Using FFS data and tools to find the best De Bruyne replacement for Gameweek 20

Oof. 27-4. Where did that come from?

Which 1 would you bench?

A. Coufal (already starting Cresswell)
B. Soucek
C. Rodrigo

Martinez
Stones Cancelo Cresswell Coufal
Salah Bruno Raphinha Gundo
Bamford Rodrigo
(Johnstone Soucek Holding Vardy*)

Bench 2 from the following

(A) Robbo
(B) Dallas
(C) Watkins
(D) Soucek
(E) Smith-Rowe

Didn't bother renewing my membership. So who is the best KDB replacement in the article ?

What do we think lads, changes needed?

Martinez
Robbo Dallas Justin
Son Salah Grealish Fernandes
Bamford Adams Antonio

McCarthy Chilwell Mitchell Stephens

2 free transfers 2.0 in the bank

Areola
Stones, Cancelo, AWB, Cressy
Sterling, Salah, Bruno, Rashy*
Antonio, BamBam

Bench
Johnstone, Coufal, ESR, BDR

Used FT already £0.4m in the bank, anything worth doing?

Rashford seems to just have a bruised knee but not convinced he will start against Sheff UTD, worth shipping for a -4 or hold or Start someone else from my bench?

1. Bench KDB, play Soucek (KDB > Salah next week)
2. KDB > Salah + 1FT
3. KDB > Gundo (Soucek > Salah next week)

Tuchel: the PSG experience

It has been announced that Thomas Tuchel is replacing Frank Lampard.


After taking a few moments to regret the failure of this true legend that remains Frank Lampard (the dream of Lampard becoming champion as a Chelsea coach was beautiful, no matter how it ended), we as FPL Froggies can share with FPL community our appreciation of Tuchel's work as recent manager of Paris Saint-Germain.

- General statement and legacy:

Arrived from Dortmund in 2018, Thomas Tuchel has arguably the best achievements as a Paris manager, with 3 Ligue 1, multiple domestics cups and a Champion’s League Final, that was longtime waited by Qatari owners.
Despite this, he has been fired 3 months after this Final, and he is not really missed by Parisian fans.
How to explain this indifference, remembering that his arrival was very well received ?
Probably the main answer is a big inconsistency in his management, style of game, with big highs but deep lows.
Main feeling is that Tuchel was not a bad manager… but not exactly the type of coach that was presented by German journalists. Evolution and adaptation is positive but when you do it as extreme, fans (and probably owners) get puzzled.

- Management:

Tuchel was presented as a very modern manager, with an accurate sports management, based on fitness, healthy foods and philosophy. Damn, that was appealing ! The official PSG website even shared the two weeks diet program that players needed to follow carefully. To give an idea on how things changed during the three seasons, at the end of his spell Tuchel was attending Neymar‘s barbecues several times in the last six months, and a lot of players (including Neymar and Marco Verrati) were far from their best physical conditions.
In his human management, Tuchel was hired to keep the whole group as committed and involved as possible (one of the big weakness of former coach Unai Emerei). Treat everybody the same way, no privileges… He tried to do it approximately for about 2 months but very quickly ended up giving full power to a group of players (Brazilian + Mbappe to make it quick). Nobody pretended that it was an easy job, especially for a first experience in a top club (no offense to Borussia) with worldclass players to manage. But the disappointment was big.

- Style of play:
Tuchel’s game play is close to Klopp’s one (he replaced Jurgen Klopp in both Mayence and Dortmund): a mix of possession game and quick counter attack. Let’s say that compared to Klopp, the cursor is more on possession, but with more frequent shots than Guardiola’s teams do for instance.
He switched frequently between 433 and 422, so difficult to define a preference and he likes to adapt to the opposition.

- Favorite players (and out of position strange choices)
that’s the point where all went wrong. Each time Tuchel insisted to buy a player and fighted against his management for that (in France the coach is not in charge of transfers, it’s the job of a Sports Director – in Paris Antero Henrique, then the amazing and much loved by fans Leonardo), it was a fail: Kehrer, Abou Diallo, Idrissa Gueye, Eric Choupo-Motting….
Also to be notified: a strange habit to pretend to make players play Out Of Position,. A lot of examples during three years, but the weirdest one was to put Marquinhos(CB) in midfield, and Danilo (a pure midfielder) in central defense. Doing this during three matches in a row, when both players were complaining in media, and everybody was seeing that is was obviously not working was the last innovative creation of Tuchel before being fired by Leonardo.

- What we can expect for Chelsea assets.

He managed Dortmund and Paris so differently, that it is hard to anticipate what will be his approach now.
Probably he will be clever enough not to impose directly German players as Havertz and Werner, but he will do it shortly after (2-3 weeks ?) . We would bet on a defense Rudiger Silva (sorry Kurt Z.), and Giroud Werner as most used attackers. Come on Thomas, give us Giroud five straight games, we want that !

PS: To be noted: Tuchel really likes Rudiger. He has been trying to sign him for PSG until late December 2020 so Rudiger at 4.5 has clearly to be an option to monitor as we believe Tuchel will go for a T.Silva / Rudiger CB pair

GTG?

Mendy
Dias, Stones, Coufal
Salah, Bruno (c), Grealish, Foden
Bamford, Kane, Wilson

Considering moving Wilson out, but it takes a hit.
a) Wilson to Cavani?
b) Wilson to Antonio?
c) keep Wilson

Guys, is Grealish still a good option?

I’ve all the money in the world but struggling to look past Grealish. I have Salah Son Bruno Gundogan

What’s that smell?

I was certain of getting rid of Firmino, but I've just seen that he is "goal imminent" and had an xG of 0.92. Anything to look into or just get rid?

Soucek or Cresswell? Start one

Who's up for a Foden punt over Gundogan?

Who to bench?

a) TAA
b) Coufal
c) Raphinha

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Bring Gundo for -4 or play Coufal?

Might be old news here but just read rashford should be fine.

Plan to ship out Kdb and Rashford over next two gw's or both this gw but cant decide on the sequence

A: KDB >> Son....then Rash >> Gundog (-4) in gw21
B: KDB >> Gundog...then Rash + Wilson >> Son (-4) in gw21
C: KDB + Rash >> Son + Gundog (-4) and no hit in gw21

C makes more as if i am anways going to take a hit, i should do it earlier so has a longer time for it to pay off. However, the benefit of waiting and doing A means i can get more info and decide whether i want maddison or foden over gundogen in gw21

Differential captain case for Bamford

Got lost in the tumbleweed with 1 response. However this might offer some use for those prepared to risk against potentially one of the biggest EOs in Bruno this GW- myself included

Not heard anyone mention Bamford- I feel like he's being overlooked as a differential captain option when others are fancying the likes of Sterling, Antonio or even Cancelo for differentials

He hasn't had the best form of late, but Newcastle are so bad defensively that this is the perfect fixture for him to bounce back. In the reverse fixture Leeds also won 5-2

Also with Saint Max and Fraser back in the team, I can see this being end-to-end as Bruce will surely feel like he needs to change their current form around somehow.

Cant decide whether Sterling is worth the short term double up with Gundo, just purely given fixtures...

A) Soucek -> Sterling (-4). Would prob mean either going without any Spurs for 3 weeks (or another 4/8 point hit to get Kane for Brighton).

B) No hit this week, then Adams & Soucek -> Grealish & Kane (-4) next week.

Best City defender to swap for Mitchell?

A) Cancelo
B) Diaz
C) Stones

currently got:

Robbo Justin Dallas Chilwell Mitchell

Who to Play?

A) De Gea
B) Martinez

Choose 2 to Play:

1) Chilwell
2) Coufal
3) Soucek
4) Smith-Rowe
5) Shaw

McCarthy
TAA Dias Cancelo Cresswell
Fernandes (C) Salah Soucek Raphinha
Antonio Watkins
Bench: Ryan Zaha Vardy Mitchell

Got in anotnio for a FT? G2g or shall i transfer in
A) Vardy and TAA for Kane and Justin (-8)
B) Zaha and Vardy for Sterling and Rodrigo (-8)
C) Zaha for Gundogan/Foden (-4)
D) Vardy for Cavani/DCL (-4)
E) keep team as it is..

Rashford or Sterling?

G2G?

Martinez
Robbo Dallas Chilwell Cancelo
Grealish Son Salah Fernandes (C)
Bamford Antonio

Do we expect Palace to score against West Ham??
(seeing a few teams benching Coufal)

Is there going to be a Utd pressie today? The state of Rashford's knee ........

Which 2 should I play?

A. Dallas
B. Robertson
C. Saka
D. Soucek
E. Barnes