Gameweek 34 match day thread - 3pm teams in op

spock.

Good thing Costa isn't explosive....

KevIRL

Bertrand goal

km79

Bertie goal
Cedric assist

Scorpion Sting

Awful awful night bar that Alonso assist.

spock.

There must be a lot of Betrand/Cedric benchers

extra gravy

Bertrand on my bench, could he not have waited until the dgwks!

DJIMI TRARORE

Boll. Ox to that 2ND Costa goal,he probably has Ben outscored for the week

Ha Ha,was forced to play both SOU defenders,swings and roundabouts

Scorpion Sting

spock. wrote: »

There must be a lot of Betrand/Cedric benchers

extra gravy wrote: »

Bertrand on my bench, could he not have waited until the dgwks!

Evidently haha.

Mint Sauce

Well that could have been alot worse, with no one playing tonight, expected to fall out of the top 200K, but still there on 32 points with 8 to play, including Captain Zaha.

Only down side tonight was, Cedric being my third choice sub getting an assist at the very end.

dsmythy

spock. wrote: »

There must be a lot of Betrand/Cedric benchers

Yeah I've him buried under concrete I was keeping him out so much. Have to start trusting players against Chelsea.

CSF

After 5 minutes that night had the potential to be amazing. It was still pretty decent. I think I'd have taken 13 points at the start of the night from Hazard and Alonso.

Scorpion Sting

dsmythy wrote: »

Yeah I've him buried under concrete I was keeping him out so much. Have to start trusting players against Chelsea.

You made the right decision, hindsight's 20/20.

Sooner or Later

Bertrand goal
Alonso assist
Pedro assist

Can't complain

Rikand

bertrand 3rd sub

Such is life

ScummyMan

Only player tonight was Bertrand third sub.

Still on 22 points for this week, damp squib so far.

Ace2007

Solid 9 points from hazard - would take son not seeing any action tomorrow. 58 with 5 to go

FHFC

Just Alonso tonight. Dropped back a bit to 27.5k with 40 so far.

Gibson, Chambers, Downing, Sanchez, Aguero, Zaha, Alli and Benteke (c) left.

Swiper the fox

Not as bad as I expected, nobody in last night's game moved me from 8.5k to 11k.
I'm gonna look like some tit tonight if I let out a joyous yelp when Benteke scores against my beloved and title chasing Spurs.

iroced

iroced wrote: »

iroced wrote: »

Hmmm... So far it's a disaster. A total unecessary -4 (because of FHFC keeping the good info for himself :pac:). De Roon denied a top corner goal before getting injured while Siggy is delivering the pts for the first time in ages. Captain Negredo going for a Lukaku DGW37 15/16 replica. It's all going well to feck up my season again.

But. DGWs are long, Especially this one, up to Thursday. So wait and see... And hope!

Even worse now. 11 (-4). I picked all the wrong horses. Coutinho has to be the player I'd have to hate and wish for injuries in the game (I actually really like him in reality ). He fecked me very deep last year while in my team, did the same this season and now he continues while not in my team. Ditto Benteke. 2 years ago DGW replicated today.

Ah well, c'est la vie. I'm safe in the FSA Prem', which was my only interest in this season again. I've nothing left to fight for and will see Thursday evening if it's worth going on this season. That's good. I could have longer FPL holidays . Ah maybe not, I may try and help the missus not to go down in her league .

Worse continues after yesterday's game.

Down to 50k on Saturday. 60k on Sunday. 67k now. :pac:.

Diego Costa sending a message for the DGW37. A good single GW player is better than an average DGW one!

Iused2likebusts

iroced wrote: »

Worse continues after yesterday's game.

Down to 50k on Saturday. 60k on Sunday. 67k now. :pac:.

Diego Costa sending a message for the DGW37. A good single GW player is better than an average DGW one!

The problem is we don't know which ones will be good sgw players and which ones will be average dgw players. I think once the player you get in plays twice you can have no complaints. If benteke had blanked in both games this week people would think it was a poor decision to get him in. If negredo blanks tonight again people will think it was a poor move. Lukaku blanked if he had hit a brace people would say why did you sell lukaku nobody will say that now. Some people would have done lukaku to benteke looks a great move others may have done Costa to negredo .

spock.

36 with 8 to play, only had Alonso yesterday.
Need big scores from Negredo(c), Kane and Aguero to make up for not getting Benteke.

iroced

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

The problem is we don't know which ones will be good sgw players and which ones will be average dgw players. I think once the player you get in plays twice you can have no complaints. If benteke had blanked in both games this week people would think it was a poor decision to get him in. If negredo blanks tonight again people will think it was a poor move. Lukaku blanked if he had hit a brace people would say why did you sell lukaku nobody will say that now. Some people would have done lukaku to benteke looks a great move others may have done Costa to negredo .

Yes. But what we tend to forget or at least not take enough into consideration is the context of the games.
It was a must-win game for Chelsea to keep putting the pressure on Spurs. While Everton have not much left to play for. For Middlesborough & Palace these games were key too. But then, current form comes into the equation. Palace were on much better form than 'Borough.

What I'm saying is these are things I certainly did not look at carefully enough before this GW. But I'm not complaining. For months I've been playing as a casual and I may eventually pay the price for it this GW. As I already said, I've nothing left to play for so it doesn't really matter.

But to see evreything going against me (planned or not planned) so far is kinda funny in the end :P.

patmac

Still on 20 (-4) down to 50k, still that's the beauty of the dgw I still have 10 to play, 8 tonight including 6 potentially in the Palace vs Spurs game, delighted its live , a Hennessy penalty save from Kane would be nice.

CSF

Sanchez and Kane are both big enough differentials still to be game changers tonight. I have Sanchez and will be hiding behind the couch watching Kane.

Negredo doing well would be lovely but weirdly enough he's only really a differential to my OR. So many people that I'm most closely competing with this week captained him also.

siblers

I have 2 Palace attackers and 2 Spurs defenders + Eriksen. I've no idea what I want out of tonight's game

Rikand

siblers wrote: »

I have 2 Palace attackers and 2 Spurs defenders + Eriksen. I've no idea what I want out of tonight's game

A goal each from all 5 of them would probably suffice ?

siblers

Rikand wrote: »

A goal each from all 5 of them would probably suffice ?

Eriksen, Zaha(c) and Benteke to score is not too much to ask for..is it :pac:

DJIMI TRARORE

siblers wrote:

I have 2 Palace attackers and 2 Spurs defenders + Eriksen. I've no idea what I want out of tonight's game

A 4_4 Shud be his nuf

FHFC

iroced wrote: »

Yes. But what we tend to forget or at least not take enough into consideration is the context of the games.
It was a must-win game for Chelsea to keep putting the pressure on Spurs. While Everton have not much left to play for.

Every game is a must win game for Chelsea to keep the pressure on Spurs. Costa's form and returns have still been shìte.

I agree with Busts. Hindsight is the death of intelligence when it comes to Fantasy Football. This game is about calculated, hopefully educated, guesswork of what's going to happen in the future in a fairly random and unpredictable sport

But it almost impossible to be objective about what was a good call or a bad call as the actual points returned so strongly colour our judgement when clouded by hindsight.

It's like people saying that using TC on a SGW player is a good plan cause the highest scoring players in the DGWs were SGW players. Hindsight. The most probable big scorers were the DGW players.

iroced

FHFC wrote: »

Every game is a must win game for Chelsea to keep the pressure on Spurs. Costa's form and returns have still been shìte.

I agree with Busts. Hindsight is the death of intelligence when it comes to Fantasy Football. This game is about calculated, hopefully educated, guesswork of what's going to happen in the future in a fairly random and unpredictable sport

Ah come on! You're also using a lot of hindsight to suit you here.

Costa had 2 crap games in a row. Then he blanked home to City and failed as his whole team away to United. In the meantime he did have a good game away to B'mouth giving 2 assists for Chelsea 3 goals though. So it's not like he was finished.

And no. Not every Chelsea games were/are must win games. Chelsea games have re-become must win since they lost home to Palace (an acceptable accident) and away to United (pressure came back on them there). Because Spurs are winning every games and putting the pressure on them. When Chelsea were 10 points ahead with 9 games to go or even when 7 pts ahead with 7 games to go (after beating City) they did not have the same pressure.

Yesterday, had they failed to win, Spurs could have reduced the gap to 2 pts tonight!

I did not own Costa. But if I had I'm not sure I'd have taken a -4 to get in Negredo or Benteke for just 1 DGW. And without any hindsight, I can call it a calculated risk too. Many people did it with Lukaku considering his recent form. It failed. c'est la vie. Taking a risk does not necessarily mean taking a -4 .

Scorpion Sting

iroced wrote: »

Ah come on! You're also using a lot of hindsight to suit you here.

Costa had 2 crap games in a row. Then he blanked home to City and failed as his whole team away to United. In the meantime he did have a good game away to B'mouth giving 2 assists for Chelsea 3 goals though. So it's not like he was finished.

And no. Not every Chelsea games were/are must win games. Chelsea games have re-become must win since they lost home to Palace (an acceptable accident) and away to United (pressure came back on them there). Because Spurs are winning every games and putting the pressure on them. When Chelsea were 10 points ahead with 9 games to go or even when 7 pts ahead with 7 games to go (after beating City) they did not have the same pressure.

Yesterday, had they failed to win, Spurs could have reduced the gap to 2 pts tonight!

I did not own Costa. But if I had I'm not sure I'd have taken a -4 to get in Negredo or Benteke for just 1 DGW. And without any hindsight, I can call it a calculated risk too. Many people did it with Lukaku considering his recent form. It failed. c'est la vie. Taking a risk does not necessarily mean taking a -4 .

Costa had 2 goals in 10 league games before last night and had failed to get any double-digit hauls at Stamford Bridge all season. For a 10m+ player that is poor form and those who shipped him ahead of the Southampton game were justified in doing so in my view.

KevIRL

Nervous for palace team...

ShaneU

Walcott up front

KevIRL

KevIRL wrote: »

Nervous for palace team...

Kick off not till 8, doh. Will have to be nervous for another 15 mins

km79

Well done chambers my son
Barragan not in squad

CSF

Looks like Koscielny and Cech may be the only worthwhile options for 36 and 37 to go with Sanchez. Ozil too expensive and nobody else nailed on.

alchemist33

CSF wrote: »

Looks like Koscielny and Cech may be the only worthwhile options for 36 and 37 to go with Sanchez. Ozil too expensive and nobody else nailed on.

What do you think of Monreal?

km79

CSF wrote: »

Looks like Koscielny and Cech may be the only worthwhile options for 36 and 37 to go with Sanchez. Ozil too expensive and nobody else nailed on.

Monreal is a very good option

extra gravy

Holding not even in squad.

ShaneU

Gabriel hasn't been dropped either

spock.

km79 wrote:

Monreal is a very good option

Not at wingback today though

km79

spock. wrote: »

km79 wrote:

Monreal is a very good option

Not at wingback today though

Don't mind as long as he plays all games of I sign him

KevIRL

No son

KevIRL

Palace panic over

SlickRic

No rest for main Palace players.

Same with Spurs (bar Son actually!).

Zaha, Benteke, Townsend all start.

PVA still on bench.

km79

Damn thought Pva would start for sure
Need him to start the weekend more though so may work out yet
Cabaye also dropped

CSF

km79 wrote: »

CSF wrote: »

Looks like Koscielny and Cech may be the only worthwhile options for 36 and 37 to go with Sanchez. Ozil too expensive and nobody else nailed on.

Monreal is a very good option

Not necessarily. Gibbs will play games. I wouldn't bank on him keeping a spot in a 3 man defence. So him playing 4 games in 36 and 37 is far from certain.

CSF

KevIRL wrote: »

No son

I feel so good about that transfer out right now.

Mr.Prodston

PVA is only a DGW37 kinda guy then it seems.

It gives me a sad, but here's to a late goal as a sub!

km79

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

PVA is only a DGW37 kinda guy then it seems.

It gives me a sad, but here's to a late goal as a sub!

I probably shud have played vertonghen and Saved the 4 point hit
But I'm happy to have finally sold brunt