We cast our analytical eye over the weekend’s data after last night’s match at Selhurst Park drew a line under the numbers from Gameweek 8. Plenty of big names impressed – Arsene Wenger’s new playmaker, City’s attacking twosome, a revitalised Belgian’s display at the Bridge and a certain Uruguayan all come under the spotlight…
Ok, ditching Eriksen for Arsenal coverage.
Wich one?
A: Özill
B: CazorlaOpen Controls
Go with the hothand that is Ozil
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B. Ozil looked tired tonight. Cazorla was a breath of fresh air
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Özil.
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Anyone feel like tonight has hurt Ramsey's confidence going into the Crystal Palace match?
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Imagine if someone from pre season on here saw this comment. 😆
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He is stronger than that.
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no way, a couple of bad moments, fair enough one gave away a goal, but still no. he'll be fine. maybe not captain though
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After playing the full match tonight and Flamini prob back I dunno if he will start ... Hope he does
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Vidic ➡ Murner this week.
Rooney ➡ Aguero and Paulinho ➡ Hazard next.
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Then I'll be unstoppable!Open Controls
Random fact of the day: in the top1K, 47.2% captained Lukaku or Sturridge last week. Almost a half of them (25.8pp) dropped out of the top1K and were effectively replaced by Özil and Suárez captainers.
TOP 1K captains:
- at the start of GW8:
1 Sturridge 24,3%
2 Lukaku 22,9%
3 Suárez 16,8%
4 Giroud 15,1%
5 Özil 5,7%
- after GW8
1 Suárez 25.7%
2 Özil 17.4%
3 Giroud 15.8%
4 Sturridge 13.6%
5 Lukaku 12.2%Open ControlsOh right.
Open Controlshow do you or anyone work that out?
Open Controlsnice info by the way 🙂 shows how volatile everything is too, which is good if languishing miles behind.
Open Controlssome more facts about top1K:
- 68.5 was the average score last week
- 879 guys have Ramsey (87.9% ownership)
- 632 have already played their WC, 7 have activated it this week
- 46 didn't have any back up for Zabaleta and were left with 0 points
- 2 captained Mirallas
- 78.7% played '3-4-3', only 1 guy played 5-4-1
- an average top1K player has made 6.9 transfers this season and 0.4 transfers this week
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Aguero or Benteke (starting next week) ?
City: NOR sun TOT SWA
Villa: whu CAR wba SUNOpen Controlsthe Villian
Open ControlsGot to be Aguero. City look to be jelling right about now and Aguero will be banging in goals galore.
Open ControlsTrying to make the same decision for next week. Either way the person I don't choose will be coming in thefollowing week just who do you choose for next week surely aguero home to norwich
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Aguero by a distance
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Captain choice doing my head in
Suarez....fresh, at home, great player, in form but WBA fairly solid and Pool not as good as Arsenal
Giroud......sort of in form, against awful team, better team but not as good a player, away
Ozil.....great player, in form, against awful team but not a striker, awayOpen ControlsGiroud
Striker against Palace.Open ControlsSuarez operates in the space 5 yards off the defence. I wouldn't fancy anyone's chances against Mulumbu and Yacob.
In terms of player quality in comparison to the opposition, Giroud is bloomin' Messi.Open Controls
Suarez for me.
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Suarez. I'd captain him if I was an owner.
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Seeing Eriksen and collins are about to drop tonight... If I take a hit I can get Chico and silva in tonight, otherwise I won't have enough. My other defenders are Dawson Evra Clyne and Chester. 5th mid is Whittingham. Problem is which defender do I drop for Chico?! Or do I risk having 2 non playing defenders and hope the first 3 play?
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stick with messi 12 pt? ronaldo vs juve and not sure about bayern lineup.
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So, I'm getting Hazard again.
More despair and disappointment awaits....
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Belgium Blue what happened? you are banned?
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Ah dammit, gonna go for Cazorla ahead of Ozil to replace Erikksen.
Cazorla more likely to start vs Palace and 1mill cheaper gives further options if I want Hazard/Oscar, Silva/Aguero in the coming weeks.Open Controls
erikson is 8.1 for me so does that mean he wont go down in price for me tonight??
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Hot Topic.
Does televised games(and therefore the time of a game) affect your captain/benching.transfer decisions?Open Controls
Yeah, unless I've a really top player against a really crap team at home I'll go for a game I'll definitely be watching
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I much prefer watching matches with no bearing on my fantasy team or close rivals teams. Meant Fulham/Palace was a good watch this week, rather than me worrying about who got what assist etc.
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No. Favorite team does though.
Open ControlsYes I never captain a player from the Early kickoff fixture and always prefer if my captain plays Sunday.
Open ControlsIt doesn't affect my decision, but I do like having a Monday night captain, the same way I like benching players when I have injuries/suspensions so they come off the bench at the last, just to annoy my ML rivals.
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If you had RVP, Sturridge and Giroud- Who would you guys captain this wk?
Open ControlsGiroud.
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So, last season we set the record for most games in the Premier League at the start of the season without a win.
This season we're the last remaining unbeaten team in all 4 divisions of English Football.
What a difference a season makes!
Hope it doesn't go all t*ts up on Saturday at Burnley.Open ControlsSouthampton have a horrible run, not too far around the corner. Be cautious.
Open ControlsAs an Arsenal fan i reckon Ozil Ramsey will both start Vs Palace
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agree....Wilts and Flamini out. They'll plat at least the full hr
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Didn't Flamini train today. He looks certain to play at the weekend.
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What about Cazorla?
Can you give perventage of chances for each mid?Open Controls
Perventage is such a great word. I'm about 35%, I think.
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Yes. Özil, Santi, Ramsey, Flamini and Wilshere.
Rosicky, Arteta in the League Cup with youngsters and Bendtner midweek.Open Controls
Anybody else thinking about captaining Aguero this week?
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Would love to but my other strikers are Giroud and Suarez.
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Thinking of sturridge to aguero. Need a differential captain.
Am i mad?Open Controls
If you had to take out 1 mid from this line up who would it be?
Yaya/Michu/Ozil/Ramsey/BarkleyOpen ControlsHazard over Oscar it is.
This is a mistake.
Right, whose going with who?Open ControlsAlready got Oscar last week. Looks like the better option.
Open ControlsOscar. Been more consistent playing in the No.10 position. Mou favours him. Racking up the points in both PL & CL. Hazard has had a poor season uptil now and had some lucky goals and assists. He can score big at times but still not convinced.
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I;m getting Hazard too.
At least we can fail and succeed together! 😉Open ControlsHazard seems to be coming to form
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Going hazard. I thought at the start of the season he would be one of the top scorers in the game, so at the same price iv got to go haz.also in the bbc team of the week they said he had created the most goalscoring opportunities in the league.and now it looks like hes coming into a nice bit of form.x
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Votes please:
From next week onwards
A) Baines + Aguero + Barkley/Whittingham
B) Faye + Aguero + Oscar/Silva
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Best replacement forHBA and/or Lampard?
I have £0m to spend...
Ravel...Mirallas...Paulinho ??
Not sold on Townsend or JanuzajOpen ControlsNeed to downgrade one of these in order to be able to afford Aguero next week......
Evra > GJ
Nastasic > Rat or Figueroa (slim pickings)Open Controls
These are long term transfers for an eight point hit, should i go for it?
Vidic, Mata, and Eriksen > Silva, Hazard, ClyneOpen Controls
