Traore and Moutinho drop to the bench as Gameweek 26 recommences at Molineux

Sterling is an injured midfielder who started at 12.0 and has 50 points less than Vardy, who plays a different position and started at 9.0, has pens, is nailed, has beautiful fixtures?

It was a joke! Vardy is in poor form is my point anyways, 2,0,0,5,0,1,2,2. @ nearly 10mil he’s been dreadful value this calendar year. I think a lot more would
of shipped if he didn’t have a great fixture in 28 (including me).

Is he really in “poor form”? Or has his output been contaminated by several black swan/anomalous factors that it may not be wise to expect to continue?

His recent record is perfectly acceptable/explainable imo - it’s actually even decent considering the circumstances:

GW18 mci - 9 (excellent)
GW19 LIV - 2 (not going to criticise for blanking vs best team in the world)
GW20 & GW21 - 0 mins - so zero points is hard to criticise
GW22 - SOU - 1 Assist (a superb Assist) & a VAR disallowed goal millimetres from being allowed, plus a VAR disallowed Assist - would have been another haul
GW23 - missed a pen - he’s only human - an 8 or 9 point swing with baps
GW24 off injured unluckily early so couldnt get involved in the later goals
GW25 - just back from injury - 1:1 big chance well saved by Caballero in first half, put a goal on a plate for Harvey Barnes that Barnes messed up just before being subbed off in 70th minute due to returning from injury
GW26 - zero supply - probably the only game in the list to actually be concerned about - not a good day out - but that won’t be the case in every game

I'd be very hesitant to write a player of Vardy's destructiveness off due to a missed penalty, two missed games, marginal VAR calls, and an unlucky injury tbh - Every penalty taker misses, some more than others - one of every 5 are missed or saved, there's a huge element of luck to taking penalties like every other aspect of the game

Id also be hesitant to roll up 1 point in 3 games missed with injury as genuine "form" - it's important to separate luck (good or bad) from the player selection process imo - when I look at Vardy's last 5-6 games I really don't see bad form, I see more bad luck, and I don't fancy betting on that bad luck to continue

Especially with AVL, nor, BHA coming up

Getting Ndidi back would be nice though as I said earlier

I owned Vardy for the first 8 GW's it was pretty shoddy. Like being a mini metro with a dodgy clutch

Remember he went 2-2-2-2 from Liverpool, Spurs, Utd, Chelsea in that first 8 game spell - not going to be hyper critical for that at all

Especially when he went 8-16-12 from Sheffield Utd, Bournemouth, Newcastle in the same 8 game period 😉

Wolves was the other game - a 2 - they’re obviously a bit of a bogey team for him

omg I forgot about that! That was so annoying, everyone was like oh he has a great record vs the top 6 keep him. Just LOL, collective sabbotage

Thanks. I hope you are right as I’m stuck in a pickle with him now. Good luck mate