Will Kevin De Bruyne’s return from injury affect Ilkay Gundogan’s FPL form?

What happened to Diego Jota? Klopp suddenly stopped using him while he was in top form.

Barnes out for who. Not planning of FH 29

A) Lingard
B) Raphinha
C) Sigurdsson/ Traore

Q: Will Lingard be ineligible for Man Utd game next week?
Q: Are Everton/ Villa likely to play dgw 28?

Any work need doing with this motley crew or carry over the FT?

Martinez
Dias Lowton Stones
Salah Bruno Son Gundo* Raph
Bamford Kane

(DCL Shaw Struijk)

Choose two to bench:

Bamford, Raphinha, Dallas, Stones, Rudiger, DCL

Ffs... I'm stuck between Lingard and Raphinha as Barnes replacement. The MU fixture for Lingard is a non issue for me, I have cover. So for me it's just who is the better pick. They are both in form, but as a MU fan, I just don't trust Lingard :/. Don't know what to do. Who should I get? First to most votes.

A) Lingard
B) Raphinha

Rank by most to least PTS for gws 27-29:
Auba Lingard Antonio Mount Werner.
Gonna buy 2 of them

2FT £0.6M ITB

Martinez
Cancelo Dias Dawson
Salah Bruno* Son Raphinha
DCL Ings Watkins
Meslier Lookman Rudiger* Coufal

GW27 move will be Bruno -> KDB (C) How should i fund this move:
1) Meslier -> Forster (another DGW27 player but gives me one less player for GW29)
2) Rudiger -> Veltman (will give me an extra player for GW29)

No FH available, WC will be used in GW31/32/33

Best move? Still got WC and BB. 1FT 3.0itb.

A. Pope/McCarthy >> Martinez
B. DCL >> Antonio
C. Save FT.

Pope
Dias, Cancelo, Digne
Son, Bruno, Gündo, Raphina, Soucek
Kane, Bamford
(McCarthy, DCL, Coufal, Dallas)

I need a striker under 5.7 to get Son in. Is Iheanacho worth a punt?

Also, keep Salah this week or swap for Kane (with a cheap midfielder)

Barnes to? Already have Antonio and no FH for GW 29

A) Saka
B) Lingard

Some thoughts and hopefully some discussion about all of this football recently. I feel like players, teams and staff are getting closer to being physically and in some ways more importantly, mentally exhausted. How is this going to reflect upon football for the last 10 or so GWs and more importantly FPL?

Will we see more clean sheets?
I have no data to hand, correct me if I am wrong, but I see there has been more clean sheets the last 4 or 5 GWs. Is this because mentally players are so exhausted that they cannot summon up the creativity to unlock these defences? We are certainly seeing this with Liverpool and to a lesser extent Man U.

On the other side of the coin, will we see more clean sheets because teams are so exhausted that they are falling back and defending their final third? You commonly see this in the last 10 mins of a game where a team is defending a lead. Is this now being extended to greater swathes of time in matches through exhaustion?

Staff exhaustion and lack of time between matches. Are coaches focusing on defensive drills and strength due to their own mental exhaustion? The lack of coaching time between matches may have an impact on an ability to coach and drill attacking rhythms. Focusing on keeping a tight defensive unit is "easier" to coach. We see this in international football with international coaches having less time on the training pitch with their players.

Is it time to put money in our defensive 5? 5 at the back? Chelsea?

Another point with all of this football is how the largest teams with the biggest rosters of international class footballers have managed to balance successfully all of these games. We have seen this with Man City and Chelsea and conversely have seen this with Liverpool with their stretched team. Are we about to see a decline with Leicester with the impacts on their first 11 and a renaissance with Spurs with their large squad?

What do we think on targeting clean sheets & those teams with larger resources against volume of games?

Hi, please help me choose 2 to PLAY:
A. Lowton vs ARS
B. Targett vs WOL
C. Dallas vs whu
D. Raphinha vs whu
Cheers 🙂

Hi guys, which one would you do?
Raphina > Lingard
Bamford > Watkins

Repost:

First 11, Bench and Captain correct?

Forster
Stones Rudiger Lewis
Salah Bruno KDB(C) Gundo Raphinha
Kane Bamford

Martinez DCL Struijk Taylor

Thanks!

Play DCL or Richarlison?

BB, yes or no? First to 3 🙂

Forster DCL Shaw Dallas

With gw29 in mind, would you do Bruno to Son and Barnes to Bale or is Bale too risky? Have Kane

Those with BB, when are you playing it?

A) DCL -> Antonio
B) DCL, Barnes -> Antonio, Son (-4)
C) Hold DCL, bench Barnes and wait for DGW28 news

Thoughts? Bit stuck. No FH no WC btw.

Gundo rested and the obvious captain pick.

Surely KDB gets rested against Southampton?

Whom to play:

A Pereira (bha)

B Rudiger (EVE)

Why is KDB preferred to Sterling?

It's time for Bruno to Messi Lingard

Is Barnes > JWP for free a good punt for GW27 as he has a DGW?

Current team

Pope
Shaw Dias Cresswell
Son Gundo Sterling Fernandes
DCL Watkins Bamford

Subs
McCarthy Dallas Mee Barnes

Thinking Pope to Martinez, Barnes to Lingard / Raphina [latter better option for DG29]
Thoughts?

All the Fantasy stars align next Wednesday folks. By far and away the best club in the Premier League entertain a pub team who would be ELEVEN points adrift of Sheffield United at the bottom of the Premier league if their form over the last eight game weeks - that's a pretty reasonable sample btw - had been the same from the outset. This could be an absolute massacre. Not only do the hosts batter them in left, right and centre, their guests concede NINE on a regular basis. If you're sitting with two of KDB, Sterling, Gundogan, Mahrez or Fodan with a Dias, Cancelo or Stones at the back then ditch that defender and take a hit to make it a trio of attackers...you MUST hedge against rotation. Six points is all fine and well but Ederson could quite easily cannon a clearance off one of their arses straight into the net to inflict a painful zero while the guy you could have had for a measly -4 gets 20+ points. Your mini league could depend on it. For the people amongst us who like a flutter, there is the opportunity to increase your worldly wealth by 25%. This is free money, this is a giveaway.

Back to work.

Any thoughts here please?  Transfers to 29 and wildcard in 31.

A......Barnes to lingard (bench dcl at chelsea)

B...Bruno to son

C.....both for a hit (dcl benched)

Thanks

Martinez
Cancelo dias pereira (coufal dallas)
Salah Bruno gundog raphinha (Barnes)
Kane dcl watkins

DCL to Kane?

At 1.2k so quite want to remove risk from my team and consolidate

DCL > Ings pointless given that Saints are toothless at the moment? They do play SHU (and City).

A) KDB, Gundo, Dias

or

B) KDB, Cancelo, Dias

Feel that Cancelo might end up with more points over the next 2 game weeks.