Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 1 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16
GW1 is live! What better way to kick off the season than with a lunch time match up with 4th place implications written all over it. United will look to secure an early 3 point advantage over perennial Europa League participators, but non-contenders to win, Spurs. At 3pm we have 4 games on the menu. Recently promoted Bournemouth carry the hopes and dreams of many FPL investors as they take on Sherwood and the Benteke-less eleven. In another game that features a recently promoted side, Watford travel to Goodison Park where Everton will be playing for the only 3 points they stand a chance of winning until Christmas. In an early relegation battle we see the Foxes welcome the Black Kitties from Sunderland. If that wasn’t enough of a preview of the probable bottom of the table this season in the 3pm games, we add the also promoted Canaries to the fray, who play host to the Liverpool dream killers, Crystal Palace. In the last game of the day, Chelsea will look to continue taking the manhood away from Swansea as they look to humiliate the Swans with another pasting similar to those of last season.
On Sunday we have three fixtures. Arsenal will look to impress and have all Gooners excited and proclaiming them Champions after week one. Saints (the Liverpool B team) will travel to Newcastle and hope to make their mother club proud, with an away win. Speaking of mother, Liverpool will travel to Stoke where they look to exorcise their demons and by that I mean the memory of Glen Johnson.
The game-week finishes off with the Baggies looking to stop the vaunted City attack with a taller, wider custom made bus. Can’t wait to see the twitterverse explode about Sterling and proclaim the investment on him a complete failure or success based on one half.
Don’t forget to also share any experiences if you are participating in any or several of the fanteam.com leagues. Remember scores update in real time, so don’t be shy and let us know how much you are in line to win.
Saturday in full…
Man Utd. v Spurs 12:45pm
Bournemouth v Aston Villa3pm
Everton v Watford 3pm
Leicester v Sunderland 3pm
Norwich v Crystal Palace 3pm
Chelsea v Swansea 5:30pm
Sunday sees three fixtures…
Arsenal v West Ham 1:30pm
Newcastle v Southampton 1:30pm
Stoke v Liverpool 4pm
Monday also has a fixture…
West Brom v Man City 8pm
Keep track of all the action, the goals, the talking points, right here at FF247 Live Match Chat, an interactive chat which encourages you to keep involved and share your thoughts and emotions as the matches take place.
Good luck to absolutely everyone for GW1 from all at FF247!
I fear for Sun so need to ship Coates out who is this Gomez lad & will he hold his place
I had him this week and it paid of, but ime not quite sure he will start every week. Hes only 17 so i cant see Rodgers putting so much preasure on him at such a young age. Plus they also have Mereno so its a gamble.
Yeah could be another Kolarov/Clichy type situation incoming though barring the odd error yesterday Gomez played well.
Hey Andy how did you go 25 points for me crap who would you drop Sterling , Haz , Mane , Ozil got Pelle up front no cover for others
I’d stick with all of them for what it’s worth, if I had to shift one it might be away from double Saints just to have the coverage more spread, it’s always tough early doors gauging form, the scorings been all over the place in GW 1, I’m also on 25 but I think that’s been decent with a (c) to go.
hi Managers,
After horrible GW1, My team for GW2-
Gomes (boruc)
darmain-williams-cedric (targett-oshea)
Anya-Sterling-Fab-milner (wallcott)
rooney(c)-kane-wilson
No FT with 0mil ITB.
1. Any -4 hit suggested?
2. Any change in the starting lineups?
3. Shall i use my wild card..bad idea this much early? Thank you;
Way to early to panic so no WC I would play Wally over Wilson looks good to go
You’ve got to start Wally over either Anya or Wilson.
Thank you Silverback and Andy.
I will start Wally. Now again, wilson or Anya?
I saw Anya playing well vs Everton. could have grabbed an assist.
Not sure of wilson? Please advise. Thank you again!!
I’d lean towards benching Wilson for now but if WBA can keep a CS tonight against City then I’d bench Anya. If you can I’d start to be a little more patient with the FT’s 5 days is a long time in football, no need to rush these things yet.
+1 bench Wilson
Definitely start Walcott. What was your transfer?
Liv vs bou / wat vs wba , the answer is quite obvious, rest of squad is good no need for transfer or wc
Slow down with the RMTs you lot, GW1 isn’t over yet 😉
How are you all doing so far this week?
West Ham bandwagon anybody … rumors they’re readying a bid for Hernandez. Wow! What a start. Payet looks the real deal.
Payet looked brilliant yesterday!
Happy I have Sakho to start next week although benching Mahrez is worrying me!
Tempted not to play my West Ham defender just to lessen the blow if he does score.
Thinking of using my ft to get payet and playing without a keep.
Got curtois and hennesy
@AT lucky you. i went with Ritchie and Defoe instead of Mahrez and Pelle. I wish I had Payet but I made my team for at least 5 weeks so I am not touching it.
@Wafflez – I am tempted to get in Payet though, just like you. But If I were you I’d rather get a keeper in.
Punk, Mahrez and Pelle carried my whole GW!
SO annoying that Pelle got a yellow in the 90+3rd as – being my captain – it cost me 6 points after losing two bonus points as well :goombah:
Is anyone investing in WH? 4 home games in the next 6, and they are against LEI, BOU, NOR and NEW.
Very, very decent.
I’m thinking of Payet looked very lively. You??
Already got Sakho B. May get Payet. Or Ayew. Not sure yet. One of them though. For Hazard.
+1
Any one else feel that the GW ‘AVERAGE’ this season is always going to be unrepresentatively high? We all know that there are people making new teams every week in that hope of claiming the no.1 weekly ranking. That’s always been the case. But now they’ll also be using one of their chips. One cursory look at the top team this week shows they used the Bench Boost. The average score really is pretty much redundant as a guide now IMO.
Yep I’d agree Bry. That’s the one thing that annoys me about the Chips: they are included in calculating the top (and average) score.
So, realistically, you only have 3 gameweeks per season where you have the chance to be the top scorer… as each gameweek many teams will use a Chip and steal the limelight.
Defo James. I’ll be interested to see how Fantasy Fix counter this. Maybe they’ll provide a service. However as a non-subscriber I’ll probably never find out.
I do now 😉
It’s not really how I play fantasy games so it’s not something I’ve ever gave much thought to, the games getting ever more popular so I wouldn’t be surprised if it it broke the 4m players mark this year, how many of them are alts is not a guess I’d like to make. I’ve always enjoyed playing with the one team as it makes your decisions seem that little more important, bringing in a guy who bangs in 2 are just magic moments (Red cards not so much) although I can see the attraction of 2 teams as it’s a long season when you’re not doing well.
I’m quite happy with a higher benchmark to aim for.
How can you aim for it if it’s decided after all the points have been accrued?