Not a massive haul of points last weekend
(113) but thankfully it was enough to squeeze past @RotoZdroik. I was made to
sweat towards the end though, as after a poor start @RotoZdroik had three
players left to play with me thinking I was home and dry. But then, one by one,
they all scored! Bellerin, Sane and Lukaku all found the net, in what I am
reliably informed would have been a 44-1 treble at your local bookies.
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| Bellerin was one bright spot for Arsenal against Bournemouth |
That win doesn’t see my side off the bottom
though, as 9th placed @nikarg also won. And against league leader
@TRKingston no less. He also scored the highest number of points for the week,
and his second highest points total of the season. Nik is in great form having
won five of his last six in the league. Why am I telling you all this? Well,
because the IEFSA/Fantrax fixture computer has saw fit to make sure the bottom
two face off this week. All the way back in Gameweek 1 @nikarg beat my side by
a whopping 46 points. I was able to extract some revenge in Gameweek 12 when I outscored
him by 15 points.
@nikarg’s Team
Eriksen and Mahrez did the damage in the
opening Gameweek thanks to combining for three assists, and @nikarg still has
those two players in his team. James Ward-Prowse scored 18.6 points that day
and the Southampton man has also remained in his side. Up front, it looks like
Chicharito could be heading away from West Ham this January. Jermain Defoe is
still out injured at Bournemouth. That means Nik will have to call on Shane Long
to do the goal-scoring. The Irishman did score this month in the Premier League, which ended a goal drought of over 1,300 minutes. He had failed to score since
February 2017, and that was against Sunderland so shouldn’t really count.
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| Eriksen is due on off day, or perhaps a straight up day off?? |
At the back @nikarg will hope the good form
of Lewis Dunk at Brighton, Jonjoe Kenny of Everton, and Paulo Zabaleta of West
Ham United continues. All three average a double figure points return per game.
With Dunk average almost 16 points per game. His Goalkeeper is whoever gets put
in between the sticks for Crystal Palace. At the moment Wayne Hennessey is
winning that battle against Julian Speroni.
What I Need To Happen
Last weekend I brought in Ayoze Perez of
Newcastle and Grzegorz Krychowiak of West Brom. Neither set the world on fire,
they just went about their 90 minutes picking up points here and there. Unfortunately,
both have tough fixtures this weekend meaning a nice 10 point haul could be
beyond them. Perez has to travel to a smarting Manchester City side. While
Krychowiak also has an away fixture, West Brom have to take a trip to Goodison
Park. In fact, I could easily have to field a whole team (bar the goalkeeper)
who will be playing away from home. Even then, my Goalkeeper Nick Pope of
Burnley has to face Manchester United. Hardly a banker home fixture.
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| Dlaczego jest tyle spółgłosek w języku polskim? |
Injuries seem to be blighting my team this
new year. Maybe I will have to dip into the murky pool of Free Agency again.
Zlatan is still recovering. Both of my Swansea ‘Stars’ are sidelined. Renato
Sanches and Tammy Abraham. And they have been joined by Everton’s Michael Keane
who has picked up a foot injury. All in all it looks like I'll need five or six of
Nik’s side to have an off day, While one of my players deflects one in off his
arse or something. Tom Ince more than likely. Although the smart money is on a
Shane long hat-trick this weekend.
Predictions
Lots of close games last weekend. @wrigavin
and @FantasyYIRMA were separated by only 1.1 pts. Games like that played havoc
with my predictions as only six of nine were correct. That is an improvement on
recent weeks, but let’s try and improve again this time out. To follow all these
games please head over to @THE_IEFSA on Twitter. Here are this week’s
predictions.
Good Luck Everyone
@TRKingston over @RotoZdroik
@jwl_15 over @FantasyYIRMA
@RotoWireAndrew over @FPL_MNOP
@cjradune over @SportsByGotti
@jforquer11 over @nealjthurman
@jasonuk17 over @DFS_Hambazaza
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