Finalised Fantasy Football 247 FPL Team – GW3
We pre-released our team on Wednesday evening, suggesting that we were just going to make one change. However, as you know, rumours of a hamstring injury to Chelsea striker Diego Costa were beginning to surface, hence we needed to wait for today’s press conferences to clarify the situation with him and indeed everyone in our squad after a busy week of Champions League, Capital One Cup and Europa League action. Jose Mourinho confirmed that Costa is “a big doubt” for the game vs Everton and hence we have decided to sell him, despite the injury not believed to be as serious as first thought. We could have benched him, but we have decided instead to buy Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge. This is a move not just for GW3 but for the medium term as Liverpool have a great run of fixtures coming up and we had no cover from them. For a team that has become free scoring, we felt cover in this area would be essential sooner rather than later and Costa’s injury presented us with the excuse to invest in Liverpool.
To supplement Sturridge we needed to raise 1mln and so we had to use our 2nd free transfer and we have sold Joel Ward and bought Newcastle’s Paul Dummett. We explained our preference for the Newcastle defence on Wednesday and although we would have preferred Daryl Janmaat, price dictated that Dummett was our only option.
Stevan Jovetic remains our captain for this week, with Gylfi Sigurdsson the vice captain.
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Hi guys
I’ve been sick all week, but can’t miss a week of fpl so here I am today! I hope to be online more consistently as the school year starts (!) lol! But don’t wory, I’ll only be online when all my homework’s done. Unless it’s a Friday. Anyway…
I’ve not been keeping up with price changes and have already lost team value!! Not good.
So thoughts on these two transfers? No Chelsea defense scares me but I plan to fix that next week. Somehow.
Something I do like is I can sell any of my strikers for a straight swap for costa when he’ll inevitably back next week. Problem is if he’s still fit this week and it’s just mourinho’s mind games. Ah we’ll see.
Any replies appreciated!
Never mind…
I’ll play it safe and just sort out the defence for now.
Krul and azapi in for Luis and de gea.
Maybe ill be interesting next week…
Scratch that, I’m captaining siggy.
Ah I don’t know maybe I won’t.
We’ll see. Lol!
I posted this on the last article but it literally was the last post. What do people reckon to this team?
1FT used and 1 remaining.
Shadow..
Why Debuchy benched vs Leic..?
Maybe swap him for Terry vs Eveton.
That’s the only move I would make Terry – Debuchy
A nice team overall but Dzeko captain seem a bit risky IMO considering Aguero really could start and considering the form of Jovetic too.
Very nice mid but I think I’d keep the extra ft and maybe think about upgrading mata to di maria.
I am wondering where he’ll be played but I think he proves this season that it doesn’t matter – it takes a player to be man of the match in the champion’s league final not playing in his preferred position!!
Not sure about caulker long term but I guess that can be fixed later considering the home fixture.
Yeh the captain and the Terry or Debuchy were my main quandaries. Captaincy may well change before half 11 tomorrow yet!
Played Terry on the suspicion that because I’ve just brought naismith in then it’ll end up 0-0! Probably not the best justification tbf..
Evening all. I’d play both Terry and Debuchy over Caulker.
admin i have just one ques plz ansss … y we have de gea in our team ???
@Danirao, it was a simple look at the fixtures at the start of the season that made us lean that way. Obviously it hasn’t worked out well, but another game or two considering their fixtures is probably the mindset if they can’t get a clean sheet by then, then a change might be in the cards assuming there are no other pressing needs.
Find this hard to believe…
Hello! Could you please give me suggestions on my wildcard team? Was thinking about upgrading Cattermole – maybe by downgrading Clyne and/or Roberton.
Bonny
Nice team there. I would leave Robertson and maybe straight swap Cattermole for Andy King of Leicester. You only need a playing substitute anyway but Cattermole is too prone to being booked and sent off for him to be a viable option, in my opinion.
+1
Please rate this? Used my Ft on Costa – Balotelli. What should I look to do in the next few weeks?
Thanks
Racko
Lack of Man City or Chelsea coverage is a worry.
Depending on how Balotelli starts his Liverpool career, I would try to raise funds to upgrade either he or Sturridge to Aguero. To do this I would downgrade Rooney (and hold Mata as Utd coverage). Remy might be an interesting way into the Chelsea side if that move comes to fruition. But consider moves to get a player from each of Liverpool, Chelsea, City and Arsenal sooner as later.
According to some previews Mata won’t start. But your priority should be to have 15 players who start.
Gkw – that from Tony Gale interview or somewhere else?