Mel's Fantasy Team Selection - Week 19

After Week 18 and 90 points, I’m still 30 points behind the leader and pulling away from the 3rd placed team. Nolan, Defoe and Aguero did poorly, giving me less than 10 points between them. Totally not justifying their heavy price tags. Was glad that I kept my faith with Gerrard, as he was the top performer this week. Here he is in his festive costume LOL.

 

I will be keeping almost half the squad for Boxing Day, Week 19.
Lloris
Vert Ferguson Fabio
Cazorla Michu Pienaar Granero
Defoe Jelly RVP

Other than Lloris, I can see value in either Schwarzer or Green. Fulham, on the back of a 4-0 loss, will be too strong at home for the Saints. QPR will be at home too vs WBA. ‘Arry is working his magic and you better believe it!

Dropped B Jones and took Fabio back for this week. He had 5 points last week. Damn good return for a 2-ish defender and he seemed to have stolen a step ahead of Traore. Oviedo may come in for this week ,since Heitinga played the full 90 mins in the previous game. Check the late team news on who will be starting.

Arsenal won’t be playing this week. But I will be crazy to drop Cazorla at BD price. Don’t see too many affordable midfielders this week. Grabbed Pienaar on the BD last week. He will be the main creator for Everton with both Fellaini and Mirallas out. Had wanted Taarabt, but quite impossible at his price. Settled on Granero instead - a poor man’s Taarabt really. Mackie, playing higher up, could be an option at 6-ish too. Sidwell comes back from suspension, and with Duff still out, Fulham will be depending on his distribution for the goals.

RVP was not at his best vs Swansea. Playing at home vs Newcastle will be a different story. He will be determined to put on his scoring boots again and add on to his 12 league goals so far. Defoe has been quiet for the past 2-3 games. Will be hoping that he can grab a few goals, especially since its Villa this time. Jelly, without Fellaini and Mirallas, hasn’t really been in free scoring form. But this is vs Wigan at home and I do not want to miss out on a Jelly feast. Berbs will be a pricier option, and the most likely to get a goal for Fulham, against weak travelers Southampton.

Remember fellow managers, the deadline is TODAY 20:00 SGT. Its just 4 hours away. SAVE your squad!

Week 19 - Boxing day

Christmas period is always an exciting period for me, not only because of the holidays, but the fixtures are packed. We get an overdoes of games! So come boxing day another round of games, have you changed your team yet?

My team is largely unchanged, except I have recruited H. Lloris as my goal keeper, as Spurs visits low morale Aston Villa, I am not expecting much goal mouth activity. Hopefully J. Defoe will get a few against them as well.

I have dropped Long and replaced him with N. Jelavic. Everton takes on Wigan at home, Everton's home form is pretty decent.

Arsenal is not playing this week, seems like S. Cazorla is dead weight this week, no way I am going to drop him, I got him for 5+, and he is 15+ now!

Have a happy holiday people, may the feasting continue!

Week 18 - pre Christmas

Just when one thinks that Liverpool is on track with a string of good results, they take on Aston Villa at Anfield and lost 1-3. While being disappointed, deep down I was thinking that this might be a good lesson, to bring the team back down to Earth.

This loss has shown that there are lots to work on. Surely the team now has achieved to be able to pass better, keep possession. But they need to know, perhaps Brendon, and the owners need to know that having lots of possession without scoring is useless. The team cannot be overly dependent on L. Suárez. I hope that this a lesson that the owners would consider spending some $$ for a proven goal scorer come the January transfer window!

Back to this week's team, I did bandoor C. Benteke, however I decided to let him go, this is because, I feel that the performance that Villa put up against Liverpool is once off.

In view of J. Defoe's form now, I added him along side S. Long and my resident strike L. Suárez.

The only change in the midfield department was A. Taarabt, I got a feeling under Harry Redknapp, he will start to shine! Lets do hope he scores more against a not so in-form Newcastle side.

With huge amounts spent on A. Taarabt, I am only left with  money for Fabio and Piscu. They may be lowly priced, but their price per points will be pretty good if they put in a good shift!

Have a great Christmas and happy holidays!