Gameweek 3 Preview: Fantasy Premier League #FPL Written by @FantasyGaffer The Third Week. The Week Before The Break. Potential Wildcard Week. The final weekend before the first break of the season has many names. That it is also the final week before the summer transfer window closes means FPL managers who’ve under-performed are close to […]
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Manchester United’s Rooney makes it into the Preview!
Jan 21
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#FPL Gameweek 23 Preview Written by @CraigHazell You can also listen to Craig, Tom and Ash on their Fantasy Football Podcast – The Gaffer Tapes Remember when #FPL was easy? Look at fixtures ✅ See #Norwich v #LFC ✅ Captain Suarez ✅ pic.twitter.com/G2HvAfWfHC — FantasyYIRMA #FPL (@FantasyYIRMA) January 22, 2016 DEFENDER: JOHN STONES, EVERTON I’m going to […]
Manchester City and Arsenal Smash Open the Floodgates
Oct 7
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#FPL OCD – Gameweek 8: I’d bear Sergio Aguero’s Children if it was physically possible… by @JohnOC1991 Give John a follow on twitter at @JohnOC1991 Pinch me. I know it’s been a few days, but time is warped in dreams. Pinch me. Yes, I know I keep asking, but it can’t be real. It just […]
Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City in a Transfer Ban Scandal!!
Jul 24
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Unless you’re questionably unbalanced or have an irrational hatred of uber talented footballers, the chances are you’ll have at least one of Sergio Aguero, Eden Hazard or Alexis Sanchez in your FPL team come the start of the season. But what if you didn’t? What if you broke with convention, ignored the experts and said […]
Man City’s Aguero to pounce on points against Leicester?
Mar 3
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Ready to test your FPL skills in the Midweek fantasy football leagues at Football Fanager? As soon as the door to Gameweek 27 closed, fantasy football managers have been scrambling around, trying to piece together their FPL and Daily fantasy football teams ahead of the Midweek Premier League Gameweek 28 fixtures. We feel your pain, we […]
Liverpool vs Manchester City: Confirmed Lineups
Mar 1
LIVERPOOL: Mignolet, Can, Skrtel, Lovren, Henderson, Allen, Moreno, Markovic, Lallana, Coutinho, Sterling Subs: Ward, Toure, Lambert, Sturridge, Borini, Balotelli, Williams MANCHESTER CITY: Hart, Zabaleta, Mangala, Kompany, Kolarov, Fernandinho, Yaya Toure, Silva, Nasri, Dzeko, Aguero Subs: Caballero, Demichelis, Clichy, Lampard, Bony, Milner, Fernando Liverpool vs Manchester City Preview from @OurLogie and @Bet_Mclean Both sides lost […]
Manchester City’s Aguero Has The Eye Of The Tiger
Happy anniversary to us!
Yes, FantasyYIRMA is 100 Gameweeks old this weekend. No, we can’t believe it either. We don’t look it at all.
Thanks to everyone who has kept reading and enjoyi… well, thanks to everyone who has kept reading these previews for two and two-thirds of the seasons we’ve been producing them. They’re sometimes right, they’re sometimes wrong, but one thing that you can never accuse them of being is dull. Well, you could, but we’d stick our fingers in our ears and ignore you.
Anyway, as a tribute to ourselves (such a modest bunch), this week’s preview is going to be written in the style of the very first one way back in 2012, when the world was a much different place, Vines were still things that grapes grew on and European champions Chelsea faced a double Gameweek against Wigan and Reading to kick off their season.
Enjoy!
FantasyYIRMA Gameweek 24 Preview
Last weekend’s 1-1 draw between Chelsea and Manchester City was a somewhat disappointing affair.
Missing the banned Diego Costa (£11.0m), Jose Mourinho’s side seemed happy to settle for their lot once Loic Remy (£7.2m) had given them the lead, safe in the knowledge that they were only ever going to concede one goal given their defensive prowess, and just conceding one goal was fine by them.
It could have been more as City pressed, though, and key reason for that was the threat of Sergio Aguero (£12.7m). As the Argentinean steps up his route back to full fitness, City’s fixture at home to Hull this weekend looks perfect for him.
With a full week of training behind him, Aguero is likely to spring into battle against Steve Bruce’s men and he looks to be the obvious captaincy choice for many this weekend, although the brave amongst you might be tempted to give the armband to David Silva (£9.4m) after a run of five goals in his last seven games.
Aguero would be the smart and popular choice though, especially seeing as there are selection issues affecting the other one of the Premier League’s front-runners as they go to struggling Aston Villa.
Cesc Fabregas (£9.6m) is still doubtful and Costa is still banned, so other than the knowledge that Eden Hazard (£10.8m) will probably have a stormer at Villa Park, it might pay to focus your attention on Chelsea’s defence against a side who have scored only 11 league goals all season.
The recent introduction of Kurt Zouma (£4.6m) back there might be one to keep an eye on, but at the other end of the expense scale it is still impossible to look past Branislav Ivanovic (£7.2m) as the daddy of all Fantasy Premier League defenders, and he looks a safe bet for the weekend.
Elsewhere, there are huge derbies taking place in North London and on Merseyside, but with such fixtures often close to call they don’t offer too much to the Fantasy manager.
Having said that, were Harry Kane (£6.1m) to continue his goalscoring record against the club he represented as a boy then he’d become even more of a hero to the Spurs fans, whilst any unlocking of the Everton defence by Liverpool is likely to be done by the quickly improving Philippe Coutinho (£7.6m), who has a goal and five assists in his last seven Premier League games, and got that brilliant winner in the FA Cup at Bolton on Wednesday.
Manchester United face a tricky trip to West Ham, with their selection issues only seeming to increase now that Louis van Gaal has got almost everyone back fit again, but Daley Blind (£5.1m) might be someone who is worth keeping an eye on after picking up two assists last weekend.
The suspended Ryan Bertrand (£5.8m) is a big miss for Southampton as they go to managerless (for now) QPR, but the Dutch winger Eljero Elia (£5.6m) has looked lively for the Saints in recent weeks and he could exploit any space left by the home defence.
However they do on Saturday, the R’s players are likely to have more than one eye on the big clash between Burnley and West Brom at Turf Moor on Sunday lunchtime, and given all the rumours linking him with a summer switch to Liverpool, Clarets forward Danny Ings (£5.7m) will be desperate to show that he’s still committed to the cause.
Ings has scored in his last two home matches, and you wouldn’t back against him adding to that tally.
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Manchester City vs Manchester United: Confirmed Lineups and Preview
Nov 2
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Manchester City’s Aguero And The 5 #FPL Players You MUST Pick This Week
Gameweek 3
DEFENCE: Fabricio Coloccini, Newcastle – £4.5m (Home v Crystal Palace)
A huge haul of nine Fantasy points from Newcastle’s goalless draw at Aston Villa made Fabricio Coloccini the only winner of that game, certainly amongst all of us who had to endure watching it.
The Argentinean isn’t always the soundest Fantasy pick, but on a tough weekend to call he should marshal a United defence which stands a good chance of keeping out a Crystal Palace side now under the stewardship of Neil Warnock, whilst the Geordies have got some decent fixtures coming up too.
MIDFIELD: Gylfi Sigurdsson, Swansea – £6.3m (Home v West Brom)
The Iceman Gylfi Sigurdsson continues to see his price rise as his second spell at Swansea begins with a bang.
It’s West Brom at home for the Swans this week, and although that is then followed by a trip to Chelsea, the next five fixtures look pretty kind.
FORWARD: Stevan Jovetic, Manchester City – £8.0m (Home v Stoke)
After shooting down Liverpool by scoring a brace against them for third time in his career (once in this pre-season and once for Fiorentina five years ago) Stevan Jovetic is suddenly a man in form.
With Edin Dzeko not quite firing just yet it will be interesting to see what would happen if Manuel Pellegrini opted to field Jovetic upfront with Sergio Aguero. Interesting, and undoubtedly tough for Stoke City.
THE OUTSIDER (a player with less than 5% ownership): Cheikhou Kouyate – £5.0m (Home v Southampton)
Not so much an outsider as a way outsider, combative midfielder Cheikhou Kouyate has completed 90 minutes in both of West Ham’s game’s so far, registering an assist against Crystal Palace.
He’s not going to win you masses and masses of points, but sometimes you just want a player who you know you’ll get an honest stint out of, and the Senegalese could be your man.
THE CAPTAIN: Sergio Aguero, Manchester City – £12.0m (Home v Stoke)
After his brief and remarkable cameo appearance against Liverpool, surely Sergio Aguero is now ready to make his first Premier League start of the season as City host Stoke at the Etihad.
Granted, the champions face two tricky looking fixtures in the immediate aftermath of this one, but even if he’s on the bench the Argentinean has proven to be a huge goal threat when he comes on.
Can you afford to keep ignoring him?
Manchester City vs West Ham: Confirmed Lineups and Preview
May 11
Manchester City Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Kolarov, Garcia, Toure, Nasri, Silva, Aguero, Dzeko Subs: Pantilimon, Lescott, Clichy, Milner, Fernandinho, Negredo, Jovetic West Ham Adrian, Reid, McCartney, Nolan (c), Tomkins, Carroll, Taylor, Noble, O’Brien, Diame, Downing Subs: Jarvis, Armero, Vaz Te, Collins, Jaaskelainen, C.Cole, J.Cole https://twitter.com/FantasyYIRMA/statuses/465469912744755200 Luis Van Gaal with a message […]
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