Plod Plod Plodding along....
It is Game Week 9 in the English Premier League
Which means it is also game week 9 in the fantasy premier league world...
Last week saw the third week in a row that Haaland blanked.... which means no goals or goal assists!
For the first time ever, Erling Haaland has blanked in three straight Premier League games.
Will he come good this weekend? Do you sell him, if not do you keep him as your Captain?
Let's dive on and find out!...
Well I called this wrong from last week ..
The only player was Saka of Arsenal but reading between the lines from the prematch press conference of Arteta he will be in the starting line up against Bournemouth!
I should have sold him last week.
He never played for Arsenal who then got humped away at Bournemouth and Saliba got sent off...
Away to Liverpool on Saturday, so time to pump Saka....
Let's review our current squad.
So I follow the FPL Lazy gang and their guru the FPL Professor has been telling us two things....
1 Have faith in Haaland
- Pump Saka
In other words, keep Haaland as captain!
Should we be selling Arsenal assets
Defenders can be a bit of costly luxury. I mean Gabriel of Arsenal is my premium defender but can I use that money elsewhere....
Let's see the run of fixtures for Arsenal...
Not too clever ... oh they are home to Liverpool I thought they were away.
Tough little run and time to let the Arsenal players go....
What are our available funds
Okay I have two transfers available...
I do have £0.2 million in the bank.
Let's have a look at the fixtures.
Game Week 9 fixtures
Our Big transfer ...
... is going to be Saka > Son
Yes we go with the Spurs man, although he is not playing in Europe tonight which was always the plan even though he took a knock at the weekend!
Welcome to Team Tengo Son!
Right then, the other transfer is Gabriel the Arsenal defender, now Notts Forest have been defending really well and so have Everton!
Are Everton finally going to be safe and kick on?
You know I love the Toffees but having a defender means tripling as I have DCL up in attack (at the moment)....
Lets see the fixtures for Everton...
Fluff me, they don't come much better than that for the next 6 weeks...
Okay Everton defender and this could be a toss of the coin!
Well simply because of his goal threat ....
The winner is ...
Welcome to Team Tengo Keane!
Okay let's finalise those transfers....
Straight into the team for GW 9
Yes good fixtures and into the team go Son (as vice captain) and Keane.
I tell you what Spurs are at Crystal Palace who are having a tough time this year!
Game Week 8 results and stats!
In theory we had a shite week overall on Game Week 8 ...
As you can we did end up with 31 points which was 5 points below the average!
So fluff me, being a covid manager was a fail!
Our players points were ....
Two weeks ago Everton midfielder McNeil saved our arse and again this week he scored points as did the Kiwi Wood of Notts Forest! Mind you he should have scored at least three!
My Game Week 8 Head to Head Match
First of all I am going to leave the screenshot of my game week 7 result ....
Yes it was a draw.... now for GW8...
Well no surprises but a loss!
Stats after Game Week 8
As a comparison here is GW 7
Two wins and two draws from 8 matches and 8 points as you can see I slipped down the rankings from 44th to 49th in Hive division 2 head to head.
Now I think it is the top 5 that get promoted, so I am fluffing miles off the pace....
But it is a marathon not a sprint!
Some league positions!
I am playing in two Hive leagues
The Classic League and then Hive Division 2 Head to Head .
The Hive fpl as you can see by the grey circle I stayed at 43rd!
Game week 7 for comparison
The Hive Division 2 Head to Head , yep red arrow is a downward position and we are back down to 49th place!
Yes it is early but I want to see more green!
Game week 7 for comparison
I am also playing in the Across (ACX) leagues which does feature some Hivians and these are my postions there ...
ACX league
Game week 7 for comparison
Yes a bit of a yoyo between 8th and 12th positions!
ACX Head to Head
Game week 7 for comparison
Yep am going down there as well!!!
Tengo Rangers on the slide ... again ...
In the classic leagues you will see a plethora of red falls!
Don't forget there is a Friday night match which is why you need to submit your team early!
It's a Marathon not a Sprint said someone!
What do you think of my new squad and team?
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All ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo. Image made on pixlr with a prompt from me.
@tengolotodo 24th October 2024 (Oct - 13 PP ~ 4 VR)
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