With the Gameweek completed by a classic Anfield tussle, it’s time for our members to scan some of the key statistics from the weekend matches to help identify the form and trends that could help shape future Fantasy selections…
GK: Vorm, Schwarzer
DEF: a Williams, vidic, cuellar, zab, demel
MID: bale,michu, valencia, Kaca , pienaar
ATT: tevez, petric, Ade
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Save it thenn
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I'd do
Valencia>Ben Arfa(+1.5m)
To get 4mill in the bank, then go Ade>RVPOpen Controls
quit pleading for reassurance and affirmation. make your own mind up
Open Controlsu bin askin the same q for ages. do you need peeps to hold yer hand when you cross the street?
Open Controlsthats what people do on this site discuss, ask for advice, give advice.
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At lease give us your thinking. Eg choose A or B and why? not just what do I do I have no idea about anything?
Open Controlsexactly. give folk a clue as to what facets of yer team are causing you trouble. seeking a blanket reformation is lazy.
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without transfer, I would have a team of:
DDG
Hughes Cuellar Demel Zab
Nzog Pineear Bale Michu
Tevez Graham
next week.
what do you guys reckon should be my transfer?
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I put BA above Nas but under Kag if it helps
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Aston Villa and Norwich at home in the next 3.
Open Controlsbut afterwards, he has a hard run of fixture.
everton away, sunderland away, united home (not so hard, considering our defensive form), liverpool away etc.
actually it is one good fixture, one bad fixture.Open Controlshey, we should plan for max 3 weeks 🙂 everything change quickly, so dont plan so long time. (apart from defenders)
P/S: he scored against Spurs GW1, had assist vs United last year...
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pretty damn good. Zog out yes, Fellaini if cash allows, even with the 2 EVE players.
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who's your 3rd striker? - Bring in Hazzard and play 4-3-3?
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AV are so bad u just have to get rid of nzog, whats wrong with kag?
Open Controlsdon't rate him as a fantasy prospect just yet.
and I will be happy if he scores/assist anyway, since I am a united fan.Open Controlsnice.... u mite kick yourself later tho. he's looking awesome
Open ControlsI would be happy if he do well. I just want to avoid united players as I just want to enjoy watching united's match, not thinking about who to score and all that
Open Controlsgood point, wen i watched the UTD game and roon got injured aswell as thinking bolloks thats our best player gone for fookin ages i was thinkin bollocks he's my C
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Hey gang, 2 Q's. Hope you can help, quick straw poll.
1. a Kagawa or b Toure or c Ben Arfa
2. a. A.Hughes & Cuellar or b Rangel + 4.0DF.
3. Fellaini or Pienaar
Cheers muchly.Open Controlsread the tweet, Moyse said he'll play Fellani deeper
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Trying to make a move before prices rise
DDG/Fed
Kompany/Williams/Demel/Clyne/Pearce
Bale/Michu/Pienaar/Yaya/Noble
Torres/Tevez/Petric
3.9m in the bank
A. Torres to RVP
B. Noble to Kagawa
C. Kompany to Baines
D. Save the transfer
Either way Bale to Hazard next week for CHE cover.
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B. You will want some MUN attacking coverage and Kagawa looked sharp today. I'd actually be a bit worried if I was Rooney about being pushed out to the left when he returns. Kagawa looks very comfortable in the hole behind RvP and I suspect SAF is planning to switch his traditional 4-4-1-1 to 4-2-3-1 to suit RvP. Torres has looked sharp so far; that's not a popular opinion but he has. If you are determined to bring in Hazard though, then A.
Open ControlsI can actually do the move to Kagawa and have .04 left. So theoretically I can do Bale to Hazard so long as he only gets up to 9.9 this week.
I watched the match and he was gifted his goal and I fear he's not the bonus magnet that RVP is. But then again he is 4.5m less to save for other areas.
Still I really hate grabbing guys early in the week for the fear they get a knock or news comes out they aren't playing.Open ControlsThe comments here on FFS demonstrates why you should be concerned. There are way too many managers that make transfers for fun; who think nothing about 4 point or 8 point hits even though this is statistically stupid. It's regarded as "fun" and that screws the market for managers trying to build a team w/o hits. So the risk for failing to make an early transfer is real.
More importantly though, with Torres you already have CHE coverage. Bale is a massive FF asset and you can look at the statistics on the Member site to see he will come good. Yes, Hazard is the color of the day, but he is not going to get 40 assists this year. Bring in Kagawa and keep Bale and ride Torres for your CHE attacking cover. Hazard's assists will mean Torres goals.Open ControlsThank you for the wise words.
I have to admit last year I was one of those fun guys making multiple transfers and got to top 50k. Then I realized all the top managers had very few hits and planned very well and stuck to a plan... And that's what I'm trying to learn this year.. To be more disciplined with my transfers and building a solid team.Open Controls
Hi guys, this is my current squad. In a bit of a state, I know:
DDG - Fed
Clichy - Ivanovic - Hangeland - Fonte - McCartney
Bale - Hazard - Noble - Maloney - Michu
Pog - RVP - Torres
Already made my free transfer to get RVP in. 4pt hit worth it for Torres > Tevez?Open Controlsselling Torres up to you, but hes going up and a bigger worry is Pog...
Open ControlsYeah ideally I'd do Pog > Petric but money doesn't permit. What about Bale > Yaya to create funds? Would be an 8pt hit though. And still no Tevez
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Well, you can't field 11 this week, so, yes, I would take the hit.
Open ControlsIt's done.... Thanks guys
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RVP just too tempting, in before price rise 4pt hit official, hope it pays off. torres ivan > rvp staylor giving me
DDG
Zaba Staylor Demel
Bale Kagawa Nasri Michu
Graham Rvp Tevez
Federici, Noble, Cuellar, Clyne
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Mariappa, Lampard, Rooney > Baines, Noble, RVP
Done, not happy with Noble, what's the bets he gets 20 points and I'll be calling myself a genius next week 🙂Open ControlsWould have gone Dyer instead of Noble
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Still time to change Noble to Guthrie/Kacaniklic?
Open Controls-8 had to be done, only have 11 players with the three transfers. Bad planning but happy the squad is in better shape.
didn't have enough for dyer, decided to sell Mariappa instead of tomkins so only left me 5.5 for a mid.
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Guys you got any ideas on wot i shud do with podolski. keep faith.? surely thell start scoring soon
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similar dillema with cazorla for me. i'm keeping for now but only because other transfers are more pressing
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Rate my team:
GK: Vorm (Cerny)
Def: BAE | Jenkinson | Baines ( Ivanovic,bertrand)
Mid: Duff | dyer | michu | rodwell (Hazard)
Fw: RVP | tevez (C) | Petric
bank = 0.2 ( like to trnsfer Hazard = bale for G3 )
G4 = transfer back..it's possible??Open Controlsyou're likely not be able to afford Bale back to Hazard.....
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Anybody managed to work Tevez, Torres and RVP into their team....?
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Skrtel outright gives away the victory to City, and his reward? 2 baps! Lovely...Open ControlsHe also made Garth Crooks 'team of the week'....amazing what a header can do.
Open ControlsI know, I've got the beast that is Dembele and he's got a stinky 4 points for being one of the best performers in the first 2 weeks. Would love if the sky game rules were in FPL, the game would be so much better.
Open ControlsI am warming to the pass and tackle baps myself.
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What time do the prices rise?
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Right, think I'm finally edging towards this for an 8 point hit (am I doing this, really?):
Ivanovic, Lampard, Bent > Rangel, Bale, RvP
Thoughts appreciated gents, the clocks ticking...Open ControlsI'm not convinced on Bale at the moment. How many starters without hits?
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Why not convinced on Bale? He looked quite threatening against WBA and came close a few times, if he'd scored people here would probably trying to figure out to to fit him in. He's the only attacking Spurs player that's a 100% lock in the team and scored twice against Norwich in this fixture last season.
Not to mention, once the CL starts up players the midfield options from the big 4 won't be nailed on whereas Bale is someone you never have to worry over.Open ControlsYeah, all valid arguments. But at the end of the day an FPL player is judged on points, and points only. For example Taarabt and Suarez was in the Threat Top 5 almost constantly all last season - still you could wager your house on them not scoring anywhere near that.
I am forced to keep Bale in my team right now - which I'm OK with - but I probably would not bring him in.Open Controls
I could force out an 11 but ideally I'd prefer it not to consist of Clark and Clyne.
Agree on Bale but he's always a threat and there's not gonna be many better fixtures for him than Norwich at home.
You think an 8 pointer is unnecessary?Open ControlsCarling Cup game midweek.
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not bad
Open ControlsI can see the logic, surely Bale has to come good?
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id only do a double at max if i was in your boots.
prob sell Torres and Lamps for RVP and Bale if you can afford it.Open ControlsIf you are thinking about an 8 point hit at this point just f*** it and Wild Card. Just do Lampard to Bale if you can't filed 11.
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ddg(jaask)
hang zab tierney (acole) (harte)
kag michu noble larsson routledge
tevez (torres) rvp
guna get rid of tierney next gw. am i too FW heavy?Open ControlsNo, I think that's a massive front line but tweak the midfield. Since you don't have Hazard, keep Torres - you need CHE attacking coverage. With RvP, do you need Kagawa as well ? I might let Kagawa go for a cheaper mid (Pienaar for ex.?) and upgrade Noble or Larsson (Ben Arfa?) or Tierney (Jenkinson?) Noble is completely overrated - look at his FPL history - never scored 90 FF points. Larsson, I think is now at risk from Adam Johnson. It's a great idea to dump Tierney, you can't see a lot of CS for Norwich, but my priority would be Noble or Larsson.
Open Controlscheers for the advice geeza
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anyone?
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Just daydreaming
Front 8 without RVP could look like this
Hazard Kagawa Michu Pienaar Toure
Graham Tevez Torres
Talk about who to sit problems.Open Controlspart of the reason why I am not getting RVP (just yet)
Open Controlsrvp is such a good captaincy choice though. say you captain him 50% (eg. rotating home games with tevez) of the time he becomes all the more influential.
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I've lost soooooo many points this season already from benching players that then scored points (Gibbs and Pienaar this week, with 18+ points missed in GW1) I'm seriosuly leaning towards heavy hitters + never going to play just making up the numbers, cheap as, total bench warmers as a tacitic......
Open Controlsthat sounds a good plan until you get a couple injuries then you end up losing points from having to take hits
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thanks for the suggestion guys.
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If I were you I'd get HBA. The fixtures aren't amazing but HBA performs in most matches. Could have easily scored/assisted against Chelsea yesterday, very unlucky.
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OK Season 1 Episode 1 of The Wire, HERE I COME,
I'll be back in about 4 days, laters!Open Controls
Is Bertrand "nailed on"?
Open ControlsExcept hazard and Torres, nobody seems to be nailed on in Chelsea.....
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Did my transfer’s yesterday and this is the team I am expecting to field for GW3. IMO if you score more than 45 next week you’ll be set. Many casuals won’t have enough players to field 11 (I know a few and can remember from last year). Thoughts??
Jussi
Colocinni Zabaleta Cuellar Demel
Ben Arfa Michu Cazorla Bale
Graham RVP
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New Breaking Bad starting now, I'll watch it in the morning though. Too late now
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Open Controlsi know it's on in America tonight but is there somewhere online to watch it now?
Open ControlsI streamed it on the AMC website for the first episode but I just download it on Monday mornings now instead
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Just taken an 8 point hit and already regret it but nothing I can do about it now.
Ivan > Rangel
Taarabt > Kacaniklic
Torres > RVP
Definitely had to take a hit in some form though as I had 3 Chelsea players + Bennett + Puncheon + Taarabt so the chances of getting out a full 11 this week were very slim. I think if Taarabt wasn't due to fall I wouldn't have done it.Open Controlstaarabt should play with zamora an early injury doubt?
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Hi, Guys thinking marathon not sprint, but twitching a bit.
Thinking Wildcard coz i am a bit heavy at the back or wait and let the big boys settle down?
Jaask. Green.
R.bennet Kompany.Evra.A.Cole. Cuellar.
Gutierrez Y.toure.S.Cazorla.Allen.Nolan.
Tevez.Rvp.Pog.
Advice would be extremely welcome.Open ControlsNo Need to wildcard - drop a big hitting defender and upgrade Gut or Allen take -4 and move on.....
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Wildcard is already activated, anything here that should be changed?
De Gea Begovic
Lescott Baines Hangeland N.Taylor Demel
Bale Yaya Michu Kacaniklic Guthrie
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I would have Hazard in there in spite of him not playing GW3. Having Guthrie makes no sense to me at all
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2x4.5 in mid seems a bit weak. I wld ditch Kaca between the 2 and upgrade him to noble.Open Controlszabaletta the most nailed on?
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Lescott? you didnt watch the game yesterday?
dont like the Midfied: if you play 3-4-3 then you have to play Kacan/Guthie everyweek. Bale ont convinced atm, i dont like the tpye Mid like Yaya, Michu not great as people saying, i'll got Dyer over him in final WC team (but now you get him to raise value)Open Controls
really thinking about WCing
i need to get away from the komp!Open ControlsSounds good, cheers.
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ok new idea:
ddg, demel and gunter OR jussi, saylor and cuellar?Open ControlsSeriously go Mignolet/Foster as a keeper rotation.
10.0, solid teams at home, future DGW.Open Controls
fellas, brief straw poll. If you could all chip in quickly I'd much appreciate it.
a Kagawa and A.Hughes
b Yaya and Rangel
Many thanks in advance 🙂Open Controls
