FPL Team News and Predicted Line-ups Gameweek 1
If you can’t do something properly don’t bother doing it at all…
The above title is a bit of a motto of FF247. And it sort of explains why we used to do this article but then suddenly stopped. The truth of the matter is that it simply became too much work for the team. Following every word of every press conference and then analysing that info and translating it into a line-up… twenty times, was quite frankly a bit too time consuming. The knock on effect was that it also pulled some key personnel away from the site on a Thursday and Friday. So we got into a situation whereby we had RMT’s stacking up and nobody to answer them! Would you rather the likes of Smash, GP and Init be stuck behind a computer waiting to report on information that you could simply Google or see on Twitter for yourself or would you prefer them to be on site answering your very own specific FPL question? In some cases it would be the former but hey ho….
However… it seems that this was always our most viewed article each week. Yep, we’d send our team out each week to research and write thousands of words and it turns out that people would rather just look at a picture of a team sheet with their FPL player of choice on it! Don’t worry, we get it, we do it ourselves.
As such we always wanted to bring it back… but without the hassle. Over the past 18 months we have had offers from other websites to share their info but we never landed on one that we trusted had done their due diligence. We would never present something to you that we didn’t trust in. During the Euros though we found a common ground amongst the team who were all using, and somewhat trusting, Drafthound with their line-ups. Turns out they do FPL ones too! Having researched their accuracy Init & Mito both declared them to be over 95% accurate, which is bloody good in that particularly precarious game of managerial mind games, subterfuge and downright lies.
To make something of a mockery of our above statement of doing stuff yourself we are therefore delighted to delegate all responsibilty to our new partners in the weekly game of Guess Who – Drafthound!
Quite how this article will look in a few weeks is anybody’s guess but we are starting it out as simple as possible with just the line-ups as predicted by Drafthound and as ever we shall take it from there and it will no doubt evolve over time so just bear with us on that journey.
Two things to bear in mind;
- We trust Drafthound. They will have done their research into all this, especially given what they do, just as we used to, but these things are a ‘best guess’ exercise at best. Usual leeway should be accounted for, etc.
- Given their time and effort in providing this content for us it would be rude not to occasionally click on the Drafthound link and check out their own fabulous content as there are FPL articles aplenty on there too.
This article was last updated on: Friday 13th August @ 14:00 GMT.
Arsenal vs Brentford (a) 13th August 8pm
Aston Villa vs Watford (a) 14th August 3pm
Brentford vs Arsenal (H) 13th August 8pm
Brighton vs Burnley 14th August 3pm
Burnley vs Brighton (a) 14th August 3pm
Chelsea vs Crystal Palace (H) 14th August 3pm
Crystal Palace vs Chelsea (a) 14th August 3pm
Everton vs Southampton (H) 14th August 3pm
Leeds vs Man Utd (a) 14th August 12.30pm
Leicester vs Wolves (H) 14th August 3pm
Liverpool vs Norwich (a) 14th August 5.30pm
Man City vs Spurs (a) 15th August 4.30pm
Man Utd vs Leeds (H) 14th August 12.30pm
Newcastle vs West Ham (H) 14th August 3pm
Norwich vs Liverpool (H) 14th August 5.30pm
Southampton vs Everton (a) 14th August 3pm
Spurs vs Man City (H) 15th August 4.30pm
Watford vs Aston Villa (h) 14th August 3pm
West Ham vs Newcastle (a) 15th August 2pm
Wolves vs Leicester (a) 14th August 3pm
Thanks for reading FPL Team News and Predicted Line-ups Gameweek 1. This article was written by Fantasy Football 247 and Drafthound
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After a not so bad last season, I’m gonna be more active this season on the site. Good luck to you all, I hope your captains score double digits.
This is my final team (for the moment) What you guys think?
Bench is a bit expensive imo.. But nice team….
Solid looking team.
My worry would be who to leave on the bench each GW though.
DCL + 6-6.5 mil mid (currently El Ghazi) or Toney + 8 mil mid (If so who?)?
There are plenty of options for a £8m Mid!!!!
Here’s my final version. Suggestions guys.how does it look?
Good team, I don’t like Everton’s pre-season results at all, so no Digne for me, I would go for Shaw.
Which of these would prefer? What haven’t I thought about…
1)
2)
3)
Excellent team OD!
Was looking at #3
Cheers Bees, all decent options probably- just can’t decide
I like your first team best.
Like your teams apart from the forwards. But I have no idea…
We agree on at least one of DCL or Antonio though
Yeah but I think you need 2… you think Wilson will outscore them?
The one without Digne.
Is Grealish set to start or are we still guessing?
I think so, but I also think Torres could start – wishful thinking really, not much to go by
He has to start, it would be crazy if he didn’t, £100m and doesn’t start!
With city you will always be guessing.
First draft… any opinions?
Looks good Raz
Take some time to appreciate the colour scheme 😉