Easily Sels for me here

Soton will score at home.
Henderson for me.

Sels

Hendo without a doubt. Southampton will score for sure.

Probably Dias, but no guarantees with Pep

I'd guess Walker, when fully back from his Euros break

Probably more points to be had from nailed assets elsewhere in FPL though

Ake, Akanji, Dias and Stones all vying for CB spots.

Cancelo needs to start games before being considered.

Currently I think Walker is unlikely to start GW2 imo, beyond that I have no idea

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3, although I have the other 2 in my team!

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3, then 1, then 2

Right now neither but Nkunku

Wait and see what happens in the midweek Europa game

-8 in GW2 :shocked:

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C is the best but it's unfortunately not possible if you need Haaland 🙁

Is a bit extreme & hint of lack of planning.

Yeah throw the preseason plan out the window and use those points you've gained to get Haaland in

Why the heavens is Joao Pedro at third sub behind Barco and Johnson? Hopefully just the way you formatted it while typing?

Roll FT. Salah (C) is good enough, imo. And you're trying to sell known ballers for hits. This looks like pure FOMO

The only reasonable way to get Haaland this week is to ditch Salah and Isak for a -4. You're then looking at a £6m midfielder, but you've lost two of your best players. Alternatively shop for a £5m midfielder and do Solanke to Haaland.

These sorts of decisions prove that Haaland for £15m was a masterstroke by the game designers.

Haaland will probably get a bunch of points but if you *needed him gw2 you should have started with him. The -8 will even out any progress you made by not having him this week.

Why would you draft a side without him if you needed him Gameweek 2? Horrible planning

Wildcard

How many points are you expecting Haaland to get to warrant a -8? Not to mention losing the points your sold players would get.

It's 'bold'...

I think it's a bit too reliant on GW1:

Ederson with a rare save point. Robinson didn't concede as many goals as he should have. Matty Cash hasn't been confirmed injured in the local press, so we might not see Nedeljković just yet (Mosquera is safer). Far too early to confirm Jota is nailed. Doku's even worse in that aspect, as Grealish only missed out on an expected start to the season due to a knock.

ESR... Why? Solanke is Ange's striker: that's your Spurs (C)/(VC) in good fixtures, imo. I'd take Gordon + Eze in those Son + ESR spots instead. I'd rather be 2 or 3 GWs late to a 5.0 Palmer than 6 GWs early to Bailey/Neto. Steady Eddies are more reliable since you'll have a max of 5 FTs to fix stuff after the WC's flushed away

Ederson Robbo Robinson Doku to Pope Gvardiol Munoz Mitoma/Bilva for me

Really don't like it tbh.

I quite like it, but I wouldn't be so sure about Jota and Doku for the plan of building-up transfers (though I do like jota as a pickin general right now). I'd be thinking about Eze, Bailey, Nkunku, Neto, B.Diaz, Gordon and Gibbs-White (though he's less appealing based on this article, and the Chelsea mids are not exactly low-risk). Maybe that would allow you to improve a bench player, though I understand you are planning a bolder strategy with minimal spend on the bench, which could work well once you've built up some transfers in the bank, but perhaps don't mini-WC to another team with a poor bench once you get there.

Looks a lot better imo. Different from what I'd go for but I can see the appeal of double Pool defence with the upcoming fixtures. I guess you want to wait for Arsenal's fixtures to turn? I think I would take one of Havertz/Saka over Solanke/Son right now but let's see how they look tonight. Not a massive fan of Doku tbh, can be fun to watch but not enough consistent end product for FPL

Plan was to play Hall, but no Schar is a concern. Still, on some set pieces as you can see in this article and they had enough grit to get through without Schar against Southampton, and you'd think it would be easier with an extra man against Bournemouth!

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Saliba for baps. Gabriel for set-piece prowess. Not sure which way to lean. If/when Caliafiori is on the pitch, I expect Saliba's set piece threat to drop from very little to practically nothing.

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nah that Scott McTominay

No, Yaya Toure has not even been crucified yet

He averages under 2 goals a season

That would make him Yaya Twore?

Odds assume starts, doesn't mean they will.

Leicester will be mob handed trying to deal with Solanke and Son and they'll totally forget all about Romero (30/1) and VDV (45/1). I think I'll have 20p e/w on those two.

He could be waving at family members amongst the fans.

Gundo linked to City could be the cheap alternative they need. Also tax issues is complicating Zaha move to PL.

Wouldn't read too much into that

A player is unlikely to be waving goodbye when he's not even agreed to personal terms or had an official bid come in

Roll

Pretty similar to mine so I’d say roll!

Roll - no worries with that team

Cheers guys

Team looks good - I wouldn't be too worries. The odds were always better for Salah gw1 and Haaland gw2. Can't say either way which is better yet but no need to panic.

Yes unless Solanke gets injured! I think I would put Quansah first sub in case he starts but it's a close call

Very similar to me. I’m rolling this GW.

As G2G for GW2 as they come, imo. Salah vs Haaland might be a weekly yo-yo for the high points, which is why the game's priced so well to hamper a squad that has both

Quansah's price needs to be monitored imo. If it is going to drop then 0.1 = 0.5 basically for near future transfers.

Save your season... already?? It's only been 1gw. I was 4.5m gw1 last year and had a respectable finish.

Did you come to the same conclusion after Palmer's 1st app at Chelsea as a sub last season?

Barco agree, ESR played United away and Nkunku played City, not the games where you expect a 5.5 and 6.5 to explode. Wait and see if you ask me. Nkunku could still be in for a good run now, Same goes for ESR, but not a fan of the latter though. They are cheapies for a reason..

Yes maybe. I’m definitely giving it some thought

I'd like to see Rodri starting and KDB back to high xA before lumping the TC on the robot

I feel these two factors will merge for another great home fixture at some point later in the season, even if it's not a DGW

Difficult decision.. I prefer a double GW, because you start with 8 points if he plays at least 60 and doesn't score.. That means that he needs to score at least two against Ipswich to make it interesting.. He can of course, but it can also be a very expensive chip..

Do we not fancy city chance of a dgw later on ,?

Nah, wait for a better fixture

From a SGW POV, home fixture against a promoted team looks good. The issue I have is City don't have all their main players around Haaland back/clicking yet which should be factored in.

I wouldn't. Greaves will keep Haaland quiet. He was superb on Saturday

It Schar is anything but Eze

Got Schär in my draft team but still managed to top GW1 so all good. Spicy start though!

Tomas Sous chef has higher expected g in my local restaurant if g stands for green veg.

Shows hiw unreliable xg can be i suppose

Are Villa still poor at defending set pieces?

He volleyd the ball to the sky in fast situation in difficult position when there was empty net in front of him. It was one of those situations that even if you tried to do that you would score instead 9 times out of 10 (almost).

FBref has him at 0.9, which is much more believable

More the question if so is he still a decent pick?

Not when Gordon is match fit to play full games

Only in the sense that Barnes will be the one called on to give him a breather. I'd expect Gordon to start every game that he's fit for though

Barnes was fit while Howe kept flogging the flagged Gordon last season, iirc

Depends on the rest of your team and any risky picks

Not for me. Not if your plan is to start some saving FTs