Scout Picks

Scout Picks- Gameweek Eleven

Before we’re rudely interrupted by yet another two-week international break, the Scout Selection Committee have knocked their heads together once more to come up with a squad ahead of gameweek eleven.

With so many matches looking prosperous for points, balancing the budget proved to be tricky this week. With the Wayne Rooney midfield conundrum thrown into the mix and rotation high on United’s agenda, plenty of options were discussed behind the scenes before we eventually came to a conclusion. Rolling out a 3-4-3, we present to you the following…

It was a toss-up between Tim Krul and Shay Given for a place between the posts but the Toon Army stopper gets our vote in the end. Newcastle will be buoyed by last Monday’s triumph at the Britannia and ahead of a tricky set of upcoming fixtures will be looking to maintain the defensive form that earned them a clean sheet in the last home game against Wigan as Everton pay visit to St James’ Park.

A home clash with Swansea could offer Jose Enrique a chance of points both at the back and going forward. The Liverpool left-back has also returned bonus points in three of his last five games and with Brendan Rodgers’ side somewhat toothless on their travels, Enrique stands a strong chance of prospering.

Having started eight of his side’s ten games so far, Jonny Evans offers a cut-price option at the heart of the Man United defence. With the return of Nemanja Vidic bolstering the champions’ back-line, the 4.5 priced Irishman seems set to benefit from an increased resilience as Sir Alex Ferguson’s side line up at home to Sunderland.

Ten gameweeks into the season and only three players have produced more assists than Micah Richards. With 4 to his name already, the right-back has benefitted from Man City’s more attack-minded approach this term and having been rested in the midweek Champions League trip to Villarreal, looks an assured starter this weekend as the league leaders make their way to Loftus Road.

With four assists and a goal in his last five appearances, Juan Mata is returning solid, if perhaps unspectacular, returns for Chelsea. A goal and assist in the previous game at home to Arsenal suggests he’s becoming more pivotal as the gameweeks go by and with Andre Villas-Boas’ side rolling up at Ewood Park, Mata could be set for a double-figure Fantasy return for the second game running.

Subject of a Watchlist article this week, Aaron Ramsey takes his place in the Scout Picks midfield. The young Welshman has produced 3 assists in his previous three home games and is creating plenty of goalscoring chances for the like of Robin Van Persie and Gervinho right now. A home clash with West Brom could see him plunder the points once again.

It’s impossible to ignore Rafael Van der Vaart now. The arrival of Scott Parker and Emmanuel Adebayor seems to have furthered the Dutchman’s potential with in the Tottenham team and Van der Vaart has flourished, with 6 goals and 11 bonus points in his last five games. A trip to Fulham is by no means easy but he has the form to prevail, regardless of opponent right now.

The next two spaces in our Scout Picks team prompted the most debate. We needed Liverpool and Man United attacking cover and the choice boiled down to Nani and Luis Suarez or Charlie Adam and Javier Hernandez. Both duos had their merits; Adam is just one point behind Suarez for the season so far, is on most of the set-pieces in Steven Gerrard’s absence and Hernandez led the line for United at Everton last week as Rooney dropped deep.

Nani and Suarez, however, are, on their day, capable of explosive Fantasy returns and with that in mind, they won us over. Both face home games with Sunderland and Swansea respectively and offer the potential to score strongly this weekend- we expect them to justify our faith.

Robin Van Persie– we could just leave it at that, really. If you somehow need a reminder: 2 goals in each of his last three home matches, a total of 9 goals in his last five games, the Dutchman is on fire right now. Fresh after a brief midweek sub appearance against Marseille, the Arsenal skipper faces West Brom at the Emirates with an incredible 61% of votes in this week’s Captain Poll.

As mentioned above, a slight concern over David Silva has reshaped our plans. Sergio Aguero is hardly a bad replacement, though; the number one forward in the top-scoring team in the Premier League, Aguero played just sixteen minutes as a substitute at Villarreal in midweek and surely seems set to be named in City’s starting lineup at QPR tomorrow.

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  1. CarelessGenius©
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Imagine how cool Carroll would look without that ponytail....?

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  2. 12th Man
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Is it worth bringing in Suarez for Sturridge for a 4 point hit? With his tough fixtures coming up, I'm not so sure?

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    1. RED HOT CHILLI
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      With Gerrard injured, I bought Adam and Suarez in. Live dangerously 🙂 And I'm keepin' them for all those nice tough matches comin' up too

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      1. 12th Man
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Yeah, I like your thinking. He will probably do better against tough opposition as well. I'm 50 points ahead in my mini league and the guy in 2nd place has Suarez, so I might just bring him in to block him

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        1. RED HOT CHILLI
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 12 Years
          12 years, 4 months ago

          Yep, I did a fair bit of swearing at the box last weekend lookin' at Adam steppin' up for the peno and Stevie sittin' on my team waving an orange flag 🙂

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          1. 12th Man
            • 14 Years
            12 years, 4 months ago

            Hopefully it'll be a different story for you this week 😉

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          2. Acer
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            12 years, 4 months ago

            Me too. Couldn't believe it when i tuned in and Gerrard hadn't started, then they were awarded a penalty. Still this game is a lottery.

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  3. 12th Man
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Also, would you play Bosinwa/Sturridge over M Petrov this weekend? I'm already playing 4 defenders

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  4. AA
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Schwarzer

    BAE | Warnock | Enrique(vc)

    Silva | Mata | VDV | Ramsey

    Suarez(c) | Agbonlahor | Adebyor

    -> This is my current starting 11 , but have Walters on the bench (Tempting to start him).
    Should I stick with this line-up or should I start Walters instead of ______________ ?

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      selll Walters IMO

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      1. AA
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Hmm , Keeping walters though!
        a mid who plays OOP and on pens is a Must have IMO. Just dunno what to do with him thiss week. Start or Bench?

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      2. Denis Tueart on the wing
        • 14 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Garbage - OOP AND THE HARDEST WORKER ON THE STOKE TEAM - + pen taker

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        1. AA
          • 12 Years
          12 years, 4 months ago

          Yeah! So should i start him . if yes , for whom ?

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  5. aaront
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Morning all need help with my team
    Begovic/vorm
    Bos/komp/wilkinson/Simpson/Enrique
    Vdv/silva/larrson/dyer/tiote
    Vp/suarez/ade
    1.6m in bank 1free transfer
    Thinking maybe bos/ade out would take a 4 point hit
    Any thoughts

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    1. 12th Man
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      I'd leave it as it is

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  6. KOKAK
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Jones or Evans and why?

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    1. OPTA FPL
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Jones because he's handsome and 9x kute

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      1. AA
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        Lol , Did you ask me to sell walters coz hez not 9x cute ? 😉

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    2. Bazza
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Is Evans nailed on??

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      1. CarelessGenius©
        • 12 Years
        12 years, 4 months ago

        I despise the term 'nailed on'....

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  7. Mr Smith
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Team for this week:

    Vorm,
    Jones, Enrique, Simpson
    Nani, VDV, Silva, Pilkington
    Aguero, VP, Sturridge

    Subs: Ruddy, Dyer, Shawcross, Gabbidon

    0.3m in the bank and no free's.

    Chasing a 160 point lead so got to start making some headway today. Any areas for improvement?

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  8. Denis Tueart on the wing
    • 14 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Arteta or Ramsey for Bale - Any opinions?

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  9. Wilberto
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    Krul
    Ward – Simpson – Jones
    Jarvis – Ramsey – Silva – VDV
    Adebayor – Rooney (C) – Ba

    Vorm, Clichy, Larsson, Shawcross

    Any comments or suggestions?
    I havent used my trasfer yet..

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    1. AA
      • 12 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      Hmm , pretty good team.
      Just save your transfer for the International break , next week!

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  10. yedyedyed
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    is it worth taking 4point hit to bring in evans?

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    1. EalingBee
      • 14 Years
      12 years, 4 months ago

      I have. Fergie likes him... God knows why though!

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  11. Sarnab
    • 12 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    krul
    enrique simpson ward
    vdv lampard ramsey walters
    rvp adebayor zamora

    vorm bosingwa shawx n.dyer

    any cmmnts,chnges on my starting lineup?
    no freebies left this wk..hw can i improve my team for this month.??

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  12. Champ
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    You had Brangelina. Then Jedward. Now i bring you the ONE THE ONLY.....Van der Persie

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  13. tontotyrrell
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    is boswinga dropped

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  14. meechamspowders
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    After coming into this weekend in the midset of "save your sub, save your sub, save your sub" I am now finding myself about to press 'confirm sub' on:

    evans > kompany
    suarez > ade

    worth a 4pt hit? my team is:

    vorm (kenny)

    woodgate, enrique, simpson (kompany, n.taylor)

    silva, vdv, petrov, o'hara (dyer)

    rooney, rvp (c), ade

    shall i do the subs?

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  15. tangtastic
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    12 years, 4 months ago

    GW 11 Teamsheet : http://i1133.photobucket.com/albums/m589/tangtastic1/Diagrams3dbcopy.jpg

    Anyone fancy predicting points for this week?

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