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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Ahhhh
Good gwk for one
Feeling good about my team however can’t see a route in for Aguero atm
Took a hit to bring in Alonso (been desperate for a decent defender)
Sacrificed Siggy to Zaha to raise cash.
Only thing I forgot Zaha maybe off to ACON…anyone know if and when?
Plz RMT.
Heaton
Mcauly / Alonso / Smith
Lallana / Sanchez / Haz / Zaha
Defoe / Ibra / Costa
Subs.Gk Pickford / Holebas / Clayton / Amat
Hi Bigz,
“FIFA rules state players must be released by their clubs on the morning of Monday January 2, meaning anyone involved faces the prospect of missing a total of five Premier League matches.”
If that’s enforced and no compromises are reached / allowed then they’ll miss GW20 by my reckoning.
Hey guys. So I used my wc and ended up with the follosing:
Pkckford
Jones mccauley ake
Allen lallana hazard sanchez
Costa kun ibra
Subs. Grant carrick chambers amat.
Any areas need changing? 0 itb.
Thanks for all the help.
Very strong team. Nothing obvious spring to mind.
Except that it is pretty likely Grant will lose his starting spot, sooner or later.
Butland had a setback so maybe not
Impressive team.
Is there any alternative to Grant in that price bracket? He will probably loose his spot in the short future.
Only Pickford
“Jack Butland faces another three months out after requiring further surgery on the ankle he injured while playing for England” 20/12/2016
Can see Grant being #1 to the end of the season now.
Need to keep an eye on that one as technically his loan is up on Jan 1st and Stoke aren’t happy with Derby’s valuation. Which may have just gone up again with that news!
Man U man Very strong first 11 not keen on bench but you might not need one with that team 😉
Damn dude, can I see your team. How can you afford that? I have like 103m selling value for my team and I fell 2.7m short to get that team. How the hell did you get so much money?
Cheers guys. I was lucky buying players at the right team I suppose.
My team value was 106 before i used my wc. Grant could be a problem but I’ll worry about that later.
Holy crap dude.. Did you take a lot of hits? What is your ranking? Currently?
Nice team. I have team value of 105.1 but am still 1.5 short of getting your team.
Great team – I’m 1.6 short to do that!
I was leaning towards getting Kun/Ibra/Costa but now I see Lukaku and his fixtures. Dude has been consistent this season, scoring pretty much every game. Easy games he should do even better. If I do go with Lukaku, who shold I drop? Costa/Kun/Ibra? Can’t we have 4 strikers?
Morning Raz who else would you have to drop , if you keep Haz I would drop Costa
Wonder which of the two is more a must, Hazard or Costa.
Costa if the form player of the season so far
Lukaku is a decent option. He has been good all year. Everton are not doing that great though which is the downside.i do prefer the other 3 but he is cheaper
Hmmm, you could be right. And Baines is on penalties again.
Anyone keeping an eye on Stanislas? Decent fixtures after the Arsrenal game and ummm only 5.1m. Coming back from injury but before the injury he had good stats.
Damn, just noticed. Even a game with 2 goals and 2 assists..
Wow, actually, if you look at minutes played, like 600 less than Philips and only 1 assist less than him. Maybe the best man in the cheap price bracket.
Yeah maybe will need someone around that price. Capoue and Allen the alternatives
Could be a shrewd investment in that 5.1-5.7 bracket. Would it be a 4th or 5th mid?
Coming back from his THIRD spell out this season.
He’ll be giving Sicknote at WHU a run for his money if he’s not careful. Who is also tempting in a similar way at 5 points per game.
& for their teams
Stanislas on the pitch 60m+ Bou w5,d1,l3 off the pitch w1,d2,l5
Carroll on the pitch w3,d1,l1 off the pitch w3,d3,l7
Cheap as chips, massive value as 5th mid & 3rd striker………….. when they can play.
Dare I have both in the team ??
Afternoon chaps,
Can anyone rate my team please?
Haha off to Africa soon so know that one needs dealing with, but anything else?
Hope everyone had a cracking xmas!
Kane to Costa would be my priority I think but let’s see how he does tonight.
Thanks Init. My thoughts exactly.
Although Kane does have Watford away next… and I’ve still got Hazard as Chelsea cover.
Here’s my team going into GW19 (see pic). Thoughts? And/or any suggestions on the shape over my team over the next few weeks.
As a United fan I’m favouring Ibrahimovic over Aguero for the remainder of the season – and Costa is too good to drop. I’m conscious that Zaha may be at the ACN throughout January so he might need to be replaced. I’m also aware that I don’t currently have any Liverpool or Man City coverage at present. I could obviously do a straight swap Pogba OUT, Coutinho IN once Philippe is back starting… but Pogba is beginning to be more influential, and again, as a United fan, I would prefer to be cheering them on.
What do you think?
(Forgot to mention – I don’t have any money ITB)
Looks good for this week Ian. You’ll just have to take it one GW at a time I think in relation to Coutinho returning and Zaha doing one although Big Sam has asked him not go now!