Fantasy Football FF247 Team Gameweek 22
Wow. It’s tough at the top! Despite registering a respectable 69 (-4) and outscoring the average by 13 points we still managed to slip back 332 places overall to find ourselves in 1,976th. We blame Hazard. And Sanchez. Although we owned both. More on those two scampsters later. We very nearly wildcarded last week and it was a close call but instead chose to wait and took a small gamble on a hit to get Kane and Hazard. Kane delivered for us but it was Hazard that hurt most which is quite ironic as the reason we took the hit was in fear of Hazard hurting us massively if we didn’t have him and he went off on one. As he can do. So despite having some decent scorers in our midst this week it does go to show what a difference nailing your captain can do. We went for Hazard as he’s been on fire and he was at home with a decent fixture but he managed to pull in just the 3 points, doubled up to 6. Here’s how the rest fared and what we have decided to do ahead of GW22 to try and haul ourselves back up that leaderboard…
Our defence really hurt us this week, pulling in just 9 points between the sorry lot of them, while our current kryptonite nemesis Mr Baines sat on our bench with a smug little assist waving at us, just out of reach. Prior to Christmas doubling up on City in defence looked a good idea but it’s certainly something we will be addressing with our WC. Hutton and Taylor were more ‘ones we sort of had to do with’ this week and in all honesty we feared the worst. And got it.
7 of our front 8 actually delivered attacking returns this week. As luck would have it the only one who didn’t – we captained! Sanchez delivered massively of course and we just had to count our chicken’s that we had him and Downing and Silva proved their consistency with an assist and 2 bonus each. Up top we were delighted that new signing Kane grabbed a goal as did both of the old guard Costa and Austin.
So all in all hardly a disaster and the good news is that despite slipping a few ranking places overall we remain No1 in our adopted ‘home country’ of Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba!
Transfer for GW22
Our team itself wasn’t in bad shape this week and so we felt once again that we could hold the wildcard with a view to playing it in the two week break ahead of GW23. In light of this we decided to make just the one alteration this week and having lost Toby Alderweireld to injury and Alan Hutton being the only alternative up against Liverpool we fancied West Ham to keep a clean sheet against a striker-less Hull. We wouldn’t ordinarily bring in a West Ham defender at this point as their fixtures after this week are pretty challenging but given as we will likely wildcard anyway this felt like a nice one-off.
So to confirm our transfers we have –
Sold Toby Alderweiereld and Bought James Tomkins
Our team in full…
Captain
Our captain this week is Harry Kane
Our vice-captain is Eden Hazard
The team in text format is –
Hart
Zabaleta Tomkins Baines
Sanchez Silva Hazard(v) Downing
Austin Costa Kane (c)
Bench: Krul. Boyd Hutton Taylor
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Okay so here is my current thoughts for my WC team. I figure I’ll give Falcao a chance this weekend and if he lives up to all the crap the shit journos have been writing about him I can sell him and upgrade my defence.
Hmmmm don’t think i’d be sacrificing my defence just to squeeze Falcao in !! You already have Di maria so i’d deffo switch him for somebody cheaper and upgrade your defence.The point of a wildcard is to build a strong squad for a number of games not to have to make a load of transfers in a couple of weeks.Try and build a team you would be happy to not have to make any changes to for quite a few weeks.
Mark, too many not nailed on defenders imo… Cameron, Baird and Bruce are all a risk. PVA and Wasilewski seem to be safer but you would still need another one. Any money ITB?
Afternoon,
I’m not sure if this has been discussed already and I realise it’s a few weeks weeks away, but I do know how you all love to (panic) prepare.
The league cup final is scheduled for Sunday March 1st which will mean two league games are postponed.
So which games are at risk? With Liverpool, Chelsea & Spurs all involved in the semi’s it means that the following 3 games could be postponed;
Leicester v Chelsea
Liverpool v City
QPR V Spurs
Obviously we wont know until Jan 28th which games will be affected but it is likely to create a couple of juicy doubles 😉
I should have said 2 of the 3 games could be postponed!
Nice one kop,cheers for that.Even more reason to make sure you have a strong bench,especially for that weekend !!
:whacky:
The semis are Liverpool v Chelsea and Spurs v Sheffield United. In other words, Spurs are 99% certain to reach the finals, and Chelsea would be expected to best Liverpool. That means I’d have 5 players with no fixture that GW >.<
I’ve got 4, so I’ll need to save up and have 2 free transfers that week!
Guys news on Tadic?? Should i keep him??
Guys please help. I am on WC. And i have Tadic who is yellow flagged. Should i keep him? Or get Chadli or Sigurdson for him. Its not a temporary substitution
We don’t know yet. Wait for Cookies article today. There’s a long time to go before deadline. No rush.
Jermain Defoe.
That is all.
Guys I have no idea who to bench :s
Certainly not Sanchez anyway! Crazy move. Play him instead of Berahino.
Lat time I benched my striker (Kane) it took me a lot of time to recover and a lot of convincing to keep playing this game. I
don’t want that happed again lol. What If I bench Hazard or steeling?
Okay, so you benched a budget striker who was playing against Chelsea that GW, it didn’t go well, and that justifies benching on of the two best FPL players so far (Sanchez&Hazard) for Berahino? Insane move to make. I wouldn’t bench Sterling either, not against Villa. Berahino for the chop, for me. Sanchez is (c) material, as is Hazard.
Thank you and I will take your advice!
Evening,
Any changes I should make to my WC team? Not sure about ADM, thinking Fab would be a better option, also not sure about my goalkeeper situation.
I’m thinking Silva >> Fab and Pantilimon >> Hamer?
anyone?
I’d do it Veer.