Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 20
Welcome to the Fantasy Football 247 Site Team Gameweek 20 article. Last time we spoke to you, all of about two days ago, we were in a bit of a pickle and quite frankly a bit stumped and very uninspired by our options. It’s funny like that sometimes in FPL because we ended up having our hand forced a little to do two transfers we wouldn’t ordinarily have done had it not been for a combination of injuries, suspensions or obvious rotation. As it was it ended up being a thoroughly inspired bit of business! We sort of reluctantly brought in Phillips and Defoe with most of the transfer committee agreeing it was the right (and probably only) thing to do whilst at the same time shrugging and yawning at the prospect. Well bugger us, they only went and got 20 points between them! Probably just as well though as some of the others may as well have stayed at home for all the good they did us. To be fair we knew our defence was on a hiding to nothing this week and nothing was exactly what 75% of them delivered! Actually ‘nothing’ would have been a bonus for our 3 defenders as they managed to combine for a grand total of -1 between them! Only Cech delivered from the back end with 7 points. In midfield we had the wrong Spurs chap this week, the right West Brom one, Siggy (sighs) and Sanchez who grabbed an assist for one of the goals of the season. We tossed a coin on the captaincy and in all honesty it wasn’t even worth the bother in the end as Costa got us a goal, Ibra an assist. We missed out on 2 points by going Ibra basically. It does beg the question why a goal isn’t worth more really, surely 5 for a striker would better represent the difference between the two achievements? Anyway we digress… Overall we scored 52 which leaves us at 68,370 in the rankings.
Transfer for GW20 – Sold Sigurdsson & Bought Lallana
We’ve resisted the scramble for Aguero this week simply because we have faith in Costa and Ibra and don’t want to lose either just yet. To otherwise accommodate him would probably mean losing Sanchez which we aren’t willing to do either. Whether that is a wise or foolish decision then we shall see tomorrow! For now we are simply fixing a small issue which has bugged us for a while which is the lack of any Liverpool coverage in attack and Mr Lallana is currently looking like one of the hottest properties in the game so we are ditching Siggy for him. Not that we dislike Siggy but in all honesty their respective teams couldn’t be much different right now. One sits dead last, the other in 2nd. Swansea have scored 2 in the last 4 games, and it was a fairly favourable run of games too. And they lost all 4. In contrast Liverpool have scored 9 in their last 4. And won all of them. Siggy got 2 points in each for a total of 8. Lallana got 37. And plays Sunderland this week who, quite frankly, looked dreadful against Burnley.
THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR GW 20
Our Captain is Zlatan
All of our big hitters (Costa, Sanchez, Ibra and Lallana) play away this week so there was no one stand out candidate really. In terms of their relative stats –
Costa vs Spurs
Spurs have conceded 5 at home (best record in the league)
Chelsea are a bit light on goals away with just 14 in 9.
Costa has scored 66pts in 9 away games. Average of 7.3 per game.
Sanchez vs Bournemouth
Bournemouth have the 2nd best record of the featured teams with 12 conceded at home (12th in the league)
Arsenal do like to score away from home with 20 so far, an average of over 2 per game.
Sanchez has scored 81pts in 9 away games. Average of 9 per game.
Ibra vs West Ham
West ham have conceded 14 at home (the 5th worst in the league)
Man United like Chelsea feel a bit short in this respect with only 13 scored away in 9.
Ibra has scored 61pts in 9 away games. Average of 6.7 per game.
Lallana vs Sunderland
Sunderland have conceded 15 at home (4th worst in the league)
Liverpool have averaged exactly 2 goals per away from home so far, 20 in total.
Lallana has scored 43pts in 9 away games. Average of 4.7 per game.
We have featured the above simply as a handy guide to this weeks captaincy decision really. In terms of points per game Sanchez is the stand out man and Lallana has nearly half of his points. In terms of opposition Lallana has the best, Costa the worst. In terms of team goals scored Liverpool and Arsenal win by a good margin. Zlatan sort of sits in the middle of most stats here but is the man in form at the moment. Costa out-points him but has the toughest opposition. Sanchez does too but scored most of those playing as the main striker, which he won’t do against Bournemouth. In all honesty you could make a valid case for any of them really. We chose Zlatan.
Just for good measure here is how Aguero looks based upon the same criteria –
Aguero vs Burnley
Burnley have conceded 18 away from home (12th overall)
City have scored 17 at home (6th best in the league)
Aguero has 16 points at home in 6 games. Average of 2.6 per game.
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Hey people best wishes for 2017!
Had a great gw19 with 76pts!! However I have some deadwood that needs shipping out.
I would like to get rid of Siggy, Diomande, Lowton and Snodgrass more or less in that order.
Any suggestions for replacements for those players or alternative options are welcome.
I have 2.0m itb. Is saving the FT a good option?
Cheers
Siggy to Philips then see what happens during the 2 week epl break before committing to any other moves or save the ft
That’s what I had in mind just needed to hear it from someone else also. Cheers and good luck!
Does Kane straight to Kun not work for you Penguin?
Hey initt I can actually do Kane to Aguero for free. Got the funds, just have some reservations about Kun at the moment. Plus hard to drop Kane after yesterdays return. Was thinking to bring Kun in just before the tottenham game or right after it so for gw23. I always tell myself if you aren’t convinced by a move it’s best to hold onto the transfer. Open to an inspirational sub, Kane to Kun is anything but that. Cheers
So I took another 8 point hit. That’s ummm 5 hits in 3 weeks. HAHAHA! Awesome. And still enjoying myself bitches. Not so much with Smithy and Holebas and Amat in my team, but otherwise, it’s all cool. Kane can go **#*$* himself though.
Still in top 100k, but if I keep this weekly double hit thing going, not for long. Hehe.
Who did you sell/buy Raz?
Was thinking long term.. Since I already have Foster/Fletcher I had to sell Evans to get Phillips. I could have went with a 2 week punt on Snodgrass but I had to sell him after, while WBA have great fixtures lined up. So I did 1 extra move, also upgraded my defense with Baines (whom has really tasty fixtures in a week or 2 and is on penalty kicks).
So my moves:
Evans to Baines
Hazard to Phillips
Carroll to Kun
Kun will also be my cappo. Is a long term project. If I didn’t take hits, I would have trouble areas for weeks and weeks to come. Now, hopefully I can relax more. Hehe.
I like those moves Raz
Same. All should outscore the others. But you never know what will happen. I fear something like Baines being rested, lol. ;P
G2G?
Yup.
OK I’ve done erikson to alli (gathering kun funds) and Zaha to Philips.
Is this team good to go or should I shuffle the bench around? Is Cedric likely to play? I’m tempted to bench Alonso for this one week only!
Is the Alli move not a sideways move? I don’t know. But they are facing Chelski next. They faced the weakest opposition possible, today. Watford can’t not concede more than 1 goals, they have to concede 2 or 3 or more.
Purely based on price. Doing Erik to Alli this week allows me to do Origi to Kun and Hazard to a 5.0 mid next gw rather than a 4.7 mid which I was finding difficult to find one good enough
Bench is now Cedric – Holebas – Barry
so nothing about Alonso ankle injury? How real is it?
I heard nothing about this, but for someone that does not own him. It sounds like good news. :p
SORRY! 😉
look up Ben Dinnery Raz
Here you go
Feedback on my wildcard team guys?.
If I was on a wildcard I would go for Stanislas over Capoue all night, all day.
+1
Id go for De Roon over Crapoue and swap Stones for Jones.
WHen it rhymes, it’s good, always. 😉