FSA FPL Rate My Team Thread 2014-15

OneColdHand

Wile E. Coyote wrote: »

No really technical/scientific reasons. I went with Gerrard because he's always good for points. He should start each game, scores goals, gets assists and nearly always puts in a MotM performance. Barkley and Coutinho I think are two young players who are going to have very good seasons and I've Siggy on the bench. Leaving him there for the United game as I want to see how Zarate does.


Nothing against Ramsey or Eriksen I just went with who I think will do better. In saying that my whole team could change 20 times by Saturday morning.

Fair enough. Everton have a nasty start so I think Barkley is poor choice early in the season.

Dietsquirt

Re-shuffle:


Mannone

Davies, Filipe Luis, Chambers

Hazard, Eriksen, Mata, Sánchez

Giroud, Bojan, Rooney


Thoughts?

Wile E. Coyote

OneColdHand wrote: »

Fair enough. Everton have a nasty start so I think Barkley is poor choice early in the season.

Yeah their first 7 games is a fairly nasty start but for the gameweeks 2 (Arsenal), 3 (Chelsea), 6 (Liverpool) and 7 (Man U) I can swap him out for Siggy who'll be playing Burnley, West Brom, Sunderland and Newcastle so should be ok. I hope...

roryc

Haven't made a change since last week which is surprising, I'm usually all over the place pre-season. Debuchy is a bit of a worry for clean sheets, as is Terry (gametime). I could quite easily trade both out for two strong £6m defenders. Happy with how the team is shaping up though, especially my subs bench. Hopefully won't need them but I think it's as strong as you'll get at the lowest price range.

Dearg81

Why are so many people going with Luis? Mourinho has said before how much he rates Azpilicueta(soemthing about wishing he had 11 of him!) and he had a great season. I know Azpilicueta is a natural right back but I can see a lot of rotation between the Chelsea full backs this season.

Paully D

Lemlin wrote: »

Looks good to me as we've the same front 7! I don't particularly rate Monk but a lad I know supports Swansea and reckons he's a great coach and that the Spanish players like Michu have been cleared out because they were causing problems last season.

My friend watched every game of theirs last year and has both Siggy and Bony in his team. He reckons Bony was the first name on his team sheet.

I'd have no worries except your subs. Albrighton could be out for a few weeks and Wisdom may not start.

I've also gone with Fab over Hazard for reasons outlined above.

Cheers mate.

Regarding your team, I think you might have more success going with Taylor over O'Shea for the first part of the season given the fixtures and how well he rotates with Stoke. The home games they offer are superb.

tomissex

General advice would be excellent but I've got a few worries

- Anichebe has had great preseason form but is he a stupid choice or an interesting differential?

- Had Vlaar. Switched to Coloccini. Both good for 4.5 but now I'm confused.
Also had Ramsey. Switched to Mata....

- Are Shaw/Davies guaranteed? Should I consider replacing one of them to have some guaranteed defenders?

roryc

I wouldn't go near Anichebe.

average_runner

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Someone on FFS said that Mourinho gave an interview on ChelseaTV and named Costa as the penalty taker. Don't know how true it is

If you find out where, please tell us, that will force me to do a rethink

Sgt Pepper 64

average_runner wrote: »

Toure played more in the attacking mid three last year as Aguero was injured and was on pens. Same for Ramsey as Arteta and Wilshere played the central role.

Hazard will take the pens and set pieces.

Dont think so. Schurrie has been taking a decent free kick, plus Fabregas is pretty handy at corners and free kicks.
Oscar also

AdMMM

De Gea

Cahill - Debuchy - Cameron

Shelvey - Mata - Sanchez - Fabregas

Bojan - Diego Costa - Rooney

Subs: Myhill, Vlaar, Isgrove, van Aanholt

In order to fit in Rooney, I went with Fabregas over Hazard. I'm set-up as a 3-4-3, but I'm not really sure of Shelvey... are there any better options at that price?

Ziegler1988

Costa and Cahill or Studge and Evans? (I have no other Chelsea or ManU defence/GK as well)

Leaning towards the latter since I think Southampton could be in for a hiding GW1 and I would want Studge in my squad eventually anyway. But I would probably captain Costa GW2 and Chelsea's defence is much more proven at cleanies than ManU's

Sgt Pepper 64

Dearg81 wrote: »

Why are so many people going with Luis? Mourinho has said before how much he rates Azpilicueta(soemthing about wishing he had 11 of him!) and he had a great season. I know Azpilicueta is a natural right back but I can see a lot of rotation between the Chelsea full backs this season.

I dont think there will be. Azpil, is pretty much an untouchable, and Luis will be played as much as possible due to the price paid.
Ivan will rotate all along the line sometimes

Sgt Pepper 64

Ziegler1988 wrote: »

Costa and Cahill or Studge and Evans? (I have no other Chelsea or ManU defence/GK as well)

Leaning towards the latter since I think Southampton could be in for a hiding GW1 and I would want Studge in my squad eventually anyway. But I would probably captain Costa GW2 and Chelsea's defence is much more proven at cleanies than ManU's

Cahill all day long. Especially if Utd stick with a back 3

Alfred Borden

defense is weak but after that i am delighted with that team. Will move Chambers on after 2 games hopefully with a price rise to improve on one of the 4.0 defenders. Otherwise im delighted with this team and probably will stick with it unless something happens before saturday.

Cypher_sounds

For now

roryc

Coutinho out for Eriksen is the obvious change Raf32. Your DF is very weak too.

Alfred Borden

roryc wrote: »

Coutinho out for Eriksen is the obvious change Raf32. Your DF is very weak too.

Was debating between the two of them for the last spot in the midfield. Ya its probably my weakest ever Def but think im gonna try stick through it and hopefully with early price rises, fix it up.

Sgt Pepper 64

Hazard or Fabregas for Chelsea? Both should get high no of assists and goals

LostBoy101

Sgt Pepper 64 wrote: »

Hazard or Fabregas for Chelsea? Both should get high no of assists and goals

I would go for Fabregas as he is more consistent as Hazard usually has a day off sometimes.

Mr.Prodston

Ok so now I'm very much toying with this....



The forward line is utterly glorious and I don't think the defence suffers an awful lot, just no Chelsea coverage.

Instead of having 3 heavy hitting mids and Siggy, I have 2 and more importantly the 3 best options up front. If one of the front 3 isn't working out then I can easily downgrade and bring in a mid.

QPR and Chelsea rotate so Hoilett and Matic could play every 2nd week or whoever the best fit is. I'm still trying to see if there's a better combo of those 3 mids but for now that's where I'm at.

roryc

Mr.Prodston wrote: »

Ok so now I'm very much toying with this....

The forward line is utterly glorious and I don't think the defence suffers an awful lot, just no Chelsea coverage.

Instead of having 3 heavy hitting mids and Siggy, I have 2 and more importantly the 3 best options up front. If one of the front 3 isn't working out then I can easily downgrade and bring in a mid.

QPR and Chelsea rotate so Hoilett and Matic could play every 2nd week or whoever the best fit is. I'm still trying to see if there's a better combo of those 3 mids but for now that's where I'm at.

Wayyy too top heavy. Matic and Hoilett shouldn't be near anyones team, not even the bench! Sacrificing far too much.

8-10

roryc wrote: »

Wayyy too top heavy. Matic and Hoilett shouldn't be near anyones team, not even the bench! Sacrificing far too much.

I think Hoilett is one of the best candidates for a 5th mid, who would be your alternative?

Mr.Prodston

roryc wrote: »

Wayyy too top heavy. Matic and Hoilett shouldn't be near anyones team, not even the bench! Sacrificing far too much.

Oh I know it is, but sometimes it's interesting to pick apart the template that forms in here.

I disagree on Hoilett though, less than I would have before the weekend though due to Mutch signing. Himself and Austin have been linking up very well in pre-season playing just behind him, centrally. If Austin is a "good" 3rd forward option then Hoillet is a "good" 4th mid option at 5.0.

Matic highlights the sacrifice I'd be making though.

Ziegler1988

Legendary front line! But I think the midfield suffers a bit too much to make it worth it

LostBoy101

Would anybody go for Lukaku at 9.0?

Properganda Media

Put a lot of effort into it this morning and I'm very happy with it.

De Gea (Myhill)

Chambers, Cahill, Baines

Mata, Eriksen, Cesc, Ramsey

Lukaku, Rooney(C), Bojan

Subs:
Moore
Wisdom
Isgrove

I've perennially tried to suss out the maverick options and failed but this year I'm staying pretty mainstream and have gone with a very tight midfield. Really wanted Alexis in there but thought Ramsey was more bang for my buck.... Thoughts?

dahat

LostBoy101 wrote: »

Would anybody go for Lukaku at 9.0?

I would be worried about first 2/3 games as he hasn't had much of a pre season, missing a trip to Germany this week too.

bohsman

Have somehow ended up way too heavy on Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea, may go with it as it's easy enough to bring in Lemela/Eriksen Silve etc from here.

Mannone (any clear indication on Sunderlands starting GK yet?)
Krul

Luis
Evans
Chambers
Moore
Hutton

Mata
Fabregas
Ramsey
Siggy
Isgrove

Costa
Rooney
Giroud

Sgt Pepper 64

Can the top 5 winners from last years league please post their new seasons teams