We delve into the data over the past four rounds of fixtures this evening and roll out the first in a three-part series looking at the players by position. First up, then, it’s the defenders, with West Ham, Bournemouth, Liverpool, Spurs and Watford’s left-backs all catching the eye, whilst Palace’s goal-getting centre-half and Everton’s lack of resilience are also amongst our Wednesday night analysis.
So...what's everybody's plan to get Firmino in?
"I have nothing to say"
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Just sold him, he's rubbish.
Interested to hear people's thoughts.
Lol
No plan.
Just gonna get him in no matter the cost? Nice, I like your style penguin.
I wouldn't say he's rubbish. Too early to tell I guess. We might all be scrambling to get him in during the next few weeks....unlikely though.
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Frequently get him in and out before the deadline, I have nothing to do during this international break apart from this.
As you can tell, neither do I.
16 point hit
16 point hit is tough. Taking a 12 point hit myself 😉
On 8 here but might catch up with ya..
Which combo is better short term and long term?
1) kun, deulofeu, mane, rose( will rotate deulofeu and ighalo)
Or
2) kun, Ozil, alli/lanzini, rojo(will rotate Alli/lanzini and ighalo)2
Anyone else? I just want few opinions before I do payet to Ozil now
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Kompany to dann out any others ?
Need to free up cash myself for Kun. Only have 5 mil so gona go either Kompany to Walker or Souaré maybe.
Yea same here just looking for best one to do
Evening all, just looked @fpl stats and seems Ozil is gonna rise tonight..
People doing the Payet ---> Ozil move now so?did it Tuesday, annoyed I didn't manage it before Ozil rose
Yup.
How's Sanchez playing?
Chileing
Carlos I mean...
He's busy.
He just got a yellow card.
Classic
Sounds like exertion... Take it easy man.. ðŸ™
Couple of shots,one on target, one off
Between Vardy and Lukaku as my (c) next week.
Tight call.this, can't decide between them.
Vardy for me.
Vardy's attacking stats>Lukaku's attacking stats.
Villa's defensive stats>Newcastle defensive stats
Vardy record chasing>Lukaku ....
Leicester attacking stats>Everton's attacking statsCue Lukaku hattrick 😉 you know he's capable..
So is Sanchez, Giroud, Mane, Benteke, Vardy, Mahrez, Sterling, Kane and even Costa/Hazard.
Still have to pick one though. 😀But I know its going to be the wrong one regardless?!?! 😛
😀 I think I'm going with Kane this week.
Probably lumping it on Vardy if he's ok tbh..
The chicken in me says both could do well but that with Vardy's ownership and combined captaincy me going the same is the smart play.
Vardy: 14.63
Lukaku: 11.27
Good luck!
Lukaku for me.
Anyone not getting Ozil in?
I probably won't atm.
Mistake/10
Who else would you get?
I've got a midfield of Sanchez, KDB, Mané, Payet and Mahrez.
I'd rather downgrade to fodder and revert back to 3-4-3 I think, but could change plans as yet.
o/
Yep probably. Kind of hope he rises tonight as I'm cheap....
o/
How do we think ighalo will do over the next 4 fixtures?
Decently.
Gooooood.
Better than Firmino for sure
Ah you're no craic Gooner 😉
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Probably, but if Ighalo gets 15 points, and Firmino gets 12, I'll be sitting on 27 points and KoL will have Firmino as his grav.
I only pray Firmino to score points to see this happen
is it mad to consider KDB to Ozil instead of mane to ozil?
aguero will be in for GW 14Yes, especially when silva and kun are coming back and mane carrying an injury
hmm mane injury doesnt seem too bad
Exactly. Kuns back. Hence why he's trying to get Kun in. Pretty hard to get Kun, KDB and presumably Sanchez in the same team. Something's gotta give. KDB for me
cheers, i needed to hear it from someone else. not been that impressed by KDB either...
Nope. I'll be doing something similar
Anyone else recon Sanchez is going to get rested soon? Hearing rumours that he might after the IB on Arsenal fan sites. They want to try and avoid him getting 'exhausted' like last season.
This is stupid. The rate their midfielders get injured, he'll be playing all the time.
Hmm, interesting, leads me to believe that the only call one could possibly make would be...
Firmino(C).
Ok, I'll stop now.Wow! Look at N.o. 5 - could be a real handy differential to climb up the ranks.
Cheers, Doosra!lol
Are Spurs starting to lose the plot? I hope so (reality)/hope not (fantasy).
No. Other way around.
Happy days for Kane owners then. 🙂
Number 3 - that's why I haven't got any of there defenders.
The two to look at are Arsenal and Liverpool.
Arsenal are always strong of course. Liverpool though; may be time to bring Moreno back in.
Oooh interesting, wasn't expecting that. Complacency issues?
Concentration, or lack of it.
Surprising that, good spot.
Worried with Sakho no longer playing though? I'm torn between Moreno and Rose.
Never mind. Kept reading further below 🙂
Do you remember how much was Van Persie when the game opened in July?
9.5m
Oh, cheers
14m?
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When is the Argentina Brazil match?
Suspended today due to rain. 12am FFS time tomorrow.
Woke up early just to see the match ðŸ™
2 best players won't play. Tevez is out too I think.
When they play each other.
Penguins are great
6 years
The injury to Sakho is a real blessing in disguise for Liverpool.
Rate Lovren higher?
Well, he makes fewer crucial errors. I have never ever rated Sakho. At all.
So who's Arsenal's Sakho equivalent? and do you see Liverpool's error-rate slowing down with Sakho out?
Liverpool's error rate dropped significantly when Sakho came in the side. As shown last season, the season before that and this season. Check Squawka and Opta if you like. Liverpool's defensive record is much better with Sakho in and so is the win record. Considerably lower when Lovren is in the side on both accounts.
Fewer crucial errors? On which planet?
Defensive errors this season: Skrtel 1, Sakho 1, Lovren 1.
Defensive errors leading to goals this season: Skrtel 0, Sakho 0, Lovren 1.
Defensive errors last season: Skrtel 5, Sakho 2, Lovren 6.
Defensive errors leading to goals last season: Skrtel 0, Sakho 1, Lovren 2.
This. Sakho makes a lot less errors than Lovren. And Lovren has played less minutes this season
Shouldn't even be a discussion in all honesty. Sakho is first team for France ahead of Koscielny and Mangala..if that doesn't show how highly thought of he is then I don't know what will. Top defender. No debate about, imo.
Tell that to the deluded Liverpool fans....
You can't.
At least I tried.....
Maybe if they had Gomez or another talented young cb waiting for a chance but Lovren?! Frying pan and fire spring to mind!
Some good trolling there, Doos. Either that, or you're smoking something crazy.
Cue stats tables..
Well here's official stats from Squawka.
Defensive errors this season: Skrtel 1, Sakho 1, Lovren 1.
Defensive errors leading to goals this season: Skrtel 0, Sakho 0, Lovren 1.
Defensive errors last season: Skrtel 5, Sakho 2, Lovren 6.
Defensive errors leading to goals last season: Skrtel 0, Sakho 1, Lovren 2But, but, but.. he looks funny when he passes!
Haha exactly!
But they'll never mention that his passing accuracy hasn't been below 90% in the premier league since joining Liverpool.I was hoping a consistent run under Klopp would show his true potential to doubters :/ so unfortunate. People said similar of the likes of Koscielny when he joined the league.
Here's what Klopp said about Sakho: I would rather lose that game (Palace) 4-1 than lose Sakho. Huge, huge loss.
He should be back by January hopefully. And aye, Kos is an absolute boss too. Some really good French CB's in the premier league: Sakho Kos Mangala Zouma. All could become world class, imo. 🙂Lovren has better CBI than Sakho....much better
Blocks are similar but Lovren leads in Clearances and Interceptions
Stats mean nothing.
If you watch him, you would know he is bad. No brainer really.And that is what you call bias ðŸ™
I don't even support Liverpool 😆
He is terrible, even Football analyst believe so.
I prefer eyes in my head to a stat table personally 🙂
Massive calls for Costa to be dropped by all and sundry. Will Mourinho persist with him do you think?
Yes. He has no viable plan B.
Remy?
Radamel
Injured 😕
What time do price change happen?
It's a secret
In an hour.
Vidal scores
Chile score after 45 mins
Ha!
*TM deletes Eden's score update*
Reported. 😉
Just like on FIFA
Help!!
A) Vardy Pelle and Lukaku
or
B) Vardy Kane and Lukaku (and a 4 pt hit)
??B
B
B
A. Use the -4 to upgrade Pelle to Kun next gw
Half time
Alexis Sanchez has had it pretty easy so far.Hardly saw him...
Bed time
Hoping to have it easy myself.Breaking Bed
A - ozil in tonight to save 0.1 or 2
B - wait until after internationals
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B seems obvious non ?
Depends if the 0.1 or 0.2 is crucial to other planned moves really. He's not on international duty, so risk of getting him now is pretty low.
Oh really. Not playing for Germany?
Didn't get called up for the friendlies: http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11670/10058432/arsenals-mesut-ozil-left-out-of-germany-squad
Cheers. Haven't been paying attention during the break. Will go A then. Thanks!
Good evening. How are we all tonight?
Good thanks
Hello friend, a member of my team has changed username on the forum here. Is it possilbe to change it now on the official list I gave to FIFFSA?
Sure just drop a mail to the Fiffsa mailbox. We will catch it.
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I was just putting the armband on Chamakh....
Did you triple captain him last week? If not this week could be immense
No.... waiting for a match against Sunderland
Too early to tell.
Argentina - Brazil postponed
Dial up?
Zlatan's hair is awful
Zlatan doesn't have awful hair. Your eyes have awful sight.
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Belgium - Italy should be a funny game tomorrow. I feel sorry for Hazard vs Darmian.
Buonanotte friends.dumb vs dumber 😉
Don't touch Big Matteo 😉
Don't touch little Eden 😉
Hazard hatty incoming
Is Darmian worth the risk now that Valencia is out for 5 months? I'm thinking he is, what do others think?
Young a threat
He's not really a right back though, he's barely even a left back. Surely Darmian should be favoured over Young.
Filoshofee
Perhaps. Maybe I'm better off just getting Rojo
Is this what Man Utd has come too. How the mighty have fallen.
Its just ridiculous that Young who has barely ever played RB in his career would be favoured over a proper fullback like Darmian. It seems unfathomable
Who is he at risk from?
Young
But isn't Young a left sided player? Surely he is just as much as a threat to Rojo as he is to Darmian.
Yeah he is really. Thats why its so odd he would play as a RB rather than a LB
But he has had experience playing LB, right. He played there last season a fair bit from what I remember? I wouldn't be surprised if Rojo, Darmian and Young were all rotated.
Young is a winger who has played a bit at LB, but never at RB until last GW.
Rojo looks fairly nailed on by the looks of it. Has started every game when fit.
He is right footed i beleive
He's both according to TransferMarket
Probably not. Even if he is nailed, (Young seems a little bit of a threat) he is a YC magnet which hurts him in the BAPS. Doesn't seem all that attacking either.
I'd prefer Rojo+1 Rojo is a little more safe, imo, and cheaper too! 🙂
Yep, seems to be the better play. Urgh, hate doing sideways moves like Jones -> Rojo
I'll be making the same move. 🙄
So frustrating. Should have played it safe and gone with Rojo from the start, silly error really.
Rojo is definitely better option but he gets lots of YC because of his tackling.
Only DDG and Smalling are totally safe and have better bonus potentialI don't want those guys. My current goal keepers are fine and Smalling is too expensive. I have a defensive crisis and the need for an Aguero fund
I see. I know what you mean I think the same, but better be prepared for yellows and lack of BPS with Rojo imo.
I think attacking returns could be on the cards. United have a great D right now and I want a part of it.
Really?
I would sell if Payet...
He played 53 minutes last 2 games before ban, with Valencia out (EPL and UCL)
I think I will develop some nano robots which come out at night and nibble your hair down to a set pattern while you sleep. That way you will never need to waste time getting your hair cut or shaving ever again.
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I may have left it too late in the international break to have it done before next gameweek though.
Balls......never mind , Janmaat(TC) ?
If I had actually captained Janmaat last week I would have scored more. But not this week no somehow even the most optimistic person sees Newcastle conceeding a few v Leicester. Cedric captain instead.
You captain Janmaat for attack not defence 😕
I did. But he hasn't exactly go the attacking points i had hoped for. I will play him but....
Maybe not the week for triple captain at least
(C) then?
(C)edric
When it all goes horribly wrong.
Is Schweiny a decent pick for a draft league side? Seems steady enough but little threat?
Useless these days.
+1
ok, ta
be careful tm, you might be labelled abu
That's an improvement on the usual.
Did you catch my reply?
Re: Lovren vs SakhoMany top defenders will have low CBI. They close space, press space and man mark strikers out of games. Then you get defenders like Lovren, Williams and Jagielka who would come top of CBI because they don't know how to close space, let attackers pounce and make tackles. CBI is a very much FFS thing. Defensive errors, defensive errors leading to goals, passing %, win %, clean sheet%, goal conceded are much, much better indicators for defenders.
Forget Sakho. Quite frankly, anyone who thinks Lovren improves the Liverpool defence needs reporting, banning, and shooting.*repeated shooting to the face
OK then ....but I do not like that last sentence , I am entitled to my opinion ðŸ™
Sorry mate. Lovren is sh1t.
And I think Sako is sh1t but it is my opinion
Sakho is a better passer tho
third season of nathan for you has fooled the media again, just like the first two.
if you've never heard of the show, it's about this self-professed business guru who assists struggling companies by launching zany promotions and exploiting legal loopholes. at times it's laugh out loud funny while at others, cringe-inducing a là the office. if you've seen review it's similar in toneWhich option lads?
A) Get a 4.5 mid, Play Ighalo at home to United. Pelle ----> Aguero next GW
B) Get Bolasie/Barkley/Deulofeu, play them over Ighalo but lose out on a FT. (Would need to make another downgrade somewhere else to do Pelle ----> Aguero
Currently have 2 FT's.Hard one. I'm not really a fan of any of those cheap mid options. I've decided that I will be downgrading either KDB or Sanchez to fund Aguero though.
Yeah.. All those cheap options would be my 5th mid though. I thought about downgrading KDB + Sanchez but I still think its too risky to go without them.
I'm just not sure Ighalo should be a week in week out starter. Watford don't score enough.
