FPL Question Time: Consult our panel ahead of Gameweek 2

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This has a certain post written all over it starting with L and ending with L

I hope Emery is not considering Welbeck at LB. Why not play 3 at the back - he has enough CBs:

Leno
Mustafi - Sokratis - Holding
Bellerin - Xhaka - Torreira - Maitland-Niles
Mkhi - Ozil
Auba

Only a fool would seriously think is gonna happen. Maitland-Niles will start at LB.

Remember it is just one week.

I am genuinely scared by Richarlison, as I know I will not get him in for at least another week or two. By that time he could have done his early season scoring & be tools down for the rest of the year.

kane was lethargic

If you can turn King into Kane, I would not be on here, I would be on whatever game it is and making that switch

Need more of an explanation... if straight swap kane always.

Kane didn’t look great; although I only saw the second half. I would stick with King. Seems like he played well but was unlucky not to score. Ok, Spurs have Fulham next week but if you have Kun or Salah they are also good options for the armband

How do you swap a 6.5m forward for a 12.5m forward? Did you keep 6.0 ITB?! If not I presume you are taking hits, in which case, it could definitely work out well as Kane could easily hattrick v Fulham. But just be cautious that King is equally well capable of taking your pants down and giving you a jolly good bumming if you get rid for a hit also

Thinking of doing the same but with Kamara...

Nope, mahrez shouldn’t change kdb’s nailedness, more that of bilva/sane/sterling

As Knowledge says. KDB nailed

he will be benched

Depends on Silva's injury situation IMO. If Silva remains out he will play.

Surely if he plays well today then it's his spot to lose. Transfer in the long run because he's not nailed, but at 7.5 if he can play and pick up returns for 2/3 weeks while we see what other options are available then he's good value.

he will start both games and get a goal and an assist and 2bps you will be loving it

Don't forget the reason you got him. Pep called him nailed

I got him in thinking that would get 2 or 3 games out of him. See who is the real top pick in city mid and swap a few around getting them in. This would also potentially include Kun to Kane.

Fine. Got into some decent crossing positions. Played a couple of nice passes to Kane in good areas but as we know Kane wasn't great yesterday. He'll be fine for the season. Just need to watch it when CL comes round.

Not at his most attacking. Could have had an assist if it werent for donkey Sissoko (why is this man still playing in the PL?). Spurs were in decent control defensively, Newcastle scored on one of their very few chances.

different role

Honestly think Neves will struggle for FPL points over the course of the season. He's Wolves' best player but the odd wonder goal and a couple of assists is all to expect over the whole season really.

more of a nailed on gundogan

You started Cairney over Richarlison because one played at home? My word

Did the same, got 32 points on my bench with 2 palace players.

Same. Though I played Fraser over him so don’t feel too bad

Young will step in at RB until Valencia is back you would assume.

Never out of them lot I'd say.

Shaw looked great? he was rubbish, fantasy points (lucky goal) is not the same quality in real football

Free-kicks and pens for Neves, he could score regardless of the opposition.

"Neves - Goal and assist and looked great - difficult looking fixtures coming up"

All their fixtures will be difficult for them. They are a promoted team.

But he looks essential to their side as he has quality from a deadball. Only 21 years old. Looks 27 and played like a seasoned pro too.

All about staying with the times though. Video content and short bites is what the masses want.

As fpl grows so does the money involved in it.. much like the financial madness the actual game of football itself has these days. Agree, not the same is it. The fact that people are paying another guy online to assist them and advise with their fpl teams 😆

Jay is an absolute bellend. If that's true what people are saying about him telling folk to avoid players who are not nailed then he plays Shaw , he is scum.

Can’t believe people are paying someone to tell them how to play or think?

Where is the fun in taking part in the game when you do that?

Wonder if they are all declearing their earnings...mmm

do you understand how patreon works? if you like the content you get, AND if you WANT to get some extra premium stuff and support the content, you CAN, but don't HAVE TO, sponsor this content.

I don’t understand comments like this. The purpose of the site is to give good avice and for posters to share their point of view. I remember back in the day Mark, Granville and co struggling to finance new servers from their own pockets as the site started to get popular and before the paying members area was set up.

Sure it was nice when there were fewer people using the site

the use of the word "expert" on here is laughable too. The podcast stuff is just a chat in a pub put on the internet.
Enthusiasts would be a much better word.

Have a look back 2 pages. I asked a similar question about trading Gross and got lots of great replies (even if I am still unsure of what I will do it will help inform your decision).

Baines played very well yesterday so unsure. Wait and see.

Wait for the rest of the gw1 matches to see how city/Liv play.

Pickford
Coleman Mina Zouma Digne
Schneiderlin Gueye
Bernard Siggy Richarlison
Tosun

He's clearly been brought in to replace Baines, whose pace has gone now. When it happens though is another question. I'm not actually sure how good Digne is though. Only ever made back-up at PSG and Barca, didn't make the France WC squad. Was decent in his one full season at Roma (3G, 3A). I would avoid both for now until the new defence has bedded in, or go Mina once he makes the starting XI for his goal threat

think Mina and Keane will be the CB pairing

B

Is TAA (cry) us crying about leaving him first sub and starting mitro this week?

Haha I feel you, I had Andy King in GW38 of last season come off at the 57th minute and it cost me the league win and $400...

- 90th minute goal when you doubled up of defence
- penalty miss by your captain
- nailed on good player gets injured in the warm up

Had it with Toby Alderweireld one year, they all got clean sheets except him

Way worse though was 2 captaincy incidents 4 months apart in the same season:

1. Captained Ashley Young for a penalty miss
2. Switched captain from Nani (Blackburn home) to arteta(W Brom home) at last minute.
Nani - 1 goal, 2 assists in 7-1 win.
Arteta - 0 goals, 0 assists, 1 red card in 4-1 loss

That season was my only top 1k finish to date too. Bizarre.

Personally it's when there's a penalty and you get all excited thinking your player is going to take and then he doesn't.. like King or Sanchez this weekend.

When a popular player that I dont want to pick finds a way into my team and blanks, no mercy for that player 😮

Decisions like the Sanchez “assist”

Losing a clean sheet in the last minute.
Having a 12 pointer first sub.

Mostly what others have said but also inconsistencies when you view two passages of play that are seemingly the same but points are awarded differently and not in your favour.

Captaining the wrong player in a double gameweek like Milner when he came off injured at HT in the first game and didn’t feature in the second. Or Valencia instead of Rooney when the former scored over 50 pts. Raging at oneself due to a stupid decision hurts a lot more than raging at simple bad luck.

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FPL Discovery figures based on random 20,000 sample - 10.9% benched and 3.4% played

from top 10k players 52%(!) benched WB

Click on enough people's teams and you get a good idea! More benched than not I'd imagine.

They are long odds for a reason!

Remove Liverpool game and check the odds?

Try the three legged rockin horse in the 3.10 at kempton

I brought him in purely on his finish to the league last year and his preseason

I wanted him at some stage, just didn’t think he would get so many returns in GW1!

I did and he was first in my teamsheet.

Only problem I got Siggy over Richarlson and King over Zaha. So not a great start for me.

Anyone else have a poor start?

Had him in mind since last season finished. Along with Auba, Sane, Mendy and Robbo!

? Tons of people have PVA. Why did it take cajones?

He was the second name on my teamsheet!

Kept weighing him up against all the other 5.5s and decided he was the best pick. Took sound reasoning over ‘cajones’.

Played PVA :), and left Wan B on bench 🙁
Still, Cook got me 6, and have VD today

Tomkins first sub, AWB second... but Cedric & Bilva are my 2 doubters instead of Trent Alexander Airlines

Exactly that for me

me

yep

Had him in at the start and then took him out.

The goal aside he looked very influential directing the game for Wolves.

1 chance created and the free kick was an error from Pickford.

Jorinho is a poor pick

Not nxt week coz I'm gonna play him now instead of bench

Would be lucky to perform like that in next 8-10 gameweeks

Im sure they will dodge stonewall penalties every week 😉

You would have to think 150 points would be fantastic scoring for either of them. So that leaves AWB with 138 points, PVA with 139 points to go. Or something.

2-0

On that point.....because of this site I smashed into Bournemouth at evens.....So thank you everyone £1200 better off.....I will be looking at the Liverpool game but as a WHU supporter it never feels right to back against them.

Yeah could see a sneak draw wrecking everyone’s GW1 big hitters

2-1 I think west ham will score. I don't rate Liverpool defense too high.

If fabinho plays I see 2-0 else 3-1

It all gets blown out of context everytime it's related to Jose Mourinho.
He's captain now, and has already scored.. his confidence will be sky high.

Reported, reported, appears.

Most of this is unattributed and rumour.

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Joe 291

Where’s my beer?

Thats bernardo starting

I personally use the comparison tools. If there's too similar players that you're looking at then you can compare them with heat maps, shots, key passes, tackles etc