Welcome to the last preview of 2017. And,
thankfully we can sign off on a high note, as my rag-tag bunch actually followed
up their defeat of @EPL_MOstradamus last weekend with a cup victory over
@FantasyYIRMA in midweek. Two wins in a row is rare enough, but not as rare as a
Tom Ince goal, which is what we had to thank for keeping our cup dream alive.
The IEFSA/Fantrax fixture computer has had enough of my team scraping victories
and has decided that now is the time that we should play highest scorers and
table toppers @TRKingston. Todd has scored a frankly ridiculous 750 more
fantasy points than my side so far this season, and has won his last eight
games while opening up a six point lead at the top of the IEFSA Premier. The
last time we met @TRKingston walked away with the victory by twenty points. If
the teams are even that close once again, I guess I can take it as some kind of
moral victory.
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| Joyous scenes as we knock @FantasyYIRMA out of the cup |
@TRKingston’s Team
In a rare bit of good luck, the West Ham and
Spurs game has been moved to Thursday January 4th. This means I will
be without Serge Aurier this week, but Todd will have to make do without his
hottest player at the moment, Marko Arnautovic. The Forward has five goals in
his last five games. This means @TRKingston will have to rely on Richarlison or
Joselu up front. He could well play both if each of them make their teams
starting lineups for what looks like two favourable fixtures. Joselu and
Newcastle are at home to Brighton. While Richarlison of Watford (the more likely of the
two to play) has a home game against bottom club Swansea.
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| Every time this happens, @TRKingston gets about twenty fantasy points |
His midfield has a very heavy Manchester City
influence. On a good day he could put three Sky Blue players into his starting line-up.
Fernandinho, David Silva and Ilkay Gundogan have eight goals and 12 assists
between them. The majority of these have come from Silva though and he is the
only one who is an injury worry going into a game against Crystal Palace. In
Defence he has another City player in Nicolas Otamendi, who he will probably
pair up with two of the three Liverpool players in his squad, Matip, Lovren and
Klavan.
What I Need To Happen
With facing so many Liverpool and
Manchester City players this week, if both those sides could have a bad day at
the office, or at least see a good chunk of their players rested and rotated, then I may
have a fighting chance. Of course, I will need the players in my squad to play
from the start for their clubs also. Unfortunately, the big signing of my squad
looks to have wasted his opportunity to get some valuable minutes. Last time
out Zlatan only lasted the first half of a game against Burnley. Even with the
fixture pileup over the New Year, this looks to have been the big Swede’s last
chance at getting into the Manchester United starting line-up.
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| Who'll get to the World Cup first? Steve Cook with England? Or Benik Afobe with DR Congo? |
My search for goals will have to come
from some unlikely sources to have any chance of victory this weekend. Tom Ince
has finally gotten off the mark, so could this be the start of a run where he
gets so many goals he propels himself into the England squad for the World Cup??
Speaking of the World Cup; What if Tammy Abraham also starts scoring so many
goals that he will have to on the plane to Russia also! And what if Steve Cook
started defending so well that…….. I think I need to lie down…..
Predictions
Five correct and four incorrect last
weekend, which is an improvement on the week before, but nothing to get too
excited about. The midweek cup fixtures saw two correct predictions from three
games. I surely would have had a clean sweep if @FPL_MNOP had put in two goal ‘difference
maker’ Jesse Lingard like I had told him! I’ll be hoping to improve on these
figures this weekend. To follow all the action don’t forget to hop on over to
Twitter and @THE_IEFSA. Here are this week’s predictions.
Good Luck Everyone.
@RotoZdroik over @TAMc10
@FantasyYIRMA over @nikarg
@FuzzyWarbles over @jwl_15
@jasonuk17 over @SportsByGotti
@BenDinnery over @cjradune
@DFS_Hambazaza over @FPL_MNOP
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