Fantasy Football FF247 Team Game-week 36
As Dinah Washington would have put it, what a difference a ‘game-week’ makes! From the highs of GW34 when we scored an impressive 173pts, GW35 certainly brought us back down to earth as we scored a paltry 39pts. As a result we picked up a red arrow as we slid back to a rank of 130,431. It is however our 2nd highest rank of the season. Yes we realise we are clutching at straws! With only seven games in GW35 it was never going to be a high scoring game-week but after a steady climb up the rankings we had hoped for more than 39pts.
So where did it all go wrong? Well the fact that we only fielded eight players was certainly a contributing factor. We were down to the bare bones even before the game-week kicked off as our bench was made up of players who were not going to feature. The game-week got off to a bad start as de Bruyne was benched ahead of this week’s CL semi-final although this wasn’t a major surprise. Around lunchtime on Saturday news started to emerge that Mamadou Sakho would not feature for Liverpool as he had failed a drugs test, this was confirmed by the club at 1:30pm and we were down to nine players. We were reduced to eight players early on Sunday afternoon when the Arsenal team was announced and Wenger had stuck with Mertesacker over Gabriel. Thanks Arsene.
So where did the 39pts come from? The biggest contributor was Riyad Mahrez who chipped in with 9pts and with Leicester picking up their customary clean sheet his colleague Danny Simpson also weighed in with 6pts. Nacho Monreal also contributed with 6pts. Alexis Sanchez and Sergio Aguero were disappointments as between them they managed just 9pts. We went into Monday night with high hopes for our captain Harry Kane and his sidekick Dele Alli but emerged with just 8pts.
Transfer decision for GW36 – Sold Alli & de Bruyne and bought Payet & Fabregas
With a junkie and a wannabe boxer as part of our squad our hand has been somewhat forced this week. As you can see we have deciced to deal with Alli this week leaving Sakho to rot on the bench although it is likely we will deal with him next week. We have decided to ditch KdB this week as given City’s result on Wednesday night there is every chance he will be be benched ahead of next weeks return leg in Madrid.
While Payet’s form has taken a little dip of late thanks to the form of Andy Carroll up top we have decided that it would be to much of a risk to go into DGW37 without him. Despite the emergence of Carroll, Payet is still a key figure for the Hammers and as we’ve seen over the course of the season he’s deadly from set pieces. Despite picking up three assists in last weeks 4-1 over Bournemouth Fabregas is still something of a gamble. Chelsea’s fixtures are not the greatest but they will be eager to put one over Spurs on Monday and of course they’ve got a double in GW37.
The team in full
Captain – Alexis Sanchez
There was very little discussion or debate surrounding our captain this week In fact there was none! Given the form of our options and their respective opponents Sanchez seems like a no brainer to us. We realise Norwich are scrapping for their lives but they will miss Timm Klose and we fully expect Alexis & Co to heap misery on Norwich.
Our Vice-captain is Dimitri
Good luck for this week from the FF247 Team Committee.
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If anyone’s religious and praying tonight then please save a small one for me! Just sold Kun….
For who and whats your front 3 now ?
None of your business 😉 Kane, Carroll and Kun’s replacement.
Holy shit balls init! Good luck with that. Bold move. Who’s replacing him?
Thanks jumpers, let’s see!
Did the same :see-no:
Oh dear, who’d you get?
Shake – have just done the same plus Kane and in go Carrol – Deeney and Sturridge ( worried about the latters game time in the DGW though
Good to go?
Bench Gabriel and play smalling.. Gabriel may be a rotation risk and might come off the bench for 1 point..
And I would start Robles over Mignolet.. Yes believe me 😛
Hey lads, struggling betw/ Deeney and Igahlo. Deeney is on pks but I feel Igahlo gets into more direct positions of scoring, no?
Nope he hasn’t scored for ages so wouldn’t get him
I prefer Ighalo still because of that
Am I set. On the wild card with bench boost in mind next week. Any suggestions still tinkering? This is how it looks currently
Bloody hell Smash, don’t tell me you’ve been sorting this all night?! Thought you were done 12 hours ago
Yeah was sorted last night. Just woke up and now I’m having doubts again
Looks solid, mate. I’m thinking Mahrez–>Townsend (DGW) and an Arsenal defender but that’s just me.
Thanks Sanchez. I don’t have the balls to ditch all my Leicester players. Yeah no Arsenal defence could burn me. Arsenal home to Norwich is only reason I’ve kept Ozil. Hope he delivers
Smash I like the Ozil pick. The only one I dont like is Moreno really but I understand why. What have you itb?
Not a lot 0.2 in the bank. I did have Simpson and PVA instead of Kirchoff. Only because he has the double and the slight chance he plays twice
PVA does offer some offensively. I guess I’d prefer Toure and PVA over Moreno and Kirkoff. Otherwise good to go
thinking of
1) Fab in for Coutinho and playing AOA with Rose on bench
2) Townsend in for Coutinho and playing AOA
That does leave me somewhat short of West Ham players for the dgw though. Any better thoughts?
I like the Fab move. You still have Payet
Or Hazard?
So expensive that’s the problem. As it would be a gamble that one but could pay off