GW 13 Matchday Thread

Martinelli off, Nketiah on

White off, Tierney on

Ward and Andreas on mine laughing at me

Ward is some legend, another CS game for him Hero.

Started Pereira as well so well chuffed - figured Leeds game be very open.

looking like 68 with Tripper to go.

Captain Erling my only points

Tarkowski 5 on my bench

Tripp and Scamacca to play

Wilson goal - Lloris mistake

Think I'll sell Salah for Almiron.

Yea looking at my team - can't see an obvious way of getting him and starting him, unless sell Salah, but with Leeds at home next can't be at that. maybe could bench likes of Saliba. hmm

Bad week. Took out trossard for Foden and have Ward, Anreas and Neco on the bench.

Too many 1s and 2s on my team. Most of them

Strange that Almirons points havent been added yet

😥😥

Wilson booked

Pope save point

And then booked for time wasting sigh

Scores are fixed again 🥸

Bad week for me. 56 with 25 points on the bench. Almiron basically saved my gw.

Trossard to Foden cost 6 points.

Livefpl has me dropping 8k places OR to 38k. Luckily though, I managed to get 2 more points than second in my moneyleage, so my lead is now 9 points (I was 15 points behind at the start of October), third is 34 points behind.

344 is my highest ever monthly total and there is still another GW this month. 😂😲🤭🤗

Didn't check any scores until now. And see that Doherty coming on for 9 mins blocked Andreas 10 points, week ended as it started. Absoulte disaster!

60 all out... Almiron and Tark clean sheet my main differentials.

25 points on the bench.

A glacial move up to 1.5m from 2.5m three weeks ago.

I feel for you. Sickener.

Foden looked a must and it was worth taking a punt that Salahs season had turned after a promising couple of games, plus nice fixtures. Wouldve picked Foden and Salah to outscore the other two but maybe thats what I am doing wrong this season.

I am in 30k which is my highest ever, after years of playing, but I still think my team is crap. I have regrets, like not keeping with Martinelli in my first team - got him out to accomodate Sahah (🤐), or going with a Ward and Iversen pairing. The 0.5 saving wasnt worth it - especially with the bounty of low to mid priced players returning decent points.

I would normally be in about 2M OR about now. It seems like decisions that would go against me other years, are going for me now. For instance, in GW3 TAA got 0 points (liv lost 2-1 to MUtd) and a load of managers ditched him. Following gameweek he scores 17 points. I decided to hold onto him. 🤫 while my nearest competitors had all ditched him. In fairness, I probably kept him as I had to resolve the keeper situation, which inself worked a wonder as it meant I got 6 points from my new keeper Raya instead of 1 from Ward. (Ditched Iversen)

Delighted to get on Kulusevski early but kept with him too long. Got a great GW1 score and didnt do much afterwards, due to changes in formation.Bad and good there. I fell for the pairing of James and Cucurella in back for Chelsea but that was another failure. Maybe, the learning point there is that if anyone mentions any two players to get into the same team, like my two blunders above, then ignore. Doubling up players from the same team is always a dodgy tactic, unless its doubling/tripling up on teams that are doing well - like triple city and double Arsenal (this years must have combination).

Maybe its the year thats in it? We have an off kilter season where the WC is in Nov/Dec. This means that chances of DWGs are massive, and while its bad now, after christmas the backlogs will mean more games will get postponed. Usually, those games would be scheduled around GWs 36 and 38. Also usually, the first reschedule of the year is not until November. This means there will possibly be more DWGs than ever, and this means more focus has to be spent on how those chips are used. It will probably be a big differential this year. A lot of high scoring managers have used at least one chip (excluding WC as that has to be used before WC). That could mean a big shakeup in leagues/scores when those managers use their chips in DWGs. And more DWGs means that there is an opportunity to use a chip per DWG, which previously would be unheard of.

The takeaway from that is if you have a lower score than you are expecting but still have your chips, then you are in a great place and can expect a boost in rankings at the business end of the campaign.

I'd say Salah is the weakest link, I've never seen him play so badly. Either seems to be absolutely wrecked or not fitting into Klopps new tactics.

I still have him but need to figure out who to replace him with

Is Toney/Mitro to Kane a good move? I get that Kane is returning in most games, but for his price is he/spurs creating enough chances? How many games have there been where you'd think he should have had 2/3 goals - Toney is hot/cold, but when hot is very hot, Mitrovic is consistent and a fraction of Kane's price. If you have Salah, then Salah to anyone, should get your 3rd striker to Kane, (assuming you don't have Jesus). I would have Kane over Jesus for sure.

On the comment on the weakest link, I don't have the stats in front of me, but I would hazard a guess that Martenilli hasn't actually returned all that well if you exclude the first 3 games of the season, where Arsenal played a dire Bournmouth, Leicester and Villa teams. There have been a lot of games where you'd think he'd do well but didn't - ala Southampton, Leeds, Fulham etc. Xhaka has probably done as returning and that says a lot.

Arsenal are sorta like Chelsea I feel, that despite playing well, there is not a stand out player that has returned and is a must have.

67 with Cresswell and Scamacca playing here so a good chance to gain a few points

Hoping for a combined 8+ and would be delighted with anything above that

Off now. Neto struggling too. Zouma goal