Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 19
Welcome to the Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 19 article. After two poor weeks in a row we finally had some luck and posted a decent score of 76 to get us back on track and that leaves us at 64,823 overall. Well, we say luck, there’s nothing better than a successful FPL transfer decision and one that brings you 30 points is to be rejoiced! Last week we culled Kane and brought in Zlatan and captained him. Suffice to say the big man didn’t disappoint. And we won’t lie, we had a wry smile when Kane missed his penalty. Game-weeks hang on such fine margins at times. So Zlatan was obviously our bedrock but we saw decent returns elsewhere too, notably from Pedro who we had hung onto more in hope than anticipation as he had missed the previous week and posted poor scores of 1, 3 and 2 prior to that. Our patience was rewarded with a big 13 this week. Unfortunately the silly sausage then went and got himself suspended for this week which leaves us in a bit of a pickle. And said pickle only got bigger when Walker went and got himself suspended as well having posted a rather disappointing 1 pointer for us. His team-mate Erik did rather better with two assists and 10 points though. Other than Cech getting a straight 6 though the rest were fairly mundane other than our 3rd pickle… Our Itchy pick was described by one commentator this week as “simply a poor choice at the moment”, and we couldn’t agree more! Especially when he didn’t even start this week. He redeemed himself with a late goal though to give us a 5 for him and it could have been more as he was waiting to tap in the Sterling cross which Davies turned in for an own goal. Goal or not he’s still an issue which needs dealing with, to add to the others #gulp…
Transfer – Sold Pedro and Iheanacho and bought Phillips and Defoe
We will admit this one had us a bit stumped. Every which way we turned it was far from ideal. And the ideas and suggestions were thin on the ground, which in some ways was a relief, after the fighting seen recently as a result of there being so many in the past few weeks. In the end we decided to go with the tried and tested in terms of fairly consistent FPL point scorers in the shape of Phillips and Defoe. It’s not overly exciting or innovative but it probably keeps the wheels turning for a bit until better opportunities present themselves.
The obvious point here is that we haven’t really planned for Aguero’s return. In truth we are happy enough to run with Costa and Ibra as our main forwards for the time being and we will make a call on Kun in the next few weeks if anything happens to our big two or if Kun shows signs of life again.
The other obvious point is that our team does look a bit bedraggled this week, we are aware of it so don’t come pointing it out please! It happens sometimes when you encounter a few suspensions at once, but then sometimes the most aesthetic of teams don’t always bring home the bacon so let’s see what our ugly pigs can do for us this time out…
THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR Gameweek 19
Our Captain is Zlatan
He’s been in imperious form and faces a Middlesbrough team who are without a win in their last 8 away games. It was him or Costa and both are good shouts this week and we would happily have gone with either but we went with Zlatan. Let’s hope the Iceman cometh again…
If anyone is interested in following the site teams progress then you can do so here and we wish you all the best of luck this week with your own teams.
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Fixture Tracker – the next 6 games
Play
A. Origi
B. Phillips
B
Bevause you don’t see O starting?
Even if Origi does start, I think Phillips has higher potential
C Fletcher
Lol
Origi!
Evening everyone,
Am I good to go?
PS. I’ve just let stats help me change my mind on my captain choice from Ibra to Costa!:
Man Utd at home score an average 1.89 goals, whilst Middlesbrough concede an average 1.11 goals away
Chelsea at home score an average 2.67 goals, whilst Stoke concede an average 1.44 goals away
Arsenal at home score an average 2.11 goals, whilst Crystal Palace concede an average 1.44 goals away
Obviously this is subject to lots of things like managerial changes, form, injuries and suspensions, among others, but interesting nonetheless.
Looks explosive
You should do well
Cheers James!
Seems good Swirly.
Stats are good. Good choice.
Cheers GP!
Doesn’t say anything about the current form and I think United with Mkhi will do better, they are faster.
I did say that was subject to lots of different factors but, yeah, I think Mkhi could have a great game
I like the stats approach and it works some of the time. Considered captioning Costa based on consistency but the Zlat is in great form so going with him myself.
People do have to notice that Mid just conceded 20 goals. That’s less than Everton/Liverpool and just as much as Soton and City. So they can park the bus.
I noticed. Honest. :winktongue:
united look like a functional machine though Raz
2-0 is enough
Okay people, am I good to go? I have done a lot of bad transfer the past couple of weeks and this gameweek I even did an 8 point hit to get rid of Wally and Pickford. Good to go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxBgGZMVQbY
Hot to trot!
I fear for Amat playing under Curtis but other than that looks good. Stanislas might be hero or zero
Looks good to me Raz
I was going to play Evans but it looks like he’s an injury risk now.
Trying to find info on WBA site but not seeing anything, anyone hear anything solid?
I fear Holebas might return a minus score if Spurs have their shooting boots on.
specialk – why not play him? he will either start or not play
In case he does play and comes off early through injury.
Hi All
Been offline for a few weeks but back now. How’s my team looking? I seem to have a fully fit squad. Happy New Year to you all.
Chilly
How are you doing?
Bit of a lack of Liverpool in there. I’d address that in the next week or so.
Cheers GP. I’m doing thanks. And yourself?
Hectic for the time of year but better to be busy.