tarkens wrote: I keep making changes and now switched back to 3-4-3, does it look better than 3-5-2 I posted earlier?
The 3-5-2 looks better to me.
tarkens wrote: I keep making changes and now switched back to 3-4-3, does it look better than 3-5-2 I posted earlier?
Great team. I must admit first team I see here that made me rethink mine. In fact I've just tried and I also have 0.0 left. But I'd be leaving Alonso, Pogba and Alli out. Don't know what to do now. Alli vs Mahrez?Archy wrote:Having gone through the teams and the advice on here (thank you peeps ), I'm now probably finalising with:
Courtois
Valencia Smalling Chilwell
Sanchez Mahrez Eriksen Willian
Kane Vardy Barnes
Nothing left in the bank this time, which is quite a satisfying feeling
With Sanchez working his way in, there is now a vaible alterntive to Kane as captain. That choice is probably the one remaining decision to be made..
I'm enjoying the short term nature of it - picking the best team for one gameweek. I used to play the Yahoo Fantasy Football game before FPL, in which you pick the best team every week, essentially every week is a Free Hit. I enjoyed it and I've been looking forward to the FH chip, although I'm now worried I'm going to completely overthink it! (plenty of evidence to follow in this long post!)Smurphy's Paw wrote: ↑12 Apr 2018, 06:56 Picking a team for a one-off set of fixtures, form is as much of a consideration as fixtures and we don’t have the luxury of ‘waiting for them to come good’.
I feel the threat of rotation is similar to Spurs with Lamela playing well and match fit. I also feel Moura will get some minutes having worked with Poch a lot over the IB, he will most likely come on as a sub v Brighton. So for me this rules out Son; he could do well v City for sure, but the match you really want him for is the Brighton game and I don't think his playing time is guaranteed at all. I can understand why I see Alli and Eriksen in FH teams; more secure starters. Although neither particularly appeal to me - I still don't fully trust Alli not to do something silly in the City match and be banned for Brighton (good news for Son perhaps!). Eriksen is playing well, however a bit like Coutinho when he was at Liverpool, I don't feel we can expect big returns every week from a player in a deeper midfield position. As a Spurs fan I feel I'm naturally pessimistic about Spurs players.With Chelsea players, part of the consideration is that they have not been consistent FPL performers of late. For a while Ruth and others have been counselling caution, only picking one from the team, etc. I was already uncertain about Willian and the Pedro thing just provided me with the rationale to be able to remove. If you like, I was looking for a reason.
Conte doesn't have a settled back three, this is a problem, the defence doesn't look that solid and I wouldn't want two Chelsea defenders. One attacking defender, if budget allows, why not? Alonso has motivation for a World Cup spot, as do a number of Chelsea players. He looked very threatening against Spurs, less so against West Ham. The tactics against West Ham saw Hazard, Willian and Morata linking up well and creating chances, Alonso didn't get forward as much. Is Emerson a rotation threat? There's the fear with Alonso that he will get a massive haul, I feel happier having him in my team than not. However Azpi seems more certain to start both games, and he links up well with Morata.Which prompts me to question why I’m consider spending close to £14m on their defence. If the lower cost players weren’t at risk of rotation I would save a bit. Their attacking defenders do seem to be the most likely route to positive returns though and given the DGW pool of players is smaller I think that 2 players is reasonable.
Still decisions to be made!How’s your FH team looking TopMarx?
Yes Long does help for sure.Stemania wrote: ↑12 Apr 2018, 16:37 With Mee ruled out of the DGW (and possibly for the season) I'd have thought Kevin Long would be a great enabler for you free-hitters now, possibly helping fund an upgrade on the prevalent SGW Arnie, or even a rotation threatened Chilwell/Smalling etc, or a Barnes to a Murray.
On Smalling, for United Jones/Bailly/Lindelof could easily get games, especially in match 2 when Mourinho will have an eye on the FA cup. I'd guess even Christensen might even have more chance of playing two than Smalling as it is, maybe 2 PL games each for Cahill/Rudiger/Cahill over 33-34, with Christensen already having missed one? Tough price point that.
Just glancing through, I'm quite surprised by the number of instances of Morata btw. If Chelsea are to rotate, at least with a player like Willian you're only spending circa 7m. Morata is 10.4m and has such an obvious threat in one-for-one rotation with Giroud, where at least Hazard and Willian just have one major player (Pedro) to avoid between them. Unless Barkley suddenly rises from the ashes or Conte panics to 352 that is.
Alonso ️ Azpi to get your 0.1?TopMarx wrote:
DDG
Alonso, Chilwell, Long
Salah, Pogba, Willian, Arnie
Kane, Lukaku, Vardy
I think I'm always destined to be 0.1 away from my perfect line-up! Of course I could just go without Salah, Mahrez would give me 1.5 ITB. Precisely enough to do Vardy to Morata... looking forward to Conte's press conference
Yes Simpson. Amartey could be back to offer some competition, and Simpson tends to get subbed early if Leicester are chasing the game (Albrighton can drop into the RB slot). But he's definitely another option that I hadn't considered, thank you for the suggestion.
slightly prefer DDG to Courtois/Schmeichel
Thanks buddyTopMarx wrote: ↑12 Apr 2018, 18:53slightly prefer DDG to Courtois/Schmeichel
definitely prefer Valencia to Morgan
definitely prefer Pogba to Lingard
definitely prefer Vardy to Barnes
so the option without DDG and Vardy, just. You have Mahrez, so at least you have some Leicester attacking cover.
Is 3-5-2 an option if you drop Barnes down to a 4.5 fwd?
I actually prefer the second one. This is the time to bring in pogba.
I prefer Sanchez to Lukaku. But that looks really strong anyway.swadd1er wrote:Still on the following:
Courtois
Chilwell, Smalling, Lowton (Long sub)
Pogba, Eriksen, Mahrez, Willian
Kane, Vardy, Lukaku
My team doesn't have him because I'm waiting for (hoping for) confirmation of him whether he's likely to play. If he seems to be, then he'll probably have to go in for me... It would be much handier if he was confirmed rested.
Ruth_NZ wrote: Boy, you guys are fast. I deleted that post almost immediately because I realised it had to be wrong - otherwise with 2 coin spins the chance of at least one head would be 100%.
There must be something in here about the maximum being 200% (2 CSs) I guess. But I'm not a mathematician and I know I expressed it badly. Sorry.