The instant Harry Winks went
tumbling over the sideline during the Spurs v Burnley game never to return, I
knew my chances of victory against @wrigavin were sunk. What made the defeat an
ever more bitter pill to swallow, was that helping Gavin to a 13 point victory
was dabber extraordinaire Jesse Lingard. A player I had discarded because he
seemed so far down the Man Utd pecking order as to become fantasy irrelevant.
But thanks to a combination of (list gleamed from Mourinho press conferences),
injuries, an unfair fixture list, the international break, Russian hackers, and
the earth`s rotation around the sun, Lingard found himself starting at the
weekend against West Brom, and duly went huffing and puffing his way to over twenty
fantasy points.
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| Winks injury jinx sinks fantasy hopes methinks. |
Winks was brought in after patience
had finally ran out with the fortunes of Ibrahim Afellay. The Stoke City player
was not in the starting lineup once again for the Potters trip to Leicester
City, and in the end was never even summoned from the bench in a two nil defeat.
With Kevin Mirallas not starting for Everton, my two other Stoke players
woefully out of form (but at east playing games), Luka Milivojevic restricted
on possession in a game against Chelsea, and Jack Wilshere being Jack Wilshere.
I really needed to bolster my Midfield. Unfortunately with this injury, it
looks like I’ll have to head back to the drawing board for the upcoming midweek
fixtures. Fixtures where the IEFSA/Fantrax fixture computer pits my side
against against @Smokey_Loogy. The fixture computer knows full well that
@Smokey_Loogy would have beaten my side in Gameweek 30, even when using only
eight players because his top scorer didn’t see any minutes!
@Smokey_Loogy`s Team
His top scorer is Troy Deeney.
The Watford captain missed out at the weekend because of illness, but in truth,
wasn`t really needed in a routine home win against Sunderland. Another home
game, this time against West Brom should see the striker get a chance to add to
his goal tally. @Smokey_Loogy could substitute in Divock Origi to his front line
if needed though. The Liverpool player smashed in a goal a short time after
coming on in the Merseyside derby for the injured Sadio Mane. If Mane does
indeed miss time because of that injury, Origi could well be the player to take
his place in Klopp`s side.
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| Mahrez coming into form when he faces my side. Coincidence? |
@Smokey_Loogy`s other players to impress at the weekend were, Jordan Pickford of Sunderland, and his duo of Leicester players, Danny Simpson and Riyad Mahrez. Pickford picked up over twenty points despite conceding a goal, this is largely thanks to standing behind one of the poorest defences in the league. He`ll get another chance to rack up the save points when the Black Cats travel down to play Leicester City. Knowing my luck, all the shots that Pickford will face will be from Simpson and Mahrez.
What I Need To Happen
That dreaded word `rotation`
will get bandied about this gameweek, as managers take on the thankless task of
picking a team three days, sometimes four days, after having previously played
a game. Squads will be stretched to breaking point. Unfortunately the rumours
that Sunderland were playing someone who won a competition on the back of a
cereal box in midfield, turned out to be a cruel April fool’s day joke. Or it
actually turned out to be Darron Gibson, I’m not quite sure. With rotation in
mind, I’ll hope that most of my players get rotated in, while @Smokey_Loogy has
the headache of players being rotated out.
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| Koeman wants to run through the whole youth squad before starting Mirallas. |
Seven of my players will be
playing on Tuesday night, all involved in two games. Manchester United are at
home to Everton, and fingers crossed, Mirallas, Baines and Mkhitaryan will be
starters. In the Burnley game against Stoke, my Goalkeeper (Heaton) and
Defender (Keane) will face off against my own Midfielder (Allen) and Forward
(Arnautovic). Best case scenario here is probably a highly entertaining nil all
draw, or narrow Burnley victory.
Predictions
@RotoZdroik stretched his
lead at the top to 12 points, and he will be tested again this week when he
faces fifth placed @EPL_MOstradamus. Last weekend saw seven correct predictions
out of nine. As always, please follow @THE_IEFSA on Twitter to keep up with the
winners and losers of each match-up. Here are the predictions for midweek.
Good Luck Everyone.
@wrigavin over @RotoWireAndrew
@FantasyYIRMA over
@jforquer11
@FuzzyWarbles over @cjradune
@TAMc10 over @nealjthurman
@nikarg over @SportsByGotti
@TRKingston over @BenDinnery
@jwl_15 over @jasonuk17
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