Live Match Chat Gameweek 18 FPL News
Welcome to Live Match Chat Gameweek 18 FPL News: “It’s Christmastime; there’s no need to be afraid”… Sir Bob obviously never played FPL at Christmas. Then again, “And the Christmas bells that ring there,
Are the clanging chimes of doom”, maybe he did! It’s the day after the big one and we all wake up to find out whether the FPL Gods will be kind to us with rotation or if they will kick us in the Bob Geldofs. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas Day with the family, or doing whatever it was you did. It’s over now though, back to the (second) day job – FPL. And we are in full swing today with no less than 8 games. Cruelly, at least for those who indulged properly, we begin with an early kick off which means it’s an 11.30am deadline today. We hope this news doesn’t come as a shock to many and equally that if it does that you are reading this prior to 11.30am! We have the early game followed by six 3pm kick offs before Hull and Man City round off Boxing Day for us with the evening game. The GW itself then continues on Tuesday and Wednesday with a solitary game on each day. Just for housekeeping purposes there is a break on Thursday but then GW19 begins on Friday and there is a game every single day then up until, and including, the following Wednesday. Just to confuse matters that run of games spans two GW’s – the break is between Sunday and Monday when 19 ends and 20 begins. Worry not though, we shall keep you well informed of when you need to wake up! In the meantime please join us to talk about the happenings on the pitch during GW18 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, do whatever you want on here, it’s your platform as ever…
Monday 26th December
12:30pm
Watford vs Crystal Palace
3:00pm
Arsenal vs West Brom
Burnley vs Middlesbrough
Chelsea vs Bournemouth
Leicester vs Everton
Man United vs Sunderland
Swansea vs West Ham
5:30pm
Hull vs Man City
Tuesday 27th December
5:15pm
Liverpool vs Stoke
Wednesday 28th December
7.45pm
Southampton vs Spurs
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Fixture Tracker
I can get Lallana and Alonso in for Eriksen and Holebas but it has to be today. Will be a shame to lose Eriksen but I still have Kane and Holebas has been poor for ages.
Any better suggestions?
For free ? Depends what your plans for Kane are ? You holding him ?
I am not so sure about getting Lallana at this point given in the next 11 games, 6 of them will be against
City(2)
Man United
Chelsea
Spurs
Arsenal
On the flip side Liverpool tend to score against anyone
Have to agree here, Pools’s results may suffer slightly with the fixture’s turning sour but you can’t see many teams keeping a CS against them.
Cheers guys. I’ll wait for Lallana to see out the game then make the transfer
Spurs don’t have great fixtures either and I my main motivation is to get rid of Holebas. Another option is to get rid of Hazard but I’m not too keen on that idea
As far as Holebas is concerned, I am also of the opinion that he should go. Then you can consider Wally or Mikey as Arsenal and United have more favorable fixtures as Mid replacement for whoever you have to axe.
If I get Alonso for Holebas I’ll have exactly the right funds to get lallana. His price is also going up tonight so I’ll have to make the move now
Lallana offers the best value in Liverpool mids.As we have seen all season they tend to score against almost anybody.
4 goals against Stoke has convinced me!
If you wanna score the first goal of the season real easy, that’s exactly what you want
Sturrridge
I did Pieters to Jones for a hit at the last minute. That meant I played Grant instead of Foster. So I got 2-4=-2 instead of the 8 I would have gotten for not transferring and playing Foster & Pieters. I’m happy to be sitting on 61 with Kane to play but would have been ecstatic sitting on 71. Looking for a brace from Kane tomorrow!
My hit probably will be worse, hehe. I did Eriksen to Wally. Go figure. :p
Yeah, both seemed good on paper… The moral of the story: Don’t Take Hits! Hopefully I take my own advice :/
Bob Bradley has gone. Is he statistically the worst Prem manager ever?
He’s not even in the top ten, he never stood a chance at Swansea and I don’t think the next guy in will fair much better. Apologies for the Mirror link. With the amount of foreign managers in the English league system I’ve been pretty surprised at the level of hate being directed at an American.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/10-worst-managerial-records-premier-7606354
I don’t personally think he’s the worst manager but I said ‘statistically’ based on points per game. I doubt many are lower
Just looked through the horro show on the link you posted. Can’t believe I forgot about Mick McCarthy! And Paul Jewell – 0 wins in 24 games – shocking
Eight points from eleven games will more than likely still keep him out of the worst conversation I think but it can all be very subjective, Hull for instance will over achieve this season and still get relegated
Agreed Andy. Dude never stood a chance. Though, in all honesty, their last 10 fixtures haven’t been the hardest, they should have done better.
I don’t get why managers think it is okay to switch defenders every week though. No consistency.
Admittedly haven’t watched many Swans games Raz but I’ll agree with a settled back line being a decent tactic, I’ll imagine Sam at Palace won’t be very rotational unless forced.
I don’t think it’s an American issue Andy I think it’s just him! He’s lame. Watch his interviews, he can barely inspire himself never mind anybody else. I like Klopp, I like Pep, I like Jose – I never look at their nationalities or judge them on that, I look at the person and wonder whether they have it in them to lead. Those 3 do, he doesn’t. From what I see.
You like Pep? Damn, you sure are a great human being. Mourinho I get. 😉
And Klopp, he owns the other pair. Klopp is the main man. What a cool guy.
Yeah sure, I like Pep, what’s up with him?!
Personally not a big fan of fake humility. As long as he is winning, he acts like a great man, but as soon as things don’t go his way… you see another side. Mourinho is pretty much a prick always, so I don’t mind as much. Klopp on the other hand, always acts like a classy guy that doesn’t like to shave. Klopp is the main man with the plan.
I’m a little removed from a lot of media being in New Zealand but I would hope the negative comments are aimed at the person and not the nationality. The EPL is such a melting pot and everyone needs to be accepted. Not everyone needs to be liked. Managers like Klopp are likeable because they are a little crazy plus has got liverpol playing some lovely football.
Ps. I think the Americans themselves were the harshest critics before he entered the stage? The so called fans? Anyway, I am too far away from it all. England is so far from where I live and I don’t even speak the language.
You do alright with it Raz, especially the swear words! Just don’t say them when GP is around, he’s young you know 😉
Yeah Swansea are awful they are going down. And I really dislike sacking managers on a consistent basis. They sold their two best players at the time
Lol, I was cheering for Pieters a tat too early. He went from 6 or 7 points to 3. 😉 Still take points versus Pool though. Let me think, if Pieters did not get that assist he would be on 0…
Firminho got a goal and 3 bps, this I like.
Owww noes, Pickford knee injury??
Shite, my current score is 71 but I have worries with Wally/Firminho/Pickford now.
And I just wanted to do Kane to Costa. 
Nothing wrong with Firmino is there. Yeah Pickford is a bit of a concern. Not sure on Walcott Wenger said it was minor so I’d expect him to be back
Kane could be going down tonight mate
I’m doing Kane to codta but think I’ll wait another week. He should get a few points against Watford (I hope)
That a defo on Wally? Was about to ask as haven’t been following the latest news closely for the past 3 days.
I have some spare, for Kane, about 0.1m, dude went 0.2m up for me even though he did shit all in 2 easy games. Funny thing, I sold Eriksen and not Kane. 😉
Nothing wrong with Firminho, Smash? Except he has a hearing or whatever you call it in England at the same day as they play Manchester City? What will happen, you think? He can’t play if this is the case, can he?
Game is in the evening Raz, the hearing will be much earlier. That’s if he even attends it. Either way it’s a 5 minute job. I can’t see it being an issue.
Firminos hearing is on the day we play Chelski not Citeh.