Fantasy Football 247 FPL Team – GW3
GW2 Review
It’s fair to say that GW2 was certainly a case of leaving it late. Our final score of 62pts was significantly higher than the average of 44pts and helped lift the team to 34,135 in the world. But for most of the weekend it looked like we were going to see a depressing red arrow as our defence disappointed as others around us made ground. Our skipper Diego Costa delivered his goal vs Leicester, though in all fairness we were hoping for at least a brace from him. So, 12pts from him, 6pts from Cesc Fabregas and 5pts from Gylfi Sigurdsson was a decent start, but Palace’s shocker at home to the Hammers saw Joel Ward gain just a single point. The evening match was mixed, Calum Chambers conceded two, picked up a yellow card and failed to trouble the scorers, though Aaron Ramsey rescued things somewhat with 9pts. So, we went into Sunday optimistic, but Erik Pieters, David de Gea and Wayne Rooney all scored just 2pts each, so we were relieved and delighted when Juan Mata followed up his goal with 3bps to leave us on 49pts with just Stevan Jovetic to play – while all around us we saw fellow managers with scores in the 60’s…. we feared the worst. All the talk before the City/Liverpool game was of Sergio Aguero and Mad Mario, so we were pleased to see Jovetic starting and he rewarded our patience with a brace, 3bps and a 13pt haul to take us to 62pts.
GW3 Transfer(s)
We have two transfers in our back pocket and while it’s always tempting to use them and make immediate changes, we have decided to play conservatively this week and use just the one. The main reason for this is that we are looking to get Sergio Aguero in a few weeks, but in the meantime it gives us a look at how we accommodate him and who we need to sell. It is likely, at this stage, that either Juan Mata or Wayne Rooney will need to be sacrificed and holding that extra transfer buys us time to look at how Angel Di Maria settles in, what formation United adopt to accommodate him and who suffers as a result. We have decided that we will probably sell Joel Ward and buy Newcastle’s Daryl Janmaat. However, with so many matches taking place this week, we have not yet pressed the button in case some injury news comes through. In the case of a downward price change for Ward, we would not be able to afford Janmaat, in which case we will get Fabricio Coloccini or Paul Dummett instead. Palace as we know struggled last week at home to West Ham and continue to be dogged by problems off the pitch. While we acknowledge that they haven’t become a bad unit overnight we feel that a Newcastle defender is a good investment (as per Bryan’s Fixture article) and Janmaat possesses the attacking qualities that other options (Coloccini and Dummett) don’t have. We wouldn’t rule out re-investing in Palace at some point and Martin Kelly at 4.5mln looks interesting.
We will announce when our transfer has been made.
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GW3 Team and Captain
We have decided to hand the armband to Jovetic this week. A home fixture vs Stoke will, we believe, hand the Montenegrin the chance to continue his good form, which saw him score twice against Liverpool on Monday night. Despite the slight risk of rotation, we feel that Edin Dzeko’s knock and Sergio Aguero being gradually eased back into the action minimises the risk of Jovetic not starting. We did consider other options. Diego Costa is of course in great form himself, but an away trip to Goodison is never easy and we feel Chelsea may keep it tight. Wayne Rooney away to Burnley is a great option on paper – but in reality, we felt United are not yet the force they were and after a pretty shocking week for them, confidence may be low and it’s clearly taking them time to kick start their season. Aaron Ramsey could do well at Leicester, but with the Giroud injury, Wenger saying Sanchez is “not quite there”, we just felt there was too much risk. Gylfi Sigurdsson was our other thought and he came very close to stealing the band from Jovetic, but we just felt City looked ominous without playing to their capacity vs Liverpool and if they can again reach those levels, then the goals should continue to flow.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2736861/Sergio-Aguero-hurt-Manchester-City-training-session.html
i love aguero but his leg is glass. can’t stay fit for a month.
For all the Kun owners…
loooooooooooool
you are an idiot
you should probably give spare some for costa and silva
*probably spare
Looks like my comment (85, top of the page) was a bit more accurate than i intended…
Well here is my final Wildcard team. My friend s bet me £20 I’ll change it again ( which I won’t). What you think?.
Hopefully the aguero knock is nothing serious, might just have been impact. Maybe just gets to miss the International game.
CL Draw – live now !!!
:popcorn:
Ajax is doomed like every season. They always get teams like Barca, City, Real Madrid. With luck 1 weak team. Sighs. Dutch football is doomed, not even worth watching anymore. SO I just won’t. 😉
On that note, Arsenal were shite yesterday.
raz – Ajax in group F with Barsa & PSG !
Oh well…
HL, they stand no chance. These teams spend 10 to 100 times as much on their players, lol.
Liverpool with Real Madrid !!!
Liverpool f-ing lucky to be in that group.
After the full draw for this group – it looks pretty good for the Reds, tbh..yes
!!!
Pretty pleased !
Arsenal and Dortmund together. Fucking fantastic…
Dortmund isn’t the same team as it was and Gala is shite. I dare to say Arsenal is quite lucky with that poule.
Arguably, but Gala are very tricky at home, and you can’t just disregard Dortmund… ‘lucky’ is pushing it but we have a decent chance.
The way Arsenal have been playing anyone can beat them, I guess. 😉
What was that Raz? We’ve been unbeaten in 12 competitive games.
I’m sorry, United sucked ass and lost. Arsenal just sucked ass and didn’t lose. 😉
And I usually like the way they play. Yesterday again, so shaky against a superweak Besiktas.
i believe in fate and arsenal always make last 16. i expect them toend 2nd
*to end
They need a new striker though. Giroud is #($*)$ and Sanchez is not the right guy for that spot either.
Easy poule for Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool. City are in a hellish poule, lol.
Yet another reason to stay clear of too much ”injury prone” City coverage (meaning Kun and Silva).
Every fucking year Ajax is put in the fucking hardest group. So unfair. PSG and Barca and Ajax. Just f-ing great.
Now that’s some consistent censoring there Raz 😉
Haha, tnx mate. 😉
On that note. All Ajax need now is AS Roma to be added. Roma is gonna do well this year if they keep Strootman, might even with Serie A.