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
A bit of flu going round also at Arsenal
Stanislas or Phillips? And Carroll or Defoe? Many thanks
Wazza, Stan & Defoe for me though Phillips prob has better short term fixtures.
Thanks Cookie!
Right, am in a bit of a Pick(ford)le and need a new GK. 0.2m ITB. Options are:
1. Straight swap for Grant but then have 2 Stoke at the back which is not ideal.
2. Nergrado and Pickford out for Caroll and Randolph.
3. Downgrade Siggy to someone like Zaha/Phillips and Pickford to Lloris/Cech?
4. Something else?
Mannone?
Even there was no pickford pickle, option 3 would still be a good option. There are 20 fixtures left, 15 of which are positive for the arse . Option 3 gives you access to 15 opportunities for an Arsenal clean sheet and you already have the potential of attacking returns through Sanchez so thats Arsenal coverage sorted to the end of the season. So id say option 3 with either Zaha or Philips and definitely Cech (I know Spurs fixtures are just as good but look at how often Spurs feck everything up for no apparent reason!)
Cheers db. History would suggest Arsenal will start keeping clean sheets soon. Unfortunately I’ve missed the deadline. Thought the game was tomorrow. Doh!
Morning,
So who’s bought Aguero?
Morning Kop!
Thought about it briefly this morning!
And your conclusion Cookie?
Hopefully next week for Kun
I’m reluctant to shell out for Aguero but he’ll be one hell of a differential for a week or 2!
He will be my cappo next week
Kop, my conclusion is that the 3 big players up top was too damaging to the rest of my team. I wouldn’t rule out getting Kun but it will probably be in replacement for Costa or Ibra.
Looking at the teams I have seen do well this season, not many of them have 3 expensive strikers, but have invested wisely in midfield and I think that’s still the way to go.
I looked at selling Hazard and Toby to get Kun for Itchy and my midfield was Alexis, Siggy, Can, Capoue and Stanislas!!!
Kop – next week
We were all thinking of selling him before he got suspended and now Zlatan has hit form so will watch and wait as regards him and City !
Hey guys,Need help with this squad.Any Suggestions??Have 1 ft and 0.2 mitb
Foster and Bailly in for Pickford and Vertongen could work. Both have pretty could fixtures for a while
Maybe Jones instead of Bailly
You just need a keeper I think Shane, rest looks grand.
Was thinking of getting rid of Kane to fund the Gk.Any suggestions about the best replacement??
If I could pick any for the next 5 games at least it’d be Cech
Slightly concerned about origi will he start ahead of sturridge.
I think he starts and Sturridge comes on later as per but I could be wrong.
OK cheers init, I was thinking of a hit to bring in carroll.
I’d agree with Init. I’ll be very surprised if Origi doesn’t start.