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GW3 – Triple Captain. Red Arrow. Obviously.

Despite playing our Triple Captain, we somehow still ended the week staring at a red arrow.

To be fair, Haaland did his part. 9 points wasn’t quite the monster haul we’d dreamed of when deploying the chip, but it’s also not the dreaded blank that can so easily accompany a Single Gameweek Triple Captain. Tripled to 27, we’ll take it.

The problem was, quite literally, everyone else.

Not a single return from the other ten players. Szoboszlai and Cherki scraped together a clean-sheet point apiece, Verbruggen chipped in with a save point, and that was about as exciting as it got. Our defence proudly served up a trio of two-pointers, while three yellow cards gave us the considerably less impressive achievement of a trio of one-pointers.

Ouch.

Just to rub it in, our two highest-scoring players outside of Haaland were Kinsky and Le Fée.

Naturally, both were sitting on our bench.
When it rains, it pours.

Still, it’s early days. Our 47 points came in below the Gameweek average, but only by four. And while the fall from 525,349 to 880,579 feels fairly brutal, we were only around seven points away from a green arrow.

The margins at this stage of the season are tiny. A return here, a yellow card avoided there, or perhaps actually fielding one of the players who scores some points, and the picture looks very different.

Two chips down. Two red arrows.

This aggressive strategy is going brilliantly.

Our Gameweek 3 Result

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We have £0.4 in the bank and 2 free transfer to use ahead of GWXX. Let’s go see what was decided….

Our GW4 Transfer(s)

Last week we sold Mbeumo (8pts) to buy Cherki (3pts). You really could write the script on that one.

But have we learned anything? Not really. Well, maybe that a good fixture on paper doesn’t automatically mean the goalfest you’ve already decided it’ll be. And perhaps that just because a player hauled last week, there’s absolutely no guarantee they’ll do it again.

So, standard FPL thinking then.

But have we really learned anything? Clearly not.

The new lad has let us down and has been promptly shown the door. There are sound reasons behind the decision, of course. Pep may be gone, but it seems the new fella not only looks like him, he’s inherited his penchant for rotation too. Either it’s a touching homage to his predecessor, or City simply insist on buying every good midfielder available and the resulting rotation is too much hassle for us to bother with.

Either way, last week’s new boy becomes this week’s old boy.

Morgan Rogers comes in for Chelsea’s ‘plum home fixture’, with us — and seemingly every other FPL manager — hoping Hull choose this particular week to revert to the whipping boys we all assumed they’d be.

We all know how this ends.

We don’t have Palmer, and we don’t want to heap even more pressure on the aforementioned new boy, so João Pedro gets the armband.

Let’s hope he doesn’t let us down because, as we’ve demonstrated this week, our patience is very limited.

To confirm then we have SOLD Cherki and BOUGHT Rogers

Captain – João Pedro

Our GW4 team in full…

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