Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 8
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 8. It’s an early start this GW with a Friday kick-off and as ever with these things we hope you don’t join us for Live Match Chat with that sinking feeling of ‘why on earth have they posted Live Match Chat on a Friday night…’. And if you do (looking at you Raz!), don’t say we didn’t try to remind you as it was posted on each and every article this week at some point. Whether you made it in tact or not let’s crack on with the games.
Brighton have the early pleasure of a very much in-form West Ham coming to town on Friday evening. Saturday then sees us with five 3pm games beginning with a resurgent Burnley hoping to build on momentum at home to a struggling Huddersfield. Palace host Wolves in what should be an entertaining and close encounter, as should Leicester vs Everton. Spurs host Cardiff in what should by rights be a shellacking, or at least any Kane captainers will hope to be the case. Watford vs Bournemouth looks another one that is hard to call. Saturday evening may be the straw that finally breaks Jose’s back, and oh the irony if it is indeed Rafa who gets to waft it. Some stories you just can’t write… #here’s hoping
Sunday sees three games beginning with Mitro testing out Arsenal’s defensive resolve, followed by Saints trying and (probably) failing to blunt Hazard and co. Then it’s the game of the week at 4:30pm as Pep tries to exorcise his one real demon in English football thus far: Klopp.
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So I got a haul of 68 but the lad I was a comfortable 30 points ahead of several weeks ago has caught up and surpassed me now with a haul of 77
He’s now 2 points more than me overall and has what I feel to be the stronger team.
Many similar players but his early bid on Hazard paid off. I luckily brought hazard into my side last week and it limited his gain but my Kane gamble didn’t pay off
My team:
Patricio
Alonso/Mendy/Robbo/WanBis
Salah/Hazard/Maddison/Fraser
Kane/King
Bench: hamer/costa/kamara/peltier
Rival team:
Ederson
Alonso/Robbo/Jonny
Hazard/Mane/Richarlison/Maddison
Aguero/Zaha/Wilson
Bench:
Ryan/Fraser/wan bis/Tarkowski
Not much between the teams IMO.
Don’t know if you are posting for advice, but you’re getting some for free anyway
All of WanBis’ hauls have come against poor teams who don’t score many – given upcoming fixtures I would try and upgrade Costa and play 3-5-2. Kenedy has very good fixtures coming up if you want to punt on him.
This is good advice, I’d also not focus on your rivals team so much. Play your own game and you’ll inevitably pick up a player before them. There’ll be plenty time to study them later in the season but it’s far too early to do that!
Best thing to do is keep coming here, you’ll get a ton of great advice and you’ll in all likelyhood wipe the floor with your rival come the end of the season!
Yeah just seeing what I could do in terms of long play to come back ahead
Kennedy is someone I have been thinking of for Costa
Thanks Rosco! Yeah I used FFF a ton last year and it really helped me. Kralin, OldGoat, NomdeGuerre all helped me go from 7th to 1st throughout the season post Xmas
My rival is really good at fantasy football, but I’m just kicking myself for giving up such a big lead
Swings & roundabouts rocker, you’ll be fine mate.
Hey Roccerfeller, I remember you from FFF days. Welcome mate.
Hey hammer fan! Yeah our FFF family was incredible.
Am happy this site exists, and many members from before and many new members are here. Best community IMO
Ignore all the advice below about not worrying about what your ML rival is doing
For the sake of your mental health and mini league success you need to immerse yourself into the life and thoughts of your opponent. You need to be everywhere he is, was and is thinking about going.
You need to at the urinal already when he really needs a wee. You need to be at the grocery store just as he arrives, already picking that last multi pack of nutrigrain bars off the shelf. You need to be driving through the crossroads on yellow as he gets stuck on red.
Then, and only then will you be ready to make transfers so bold that he won’t consider them until 15 minutes after the deadline. You will open a 100 point lead and steal his girlfriend. It will be epic.
And chins is hilariously daft as a brush.
Hahaha love it mate
I wouldn’t worry about being slightly behind in week 8. The team looks fine. Salah should, I hope, find his scoring form for us (fantasy managers). He has very good fixtures. You can slot Kun back in for Kane.
The Kane this this week was an aberration.. Other weeks he would have got at least two. It was a surprise he didn’t get at least a penalty.
Kenedy’s not a bad shout, especially in a 3/5/2, or maybe even in a 3/4/3. May nick that idea myself.
Cheers kralin. Yeah he seems like a good swap for my 4.9 costa
Though I am thinking about bringing Aguero back in for Kane as well. Tough decision to make…have one FT over this break or I can wildcard and make a few moves
Morning everyone!
No FPL for a bit and Scotland are trying to record consecutive competitive wins!
This is going to be a disaster this week isn’t it?
Morning GP! Such an optimist!
Realist!
Morning GP, who are Scotland playing?
Israel away on Thursday pal.
Have faith GP. The boys will be fine.
I’m already looking forward to watching them play in the North American World Cup.
Yep. (Assuming you are talking about the Women’s team and some World Cup in the pipeline for them).
So me this week. Small red arrow. No FPL! CT scan today and blood test today. Another blood test weds, work around this, eye surgery thurs! Plus hoping to exchange contracts this week as moving home! What could go wrong it’s going to be eventful
I feel like such a twat now
Good luck with all the serious stuff mate :thumbup:
All here got your back Smasher!
Good luck Smash
Blimey Smash, that’s a week and a half, thinking of you, obviously and wish you all the best of course.
I hope everything goes well. Stay safe
Massive week there Smash. All the best.
Hope all goes well Smash
Hope all goes well my friend.
Thanks everyone. Should be fine
All the best Smash
Apologies Smash, somehow missed all this. Best of luck mate, hope it all goes well.
What you doing Saturday Smasher ?
Seriously, all the best mate.
Strange GW for me. Captain Kane massively disappointed however I have no regrets, given it was the obvious choice to make.
Surprisingly even though half the world (plus all my ML competition) captained Hazard (either because they missed the early deadline or they couldn’t fit Kane in without taking a hit, or because they had psychic abilities) I actually held my position in my MLs and received a green arrow in my OR for the first time in a few weeks.
I put this down to the fact that I have a strong squad which is a result of all the helpful discussion and guidance from the FF247 site. Thanks everyone!
I’m probably going to do Ings —> Arnautovic (leaving me £0m ITB) but will wait until nearer the deadline to guard against injuries. Have a restful IB everyone.
Yeah I like that move
Ben, I’m looking at Arnie at some point but will likely go for Mitro on a 3-week basis given the fixtures. Injuries permitting of course!
Ben, I agree with Cookie on this. Arnie long term Mitro short term.
Like your double Wolves defence too
I did Ings –> Nauto last week and although Nauto did only get a yellow I’m very happy as he looked like a beast! He’s a great choice! (Although I have Mitrovic too so I don’t know which one I’d get if you had neither)… Mitro has great next three fixtures like Cookie said!
Many thanks Smash/Cookie/Horse/Zed. Yeah I didn’t see the game myself but my brother did and he told me Arnautovic looked awesome and was unlucky with the yellow. But granted Mitrovic has lovely fixtures short term. Something to ponder for the next 11 days!
Morning all. I transferred out Salah + King for Lamela + Kane (4pt hit). Pray for my soul?
Also, in my limited team for Zorro’s league, here is my bench… That team scored 28 (GW rank of 5,499,554). A wall-to-wall disaster! :hippo:
Pippin, take comfort that you certainly weren’t alone in being stung by Kane.
What will you do with him?
Nae idea! Will certainly wait for the end of the IB. Potentially the WC, as there are a few areas of the squad need overhauling (still no Hazard, for example). Mostly lick my wounds for a while though!
That was bold Pippin. I took the Kane bait too. As did a lot of others.
You going to stick with him or switch back? I sold Kun to get him. Not sure if to stick or twist back again.
I think I may WC and get rid of him…the fixtures are not the best (though I may have to accept he’ll score well once I *do* axe him). Yourself?
Can anyone remind whether linking to your team takes a while to go through? Have updated the link in my profile but it’s not updated here on the site yet as far as I can tell…don’t want to email the admins if it’s just a case of waiting…?
and now my gravatar is missing…having a ‘mare today!