FF247 Site Team Game-week 6 Wildcard

FF247 Site Team Game-week 6 Wildcard

Welcome to the FF247 Site Team Game-week 6 FPL Tips article. Ouch. Oh dear, if we thought GW4 was bad then GW5 was a complete disaster. 41 points saw us fall from a rank of 78,944 to 262,127. Only our forwards did anything and we even cocked that up. It started of course with our capo decision, which ultimately led us towards Ibra after it looked all the way as if we would skipper Iheanacho at home to Bournemouth. A goal, an assist and a bonus point later and Ibra had a lot to do 24 hours later – the fact that he got given a ‘dodgy’ assist probably saved us and our headquarters of being smashed up by those who were voting for Nacho. Let’s not forget Costa – he scored for us vs Liverpool – we need all the good news we can cling on to. Our next best scorer was Nathan Redmond – and only because the Saints kept a clean sheet, which just about sums our week up…

Now of course we aren’t of a nature to panic and we had planned the Kun return carefully, to the extent of making a conservative transfer last week and saving two free transfers to bring him back in this week. It all sounded good in theory but whether it was the disappointment of a poor score and a sudden rank plummet or having spent all week looking at everybody else showing off their shiny new wildcard teams on the site boards with all these trendy point scoring players we can’t be sure. Or maybe it was just the sheer horror of looking at the team again in the fresh light of day, like that ill judged drunken one night stand, we all know that horrible morning after feeling when you take a peak and painfully pull the duvet back over your head… Either way, despair in the camp, together with underperforming players and possibly other players who may prove out of reach in a couple of weeks have forced our hand and so we have decided to act decisively to arrest the decline and play our wildcard.

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THE NEW TEAM IN FULL FOR GW6!

Key Decisions
We won’t bore you with a justification for every player, you don’t need one as our Tips article earlier on in the week did a good enough job of that (explaining the players we mean, not boring you, calm down GP!) as it covered a good number of our picks and a few others besides – GW6 Tips – Wildcard Special What we will do is give you a brief rundown on the key decisions and why we made them.

No Ibra!
This was a tough call and it could come back to bite us but the general consensus was that his absence and subsequent spare funds allowed us to upgrade in midfield to the likes of Sterling and Firmino but also balance the defence a little better with some coverage from the likes of Arsenal, Spurs and Everton rather than scratching around for bargain basement signings from the lower clubs in the hope that one or two may occasionally post a clean sheet. We are playing the odds a bit here but as they say you never see a poor bookie!

Rashford
Straight from playing the odds to taking a gamble. Or is it? His stats say not but Jose will dictate whether it is. We just felt that he would almost certainly now be handed a few starts to prove his worth and whenever that has happened in the past he almost always has. He’s worth the punt for now and if he doesn’t deliver in the next few games then we will reassess as there are a couple of other options in that price range – Deeney was very close to being in there anyway and we have an eye on Austin to see if he can nail a place in the starting line-up at Southampton, either would be suitable replacements.

Sanchez or Kevin De Bruyne?
Ideally we’d have had both, of course, but it would have meant too many other compromises. It was difficult to split the two but we went for Sanchez mainly because he is playing up front at the moment, unless Perez can force his way in, which he may do sooner or later. But also because the alternatives to both meant a choice between Sterling or the likes of Cazorla / Ozil and we felt that a combination of Sanchez and Sterling was better.

Captain – Sergio Aguero
Despite not having scored against Swansea since his debut game back in 2011, and having not scored in 7 games against them since, quite frankly we are just too scared not to give it to him given how City have been shaping up under Pep! Yes, we are going with the sheep strategy on this one.

Conclusions
– The team isn’t necessarily perfect for this week alone but nor should it be – you pick a wildcard team for the long haul not just for one week.

– We’ve taken the odd punt (Rashford) but generally stuck to the tried and tested players in terms of form and team performance / potential.

– We’ve tried to go for an overall balance with predominantly players from the stronger teams throughout right from the keepers to the the forwards.

– If the comments on the boards this week have proved anything it is that there is more than one way to skin a cat, as we have seen hundreds of different interpretations of a wildcard team, and who is to say which one is the best, ours probably isn’t but this is what we picked and we can but hope it does well.

– If anyone has specific questions about the selections above then we are sure that some of the committee who selected it will be online tomorrow to answer them.

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