Live Match Chat Gameweek 33 FPL News
Welcome to Live Match Chat Gameweek 33 FPL News: Just the six gameweeks left and so time is running out to close down those mini-leagues, make a late run for glory or consolidate what you have, all in the pursuit of office bragging rights. It may just be six gameweeks but not all gameweeks are created equal, as we are about to find out. At least three of them will be DGW’s. This is the part of the season when planning and preparation come to the fore and the casuals are left in a daze wondering how their seemingly unassailable 100 point lead suddenly turned into a deficit. Chips will be brandished like confetti. And those that can’t will learn lessons about patience.
GW33 is perhaps one of the last of the ‘normal’ gameweeks when all 10 teams will play, and just once at that. Spurs kick us off with a home fixture on Saturday lunchtime, much as they did last week when they mauled Watford. This time their victims are Bournemouth. And this time they will probably have Kane and not Janssen…
Saturday continues with five 3pm kick offs as Palace welcome a rampant Leicester, Everton batter Burnley, Stoke bore Hull, Sunderland pretend to care against West Ham before we finish with Watford teasing Swansea.
Saturday closes out with Man City visiting an in form and stubborn Southampton at tea-time.
Sunday begins with West ‘out of the office until August 2017’ Brom hosting Liverpool before we get to Jose trying to derail Chelsea’s title bid at 4pm.
The gameweek ends on Monday as we count the banners again. And planes. And planes with banners. Seriously, how much determination and / or money do these people have?! Anyway, if anyone notices or cares for the game itself it is Middlesbrough facing Arsenal.
Please join us as ever to discuss the games as they happen and share your feelings, successes and woes as the action unfolds and hopefully the FPL points flood in for you.
Saturday 15th April
12:30pm
Spurs vs Bournemouth
15:00pm
Crystal Palace vs Leicester
Everton vs Burnley
Stoke vs Hull
Sunderland vs West Ham
Watford vs Swansea
17:30pm
Southampton vs Man City
Sunday 16th April
13:30pm
West Brom vs Liverpool
16:00pm
Man United vs Chelsea
Monday 17th April
20:00pm
Middlesbrough vs Arsenal
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Fixture Tracker
Hello lads, interesting result between United and Chelsea today! Like many here, I’ve decided to pass on Zlatan after seeing him benched. I’d have to sell either Alli or Lukaku to get him in, and I don’t think it’s worth it. So I’ve looked at some other options instead.
A: Origi, Alonso to Benteke, Gibson (Smith plays (Mid H), 3-4-3, -4 hit)
B: Clayton, Alonso to Townsend, Gibson (AOA: 2-5-3, -4 hit)
So in option A I sell Origi and play Smith while in option B I keep Origi, play 2-5-3, and have Smith as first sub.
Do you guys have any preference between these options? Or do you have alternative suggestions? Rashford may be someone to look at, but I’m not sure about his gametime…
Thanks!
Tough one to call that Tekkers. You can always tell it is when nobody responds! What have you got left in terms of chips there and is there any ML consideration at play?
Hi Init, I have WC, BB, and AOA left.
Got a rival whom have had a lead on me the entire season, was 150 pts or so 6/7 GWs ago and I’ve reduced it to 68 pts before this GW. I have 20 more pts than him this GW but he has Sanchez (c) left to play. He only has WC left and doesn’t pay too much attention to FPL so I’m betting on surpassing him over the DGWs. I strongly doubt he knows of the DGWs to be honest, especially this one.
Other than that, I’m only concerned with overall rank.
He doesn’t pay attention yet he’s kicking your ass?! 😉
Sorry mate! I was only joking. I can be a right tw@t at times
Even Mito says so which is a real badge of honour in that respect 
37 and BB is your chance and possibly only one here with that big a gap. Maybe this one too if he truly doesn’t follow the trends but I doubt it if he’s managed to outscore you thus far.
Haha, that’s cool Init, he has actually been ranked between 15-30k for most of the season, so he’s not a bad player. I wonder how well he’d do if he took it more seriously! He’s very intuitively skilled and knows football, so he makes good player selections and is capable of spotting trends on his own, meaning that he does not need to pay attention or make too much of an effort to get results. He’s kind of a “professional bullshitter,” in that he takes unreasonable approaches that shouldn’t work yet still attains results. Very annoying! Last season he had a lead on me the entire season up until the DGWs, then I took him over at the end. I’m betting on that happening this season too!
That’s tough I like both options. Option B shades it for me. Origi is still playing which is a good thing
Smash, I’m leaning towards option B too, as it is essentially Origi vs Smith. Striker vs defender usually goes in favor of the striker! Unless there’s a reason to prefer Benteke over Townsend, but I haven’t looked at their underlying stats yet.
Fixture Tracker should be correct and updated now, apologies for any small anomalies in the previous one…
Please do shout out if there are still any mistakes but there shouldn’t be.
Many Thanks
Very much appreciated, thanks
Thanks both, it’s interesting to see how much, and also how many, rely on it. You only realise that when it goes awry a bit. I usually take charge of the tracker and Sod’s law that they announce the DGW’s on the one week when I’m on holiday!
Unfortunately I was left in charge of the tracker!!
only mistake was the comma splice in your comment 😉
Many thanks as always innit!
Not sure if citeh hosting man utd should still be in dark green after Jose’s tactical masterclass yesterday
morning guys, only 13 points seperate 1 to 3 in my mini leg with me in 3rd but still have sanchez to go. I noticed my two rival have made 3 transfers for gw34 so ive matched them. Im goin to use my bench boost for gw34 as i feel its really suitef for it and will have 7 dgw players. My rivals have used their all chips bar bench boost so id be looking to use triple captain on someone like sa chez in gw37. Between gw 34 and gw37 i want to focus on getting the strongest 11 possible who have dgw i see this as a better tactic than using bench boost to try and get 15 dgw players as i feel dping that would have weakend my team i.e money spent on getting a dgw player to get 15 players resulting in not having as many bog hitters. Big risk i know but hopefully works out in the end. Here my team for gw34
Saloba. Interesting strategy. I think the Bench Boost chip is far stronger than the Triple Captain chip, and if I were in your position I’d build towards GW37 with the intention of using the BB then. You already have 8 DGWers for GW37, so even if you just changed your Palace players for (e.g.) Southampton ones, I think you’d be in a much stronger situation to use the Bench Boost then. Just my opinion though, no guarantees in this game, as we all know.
Bry i was considering bringing in zlatan for gw34 and triple captainint him there but its now very unlikely he will play both games. sanchez if he picks up some form could be an idea TC for gw 37 as he will be playing again stoke and sunderland. Although i agree that having 15 dgw player for bench boost is the ideal situation i only think this is plausible for those who still have their WC. I really think gw34 could be the ideal time to use bench boost which will then allow me to focus on getting the strongest 11 players possible for gw37 without trying to accomodate ttansfer soley to try and get as many dgw players which could end up hindering getting 11 essentials.
Hi Saloba,
You have to go with your own instinct of course. Before you do though, it is worth reflecting on the quality of opponents for the double teams in GW34.
United and Palace do not exactly have “easy” fixtures.
Palace might get something out of Liverpool but one goal vs Spurs will be a bonus.
There will probably not be rotation for Palace but who knows with Valencia.
Bottom line – I would not do it.
Hi Leprechaun, thanks for your thoughts. As it stands id only have 8 players with dgw for gw37. The reality is i would sell valdes or holgate to bring in a dgw as i dont particularly see the point in that as it would be using funds which could go towards upgrading players. This means id only have 13 dgw players instead of 11. The reality is the additional 2 players would be bottom of the barrel such as someone like stephens and redmond. i also instead on selling pva for someonr like ake and king for tom davies. Obviosuly i dont plan on playing those 2 but it would generate 2.4 which could go towards brining a premium which otherwise would not have neen able to do. Hope this all makes sense, kinda does in my head haha
Morning all. Hope your GW33s have been good. I’m on 51 with Sanchez to play tonight. Suggestions, please, on which of my front 8 I should bench for GW34:
Eriksen, Alli, Sanchez, Hazard, King (Bournemouth), Lukaku, Rashford, Benteke
Tricky…thanks
Kind of has to be King there really
+1
Thanks, Leprechaun. The tips article reckoned that Bournemouth’s next two fixtures (Middlesbrough and Sunderland) are pretty tasty – and they are. Just that my set-up presents a problem. AOA would have been handy!
Q,
What does the rest of your team look like?
Cheers, Smash. Had thought of a cheeky sliding-off of Lukaku to the bench but you’re right. Form dictates that he starts. It’s Sanchez who’s been woeful of late. But need big balls to drop him…
Hi Leprechaun
My defence is Jakupovic, Valdes, Valencia, Davies, Gibson, Stephens and Williams
Hey Fellas (and Girls),
What do you think I should do next?
Valdez,
Baines, Valencia, Davies
Alli, Coutinho, Sanchez, Son
Aguero, Benteke, Lukaku
Subs Pickford, Amat (yes, I know!) Carroll, Smith
£0.6 1FT
A few possibilities
1 Aguero to Ibra
2 Carroll & Son to Zaha & Townsend for -4 but who to bench of the front players?
3 Baines to Bailly
4 Other – ?
I am not keen to lose money on selling Sanchez as he will have to come back for the DGWs soon.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated?
Hey, Leprechaun. I wouldn’t alter your front 8. It looks mighty strong. Maybe for the long haul (what’s left of the season), how about Baines to Bailly? More fixtures and Bailly looks favoured in Mourinho’s starting line-ups. Double Utd defence shouldn’t overly be a concern.
Thanks Q.
I am leaning to No. 3
After a misrable April its a half decent GW with 56 and Sanchez left to play.
Thoughts on transfers for DGW”s?
Im chasing 50 points in my mini league and my opponent has a Trip skipper left over me. In my other league i am leading by 30.
My thoughts are get Tekkers and Zaha in and perhaps Valdes, that would be for a -8.
Not co fident on ibra starting both and to be honest i doubt Valencia would either. Palace not safe might be the best bet.
Thoughts?
April screwed me as i dropped Ali and Few others for Blanks and i was sitting pretty at 21k, now dropped to 80k in 3 weeks
If you haven’t got a WC left I wouldn’t bring in double Palace attacking coverage for a hit as you’ll be wanting at least one of them out again by GW 36 with their run in not looking great and no more DGW’s after GW 34.
I’m undecided just how hard to chase this DGW as having just the three going might be more than enough right now so I’d go with a Palace mid of Townsend/Zaha and then consider hits for the likes of Gabbiadinni and Kane after the double.
I have WC and bench boost left
I still don’t see a Palace double as being worth it as if it were normal GW’s against Pool and Spurs we probably wouldn’t think of bringing them in at all, one should be enough (famous last words).
One Palace player and Valdez is the way I have gone – for what it’s worth