GW26 Matchday Thread

20 points from 7 on my wildcard ... yes twenty entire points. Brentford x3 + Rashford to play.

I would be on 29 with Salah/Rashers/Shaw to play if I had made no transfers (assuming Id have captained Haaland).

25 points and counting on my bench. Playing Madisson over Mitoma was a disaster.

HEWT

Forest XI: Navas, Aurier, Worrall, Felipe, Lodi, Freuler, Shelvey, Colback, Johnson, Gibbs-White, Wood.

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Tarkowski, Godfrey, Iwobi, Onana, Gueye, Doucoure, McNeil, Gray.

I got rid for a few weeks. Fully expect it to backfire, but the game is suddenly exciting again.😅

Same. Hopefully he's priced appropriately next season. Or do away with captain altogether.

Pen to Everton, converted by Gray. McNeil with the assist.

Everton retake the lead - Doucouré (Keane).

Another zero pointer for Tark....what a legend

2-2 Brennan Johnson again (Yates).

It's easy to say that after the fact though - If Salah gets a double digit score today - would you say that people should have captained him over Arsenal players? Haaland is still one of the few players who can score hatrick for fun, this season there have been 8 hatrick, 5 of them are for city and 4 for Haaland, for as good as Arsenal players they don't have the same level of attacking power even when they click.

Gakpo (Robertson)

Nunez goal (Elliot)

Gakpo (Salah)

Might be Nunez Assist? Was Salah his intended target?

Non WC teams in dreamland with Salah.

Salah gets a 2nd! Wow! Fair **** to anyone who held him on a WC or didn't WC. 21 points incoming for him

Bobby with a 7th!

Salah assist... What a haul

So should we all have captained Salah?

TAA, Nunez and Salah get 39 points between them and match my overall team score......

Cracking stuff.

I'm now back it a grey arrow back to 750k after that today.

At least I had a green arrow for 24 hours!

Brentford tomorrow night to try turn it green again.

I've had a good week as a non-WC player.

I know you're not bemoaning luck yourself, so this is not at you, but I see a lot of people in groups and online complaining that people got lucky with Liverpool assets.

Well yes, the manner of it has been lucky this GW - as in the sheer size of the score, but it was no bad thing to hold Liverpool players for another week ahead of the Brighton/Brentford DGW. Salah loves Utd. Nunez will explode in points at any given time - we all know this if we watch him. And anything can happen in a derby anyway.

The luck is no different to the giant swings that happen all season. Some you win, some you lose. The same people bemoaning the luck of those keeping Liverpool assets are the same ones who probably happily took Mitoma's 13 points from one real chance near goal.

Keeping Liverpool to wildcard for the coming week was a perfectly logical play.

I'd Nunez for the DGW. He gets in better positions more often than anyone not named Haaland. I would not trust him long term yet, but he will be a monster at some point. Keeping him for this game was perfectly logical.

Gakpo, Salah and Nunez out on wildcard.

Anyone want tips for next week?

This I actually agree with.

While I'll argue all day that keeping Liverpool assets was perfectly reasonable, captaining one when Arsenal had a plum fixture and Haaland was at home is simply a punt that's inexplicably worked. I'd be infuriated too.