Fantasy Football Live Match Chat Gameweek 29
Just the four games to trouble yourselves with this week, albeit they are spread over three days.
We begin on Friday with Fulaham welcoming Leeds. A contrast of styles if ever there was one, certainly on the touchline at least. Lady and the Tramp springs to mind. The Jacket vs The Bucket.
Saturday really just belongs to the FA Cup and as such we don’t get an actual FPL game until 8pm when Newcastle go to Brighton.
Sunday sees our final two games with West Ham vs Arsenal at 3pm and then Villa & Spurs finish our very short GW off at 7.30pm.
We then get a couple of weeks off as the International Break kicks in. We shall however no doubt have a few articles along the way to keep you entertained / informed.
The games in full…
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 Gameweek 29 from all at FF247!
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BAMPHINHA! What a start
Nice going Smash, did you end up going with Trossard after all?
Yeah Trossard is in on the FH. So no Lingard. Good thing the Fulham defender is last on the bench as I got the wrong CB
Treble West Ham against Arsenal seemed overkill and it was playing on my mind
Yeah makes sense, I think it’s a good pick – let’s see if it pays off
Hello everyone!
And thanks a lot for your work on the website. Like so many, I am mostly silent, but I pick lots of ideas from your articles and discussions!
Currently about 100K, and my plan was to bend my team towards GW29 (10 players actually playing), and then to WC.
So here is my first draft. 3.3 ITB.
I’d love to hear what you think about it!
I’m not sure if I am reading/interpreting this correctly, but if you’re planning for blank-gameweek29 the deadline was yesterday evening unfortunately
Looks like a wildcard draft to me
Sorry for the unclarity.
I have built my team for GW29 in the past GWs with my FTs. So I have 10 playing players without FH this GW (team not showed). With the probleme that now my team is very unbalanced (5 players from City+ManU+Pool…)
So I am wildcarding for the future, and this is my first draft!
I mostly like this. Like the defence. I’m not sure on Iheanacho up top as read Barnes isn’t that long but still could be great. I’m not sure I’d bother with KDB personally. I think we will see him less and less in the league now as they go for the other competitions and he’s really expensive. But he could be a good placeholder for Salah this week. I still kind of think Salah has to come good looking at the fixtures.
Might as well go Forster as back up keeper too
+1
Thanks a lot Smash!
I would prefer Vardy to Iheanacho, but I miss 1M for that. I could get it by downgrading Azpi to a 4.5, for instance.
As for Salah, I have been holding to him until recently, but since Xmas he has brought me nothing. He will wake up some day, but I prefer using the 12.5M somewhere else for now.
Excellent point for KdB. The eternal problem is who is more or less nailed for CIty, and it will only get worse…
And if my team stayed more or less like that with 3M or so ITB, I would indeed get a real second keeper.
I totally get that on Salah he’s been a disaster and yeah I should have sold him ages ago. However this run coming up is against all the sides that get hammered so I really think he comes good and I’d double up with Jota
Excellent point.
For now, I’d tend to hope that Jota would cover for that, and that worst case KdB would go for Salah… But I’ll definitely rework this team during the international break!
Smash, I knew that will never part with Salah.
You are the leader of the die hard Salah club
If I had an alternative I prob would have sold him. Though with that run that’s the time to buy
Totally agree. My team will need a major surgery to bring him back. On the top of that I am without a City mid after selling Gundo for Lingard this week.
Interesting, quite different from a similar plan on my end – many good options either way I suppose
My concern with the citeh boys is just rotation, they’re likely to perform if they play.
Yeah I love that. . I’d prob squeeze Dias in there instead of Stones. Which might mean Sanchez down to Forster and Targett down but think it’s worth it
Hmm yes, fair point – I don’t have my BB left so my bench can soften a bit, this also gives me Semedo or Boly over Coady :yes:
Yes, funny how different the teams are!
A reason for the difference is that you seem to look a lot at the fixtures, while I didn’t care too much.
I understand your choices. I particularly like that you do not overlook the Wolves like I do.
Personnaly, I would find TAA too expensive given his recent production, even with the great fixtures ahead. And you might like to have some Chelsea defense in there?
So I think that I’d do TAA+Stones->Rudiger+Dias in your case!
Odd – you could still have Dias and Stones (over prob Coady) by sacrificing one of Neto or Adams. They will prob either play or not and your bench is sufficient to cover
I like the TAA pick
Thanks Dreamers, I think I’d want a full playing side on the front eight because of the crazy value and amount of options there, so any sacrifices will have to in the defense
Hi Vinci. I can see lots doubling up with Chelsea assets but with Mendy/Rudiger/Alonso as opposed to Azpi.
Two Villa seems a bit much with their fixtures. I’ve never liked the pick 7 from 8 attackers but thats just me
Lots of decent picks in there
Thanks TheDreamlers!
Azpi semt more nailed to me than Alonso… With less attacking returns, probably. As far as Mendy is concerned, I am fearing the headacke with Martinez. Martinez could get out of the visit to Stanford Bridge with 12 points if he doesn’t conceide, and even 4 if he does!
Great point for the double Villa defense. I liked Fulham+West Brom in the next 2, and a possible DGW if I am correct. But I indeed overlooked the Pool+City in-between!
Thanks, 2 weeks of tinkeing are only starting 😉
And I am with you for the 7 from 8 pick. A ma afraid that Pep will solve the issue many times, though!
Dont overlook GW33 either. 3 v your current 4 City/Spurs might be better
In the coming weeks is it worth getting rid of City players?, League is already over I can see pep resting alot in the league soon to go all out for the champions League
I think its certainly worth considering. I think I may go for a 2 strategy but not sure really yet. Like a defender is unlikely to come on if benched so it might just mean you need a better bench.
I can see defender’s like Ake Laporte starting in the league especially if City progress further in the champions League
I’m going to hold stones, Dias and Gundo. I’m fine with any of them being rested due to their cost. Only Dias is expensive for his position
Yeah I think it is. Prob the two value ones Dias and Gundogan as they are the ones more likely to play. Later may make sense with fringe players but they will rotate
Is Forster the starting GK for Sou? or, still McCarthy will get some game?
It’s looking like it isn’t it?
Think Forster is number one now
Seriously considering switching McCarthy for Forster and playing BB this week. Can anyone think of a better upcoming week to play it?
The fixtures for GW30 are great with lots of potential benching headaches and I’m considering a BB. However, there’s DGWs coming and whilst I don’t know the specifics, we should know a lot more after this round of FA cup fixtures are played. Could also be a fairly large DGW in 35.
So, the answer is to wait and see what info comes out.
That’s interesting. Any idea which teams that’s likely to be?
I think he’s clutching tbh reading between the lines
Only if we get the “spectator” move of GW36 fixtures.
I would wait but I don’t rate MCI to keep a CS v Lei, if you do then it’s a good week to do it (barring of the risk of future double weeks)
With those fixtures, I think it warrants serious consideration
See how the international break goes, but your team looks well-suited for a great BB week
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Grealish out for this weekend. Link (https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/truth-jack-grealishs-injury-england-20217948) in the tweet also indiciates he “remains touch and go for the home match against Fulham on Saturday April 3”.
He could play or be out for the season. Dean Smith has admitted to holding back information, so I’d hold off before other sources indicate something new. The man cannot be trusted.
Think there’s to big a deal being made about him withholding info. He’s been back on training field. Prob training on his own. Prob not a straightforward injury and just not ready
I mean he lied, and admitted to doing this purposely, then ranted about the fpl community and had the team guidelines restrict(/ban) the use of it.
I don’t mind it really, if he believes this is the best way to manage the team that’s fine.
For the purposes of fpl, I would not trust him