Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 21
Last GW we were sitting at 966 points and felt the sting of not having those two sixes at the end, upside down. So naturally we scored 33 and made it to our desired number of 999. You can choose to believe that or not, but that’s our story and we are tentatively sticking to it. Our score of 33 was 7 below the average and it landed our GW ranking at 2.6 million and something, but who is counting anyway? After that interesting score, we of course got visited by the guest of honour, Mr. Red Arrow. We now sit at 1.1 million and feel that the five monkeys we have hired to take over the site team, can’t possibly do any worse than the five monkeys that were in charge. So please welcome our new team staff as they look to better the extremely low bar, well saying there is a bar at all is probably giving the team committee too much credit.
GW20 in summary
Usually our defence plays less inspired than our captaincy choices, but this past GW they were at least respectable. With Morgan and Bellerin grabbing clean sheets, we felt like the point tally could be promising. Yeah right…as has now become custom something else went wrong and by something, we mean everything else. Our mids averaged 2 points for a total of eight points and that is when you include the captaincy that we trusted in Mahrez. Our forwards were not much better, although Vardy should have at least grabbed an assist on the penalty, if not for our dear captain missing it. Kane took the day off and Lukaku once again left us feeling that it could have been a ton more, but at least he grabbed an assist for a total of five points. Let’s move onto our transfers for the upcoming game-week so you know which player or players to stay away from.
Transfer/s decision for GW21 – we have sold Aaron Ramsey and Alberto Moreno and bought Delle Alli and Angel Rangel
Now, on the surface the transfers seem fairly straightforward. However, what preceeded them was a decision to wildcard our sorry lot of misfits and two days of wrangling, arguing, toy throwing, laughing, crying, resignations, (reluctant) reinstatements only to end up with a new team that frankly was bang on template, but we had Kun. So the decision was taken (it was about the only thing we did agree on) not to wildcard just to get Kun and a whole load of other high-ownership players. Sure we want Kun but we can do without him this week and the plan is to sell Harry Kane for him with our free transfer for GW22. In the meantime we needed to raise cash. Buying the inform Delle Alli for Ramsey ensures us attacking Spurs coverage for when Kane departs, while Swansea have Sunderland at home in GW21 and gives us immediate improvement (on paper) for this week – the Swans also have some decent fixtures going forward and Rangel seems to be favoured by caretaker manager Alan Curtis. He’s also lovely and cheap at just 4.1mln.
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Our team in full…
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Captain – Kevin de Bruyne
KDB sneaked the vote, pipping Harry Kane 4-2, primarily on the back of his home form this season, where he has delivered double digit returns on four occassions and showed his form on Saturday in the Cup when he came off the bench to score at Norwich. C’mon Ginge, we need you now, more than ever.
Our vice-captain is Harry Kane
If KDB for one reason or another doesn’t feature then Kane will take the armband.
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Thoughts on my team? Not sure if I have my bench and Captain right…
Cech
Wollschield Smalling Cresswell
Ozil KdB VC, Mahrez Payet
Ighalo Lukaku Aguero C
McCarthy Ward J.Evans Westwood
Thanks
PP, it’s tough to leave out Ward but I understand why you have – it’s a good problem to have!
I’d probably put Westwood in front of Evans, but wouldn’t expect much from either and to be honest they’re unlikely to be needed anyway.
I wouldn’t argue with your Captain!
Cookie,
I hate making this decision haha
Unless Lukaku doesnt play or I bench him for Ward…
So of the 4 in question Ward least favoured?
PP, I’m worse at making these decisions than you so I wouldn’t listen to a word I say!!
But I think Toon score – there you go!
Seems I forced that out of you Cookie haha
I warned you not to listen
Stanislas in?
Concern is game time with the new signings. On the upside he’d be 5th mid anyway.
EBC, I’ve got Watson of Watford
Cheers.
He’s my no.1 alternative. Certainly the safe option and gets the odd goal/assist but doesn’t really excite me.
Your no.5 midfielder shouldn’t excite you if playing 3-4-3 – last thing you want is the temptation to play him every week.
True but with AOA, Bench boost & blank weeks on the way. It’s more important than it has been to date.
Think I’ll go for Watson. I could go for Antonio but he’s a bit of a rotation risk as well and I don’t really want 5.2 on the bench most weeks. Also means I can’t really afford Payet without a bit of a shake up.
Looking at the fixtures again, I’m probably getting ahead of myself a bit.
Good luck team
Hopefully solid reasoning and foresight pays off for you. Although the way this season is going …..
Looks good on paper though.
Congrats Messi…
Might as well just give us the trophy now
#13times
What to do?
Butland
Kolarov Bellerin Ward
Mahrez Ozil KDB Alli
Aguero(c) Igloo Lukaku
bench- Rudd Barkley Moreno Janmaat
1 FT and 0.6mn in the bank
1. save FT
2. Barkley to Payet and bench Alli
3. Janmaat to Rangel
4. Moreno to Rangel
5. any other advice
Note- Lukaku to Kane isn’t possible as i am 0.2 mn short
any help would be greatly appreciated guys
Either save transfer or Kolorov to Azpi.Chelseas fixtures are worth a gamble now they seem to be performing for Hiddink and City can’t keep a clean sheet.