Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 18
Welcome to Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 18. The silly season officially begins here. We have no less than 40 games spanning the next 14 days taking in 4 GW’s in total. We can but recommend you stick close to both our Fixture Tracker and our on-site Countdown Timer to keep track of when each GW begins, but as a helpful little ditty to perhaps take a ‘snap of’, the deadlines are as follows (all times are GMT) –
GW18 Friday 21st December 7PM
GW19 Wednesday 26th December 11.30AM
GW20 Saturday 29th December 3PM
GW21 Tuesday 1st January 11.30AM
As for this GW we begin on Friday and end on Sunday with the majority of the games on Saturday for a pleasant change. Wolves and Liverpool kick us off this evening as the current league leaders look to put the pressure on their chasers by extending their overnight lead to 4 points over Man City.
Saturday begins with many an FPL manager sweating over the Arsenal line-up as they play host to an ever increasingly tight Burnley side. Six 3PM kick-offs follow with Bournemouth and Brighton both looking to regain some sort of form, Chelsea hoping to continue their own pursuit against Leicester, Huddersfield look to stop the new beer flowing against the Saints, Man City probably playing catch up against Palace, Newcastle hoping Mitro doesn’t come back to haunt them and West Ham look for 5 wins in a row for who knows how long as they host Watford.
Saturday evening could be intriguing as Cardiff look to take 3 points off fellow strugglers Man United.
Our only game on a barren Sunday is Everton vs Spurs. Harry Kane may not know it but this could be his final rehearsal for many FPL managers, especially if Kun shows up on Saturday.
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Salah killing me.
You’re not alone :sick:
Well damage limitation for me with no City players no doubt
Capo stats.
Wow that’s surprising.
Switch 4 and 5 on the top 10k and that’s pretty much what I expected to see. Maybe Salah above Sane.
It’s more the overall I was looking at
Difficult to assess that one due to ghost teams, it’s always a bit skewed.
How are your cup matchups looking? I’m playing a Macedonian ghost team ranked at around 4m. I should be ok…hopefully!
I’m getting beaten 21-2 at the moment
14-0 here
No Salah Doc ? You bad lad. :p.
No Salah Elle :noshake: …
And it hurts !!
31-1 I think now Init
Only smiling because I know you don’t care about the Cup. I got tapped out of the cup by 2 points last week by a team playing Jorginho and Kante… SMH
Thanks Pancho!
To be honest I only knew I’d even got through because somebody in work told me on Wednesday! God knows how bored they must have been to be looking at my cup progress though!
Currently 19 to -2 in my favour! No doubt I’ll lose this week then!
With bonus, think I’m losing 52-7 at the moment…
Double pool defence is looking smart now
Wow
He’s bench boosted with Salah (c), VVD and Alisson.
Don’t think I stand much of a chance now 😀
Not sure I agree with chips counting in the cup as it doesn’t make it a level playing field! I know that doesn’t work if you free hit!
That’s brutal !! :big-lol:
One really crappy week and I did not qualify for the cup.
I’m playing a ghost team who has Hazard captain and Salah, Robertson and Van Dijk 🙂
About 20 to the good so far – my opponent unwisely played two Wolves’ defenders. But it’s not over, etc.
Getting spanked 21-6. But he capped Ederson with the VC on Salah….
Ghost team is walloping me 47 – 8 at the moment thanks to their captain VVD
Have Salah cap & Robertson.
Opponent has Salah cap, Robertson & Allison…fml
Being beaten 33-7 vs an active team deploying a 3-5-2 with a killer midfield and two cheapos in Ings and Murray up top. Should prove an interesting test to my earlier today convo with Zed about the unsustainability of such tactic. He has a big edge though with Virgil’s 15 pts haul.
So many players in good form but Salah seems the one to have. Is it foolish to sack off Kane for Salah? I don’t know whether spurs having the most congested fixtures will hinder them or not
Bournemouth at home next though
Salah has the Toon at home.
True guess I have both but want rid of Kane generally I think
I’m in for a midfield of Salah/Hazard/Sterling and cheap forwards, somehow Salah and Hazard hauling feels more painful than Kane or Aguero or Auba….
Might be the way to go
Think thight might be the way forward Zed !
Trouble is you cant have them all ! Got to say Salah did look sharp tonight though !
Kane for me is a good player to have over Xmas. The rest of the superstar bracket are at high risk of rotation. I’m planning to review Kane in the new year. I’ve stuck the captaincy on him for Boxing Day (for the moment).
Being nailed is not enough, you need points not minutes, Kane needs to score more goals to keep up with the alternatives!
Well, yes, but hopefully the minutes will translate into points.
I’m very relaxed about having Kane in my team over Xmas, and beyond that even, given his fixtures and certainty of his starting. Maybe one of my main weaknesses as a manager is that I’ve never given the points per million metrics a second’s thought. Some part of me just backs off when I start thinking about that. I simply can’t be bothered. I seem to do ok.
Your strong mid trio (presumably backed by Richarlison / Martial etc) is very sound as well, given the number of good cheap strikers around at the moment.
Do you ever listen to The Necks, ZL?
I haven’t heard of the Necks Kralin, I will check them out today!
This Salah fella is ruining every game week for me! Might have to bring him in…
Looks so threatening too, could have scored a hatty tonight quite easily
Worst decision Ive ever made in FPL selling him!
You aint alone mate
. havent been on this site since last sunday so read your poem on the tips article.. it was damn good. what made u think of me in ur rhymes 😉
Might just ditch Kane for him this week, true Kane has a good fixture but so does Salah and to be honest at home to Arsenal, is that really a bad fixture!? Sometimes you have to admit your mistakes a rectify them rather than prolong the pain!
Same here, sold just before the hatty, it was because Arnie got injured and I wanted Kane for him… So sad!
The GW has only just started, there are plenty of points to come.
This time tomorrow those who captained Sterling / Sane will probably be chuckling to themselves.
Salah may be given a breather on Boxing Day.
Yeah I feel I have maybe got away with it as I have no City players for tomorrow
Which presumably you’ll be tidying up in the wildcard. I went a week or two without City players but felt I was walking on very thin ice.
Yeah I’m not too bothered about Leicester away but I’d expect to have a couple on my wildcard after that at the expense of Kane
I think if wildcarding now I’d be looking at Rashford and Martial. Interested to see how Man U play today. There are potential bargains to be had there, like a new year’s sale come early. Maybe.
Very true, I think I’m jaded as those players I brought in for him have as yet not matched him and took me down over 70k in 3 weeks! Hoping this is the week they make his points moot!
As much as I hope they don’t I’m sure one of Sane or Sterling will bag a load of points. I think Kane is the one to ditch but has a great fixture next
You should be OK. City are at home to Palace. You’d think that’s going to be at least 3-0.
Do you think Aguero starts tomorrow?
Manchester paper thinks Aguero starts. Kind of makes sense so Jesus gets the Leicester game but who knows with Pep Roulette
I’m reading Jesus starts as he only got 12 minutes against Leicester on Tuesday?
Unless you’ve got money bet on his starting – which I hope you haven’t – or have triple-captained him – then I’d distract yourself with other things until 2pm tomorrow, when the truth will be revealed. If he’s benched hopefully you’ll get a stirring 30 minute cameo and a couple of goals.
I ain’t got Aguero yet, mulling on binning off Kane?
Ah, well, we can all relax. I was getting worried, A13. I thought maybe you’d bet the money you should have been donating to Centrepoint, or spending on Xmas presents, on Kun starting and scoring the first goal.
Like you I’m seeing Kun as a possible replacement for Kane, but not yet – mainly because I think Kane should match his points’ output over Xmas. But maybe he won’t.
I’m thinking Kun after the Liverpool game, maybe, but we’ll see. It could all change if Kane limps off on Sunday.
Wasn’t Aguero on the bench at the same stage last season when Jesus started banging in the goals?, I’ll leave kane in for now got decent game’s coming up
Exactly Kralin. I got Sterling for Salah last week. He was already 4 points plus for me. Now Sterling has to score more than 8 points to balance things out, which doesn’t look impossible if he starts. Nkt worried too much right now if we compare both teams’ next few fixtures. Will be happy if Sterling scores a brace though
Yes Sterling is absolutely fine. Would like him myself but have had to settle for Sane for now.
Will be watching caretakered Man U with a certain amount of interest. Nice fixtures ahead.
Got Martial for Billing Kralin. Think UTD shall come to play with more attacking mindset now.
Not a bad swap, that.
The BPS is rubbish! Salah only on 1 point and Alisson on 2!
Just chill about that. He got us a goal, an assist, a clean sheet bonus. 24 points for me is a good return. Beats those crappy weeks when we get 4 points for our captain. You should see green arrows tonight, if you can be bothered to stay up.
I’m happy with the points and not being ungrateful but for someone who gets an assist, a goal and a clean sheet and many more shots on target, you would think earns more bonus points than a keeper with a clean sheet and 5 saves!
Does seem to be a bit of a witch hunt against Salah though
I haven’t the time or inclination to unravel all that but the big chances missed may play its part in his losing BPS. The fact he usually puts a big chance or two away doen’t seem to balance things. Personally I’m more than happy with 24 points for my captain.
But VVD has always been a BPS magnet, goals notwithstanding, so I suppose a sober analysis of what he does to get the points would stand those tearing hair out in frustration good stead.
Salah was dispossessed 11 times yesterday, that’s a lot of negative BPS points right there, Van Dijk was dispossessed 0 times!
I don’t disagree with VVD getting three. With Salah though it’s every week this is not the same with other players. He needs two returns just to be in the mix. If Hazardscores that’s pretty much 3 bonus
Hazard gets dispossessed a lot less and shoots less off target generally, plus he creates more big chances I reckon… It’s funny, Salah not getting bonus was one of the reasons I sold him
Liverpool keeping many cleanies isn’t good for Salah either, if Wolves scores then I imagine Salah would have gotten all 3 bonus…