Next this Saturday, we catch up on the member’s area statistics over the last three rounds of fixtures with our usual post-Gameweek article.
We assess the lay of the land at Arsenal as a result of Olivier Giroud’s first-team return before analysing Tottenham’s man of the moment and Manchester United’s pair of form players.
West Ham and Everton also play a part in our thinking ahead of some fine upcoming fixtures.
on WC now , and thinking of doing Alonso > Cahill , just to save a potential transfer in future if Ake replace Alonso in the starting elelven..fair to say Cahill is nailed even with Ake and Terry coming back ?
Alonso my way more nailed than cahill
Ake terry Zuma and that's if they play 3 at the back. Alonso currently got no competition
ppl from chelsea forum think that conte recall ake back so Alonso have competition.
Alonso looked weak against Spurs, Moses wasn't much better, they are weak links, wouldn't be surprised if Conte is looking to improve those areas.
In fairness they won't play Walker and Rose every week.
That's not the point, Conte showed after the Arsenal game that he's not afraid to change what looks poor.
Alonso owner here and wouldn't be surprised to see him lose his place.
Surely Ake will not replace Alonso... I would have thought Cahill was most vulnerable but expect Ake to sit on the bench and give us annoying cameo points
Anyone thinks back three wld be Ake, Cahill and Luiz with Alonso and Azpil on WB?
Nah, Conte loves Moses. Ake is probably coming back for rotation options.
I'd keep Alonso, but go Azpi if you're worried about security.
Nobody knows for sure right now ... Maybe not even conte himself!
Better to wait and see how it plays out
Conte knows. So does every Chelsea supporter (those that actually go to games anyway). 😕
Andre Gray getting overlooked a bit around these parts? Good price. Burnley have a pretty good fixture list for rest of season. Could easily get going and chip in points regularly.
Only 8 games at home I think. Not sure what they're going to do on the road. Getting hammered 4-0 by Brom away isn't ideal.
Yeah. Teams have bad games. I always expect them to ship their fair share of goals. I just feel he could be an ideal way to free up cash while also getting returns. Great goal record.
Thing is they just create 2-3 chances all match away from home and he needs to convert one of those. I was tempted but couldn't pull the trigger because of the away record. Happy to jump on if there's signs that Burnley create more on the road.
Good points there indeed. Food for thought on the matter regarding those stats and such.
Him and llorente are the only ones below Defoe that appeal to me
That's what I'm thinking. When you start to drop down in price, it gets real sparce real quick as to what makes for a solid punt situation.
He has more nailedness than Llorente, which only adds to his appeal for me down in that range. Andy Carroll lurking around as well, but not all too sure he and that West Ham outfit are worth going near. I took the Carroll punt a couple GWs ago and am not exactly loving it right now.
There's a bunch like Carroll that are OK for starts and the odd goal. 2-6 pointers. Gray and llorente are proper goalscorers at their peak.
All the value is in midfield eh
A front line of Kane Costa Ibra, or maybe even going heavier and getting Kun in as well seems like it could be amazing as well. I want more money for mids and forwards! I may have to go bare bones at the back to make the magic happen!
You should go
Aguero, Kane, Ibra,
Sanchez, Alli, Pogba
and choose the rest
I like!
Yeah screw defence. I'm always shaving off decimals for the new shiny goal scorer until eventually I look back and see the likes of amat and guy demel pretending they know what they got it under control
Sweet Guy Demel! He was gold, if not for a brief while. 🙂
Rondon is so much better than them, IMO. And it's not even close.
Hmm. Forgot about him. Had him earlier in the season, and it just wasn't working out all that great. But worthy of thought in this subject area for sure.
Get real last 10 games 2 9 2 2 2 17 1 2 1 5
Get real? OK. So you'd rather have Llorente or Gray then?
And by the way: Rondon has a higher points per match than the two other forwards he was considering, and has SUN, mid, STK, whu, BOU, CPL after this week.
More superb analysis, perceptive and penetrative. 😕
Here's mine (written after GW17):
In a recent interview, Darren Fletcher (WBA captain) gave Rondon a lot of plaudits. "He gives a great deal to the team and is a good finisher when chances arrive."
Rondon clearly is a player with potential but he's also hard to predict. He'll trundle along for a while with a chain of blanks and then he'll have a game where he gets multiple attacking points - 2+ goals or a goal+assist. He has only actually scored in 5 of 17 PL games so far this season but on 3 of those occasions he achieved multiple returns. The good thing is that the types of game he seems to score in are when WBA play weaker opposition, just as they have from GW20-27. His goals this season were against Palace, W. Ham, Stoke, Burnley and Swansea. Seems like a pattern maybe.
Rondon's PPG this season is lower than Phillips at around 4.5 points per game compared to Phillips' 5 PPG. But if you take only games against bottom-half opponents (which constitute 7 of 8 games for WBA from GW20-27) it's very close to 6 PPG. Better than Phillips.
The comparison between the two players is also inconclusive. Rondon has more goal attempts per 90 (by a distance; more of his shots are within the box; they are similar on shooting accuracy but Phillips is more creative (by a distance).
If I had a squad that needed a cheap striker I'd be quite comfortable with Rondon in that period of games and if it needed a budget midfielder then I'd be delighted to have Phillips.
This, by the way, is called looking behind the numbers. Everyone can count.
Didn't watch Arsenal last night. We should all be getting Le Donk, right? Bound to fluke in an assist or two in a Lexi hatty in the worst case.
What's all this about Ale
*Ake*
He is being recalled by Chelsea to replace Alonso
To replace Alonso? Why?
Its just a working theory at the moment but imagine for a second Ake taking up Alonso's position and being handed all those chances Alonso managed to squander. Ake is capable there im sure i remember him doing a similar role with watford for a bit
sorry not Alonso, Ake is replacing Hazard
not exactly to replace Alonso, but give Alonso competition since chelsea only have him in that position.
What happens if you have him before he rejoins chelsea? Can you then have 4 players from them?
I think the next time you want to make a transfer it wont let you until you've sorted out your 4 chelsea conundrum
So you would be partially punished and forced into a transfer if this is the case.
Surely it should slide and be put down to good planning / luck. (Non owner btw)
Does seem a bit unfair yes. I think you should be allowed to keep all 4 as reward for playing the game to your advantage. But then that would make the game a bit too elitist.
No
Frustrating that Bellerin was immediately flagged after Wenger said he was injured in training but Palace said Dann missed last match cos of injury he hasn't been flag at all. Where's the consistency in all this? No reply from FPL on this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CPFC/status/817352689734615040
Did you buy dann injured?
The two faces of ffs. Regular contributors discussing the nuances of identity politics. Fifos using the site as intended looking for some nuggets of information playing Chinese whispers turning ake into a key player at Chelsea before he's even arrived.
Haha 😆
Identity politics is the worst.
Also I'm one of the suckers who just put Ake in a few days ago. Oh well...
I made an early risk vs reward call because I was getting priced out of moves. Got him last Monday 🙄
Same. Had 0.0 in the bank and was staring at what looked like an imminent Kone drop. I had it down to Ake or Chambers. In the meantime, Kone still hasn't dropped, and Chambers looks to have been the smarter choice. Ah, well.
Was Dann benched by Big Sam last week, or what was the go?
Injured
I heard Abramovich has invested heavily in cloning Ake. He has been called back in order to complete that process and Chelsea, in the not so distant future, will field 11 Akes for every game moving forward. Story like that HAS to be true.
But then how do I decide which Ake to put in my team?
The one with more baps.
The one who is playing oop cf for that particular game
now I have 4 chelsea, only can hope both ake and Alonso start and give me double cs.
That would be good. Unlikely but good/
.
I'm more interested in who replaces Ake in the Bournemouth lineup now
Marc Wilson might get a look in with Francis moving back to CB?
Smith?
He's playing more offensive
He was playing OOP and then dropped only to accommodate Ake.
I was wodnering that before as well, I hope its wilson as he is my bench player. Similarly hopign Jaku gets in Hulls XI with a new manager. Then my two 3.9mils wil be starters and make me a few bucks
Bournemouth backline will eventually be
Smith - Cook - Francis - Daniels
What changes would you like to see to FPL in the future, if any?
Not have to pick favourite team out of PL teams
I want a chip where I can see my rival's transfers for a few weeks.
I also want leagues updated in real time.
A good chip would be one where it auto-subs higher scoring bench players for ones in your starting xi that scored less. Hopefully they lose AOA for some like that next season
I think the only chip I'd want is one which reverses your last transfer. So if you've made an early transfer and it goes pear shaped you can go back in time.
Chips really should have no place in the game. Bloody joke all the DGW planning and saving your WC for it. Those real time scoring updates I need asap. Someone on here had a link to tables with real time scoring. Unfortunately, it's buggy when it comes to overall scores and game week score if hits have been taken that week.
Oh indeed. I'd rather they weren't here in the first place. But it looks like they are here to stay, and if anything I can see more and more gimmicks being introduced.
Personally I quite like having to wait for the site to update. I'm weird like that.
Hmm, I end up wasting a lot of time, opening up rival pages in new tabs, adding their points up all the time etc.. Plus, I'm incessantly checking the leagues page for updates when I've had a good week. An update like that will save me a ton of time.
I think chips were a good introduction to fantasy, how can you not like triple captain? I dont think they should add any more but replace AOA with what I said above. Chips are fine and wild cards, double gameweeks are the odd thing not chips
I feel the chips partly have the hidden responsibility of helping keep players interested. A tactic by those who run the game, if you will.
Because it is a gimmick. What next? Quadruple your vice captain? There are an infinite number of ways you can add volatility. Just does not reward consistency enough in my view. The WC/Bench Boost combo is the worst. Instead of everyone wild carding whenever they want or whenever their team needs it, for the most part, everyone is just saving it for the DGW. Basically, it's restricting when a WC is played and the benefits are not big, since most will have similar teams if wildcarding at the same time.
Id like to see the bench boost chip replaced with one where your vice gets double points that week too.
Also. Players that come off your bench shouldn't be elegable for baps. There should be some penalty dished out to differentiate you from the managers who actually had them in the starting 11
Sorry not bench boost . I meant the all out attack one. We like the bench boost
No wild cards
No chips
1-2 prices changes a week
New app
Snoozefest
Nothing wrong with keeping it simple. Every other fantasy game I've played is like that and it works a treat.
Optional fpl site official money leagues
I know there would be mind boggling legal difficulties with such a venture but a better prize would make fpl a lot more competitive no doubt
There is a game in Australia called moneyball that does exactly that but only for each game week.
I am on the way
Chose which game you want to join, there can be $10, $20 to join etc... Pick your starting 11 within the budget and hope they score well. Winnings up to $2k. Pretty good.
FFS to stop giving away everything on a platter to the casuals via FPL articles.
Because you're so elite because you visit a website?
Doesn't bother me tbh. I'm not really playing against them.
Lol, why? Afraid of testing your skills in a level playing field? There are people like me who will never look at stats regardless of how easily available it is. Motd highlights are all I need/use to play this game. For me, this game is all about punting. Is my punt on player X better than your punt on player Y. I don't really care how you've decided on that player.
Hindsight Captain. Like UCL fantasy where you can change your captain for a -2 before the 'to be chosen' captain have played.
^
This.
I like basically everything about how Fantasy Major League Soccer does it. They really have made a body of rules that add quality to the game. Think some of its aspects would fit nicely into the FPL game. Like how each game has its own deadline. At kickoff! So we're not left guessing about starting lineups, etc. Also, you can change your subs/captain picks after the first game kicks off so that you are not tied to a decision often made days before a game in question is actually played. I could go on. Think they've really nailed it all around.
1 point for hockey assists (pass before an assist)
Players scoring penalty should not get same points compared to what they get from open play. I think that penalty are bonus to some players. They should get maxm 3points for a penalty goal.
Agree!
Do you think Ibra will take a pen in the lfc game or do you think it'll go to Rooney for the record?
Rooney
Ibra
I think Rooney would like to do it from play but they might give him the spot kick just to get him over the line
It would be a shame if he did not manage to do it this season as i reckon it is his last at United
Last at Utd? Is his contract up already? Surely no one else could afford to pay his wages...unless...ah, of course. Dear Lord, pls make available a video of Rooney practicing his Mandarin.
😀
He will be shipped to China or the USA there is even a possibility he could be going to West Ham for free
They are willing to pay below par strikers their wages as well
Guardiola:
“I’m still in the process to know the players, to know what is the best position, to adapt to them. But through the control of the game, through the passes – we have to try. It’s not always possible because the opponents are so aggressive and it’s not easy to do that.
I try to adapt to English football. But in the end the pitches here are smaller and the aggression and with few fouls makes it’s a bit more difficult. But that is what I think we have to try to do, through the passes, through the multi, multi, multi passes. When that happens you concede few. When the ball is up and down, any team in the Premier League is better than us.”
OK then, Pep. The pitches are too small, the referees don't give enough fouls and your team need to make more passes - multi, multi, multi passes - in order to defend better. Seems like your adaptation is going well then. 😕
Incidentally, the UEFA guideline for pitch size is 105m x 68m. The FA guideline is the same. Both La Liga and the Premier League allow pitches as small as
...105m x 65m. But most pitches in the PL are exactly the same size as the pitch at the Nou Camp.
The pitch seems smaller when the players run harder and try harder and play harder and the refs just let them.
Yeah. Shouldn't be allowed. Opponents are supposed to stand off Pep teams and let them play. There's a UEFA byelaw about that I think. 😕
Leeloo Dallas, Multipass
Hahahaha - nailed it
The Fast Aggressive nature will never let him play a slow paced possession football on here. He just needs to realize that and change his style to maybe an Arsenal style of possession play which is just a faster version of tikitaka although not so efficient.
It's a really long way to say you don't like hoofball
I am adapting okay? Give me a break please.
What happens if Ake returns and I already have 3 Chelsea players?
You can play them all like normal, but whenever you do your next transfer, you need to have three max Chelsea, so Ake or one of the others need to go.
Next Transfer out have to be one of those 4 Chelsea(includes Ake of Course). If you don't transfer out, you can have them four.
Ah ok thanks!
Ake is not going to replace Alonso if he is recalled. Kenedy is also at Chelsea now. Think Ake will be a great backup to Alonso and also to the back four and funnily enough is a decent backup to Kante/Matic as chelsea is getting very shorthanded with the selling of Oscar and Mikel. A very good versatile option who is Homegrown.
Forgot about FPL for a weekend. Was a nice feeling...
Reported.
Lol. Only remembered it because I wanted to check Ake's price status....now I'm seeing word he'll be recalled by Chelsea? Damn
Worth downgrading Capoue to a 4.2m for a hit to save myself 0.6m?
Explain?
Asked that question too soon and phrased it incorrectly.
Anyway, need to get Sanchez in this week. 2FT.
Heaton
Valencia Smith Brunt
Mane Firm Siggy Alli
Ibra Kane Defoe
Jaku Capoo Williams Nyom
Was on Mane + Ibra to Sanchez + Giroud before getting Ibra back a couple of weeks later for Kane. Going cold on that.
Three other choices:
A) Mane + Siggy + Capoue to Sanchez + Stanislas + 4.2 -4
B) Mane + Siggy to Sanchez + 4.2 and play Capoue. Next week Kane + Capoue to Luka + Philips -4
C) Mane + Firm to Sanchez + Stanislas
You asked for it. 😛
Does a combo where you transfer Kane and Mane out for Sanchez and Lukaku this week work? Do you need more funds by downgrading Siggy or Capoue then?
Need more funds. Really fancy Kane to brace this week while all the rage is about Alli + Eriksen.
I think if you have Amat or worse (3rd bench player), you should splash a little bit more and get DeRoon for cover, it's only 0.2 more, but the one or two times you need him, he'll get you 2-3 points or maybe a surprise goal
Amat is Latin for Love.
Some poor bvggers have both of them. 😀
And then it's important to have four defenders that you can trust. Something like 6.0, 5.5, 4.5, 4.5 and you don't have to rely on DeRoon unless there's multiple benchings or injuries. He's come in handy before. Played Amat for his 6 pointer too 😉
Isn't holebas greek for love?
😉
And there are probably some out there with enjoying threesome love?
Was a little hasty with my question. Didn't phrase it right. Sorry.
Has Pulis stopped caring about clean sheets? Lots of late goals conceded this season. Unlucky or system change?
3 cs in 20 is a very very poor record indeed
My planned transfer for this week was supposed to be evans -> ake.
Other defs are baines, brunt, jones and holebas.
With the latest news, would it be better to do evans -> chambers instead? Boro fixtures not too bad and he looks nailed as well?
Ideally and without injuries, most gws i would play at least 2 of baines brunt jones with the occasional punt on holly and this 5th def.
Thoughts?
Get Friend, captain and finally match fit, attacking and almost playing as s winger.
Was considering him too, but after his injury doesn't seem as nailed on?
got him last week, he looked very good and attacking, he just missed clean sheet points as he played less than 60mins. do you think he ll be starting the next matches?
Which is the worst transfer of the season so far for me?
A: Ake in for Francis (-4) after latter loses his 3 match ban appeal.
B:Zaha in a day before news that he is hoping to go to Africa
Fuchs and Ihenacho/Origi.
Fuchs possibly my worst signing ever
Cedric in at 4.8
Good Morning DZ
How's everyone doing ?
What's going on with price rises this week, one day they're going up, next day back on 99%, next day going up etc etc?
Wildcards in play?
Wildcards
Giroud expected to start next game ?
Captain , hero , no other way
Alonso to Baines for -4 silly right? Wait a week?
Not sure why you want to that for a hit considering the fixtures?
Keep,wait and see what Conte's plans with ake are,many here own both ake and alonso
o/ guilty
If Alonso doesn't start next game or gets hooked again Baines is a likely target
Chamber or Friend
Lukaku or Giroud
Costa or Hazard
Walker or Rose
2
1
1
2
Chambers,Kaku,Costa,rose
Chambers, Luka, Costa, Walker because Rose has 8 YCs only otherwise I prefer Rose.
Lallana to Walcott (if fit) worth a hit?
Grant
Baines Valencia Ake
Sanchez Lallana Stanislas Phillips
Ibra Costa Aguero
(Pickford Brunt DeRoon Holgate)
0 FT, 0.2m ITB
Give it a couple of games to check who of wally or GRU is nailed
Why can't they both be nailed?
If giroud starts every game up front,I don't see Walcott being nailed
Sanchez Ozil Walcott is the 1st choice attacking midfield 3
He has Swansea at home GW22
Not for a hit
I wish I had Lallana at the price. He blanks last game and all these people looking to sell. Weird
1.Junior , Snodgras , Lukaku , Costa
Or
2. Hazard, Coutinho(fit) , Giroud , Barnes
Got wasted last night and done below for -4
Lallana Rondon ➡ Phillips Gru
Gulp
Did something similar myself.
Siggy+Benteke ➡ Giroud+Stanisas for -4.
Thinking Gru (c) justify this drunken moment
I'm on Sanchez(c) atm. He is rested and wi be up for it.
Giroud with his superb form is definitely a good option though.
Alexis looks extremely pissed off lately, body language says it all.
Both are good shout but I think I'll go with a differential since I have some catching up to do. Time to take risks I think.
Better option and why?
A) Kane
B) Lukaku
Appreciate your thoughts!
B. Cheaper
Focal point of attack . Everton stabilizing
Kane dropping deeper to accommodate ALLI bombing fwd . That seems to be the strategy
Think Lukaku has great fixtures and he's the main man up top. Kane is playing almost behind Alli so a combo of Lukaku and Eriksen/Alli is better (and cheaper) than Kane and Pogba/Firmino imo
Lukaku
7 years, 10 months agoAs an owner this is giving me a head Ake