FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW3
The ‘W’ word…
Welcombe to FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW3. After a rather impressive 95pts in GW1 we were brought back down to earth in GW2 with a somewhat mediocre 52pts. We won’t complain though as it was 11pts above the average and resulted in a green arrow, lifting us to circa 83k.
Two of our defenders accounted for close to 50% of our points. Lucas Digne returned an assist, a clean sheet and two bonus points. Digne’s points were of no surprise to us. However, John Lundstram picking up a goal, a clean sheet and three bonus points led to one of the management committee hollering for doughnuts! Aside from a goal from Raheem Sterling the rest of our team did SFA.
We move onto GW3 with 2FT’s burning a hole in our pocket. Obviously we’re happy with the start we have made but we do have a number of concerns. With Liverpool yet to pick up a clean sheet do we need to double up on their defence? The form of Ayoze Perez is also a concern. While the form a certain ginger midfielder has caught our eye.
Our GW3 Result…
Let’s go see what was decided…
Our GW3 Transfer(s)
Wildcard. Must resisit the urge to Wildcard…. But everybody else is Wildcarding, KDB looks nice and shiny, Pukki is made of goals, Salah is dead, long live the Mane. Etc, etc…
To be fair we did resist, but it was hard and it was a fight. Especially given that at least half of the committee are on a Wildcard of their own. Why didn’t we? Well, we just couldn’t actually come up with that many (worthy) changes which would justify it. KDB seemed to be the main lure but ripping up a decent squad just to accommodate a player who will probably get injured again in the next few weeks just wasn’t cutting it.
Beyond that though we were a bit stumped, truth be told. We had 2 FT’s and £0.0m ITB, a few players we were unhappy with (looking at you Perez) and a few we coveted (KDB of course) but no real way of getting there without losing some other big hitters. So instead we lowered our expectations (and budget) and turned to the other apple in our eye; Martial. Priced at £7.7m and playing OOP (up top) for a Manchester United team who look like they may actually want to attack for the first time since Fergie left seems pretty alluring.
But we still needed to raise some dough to get him and as a result we turned our attentions to the other end of Old Trafford and new recruit Obi Wan Bissaka. Since him and Maguire have come in they do look a whole lot more solid and dependable and it took a wonder strike from wolves to breach them on Monday. But who to lose to accommodate them? Well, Perez, obviously. As for the defender involved we didn’t, ideally, want to lose Robertson but sitting with double Liverpool coverage at the back with them looking less than assured and with him being the premium priced one we had to wave goodbye to Robbo for a bit. We are sure we shall meet again one day…
To confirm then we have SOLD Robertson & Perez and BOUGHT Wan-Bissaka & Martial
Captain – Raheem Sterling. Vice Captain – Harry Kane
Oooof, this was a close call. Raheem edged Harry out by three votes to two. This may actually go against the grain when the final captain stats emerge on Friday night but we do feel that Sterling is almost approaching ‘perma capo’ status, such is his form. And we all know what ‘Arry did last season in some of these so-called ‘easier’ fixtures, Cardiff comes to mind. As does a phrase used earlier: SFA.
Our GW3 team in full…
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Good luck to all this GW. Keeping my Double D defece. Will see how that goes. Have 0.9ITB to play with next GW. How is it folks?
Ryan
TAA VVD Zinchenko
Dendoncker Salah Sterling(C) Siggy Mount
Vardy Pukki
Button Greenwood Kelly Smith
Yep, good to go imo!
Cheers Zed.
Top of the morning to you!
I have big troubles picking up my starting XI and I am still sober :wacko:
I started listing all the options I am considering, but it’s one big mess, as I am currently on 4-5-1, but I don’t really like it, as I still don’t know if Digne is playing, I think Arsenal will score, Dendoncker is Dendoncker etc
Ederson
TTA, VVD, Digne, AWB
Martial (VC), Sterling (C), Salah, Perez, Dendoncker
Jota
Could you guys do me a bd gift and help out, please? Who would you play? Any help would be greatly appreciated :good2:
“I have big troubles picking up my starting XI and I am still sober”
Think I might have a few tricks in the bag to battle this problem… :drinks:
Digne will play tonight, Marco Silva said he’s fit to play tonight! To me Greenwood is the obvious one to bench, but King/Dendoncker/Lundstram would all be heavily :aikido: for the last spot of your first-11… Dendoncker just played 90mins last night so I might just leave him out, so it’s between King/Lundstram… Think I’d play Lundstram as, even though King might get a pen against City I think him scoring is quite unlikely… So I’d bench Greenwood, Dendocker, and King here…
Thanks ZL! I went for 4-4-2, and Pukki over King to solve my dilemma
This is my experimental ‘B’ team. 5 big hitters. One from each of the top 5 teams. Mane is in cos otherwise it’s just impossible with Salah. I’ll let you know how it goes!!
Yeah I like this a lot better than the one with Aguero… This looks very good actually, for a top-heavy team that is! Let’s see how it goes!! :good2:
It feels strange not to go with Agüero what with all the years and all the fantasy points he’s bestowed upon us. I’ll update you on this teams progress. It was on 91 points overall before the WC
Yeah it might feel strange, but a good FPL manager knows when to move on, so to speak
He’s getting older and he used to have a glass leg, so I can’t see him getting a lot of minutes by Pep especially when CL kicks in… Sterling to me is the new kid on the block, he’s the new Aguero in a way, only he’s a mid which yields him even more fantasy points! Also I think Auba and Kane just are better (read younger) than Kun and you can’t really have them all! Now watch Kun bag in a hatty on Sunday! 😆
Ok, here is my GW3 team.
Did Siggy->Sterling, and Aguero->Pukki
Does my team look good to go, or do I need some movement around of players?
Captain will be Sterling, vice – not sure yet.
Thanks
Yeah I like those moves!! :good2:
thanks ZL.
Is it worth swapping a Pool defender for Dendoncker, due to their lack of clean sheets, or stick with it for this week?
Swap bench order?
Definitely not!! Liverpool will keep cleanies this season, it’s merely been 2 GWs! Also Dendoncker just played 90mins last night!
Might swap Dendoncker first on the bench though…
Thanks ZL.
All done
Good luck :biggun:
Good luck, may the force be with us!! :wizard:
sorry, accidently selected that emoji..lol
Morning all. As everyone shifts away from the big defence, I think I’m going to rock five at the back this week. What do we reckon? I can even see King getting benched tbh.
Son should almost certainly be KDB but live by the sword and all that.
TIA
Looks about right that AT.
Cheers, Init. Undecided on King or Dunk at the moment. If in doubt, probably best to favour the attacker?
Yeah, maybe, but Dunk has a decent chance on clean sheet against us, whereas King probably will blank against City, I’d just play the likelihoods really!
Brighton are 7/4 to keep a clean sheet, Bournemouth are 5/6 to score, with King at 4/1 any time. Hmmmmm
Well there you have it
Yeah that’s the best First-11 out of that lot this week… Just to be clear, too, not everyone is shifting away from a big defense, I’m still rocking a very heavy defense this week, Robbo/Trent/Digne/Zinch… Good luck to us all!!! :aikido:
Obviously meant it figuratively but loads are bringing in Lundstram 😆
Yeah I’m not doing that either :aikido: :laugh2:
Brave AT, I wanted Son in but ended up getting KDB. Will give Son this GW before bringing him in.
Good luck this week!
Brave or stupid, Haz!
If he starts he could well be a better bet than KDB! No doubt he won’t, KDB will get a brace of assists and I’ll be switching them 😆
Good luck to you too