Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 14
Welcome to the Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 14 article. Having fared poorly the previous week, as many did, we needed to bounce back this week and we did just that with a decent 68 points which saw us rise over 45,000 places and back up to a respectable overall rank of 34,512. Captaining Sanchez helped us massively, as did hanging onto Kun, which in itself feels like a feat given that 4/5 of the committee actually now admit that they sold him on their own teams! Other than those two, Austin got us 9 and Pieters brought a clean sheet and 6 but the rest were left wanting, it does go to show that you can still post a decent score if just a few of your troops turn up. Our big disappointment was of course our actual transfer as we had planned meticulously to finally bring in Coutinho but he unfortunately suffered a bad injury this week. To add insult to that Firmino also limped off too to leave us with a grand total of 4 points between them. Best laid plans and all that. Let’s take a look at how we plan to deal with the situation this week…
Transfer – Sold Coutinho & Lukaku and bought Pedro & Kane
We bring you the site team early this week and that is simply because we have decided to jump in and make our transfers now rather than wait to suffer the inevitable price drops of Coutinho and Lukaku. It would be remiss of us to post this on Friday and only tell you then that we made our moves on Tuesday. Yes we know the dangers of this of course, but it was a small risk we felt willing to take, especially given that had we waited we probably wouldn’t have been able to afford the guys we wanted, in particular our chosen captain.
Like so many other managers our transfer this week, or at least one of them, has been dictated to us as a result of the injury suffered by Philippe Coutinho. With Romelu Lukaku failing to register any returns for three consecutive games the decision was made to cut him adrift and in the process incur a 4pt hit, our first of the season.
So, having decided who we were selling we now had the task of identifying their replacements. Given the fixtures over the coming game-weeks it came down to a straight choice between Harry Kane and Diego Costa to fill the void left by Lukaku. While Chelsea are in great form, Spurs’ next three home games are against Swansea, Hull & Burnley and we simply couldn’t ignore the potential Harry Kane offers. Granted Spurs are struggling somewhat in front of goal but as we’ve seen in the past Kane only needs one chance. The fact that he features in slightly over 8% of teams is an added bonus.
With £7.5m to spend we turned our attentions to the midfield. Had we made the choice to go with Costa up top we would in all likelihood have went with Gylfi Sigurdsson. It was however felt that the lack of Chelsea cover could have dire consequences in the weeks ahead and with that in mind the decision to add Pedro to our squad was a relatively easy one.
THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR Gameweek 14
The team picks itself really and there are no surprises, maybe we could have considered Pickford ahead of Cech but Arsenal have only conceded 4 away and West Ham only average a goal a game at home (6 in 6). We hope Bobby (as Klopp calls him) makes it of course but even if he doesn’t we won’t be rushing to take more hits for him, we will let a 1 / 2 pointer come off the bench. As we said in the intro, it’s not always about a perfect 11 sometimes, it just needs the key elements in place, and we feel we have prepared ourselves correctly in that respect this week.
Our Captain is Harry Kane
The decision to appoint Kane as our captain this week was a unanimous one. After all Swansea have shipped 12 in their last four games and even Crystal Palace managed to put four past them in GW13. End of story with that one really!
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Fixture Tracker – the next 6 games
Morning all
Morning Cookie mate, had two awful GW my ranking is rank , how’s your team doing I have problems with Daniels , Holebas , Firmino & Courtinho so not great.
Hey Silvers, pretty much the same mate, couple of rough weeks, took a hit Sunday by selling Coutinho & Lukaku for Walcott & Kane – my headache now is Firmino, but Capoue will come in for him if he doesn’t make it. Holebas can rot on the bench for now!!
So we’ve all got problems with Firmino & Holebas. I can’t find any reliable info on Firmino. If he doesn’t start I’ll have Emre Can to come off the bench.
Emre Can?
Yes, Emre Can
Why?
Why not?
can’t be worse than my Lovren!!!
I would hate using a spot on a fifth mid on a LFC guy. But if you don’t have any plans on having 3 LFC like Mane, Firmino and Lovren at the same time, guess it don’t matter.
I’ve only Firmino at present and have no plans to get anyone else until Coutinho is back.
I would normally agree, but Lovren has been my most consistent player for a while.
LFC defence is doing it for me. Never thought I say that….ever
It can’t last
Nice rank guys, and good moves too since I also did Lukaku to Kane and Coutinho to Siggy not Pedro. I’ll probably captain Kane as well so I’ll blame you guys if I have a bad week
I am blaming them also. 😉
Good plan :thumbup:
Same here as well!
hello guys, good luck with the transfers!
(not because i did exactly the same moves on sunday, just anyway)
fingers crossed Firmino will play
okay, Firmino is expected to bit for Sunday 😉
Is that ‘be fit’ or ‘be out’?! Or a bit in between
Low hanging fruit….
be fit. damn autocorrect
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/10677807/liverpools-roberto-firmino-and-joel-matip-set-to-face-bournemouth
Who is he going to bit? 😉
Bournemouth, hopefully
Hopefully one of the two Smiths, it be helpful if he ate one so we no longer get them confused.
Granny Smith?
Never heard of her, is she Elle’s great granddaughter?
In what has been a tough season so far (at least for me anyway), this is a great overall rank. Kane captain against the Swans feels like a strong move too. Argh give me a wildcard!
I’ve got mine active MFC! Help a brotha out! What do we think of this draft?
Pick, Grant
Alonso, Vert, Cedric, McAuley, Amat
Sanchez, Firmino, Pedro, Phillips, Capoue
Kun, Defoe, Austin
Colriles,
If I was playing a WC this week I think I’d want one of Kane or Costa in there, or even Hazard. Looking at your squad the only way that could happen would be to downgrade either Sanchez or Kun and I can completely understand if you don’t want to do that.
Unless you plan on playing 4 at the back you’re likely to bench either Cedric or McAuley each week. You could downgrade McCauley to Nyom to free up a few quid. Is Vert currently good value for money? I’m not sure he is but they’ve got some great fixtures and the imminent return of Alderweireld should be a boost.
I’m not a fan of having Phillips & Capoue as 4th & 5th mids. I’d consider downgrading one and upgrading the other.
Maybe he can get Can as a downgrade? 😉
I’m not sure if that’s advisable!
Cheers Kop. Yeah I’ve messed with every option. Problem is Siggy/Pedro are just out of reach as 4th mid no matter what I do. (excluding Kun > Kane which I’m not totally against).
McAuley > Nyom, Phillips > Fer, Sanchez > Wally and Pedro > Haz still only leaves me with 6.7. How about Milner as 4th mid in that scenario?
You’re relying on Milner scoring from the spot.
What would your squad look like if you went with Kane over Kun?
Unfortunately, not much different. Kun > Kane and McAuley > Nyom gets me Haz in for Pedro. So Haz & Kane or Kun & Pedro?
Or…
Wally – KDB – Mane – Pedro – 5.6mid
Kane – Defoe – Austin
(but no Sanchez OR Kun scares me….)
This is maddening.
I have neither and I’m petrified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLiPNkt9x6Q
It sure is tough to find budget defenders this season. Amat has come back into the team last 2 games but difficult to trust that Bradley will keep faith after conceding 4 to Palace. Interesting that you’ve gone for Vert as well – I have such a love for Alder that I’ve always gone for him in the Spurs defence because of his threat from set-pieces, but that hasn’t really materialised this year so the cheaper Vert does seem the correct route even with Alder (supposedly) back.
I think Hazard and Kane stand a good chance of outscoring Pedro and Kun over the next month, although personally I’m not brave enough to dispense with Kun as I’d be in a state of constant fear every weekend! Not sure the ticker would thank me for that. The pragmatist in me though, says that Hazard is always going to be a bigger threat than Pedro and Kane has lovely December fixtures, compared to Man City who statistically have the worst.
We’ve crunched the numbers on this if anyone’s interested – http://www.thestatszone.com/articles/fpl-fantasy-premier-league-fixtures-december
Big thanks to for FF247 for already sharing this. Also, if you’re reading Inittowinit – we’ve begun adding your articles to out web roundup.
Good man, thank you, you’re in the footer as promised, I retweeted this one earlier too.
Cheers for that Mastermind, great amount of info in there. And apologies for hijacking your post with my WC woes! I’m seriously considering Kane/Haz over Kun/Pedro now but may not have the stones come Friday night…. :see-no:
A cheeky one but I’d still play either Gundogan or Holebas over Fletcher as a just in case type scenario, the ceiling of both them two players is a lot better than Fletcher’s with you only likely to miss out on maybe two points from a WBA cleansheet if the worst was to happen of a substitute appearance. Seems worth a shot in the dark.
I’ll put it to the committee
overruled!!
Sorry, just wanted to say that.
Yeah, sounds like a plan Andy.
FFS! Sanchez going up tonight!!
Why is that an issue?
Because I want to buy him and I still have firmino and Heaton yellow flagged!
Just buy him then and if stuff goes tits up, just take a couple of hits and fix it. Haven’t you saved like 8 hits?