Have Watkins, the lord Jesus and kept Haaland. Didn’t pile aboard the Solanke train and missed the boat (mixed metaphors).
Its just Son or Salah options for poor me
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Its just Son or Salah options for poor me
Sell Tsimikas as he's useless now.
It's tricky. Salah is the popular choice but I think most his goals are at home. Burnley are dire though so he's still possibly the most reliable choice. Son can be good but if he's playing on the left it's not ideal.Have Watkins, the lord Jesus and kept Haaland. Didn’t pile aboard the Solanke train and missed the boat (mixed metaphors).
Its just Son or Salah options for poor me
Want Son. Going safe with Salah…
I am surprised many pundits and people are not backing Watkins for the captaincy. Laws of probability states that he is bound to do good after the week majority backed him. It is like when majority captained Son in GW5 against SHU and he got 2points and next week scored big against Arsenal with a whopping haul of 14 pts.
Plus Watkins against us just looks like a big haul incoming
Plus Watkins against us just looks like a big haul incoming
Came here for an answer to this - is Haaland back?!
Don't believe he's been pictured back in training yet so I can't see him being risked
49 points last week and not far off 100k - not bad as I did decide to keep Haaland and bank my transfer instead, I’m lucky enough to keep the green arrow each week. This enabled me to do a -4 this week and solve a few issues with injuries
Transfers:
Maguire to Colwill
Tsimikas to Pinnock
Hee chan to Gordon
Maguire and Tsimikas obviously both out longer term so I needed to solve my defence regardless. Colwill and Pinnock have a good set of fixtures for the next 4-6 weeks. Hee chan going on international duty soon their fixtures are fairly tough anyway, so I’m hoping Gordon in now gets a few points bs Forest asap to “pay” for the -4, but seemingly a lot are needing a -4 anyway so it is also a good time to do it.
Team:
Areola
Gabriel - Colwill - Pinnock - Porro
Gordon - Salah(c) - Son - Saka
Watkins - Haaland
subs: (Turner) Archer, Taylor, Palmer
Defence is solid enough now bar rotation for keepers as they have similar fixture runs. Don’t see the gains right now in trying to get in Trippier and/or TAA when I can gain the spread elsewhere, especially with the injuries both their teams have right now. More a potential February time wildcard vibes!
Will be able to keep one of Salah or Son on the bench too when they are on international duty, but I do have 0.8 in the bank too to accommodate selling one or both and getting them back after. Happy that I have 3 bench players that currently start regularly to fill a few gaps.
Transfers:
Maguire to Colwill
Tsimikas to Pinnock
Hee chan to Gordon
Maguire and Tsimikas obviously both out longer term so I needed to solve my defence regardless. Colwill and Pinnock have a good set of fixtures for the next 4-6 weeks. Hee chan going on international duty soon their fixtures are fairly tough anyway, so I’m hoping Gordon in now gets a few points bs Forest asap to “pay” for the -4, but seemingly a lot are needing a -4 anyway so it is also a good time to do it.
Team:
Areola
Gabriel - Colwill - Pinnock - Porro
Gordon - Salah(c) - Son - Saka
Watkins - Haaland
subs: (Turner) Archer, Taylor, Palmer
Defence is solid enough now bar rotation for keepers as they have similar fixture runs. Don’t see the gains right now in trying to get in Trippier and/or TAA when I can gain the spread elsewhere, especially with the injuries both their teams have right now. More a potential February time wildcard vibes!
Will be able to keep one of Salah or Son on the bench too when they are on international duty, but I do have 0.8 in the bank too to accommodate selling one or both and getting them back after. Happy that I have 3 bench players that currently start regularly to fill a few gaps.
Isak and Gordon start according to this rando.
He's saying Lascelles out. He got the full lineup vs Luton right, haven't gone back further to check his timeline.
That made me do a last minute transfer for a -4 hit. Sterling>Richarlison. A completely unrelated position but with Haaland doubtful, Lascelles probably out and Sterling suspended I need more bodies likely to start.
Going in with
Dubs
Trips Trent Porro Gabriel
Salah Son Saka Gordon
Watkins Solanke
Good luck.
Dubs
Trips Trent Porro Gabriel
Salah Son Saka Gordon
Watkins Solanke
Good luck.
Watkins captain... who is with me?
Two things that concern me this gameweek.
1. No TAA in my team. If he hauls I'm falling behind.
2. No playing bench. At all. I am relying on my starting XI, including Archer...
1. No TAA in my team. If he hauls I'm falling behind.
2. No playing bench. At all. I am relying on my starting XI, including Archer...
Gone with
Dubravka
Konsa Zinchenko Porro
Gordon Salah Richarlison Bowen Saka
Watkins Haaland
Turner Lascelles Archer Branthwaite
Looking like Archer will get subbed in for me, and I'm protecting Branthwaite against City, although Everton did have a good run of cleanies recently, it's at home, and City aren't amazing right now.
Dubravka
Konsa Zinchenko Porro
Gordon Salah Richarlison Bowen Saka
Watkins Haaland
Turner Lascelles Archer Branthwaite
Looking like Archer will get subbed in for me, and I'm protecting Branthwaite against City, although Everton did have a good run of cleanies recently, it's at home, and City aren't amazing right now.
Time to bin Livramento as he is again on the bench and will come for his obligatory 1 point. Horrible start to the week
Seems like Trent is the template transfer in this week.
People gonna be removing Son/Salah and taking hits at the weekend if Haaland is back. I'll bring him straight back for Solanke if he is. If not I'll bring in a City mid for Gordon.
People gonna be removing Son/Salah and taking hits at the weekend if Haaland is back. I'll bring him straight back for Solanke if he is. If not I'll bring in a City mid for Gordon.
Normal service resumed with the clean sheets, ffs. Feels like this is one of the toughest years to get solid reliable scoring from the defence.
Trippier needs binning off seriously. 6.9m for 1 point every game. Feck off.
Luckily I listened here and put in Dubs ahead of Raya
Newcastle doing their best to reaffirm Trips is a waste of money right now
Chris Wood with a brace again. 
Hat trick. Essential.Chris Wood with a brace again.
Yep definitely looking time to abort the sinking Newcastle ship.
Must be some mad nutter out there who triple captained him. 5 goals in 2 games.
Feels like Newcastle used every last drop of energy on us then fell off a cliff.
xxxxers.
Everyone who brought in Dubravka deserves this.
Yea, that was their cup final. They lost 4 games out of 5 since that. Twats. Trippier is out after this round of games. They have Liverpool, City and Villa next.
Would it be better to start Turner over Dubravka from now on?
One of those days where you look at who got the most points and some rando triple captained Wood.
United at home next. No brainer.
I'm gonna just keep playing Raya. This is the first time I've done keeper rotation and missed the only Dubravka clean sheet.
WTF is actually going on? The guy who's top of the table in my league has got the points for 5 of those goals. As I said the other day, what the feck's he doing even picking him never mind getting him in just in time for him to get 5 goals in two games. It's fecking madness.
Only bought him recently?
I remember him being mentioned as a shout in an article or podcast when Awoniyi got injured in GW12. He started GW13 and GW14 before getting benched again until last week.
Not even sure what's brought him back into the team. The new manager just preferring him wouldn't have been predictable unless he said so. I guess someone could have looked at how Nuno teams like to line up from the past and somehow predicted it, if he even fits in with that? Have they had more injuries, meaning there wasn't much else choice?
Doughty!!! Let's pop that champagne @CassiusClaymore !!
Looks like I'll be drinking on my own I guessHe's first on my bench mate.
Looks like I'll be drinking on my own I guess
Was always between him and Archer and had to go with the attacker at home. Absolutely gutting though. No way anyone else I've got doesn't play unless they're injured in the warm up. Maybe Arteta gives Gabriel a rest?
Solanke points incoming.
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