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.
So what is everybody doing with Costa?
With the international break being the ideal time to use a wildcard I’m considering taking the risk and taking Costa out for Jovetic.
My precise thoughts, see post #115, I’m really torn.
Yeah, considering Chelsea have Everton away the damage of not having Costa could be limited. Add to that Jovetic is in form and has Stoke at home. Is Jovetic guaranteed to start though?
This week, he is nailed to start. Dzeko has a knock or something and Agüero is still being eased in. The question here being, is it worth wildcarding for GW4, or would it be best saved for a rainier day? Here’s my squad:
Here we go fatheads :- Q: Which four players have scored Premier League hat-tricks against Chelsea FC?
RVP for one a couple of years ago wining the game 5-3 for Arsenal if I recall. And Kanu I remember scoring some freaky hat trick before the milenium. Other two…I have no clue!
Thats 2 KFKC. :thumbup:
Di Maria already rising tonight? Surely not? Come on. Was last year’s prise rises a bit ludacris in the beginning as well? Nothing seems trustworthy this time around. 75 players are set to loose 0,1 tonight. Am I seing well?
You need to get him in ASAP. If he scored Saturday he will rise fast.
Hey Ant I imagine yeah…but can we trust that he is to rise already? Will he actually be involved from the get go. Surely? Sorry for all the questions hehe…this year’s prise rises confuse me much!
I’d think so. United will go all out Saturday and I can actually see him grabbing some points. If he does then it will be band wagon galore.
driving me crazy! i was going to wait to play my WC during the international break, but if total fpl is to be believed (which is questionable) then di Maria and Aguero both set to rise 0.1 tonight. think i’m being forced into playing my WC tonight as a want to bring in Wisdom, who also seems set to rise.
total fpl is screwing with us!!! And to answer your question down…I guess dropping Costa could make sense since he may be injured…or not….we should wait and see tomorrow but prise rises (if correct) may force our hand!! AaaAAAAaaaaAAAAAHHH!!! 😛
Cantona I think Bojan was in the red for 3 or 4 days before he finally dropped, so they still haven’t got it right yet. Of course Bartley dropped for me as soon as he hit 100% it seemed! And don’t know exactly how it works, but can ADM even rise yet? Thought new players were protected for a few days, might be wrong.
CC exactly my thinking…they have an 8 day period where they cannot rise normally? This makes people like us who do care about prise rises loose out on a lot of value because we are not sure who will rise. And regarding Bojan totalfpl had him in red for 4 days but fplstatistics only had him at -67% to fall. So hard to make sense of all these random %!!
Dear Fantasy Premier League:
Please stop messing with us and go back to the old, predictable player price formula. Pretty please. You’re driving us insane.
thank you,
everyone
for everyone bringing Aguero into their team – are you dropping Rooney or Costa?
Di Maria is rising!? The casuals making it difficult i see.
Who is the best 4.0 defender out of dummet and wisdom?
Dummet nailed on until santon returns in nov, but what about wisdom? Is Gamboa a threat?
Cheers
Hutton, but Villa have nasty fixtures. If I had to choose between the 2 I’d go with Dummet at the moment, Newcastle look solid in the back and have very kind fixtures.
Cheers raz, already got Hutton, going cheap at the back!
Dummet it is then