A return to winning ways sees my side move up the table to
sixth. It wasn’t a vintage performance by any means as I struggled to 109.5
points. It was a pair of defenders getting on the scoresheet that turned the
tie in my favour over @jforquer11. Leighton Baines and Steve Cook left it late
to score equalizers for their teams on Sunday, and the twenty plus points they
each scored was better than what Pedro, Wilshere and Yacob put together managed
for my side.
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| Baines slots home his penalty with ease |
And with this victory, what has the IEFSA Fantrax fixture
computer saw fit to do this week? Why it’s decided that I should play the
highest scoring team in the league, because it doesn’t want me winning too
much. That high scoring side belongs to @FuzzyWarbles. If our sides had met
every week this season he would have ten wins to my four. So once again I’m up
against it. There is one green shoot of hope though, as @FuzzyWarbles will be
missing his top goal scorer Sergio Aguero through suspension. But even this
doesn’t help much, as even without those ten goals, his side have outscored
mine 21 goals to 15 after fourteen weeks of the season.
@FuzzyWarbles Team
Aguero will miss the first of four games this week. Steve
has a number of choices in who will deputise for the Argentinian. He has three
other Forward players who could slot in. Fischer of Middlesbrough, Bojan at
Stoke and Lucas Perez with Arsenal. None of the three are guaranteed of a start
but perhaps after his hat trick in midweek, Perez will get the most minutes
this weekend. Although Viktor Fischer did start last week for Boro, and could keep
his place for the trip to Southampton. Elsewhere in his team the goals have
mostly been supplied by the Liverpool pair of Sadio Mane and James Milner.
Twelve goals between them, and they face a West Ham team that shipped five
goals against Arsenal recently.
At the back @FuzzyWarbles has gotten three goals out of
Gareth McAuley this season, but the West Brom defender faces a stern test in
trying to breach the Chelsea backline this Sunday. Another West Brom player in
his side, and onethat has had positive recent form, is Chris Brunt. Brunt has
found himself deployed further up the pitch in recent games, yet will probably
have to do more defending than he’d like when his team head to Stamford Bridge.
Steve might get more points in Midfield from the return of Yaya Toure. Pep
Guardiola will have to shake up his starting eleven for the trip to champions
Leicester, with the Ivorian perhaps gaining one of the attacking midfield
spots.
What I Need To Happen
With @FuzzyWarbles having Hugo Loris between the sticks, I’m
hoping that my Manchester United players earn the start and cause him
problems. I’m more optimistic about Mkhitaryan getting game time than Jesse
Lingard though. Any goals created by the Armenian will doubly hurt, as
@FuzzyWarbles also has Jan Vertongen in Defence. My Top scorer Joe Allen was a
surprise omission form the Stoke line-up last week, with the Potters heading to
Arsenal this week, perhaps Mark Hughes will adopt a more defensive approach and
use the Welshman in midfield where he will be kept busy while racking up the
points.
The red flags all over my team seem to be abating somewhat
going into Gameweek 15. Leighton Baines returned last week and it looks like
Hector Bellerin could return this week. If he does return in time for the
Saturday three o'clock kickoff, that would mean the end of the ‘Claudio Yacob
Experiment’, as the West Brom midfielder would have to be jettisoned. Despite
West Brom having some positive results of late, the Argentine has not been
doing enough fantasywise and failed to get into double figures for the last two
games.
I have two pairs of players playing against each other in
the Bournemouth Burnley match; a goalkeeper and defender for Burnley and a
defender and midfielder for Bournemouth. A nice boring scoreless draw would be
perfect here, but that’s not going to happen, because as we all know, Jack
Wilshere is due a goal.
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| It's tight at the top (and the middle, and the bottom) |
Predictions
An improvement to six correct from nine predictions last
week. The league is very tight, with everyone bar the bottom two sides within
six points of the top four. Hopefully things go a little better this week. To see
how every tie is progressing follow @THE_IEFSA on Twitter.
Good Luck Everyone.
@nealjthurman over @jforquer11
@RotoWireAndrew over @nikarg
@TRKingston over @FantasyYIRMA
@cjradune over @jasonuk17
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