Fantasy Football FF247 Team Gameweek 21
Last year was good to us and then this new year started. Perhaps our site team decision makers partied a little bit too hard welcoming 2015 or they just simply had an off day. It was not a pretty sight as 7 of our 11 starters managed 2 points or less. But if we needed any more rubbing it in on how bad the week was we had George Boyd staring from our bench…oh the shame! 42 points was the average for the week and we only secured 36 so it was a quiet day in the FF247 offices. We dropped 662 places and now sit in 1644th place in the overall. With two straight GWs in the 30’s and GW ranks in those said weeks being over 2 million, there was noise of the wildcard coming to the forefront to repair some of the damage. But cooler heads prevailed and for now the Wildcard will be saved, at least for another GW. So let’s get to our round up on how our miserable team did in Gw20 along with the decisions that were made looking at GW21.
In goal we had no one. Hmmm, interesting decision that one. Well we did have Joe Hart, but apparently keepers need to rest while outfield players can play straight through the busy schedule. We know, we know, if we had a back up keeper who was not injured he could have…whatever, stuff happens. Obviously this is a problem we will address with our wildcard, but for the meantime let’s hope Hartsy is not too spent to play the next couple of fixtures.
In our defence we had the ever consistent Leighton Baines. Good to see him back in form, he threw us for a bit of loop last week when he managed 4 whole points in one GW. We were never worried though, we knew he’d get back to his 1 point returns quickly. Pablo Zabaleta apparently caught whatever disease Baines has. Since he joined the squad he has managed a paltry 0 points in his 2 games. Wonderful that, moving on to our rock star of the week Alan Hutton. He once again delivered and put to shame the rest of our backline. His six points this past GW is as much as we have gotten from Zaba, Hart and Baines combined over the last 2. So many heads to chop, so little time…
Moving on to our midfield it was basically the same as above, FFS! Alexis and Downing once again had a disappointing showing as they only garnered 2 points each and our captain Silva decided that he didn’t want to be different so he joined along with a 2 pointer. Shockingly though in a week where just about everything went wrong our transfer miraculously worked out. We brought in Sterling for Eriksen and if anyone told us Spurs would score 5 on Chelsea and that Eriksen was not involved in any of it, we would have thought you were crazy.
Up top we had Austin, whose home form is apparently a myth now, as he once again blanked in what seemed a good fixture. Diego Costa who is now never in need of a rest scored a goal for us. As Jose luckily continues to deploy him despite the busy schedule, going completely against Jose’s recommendation of him needing rest when the fixture list got busy. Got to love when Jose doesn’t respect Jose’s opinion on something. Bony is our last man to report on and he left us with a welcomed parting gift. The Ivorian is now off to AFCON and despite only playing 20 minutes he was able to scoop up 8 points. Let’s move along to our transfer decision and captaincy, we need to put GW20 in the rearview mirror quickly.
Transfer(s) for GW21
We agonised over playing our WC but couldn’t quite justify it just yet. We will in all likelihood coincide that with the return of Aguero and the adjustments that would mean which may in fact be next week assuming he gets a positive cameo against Everton from the bench.
What made it even more difficult was that we had two very pressing issues. One was a player we had and the other was a player we really should have had about six weeks ago and is killing us every week! Bony has obviously gone off to the ACON and so had to go but also the thorn in our side recently has been the absence of a Chelsea midfielder and in particular a one Mr Hazard. We decided to take the Bony loss and turn it into a Hazard gain, particularly as we were unanimous that the little Belgian should be our captain this week until we realised the minor flaw in that plan which was that we didn’t own him – so we fixed that small anomaly with a -4 hit with the in-form Harry Kane sweetening the deal even more. We feel that may pay off and was a small risk worth taking.
So to confirm our transfers we have –
Sold Wilfried Bony – Bought Harry Kane
Sold Raheem Sterling – Bought Eden Hazard
Our team in full…
Captain
Our captain this week is Eden Hazard
Our vice-captain is Alexis Sanchez
The team in text format is –
Hart
Zabaleta Hutton Taylor
Sanchez(v) Silva Hazard(c) Downing
Austin Costa Kane
Bench: Krul. Baines Boyd Alderweireld
Thanks for reading Fantasy Football FF247 Team Gameweek 21.
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Kun yellow flag just removed! Game on!
Here’s my WC team. My only issue is Williams, as Swans have poor fixture run coming. Any better 5.3 defender for my team? Even considering Alderwiereld for double Soton.
Team looks set. I like the Falcao choice – nice differential (though it feels so odd calling him that).
Would definitely drop Williams. I’m shopping for a defender in the same price range. Currently debating Debuchy & Phil Jones.
Cheers!
Thanks Lapdog (consider this my vote on the name change)
I would go Phil Jones, but I already have 3 United players and DDG as defensive coverage. No offense, but I don’t love the idea of Arsenal coverage and I don’t know how much Debuchy will be an offensive threat. If going Arsenal then who’s better; Debuchy or Gibbs?
LOL. Starting to feel the pressure on the name change! It was fun to google “lapdog arsenal”, though i’d have a tough time explaining it to the boss!
WTF. You know Bruce Springsteen?
Im still dont think that we need 2 utd attacking player as per now.
Im will choose costa over falcao.
Maybe u can consider duff into ur team and to double up soton def will also be a good idea
Hi guys. Which of these two do you think is the better option? Also are there any other tweaks that need to be made. WC team. Cheers!
It looks like you are debating the same thing I am: do I feel good going ahead without Costa in my team? For me, the answer is no. For that reason I like Option 1.
There’s been a lot of noise about Bruce no longer being nailed on. Everyone seems to be gravitating towards Wasilewski of Leicester instead of Bruce.
All in all, a very well-balanced team – well done!
Cheers!
Cheers for the reply man! Yeh its either Fabregas or Costa basically haha. Yeh I still need to tweak my defence slightly will probably get Van aanholt (sp) from Sunderland
OK, I think this is it. What do you think?
Have Debuchy as my 5.2 defender but also thinking about Phil Jones. Thoughts?
Thanks guys!
Phil jones for me.Good fixtures coming up.Arsenal is poor defence
Hey Lab rat, looks like a great squad that. Agree on Jones instead of Debauchery. I still feel Aguero’s only getting a short cameo at the end though.
Lawdogg… lapdog … lab rat… don’t think I could find a picture of a lab rat wearing an Arsenal shirt
Probably going to go with Jones.
Who to play in attack in place of Aguero this week? AHHH – thought I was done!
Really strong team. Debuchy for me. Jones is a decent choice but the guy is constantly getting injured. Very rare to play more than 5 games in a row
Thanks everyone for your replies here & on the last page. Really appreciate all the advice – it is the forum banter & friendly advice that really sets this site apart from the others!
Still have some decisions to make but the answers are starting to become clearer. Cheers!
Should i use WC now that Aguero is back to prevent price changes??
Price can’t change for 8 days from when the flag is removed, so you should be all set.
After the Leicester game Aston Villa have some bad fixtures so I’d watch out with Hutton
This was meant for 39
thanks Fally – I was looking at that. Could play Wisdom in his place but West Brom doesn’t have great fixtures either.
Cameron, Van Aanholt or anyone fancy a punt on Duff?
Is Cameron or Pieters good replacement for Hutton??
I like Van Aanholt from Sunderland. But yeh stoke are usually pretty solid and have decent fixtures
I like Pieters, personally, but can’t afford him. Cameron intrigues me but worries me. Seems like he’s being played all over the pitch, like they can’t figure out where to play him.
GUZAN Myhill
AZPILICUETA B.DAVIES CLICHY HUTTON Wazilewski
SANCHEZ HAZARD SILVA DOWNING Boyd
AUSTIN KANE COSTA
guys what Formation to.play??
4-4-2 With Austin out and Hutton in
3-4-3 With benching either Clichy or Hutton
am troubled. What form to play and whom.to.play among Downing Boyd Ben davies Hutton and Clichy?? Please help
5.5n in d bank but not willing transfers. Please help in playing 11 N bench 1st 2nd
For me it is a 3-4-3. Austin’s road form is terrible but they face Burnley and I think he’s a good bet to score. I had his as my “honorable mention” in the captain’s article this week. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I would bench Clichy in favor of Hutton. Villa much more likely to shut out Leicester than City doing so to Everton.
So I would go:
Guzan
Azpi – Davies – Hutton
Sanchez – Haz – Silva – Downing
Austin – Kane – Costa
Bench: Boyd, Clichy, Wazi, in that order
Cheers!
Cheers mate dis is exactly.how my team is lined up currently. But my bench is Clichy ahead of Boyd. Appreciate your vomment mate. Thanx