Fantasy Football FF247 Team Gameweek 12
A pretty solid GW11 saw the team amass 71pts which was 20pts above the average and meant some more green arrows. It was another week where our scoring was spread evenly throughout the team and began well in the early kick off as Diego Costa scored at Anfield and combined with 2bps and a booking contributed 7pts. Cesc Fabregas was sadly quiet and produced just the 2pts. Onto the 3pm matches in which our only representatives were Southampton’s Toby Alderweireld and Dusan Tadic, Difra Sakho and our captain, Angel di Maria. ADM had a low key game but did manage an assist before he was taken off on 70mins, so 6pts doubled into 12 wasn’t the worst, but later events left us rueing choosing him as captain. A Southampton clean sheet brought 5pts for Alderweireld, while Tadic’s return was just 3pts. Sakho did nothing, unfortunately – just the 2pts from him. The evening kick off and Sergio Aguero left us another reminder as to his captaincy credentials as he notched City’s two goals at Rangers – he also claimed the 3bps to end up on 13. Ouch. We should have skippered him! Onto Sunday and it couldn’t have worked out much better. Leighton Baines scored and claimed maximum bonus points vs Sunderland, while Tim Krul kept a clean sheet at West Brom before Gylfi Sigurdsson, in the final match of the gameweek scored a goal and 9pts in Swansea’s win over Arsenal. We forgave Neil Taylor his booking and single point return on the basis of everything else going our way.
So despite us crushing the average, we only climbed 77 places to 2,120 in the world, illustrating the level of competition at the higher end of the leagues and how hard it is to make serious ground.
Transfer for GW12
With just one free transfer available and with six of our players listed as doubts during the week, we have held firm, not panicked and resisted the temptation to take a hit!
We have made just the one transfer, which is:
Selling Diafra Sakho and buying Charlie Austin.
Our rationale on this move is that Sakho is very unlikely to play this weekend – he was away with Senegal on international duty and actually had to pull out of their game in the week with a back injury. Big Sam said in the presser he is very wary of the impending fixture list and the dangers of starting players who are not 100% and then making them worse, which could mean an extended time on the treatment table. Since then Sam has said that Sakho couldn’t even get out of bed on Friday morning due to his back injury. Therefore, we have decided enough is enough and that we need three playing strikers. Charlie Austin is in great form and though Rangers travel to a much improved Newcastle this week, we still think they have half a chance of scoring. Rangers’ next four home games see them entertain Leicester, Burnley, West Brom and Crystal Palace and we expect (hope) that Austin will continue his great run of scoring, which has seen him find the back of the net five times in his last six matches.
Captain
Our captain this week is Sergio Aguero.
Another close vote from the committee which narrowly swung the way of Aguero, with Diego Costa running him mightily close. In all fairness, it’s a toss up between the two and the vote could easily have gone the other way. The fact that Aguero is on penalties clinched it, but we’ll be honest and admit that we believe both players should do well this weekend.
Our vice captain is unsurprisingly Costa.
The FF247 GW12 team in all it’s glory is –
And in text format as promised –
Krul
Alderweireld, Hutton, Baines
Di Maria, Fabregas, Sigurdsson, Tadic
Austin, Costa (vc), Aguero (c)
Subs: Mannone, Boyd, Taylor, Moore
Morning gents.
Am I good to go?!
Yeah I think so James… Here’s my team this week
Looks solid Farqs. Hoping for that Double Saints to work out. It has been gold for four weeks in a row.
I like your team. It must be because we have at least 7 players that are the same or from the same teams. Good luck. Please see my team attached.
Last chance to get in.
Listen up!!! I have decided to honour FF247?s birthday with a little contest for site members.
I have decided to run a GW12 League for any members on here who post or at the very least are willing to say “I am in” and state your TEAM NAME underneath this post. So if you are a lurker just come out of the shadows for one second and say you are in.
Simple rules: Top score of the week wins. It is only a one GW contest. The league will be shut down once I tally the result for GW12. HITS WILL BE COUNTED AGAINST YOU and your team can’t be new. Simply said you can’t start a team today just for this contest. If you enter a new team or do not enter the way specified you will be disqualified. I will check on here to see if you entered on the board if you score the most points. So to be clear you must enter here and on the FPL site with this code 1777-713640
Winner gets: £25 deposited to a paypal account. So if you don’t have one, you can cross that bridge if you win. Really simple stuff to start up if needed.
Sample entry>
I am in and my team name is Colombiano
And guys/gals please keep it to one team per person.
Ah what a stroke of luck you posting this again. First time I’ve made it on all week for a quick peek at this week’s articles and you remind me about this. Top stuff mate.
I am in and my team name is Calvin Clyne.
I am in…
Anti Top Four
I am in an my team name is Red Devils.. May be a lot of teams have the same name so owner name is Praveen BR
I am in and my team name is serendipity united
Thanks Mito
I am in!
Barntons Bashers!
Cheers Mito
Mito, this is very generous of you mate. Thanks
I’m in and would you Adam & Eve it, my team name is Kop Warriors
MIto – I am in
The Dreamers
I’m in
Team name Mad for it
I AM IN! Is this the same as your favourite saying Mito-‘IS IT IN YET?’
They don’t call him Justin for nothing
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Help!
Agonizing choice with all the yellows..
current team 2ft and .3 in the kitty
Forster (mannone)
Chambers baines clyne Taylor Hutton
Adm fab Sanchez siggy traore
Berahino pelle Aguero
Preferred move is pelle and fab out for chadli and costa who I think will do the business till Xmas but .1 short. Anyone else see a better way?
Thx as always!
Maple – perhaps just berahino to Austin this week to create that extra 0.1. Then use 2 FTs to do the moves you want? I think Pelle will do well this week.
Really not sure what to do. Thoughts please
btw I have 0.6m in the bank and will be playing Krul over De Gea this week
Hw much do u hav in the bank mate? may be u shud get Janmaat in for Coloccini.. Baines wont start this week, u might need backup
Morning!
Could I please get a quick RMT? Was thinking of swapping out ADM and Sterling for Sanchez and Chadli.
Sounds like good moves.. but beware ADM can go mad in some week
You’ll want ADM next week and the week after