Pogba’s creativity, Antonio’s xG, DCL’s threat: The key FPL stats for Gameweek 2

Yup

Of course!

always was my preferred going in - no matter how many times i tried other options.

certainly not changing it any time soon.

I would of had Benrahma over Biss
Lose Tonney for 4.5

Of course. The 3-5-2 allowed me to get Benrahma over Toney 😉

Definitely!

At least until I get 2FTs then we'll see what takes our fancy...

I went 3-4-3 partly because I think I will want kane any two of Antonio/Jimenez/Everton/Wilson. Would rather go for a nailed 7.5 striker then a Jota/city/United
Unsure if I want to go for son now instead of kane

Surprised their first time is playing again already

Odubeko, Oko-Flex, Coventry.....looking forward to all of them getting a shot in the Prem at some point this year.

3-0
1-4
2-1

5-1
0-3
2-0

2-1
1-7
1-0

5-1, 1-3, 3-0

2-1
1-3
2-0

2-1
1-2
3-0

2-0
1-2
1-0

5-0
5-0
0-5

2-1
2-1
7-1

2-0
0-4
3-0

Depends what you’d do if you save the 1.5m by going benrahma or sarr.

Ben

Greenwood.

If you have him already I'd board the Benrahma wagon.

Benrahma

Tricky game for the Hammers

Im very keen on Raph, but if you dont have Benrahma then probably him first

Does it have to be out of those few.

I quietly fancy Lucas Moura myself to take advantage of the kane saga but it isa bit punty.

The safest bet would be Raphinha out of that lot.

Willock mag be another punty option

steady, Barnes has Norwich in GW3

Keeping, bought him in for more than just the first game.

Steady as I have both

Not too bothered, don't see him doing anything against Leicester

Barnes and Benrahma are both exactly the same players we all thought they were pre GW1 deadline.

If you went Barnes over Benrahma there must have been a reason and 1 gameweek (especially as West Ham played Newcastle ) shouldn’t change anything

Had to buy a wheelchair.

i may get grealish in for barnes and captain him

yea with esr when next will be be starting in your team?

true. played full game too

He's never had that much end product, doubt he'll suddenly come good.

Trouble is this is him all over. Has the physical attributes to play for a top 6 side but has he ever been a good finisher or decision maker?

Posted about him earlier, has 7 goals in 141 appearances in the PL. I knew he could be wasteful but that's a really poor return for the positions he gets into

For now maybe but with Podence and especially Neto back... (have no idea if this duo is still due a long spell out)

Started in a strange left midfield behind sterling role. Actually started pretty well. Mendy broke everything that got going though.

Genuinely ignoring city attack all year if they don't sign a striker, yes they won the title last year without one but I don't think they can repeat the trick. Grealish again is a player that would perform better if they had a main striker

Team looks solid. Roll.

Not entirely sure how it works as it's my first season too, but I did read that it's different from fpl in that you can sell and cash in even with a 0.1 increase instead of having to get 0.2 increase

yes i don't know why u would do that

You need to sit down and let your knees heal up

Thank you.

Can't stand him, he's such a cheat, epitomised by the time he faked being knocked out for Wales (made even worse by Giggs' nearly praising him for it)

If you wanted Tsimikas then it was a pretty GW1 decision.

He only has 2 weeks left so complete waste bringing him in now

It’s honestly embarrassing

Same very year though. Desperation to get whoever scored points and remove whoever blanked.

Willian last season is the perfect example why it’s madness.

people are just bored

i get it - people love this game and have spent all preseason making multiple decisions on all sorts of players - then it all stops immediately.
there is an understandable urge to do something.

and also i'm not against anyone making any move right now. what says anyone knows any better?

Because we are masters of Fantasy Footie and know that a brilliant transfer early can set set up the perfect season.

the majority is 500k+

"90 mins or less of a player that makes it absolutely neccessary for u to have them in ur team today?"

Probably more than anyone has gained in the weeks upon weeks of research they do in 'pre-season'

Sone people get things wrong. Sone people sensibly don't pour enormous amounts of energy into pre season (you just just go on twitter and copy the template and save yourself pointless weeks of agonizing), some people just like to try to leap on a player who shows, and yeah, some people make decisions that turn out really dumb. None of this is worse than year after year after year people on here looking down their noses at people wanting to make transfers

For me, some of my more expensive gambles didn't play more than 20 mins, I had no Bruno, so made sense to rectify those problems straight away.
I agree in general, if your player played but just didn't return, then no point being kneejerky. But there are some things you can learn from just 90mins

Price rises at this stage are a factor...

A 0.1 increase for a player you want could be equivalent to a hit, a downgrade of another player by 0.5 m or additional transfer

The problem is that you have so many marginal decisions, and those that got some of those right are acting like that is the only way forward.

Pre GW1 there is no ‘top 10k’ so for GW1 that is just the average score of the first 10k teams to register.

It’ll be what you want it to be from next gameweek onwards

Top 10k is based on the IDs of people who signed up to the game first and got an ID below 10,000, not the ten thousand highest scores in the game.

I have 105 pts with 151K rank...must be a lot of folk between you and me with same or similar score.

depends on the system I guess. I'm honestly not sure how they are going to fit in Traore, Bailey, Buendia, Watkins & Ings so I don't really know how it will affect him

You can go wrong in the sense it’s cost you a transfer to get him in and
It’ll cost you another transfer to get him out in 2 weeks time.

But he is a good option for next 2 weeks

Honestly I would have kept Chilwell, I'd say he'll play the next two and will have Lukaku there now to give him a bigger target when making his usual breaks down the line

Chilwell is working his way back into fitness after a short preseason - he is CLEARLY the preferred player in his position.

This move seems hilarious to me - hope it works out for ya!
Use that extra money and have some fun next week!

“ I could do Harverts to Pogba but no point. Already have Bruno lol.”

I fail to understand the logic in this.

He’s a real menace

Sarr is nailed, we don’t know about Dennis yet. Also he was subbed off injured.

I need to see another game or two but I'm looking at him as a possibility to fit Sancho in for a few weeks for the slightly better MU fixtures. Just don't know if I want to have to rely on him

Son is the main man at Spurs now. I want to fit him in...

I’ve got those 3, and think it fits best in 3-5-2.

Pretty happy with balance

Save until we get word on Gundogan fitness

They’ve priced verane at 5.5 which is a shame as he obv isn’t as good an option as Shaw who is same price

if I was to guess I'd say Dier would drop out for Romero. Tanganga was class, definitely his spot to lose

There's been no update on him yet has there?, might be fine

This is a fantasy game. Hits could end up gaining places.

No transfers could end up losing places.

Injured players get you 0 points.

It all depends on who you have to step in for Gundo...

oh yeah 100%

I believe so

No, as long as he plays on the wing he’s not.

Ole is calling...

Nah. But he has his disadvantages, just like Greenwood, Jota, Gundo…most of the 7.5m mids really. You probably won’t want him all season but he could do well in spells. I have Greenwood so not looking at him but I don’t blame people who are.

Not necessarily, he went on a major run when Ole first took over, so he's well capable of doing it again with the fixtures..

Also, he knows he's in the shop window

He bagged a hat trick vs Bournemouth at 12.30 a couple of seasons ago. Utd vs Leeds kicked off at 12.30 and Bruno scored 3. It’s more psychological than anything, with people not wanting to have to go through the rest of the games knowing their captain has blanked. Players bodies aren’t as used to eating earlier, preparing earlier, playing earlier etc so you do get some tepid early games but I wouldn’t let that sway your decision.

I think it’s just the thought of how depressing the game week will be with a Captain failure in the first game.

How did the early game go for captainers last week?

This is so far from the truth. You can have one or the other and easily contend.

reply fail to above

Rather try fit in Son

imo yes but wait for info yet, might not even be injured.

Lol, flop for a flop

I personally wouldn't give up on Ferran that quickly.