Live Match Chat Game-week 1 FPL News
WE ARE OFF!! Welcome to live match chat as we commence this new season of bitter disappointment for many and ego boosting scores for a few. A lunch time kick off to get us going as we see the champions Leicester shoot a Tiger and then mount his head. Three O’clock sees five fixtures come our way. Newly promoted Burnley looks to drown the Swans with goals, the Pardewites take on the forever parked bus Baggies, Everton and the Spurs face off in what looks to be the marquee game for Saturday. In other action Boro looks to bore us against Stoke, Saints and the Redmond Bandwagon take on Watford and City pounds Moyes and his Sunderland side into submission in the last game.
Sunday has two games on the slate, The Cherries host the legendary Zlatan before we see an intriguing game between Europa slot favourites Arsenal and Liverpool.
Monday finishes off the GW when Chelsea look to get off on the right foot against The Hammers *Hint-pass the ball to Hazard, Antonio can’t defend.
Welcome to Live Match Chat Game-week 1 FPL News:
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Saturday 13th August:
12:30pm
Hull v Leicester
3pm
Burnley vs Swansea
Crystal Palace vs West Brom
Everton vs Spurs
Middlesbrough vs Stoke
Southampton vs Watford
5:30pm
Man City v Sunderland
Sunday 14th August:
1:30pm
Bournemouth vs Man Utd.
4pm
Arsenal vs Liverpool
Monday 15th August:
8pm
Chelsea vs West Ham
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Anyone thinking about bring in Caballero?
I’ve got Schmeichel so it’d be a straight swap. The dilemma is this: Get him and Pep buys a new keeper / Don’t get him and he goes up in value…
Gear – is Schmeichel your only keeper? presume zero itb?
Correct, I’d planned on going Schmeichel to Foster after taking advantage of Leicester smashing Hull…
That kinda didn’t work out!
Foster seems the safer move
no way man, I watched the game and I took from it that he is no where near good enough. Especially if they want to be competing for titles. Either Joe Hart is going to make it back in go or he is going to sign a new keeper. Maybe Caballero will make another appearance idk but it wont last, Caballero couldnt catch much he was just palming them straight back out and, against the wrong team that is going to cost goals Pep surely knows that
hey Luke – how realistic though is it that he will get a new keeper and that keeper will start straight away? He hardly dropped Hart for just the first game. I agree with you re Caballero btw.
I have no idea who he would or could sign and it will seem rushed, I coulda told him 3 months ago he needed a new keeper if he wants to play it out from the back. IDK why they left it so late, I’m sure Joe Hart will be ok for them this season but they shoulda looked to changing him sooner. I don’t rate Hart, but he is surely better then Caballero
Either way its good news, Joe Hart needs a kick up the ass as does Sterling. I hope for Englands sake Pep brings the best out of both of them, and Stones…
Thanks for the feedback, away at the moment so haven’t seen any of footy.
Morning all!
So what are our thoughts/plans for the GW2?
Think I might delete the game and free up around 4 hours per day!
Lmao ?
THinking about playing all out attack as its the most useless of all chips. I rarely have a good extra mid or attacker so I might as well use it now so I can play both Gray and Diomande.
That won’t be such a bad idea mate.. if ur defenders dont have good fixtures, it makes sense..
Morning Mitro.
Not sure yet but either Morgan goes or he rides the bench. Also Gray might go to a different 6.5. Mahrez I think will survive another week haha
I’m giving Gray another week, even though his fixtures only get worse. Early transfers last season always caught me out. Only way he is going is if a 6.5 scores a hatti today or tomorrow and I can make money off him
Yeah I agree Morgan is my main concern. I think Leicester defence yesterday was terrible. The Hernandez fella was complete and utter horse crap
Huth will be back though, at least..
Has Huth done much in preseason? I haven’t seen his name so I’m not sure if he’s match fit yet.
I’m willing to hold onto gray for a few more weeks, I remember having Austin from the start a few seasons ago and we know how that ended up! Leicester defence is a concern though and I might get rid of Morgan!
I agree if Williams is confirmed as starting he’s straight back in the team. It was only meant to be a one week punt to get the easy game vs Hull but that wasn’t to be.
You guys should be able to click my name to see my team now. :clap: :beer:
Thanks for reminding me – my link is now fixed…. I think!
Good morning everyone.
Great to to have the football back isn’t it?
Valencia, Ibrahimovic, Firmino today then Terry tomorrow. I like a weekend where I have fantasy interest every day.
Hey, ha I think I prefer it all in one day or two max, I don’t like 3 days :/ Next week we start on Friday night for some reason.
Like yesterday I had my B team playing tbh, the big boys are playing today
Hey luke
Yeah we have Friday matches now due to the TV deal – I must admit though, the idea of Premier League football at night will get me through Fridays at work!
Good luck today.
yea I like Fridays for sure, just not Mondays :p
Morning GP.
I’m so glad PL is back has been a long summer without it!! I have Valencia and Ibra today with Haz tomorrow so like you some interest in all 3 days.
Good luck Matt :thumbup:
Good luck to you too mate ?
That’s meant to be a smiley face
haha
Matt
No problem ?
Anyone see the Leicester game at greater length than on MOTD? If so, were they defensively as poor as two goals against Hull would suggest?
Wondering what to do with my FT/about benching Morgan.
Minus Foster sitting pretty on my bench I’m pleased with a score of 46 with some heavy hitters still to play.
One of the goals would have definitely been avoided had Kante been there, both Morgan and Drinkwater lost the guy who scored, both ball watching neither watching him. Kante would have been there for that IMO. Morgan will be on my bench next week with Amat starting for me instead.
They will probably get a few CS but nothing like the end of last season. Morgan was playing in a different position though
and Amat was very close to scoring yesterday and he got a CS so I will see how he goes for now
Cheers Luke. I had Amat too – how annoying to see so many points on my bench! Would have been a very good day indeed if I’d played the pair of them.
same here, we were all worried about starting cheap subs. Well starting wasn’t the issue, some of them were the highest scorer’s of GW1 so far, unreal lol. Im so glad I don’t have sub issues though cause almost all of them are 4.0’s I have. As I mentioned earlier I’m playing with the idea of AOA so I can play Diomande next week and Gray, seems like a waste but rarely do I have a good sub option to come on. And I dont really value that chip not even in a double gameweek
Luke GW4 could be a good time to play AOA with Hull and Burnley playing eachother could be a few goals there.
I didn’t even use that chip last year
Yea good idea Matt I might hold fire on that
No worries mate I hate the AOA chip too think it’s bloody pointless. If they brought in a chip that we could swap one player on our team with one on our bench it could be better.
I watched the whole game but Luke says it all. Except Morgan didn’t play in much a different position instead of playing RCB he played LCB which shouldnt have effect him that much.
Also Schmeichel’s distribution was very poor yesterday and a poor throw out led to Hull’s second goal.
Cheers Matt, how’d you get on yesterday?
Hey AT. I didn’t do as bad as I first thought as I’m fairly high up in my leagues. Got 47 points with Ibra, Valencia and Hazard to play but have 22 points on the bench sadly. What about you mate?
46 with all yours + Firmino with a similar amount on the bench. Thought the exact same as you but then saw everyone’s scores in my league haha
Yeah so it’s not all bad haha
Morning, chaps! Hope you all got off to a good start. I am quite happy – 60 pts with Shaw, Ibra and Hazard yet to play. Too many points on the bench, but will help to build value in the long term.
Since I could not watch Hull yesterday, how did Diomande do in general? Do you think it is worth the punt of downgrading Wickham to him and free up some funds?
Hmmm is my team linked now, I will let you guys laugh at my team this season
Yeah it’s linked Luke. You could still end up with a very good score with the players you have left.
cool, yea really hoping Sanchez smashes it today. Not many people have him, but not many people don’t have Kun either :/
Haha personally I hope Sanchez smashes every shot over the bar!! Yeah going without Kun was a bold move but if your midfield does the job then it’s a move that pays off.
Yea its probably just an experiment for a few weeks until I wild card, he is always in my team and he cripples it especially with the other guys like Ibra, Hazard and Sanchez. If he only scores one a game then its fine with me, just hopefully not braces or hattis, then I have made the wrong decision.
In terms of your suggestion about AOA and another chip. Yea I made a post yesterday which got lost, but I was saying also that they should get rid of AOA and make a new chip. You actually activate it after the gameweek starts and you can choose to swap players form your bench with your starting XI, and you can only uae it while the GW is live so you have from GW start deadline until 4 hours after the last match to use it.
AOA is useless IMO and they just needed a third chip and couldn’t think of any other ideas so shoved that in, you can almost guarantee that when you use it your defender gets a CS and your mid or striker gets a blank.
Yeah I agree with you the AOA chip seems like a chip they just threw in there last minute maybe if a load of people emailed and suggested dumping the AOA and changing the chip they might listen. Haha
I tried to email them yesterday complaining about the changes to the site lmao, when I tried to send the email it wouldn’t send and just kept opening google chrome lmao. So the same guys who messed up the site have also messed up the feedback form, priceless
Haha yeah they obviously knew people weren’t happy so didn’t want to hear about it.
Brilliant score xaoc!! I wouldn’t downgrade to Dio yet he was pretty attacking but Hull overall will more than likely find it hard this season so maybe just keep an eye on Diomande as he was lucky to get the goal it basically just flicked his studs after Hernandez kicked the ball.
Thanks Matt! Too early to plan any transfers anyway.
Actually, at this point I will not switch any of my mids as Redmond, Lalana and Mahrez scored yesterday. And Hazard is well… Hazard.
Deffence also looks promising, especially if City also start racking up cleen sheets and Stones keeps his place. And I am soooo happy for going De Gea > Foster as it actuallly gave me the funds to upgrade the mid.
P.S. what was the trick of linking your profile to your username here?
Linking team – go to the help page up top and the fifth option down explains how to do it
Yeah I won’t be making any changes till Friday night maybe Saturday morning but it’s always good to have an idea what I want to do.
Basically to link your team you go onto the Game week History page and copy that link then paste that link into your account here.
Matt we have a friday game next gw mate.. u could wait until thursday night or friday morning..
Snodgrass was probably their best player, Diomande had an ok game. When he scored it was a mirror bicycle kick with two hull players both kicking the ball in identical fashion it looked really cool but was hit n miss wihether it was Diomandes goal or not. Right place, right time it could have been.
Anyone is a better option then Place attack though, they only won 2 games in 26 for 2016 or something, that is damning. Relegation fodder if they don’t sign a striker soon.
Wait til we have seen all games, someone like Carrol may be a better option
I’m confident they will sign a striker. Pardew wants two!
6,5 strikers are not in my bracket, mate. Otherwise I would have started with Negredo. My other option is going for Stones, Shaw and two 4,5 defenders in order to bring him in (or in other words, downgrade Morgan). I am even tempted to do it now and face a 4pt hit as Negredo will probably increase in price by next GW.