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GW11 NOTHING BUT BONUS POINTS!!! #FPL

Gameweek 11
10 Nov 15:00 Arsenal Arsenal 3 – 3 Fulham Fulham
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Giroud (2)
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Kacaniklic (2)
Berbatov (3)
10 Nov 15:00 Everton Everton 2 – 1 Sunderland Sunderland
10 Nov 15:00 Reading Reading 0 – 0 Norwich Norwich
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Morrison
McCleary (2)
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Garrido (3)
10 Nov 15:00 Southampton Southampton 1 – 1 Swansea Swansea
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Schneiderlin (2)
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Monk (2)
Dyer (3)
10 Nov 15:00 Stoke City Stoke City 1 – 0 QPR QPR
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Shawcross (3)
Adam (2)
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Ferdinand
10 Nov 15:00 Wigan Wigan 1 – 2 West Brom West Brom
10 Nov 17:30 Aston Villa Aston Villa 2 – 3 Man Utd Man Utd
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Weimann (2)
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Carrick
Hernandez (3)
11 Nov 13:30 Man City Man City 2 – 1 Tottenham Tottenham
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Silva (2)
Aguero (3)
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Caulker
11 Nov 15:00 Newcastle Newcastle 0 – 1 West Ham West Ham
11 Nov 16:00 Chelsea Chelsea 1 – 1 Liverpool Liverpool
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Terry (2)
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Jose Enrique
Suarez (3)

GW10 – NOTHING BUT BONUS POINTS!!!

Gameweek 10
03 Nov 12:45 Man Utd Man Utd 2 – 1 Arsenal Arsenal
03 Nov 15:00 Fulham Fulham 2 – 2 Everton Everton
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Riether (2)
Sidwell (2)
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Fellaini (3)
03 Nov 15:00 Norwich Norwich 1 – 0 Stoke City Stoke City
03 Nov 15:00 Sunderland Sunderland 0 – 1 Aston Villa Aston Vil
03 Nov 15:00 Swansea Swansea 1 – 1 Chelsea Chelsea
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Hernandez (2)
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Cahill
Moses (3)
03 Nov 15:00 Tottenham Tottenham 0 – 1 Wigan Wigan
03 Nov 17:30 West Ham West Ham 0 – 0 Man City Man City
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Collins
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Clichy (2)
Nasri (3)
04 Nov 13:30 QPR QPR 1 – 1 Reading Reading
04 Nov 16:00 Liverpool Liverpool 1 – 1 Newcastle Newcastle
05 Nov 20:00 West Brom

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Foster
Mulumbu (2)
Odemwingie (3)

 

West Brom v Southampton Southampton

FPL GW9: Statistical round up- by @shots_on_target

 

If you haven’t already check out @shots_on_target on twitter and visit his site www.shotsontarget.co.uk/

 

He is spoiling you with individual team statistics for all Premier League clubs.

You can click the team names below for an in-depth statistical round up by

  • Visual representation of each player’s appearances in the last 6 weeks and their fantasy form (F.SCORE).
  • Key Player Stats: shots, shots in box, shots on target, key passes, assists, minutes and goals
  • Key Player Info:   FPL price, points scored and % ownership
  • Projected Points for the next 6 fixtures(note:  Pts x 10)
  • Star Player indicators – to 15 F.SCORE and top 15 Value players indicated
  • Latest injury news from Physioroom.com

 

Team Pages:

HESKEY OVERHEAD KICK!!!

Ahhh never again would there be a captain dilemma if Emile Heskey was back in the premier league…

 

Here he is yesterday scoring 2 including an overhead(ish) kick making his goal return 4 from 4 so far!

 

Big Emile : Legend

 

 

 

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GW8 – The Review… HOW DID YOU DO???

Juan Mata is clearly the stand out performer in this match and Fantasy Manager have taken notice with a £0.2m price rise already this week after 80,000 transfers in.  Chelsea are on to something and Mata is their main man with both Hazard and Torres well overshadowed in an attacking respect.
For Tottenham a rejuvenated Jermaine Defoe rewarded Villas-Boas’ faith with another goal amid amid plenty of threat and creativity.  From the stats, Spurs had their opportunities to get more from this match with plenty of chances spread out around the team.  Interestingly their poor rate of goal conversion this year is not too dissimilar from that of Chelsea’s this time last season with AVB at the helm.

 Wayne Rooney has had a big, big impact to United upon his return to the team.  The front three of Rooney, Van Persie and Welbeck and full of fantasy potential and the key men to consider for your teams.  Which one though?  Rooney and Van Persie are probably on a level in terms of point potential so Rooney’s lower price edges him ahead.  If Welbeck keeps getting starts though he could be a steal.   Stoke had a good go but their defence was uncharacteristically sloppy, with Pulis admitting as much after the match.  Perhaps they didn’t know how to handle being a goal up, or perhaps United were just too good.

Everton’s bubble, whilst not quite burst, is slowly starting to deflate it seems.  The absence of Fellaini blunted their attack in this match with Jagielka leading the chances for the Blues, mainly from set pieces.  With Pienaar now suspended for the home derby with Liverpool the Belgain’s absence may be even more telling.  For the home side Hoilett and Granero were the chief threat, with Taarabt not quite as busy as you’d hope, especially against ten men.  QPR are slowly growing this season and finding their best system.  

  

 

Suarez frustrated Liverpool fans and fantasy managers everywhere with another typical display, only hitting the target once from 10 efforts.  He did get an assist though, there is that.  Young Raheem Sterling stole the headlines though taking up a much more central role in this match where he saw plenty of goal-mouth action.  Reading mustered a few efforts but are really lacking as an attacking force so far this season.

Much was expected of Fulham,  and Dimitar Berbatov in particular, but Paul Lambert’s men spoiled the party with a solid defensive display.  The signs are there that the Villians are improving under the Scot, at least in a organisastional sense.  Going forward is a different matter though, with only Agbonglahor and Lowton providing anything if note in attack.  Berbatov continues to be chief goal threat for Fulham, and Richardson’s performance is worth a note.

That Man City came back to win this game despite being a man down for most of the game is one thing.  That they dominated the game having more shots on target (8) than the Baggies have suffered at home so far combined is really quite impressive – Liverpool (2), Everton (1), Reading (1),  QPR (3), City (8).    Their fantasy options are so clouded by rotation risk though it’s enough to give FPL manager a headache.  West Brom did pretty well overall, although didn’t really get much going in front of goal until Lukaku’s introduction.

  

 
Swansea are a wonderfully adventurous team under Laudrup, in contrast to their outings under Brendan Rodgers last season.  They juts seem to lack a bit of quality, which is perhaps evident in the Dane’s decision to promote Michu to the lone forward role over regular front man Danny Graham.  This obviously is a boon for Michu owners but also promotes the likes Ki and Guzman into a more attacking role.  Michu again grabbed a goal, and a header at that, and fantasy managers will now see how he does against a trickier run of opponents.  Wigan created a fair number of chances in this game.  Martinez’s men are a decent attacking team, probably on a par with Swansea when on home soil, with Kone, Di Santo and Maloney from midfield the men to watch. 

  
Southampton continue to ship goals at an alarming rate. Despite Adkin’s bold claims that they will continue in their attacking remit, this kind of form is going to see them going down, in style perhaps, but still going down.  Kevin Nolan continued to show he is a major threat in the box, feeding of Carrol’s aerial play and Mark Noble’s set pieces.  Ricky Lambert’s absence from the visitor’s starting eleven will have hurt owners, and this is not the first time this has happened season.  Clearly Adkin’s think he’s team lack a certain tactical facet with their top-scorer in the team.

 The Canaries pulled off the shock of the weekend with a 1-0 victory against an out-of-sorts Arsenal.  Grant Holt is a good striker at this level, as he showed last season.  He can be counted upon to score at a reliable rate when given the opportunity and provided the only real threat on offer from the home side. Who knows what happened to Arsenal in this one.  Their defending was poor and neither of Podolski on the flank or Ramsey in midfield offered very little.  The main threat came from Cazorla and Gervinho, with Norwich doing a good job of limiting the former to long range efforts.  Oliver Giroud was the focal point of the attack fro Arsenal and should be expected to pick up some big points soon.

Demba Ba equals Goal Machine.  He couldn’t find his way through Sunderland’s well drilled defence in this game so put it into his own net instead.  He just can’t help himself!  He had three times as many shots on target in this game on his own than Sunderland did and is the focal point of everything Newcastle do going forward.   Cabaye continued his recent under-the-radar form and looks a viable alternative to the over-hyped Ban Arfa.  Sunderland are looking pretty woeful in attack this season.  I really cannot get excited about any team that can only manage 1 shot on goal at home in 90 minutes. 
You can follow Fantasy Yirma writer @shots_on_target and also visit his site at www.shotsontarget.co.uk great follow for all things #FPL

NOTHING BUT BONUS POINTS GW 8

Gameweek 8
20 Oct 12:45 Tottenham Tottenham 2 – 4 Chelsea Chelsea
20 Oct 15:00 Fulham Fulham 1 – 0 Aston Villa Aston Villa
20 Oct 15:00 Liverpool Liverpool 1 – 0 Reading Reading
20 Oct 15:00 Man Utd Man Utd 4 – 2 Stoke City Stoke City
20 Oct 15:00 Swansea Swansea 2 – 1 Wigan Wigan
20 Oct 15:00 West Brom West Brom 1 – 2 Man City Man City
20 Oct 15:00 West Ham West Ham 4 – 1 Southampton Southampton
20 Oct 17:30 Norwich Norwich 1 – 0 Arsenal Arsenal
21 Oct 13:30 Sunderland Sunderland 1 – 1 Newcastle Newcastle
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O’Shea (2)
Larsson (2)
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Cabaye (3)
21 Oct 16:00 QPR QPR 1 – 1 Everton Everton

Gameweek 7 preview: Can Suarez repeat the trick?

Gameweek 7 preview: Can Suarez repeat the trick?

Luis Suarez likes Norwich. Norwich doesn’t like Luis Suarez.

In fact, quite a few people don’t like Luis Suárez (£9.4m), but Fantasy managers shouldn’t be amongst them in the next few weeks as the Uruguayan ace looks to provide the goals which shoot Brendan Rodgers’ Reds up the Premier League.

Being Liverpool hasn’t always been too easy whilst they’ve had Suarez around, but Rodgers’ new philosophy is designed to get the best out of the Reds’ No. 7, with last Saturday’s hat-trick at Norwich proving that it is a philosophy which is beginning to click into gear.

Saturday’s treble was Suarez’s second successive hat-trick at Carrow Road, and if you’d backed him to repeat the trick against previously wounded opponents then you might like to see who Liverpool are welcoming to Anfield on Sunday afternoon.

Suarez scored twice against Stoke in the League Cup last season and then once more against the Potters in the FA Cup, helping the Reds towards the finals of both competitions and no doubt leaving Stoke sick of the sight of him.

They’ll be coming up against him on Sunday though, and even though Tony Pulis will no doubt be drumming plans of how to stop him into his defenders’ heads as we speak, Suarez will fancy his chances against an outfit he has shone against before.

Steven Gerrard (£9.4m) managed to get on the scoresheet alongside Suarez last Saturday, but perhaps better value can be found in his fellow midfielder Nuri Sahin (£6.7m), another who found the net at Carrow Road and a gifted playmaker who is only likely to see his influence on this Liverpool team grow the longer the season goes on. The Turk is good enough to warrant Real Madrid spending big money on him last summer, whilst Arsene Wenger was desperate to bring him to Arsenal before he chose Anfield. Three goals and two assists in his last two games hint at a lot more points to come.

Away from Liverpool, Chelsea are still likely to be most Fantasy manager’s focus groups for another weekend, with the re-emergence of one player in particular surely not going unnoticed.

Juan Mata (£8.8m) might be considered old news by some following the arrivals of Eden Hazard (£10.3m) and Oscar (£7.8m) in the summer, but the Spanish magician has started to work his magic in the past week, scoring four goals in his last three games and providing the assist for Fernando Torres (£9.9m) to find the net against Arsenal.

The Euro 2012 winner sparkled during his first season in England, but a gruelling summer both in Poland and the Ukraine and then at the Olympics affected his stock amongst Fantasy bosses at the beginning of this season. Currently only 4.3% of teams have him on their books, but that will only grow in the coming weeks.

The game of the weekend is surely Newcastle against Manchester United, which threatens to become a shootout between Demba Ba (£8.1m) and Robin van Persie (£13.5m) but could be settled by the skills of Hatem Ben Arfa (£7.9m). The Frenchman has either scored or assisted in each of Newcastle’s three games at St James’s Park (sorry Mike Ashley) this season.

Manchester City, Everton and Tottenham all have fixtures which will make their players popular with Fantasy bosses, but for our third player selection of the week we turn to an old Fantasy favourite – the player in the wrong position.

Arsenal’s Gervinho (£7.4m) may be listed as a midfielder but he certainly doesn’t play like one, and the in-form Ivorian will be looking to improve his record of five goals in his last five games when the Gunners go to West Ham.

It’s a short journey for them, but it could be a profitable one for you.

@Mark_Jones86

 

The GAMEWEEK 6 REVIEW (by @shots_on_target)

Here’s the round up of the 9 games played so far in GW6. Many thanks to our regular guest post writer @shots_on_target for some great analysis. You can read more of his articles at http://www.shotsontarget.co.uk/

We will have a Yirma Twitter takeover this evening from 7.30PM with football pundit @mark_jones86 taking over the @fantasyyirma account to cover the #QPR V#WESTHAM game. So contact us at fantasyyirma@hotmail.com today with any #FPL questions you have or leave a question in the comments section below.

@ryano83

ARSENAL 1-2 CHELSEA


Arsenal dominated the attacking play in this game, trebling the number of shooting opportunities in the box to that of Chelsea, but failing to hit the target with any regularity.  Chelsea on the other other proved to be very ruthless when presented with a chance in the box, particularly scorer of the first goal, Fernando Torres.  Arsenal continue to struggle to finish off their creative play.  Chelsea are a tough nut to crack though (ask Messi) and owners of Cazorla should remain confident with him creating 4 Key Passes and getting himself into the box for 4 shots.  For Chelsea, Hazard, despite his obvious quality, did sweet f.a. in this game from a fantasy point of view, whilst Mata stepped to finally replicate some of last season’s FPL form.

READING2- 2 NEWCASTLE


Demba Ba will grab the fantasy headlines from this one.  He represents a clear threat in comparison to team mate Cisse, and is a great player to own in FPL.  The rest of the magpies are falling to produce on a reliable basis.  Sure, Ben Arfa still has the odd moment of magic in him but on this evidence he is overpriced, he didn’t even take a shot in this game.  For Reading, this was their best game so far from both an offensive and defensive point of view, creating more chances this 90 minutes in their previous 2 games put together and limiting Newcastle to just a handful of chances.  Unfortunately for the Royals though, the fell to Ba.

EVERTON 3- 1 SOUTHAMPTON

Despite an early scare Everton racked up the chances and the goals they deserved.  15 shots in the box, and 8 on target is really what you’d expect of United or City, and in Nikica Jelavic they have a man to score them.  Fellaini continued in his up-front role supported by the impressive Mirallas, who is really hitting the ground running after his summer move from Olympiakos. Both were unlucky not to get more than an assist between them.  Not so for Pienaar who did very little in FPL terms, despite such a dominant Everton display.  For the Saints, Lambert was kept pretty quiet with just one shot but it was Gaston Ramirez who stood out, not just for his goal, but for his overall involvement in the visitor’s attacking play.  They created a fair amount of chances too, there are goals in both these teams.

NORWICH 2 – 5 LIVERPOOL

This was the Luis Suarez show.  The Uruguayan absolutely dominates Liverpool’s forward play and has always had the quality to find the back of the net.  With some juicy fixtures on the horizon FPL interest in Suarez is rightly set to explode.  Elsewhere, Sahin showed what he’s about playing in the support role in Shelvey’s absence.  If he can make this position his own he could be a great fantasy asset.  Norwich were almost as creative as Liverpool in this game, and the scoreline flatters Liverpool a little.  They are yet to settle on a front man but if Holt or perhaps Snodgrass can find their shooting boots they could start to pick up both real and fantasy points.

STOKE 2-0 SWANSEA

This was exactly the scoreline that many people expected.  Swansea’s bubble has burst up against the drilled quality of teams like Everton and now Stoke.  To be fair, Laudrup’s men are not built for a day out in Staffodshire and have plenty to offer the fantasy manager over the next couple of fixtures.  Stoke were impressive in their game plan and Tony Pulis knows exactly how to play the way he does.  Peter Crouch is a  threat in the box and players like Adam know how to find him.

MAN UTD 2 – TOTTENHAM 3

This game was everything that the Premiership is about.  Under-pressure Villas-Boas got his early game tactics spot on as Spurs went straight for the jugular at Old Trafford, leaving the likes of Giggs a mere spectator.  Gareth Bale was a geniune menace and his form is key to Tottenham, and he is in some great form right now.  United piled the pressure late on, with Spurs forced to drop deep and defend.  Van Persie, Nani, and Rooney all stood out for the Red Devils despite Rooney just getting a 45 minute run out.

FULHAM 1-2 MAN CITY


Fulham’s recent results have gotten people talking but they came up against a solid City side here who controlled the game well and really limited the attacking nous of the home team.  Berbatov’s unfortunate injury means he will miss up to 3 games and he will be missed, although the front Ruiz and Petric did well as the the focal point up front.  For City, Tevez place in the starting XI settled the biggest fantasy question of the day but he did not do all that much and was predictably subbed off just over the hour mark.  Aguero played the full 90, as did Silva, and these two are the real starts of City’s attack.

SUNDERLAND 1-0 WIGAN


Steven Fletcher and Sunderland do it again, score from their only shot on target.  Can they continue to do this for much longer.  To be frank, if Steven Fletcher was capable of scoring with every shot he takes he would not have been playing for Wolves last year and Sunderland this, no offence Mackams!  He is a quality finisher though, no doubt about it, but he’s not Superman, Wigan should feel hard done by, they probably did enough to score, but O’Neil has his Black Cats as well-drilled as his reputation.

ASTON VILLA 1- 1 WEST BROM

 

Two surprising omissions in the starting line-ups here, with Bent and Lukaku both missing out.  Shane Long was the main threat for the Baggies early on a grabbed a goal with Gera providing most of the threat from midfield.  For Villa, Benteke was plenty involved but is still adjusting to the style and pace of the Premiership and failed to find the target with any of his 6 efforts.  Bent and Lukaku’s introductions from the bench livened up the encounter with both heavily involved as the game opened up, with Holman also impressing for the Villains.

GW6 NOTHING BUT BONUS POINTS!!

Due to the fact that Carlos Tevez is still in my team, I’m not going to even try and work out how he got two bonus points this week… but he did and this pleases me – as it will please a large percentage of #FPL players!

Anyway.. here are the Bonus points in Full.

@ryano83

Gameweek 6
29 Sep 12:45 Arsenal Arsenal 1 – 2 Chelsea Chelsea
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Gervinho
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Mata (3)
Torres (2)
29 Sep 15:00 Everton Everton 3 – 1 Southampton Southampton
29 Sep 15:00 Fulham Fulham 1 – 2 Man City Man City
29 Sep 15:00 Norwich Norwich 2 – 5 Liverpool Liverpool
29 Sep 15:00 Reading Reading 2 – 2 Newcastle Newcastle
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Kebe
Hunt (2)
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Ba (3)
29 Sep 15:00 Stoke City Stoke City 2 – 0 Swansea Swansea
29 Sep 15:00 Sunderland Sunderland 1 – 0 Wigan Wigan
29 Sep 17:30 Man Utd Man Utd 2 – 3 Tottenham Tottenham
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Nani
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Vertonghen (2)
Bale (3)
30 Sep 16:00 Aston Villa Aston Villa 1 – 1 West Brom West Brom
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Clark
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Olsson (3)
Long (3)
01 Oct 20:00TBC QPR QPR v West Ham West Ham

To Infinity and Beyond- or at least GW5-GW9 (By @shots_on_target)

If you would like to get involved and write your own guest post for @FantasyYirma feel free to contact us via email, twitter or directly on the site

Many thanks to our guest post from @shots_on_target . This week he looks at some selection choices with the next 5 or 6 gameweeks in mind.

Here is my appraisal of transfer target’s that should serve you will for the next several gameweeks and beyond.   The players featured are those that have the right mixture of good form and good fixtures, regardless of price.  Obviously I am trying to aim slightly off the beaten path as there is no need to highlight the likes of Van Persie and Tevez .  These are all picks that aim to strengthen your squad on a mid to long term basis, rather than one week punts or trying to pick up a cheap or temporary option, with a particular focus on the next 6 game weeks.   All should be guaranteed game time, high points potential and value for money.

 

Up Front

 

Demba Ba (Newcastle) £7.7m 18% owned   FIXTURES: NOR (H) RDG (A) MUN (H)  SUN (A)  WBA (H) LIV (A)

Already bagged three this season from 5 shots on target and 15 shots in total.  This kind of production is perfectly reasonable return from a high quality striker, and his overall record in the Premiership is enviable (26 goals in 50 games with Newcastle and West Ham).  Reports that Cisse is suffering from illness eases concerns over his gametime in the near term.  Obviously is a slight risk having been named a sub recently but I think he’s too good not to start.

Dimitar Berbatov (Fulham) £7.1m       7.2% owned   FIXTURES: WIG (A) MCI (H) SOT (A) AVL (H) RDG (A) EVE (H)

Fulham showed Top 4 attacking form last year at home but struggled away.  This year they top the charts for total shots on target with 33, 10 more than next placed Tottenham.  But they top the charts for shots on target away from home too, with 14, 3 more than next best Spurs, so they are able to create chances away from home, and with the audacious Berbatov leading line, he, and they, are going to score goals.  I would even consider Berbs as a captain option for Fulham’s home fixtures.

 Also consider:   Luis Suarez (£9.4m)

 

Middle of the Park

 

Kevin Nolan (West Ham) £6.1m 8.7% owned   FIXTURES:  NOR (A) SUN (H) QPR (A) ARS (H) SOT (H) WIG (A)

Featured in my Midprice Midfielders article last week Nolan’s attacking intent, fixtures and goal-scoring record at this level get him into my best picks for the coming 6 weeks regardless of price, which is very, very generous considering West ham’s impressive start.

Also consider:  Hatem Ben Arfa (£7.7m), James Morrison (£6.0m)

 See also last week’s post on Midfield options here… https://fantasyyirma.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/guest-post-midfield-selection-advice-by-shots_on_target/

At the Back

 

Leighton Baines (Everton) £7.1m 14.6% FIXTURES:  SWA (A) SOT (H) WIG (A) QPR (A) LIV (H) FUL (A)

Not the best immediate run of fixtures but Baines is a season long pick in my opinion with games against Sunderland, Reading and Norwich to come after the next 6.  Baines looks to be on track to recapture his FPL form on the 2010/11 season that saw him return a 178 point season.  Last year he suffered but with Pienaar back in the team and Fellaini moved up front they are creating plenty of space and opportunity for the England man to join in the attack.

 

Glen Johnson (Liverpool) £6.4m  2%   FIXTURES: MAN (H) NOR (A) STO (H) RDG (H) EVE (A) NEW (H)

Liverpool are well off the fantasy radar right now and Glen Johnson has suffered a price drop since the start of the season.  You probably won’t want to pick him up for the forthcoming fixture against United but after that things start to brighten up with plenty of clean sheet potential in games versus Norwich, Stoke and Reading in particular.  Johnson has been involved plenty in Liverpool’s attacking play with an impressive 6 key passes and 7 shots.  Liverpool were dealt a harsh opening schedule but Johnson has shown promise that the forthcoming fixtures could reward some investment.

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Football and stats fan who finds nirvana within the game of fantasy football!!

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