Been a while since we've done this. 3 new teams, and some new transfers. Also will be good to look at the end of the season and see who did best.
I found an old one of these and virtually everyone was agreed that Felipe Anderson for West Ham had to be in the team as he was apparently in great form and now we all look a bit silly even though he seemed to do quite well for Lazio.
---------------------Watkins--------------------
Eze-----------Bruno Fernandes------Palmer
-----Bruno Guimaraes------------------
-----------------------Rodri-----------------------
Udogie----Murillo-Saliba--------TAA
----------------------Leno
Bench:
Toney
Mitoma-Semenyo
Paqueta-Joao Gomes
LeifDavis-Branthwaite-WalkerPeters
Hermansen
Paqueta can cover #10 and split time as #8 with Joao Gomes.
Branthwaite played on the right at PSV, so presumably can cover RCB.
Takeways:
-Real lack of Milner/John O'Shea type players you can think of on lower teams who can play like 4-5 positions at a good level. Semenyo seems to be able to play anywhere across the front line so I took him for that reason. Walker-Peters is another option at LB and though it looked terrible in the World Cup, Trent can play in midfield in the right setup (and with Watkins making runs in behind).
-Not sure Brighton have quite as much talent as I thought outside of their forwards. Pascal Gross would have made it as a guy who can cover any spot in central midfield and both fullback spots despite being slow, but he moved on.
-LW was a weird position to fill. Eze has injury issues, so went with Mitoma as a strong backup, and with 2 attacking options at LB you could also play Bruno Fernandes there narrow or Semenyo and push him high like a forward.
-Injuries meant I couldn't pick Lisandro over generally healthy Bruno
-Picked Paqueta but that's probably cheating and I should have gone with Kudus to cover #10 and RW and dropped Semenyo for Ryan Christie who seems to be useful enough running around at various midfield positions.
I found an old one of these and virtually everyone was agreed that Felipe Anderson for West Ham had to be in the team as he was apparently in great form and now we all look a bit silly even though he seemed to do quite well for Lazio.
---------------------Watkins--------------------
Eze-----------Bruno Fernandes------Palmer
-----Bruno Guimaraes------------------
-----------------------Rodri-----------------------
Udogie----Murillo-Saliba--------TAA
----------------------Leno
Bench:
Toney
Mitoma-Semenyo
Paqueta-Joao Gomes
LeifDavis-Branthwaite-WalkerPeters
Hermansen
Paqueta can cover #10 and split time as #8 with Joao Gomes.
Branthwaite played on the right at PSV, so presumably can cover RCB.
Takeways:
-Real lack of Milner/John O'Shea type players you can think of on lower teams who can play like 4-5 positions at a good level. Semenyo seems to be able to play anywhere across the front line so I took him for that reason. Walker-Peters is another option at LB and though it looked terrible in the World Cup, Trent can play in midfield in the right setup (and with Watkins making runs in behind).
-Not sure Brighton have quite as much talent as I thought outside of their forwards. Pascal Gross would have made it as a guy who can cover any spot in central midfield and both fullback spots despite being slow, but he moved on.
-LW was a weird position to fill. Eze has injury issues, so went with Mitoma as a strong backup, and with 2 attacking options at LB you could also play Bruno Fernandes there narrow or Semenyo and push him high like a forward.
-Injuries meant I couldn't pick Lisandro over generally healthy Bruno
-Picked Paqueta but that's probably cheating and I should have gone with Kudus to cover #10 and RW and dropped Semenyo for Ryan Christie who seems to be useful enough running around at various midfield positions.