Finally, the international break is over
and we can get back to the nitty gritty of league football. What seems like an
eternity without fantasy football will come to an end with Liverpool facing
Everton at Saturday lunchtime. My side won a nineteenth game of the season in
the last gameweek, thanks largely to another clean sheet from Tom Heaton. That
win keeps my side in second place, nine points behind @RotoZdroik.
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| Tom Heaton is the only goalkeeper with over 100 saves this season |
This week the IEFSA/Fantrax fixture
computer gives me a change to get revenge on a two-point loss from Gameweek 12.
That painful loss was inflicted by @wrigavin. Gavin is on a run of three losses
which has seen him drop down the table to ninth place. He knows a win, coupled
with the right set of results, could move him into fourth though.
@wrigavin’s Team
@wrigavin has only one red flagged injury,
but unfortunately for him it is to his most valuable player. Harry Kane has
more goals than the rest of Gavin’s squad put together. Now without the Spurs
forward, he will have to rely on Alvaro Negredo for goals. Normally this would
be a pretty vain hope, but with Middlesbrough sacking their manager, perhaps
they can start scoring goals off the back of that new manager bounce. Negredo
heads to the worst defence in the league on Sunday, Swansea. The next top
scorer on the team is his Defender Craig Dawson. The West Brom player will get
a change to add to his three goals this season at Old Trafford on Saturday.
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| It was only Arsenal right? We can't read too much into this?? |
Gavin has made a few changes to his squad
since the turn of the year. He overhauled his Midfield with the signings of
Robbie Brady (Burnley), Lazar Markovic (Hull), and Luciano Narsingh (Swansea).
All three have yet to cement places in their respective sides, but in only nine
starts between them, they have contributed a goal and three assists. At the
back he has added Bryan Oviedo. The Costa Rican defender joined Sunderland from
Everton in January and averages over twelve and a half points per game.
What I Need To Happen
Tom Heaton will not have to face Harry
Kane, but will have to contend with the rest of a potent Spurs attack. If not a
clean sheet, then hopefully many save points will be coming his way. Michael
Keane at the back will also be kept busy in the same game and should reach his
thirteen point average. In Midfield, it would really help my side if Henrikh
Mkhitaryan got back into the Manchester United starting lineup for the visit of
West Brom. Scoring a goal would also take points off Craig Dawson. Elsewhere
across the middle of the park; Jack Wilshere is slowly recovering from an
injury, yet may get more minutes for Bournemouth this weekend; Ibrahim Afellay
travels to the champions Leicester City but it would be a surprise if he gets
into the Stoke first team.
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| If I had any hair it would have went white waiting for Borini to score too. |
I may be reaching a bit, but it’s April now
and Sunderland a running out of time to start trying to stay in the division.
With that in mind, someone is going to need to help Defoe score goals, and that
someone may as well be Fabio Borini! Failing that, I may have to fall back on
Chelsea’s Pedro. He has a game at home to Crystal Palace come three o’clock on
Saturday. If Borini and Pedro draw blanks, all my eggs will be in the Kevin
Mirallas basket. Everton have a shockingly bad record against Liverpool recently though,
so I’m not going to expect too many points from either Mirallas or defender
Leighton Baines.
Predictions
Six from nine last time out. Lots of close
games keep the league table nice and tight. Only six points separate the team
in third from the team in eleventh. The big match-up this gameweek pits leader
@RotoZdroik against fifth place @nikarg. Here are this week’s predictions.
Good Luck Everyone. Also go follow
@THE_IEFSA on Twitter.
@RotoWireAndrew over @cjradune
@TAMc10 over @jforquer11
@RotoZdroik over @nikarg
@EPL_MOStradamus over @jwl_15
@TRKingston over @jasonuk17
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