Predicted Line-ups and FPL Team News Gameweek 2
Hello and welcome to Predicted Line-ups and FPL Team News Gameweek 2.
We hope you enjoyed the return of our predicted line-ups last week and we have the absolute pleasure of offering you the excellent information provided by our good friends at Drafthound once more. For the benefit of the late-comers or those at the back not listening properly, here is the history of this old ‘teatime on a Friday’ favourite.
If you can’t do something properly don’t bother doing it at all…
The above title is a bit of a motto of FF247. And it sort of explains why we used to do this article but then suddenly stopped. The truth of the matter is that it simply became too much work for the team. Following every word of every press conference and then analysing that info and translating it into a line-up… twenty times, was quite frankly a bit too time consuming. The knock on effect was that it also pulled some key personnel away from the site on a Thursday and Friday. So we got into a situation whereby we had RMT’s stacking up and nobody to answer them! Would you rather the likes of Smash, GP and Init be stuck behind a computer waiting to report on information that you could simply Google or see on Twitter for yourself or would you prefer them to be on site answering your very own specific FPL question? In some cases it would be the former but hey ho….
However… it seems that this was always our most viewed article each week. Yep, we’d send our team out each week to research and write thousands of words and it turns out that people would rather just look at a picture of a team sheet with their FPL player of choice on it! Don’t worry, we get it, we do it ourselves.
As such we always wanted to bring it back… but without the hassle. Over the past 18 months we have had offers from other websites to share their info but we never landed on one that we trusted had done their due diligence. We would never present something to you that we didn’t trust in. During the Euros though we found a common ground amongst the team who were all using, and somewhat trusting, Drafthound with their line-ups. Turns out they do FPL ones too! Having researched their accuracy Init & Mito both declared them to be over 95% accurate, which is bloody good in that particularly precarious game of managerial mind games, subterfuge and downright lies.
To make something of a mockery of our above statement of doing stuff yourself we are therefore delighted to delegate all responsibilty to our new partners in the weekly game of Guess Who – Drafthound!
Quite how this article will look in a few weeks is anybody’s guess but we are starting it out as simple as possible with just the line-ups as predicted by Drafthound and as ever we shall take it from there and it will no doubt evolve over time so just bear with us on that journey.
Two things to bear in mind;
- We trust Drafthound. They will have done their research into all this, especially given what they do, just as we used to, but these things are a ‘best guess’ exercise at best. Usual leeway should be accounted for, etc.
- Given their time and effort in providing this content for us it would be rude not to occasionally click on the Drafthound link and check out their own fabulous content as there are FPL articles aplenty on there too.
This article was last updated on: Friday 20th August @ 18:45 GMT.
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Good luck this gw everyone. Hoping for a grealish masterclass although not counting on it. Question is do I keep him if he blanks this week or go for someone like benrhama?
GTG. We shall see what Grealish does.
Anyone else who is finding it hard having your captain in the first game of the gw?
Today might be the first time i do that in like 2-3 years… But still have time to chicken out!
Yeah but if salah has a good game then you can relax and know whatever happens you will prob have a decent gameweek. I try not to look at the times and just go for strongest option
Yeah! But if isnt having a good game it’s pure hell until next gw!!!
Well… It was the opposite way ‘round last week, we had to wait for Salah to save our week with Bruno’s 20pts screaming at you every time you log in to FPL
What difference does it make. We can’t change teams after lockout
I know that it’s not a real thing. But it messes with my head!
It’s good to see this article back guys.
quick vote for captain, Bruno or Mo?
I’m going Mo
Bruno all day long
It’s Bruno for me, first time for everything eh?
Too much excitement with Mo, it’s the first game, home at Anfield and I want LFC to win – Bruno it is or my nerves will be in shambles
Dane, think about a wonderful Saturday night with a dream of Bruno notching another hatty after all goals in the first game come from Jota, Mane and Firmino
Have you sold Salah yet?
Not yet, but something to ponder over the IB
I’ve gone Bruno, the early kick off is a killer for me lol!
Good luck all
Thoughts on a Watkins replacement? £0.0 ITB
Well unfortunately he’s now 7.4, as I see it your options are one of
Toney v BRE
ASM v Villa
Armstrong/Adams v ManU
Iheanacho/Daka v WHU (risky may not start)
Maupay v WAT
Toney could be an interesting punt if you don’t want to hold the transfer.
I also feel Armstrong may prove to be great value (not a great fixture this week though).
Else it’s one of Adams or Maupay I think.
I also think Armstrong is an interesting option
I wouldn’t rush into it. Could you leave it and use the autosub and go after a better replacement next week with 2FTs?
GP with the sensible choice as always
Early days and not many options at that range for you as you have the best two options already at that price. Ihanacho is prob too risky right now but you could go early for Jimenez perhaps, two tough fixtures next but at least at home, and then a great run to follow.
Thanks guys, I went with Toney in the end and have £0.9 next week for potential upgrades. Pretty happy with the team so far so can’t see me making drastic changes just yet.
Good luck! Toney or hold would’ve been my pref. choice
Hey guys.. Quick who to cap..
Bruno or Salah.. I’m swaying Bruno…
Salah has only scored once vs Burnley in a 1-1 draw in 2017… But Bruno has scored last 2 outings vs Southampton (last time it was 9-0)..
Thoughts?
Watch out for low sample size and false/tailored narratives. 50/50 for me, ultimately may regret it but went with Bruno just because well… See the above
Nice one OddDane
It could go either way. Going for mo simply as it’s a home game
That was my first thought.. cheers Majeika