FF247 Team Gameweek 5

Fantasy Football FF247 Team Gameweek 5

GW4 went pretty well for us as we scored 64pts, 12pts above the average. Bearing in mind we captained the benched Raheem Sterling, who’s 30min cameo produced just 2pts for us, we were relatively happy, if somewhat annoyed with Brendan Rodgers! Our main performers were Fabregas, Costa and Di Maria late on in the gameweek, while Aguero chipped in with a goal and Alderweireld grabbed us a clean sheet on his debut. Poor returns from Mannone, Moreno, Wilson, Siggy and Welbeck were disappointing, but everyone has players with low scoring weeks and are part and parcel of the game, so no need to panic on those ones and we look forward to GW5 with confidence and excitement.

Last week…

Transfer for GW5
We have decided to hold our free transfer for this week as we feel there is nothing obviously wrong with our squad at the moment and none of them are injured so far as we know. We do feel that for GW5 we may lack some Spurs or Everton coverage, but we don’t feel the need to chop and change every week and it’s not like those team’s forthcoming fixtures are massively attractive anyway. We are also conscious that teams playing in Europe do tend to not always perform as well as expected after a midweek match and with both Everton and Spurs having played Europa Cup matches on Thursday, we’ll cross our fingers and hope for the best!!
After all, two transfers next week  may well come in handy!

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Line-up for GW5
As you can see we are playing Krul at home to Hull, despite Newcastle’s miserable form. Hopefully, Pardew has energised them this week (we were hoping he would of been booted out by now and Mr Defence, Tony Pulis, been installed – sadly it hasn’t happened).
Selecting the defenders was very tricky, but in the end we went with the attack minded Moreno, Taylor at home and Wilson at QPR. Benching Alderweireld was tough as the Saints have been very good thus far, but someone had to warm the bench and we hope that Stoke can be as tight at QPR as they were at the Etihad.
The midfield and forwards pick themselves and need little explanation! Welbeck is the only one that is on our ‘monitor’ list out of the front seven to be honest so he better start pulling up some trees at Villa as we have a huge list of players waiting to take his place. Well we say huge. Ok, it consists of just Pelle right now!

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Captain
We have chosen to give the armband to Costa. Pretty tough decision this week, with Siggy and Aguero also coming close. We felt that Costa is on fire and in this game form is key. We accept he is unlikely to score another hat-trick this week, but his record this season speaks for itself and he was given the luxury of a seat on the bench for most of Wednesday evening’s Champions League match. And anyone who suggests that Sunday will be a tight game, difficult for Chelsea…remember what happened at Goodison in GW3?! City don’t appear to be firing on all cylinders as of yet, which puts us off Aguero, while Siggy could easily do well at home to Southampton, but with the Saints showing some decent form so far, we have plumped with default Costa! Siggy is the vice captain this week.

Gameweek 5 Team (in text form – as promised!)
Keeper: Krul
Defenders: Moreno – Taylor – Wilson
Midfielders: Di María – Fábregas – Sigurdsson (vc) – Sterling
Strikers: Welbeck – Costa (c) – Agüero
Bench: Mannone – King – Alderweireld – Moore

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