It's starting to get serious now. With Chelsea's win at Old Trafford and Arsenal's last minute winner against Wolves, the title is race is fully on with all three teams have a legitimate chance to win it.
With the cancellation of the Stoke-Fulham game, gameweek 34 becomes a standard 10 game week, though with no top of the table clashes, there should be points on offer so long as we don't suffer any more big name casualties.
Clean Sheet Rankings
- Liverpool
- Wigan
- Stoke
- Wolves
- Chelsea
- Hull
- Aston Villa
- Man City
- Tottenham
- West Ham
- Man Utd
- Portsmouth
- Blackburn
- Everton
- Arsenal
- Sunderland
- Birmingham
- Fulham
- Burnley
- Bolton
If you're looking to buy someone for the rest of the season I like Liverpool, Chelsea then Villa for your premium options and Everton, Wolves and Hull for your rotation/sleeper pickups.
Captain Rankings
- Didier Drogba
- Frank Lampard
- Fernando Torres
- Emmanual Adebayor
- Carlos Tevez
- Darren Bent
- Ashley Young
- Hugo Rodallega
- James Milner
- Steven Gerrard
Well, United have just crashed out leaving no EPL teams left in this season's Champions League. Has the EPL taken a step back - possibly - but I don't think this shows that much. Considering the English press' bias against Italy and Germany in the past though, perhaps they will write the league off in the papers tomorrow. Perhaps not.
As always please post your lineup/transfer questions below or @plfantasy.
10 comments:
Chris - Rooney played for 55 minutes against Bayern, then got subbed out for O'Shea after Rafael was sent off. I'm guessing it was more of a tactical change, as SAF swears by 4 defenders. I guess the big question is, will Rooney be match-fit for this weekend and actually start?
Ryan - I think we're all going to get déjà vu with all the will he-won't he Rooney stories this week. He didn't look fit to me against bayern and with the Manchester derby coming up my gut - which was wrong last week - says he rests. The decent fixture makes him playable so long as you accept the risk of leaving 12m on bench. With drogba, torres and adebayor all having good fixtures, it's tough to keep Rooney again this week.
I'm not sure about the 0-0 prediction for Hull-Burnley. The former is in desperation mode to escape relegation (one point back of 17th) and the latter has completely fallen apart and concedes the most away goals in Premiership. I'm thinking of playing Jimmy Bullard, baby!
I'm guessing - just guessing - that Rooney will be on the bench in case they need a little magic late in the game
Jared - Bullard is definitely worth a punt especially for home games against teams with weak away defences. Plus, his fixtures look great. Burnley at home is mouth-watering! However, beware the fact that he's highly injury-prone.
Chris & Jared - I think I agree that Rooney might be rested and then used as a supersub to poach a goal or two. SAF will definitely want him to fire all cylinders against Man City the following gameweek.
Anyone have news on the Arteta and Milner's injuries? FPL has them down as doubtful, but surely there both good to go for this GW.
Here's hoping.
skip
It sounds like Milner's ready to play, but there's the FA semi tomorrow to worry about before Villa plays Everton. I don't know if he'll play both, though both are important games.
Can't find any info on Arteta, but I'm guessing (hoping) he'll play.
skip - I'm in the exact same situation. I decided I can't afford to have both sit so I've brought in Malouda for Arteta. Milner's double next week make himtoo valuable to sell, while Arteta's fixtures are pretty tough from here on in.
If we can believe the press then Rooney is definately out this week. The natural replacements are Drogba and Torres or even Tevez, all who have good fixtures this week.
Yep Roo's out. I'm thinking of getting Ashley Young for the double GW35. From the way things look, do you reckon he's a better buy than Milner? I'm all for points maximization.
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