Scout Notes

Encouragement for owners of Leicester’s FPL assets after dire Everton display

Everton 0-2 Norwich City

  • Goals: Todd Cantwell (£4.6m), Dennis Srbeny (£5.2m)
  • Assists: Teemu Pukki (£6.6m)
  • Bonus: Tim Krul (£4.5m) x3, Cantwell x2, Srbeny x1

Rumours of an imminent Marco Silva departure have been swirling ever since Everton’s defeat to Norwich City on Saturday but, at the time of writing, the ex-Watford head coach still remains in charge at Goodison Park.

The cynics amongst us who own the likes of Jamie Vardy (£9.7m), James Maddison (£7.6m) and Ricardo Pereira (£6.4m) will perhaps be hoping it stays that way until Gameweek 14 has passed.

Leicester City host the Toffees next Sunday and the sad truth is that many of us would probably prefer it if Vardy and co were facing a Silva-led Everton side at present, rather than a team potentially benefitting from the fabled “new manager bounce”.

The Merseyside club are not a completely terrible side, let’s say that first: Everton had dominated Southampton in Gameweek 12 and were deserving of a point against Spurs a week before that.

But this latest loss was a morale-sapping, fan-infuriating defeat to a side who were previously winless away from home.

Norwich had conceded at least two goals in ten of their previous 12 fixtures but didn’t allow their hosts a single ‘big chance’ on Saturday.

The Canaries hadn’t scored an away goal since the opening day of the season, either, but beat Jordan Pickford (£5.5m) on two occasions as the atmosphere on Merseyside turned poisonous.

Everton did have their chances: Theo Walcott (£6.2m) and Cenk Tosun (£5.7m) flashed first-half efforts wide, while Tim Krul (£4.5m) made decent low stops from Gylfi Sigurdsson (£7.5m) and Tosun after the interval.

Krul walked away with maximum bonus points after this fixture but in reality, not one of the seven shots he saved would have been expected to beat the Dutch goalkeeper.

While all of that gives encouragement to owners of Leicester defenders ahead of next weekend’s clash, there were even more positive signs for the likes of Vardy as Everton conceded several chances to Daniel Farke’s troops.

Pickford had to deny Onel Hernandez (£5.3m) in a one-on-one situation in the first half before Todd Cantwell (£4.6m) whistled a deflected shot narrowly over just before the break.

Cantwell then latched onto to a Teemu Pukki (£6.6m) pass to break the deadlock on 54 minutes before Dennis Srbeny (£5.2m) sealed the win in stoppage time, with Sam Byram (£4.4m) wasting a glorious headed chance in between those two strikes.

Speaking after the match, Marco Silva said:

It was a difficult afternoon, very disappointing for all of us and our fans. We have to respect all the reactions. I can imagine how [the fans] felt. The message is that I respect what they are feeling, for sure.

We expected this type of game, with Norwich having strong organisation and being compact. We had to play faster, move forwards quickly to disorganise them. We didn’t do that in the first half.

We started the second half in a different way, quicker and trying to create more chances. But we made a mistake to concede the first goal and everything was more difficult even if we had enough time to change things. We started to be so nervous, not being calm in our play or taking the right decisions.

But we cannot be happy with the quality of our performance, even if we created some chances.

Richarlison (£7.9m) was sporadically lively and Seamus Coleman (£5.3m) offered a threat down the right flank upon his introduction but this may have been the swansong for Everton assets in our Fantasy squads for the foreseeable future – and not just because of the result.

The Toffees’ next five matches are against Leicester, Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, while they also travel to Manchester City on New Year’s Day.

Norwich’s own fixtures are a mixed bag and Fantasy managers may want to see continued improvement before we revisit the bargain buys of early-2019/20: these were, after all, Pukki and Cantwell’s first attacking returns since Gameweek 5.

Cantwell was back in the starting XI after his recent benching but was operating on the right flank, rather than on the left where we have seen him for much of the campaign.

Any renewed interest in the budget FPL midfielder has to be put on ice for now, though, as he picked up an ankle injury against the Toffees and was later seen sporting a protective boot.

Cantwell himself said after full-time:

It’s just precautionary. I got a bit of a kick on it and it’s obviously not in the best shape at the moment but I don’t think it’s anything to worry about.

It was no surprise that Norwich looked more solid with an actual centre-half playing alongside Ben Godfrey (£4.4m) and two bona fide defensive midfielders in front of the back four, with the fit-again Christoph Zimmermann‘s (£4.4m) return allowing Alex Tettey (£4.5m) to move further forward.

Farke said after full-time:

It is important to have Ben and Christoph back and fully fit. You could see it also enabled me to change to a three-man formation at the end because I had the players available to alter the balance and keep the pressure away from our goal. From now we deserve a bit more luck in this area.

It is no coincidence that we have kept a clean sheet or that he was a big part of what we did last season. If I am honest when you have to play without your club captain, Grant Hanley, without your most experienced player on this level, Timm Klose, and without Christoph, who was our leader last season when he was unbelievable, it is not easy.

The injuries defensively were a massive problem for me but you can’t keep mentioning it in public too much, because you need to keep the players going and to give them trust. They are not stupid. They know like I do that you need a solid defence to be stable so during the international break it was a big boost to see Ben and Christoph fully fit.

This was more or less the first time we could play the lads in their best positions, people like Alex Tettey and Tom Trybull, who are important for our midfield balance. You sensed the lift it gave the rest of the lads.

A lifted, perhaps more defensively sound Norwich side is bad news for one man, of course: under-fire Arsenal boss Unai Emery takes his troops to Carrow Road in Gameweek 14.

Owners of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) et al indeed may be less confident of this fixture than they were this time last week, although the Gunners’ frontline ought to be more of a test for Norwich’s defence than Everton were.

Everton XI (4-2-3-1): Pickford; Sidibe (Coleman 66′), Mina, Holgate, Digne; Schneiderlin (Iwobi 58′), Davies; Walcott (Calvert-Lewin 66′), Sigurdsson, Richarlison; Tosun.

Norwich City XI (4-2-3-1): Krul; Aarons, Zimmermann, Godfrey, Byram; Tettey, Trybull; Cantwell (Buendia 80′), McLean (Amadou 88′), Hernandez; Pukki (Srbeny 90′).

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1,057 Comments Post a Comment
  1. No Salah
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Aubameyang, Sterling >> Kane + Mane for -4? Have exact funds.

    Or go for jesus instead of Kane?

    1. Begbie.
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      It's good players you're bringing in but I'd be a bit hesitant to get rid of someone like Sterling as part of a minus 4.

  2. Dr Dream
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Strange word that “form” thing. A few saying Mount has no form...when they really mean he hasn’t delivered many pts. His form is fine...the pts will come...

    1. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      exactly...many on here dont watch football it seems anyway

    2. Maddamotha
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      But is Pulisic a better option?

      1. cravencottage
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Probably

    3. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Exactly Wakey

      He was all over it the last few games even though he has not scored or assisted.Really pleasing on the eye test and it will not be long before the sellers are reaching for the puke bag imo.

    4. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      You here for some light relief? 😉

  3. Andy Mac
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Bottomed....2.4m itb. Any changes you would make here chaps?

    Pope
    TAA - Aurier - Soy - Tomori - Lund
    Mane - Kdb - Son - Mount - Donk
    Vardy - Abraham - Jimenez

  4. Freshy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Think Everton would make a good spot for the Zaltan to land.
    Good Fullbacks to get him the ball

    1. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      lol, a lion doesnt move to Everton

  5. rodragon
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Mount to pulisic? Can't do it after the price changes.. .

    Ty

    1. Chelsea Dagger
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Yes

  6. De Gea is GOAT
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Repost...Gday guys! Bit of help would be much appreciated for my team this week. 2FTs and 0itb

    I'm thinking of taking a hit to do Sterling/Lowton/Connolly > Tielemans/Soy/Ings. Yay or nay? Will give me this team:

    Pope
    Soy TAA Lunds
    Mane KDB Tielemans Mount
    Tammy Vardy Ings

  7. Nightf0x
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    mount to puli ? y or n

    1. cravencottage
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Yes

    2. Crazygopher
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      No

    3. yakirh
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Well yes the question is if the 0.2 price shift tonight is more important than holding transfers until closer to deadline

  8. juho
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    don't feel too happy letting Sterling go, but I think a proper 3rd striker is essential given Liverpool's blank in GW18

  9. cravencottage
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Does this make sense?

    Mount, Martial > Son, Neves (or Moutinho)

    1. Magic Zico
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      No

  10. dshv
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Mcginn replacement ? Have 0.4 itb

    Pope
    Robbo - soy - lund - kelly - rico
    Sterling - mane - mount - mcginn - dendo
    Kane - vardy - tammy

    1. juho
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Perez if possible
      Otherwise, JWP

    2. cravencottage
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Perez?

    3. dshv
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      James or perez

  11. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Hoping there's no sackings this week, well, maybe apart from Ole of course. I want the dross managers still there this weekend.

  12. Nightf0x
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    a) robo for lowton, double with taa
    b) mount to puli before price chnage and lwoton to shfld def./lovren next gw double with lund

  13. sk24
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Pope 4.0
    Robertson, Soy, Lund, Janmaat, Rico
    Salah, Sterling, KDB, Perez, Dend
    Vardy, Abraham, Greenwood
    2.7 itb; 1ft

    A) Perez > Pulisic
    B) Dendo > Moura (3-5-2)
    C) Take a hit for Son, Kane, Jesus
    D) Save

    1. Crazygopher
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Sterling to son posible

  14. Crazygopher
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Repost.
    Who to play.
    A jim
    B lund

    1. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      A easily

    2. bentekkers2299
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Defo A

  15. JasonG123
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Auba and Mount for Jiménez and Son for free?

    Crazy to sell Jiménez before Norwich?

    1. JasonG123
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Sell Aubameyang I should say

      1. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Not at all, Norwich will probably win.

      2. jia you
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        he was garbage v Soton

  16. rainy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • Has Moderation Rights
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Price Changes - 26th November 2019

    🔺  Pulisic (7.5)

    🔻  Sigurdsson (7.4), Otamendi (5.1), Oriol Romeu (4.4), Yarmolenko (5.8), Robinson (5.2), Mount (6.7), Maupay (5.9)

    1. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      glad I moved early now or I would have been priced out of my Pulisic move!

      1. jia you
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Cheers Raindog 🙂

      2. Zladan
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Chelsea play midweek. You may not be so glad at the GW deadline.

        1. Railwayman
          • 11 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          I have a feeling Pulisic could be rested for the weekend.

        2. jia you
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          prefer to move early and take that slight risk than to be priced out any day!

    2. Crazygopher
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Cheers rainy

    3. waldo666
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Cheers Rainy.

    4. Johan Queef
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Boll*cks, and there I was planning Mount to Pulisic

      1. My heart goes Salalalalah
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        No need. Mount will be in the points

    5. Hampe
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Please people, stop making transfers early...

    6. CroatianHammer
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I'll claim victory here. Had moved early to avoid just this... 0-0 instead of 0-1

  17. jia you
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    My future dilemma is which bloody GK to get rid of, Pope or Henderson...tough one!

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I think I'm getting Hendo for Pope after next week.

      1. jia you
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Yeah, guess I'll like downgrade Pope also when/if I get the spare FT. He'd just hitting FPL form at the wrong time!

        1. The Ejiptian King
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          I'm tempted by Ryan though, he's a BAPS monster, it's ridiculous.

          1. jia you
            • 7 Years
            4 years, 4 months ago

            If I was transferring in a GK for Pope it would be Guaita I think.

            1. The Ejiptian King
              • 5 Years
              4 years, 4 months ago

              Aye I considered but I begrudge paying the extra, lol.

      2. SH
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        I am also considering this and actually generated an extra .1m from my only transfer this week, only for that move ahead.

      3. G-Whizz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • Has Moderation Rights
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Ditto...

    2. Crazygopher
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Getting in hen gw15

    3. SH
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      CS, GC, YC, Saves, Bonus (Fixtures)

      Pope: 5, 18, 0, 41, 6 (CRY, MCI, tot, NEW, bou, eve)
      Henderson: 5, 9, 2, 34, 2 (wol, NEW, nor, AVL, bha, WAT)
      Ryan: 4, 19, 0, 51, 11 (liv, ars, WOL, cry, SHU, tot)

      So tough to decide!

      1. Tsparkes10
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Hendo simply due to fixtures for me. But then Pope and Ryan could easy make up the Cs points with save points. But I suppose say Brighton lose 3-0 and he makes 10 saves then he gets about 4 whereas Hendo gets 7. Difficult

        1. SH
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 4 months ago

          Same thought. My planned transfer after next week is Pope>Hendo and a squeezed the needed .1 this week.

  18. Maddamotha
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Pope
    TAA Soy Lund Tomori
    Mane Sterling KDB Mount
    Abraham Vardy

    Button,Greenwood, Dendo, Rico 0.9 ITB 2FTs

    A Sterling, Rico => Son, Robbo
    B Sterling, Greenwood => , Son, Jimenez
    C Sterling, Mount > Son, Pulisic (less benching headache)

    1. Crazygopher
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      B

    2. ryacoo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      C

    3. gruffyboy
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      C

    4. Maddamotha
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Cheers

  19. flippetyflop
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Play Pukki (Arsenal Home) or Lundstram (Wolves away) this GW?

    1. waldo666
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Lundstram

    2. jia you
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I would have said Lundy for sure but after watching that Arsenal game I'm leaning towards Pukki now!

      1. jia you
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        yeah I'd 100% play Pukki

  20. Tsparkes10
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Tierney and CHO out? 2FT 0.8itb

    Hendo
    TAA Perreira Lund Tierney
    KDB Mount Mane Martial
    Abraham Vardy
    (Gaz, CHO, Rico, Connolly)

  21. HurriKane
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Son is KDB level player in terms of consistency in fpl.!!! Hear me out Provides great value and is explosive as well.

    Son has been involved in 50 goals in his last 60 pl starts.

    Lets break it down

    - This season / Involved in 10 goals in 10 pl starts so far (4g 6g)

    - 2018-19 / Involved in 20 goals in 23 pl starts (12g 8a)

    - 2017-18 / Involved in 20 goals in 27 pl starts (12g 8a)

    I imagine this season we will see more starts under mourinho and thus he could easily get around 15 goals 12 assists.

    Agree ?

    1. Tsparkes10
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Yup.

    2. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Nicely summarised, i'm in agreement 🙂

    3. gruffyboy
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      So you're saying i should swap him for KDB?? I almost did this last night...

      1. HurriKane
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        Nahh owning both is the way to go alongside Mane

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

      KDB to Son?

  22. Nightf0x
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Ryan button
    Taa soy lund kely lowton
    Son mane kdb mount dendo
    Vardy tamy ings

    Which?
    A) lowton to robo, itb 0.3 gw15 maybe ryan to hendo
    B) mount to puli, gw15 lowton to lovren/sheff. def., Gw16 might do kely to cahil itb 0.6-1.4 left

  23. DonaldDrapier
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    I am thinking of swapping Lacazette for Jesus. Madness if you look at fixtures and this week's results but then again, how can anyone say no to Man City's only striker @9,5mil? I reckon you get at least 3 games from Jesus and probably more. Man City scores about twice as much per game versus Arsenal and I don't see their fixtures being as bad as the colour codes suggest. Who else is turning to Jesus?

    1. DonaldDrapier
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      My other strikers are the obvious Abraham and Vardy and they are not going anywhere.

  24. Big Ronnie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Don't ask why I don't have Lund but Tierney and Mount to Lund an Son for free? Yay or nay? Or could do Perez instead of Mount.

    1. bentekkers2299
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      Looks like pretty straightforward 2 FT to me. Go for it

  25. juho
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    I have 2 FTs.

    A) Sterling + Greenwood -> Son + Wood (0.9 ITB)
    B) KdB + Greenwood -> Son + Mousset (0 ITB)
    C) McGinn -> Perez (0 ITB)

    Which do you prefer?

    1. waldo666
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      C

  26. Differential C (Mark)
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Freddie Guilbert home game points this season
    5 - vs Eve = CS
    6 - vs Whu = CS
    4 - vs Bur = 1 assist
    5 - vs Bha = 1 assist
    6 - vs Liv(!) = CS
    8 - vs New = CS + 2 BP

    Man loves Villa park. His horrendous away form has held his price at 4.4 throughout the run.

  27. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    bench who, Mount or Trossard

    1. Differential C (Mark)
      • 8 Years
      4 years, 4 months ago

      I think play Mount. Man was benched as Chelsea needed the mdifield trio of jorgi, Kova and Kante to play through the press and be defnsively solid. Mount provides that attacking spark, and West Ham are for the taking.

      Helps Roberto is playing in goal.

      1. have you seen cyan
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 4 months ago

        yea I think Mount also, derby in all. Just have this niggly feeling Trossard is getting points vs Pool :/

  28. Apwilkin
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Current squad:
    Ryan
    Soyuncu, Rico, Lundstram
    Sterling, Mane, Mount, Maddison, KDB
    Abraham, Vardy
    Ben:Button, Greenwood, Janmaat, Fredericks

    1 FT and 1.6mn in the bank.
    Sterling for Son?
    Take a hit, Mount to fleck and greenwood to jimenez?
    Sit tight for one more week as there are some decent matchups?

  29. Sz21
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    Pope.
    Robbo, Soyuncu, Lundstram.
    Mount, Mane, KDB, Salah, Cantwell.
    Abraham, Vardy.
    Button, Janmaat, A. Smith, Wickham.
    1ft. 0.0m ITB. Still have WC.

    1. Save FT. Possible move to double Liv defence next GW with Salah -> Son.
    2. KDB-> Son (Got KDB @ 9.5m though).
    3. Other move(s)

  30. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 4 months ago

    its going to be so hard to get son and or kane is, its messing with my plan 🙁
    i have time at least, hopefully alli will be a canny diff