FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW34
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Mane is more explosive…
We shall expand on the title of the article later but for the purposes of this week he certainly wasn’t. In fact he was our lowest scorer with just the 1 solitary point. And to think that we made him our Vice Captain, the margins between success and failure can be that thin. Fabianski did little better with 2, although that was to be expected. Wilson matched him and Barnes fared little better with 3. Alexander-Arnold managed an assist for us but still only brought home a 4. Fortunately the rest weighed in rather more heavily. If Wan-B’s 7 was unexpectedly welcome then Digne’s 8 was a bolt from the blue. Our transfer in last week was Maddison and he ‘did the biz’ with a goal, although disappointingly didn’t earn any bonuses for doing so. Salah did likewise. The star turns were Hazard and Vardy with 16 and 32 respectively, the latter being doubled as our captain.
All in all then it was a satisfying week as we returned 88 points, 52pts above the average and another green arrow which sees us sitting pretty in 6,813th place overall.
Last week’s result;
The ‘chip plan’ is still in full force and this week we have played our Wildcard with a view to Bench Boosting in GW35. Let’s go see how that went…
This week’s WILDCARD –
Much of our squad picked itself and in all honesty it was again a fairly brief committee meeting. That’s not to say we agreed wholeheartedly on everything – let us take you through the squad.
We’ll start at the back and our keeper duo of Lloris & Foster. Spurs have great (and mostly home) fixtures for the rest of the campaign and some defensive coverage was preferred. With Poch having plenty of defenders to juggle we feel Lloris is the most nailed.
With Lloris set to face Huddersfield in GW34, Brighton’s Ryan was no longer needed so we plumped for Foster who has a seemingly easier DGW35 on paper which should be beneficial for our Bench Boost.
We’ll now skip to the forwards as once Kane was ruled out, our trio of Kun, Jimenez & Deeney was the obvious line up as is further evidenced by many of your RMT’s. We did flirt with the idea of having Vardy for this week and switching to Troy next week but having witnessed Arsenal away from home last week we are comfortable with the idea of Deeney inspecting their cojones once more.
Our midfield and defenders very much go hand in hand as the final nitty gritty selections were a pair off between Doherty and a 4.2mln mid and Bennett and JWP. The latter won the vote but could easily have gone either way.
Our biggest dilemma was our Liverpool contingent of TAA, Mané & Salah. Should we pack our squad full of DGW’ers or keep faith that the trio should be retained with fixtures vs Cardiff & Huddersfield coming up after this week’s visit of Chelsea?
Like any good high level negotiations we reached a happy compromise. We have kept two (Salah & TAA) and dumped Mané in order to double up on Spurs’ match vs Huddersfield and then subsequent DGW35. However, we have left cash in the coffers to afford to buy Mané back for GW36 (vs Huddersfield) at the expense of Eriksen. It was a toss up between which of Salah or Mane to approach Cardiff with / without, which brings us back to our title; once upon a time, just before Salah scored 4 and got an assist vs Watford one of our committee infamously said we should go with Mane instead because ‘he is more explosive’. It reared it’s ugly yet funny head again this week. Suffice to say we begin with Salah.
Son completes our Spurs trio – with Kane out we are hopeful that Son can continue his season long form.
Jota is our final pick. With Wolves decent fixtures and just the league to concentrate on we are happy with the double up with Jimenez.
Bennett & TAA are joined at the back by Laporte and our pair of Seagulls, Duffy & Dunk. All three were a relative no-brainer. City have good fixtures and Laporte appears to be Pep’s favoured one while Duffy and Dunk will hopefully bring in a couple of clean sheets in their DGW34.
We plan to sell Dunk for either Bednarek or Valery in front of DGW35 as we have no interest in doubling up on Brighton for those fixtures!
And Mané is planned to come in for Eriksen ahead of GW36. They’re the plans anyway, whether they happen is a different matter.
To try and preempt some of your questions:
No Man United or Arsenal players were even mentioned in the meeting!
Camarasa was briefly looked at as our cheap midfielder but it would have meant benching Jota in GW34 so we didn’t see the point as he’d be no good in our Bench Boost in DGW35.
Raheem Sterling was for a long time in our thoughts instead of Salah before we decided to retain one of our Liverpool midfielders.
So this is our lot. Much of it is ‘template’, some you may question but it is what it is and we hope it gives good balance throughout and serves us well not only for BB35 but also the rest of the season.
Our Captain is Son
One of our more daring / outlandish (delete as you feel appropriate) committee was outvoted as our more conservative / boring (delete as you feel appropriate) members rejected the claims of DGW’er Duffy. To appease then the Irishman is our vice in case Poch goes all rotation crazy vs Huddersfield and gives Son the weekend off.
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Yes, I’m going with auba just beacuse its so boring to go with Deeney or someone like that. Could go either way. And three Brighton players this week, two next week, will bring in a watford defender, probably….
BB in 35….
Good to go?
Auba for Vardy?
Auba is being played out on the left a lot lately and its not suiting his game imo.
I know its risky, but I want something that makes it a bit more fun. Maybe, maybe go with laca instead since auba played 90 mins last night and laca only 60…
If you’re playing for fun then go with what you have. Simple really.
Well, one player is for fun, 14 is dead serious!
Current thinking is this. Any thoughts
Smash,
I think you should definitely back yourself over this Llorente selection. If he does get a couple against Huddersfield and you don’t buy him then you will kick yourself.
Yeah thanks GP I’ll see what Poch says but think I will. Worse case just ship him out and downgrade someone. It’s Laporte, Jonny and Hojbjerg vs Kolasniac, Doherty and Romeu? I think
Laporte, Jonny and Romeu sorry vs Kolasniac, Doherty and Hojbjerg
Definitely. Just switch even if it means a -4 as lots of folk will be taking hits next week (even those just wildcarded probably).
Even though I’m not a fan of Arsenal just now and have told countless people to ditch, the combo with Kolasinac, Doherty and Hojbjerg does strike me as being more likely to return attacking points.
Smash,
I think Moura more likely to start than Llorente against Huddersfield with Son up top. I think Llorente may come on for the last 20mins.
Not what happened last time but possible
Hi All,
Option 1 or 2?
Think I prefer two. Well I don’t think Long is a decent option it’s fair to say.
Is this a WC squad with a BB ahead?
Hi GP!
yes that’s right!
You set with your team?
Yeah mate it’s done. See previous article.
Option 1 has a lot more battery!
Thanks Frenchie!
Just worried Sterling might not start hence option 2!
So here is my team. I did it before seeing the site team, I promise!
I was actually a bit disappointed they were so similar.
But again the site team is doing very well, so it may be a good sign.
Liverpool Plan A is Sterling to Mané and Deeney to Firmino in GW36.
Plan B is just Sterling to Salah.
Any advice? I still have 3.3 itb so could improve a thing or two.
Last thoughts were a punt on Ramsey instead of Jota, and also not completely convinced on Laporte.
@Frenchie. Really like the colour scheme of your team
Looks a good side. The only concern is who will get rotated in GW35 from City and Spurs this weekend. All in all a very good side
Thanks Horse, getting that coulour scheme was my best achievement so far
Might get Salah directly instead of Sterling like site team, but still not sure about that.
I see you are a Cookie convert with that captain pick anyway! 😉
Haha yes but I only have one Brighton, so this is my coverage for the potential 2 clean sheets
WC team good to go or any last minute changes I should make? 0.7 ITB, planning to do Vardy > Lacazette next week and play my bench boost
Looks tidy Veer, good job.
Probably play JWP ahead of Bennett myself but that’s maybe just me.
Afternoon all
Current WC team for GW34, thoughts?
I have 2.1 ITB.
Hey Mitro. Nice looking side. I like the Foster Ryan combo. I think I would prefer Duffy over Dunk. I don’t know how nailed on Kiko and Vertonghan are. Laporte seems like a better option than Kiko.
Are you planning to get any scousers in for GW 36?
Hi Horse,
I have left some money to bring in either mane/salah.
“Hi Horse” – that tickled me
Looks good on the whole Mitro – get Duffy for Dunk or Cookie will never speak to you again. And captain him.
TGP. Great article. Many thanks
Tinkering with my WC.
What’s your thoughts on Robo vs TAA + 1m?
Really all depends what that cash gets you elsewhere.
I have TAA and have had him for a bit. The assists and bonus numbers favour Robertson more but I don’t think either are bad alternatives.
If it is a straight fight and you have the cash to burn, you probably get more for your money, and a lack of a risk of tactical substitution or rotation with Robertson.
Here’s my latest line up. I got 3.8m itb
GW35 Vardy -> Kun
GW36 Eriksen -> Mane
Thoughts?
Really like your thinking there, Horse. I would have sold Mane for someone else if it wasn’t so much to buy him back (which I’d want to do!). I’d say you’re hot to trot, personally.
Cheers Swirly I missed the Manewagon and all his points, I went TAA Robo and Salah instead. Ho hum