Scout Notes

Everton’s FA Cup defeat leads to the first Double Gameweek of the season

Another pair of Premier League sides bowed out of the FA Cup on Saturday evening, with Everton and West Ham United the victims of giant-killings at the hands of two Football League clubs.

As has been widely publicised today on this site and beyond, the fact that neither Everton nor Manchester City will require an FA Cup fourth-round replay means that their postponed Gameweek 27 fixture – which clashes with the EFL Cup final – can now be brought forward to Wednesday 6 February (part of Gameweek 25).

Thirteen teams from the top-flight of English football have now exited the competition, after Tottenham Hotspur fell to Crystal Palace in an all-Premier League clash on Sunday.

Wolverhampton Wanderers and Brighton & Hove Albion face fourth-round replays after drawing on Saturday, meanwhile.

Palace, Watford, Manchester City and Manchester United are the only four Premier League teams to have definitely secured their passages to the round of 16 ahead of Chelsea’s meeting with Sheffield Wednesday.

All of this has ramifications for Fantasy Premier League managers, of course, given that Gameweeks 31 and 33 clash with the FA Cup quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.

Those “blank” Gameweeks may not quite be so decimated now, with four fixtures already confirmed in each:

Confirmed Gameweek 31 fixtures:

  • Bournemouth v Newcastle United
  • Burnley v Leicester City
  • Fulham v Liverpool
  • West Ham United v Huddersfield Town

Confirmed Gameweek 33 fixtures:

  • Bournemouth v Burnley
  • Everton v Arsenal
  • Huddersfield Town v Leicester City
  • Southampton v Liverpool

Bournemouth, Burnley, Huddersfield, Leicester and Liverpool are the five clubs we can now say will – weather-permitting – avoid blanks in Gameweeks 27, 31 and 33.

Wimbledon 4-2 West Ham United

  • Goals: Lucas Perez, Felipe Anderson
  • Assists: Michail Antonio, Robert Snodgrass

West Ham sought to deflect attention away from their humiliating FA Cup fourth-round defeat by announcing that Marko Arnautovic (£6.9m) had signed a new contract minutes after the final whistle blew at Kingsmeadow.

Speaking after penning the improved deal, Arnautovic said:

I want to say to the fans that I’m happy to stay, I glad to play again, show myself and score goals, to make assists, but also to say that the major point is Marko Arnautovic never refused [to play or train].

I want to stop all this noise and focus on my job, to play football, and the fans hopefully are going to support us in every game that we play and we keep on winning games.

Believe me, it was terrible for myself to sit at home and watch the team against Bournemouth because I couldn’t affect it. It was a very bad feeling for myself and I felt kind of mad, angry at myself because I couldn’t help the team.

But I’m back, and I will give everything now here. We go again on Tuesday, against Wolverhampton away, and I want to play and am hungry to score goals.

The Austrian was certainly missed on Saturday as several of his team-mates – including two understudies in his position – delivered woeful performances against a side currently sitting bottom of League One.

Andy Carroll (£5.4m) and Javier Hernandez (£6.1m) were given the nod to lead the line as Manuel Pellegrini deployed a 4-4-2 against their lower-league opponents but both strikers were ineffectual, save for a deflected effort from the Mexican that hit the post early in the first half.

The Hammers failed to register a single shot on target before the break and trailed 2-0 at the interval, prompting Manuel Pellegrini into a triple change: Carroll, central midfielder Pedro Obiang (£4.3m) and right-winger Grady Diangana (£4.5m) being replaced by Lucas Perez (£6.2m), Felipe Anderson (£7.3m) and the fit-again Ryan Fredericks (£4.5m).

Those substitutions saw Michail Antonio (£6.8m) moved up from right-back to the right of midfield, Anderson take up his usual position on the opposite flank and Perez join Hernandez in a two-man attack.

Robert Snodgrass (£5.1m), meanwhile, shifted inside from the left wing to central midfield.

Though they fell 3-0 down soon after the restart, the Hammers started to assert more of a threat and two of their substitutes – Perez and Anderson – reduced the arrears to set up a grandstand finish.

Perez lashed home on 57 minutes after Antonio’s effort had been blocked before Anderson curled home a superb free-kick with around 20 minutes to go.

Fredericks caught the eye on his first appearance after returning from injury, linking up well with Antonio on the right flank, though Arthur Masuaku (£4.3m) and Adrian’s dismal displays will surely only serve to consolidate Aaron Cresswell (£5.0m) and Lukasz Fabianski‘s (£4.8m) hold on their positions in the Premier League.

It should be noted that the regular centre-back pairing of Issa Diop (£4.3m) and Angelo Ogbonna (£4.2m) were selected for this cup tie and the fact that they were at the heart of a defence that shipped four goals to a struggling League One outfit will encourage Fantasy managers who own Wolves assets ahead of the Hammers’ trip to Molineux on Tuesday.

Pellegrini was seething about his side’s first-half showing in particular:

Was I angry at half-time? Yes, of course, I was ashamed of them.

It’s very easy to explain what happened: it was one team who wanted to win and another team who played without any desire or any ambition to win or continue in this cup.

Maybe we thought we were going to win because we are a Premier League team and they are in League One, but Wimbledon played with the desire to compete in this cup. In the first 45 minutes, we didn’t fight.

It’s very frustrating because you can be eliminated, but not in the way we were. It’s a disaster.

West Ham United XI (4-4-2): Adrian; Antonio, Diop, Ogbonna, Masuaku; Diangana (Anderson 45′), Noble, Obiang (Fredericks 45′), Snodgrass; Carroll (Perez 45′), Hernandez.

Millwall 3-2 Everton

  • Goals: Richarlison, Cenk Tosun
  • Assists: Andre Gomes, Gylfi Sigurdsson

Marco Silva fumed at the lack of VAR usage in Everton’s defeat to Millwall on Saturday evening, with the Lions’ second goal having been handled into the net by Jake Cooper.

The Toffees’ boss said:

If we are to be fair with all the clubs you have to be fair with the competition and also you have to do it for all the games. 

It doesn’t make sense. Now we go home with big frustration. I am not here just to be angry with the referee but it is true.

You have to be fair with the competition and not just Everton Football Club because we play here with the competition.

It was a clear handball in the moment. The players they saw and went to speak with the assistant and afterwards thousands of people saw on the big screen.

I think they look also [at the screen] and the referee looks also. We have to be fair with all the clubs and put VAR in all the stadiums.

The controversy over the Lions’ second equaliser masked familiar failings in Everton’s game, however: a weakness at dead-ball situations and a lack of inspiration in attack.

All three of Millwall’s goals stemmed from set plays, while Everton only managed three shots on target all game: goals from Richarlison (£6.8m) and Cenk Tosun (£6.5m) plus an innocuous long-distance effort from Gylfi Sigurdsson (£7.3m) in stoppage time.

With Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.3m) given the nod to lead the line, Richarlison was back on the left flank but the Brazilian did little of note to impress in a 90-minute showing – save for his goal that owed more to a deflection and suspect handling from Millwall goalkeeper Jordan Archer than it did to Richarlison’s brilliance.

Sigurdsson also banked an attacking return with an assist for Tosun’s 72nd-minute strike but the Icelandic midfielder was just as below-par in a static front four, with Ademola Lookman (£5.1m) also unable to influence proceedings on the right flank.

Everton’s defence were actually largely unruffled in open play, with only one of Millwall’s six attempts on goals not coming from a set-piece.

No Premier League side has conceded more chances from dead-ball situations in the last six Gameweeks, however, and the Toffees’ frailties at corners and free-kicks were again in evidence at the Den.

Shaun Hutchinson had a header cleared off the line even before Millwall scored a hat-trick of goals from free-kicks, with two of those situations arising from senseless fouls by Lucas Digne (£5.3m).

The Toffees lost Yerry Mina (£5.4m) to injury at the break, with the Colombian said to have picked up a knock.

Fantasy managers now face a dilemma over whether to lump on Everton’s underperforming assets ahead of Double Gameweek 25 with a blank just around the corner.

On the evidence of the Toffees’ defeat in south London on Saturday, very few of their players are making a case for inclusion in our squads.

Everton XI (4-2-3-1): Pickford; Coleman, Keane, Mina (Zouma 45′), Digne; Gueye, Gomes; Calvert-Lewin (Tosun 65′), Sigurdsson, Lookman (Walcott 79′); Richarlison.

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2,169 Comments Post a Comment
  1. timawflowers
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    How many pts will jota get this weekend?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      5

    2. Gnu
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      2

      1. Gnu
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        No scrub that 10.

        1. Miguel Sanchez
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Realise it was West Ham he was up against?

          1. Epic Fail
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 13 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            They play Everton on the Weekend 😉

        2. Gnu
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Think I was closer first time.
          1

        3. Gnu
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 14 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Maybe an assist.
          5

          1. Gnu
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Oops, forgot the bonus.
            6

          2. Gnu
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Right, start again.
            Sorry.
            Eleventy fourteenish.

            1. the axolotl
              • 12 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              vs fabz? not seen anyone score eleventy fourteenish vs him in ages

              1. Gnu
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 14 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                Might have been a bit rash with that prediction.

    3. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      None after his red card on Tuesday.

    4. the axolotl
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      no such thing as a stupid question they said

  2. Miguel Sanchez
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Which one would you prefer over next two GWs:

    A) Hazard (bou, HUD)
    B) Sterling (new, ARS, eve) -4

    1. Numb
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Million dollar question

      1. Miguel Sanchez
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Man City creating so much more than Chelsea are at the minute

        1. Numb
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Yes.

          But to complicate it, Sterling is a rotation risk for the Everton game (Mahrez?) and the 4 points. And then possibly another 4 points for GW27.

          1. Miguel Sanchez
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 7 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Add then I would potentially captain Sterling for (ARS, eve) DGW

          2. Numb
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            And Hazard has the better fixture.

            1. Miguel Sanchez
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 7 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              And the history against Bournemouth...

              1. Numb
                • 9 Years
                5 years, 2 months ago

                I’m gonna see how Hazard looks vs bou and then decide.

    2. ChelseaKTBFF
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Cool kids got both with Rash as striker

  3. Slitherene
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Firmino + Camarasa -> Sane + Kamara (-4)?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Don't bring in Kamara with GW 27 on the horizon

    2. Majestic Chanka
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      If you can pick anyone but Kamara I’d do it

  4. manu4life99
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Is Digne, Rich and Sane sufficient cover for DGW25?

    Can't see any mids or attackers worth selling:

    Fab Hamer
    Doherty TAA Robbo Digne Holebas
    Rich Haz Pogba Salah Sane
    Jiminez Rashford Long

    £0.6m itb (rolling gw24 FT)

    1. Majestic Chanka
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Haz has Huddersfield but I may move him to another City mid. Wouldn’t get a 3rd Everton player though.

      TAA to a City def could also be a move I make.

  5. Shark Team
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Play 2
    Doherty Jonny AWB

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Doherty and AWB

      1. Shark Team
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Doherty to be benched...Jonny and Vinagre rested

        1. Mysterion
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Neves, Coady, Bennett all being rested too?

          1. Mysterion
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            benched*

    2. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Not Jonny.

  6. Strchld
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    FAnderson to Pogba or save? Or Son?
    Have already Sane, Richarlison and Digne for DGW and I think its enough.

    1. Lucky Z
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Save for what? Waiting for Pogba to be around 9.2?

      1. Strchld
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        To know more about DGW.

  7. FlashG
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Have Digne, Rich and Sane.

    Options are:
    A) Bring no more DGW players
    B) Ederson for Fab
    C) Robertson/Lingaard for Sterling & 4m defender (prob Southampton)

    1. 1912 F.A Cup Winners
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      B for me... I had Digne Siggy and Sterling and brought in Ederson for Fabianski

  8. Noregretz
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    How does the below look. . I also still have FT, TC,WC and BB. I’m trying to prepare for the DGW too.

    G: Ederson
    D: Robbo - Doh - Digne
    M: Salah - Fanderson - Rich -Pogba
    F: Rashford - Jiménez - Aub

    Sub: Hamer- AWB-Rice-Murphy

    1. G2G for this week
    2. Sub AWB for ?
    3. Look to Transfer in (player/team)?
    4. Look to take out X because?
    5. Aub to Kun?

    *insert confusion face

    1. Shineonme
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Well I'll say this 5 would be your worse move. Kun will only play one of the dgw games or at best play one and a camio in the other one and Aub has Cardiff so your gambling Kun outscore's Aub. I'd bet the opposite.

      1. Noregretz
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        My guy

  9. evilfish
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Please bench one out of these three:

    A) Ings, Palace (H)
    B) Jimenez, W.Ham (H)
    C) Richarlison, Hud (A)

    Thanks.

    1. ChelseaKTBFF
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Between A and C really

    2. AbsolutelyNoIdea
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Tough one

      A

    3. Shineonme
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A or B

    4. Goat
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      C

  10. AbsolutelyNoIdea
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Have no idea what to do with this lot.
    Keeper is the worry
    Any suggestions appreciated

    Patricio
    Robbo,Digne,Doherty
    Salah,Hazard,Pogba.Sane,Fraser
    Rashford,Jimenez,

    Guaita, Holebas,AWB,Barnes

    1. ChelseaKTBFF
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      hold and carry it on

    2. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Save

    3. AbsolutelyNoIdea
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Have 1.3 in bank also

  11. MMN
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    1 FT, 0.3m ITB. With Ryan back will Button likely miss out vs Fulham on Tuesday? Thoughts on best moves in the next couple of weeks?

    Button
    Lovren, Alonso, Kola
    Salah, Hazard, Anderson, Lingard, Richa
    Auba, Rashford

    Guaita, Doherty, Kamara, Kiko

  12. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    I have seen something like it is optimal to have 4 DGW 25 players somewhere. I suppose it is because of blanks right?

    1. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Whoever said that was chatting schit.

      1. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        I think it was written in one of the FFS articles.

        1. Richd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Yeah. His point stands.

          It’s based on personal team selection.

          Ideal for me is 5

    2. Goat
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Makes sense

    3. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I'm going for 5 DGW players probably

      1. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Thinking of going with 5 too

    4. panda07
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      It depends on what your bench is like and how many Chelsea and Brighton players you have in your team

      1. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        I have 2 Chelsea players (Hazard and Alonso)

    5. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Team is
      Ederson (Hammer)
      Robertson Doherty Shaw Digne Trippier
      Richa Pogba Salah Hazard Fraser
      Rashford Arnie Wilson

      1. panda07
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        You seem to have a good bench and only 1 Chelsea player, Hazard, so you're in a good position. You currently have 3 DGW players. This could be 5 by GW25 if you use your FT's to get two more in. Then if you want to get a full 11 out in the blank GW27, you'll have to make a goalkeeper transfer and then get in another outfield player for a player who will blank in GW27.

        5 DGW players is manageable in your position but it's risky. If you get an injury or two, you might have to take some hits.

  13. FFSbet.com
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Any suggestion guys is this good move?
    2 FT 1.2M,plan was Rich+Jimenez > Mane + fodder after cup games but with DGW25 now thinking about

    TAA + Martial + Jimenez > Laporte + Sane + 4.4 fodder(-4)

    Lloris - Button
    Alonso - TAA - Bednarek - AWB - Trippier
    Salah - Hazard - Pogba - Rich - Marital
    Mitro - Rash - Jimenez

  14. timawflowers
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Which transfer to make
    A - ederson and bedranek into for perarya and Etheridge (ready for the double week) or
    B - jota and bedranek in for perarya and brooks

  15. royals forever
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Do you think that Firmino > Jesus is a viable option for the DGW

    Any ideas would be welcomed

    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      No

  16. Super Squirrel
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Can anyone tell me how alonso played? Do we think he’ll be benched midweek?

    1. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      he wasn't great today - think Emerson may start again on Weds

    2. F4L
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      yes I believe he'll be benched midweek. Alonso was his usual self, but wasn't tested defensively as the Sheff Weds didn't perform well

    3. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      How many league games has Alonso been benched this season?

      1. Super Squirrel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Zero, but I’m hearing on the grapevine it’s been coming to him

        1. Kiwivillan
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          That's what they said when I had Digne 17pts first sub and supposedly benched Alonso started

          1. Super Squirrel
            • Fantasy Football Scout Member
            • 14 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            Ouch

  17. Miguel Sanchez
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    GW 25 who would you captain out of:

    A) Salah (whu)
    B) Sane (ARS, eve)
    C) Sterling (ARS, eve)
    D) Hazard (HUD)

    1. Jimmy Boy
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      D and I own C and A haha

    2. Bad Kompany
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Thinking b currently

    3. The 5% Team
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      B

    4. fedolefan
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Given you own all 4, pick anyone really. Pretty sure the captaincy will be split across them fairly evenly.

  18. DR0GBA
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Worth doing Fabianski > Ederson tonight?

    I can put out a full starting 11 in gw27

    1. Bad Kompany
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Who would you get for ederson in gw 27?

      1. DR0GBA
        • 7 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Fab/Pat

  19. Lfcni1986
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Danilo worth a shout? Starting to establish himself in first team

    1. the axolotl
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      mendy back

      1. fedolefan
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Missed the flag on him?

      2. Kiwivillan
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Pep Guardiola hailed the mentality of his Manchester City players after they reached the fifth round of the FA Cup by securing an eighth successive victory, before admitting left-back Benjamin Mendy has suffered an injury setback as he tries to recover from a knee problem.

  20. Scoutpicks Challenge - GW22 Results
    @ocprodigy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    SCOUT PICKS CHALLENGE - GAMEWEEK 22 RESULTS

    Dum dum dum! GW22 results, with GW23 to follow tomorrow (or today if I can make the effort on this train ride while studying!)

    GW22 entries: https://www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk/comment/19679963

    ***** GAMEWEEK RESULTS *****

    Here are the gameweek's results:

    1st - Lord in Wengerland (55pts) [3pts]
    Top 4% - Classix (54pts), TSM, Expected Toulouse (53pts) [2pts]
    Top 10% - FFS Scout, Coldplay (52pts), MB10, Cadenza (51pts) [1pt]

    with DrawnToMecca missing out on 48pts!

    The Differentials returned following a busy festive period - however the FFS Scout Picks and Differentials scored a combined total of 60pts, so still no bonus points allocated anywhere!

    ***** THE STANDINGS *****

    He's clearly on an imperial march at the moment, taking over the top of the charts last time around and now extending his lead! Your top three positions:

    1st - Lord (18pts)
    2nd - A Manager Has No Name, Ramboros, FFS Scout (14pts)

    Spreadsheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oyuz31n7ppeccuu/Scout%20Picks%20Challenge.xlsm?dl=0

    1. Lord.
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      You might wish to check this: I make my GW22 score 47pts, which is well off the pace. The spreadsheet quotes the scores for GW20.

      1. @ocprodigy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        I'll double check tomorrow but this should be accurate unless I downloaded some odd data!
        (The spreadsheet hadn't been re-uploaded to Dropbox - but I'll double check regardless)

  21. Pia06rc
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Start AWB or Doherty for this GW?

    1. Bad Kompany
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Doherty imo

    2. F4L
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      AWB

  22. F4L
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    would you prefer Haz or Auba moving forward?

    1. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Neither for me

      1. F4L
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Hazard not to return to form with Higuaín starting?

        ive equally lost interest in Auba to be fair, Arsenal have little creativity up front without Mkhi

        1. Kiwivillan
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 9 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          This Higuain crystal ball gazing is hilarious.

          1. F4L
            • 9 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            he's a proven world class striker

            1. DMP
              • Fantasy Football Scout Member
              • 8 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Fact

  23. FCSB
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Fabianski
    Doherty VVD Robertson
    Richarlison Hazard Salah Pogba
    Jimenez Rashford Wilson

    Hamer AWB Dunk Snodgrass

    1 FT, 1.4 ITB

    1. Wilson (if injured) >> Budget Forward
    2. Save >> have 2 FT for GW25

    Thanks

  24. Eat my goal!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    I can’t see the value in having city defence for the dgw, certainly not Everton defence, pool Chelsea options are better despite the sgw

    Plus city play Chelsea straight after - another unlikely CS follow by a blank

    Manoeuvring for city defence for likely two additional points when you then have to either ship or bench expensive assets

    Rich is not worth the pain of consistently returning blanks

    Sane sterling are a good shout - But I can’t really say the same for any other city attackers

    1. Bad Kompany
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Agree. Don’t think it’s worth the transfers

    2. Rinseboy
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I can only get Sane by dropping Gaz which is the big problem!

      1. Eat my goal!
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Depends if he starts to perform otherwise it seems a sensible move, even despite the dgw

      2. Rinseboy
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Hazard not Gaz. no idea who that Gaz fella is

  25. Elly88 > KTR (Kevin The …
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    I wish to know the blanks that have been confirmed in GW 27

    1. F4L
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      League Cup finalists and respective opponents

    2. Miguel Sanchez
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Eve - Mci
      Che - Bri

  26. Bad Kompany
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Since Gabriel Jesus started in the cup, surely kun will start vs Newcastle, right?

    Based on pep comments how much longer do you think Mandy will be out for? He isn’t likely to start either game in gw 25, is he?

    1. Bad Kompany
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Mendy obviously

    2. Epic Fail
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Pep team selection doesn't work like that.

  27. Iceball
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    When will we know about Chelsea DGW schedule?
    Currently have Alonso and Hazard and no City or Everton players!

    1. F4L
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      from what I gather no DGW for Chelsea before 27

  28. Rinseboy
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Lose Hazard for Sane in the DGW?
    Can't see where else I can raise funds to get in another decent city player?

    Pat Hamer
    Doherty Digne Robbo AWB Zaba
    Sterling Hazard Salah Fanderson Pogba
    Rash Jimi Long
    0.2 ITB

    1. Rinseboy
      • 12 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      would actually also give me enough to so Fanderson to Dilva/Bilva or Pat to Edersom also

  29. Aaa
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Alonso -> Kolasinac or Laporte/Mendy worthwhile?

    Have:

    Rob/Alonso/Doh/AWB/Digne currently

  30. i am jose mourinho
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Whats up mates. Any news on taa ?