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If anything, I'm glad that Foden didn't play because after that hattrick vs Villa, I'm sure that even if he played, he might not have gotten goals — maybe just one goal because he is foden and can score often but I doubt he'd come close to the returns that Watkins will deliver this weekend.

Watkins is on my bench and when he gets subbed in via automatic sub, that's a big W for me especially a week like this that I got one of the lowest scores across the board.

Btw, sorry about losing top spot. I didn't notice until today. You held it so long I almost thought you'd be undisputed.

Not talking about only this season - we're talking about best defenders in the league sit Gabriel and Saliba out of this one.

Need another Salah blank and second half sub tomorrow. The Egyptian King is still struggling with match fitness..

Maybe I have not seen enough Liverpool games this season, but to me the best defender is Saliba and Gabriel. I checked to see the statistics online, Virgil van Dijk is on the top ranking this season, Saliba is in the ranking, Gabriel is in the ranking but 39yrs old Silva is not in the ranking.

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He has really improved, he completely shadowed Saka in our game, and he would not have been subbed out in the second half against Palace if not that he picked up a yellow and Pep did not want to gamble.

I hope United do the Lord's work and stop this Liverpool team that wants to steal Arsenal chances this season.

I only trust Salah, Nunez? not so much.

I like to see Anthony, Rashford and Hojlund start for United tomorrow.

Fantastic time to bring Gvardiol into the team.
Replaced Watkins recently, another shitty call. What are the rest of you doing if I'm still in top 10?

Tomorrow's the day for Salah and Nunez, I can smell it this time. We'll walk over this United team.

So... I forgot all about switching players in, only had two forwards because of last Watkin-less game vs City, and then of course, he's now sitting on my bench and getting all those beautiful points. I swear, I love giving money away.

WD Spack, you deserve Darwin captaincy! =D

Just realized I still did not proclaim GW 31 Winner so......

Congratulations to Spack17 he won it with monster 87 points. Without looking I knew he must have had Foden, Palmer & Garnacho in his team and I was correct To make it even better he is probably the only person in the pool that got a return from captain (Darwin). Did not actually checked it but all major picks flopped.

Got the News 2 mins to deadline, didn't have enough time to do the swapping but my Foden auto sub is Maddison so I'm covered. I needed that Halaand goal!!!

The Italian league being better defensively than the Premier League is not news; it is fact. That league produced some of history's greatest defenders.

You didn't show me any facts/stats BTW....  

This is not any form gaslighting whatsoever, but whatever you say to help you ignore obvious fact is cool

In premier league only 3 teams have conceded less than 30 goals this season namely Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal. from Aston Villa in 4th position have all conceded no less than 42 goals, please tell me more about defense, while about 11 teams have conceded at least 50 goals. Premier league is an highly competitive league, Of course! But it is completely naive and ignorant to consider PL as the league with the best defense averagely, and that's in no way related to one player missing chances, is it ?


If you've by any means paid attention to these league, you'll get a glimpse of my perspective, why did you consider Serie A a good defensively oriented league, is it also because every striker there are all firing blank or they kids too ? It is an obvious fact and it's being the case for long time, Premier League is not a defensively oriented league and the fact that they have Thiago Silva and Van Dijk doesn't change the average defensive philosophy of the league entirely.

A bit of good news for those of us without Foden Seems like it is his turn to sit one out.

Was afraid of him and Ait-Nouri most so this should help at least a bit if it is true.

32 yrs old Van Djke and 39 yrs old Silva being the best defenders in the league is still something to think about but not on this topic.

When they have young strikers with Darwin abilities firing blanks in the (Portuguese) league, the average number of goals conceded will be low ofcos.

No amount of gaslighting will convince me that the Portuguese league is better defensively than the Premier League; look at their lineups and backgrounds; they're all kids with little experience, going to college during the week, playing football on Saturdays, and going to farms on Sundays. If we want to talk about an excellent defensive league, we can bring the Italian league into the discussion.

I bet the Portugese League does prioritize defense over attack than the EPL does, so I really don't English team's defense are any much better than what we've got in the Portugal, so the defense in Portugal being deemed as farmers league is completely wrong, take a look at the leagues goals conceded average to goals score, and compare into to what we've got in the EPL, you'll see the difference, and it doesn't even look close.

True though, Darwin has been terrible in most of his games but, you could say his improved since Salah’s absence due to the AFCON, this he has carried on till now, though his strains of weak and poorly directed shots is still visible, he’s been finding the net in most games to actually consider him for a striker on my team. His got pretty decent points if you look at it but, his hardly my concern at the moment.

Cole Palmer just trashed my hopes of getting in the top 5 with his performance yesterday. I knew he was that good but, coming up with such performance against Manchester United, even I didn’t expect that for sure. Chelsea have been terrible when they played Manchester United and so, I took Palmer out to accommodate M. Salah and he gets 20points while Salah could only get 2 points. Worst decision in recent times.

Damn, I can't believe you would roast Darwin this way haha. But thank you for the stats. Darwin blanked a lot for majority of the season so I get the point you're trying to make 100%. I could remember one game he hit the woodwork up to 4 times IIRC but didn't score. Then he was handed the opportunity to take a PK which he missed as well. He needs to fine tuned his shots. Getting them on target is only halfway there.  Still, I made that post based on the fact that Darwin has outperformed some of those forwards in recent times.


I think Alvarez's problem is due to Guardiola's rotation. He used to have a firm spot in the starting line up. Now, not so much.  Saka this season is nothing to write home about. Bruh fell off hard.


I can say the same for Nicolas Jackson 

He's now playing in a more competitive league, against actual defenders and not random part-time farmers from the Portuguese league. He'll do well; he's only 24 and has only one weakness (shooting). He has the most shots on goal this season (95), but only converts 11. The next Liverpool manager might be the spark for his breakthrough.

Too many captain options to choose from this week. Halaand is not going to get more than 60mins, he's one of my problem now.

Darwin Nunez and Mudryk are in the same category, players with a lot of potentials, but need personal grooming for them to achieve their full potentials.

Darwin is likely to blank against Manchester United.

I still think that there isn't a very big point difference between us. As I also lost the side bet I made with cryptofrka there could be an interesting situation occurring among the 3 of us at the end of the season. 

Darwin Nunez did scored a lot of goals and created chances while he was at Benfica but let's be honest I think he's still the same guy he was at Benfica or at least he's level hasn't dropped significantly as the media or everyone else might be suggesting, Nunez was quite a very wasteful striker at Benfica too, the huge number of chances he gets just to convert one or two every fortnight is what made most overlook his conversion rate, and focused more on the number goals he scores. Premier League standard and the level of competition within the club might not have giving him the luxury of getting 6+ clear cut chances that should squandered every game.

That said, I still think he's one of the best or most complete conventional No. 9 player, he's got every skill set that's required of such role, from pace, to his dribble, and off the ball positioning too is exceptional, he's finishing touch is the only that's subpar, I'd rather have him over Haaland everyday as a coach, all he just needs in my candid opinion is to have a better finishing or conversion skill.

^Nunez was leading for quite a while actually on goal involvements (goals + assists), and then Klopp started him more, and gave him more playing time, but without the usual suspects around him so it's been one hell of an experimental side. I have been keeping track of him, just not after end Feb anymore. Once Klopp retired, I mentally switched off.

I think he still ranks highly on that table, only Palmer and Salah back to active duty and scoring hattricks have now overcome his stats.

Also, I guess I was tracking him across all competitions. In the Premier League itself, he's definitely not been in top 3. But very impressive still, both product and xG+A.

That is only for FPL Challenge obviously, not the main game.


The best forward currently available if we are going to be judging by goals scored is not Darwin, it's Isak. Just look at their goals per 90 minutes if you don't believe me:



Only Chris Wood and Erling Haaland are also higher than 0.8 goals per 90 minutes. Effectively, this means that they return in almost every game.

Also Haaland is not injured, he is just rested.

Also prominent on this list is Jota (before he got injured), Palmer, and Salah.

Nunez is 11th behind the likes of Muniz and Adebayo, but higher than Watkins (which is crazy if you ask me because Watkins was having the season of his life).

If we sort by G+A then that tells a different story though:



Here it's Salah and Palmer in one percentile, Haaland and Jota on another and then Nunez, Son, Isak, and Watkins all with similar numbers.

However in the context of Fantasy, FWD goals are almost the same as assist (4pts vs 3pts), which gives some bias to midfielders in terms of points. So Salah Palmer Jota and even Son would all be on the top based on that. The only way a FWD could also get on top is with BPS. Haaland gets a lot of BPS so there he goes. Same with Isak (when he is not injured). Darwin gets almost no BPS because he keeps missing the rest of his shots.

Anyway that should explain why everyone has been snapping up Isak for the past week or so; not saying Darwin is a bad choice or anything but his missed BPS potential plus his price per G+A makes him non-viable compared to some of the other FWD choices like Haaland, Isak, Wood, Muniz, etc.

It is also worth noting that Saka is quite low on both of these stats but maybe that's just a product of Arsenal's team play. (And Alvarez is completely absent from both stats which means you should sell him now if you haven't already.)

Can anyone confirm this? https://twitter.com/OfficialFPL/status/1776238750512587149?s=19

It says that Liverpool and Man Utd players will return double points when both teams go head to head in the EPL on Sunday. If it's true, it might be a good time to get Liverpool players like Nunez, VVD and maybe Diaz?  If Jota or Salah were fit, those would've been my goto picks.

Contrary to sentiments from NotATether about Nunez, I do think he is the best forwarded currently available now that the likes of Watkins, Haaland are unavailable and Alvarez blanks almost every GW.