considering?

    2. doublyG
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      8 years, 7 months ago

      Injury or rotation?