Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 24
Let your cheering and applause engulf us!! We are inside the top 1 million now. That’s right we have made it and will no longer be forced to fight in the pits, a la Spartacus (Season 1). With a score of 63 we were 20 points above the average. It was 272k ranking for the game-week and it made it back to back weeks over 60 points for the first time this season. We now sit in 839k and that is the highest we have been since GW13. Hopefully this signals that our luck is turning and we will no longer be held hostage, by the black cloud that has been hovering over us for what seems all season long.
GW23 in summary A strong overall week for the FF247 team despite another wrong choice with the captaincy. Hennessey got us 3 points, nothing to write home about, but still better than the zero he got us last GW. Our defence did a good job, with both Morgan and Olsson snatching a clean sheet. Bellerin was the only one to miss out, when his team did their usual bending over to Chelsea. Midfield was saved by man of the hour Alli. An assist, goal and the three bonus for the young man amounted to 13 points. That coupled with a Mahrez six point outing (no missed penalties) was enough to secure a decent score from our mids, despite being let down by Ozil and KdB. Our forwards delivered the goods, well except for the one we captained, predictably. Vardy grabbed 7 points and the person who should have been our captain Aguero scored 12. Lukaku (C) let us down when he wasn’t able to deliver the big blow that would have really seen us rocket up the overall. Oh well, there is always next week and another shot at the captaincy so let us get to our plans…
Transfer/s decision for GW24… Sold Kevin de Bruyne for Dimitri Payet
We hung fire as long as we could in the hope or expectation that we would receive some indication either way on the possibility of a DGW25, as this may have played a factor in our decision making. Had it been confirmed, then Silva or Yaya could have been coming in this week instead. It may still be confirmed tomorrow but it’s looking unlikely at this point. In the absence of that we went with our original and preferred choice of Payet. We could have bought anyone really and certainly Silva and Sanchez came into the reckoning regardless of any double news but Silva has a blank in GW27 and we already own Ozil. And more importantly we didn’t own Payet! Since he burst back onto the scene properly in GW21, with a goal and an assist against Bournemouth, he’s actually blanked twice but that really doesn’t tell the full story as he was magnificent against Man City and his underlying stats back up our assertion that he is likely to explode again at any given moment. Playing Villa is always helpful in that respect!
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The team in full
Given the choices afforded within the squad, the team pretty much picks itself this week. Deulofeu is the one that could make us look daft but someone had to sit it out from that front 8 and we’ve gone with Mahrez vs the comical Liverpool defence.
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Captain – Sergio Aguero
Having missed out last week, we weren’t going to make the same mistake again and Kun as captain was a unanimous vote, which makes a change. Away to a Sunderland side and in great form we are uber confident that Kun won’t let us down. Uh oh!
Our vice-captain is Romelu Lukaku
Hopefully Luk won’t be required to wear the armband given his shocking showing last week.
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You said I could comment, so I did..
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Well, who got slaps for the fudge up? 😉
Lol, was waiting for that!
Best of luck Team :thumbup:
Morning to you all.
Sanchez and Rudd in for KDB and Hennessey (the latter as a makeweight) looking likely for me today.
Definitely no DGW25 news ahead today ….. or is there? 😉
Morning GP. Good that you can raise the needed funds without dropping anyone decent, or messing with any outfielders at all. Won’t see many cases like that over the coming weeks 😉
Cheers NiN
It will mean I will have Ozil and Sanchez which I don’t think is as big a problem as some I’ve seen on twitter make out.
Wouldn’t be a huge fan of it myself just yet mate, at least until i see Alexis playing well in the league, but i certainly wouldn’t rule out going that route at some stage. Many times in the past double Arse attack, or even triple, has gone swimmingly.
NiN
I said to myself before the Burnley match, an assist or a goal here and I’ll get him right in. He got both! I need to catch a couple of early buses at this point in the season – chasing down ML deficits.
Double Arsenal coverage is tried and tested when they are on top form. Often I pick the ‘wrong’ two
Nice one. Hopefully he kicks off straight away! I’ve been lucky in the auld ML’s. One is full of donkeys and they’re near 100 points behind already, other two i’m battling with the same guy, a very good friend of mine, and most other teams in the two are out of it or close to out of it.
Oh yeah, can never forget them moments! Rambo and Wally doing feck all and Ozil and Giroud nailing it or some such BS!
The joys.
No messing about GP, i like it.
I’m still sitting with KDB in my team as i can’t make my mind up with sanchez (doubles with Oz too), Payet (good fixtures) or firmino (good form)
photek,
In your case I’d definitely get Payet in pal.
Cheers mate.
I’ve got 2 fts and a bit of money so in theory i could get payet and sanchez in for kdb and oz
Thats a good team fellas.all the best.. I’m planning to play AOA this week as ibsee Leicester vs pool to be a goal fest this time. So, cant afford to see mahrez/ vardy scoring and benching. And please take a moment out to remember Andy(Spartacus).
As good a time as any, constantine.
Good luck mate.
Cheers GP..hope to have good figures tonight.
Well, most have blown their chips by now so no harm in using one, especially the A-O-A one. Go get em!
Dear all,
Azpili / Alder / Baines / Souare / Moreno
Please pick 3 ….
Robin
Azpilicueta, Alderweireld, Baines in my mind.
Yep. Shame to leave Souare out but what can you do.
Play him and bench Ozil? 😛
Good shout, that’s an option
Alder, baines, azpi for me.
Tks all … same as plan ..
First 3
Robin Hood, I’m gonna break the monotony and say Baines-Alder-Souare because I think Ighalo will get on the score sheet. #ShowSomeFaith
Morning lads..anyone explain why Kyle walkers gone from playing all season to being left out last 3 prem games I believe. Will have to take him out if they keep benching him and I’m sure he’s not injured.
Personal reasons. I expect him to start tonight or at latest the weekend.
Thanks NIN. That was starting to bother me and I couldn’t work out why he wearnt playing.
His daughter was born
Incidentally, any chance we can add ‘knocked up WAGs’ to the injuries and suspension report?
Oh how selfish of him blimmin heck haha. Fair enough
Morning all,
This is what i currently have. The only things i’m unsure about are :-
Wollscheid/Moreno/simpson – thinking wolls as i think mahrez could have a filed day v that pool defence, likewise i have Firminio too so Wolls is the only one not in a match up with another of my team,
Benching Ali – figure that i have Kane as a spurs option & who would i bench in favour of Ali as they all have good fixtures. The only one maybe is Big Rom, but he’s usually pretty good at home
Thoughts anyone?
Cheers
Morning hammers
An excellent point I thought made by Init earlier this week was that Leicester tend to try to hold what they have against the bigger teams, see the draw with City at home and the away win at Tottenham recently. They do appear to be strengthening at the back as they realise their relentlessness at the other end is dimming somewhat. That’s just something to consider.
On inspection of your team though, I couldn’t honestly say you have made the wrong moves by playing Wollscheid and benching Alli. It’s going to come down to a gut call but I wouldn’t subscribe to the theory that Leicester v Liverpool will be another 4-5!
Agree with that GP hence why i bought Simpson in a few weeks ago as they certainly have tighten up.
I think I’ve made the right defensive decision based on the matchups though as in theory no players score can be directly affected by the performance of another in the same game which although not essential is something i look for due to the “cancelling out effect”
Secretly hoping it is a 4-5 with firminio & mahrez involved in all the goals though
0-0
the goal fest is more likely at Nor or Sun I think.
50/50 on HammersvVilla being 0-1 or 6-0.