Live Match Chat Gameweek 17 FPL News
Welcome to Live Match Chat Gameweek 17 FPL News: After the excitement (maybe not!) of the midweek fixtures we are back with a long weekend of games beginning on Saturday lunchtime with Chelsea chasing records at Pardew’s Palace. We move swiftly on to four relatively dull looking games at 3pm, if we are being totally honest about it! It reads more like a relegation audition or next seasons typical Championship fixture list than any sort of Premier League bonanza. Ahem, sorry, we’re supposed to build you up into a frenzy of excitement to encourage the conversation about what is to come and what is happening aren’t we?! We’ll actually forgive you if you leave at 2pm and return at 5pm though, just this once! The evening game could actually be an interesting one as Man United visit West Brom, both of whom enjoyed midweek wins. Sunday begins with a south coast derby followed by arguably the clash of the weekend as Pep meets Wenger at the Etihad. At the same time as that one Spurs will seek to gain some ground on the leaders as they host Burnley. Our game-week closes out on Monday with another derby game, this time on Merseyside. Please join us to talk about the happenings on the pitch and share your teams joys or woes as the games go on. Rate my team posts are always welcome for the following week and will always be answered. Rant, rave or just wave, do whatever you want on here, it’s your platform as ever…
Saturday 17th December
12:30pm
Crystal Palace vs Chelsea
3:00pm
Middlesbrough vs Swansea
Stoke vs Leicester
Sunderland vs Watford
West Ham vs Hull
5:30pm
West Brom vs Man United
Sunday 18th December
1:30pm
Bournemouth vs Southampton
4:00pm
Man City vs Arsenal
Spurs vs Burnley
Monday 19th December
8.00pm
Everton vs Liverpool
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Hey guys, how’s it going? Anyone want to guess whether Friend makes his way back into the starting 11 this weekend? Trying to raise .3 to swap Kane for Ibra and I’d rather not lose any of my midfielders. Would McAuley to Friend be a decent enabler for the other transfer or is Friend coming back too risky? (Init already voted risky last night, lol). I actually think he’ll start tbh.
Pickford Heaton
Walker Ake Holebas McAuley Amat
Sanchez Hazard Siggy Eriksen Lallana
Costa Kane Anichebe
How dare you make a new thread when mine are still unanswered Red?
Hmmm complicated. You have much better defense than me though. Well, you have Walker, I have nobody. Hehe. Anyway. What to do, what to do? Hmmm.
Maybe use a magic stick? Jan Wildcard? Oooh what to do now? Hmmmmmmm, mids are decent indeed, job well done mate. Hmmm. As a Pool fan you don’t need Ibra? Maybe? And I see you don’t have Firminho, hoping he will get back to his old self soon though.
Haha, thanks Raz. Midfield looks decent on paper but my highest scoring mid so far this week was Sanchez with 5, lol. Hopefully Lallana comes through for me today. Don’t think I’ll be going back for Firmino again, not until Coutinho is back anyway. Had Firmino since week 1 and sold him for Eriksen before his big haul last week. One of the few transfers that worked really well so far this season!
Lol Red, that is if Firminho doesn’t bag a hatty tonight. 😉
Which he won’t.
Weird, I have a few players I don’t trust anymore in my squad and it just doesn’t sit well with me:
Smith, Holebas (versus big teams), Firminho, Kane, Carroll.
Yeah not sure worth the risk. Just go Chambers is the same price
Thanks Smash, much appreciated. Yeah, I was looking at Chambers but the offensive and BPS potential from Friend is really tempting. It’s risky but maybe only for this week. He’s bound to break his way back in soon and he’s one of the better budget defenders. Probably hang onto him for a while barring injury if I were to get him.
Yeah true I’d expect friend to come in Boro have hardly been firing in his absence
Red
I don’t want to sway you if you’re already set but I would be looking for guaranteed starters if I was bringing anyone in just now. I think Gibson and Chambers appear to be doing quite alright in there so I would go Chambers as opposed to Friend. I guess it depends though, can you afford to take the risk (i.e. are you happy to call upon two of Ake, Holebas and Amat every week?)
Thanks GP. I’d be in real trouble this week if Friend didn’t start as Ake and Costa are unavailable. Perhaps Chambers is the most sensible. I always get my head turned by cheap attacking defenders though, ha!
Red, what about Barragan? He seems to be starting and is cheap too.
Thanks Matty, I’ll take a look but I think he might be too expensive. My max to spend is 4.5 if I sell McAuley before Ibra goes up tonight, 4.4 if I wait. Shopping in the bargain basement mate!
No worries mate I’m pretty sure he’s 4.4 so you should be fine but maybe he’s changed.
Seriously tempted to have Aguero, Zlatan and Costa up top
It is ‘fantasy’ football smasher so why not?
Very true in the old days 3 big players up top was the way to go
Plus Alexis. 😉
On paper I still have a decent team but I switched around too much and it has gotten unbalanced. I need to be wiser. Plus, planning ahead with Ikea and ummmm Carroll plus REdmon (all I picked for the fixtures), really hasn’t paid off.
Yeah chasing fixtures can be damaging long term but it’s hard to find a balance
No, not even chasing fixtures. Like planning ahead. Soton had like 5 or 6 beautiful fixtures. Redmond just not good enough.
Ja, form all the way. Whenever i try rotate people according to fixtures is when chit goes wrong.
I fell in to the Redmond trap and looked at their fixtures when he hadn’t been playing that well. Did the same with Ichy.
Sometimes you gotta sit down plan and slowly execute and reap (hopefully).
Everything I plan is getting wrecked
I was sure to get in Zlatan when Costa got his 5th YC, but then again he scored the goal. plan 1 cancelled
I was going to sell Friend now but then he was brought from the bench and it looks like he will start from next week
plan 2 cancelled
I was going to sell Walker to get a Chelsea back when he lost the CS and then he had an assist and a BP
plan 3 cancelled
Plan 4 is to get Zlatan in for Kane.
Lallana or Origi injury ahead to rule out this plan too?
PS When will I be able to get a Chelsea back
Post a pic of your team?
Zlatan for Kane sounds sensible to me.
I would keep Walker for the season – he’ll get good points for attacks.
Defo plan to get a Chelsea back in as soon as possible. Take your pick. Azpi gets bonus pts and assists, Luiz is going to score from a free kick at some point and Alsonso gets attacking points.
Planning to take this week to fix my sitting duck (Kingsley) what do you guys recommend as replacement?
1- VanDijk
2- Gibson
3- Bertrand
4- Baragan
5- ?
How much money have you got Jog?
2.6
Thoughts on Jones?
Not bad but I’m not sure he has that spot nailed with Smalling returning a better question for the United Fans I think!
I think Jones might be number one at the moment. Smalling has hardly played this season even when he was fit
Jog.
Depends if u wanna bank some cash for further TFs
I’d go with one of the Middlesborough def,
Good fixtures and both nailed.
Yea forgot to mention that I do plan to bring back Aquero so Ill need at least 2M free
joga
Kingsley to Gibson, Barragan or Chambers I think.
Cheers!
Is Nyom going to the African nations?
Smash
He has been named in the 35-man preliminary squad and he was in the squad for the last competitive match so there will be a fair chance yeah.
Ah ok thanks GP. He’s not worth bringing in then.
How long will this be for?
joga
The tournament is from 14 January to 5 February 2017 but players can be called up from about two weeks before it. I think the majority of the African players should be leaving after the fixtures on 30th/31st December (some may stay until 2nd/3rd/4th January if the club and countries agree to this).
damn! so much for Nyom then
Origi and lalllana to save my GW, come on lads don’t me down!!!
Origi will come good, surely Everton cant hold them back. This cant end 0-0
FFS come on – I’ll take anything
Origi and lallana off!
I hate football….
Mane is not only shitting on my grave he is also selling my body parts on the black market…..c*nt