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2, come on 🙂
Bench Inazuma X1.
Wouldn't bench him, I'd take a hit to transfer him out.
Hahah tough one!!
2
The curse is over. Guaranteed goals!
What would you do with this team, open to a hit.
A Kdb to Son
B Kdb, Watkins => Son, Ings (-4)
C Kdb, Watkins => Gundo, Kane (-4)
D something involving getting Villa defender for Dier or Lei mid?
McCarthy (Forster)
Cancelo Stones Coufal (Mitchel, DIer)
Bruno Salah KDB** Rash (Soucek)
Watkins Antonio Bamford
0.8 itb, 1FT
C
A
C looks good
Why get rid of Watkins? Villa looks great still after COVID and he seems to do better when Barkley in the team. Plus DGWs in the near future for Villa too.
This
My thoughts exactly - option A
Good to go? Benchings correct?
Mendy
Dias - Maguire - AWB
Sterling (vc) - Bruno (c) - Son - Harrison
Jesus - Antonio - Rodrigo
Leno - Coufal - Soucek - Mitchell
Harrison on bench for Soucek (own both).
okay
I reckon I’d play Coufal.
kinda want to
Which one to play?
A) Targett (bur)
B) Soucek (cry)
The taller one
A
A
Do we know about future DGWs yet?
Nothing official until next round of FA cup played I think.
1FT 0.0 ITB
Mendy Martinez
AWB Stone Saiss Justin Coufal
KDB Bruno Son Gundo Saka
Kane Bamford Antonio
KDB to Sterling?
Who to bench?
I’d rather have a 2nd City DFer than Sterling. He’s been awful this season, and you’re basically picking him because he was good in the past, not because he’s looked like he’s good this season.
Having owned him twice already this season with nothing to show for it, I’d avoid personally and get in Cancelo or Dias when you have a transfer to spare
Start smith Rowe or souceck ?
Already have laca and fabianski starting
Asking for a friend...
Sorry, Smith Rowe or coufal
Coufal
Delete team?
Martinez
Cancelo, Coufal, Dallas, Mitchell, Holding
Salah (c), Bruno, Grealish, Soucek
Bamford
Forster, Brewster, KDB*, Vardy*
KDB likely to become autopick and will bench Holding.
After doing Kane to Vardy for a hit last week, do I just do it back and get it over with?
Cheer up - it is a great team! Get Kane or Antonio.
Nothing to get down about - plenty of others have same situation with Vardy & KDB
On the bright side you have £20M to play with
Vardy to Kane or Antonio (I prefer Antonio)
Many options for KDB - Grealish or Son
I’m not keen on other Man C midfielders - too much rotation
Play Watkins or Soucek?
Play alioski or coufal?
Watkins Coufal
Watkins definitely.
2nd one is tougher... I’d probably plump for Coufal as they are in good defensive form.
Who to replace Vardy and KDB?
Martinez, Areola
Cancelo, Stones, Justin, AWB, Cresswell
(KDB), Soucek, Bruno, Son, Lookman
Antonio, (Vardy), Watkins
Any combination of : Grealish, Sterling, Maddison, Pogba, Kane, Ings?
Kane greasyish
have a bit of fun, kane and pogba
A) kdb and raphina to son and gundo
B) kdb and wood to gundo and Kane
B
I did B
B
Cheers guys. Just feel like these fixtures might suit son
Who would you bench out of this lot. Currently benching those in brackets.
(Allison) Fabianski
Dias Stones Maguire Justin (Coufal)
Bruno Son Gundo Saka (Soucek)
(Watkins) Kane Bamford
Looks good. I'd probably bench Justin over Coufal, but think it's close so down to personal preference. You probably have it right tbh - I'm just expecting Everton to start scoring again
who to bench please guys.
a. saka
b. dallas
B
B
If you’re not going to play Dallas against Newcastle you’ll never play him so may aswell get rid
Who to transfer out for Cancelo?
A) coufal
B) targett
C) Dallas
A or C
Which sounds best?
A: Wilson to Kane (-4)
B: Dallas to Stones (-4)
C: Neither
A
A no brainer
Not Wilson surely
Yes or no?
McCarthy, KDB to Martinez, Sterling-4pt hit
Nope
If you’re keen on Sterling then yes. I’d prefer someone cheaper and some cash in the bank
True it’s between him or son and city treble def
Keep McCarthy
If you desperate, get a Villa defender
Struggling to decide on which transfers I need to make. Does Chilwell+KDB to Stones and Gündogan look like decent moves for a hit?
Martínez
Chilwell - Robertson - Coufal - Dallas - Cancelo
KDB - Fernandes - Salah
Calvert-Lewin - Bamford
Button - Raphinha - Watkins - Anguissa)
Nope.
Care to elaborate? 🙂
Robbo & KDB > Gundo & Stones looks better to me.
Chilwell looking good for the run of fixtures Chelsea have
Dropping Robbo instead of Chilwell is definitely something I'm considering too. It's just that Chelsea have been so bad every time I've watched them play recently. On the other hand, dropping Robbo instead would raise a significant amount of funds to do something else with.
KDB to:
- Grealish sounds good.
- Sterling as he is likely to pick up the slack.
- Foden/Gundogan and upgrade elsewhere
Yes, this is the options I feel you'er left with when dropping KDB. It is possible to do KDB to Gündogan, and work towards getting a five man midfield with Grealish coming in for Anguissa.
Salah stick or twist?
How likely are the expected DGW26 fixtures? Is it still the best candidate now for BB? Planning this team with no hits:
Martinez*, Johnstone
Dias*, Stones*, Justin*, Dier*, Holding*
Salah*, Gundogan*, Maddison*, Son*, Fernandes
Kane*, Watkins*, Antonio
Cheers
Depends what you expect the GW26 fixtures to be?
Hmm yes ignore, just saw Crellins latest post 🙁
What are peoples thought on triple city defence currently have Dias and stones and could easily do it by getting rid of Kdb and Robbo
Two def and Gundogan looks best.
Really can’t get my head round gundogan pick want to like it and go for it but I don’t know
Form, price and pens, whats not to love? Of course there is risk involved but that's mitigated by 1) a tonne of players will have brought/will bring him in and 2) you'll have significantly upgraded elsewhere with the spare $
agreed, at 5.5 not much risk involved, allowed me to upgrade bambam to Kane, seems a decent move personally
5 goals in 6 GW's (7 games) doesn't register for you? Plus he's now on penalties and still only 5.5.
Probably coz we don’t know how he’s going to perform now with KDB out. Where he’s going to play etc
I thought about it. But double DF plus Gundo looks like the less risky play.
Could be seriously good though!
Benching headache!
Wilson
Dallas
Soucek
Wilson and Dallas....
Soucek could get some assists now that Antonio is back...im expecting lesser goals from him...
GW18: 62 (BB)
GW19: 115 (TC)
Total: 177.
A decent return over the two GWs from those two chips I guess, TC slightly disappointing but what can ya do.
How about you guys?
157 only FH played
GW18 52(-4)
GW19 103(-4) TC
Total 155(-8)
Sitting just outside 100k with 3 chips left to play, still hoping to win cash ML’s and make top10k
18: 38
19: 113 (-4)
Total: 147, no chips.
GW18 - 44
GW19 - 109
All chips still intact and no hits along the way. Big green and set up very nicely for future doubles (3 City, 2Villa & will have 2 Spurs next week) and blanks (FH/WC) now
GW18:36 (-4)
GW19:153 [BB]
Climbed from 1,2 mill to 300 K this gw !
Total 143 with no chips played. Not bad.
No chips, but only 114 points across the 2 weeks.
GW18 55
GW19 130 (134-4)
Up to 6453 rank
160 (-8) no chips used
157 after hits, no chips. Stupid Werner over Antonio punt prevented me from really smashing it.
What would you do with this team lads?
Meslier
Coufal Dias Cancelo
Salah Bruno KDB Rashford
Antonio Bamford Adams
Forster Mitchel Holding Anguissa
1.6itb 1ft
A. KDB to Son
B. KDB to Sterling
C. KDB to Gundogan
D. KDB to Maddison
E. C or D plus Adams to Kane -4
Son has some tough matches upcoming....
Sterling/Gundogan look the better options....
Grealish due to good fixtures...
I have a feeling that Bruno will be benched vs SHU.
Well you know what you can do with your 'feeling' don't you!
Can't see it myself. Utd are top of the league, no chance Ole risks dropping points there I'm afraid.
No chance
lol im an avid man utd fan and i agree i strongly think bruno will get rested against sheff utd similar to how rashy was rested vs fulham. rarely a better opportunity. the last time i said bruno would be rested was the west ham fixture a few days before leipzig and shock horror he was. if bruno gets 90 today i will not be captaining. simple
Correct line-up/bench?
McCarthy
Robertson, Mee, Cancelo
Salah, Fernandes, Gundogan, Son, Raphinha
Bamford, Antonio
(Martinez, Firmino, Coufal, ARobinson)
I'd play Martinez.
I would replace Mccarthy with Martinez for this gameweek.
The rest just fine.
120 no chips used and all in intact
How was your Gameweek?
Were any of your players benched? Did you get any injuries? How did your bench perform? Did your captain return?
Tell us your tales of joy and woe from Gameweek 19, here:
Got 153 with great returns from everyone but that guy Callum Wilson. Stones, Antonio, Pope, Coufal all going on the legend-wall!
Marcus Rashford also disappointed I guess hehe.
KDB captain could have gone better, but as Bruno and Salah did even worse I can't complain.
Someone in my mini league BBd the following:
Meslier 0
Bellerin 0
Zouma 0
Bamford 2
Ouch. 127 (-4) for him, but a hard fail there.
I didn't do much better with my BB
McCarthy 1
Raphinha 2
Bamford 2
Robinson -2
Decent GW (109 no chips/no hits), but it sometimes feels like it's low when you see some of the monster scores on here.
My biggest regret this GW was agonising over Bamford > Antonio (-4) all week and then finally chickening out of it. But can't complain.
Many who post monster scores are lurkers ordinarily. 109 is a decent score with no chips.
109 is much better than "decent"
I took a 12 point hit, but that included the following moves:
Dire > Stones
Dallas > Dias
So it was totally worth it.
Finished on 103 before hit, and secured my 12th green arrow in a row. However still languishing down at the 1.5 million mark. I'm more of a casual these days, and it shows in my results.
Benchboost fail but bringing in Stones, Antonio and Gundo worked wonders pushing me to the fringe of top 10k
109 (-4).. presumably decent without chip
Aim was ‘damage control’ without using any chips in BGW18 & DGW19.. rank actually went up by around 20K over these two tricky periods
-awful
-Cancelo benched first game, Salah second.
-two injuries
-Anguissa 8 points benched
-captain Vardy blank
Only 79 here 🙁 However I saved all my chips and didn't take any hits.
Rough; Salah(c), GW16 wildcard Mane double up failed miserably! Pieters not playing v Liverpool.
Smooth; Didn't waste TC on Salah, didn't take a hit to bring back KdB, didn't waste BB. Thought I got away with not having KdB I was bricking it when he got that early assist. DCL>Antonio was smooth, Coufal, Bruno, Kane all returning.
Dropped 120k to 493k but I'll take that I got away with one this week.
Wouldn't call that rank drop as got away with it.
116 points, 9 from bench boost. No second fixture for my 3 Leeds and Meslier out a kick in the teeth after binning Martinez 50 points ago for him. Gutted with keeping Wood instead of getting Antonio, esp when Barnes took the peno. John Stones and Popey the shining lights.
Smooth - 165 (-8) and jumped from 78k to 5.8k.
Rough - Hard to complain but losing both KDB and Vardy is a blow.
*Gambling on no Liverpool was a big success
Smashing job mate. Chip used?
Cheers, yep BB
Rough: 69 points net. Lowest score I've seen anywhere. No goals. 100k > haven't checked new rank.
Kane to Vardy for a hit continued to punish after the gamweek finished, with a hit now needed to remove him because of the KDB injury too. 13 points down on that one. How Vardy didn't return in that Southampton game is also beyond me.
Captained Salah for all 5 of his cursed games. Now 7 captain blanks in last 8.
Opted for Cancelo (knew the rotation risks but was a long-term move), but Stones 27 points is just obscene. Dias 18 too. Cancelo continues to dodge points at will.
Antonio broke Soucek.
Smooth: I still have all chips in the hutch. Had an epiphany after the first City game that FPL is a game centered around luck and I should watch the games for enjoyment rather than sit in fear of James Justin ruining my afternoon. Once the deadline passes, you just gotta chill.
25, jumped from 640k to 330k, happy with that
128 no chips. Into top 39k. DCL + Son > KDB + Antonio -4 worked well.
Rough. Probably KDB captain as had considered Antonio heavily.
120 Still have all chips
Nightmare gameweek again (Thought GW18 was bad with Maguire’s disallowed header vs Burnley, Penalty-gate with KDB (c) vs Brighton, Son’s shot coming back off the post vs Fulham etc)
Rashford benched
Son’s chip hitting the post vs SHU
(C) KDB off at 59 now injured for plum fixtures
Ogbonna’s header off the post vs Burnley
Chris Wood deciding to defer penalty duties to Ashley Barnes
But hey ho them’s the breaks
Feel for you there. Sounds like you've struggled.
On a positive note, the final instalment of the Zambian Witchdoctor arc was a corker
Haha yep. Even though I've had him captain for every single one of those 5 weeks, it was pretty funny.
You've lost any respect after this whingeing post and a GW total of 145
He got 145 pts...no sympathy needed
Rough
only one of my players scored a goal (kane)
Smooth
BB 120-8 so can't complain
Transferred out Targett (18) Kane (9) and Bowen (11) for Sterling (11) Antonio (18) and Cancelo (8). So surprisingly dissatisfied
Scored 130 points in GW19 and 60 in GW18 after WC in GW18 and BB in GW19. Huge rank increase to 100k OR and now top of all my MLs. Happy days
156 points with BB!One of the best gw of all time.
I used my wc in gw16 and i would have had 15 dgw players but injuries,no ManCity and Lee-Sou postponed changed my plans.So i did a -16 for Taa->Stones,Taylor->Dias,Balbuena->Ogbonna,Son->Sterling(c), Adams->Antonio.76 points gain from my transfers.Also Coufal's 12 points were great,Barnes was a lovely differential and i had Pope the legend.
massive!
Fair play, that was gutsy to take a -16 and it's paid off hugely!
Smooth for once!
Took a -8. Son, Brewster and Branthwaite out for Soucek, Antonio and Stones. 83pts from my 5 defenders on BB (Stones, Dias, Targett, Coufal, Robbo). 146(-8) for my best ever GW with OR increase from 800k OR to 290k. Even had Lookman score vs Utd
Ironically the holy trinity were the ones that let me down slightly.
139(-12)=127
19k OR
Smooth: My transfers which finished +40 points!
Taylor > Stones
Son > Kdb
Steer > Areola
DCL > Antonio
Rough: Salah C and wasted BB with Leeds failure
Captained the lowest scoring player in my starting 11 (Salah) and 3 of the 4 bench boosters contributed a total of 5 points. Still ended up with a smoooooth GW score of 156 (one hit -> 152). 5-3-2 is the new 3-5-2!
Rough: low 77 with 21 players, TC Salah fail, waited til the last game for a goal (Watkins)
Smooth: Through in cup, think I need one more win to equal my best of four cup wins.
Smooth: bringing in Nick Pope on a free transfer and watching him get a clean sheet and 11 points away to Liverpool.
Rough: having KDB as TC and talking myself out of bringing Antonio in for Bamford
118 points all out, so a good week overall.
Rough: Zouma being benched twice and not used, Johnstone missing one match and Cancelo being benched once didn’t help my Bench Boost - but Salah being benched once didn’t do any harm at all (except to those who captained him), because of his high EO.
Ultra-smooth:
• Captained Stones for 54 points – a very effective sword captain! Triple Captaining him would have been even better and would have added a further 21 points to my Gameweek total, but I never seriously considered that. I had been building up to a Bench Boost and I expected him to get at least one and probably two clean sheets with perhaps added bonus points and maybe even a goal, but he exceeded my expectations. I chose him as captain over my big hitters since Salah had just blanked three times in a row, Fernandes was on four yellow cards, Kane and Son only had one match, I didn’t own KDB or consider him to be worth a hit, and good defenders with form and fixtures in their favour often do quite well in Double Gameweeks.
• Took an eight point hit to replace Calvert-Lewin (-), Podence (-) and James (1) with Antonio (18), Gundogan (also 18) and Cancelo (8) – an immediate gain of 35 points.
• Scored 155 points and moved up over a million places to 689k. I was aiming for 140 points and hoped to get close to the top million, but again my expectations were exceeded. Shot up to fourth in the January to May League, but second placed Alex Pappas beat this with 162 despite a captain fail with Mo Salah - his bench of Areola, Maddison, Justin and Wan-Bissaka did however amass a total of 44 points!
But was my Bench Boost a success or a failure?
My bench scored a very acceptable 24 points - until Antonio was auto-subbed for Zouma, which reduced it to just 6. Triple Captaining Stones would have scored more than my Bench Boost as it turned out, but if I hadn’t been Bench Boosting then I probably wouldn’t have taken the hit to replace Calvert-Lewin, Podence and James with Antonio, Gundogan and Cancelo. The hit was a big success, and the Bench Boost could have been too if Zouma had played and Antonio had remained on my bench, so I have mixed feelings about whether playing the Bench Boost in GW19 rather than saving it for later was a good idea or not.
The rough: total waste of bench boost.. McCarthy (1) Bamford (2) Harrison (2) Dier (2) and James (1) all proving completely useless.
The smooth: Son (5) Fernandes (8) Cavani (8) Robertson (8) Saka (9) Kane (9) Cresswell (10) Ederson (13) Gundogan (18) .... Captain John Stones (54)
A nice round 150, which is my best score ever.
Relieved to have got out of it with a small green arrow, especially having played no chip. Disappointed that I changed my mind to go with the "Salah is 'must have'" notion instead of my original plan to get Antonio.
89pts after a -4 for that Salah move (would have got 1 more with no moves). Just hovering inside the top 1mil is pretty 'meh', but that's the luck of the draw this season.
145(-12)=133, BB played with 23 points.
-12 mostly for the BB, but also included getting in Cancello and ESR who I will keep going forwards.
Smooth.
Rank moved from 850k to 350k
Triple city defence - no need to get gundo in yet as I can't see him outscoring the city defencefor the next 3
DCL -> Antonio 🙂
ESR as my benched front attacker -4.5 and returning points
Rough
Bamford, but hey, I got him for 5.7 so cannot complain.
Smooth - Broke 100 points with no chips and no hits - tiny green arrow. Thank you John Stones.
Rough - Johnstone in was only transfer. Kept Sanchez 7 pointer on bench.
Rough: taking out Aurier just as he scores a goal 🙁
Smooth: bringing in Stones who scored 2 😀
My best gameweek in 10 years of playing. 167 (-4) with a bench boost of 35 points. A captain fail from Salah, but big points for Stones, Dias, Antonio and Targett.
529th for the week and an overall rank rise from 1.85m to 573k. Chuffed is an understatement.
Smooth!
Matip + DCL + Salah -> Stones + KDB + Vardy (-8)
Worked out as a +28 point swing!
(not even counting my KDB(C))
134 points.
Managed to half my OR from 1.4mill to 760k.
i had 121 point week following a bench boost however vardys last minute price drop meant i had 5.1mil in the bank to get rid of charlie taylor. when i only had 5 mil john stones was the pick however with 5.1 in the bank and dias already in my team i went with reece james....
Rough: took out Kane for Vardy
Smooth: with the extra funds, did a -8 with Taylor/Romeo out, Stones/Lookman in!
Also, Targett single-handedly saved my BB. 117(-8) total.
*Romeu
Rough ::
1 Foden Johnstone & cancelo rested first game
2 Salah rested 2nd game + (c)
Smooth :: Took a -8 & played BB
Nico williams Brewster Raphina & Dcl to
Justim Diaz Anotonio & Vardy massive swing
126 -8
Gone from 3.2m to 320k in the last 12 gws 11/12 green arrows
*Justin *Antonio lolz
Smooth 2 :: + Targett subbed before con 2 goals v city
bench was
Justin 14 Soucek 4 Targett 18 mcarthy 1 37 points
Draft had DCL, Bissouma and Mitchell -> Rodrigo, Gundogan, Stones with BB played.
Lack of Leeds double meant instead I went DCL, Son, KWP -> 4.3 Davis fodder, KDB, Cancelo.
41pts difference between my draft and what I actually did, 50k OR dropping to 90k. And now I have to ship KDB back out. So, rough.
That said, I still have wildcard, BB and TC at my disposal when others in mini league don’t.
So, disappointing week but one that can be recovered.
156 (-8). 34 pts from by bench boost. Almost everything went right. Up from 430k to 92k !
Rough:
I benched Saka (9) (and Smith Rowe (6)) in favour of Bamford (2), Son (5), Tierney (6) and a host of DGWers who scored less: Cancelo (8), TAA (8), KDB (8), Fernandes (8) and Martial (4).
Unfortunately, I played my BB chip in GW1, which brought me only 6 points, rather than the 16 points it would have got me this week (without panning for it). And that GW1 BB also had Saka, but for 0 points instead of 9.
If my captain KDB played 0 minutes this DGW, I'd have got 8 more points, as Smith Rowe would have come off the bench, and Antonio would have had his points doubled to 36!
Smooth:
John Sontes mega haul (27). 111 points total. Played no chips in the blank or double, but still risen by 820k in those 2 GWs, and 2.1m altogether in 6 GWs.
Rough:
Now sitting at 1,350,668.
All hail John Sontes!
138-4 on BB
Martinez Raphinha bamford targett
Moves were salah, brewster out for kdb(c) Antonio
270k to 89k
Used up my 2 FT for BB:
Brewster > Bobby Reid
McCarthy > Johnstone
Had 5.5mil to spare on the striker and chose Bobby Reid over Callum Robinson...
118 points with -4 and TC on KDB.
This is my second 100+ points return for the season, chuffed about it! Now up to overall 62k after a dreadful start.
Won over my cup opponent by only 2 points (118 - 116)!
Very unlucky for him.
162-4 BB 17% Differential rating on livefpl.net, to go up 1.6m in rank.
28pts GW 18 with 7 players.
Smooth
Sterling captain, Dias and Stone outscoring Cancelo and KDB.
Antonio
Mane outscoring Salah.
Target, Watkins
Pope and Lowton
Still have FH
Robertson
Jammy Fernandes assist.
Rough
No more WC
Johnstone
Bamford
El Ghazi
Mane price drop
Rashford blanks
Vila blanking GW18 after GW 17 WC leaving me 7 for GW 18.
Sterling GW 18 -1
Rashford injury when he was likely getting me a 2nd price rise
Leeds vs Southampton cancellation..
A very good gameweek, but denied the 2nd rise on a lot of WC players due to the cancellations, which probably would have seen my SV go above 105m.
Even though Foden played yesterday, unlikely to be benched for next match right? Was most creative player for City yesterday.
Also will he take over KDB role?
Thinking he will be a better pick over Gundo.
As an owner, I’m hoping Pep double bluffs and starts him v wba.
They need someone like him to unlock WBA
Could easily play, yes. But I'd be worried personally.
Pep has so many options, and, you would have thought he might have given Foden a wee rest if he had him in mind as his replacement for KDB.
I have a feeling he'll be benched again - but just a hunch!
Foden clearly showed in the forward position he has the creative skills to do the KDB role with the added benefit of scoring most goals for city this season.
See Foden as a good hold but a risky buy this GW. More potential for a haul than Gündo though. Tempting so long as a free transfer and you've no fires to put out.
Chelsea pretty good fixtures next 5 from a defensive point of view.
WOL BUR tot shu NEW
Chilwell over Dias/Stones?
I hope not I just did Chilwell -> Dias with city likely to keep CS in next three
No city defender before chilwell, Chelsea are dreadful
Nope. City fixtures arguably better, and their DF stats are demonstrably better
I'm on my WC, and my defence is:
Stones / Dias / Chilwell / AWB / Shaw
I don't normally go so big in defence, but the rest of my team is strong as is my bench, and lots of factors point me towards defence right now.
Yeah i'd get Chilwell on a wc too. Not sure on 5 at the back though.
Yeah, I've still got two days to decide.
Cheers all.
Worth saving ft 1.8m itb unsure if arsenal keep a clean sheet and holding offers little goal threat
Martinez
Konsa Holding Stones
Salah Son Bruno Foden
Kane Antonio Bamford
Steele Soucek Mitchell Kilman
Cheers
I'd love to know the reasoning behind so many people getting Stones ahead of his haul - was it mostly a price thing, or worry about Cancelo game time, or actual analysis of stats?
I brought him in purely because it had become clear that he'd nailed down a spot in the best DF in the league by a mile.
Certainly didn't bring him in for his 'goal threat' that's for bloody sure!
We got lucky, but it was an easy choice to bring him in really
I had Stones, Dias and Cancelo. First time with Stones this season. City's defence has been awesome since their Spurs loss, and thought they had a good chance of two clean sheets. And couldn't afford KDB. Pure luck Stones got the goals.
For me it was coz his position is quite nailed I thought, definitely more so than Cancelo and the price difference along with the good fixtures of course
Was on wc
Main thing for me was Laporte and ake were injured making him a completely nailed 5m defender in by far the best defence in the league Who also gets in the box for set pieces
Was a no brainer
Price. Cheapest nailed starter in the best defence.
Price and also he was pretty much nailed on to start 🙂
Thanks all!
Price. Originally I brought in Cancelo for his attacking returns for 5.6m, slightly cheaper than Dias at the time. Then I wanted to double up on MCI defense, so I brought in Stones for 4.9m. I just completed the Trio and brought in Dias a couple of days ago.
There was no prior indication of Stones's stats (other than he looked to be Pep's preferred pairing with Dias as CB) that he was going to haul. My expectation for Stones was for his cs, and maybe some bones on a top tier defense. He just seemed like great value
3 years, 3 months agoThis is a really tough one guys, who to bench?
1. Salah
2. Soucek