Hall of Fame number one Fábio Borges joins Fantasy Football Scout for 2020/21

7/10

The weaknesses are:

1) two 5.5 miss. Would prefer just one. Not a huge amount of alternatives at that level if neither proves to be good. Consider a 6m striker instead?

2) One playing striker leaves you less flexible than other formations when other strikers inevitably start well. You'll need to be very disciplined if e.g. Robbo / Doherty don't deliver first two GWs and e.g. Kane / Vardy / Jimenez hit the ground running

In short, not a fan of 4-5-1 with two 5.5s

Its the fear of missing out

Exactly, the noise around twitter is just ridiculous. So much nonsense being posted.

The best FPL players are rarely influenced by others, they influence others.

Great comment

For sure. People were all over Pepe last season based on the same rubbish noise and that didnt work out so well...

I was repeatedly shot down for suggesting KDB over Sterling last season and it paid off for me massively.

Spot on Sharky!

That's why I'm going Ziyech over Werner and also starting Digne in defence (atm)!

Absolutely no guarantee any of these “bandwagon” picks will come good.

Stick to your guns.

Ings is 7 point per goal almost fixture proof striker that can score 15+ goals, great option.

Salah only has one or two good games in the first six, those fixtures seems more suited for Mane imo, even with both priced 12.0 and Salah is on penalties.

Rich is akwardly priced at 8.0, wish his price was reduced, but he's key player for Everton. I'm more concerned with Everton's general creativity, rather than Richarlison as a player.

Absolutely. Im going without Salah as well. He usually takes time at the start + seen pics from Liverpool training camp and he looks overweight + Liverpool fixtures are not brilliant.

Spreading out the cash and upgrading 1 def + 1 mid + 1 attacker

Follow the template and all will be well.

How’s your team looking at the min?

Is Costa transfer in MU done deal? And what about Greenwood then?

Prefer the defenders over mids in this region. Only like Greenwood in this range to be honest.

Yeah, it's a check mate situation. I've had to move away from my prwmi defence as it just isn't possible to tick all of the other boxes

Mahrez
Greenwood
Pereirra
Maddison
Willian
Puli
Ziyech
Jota

Correct. TAA and cheap is really the only way I see to get a 3 Prem mid and something 8m or above for 4th mid and still have a 9 6 4.5 attack

Fraser still needs to end up somewhere.

Palace seems quite probable right now - fits the profile of recent transfers and we're interested.

Not much good for FPL likely but it could send Zaha elsewhere which could be good value

Stephens....but only for bench

Anthony Gordon. He played most of Everton's run in and was arguably our best player for that period. That's not saying much, but he will feature this year & I think could break through

Written a community article on this, should be up soon!

Stephens

Anguissa for Fulham should be nailed for 2 points every week (if he's not sold)

other than that i have high hopes that Emile Smith Rowe will make the breakthrough at Arsenal since he can play as an 8 or a 10, which both positions have a vacancy for atm with Ozil seemingly finished and Ceballos gone back to Madrid

Looks very very solid

Nice. I think I prefer a 4.5m defender and upgrade elsewhere than Aurier.

Nice team. I'd prefer to wait and see on Ziyech, I think.

It's only when you realise you're using a FT to bring in Wood.

Keita isn’t a good pick, also doubt Giroud plays gw1. Think Tammy would start alongside Werner if 2 up front

I have 4 of those

Looks awful to me sorry

That defence though.
If you are really committed to having Bruno and greenwood on the bench, the. Let go of one of Auba/Salah

The overall logic is interesting ie having 2 utd assets primed for game week 2. Forget some of the filler names on their ie Giroud ihenacho Keïta you can move them around ie Antonio bamford Asm etc etc. The point will be are you potentially giving up too much ground in game week 1.

It’s a real conundrum as I also want 2 utd for the palace game. Does though give food for thought about how to put 2 United on the bench.

Looks good.

Decent, same as mine but I’ve got Pereira and Kane over Mane and Soucek

Defence is a concern, with uncertainty about Saliba and Vinagre.

Cheap bench options?
I’m currently very similar except 3-4-3 and:
Soucek + Mane > Son + Ings

Nice - could follow closely if I decide on Bruno over Greenwood.

Also have ASM in defence right now. Thinking there's simply better value there than in midfield.

Everton’s recent record against Spurs is pretty horrendous, so could be a decent GW1 shout (unfortunately).

Palace start Tuesday - I imagine most will have similar schedules - playing lower league clubs

Spurs and Everton play today

Werner, Son can become Martial and Bruno if they don't fire.Those are the 2 United I want. Will play fixtures with Salah/Auba/KdB/Sterling

lyk goed. Gordon en Vassilev op bank elke week?

4de en 5de mid is stront

The Newcastle dude

Saint Maximim

Alain Saint maxim, Newcastle

Put Bruno in and bench this week?

I don't fancy him yet at all

He's hasn't been brought in to rotate. He might lose minutes when the games are wrapped of course, but Tammy & Giroud aren't going to diminish his potential

You posted something similar in the last page?

Even with Abraham and Giourd in the mix, Werner could play on the left with one of those two in the middle, with Pulisic benched. I can see rotation of strikers, but the Werner is not the only one in danger.

Son and Mitor + 0.5

A with Armstrong

D. Wish I could save .5, would take some of pressure off of early price rises

D

D

Looks decent similar to what I'm looking at. I've gone for Ings instead of mitro and Adam's in a 442 with Armstrong as 4th midfielder instead.

Oh and I also have forgotten man vardy up top but otherwise on the same lines.

Or D haha

Are these all starters?

I agree with you and actually really want 2 premium defenders. I just can't fit it in and the lower price miss and forwards are even worse for transferring out. Nothing worse than taking a hit to upgrade from ASM to Gordon to free up 0.5

I have TAA and VVD but Vinagre instead of Doherty as I used the 1.5m to upgrade a 4.5m striker to Mitro.

Im on Taa Doh Aurier

Wildcard will be used to get doherty and maybe another liverpool defender for me, not desperate to start with double pool with 2 tough fixtures and same with wolves and doherty.

Agree they are good long term picks but imo some cheap lads could match them over first 3/4 weeks.

Thinking along similar lines

Divergence is that I'm willing to wait for VVD a bit. There's a 5.5 sitting there currently. Not sure Liverpool cs are that great early on and may use the extra 1.0 or 1.5 upfield to begin with

Nothing set in stone and definitely agree on 4.5 rotation point - mining defensive transfers a goal - but not excluding them altogether.

I think it's on LFCtv, but i'm not sure if that'll require a subscription or somethin.

Brewster's situation up in the air. If he stays at LFC he will most likely be an impact sub. If he goes on loan to another PL club I would have him 24/7 365 at 4.5 over the likes of Mitro.

May not use him due to possibility of injury?

Hope so, one to monitor in friendlies for sure. Community shield will be a good pointer.

He'd probably play even without injuries.

Looks set for now, can't go wrong

Wouldn't spend 9.5 on keepers, otherwise looks great, would change Klich to Pereira

KE

Oh this is hard. I like 2 because there is much uptake with Doherty... but then there's risk with Werner being new to PL

A

Are you having these players in week 1 sat on your bench?

Personally I don't want 10 million player on my bench gameweek 1. Will get son and auba with an easy switch to city and United lads when I want to.

Our of those I would go for Armstrong over foden and pick a good cheap defender depending on how preseason looks.

Yeah it’s difficult this season, I keep thinking about Sterling as well and his low ownership

Yeah good team, I’m going with Werner at the moment instead of Vardy but like you say keep an eye on preseason

I have 8 players from that so I like it.

b looks good to me.

B

B

I thought Vinagre is only short term option

Probably Son I think

Pulisic. Che is more attacking then Spurs.