Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 1
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 1. As the great Bruce Buffer would say “IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTSSS TTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMEE!” Here we go, the planning stage is over and the moment has come to test all your pre-season theories. This season we don’t even have to wait until the weekend either, as the season kicks off on a Friday night. The invincible Arsene Wenger and his boys take on the now “back where they belong” Leicester.
Saturday hits us with a lunch time feast as Watford welcome in Liverpool and their high octane attack. Three o’clock has five fixtures on the slate. The Champs grab their first 3 points when they face Burnley, Palace host newcomer Huddersfield, The Toffees tangle with Stoke, Saints pummel Swansea and The Baggies back from vacation finally after leaving in February mix it up with The Cherries. The Saturday fixtures finish up when recently promoted Brighton tries their hand at figuring out why City paid that much for that defence.
Sunday hits us with the last two fixtures. Newcastle reacquaints themselves with the Premier League when they face Harry Kane and company, geez, what a welcome back. The late game pairs up Man United side versus a Hammers team whose big acquisitions were in part, three old Manchester leftovers, Chicha, Zaba and Hart.
Friday 11th August
19:45pm
Arsenal vs Leicester
Saturday 12th August
12:30pm
Watford vs Liverpool
15:00pm
Chelsea vs Burnley
Crystal Palace vs Huddersfield
Everton vs Stoke
Southampton vs Swansea
West Brom vs Bournemouth
17:30pm
Brighton vs Man City
Sunday 13th August
13:30pm
Newcastle vs Spurs
16:00pm
Man United vs West Ham
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Gameweek Tracker GW2-11
Two worst scores in my team come from Alonso and Kane. HAHAHA!
Team for next week. 1 ft and 0 in bank. Any advise>?
I’m not sure you need to do much here. Probably just save the FT.
Thanks mate. Will see. Bit worried about JWP. But better keep it and do two so I can replace him with someone decent.
Should I be considering an early hit for Benteke to Vardy? If so, where should I make up the 0.5? Kompany to Otamendi/Stones/Danilo? Ritchie to Xhaka/Mooy/Gross? If I wait past tonight then I’ll need more than 0.5, so it’ll get much more difficult. Thanks.
Do you really need Vardy?
You tell me?! He (and Leicester) looked very good. Palace didn’t. Not sure whether to act fast before it gets more difficult?
I’d ride it out. I hear what you’re saying in regards to performances, but if Tekkers gets a couple next week then you’ll be pissed. Vardy wasn’t great last season, if give it one or two more games. If you’ve got to find the cash, you will. Someone will show themselves as needing to be transferred.
They have pretty bad fixtures op ahead. Vardy and Leicester that is. Don’t know if they will excell every time.
So do Palace!! Do you reckon I should stick by tekkers instead then??
I’d slightly favour the Palace fixtures looking at the tracker there but I’d massively favour Vardy as a player and Leicester as a team.
Then again Tekkers has Liverpool away this week and I have fond memories of having him for that last season! Doesn’t look like they’ve lost their comedy value at the back either from watching that yesterday. Maybe enhanced it even looking at that Mignolet performance
That’s kinda my thought process Init. Where would you make the 0.5?
Not sure! Gross and Stones jumped to mind. How much is Atsu?
Atsu is 5.0. I know nothing about him though!!!!
Promising Newcastle kid, plays on the wing. Had a good pre-season. Played well today apparently. I did watch the 1st half but could barely stay awake so couldn’t really say myself!
Rosco went though and knows him better so see what he says if he’s about.
Init – as you said, Rosco will tell us better how he looked but he ain’t no kid and certainly not one from Newcastle’s youth academy if that was what you were at. He’s 27 now. He came to Europe to play in Porto and showed enough quality for Chelsea to buy him but he didn’t confim his talents there. He then went wandering around in several clubs and ended up in Newcastle. He has trickery and speed but lacks a bit of defensive compromise and positioning in general which is why it surprises me that Benitez rates him. That’s probably a sign that he has learned those skills and if he does secure a spot than he could be gold at 5.0! He had 90 m yesterday but it wasn’t a good day to check his first XI status for 90 m given the early defensive subs and the red card. One to keep an eye on I’d say and the next bandwagon if he scores any FPL pts in the next games.
Leicester fixtures would say no (for a few weeks anyway)
Kompany to Stones if you do so go that way banjo.
Cheers GP. Doesn’t Otamendi offer a little more attacking threat? He seems to do alright on the BPS too?
I’m not sure on the attacking thing but yeah if you fancy him better then go for it. I know he got 2 yesterday but they are tied at 25 each in FPL history.
Stones scored twice in pre-season that’s why I took him instead.
Looks like I will have to bring Luk in it pains me to say this but Utd looked very good today thk Kane will have to go as his nk game is against Che or would you drop Kun , Luks price goes up tonight, nightmare start pig headedness where Utd are concerned 75 all in so lucky really 😉
Told you before the weekend started. :p
But you be like. I don’t like United. This is FPL, the players you get are pure the players that score for you. It’s not about what the teams do. 😉
I know Raz it’s only fantasy after all who would you change ???
What’s the squad look like as a whole Silverinho?
GP Not really sure about losing Kun but here my team Luk will go up Kane down before nk gk so change Kane to Luk for nk gw then change Kun to Kane nk save some cash thoughts ?
With KDB there I would drop Aguero for Lukaku personally.
Food for thought though:
If you went KDB to Mkhitaryan (United cover) then could you have 2.0 to play with to get a midfielder upgrade elsewhere.
I think you’ll be chasing this all season. If Kane had bagged a brace (which he could have) and Luk had blanked, everyone without Kane would be panicking. I’d relax, be happy Kun scored and assume Kane is going to smash it next week!
Guarantee if you lose Kun or Kane it’ll bite you.
Bottom line, you can’t have all three.
Horrible opening GW. Most of my points came from defense. Considering WC as I didn’t have any of the big hitters and they’ll all likely rise. Apart from how ridiculous it is to even consider a WC in GW2, how does this look? Talk me off the ledge please?!?!
Linking team from this week and possible WC team.
Your team looks decent Pancho. No need to panic. Jesus and Kane could have a couple each. JRod looked good. Mane and William picked up points. Defence looks good. City have good fixtures KDB could come good.
Don’t need to panic
Thanks horse! I know that’s the right answer, but it would be really nice to see my TV rising early on… disappointing when your attackers all underperform in GW 1.
It’s just the 1st gameweek don’t panic
Must say I agree with horse for definite.
That squad may not merit a transfer let alone a wildcard.
Fully agree
+1… your current team looks really solid! My main concern would be the milivojevic / carroll rotation.
So, this happened lol… I am so busy and caught up in my life and I didnt notice the game on friday and my plans to pick my team Saturday morning were irrelevant
So I named my team accordingly. I need some advice. Wildcard or take a few hits and just claw my way back into contention over the long long season. To be fair my week would have been much better and on par if Firmino was not 3rd choice. Oh, well. Any and all advice welcome guys
Hi starfox
If ever there was a case for a justified early wildcard, you missing the deadline is it
It’s the easy way out but it depends if you like a challenge of rebuilding gradually or not. What do you feel like?
its always usually best to wait 3-5 weeks until we see that early template forming but I have an idea of who’s in that team already. I think I will wait for the general feedback here first. But If I am going to use it I might active it tonight and get those players in before the price rises.
Yeah if you are going to do it good for it soon.
Looking at the money spent in defence it’s most definitely the best way to rebalance. I would be very tempted.
On the plus side, there are rarely any DGWs in the first half of the season. So using it early isnt so critical as it is in the second half of the season.
Starfox – not a fan personally but why don’t you start a new team on gw2? It’d need to be from a different account meaning you’d lose your history. If not that, then I would WC yes.
+1
Oh dear Star! For what it’s worth I’ve just looked at my ML and the scores range from low 50’s to high 80’s. Some of the low ones are lads I know who usually do ok and play it so you’re not far off someone who simply had a poor week. Albeit that you’re probably 30 or 40 off something more ideal. If that were me I’d just Wildcard it this week. You’re not a million miles away from a decent side in all honesty but it’s just that the balance is in all the wrong places unfortunately so correcting that gradually could be a slow and painful process. As DMC says using the WC now is hardly a critical loss as opposed to what doing so after Christmas would be.
Yup, i am going to WC haha. Any tips on who to get in?
For now you may as well activate it and grab all and sundry who are going up in price early doors. You may make small gains only but any and all of those will be worth it.
*sell anyone dropping too
My team name btw is ‘Auto Filled Team FC’