Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Game-week 5 – Fantasy Premier League 2015/16
GW5 is live! It’s back baby! Let us commence the agony of having all our moves turn into a post International Break nightmare. Kicking our slow death by no FPL points is a match up of wonderful English names, Roberto vs Jose. Good thing Donald Trump isn’t running for Prime Minister. In the 3pm games we finally get to see the unveiling of Arsenal world class striker Benz.., Laca…, no one, Really?! Still Giroud?! FFS! In other action we see City and their actual big signings go hunting at Selhurst Park. Callum Wilson will look to validate the trust showed by many managers in him when Bournemouth visit Norwich. Watford welcomes 4th place Swansea and hope to keep the Panther from striking again. Saints and West Brom match-up after both earning their first win of the season. In the late game we see the geniuses at work when Rodgers and his confused XI travel to Old Trafford and face off with LVG’s utterly confused XI.
On Sunday we have two fixtures. As usual Sunderland are in the relegation zone this time of year and they play the once again disappointing Spurs, who are also their usual self this time of year. In the other Sunday fixture we see a battle between value mids, as Mahrez takes on Sinclair in a fight for the hearts of the bargain hunters.
We finish the game-week off with The Hammers opening the doors to a Newcastle side that started off as bad as FPL managers have this season, but at least the Toon haven’t been reduced to tears yet.
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Saturday in full…
Everton v Chelsea 12:45pm
Arsenal v Stoke 3pm
Crystal Palace v Man City 3pm
Norwich v Bournemouth 3pm
Watford v Swansea 3pm
West Brom v Southampton 3pm
Man Utd v Liverpool 5:30pm
Sunday sees two fixtures…
Sunderland v Spurs 1:30pm
Leicester v Aston Villa 4pm
Monday ends it with…
West Ham v Newcastle 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.
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Ok guys, I need to sort out my defence.this is my def:
Cedric(tough fixtures coming up)
Moore(out on loan somewhere)
Holebas(only plays every other week)
Coates(doesn’t play at all now)
Azpiliqueta(Chelsea’s def looking worse than sunderlands)
….what do I do? I have 0.4itb and 1ft, I dont wanna touch my other players until I get my def sorted out.
Defenders I’m monitoring are kolarov,muniesa,Gomez,bellerin.
Please help!!!
Cedric-5.0
Moore-4.0
Holebas-4.4
Coates-4.3
Azpiliqueta-6.0
Get rid of Coates
Well, seeing as Holebas didn’t play against Swansea, do you think he’ll start vs Newcastle next weekend?
If so, then I’d go for Azpi —–> Kolarov and play Cedric with Holebas, then deal with Coates afterwards.
1.Must have chelsea def cover…FAIL
2. Hazard is a must… FAIL
3. Arsenal midfield is strongest and atleast one of them is must… FAIL
4. Harry Kane is the lone striker and he is must… FAIL
5. Rooney is the lone focal point of Man U attack… FAIL
6. Aguero is must… DON’T KNOW..till now a big FAIL
7. Sadio Mane is a beast.. FAIL
8. Mahrez plays for an average team, not good long term… OH GOD! You just had to get him in ultimately.
8. Ayew and Gomis too…
9. Play standard 3-4-3 formation.. FAIL
10. Play WC in international break..somewhat FAIL.. Not much increase in value..
The main thing this tells you is that when someone says “x is a MUST”, ignore them and make up your own opinion. Nobody is a must, there is always a different combination that can match their points.
Also, international breaks don’t seem to build much value because A) wildcard transfer don’t seem to count for NTI & B) many people switch off for 2 weeks and recheck the day before deadline.
The overall leader tripples up city def with Hart-Kolarov-Kompany!
Yeah, but he plays Cech and benches Hart. Is it a bit extravagant having 2 dear keepers ? It seems to be working for him.
In every GW you can build the dream team by spending only 60-80m!
Yup, racking points on defense/cleans sheets and decent captain picks. Unconventional but it seems to be working for him so far each week. Who knows how long he can maintain this strategy and come out on top, though!
agree with elef there
its been a season of fools in FPL till now.
just 5 gameweeks past
more than plenty yet to come
the real minds will prevail over the fools
33 more weeks to follow.
can’t fail those theories based on just few weeks.
ultimately we all know almost all of those points will prove their validity
that’s the beauty of FPL
Every logical move I made just failed. Only the punts worked for me.
is this your first season in the FPL?
Nope second as serious player. Although didn’t complete my last season. But really worked hard with all preseason survey and application of footballing common sense or knowledge. Should have forgotten about Harry Kane and Hazard from last season
Right, so that’s 49 points (all-out) for me, the same tally as last week. Hopefully a green arrow tomorrow night…
How have you peeps fared? Anyone got Cresswell / Payet / Sakho as (c) for tomorrow?
41 for me James with no one left to play
quite happy. thanks to the magician Mahrez
my team seems ready for next week too if Aguero doesn’t disappoints through his injury
looking to save my FT
Nice one nishant. Hopefully we’ll soon all be cracking 50 most gameweeks!
Fingers crossed. I’d like to save my FT too. I think Sergio should be fine. If so, then he’s the default (c) pick, surely…
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46 all out for me.
Hoping Aguero, Sterling and Evans are all fine for next week….
I looked at a few of the front runners teams and noticed most are heavily invested in defense with mid prices midfielders doing well and similar attacking line…
Interesting food for thought…. wish I could WC again haha
Peter – just had a quick (well, ok, several-minute) nose into the current Top 10 teams’ past seasons history and it confirmed what I suspected – they’ve all either never played FPL before, or if they have, they’ve finished in the hundred-thousands or millions in every season.
There’s a reason why their teams are built like that: amateurs build their squads from the back and spend big. Hart, Cech, Terry, Clyne, Kompany etc. Then, once they run out of money, simply make sacrifices up top.
They don’t know (or don’t care) that over the course of a season the big points are usually provided from the expensive midfielders and strikers. It just so happens that so far, in this lovely FPL season, their style has worked because Kompany, Mahrez, Wilson and Hoolahan etc. have been the form-players.
The #6 ranked team is even called ‘Beginner’s Luck’ and has Willian in it! Case closed… 😉
Only problem is that casuals have taken a big lead, which will be difficult to make up in the course of the season. And amazingly I am getting beaten in every mini leagues against some seemingly stupid teams! Like this one had Blind in it, but no Aguero, Hazard, Pedro, Sanchez
Just can’t plan for this sort of weird start James. You’re spot on in your assessment. If and when normality returns and those mentioned there by abhirup and other such players start firing again those at the top may find it difficult to readjust, plus if they’re inexperienced they may not realise that a swift readjustment is required.
Hopefully we don’t have to readjust with this trend!
Well yeah there is that! Give it another 2 or 3 weeks of this nonsense and we might have to cave…
This happened 2 or 3 years ago I think. Lots of clean sheets and big players did not perform. All returned to normal.
Love that analysis, James – certainly explains how I am in my ML (23rd when I’m usually in the top five even by now). Had a complete arse try and tell me I had a “shit team” this year compared to others. He’s 50 points ahead of me and top at the moment (and has Kolarov, Darmian and Jagielka in defence for a start) and I’m going to absolutely love it when I overtake him. Already laughing because he’s got Gomez coming in for Rooney!
Thank fuck for Mahrez!!!
Need a replacement for ward, I have 1.3ITB.
I already have azpillicueta sagna targett and Oxford
Any suggestions?
Dawson probably.