BGW and DGW 20/21 Discussion thread

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Thats my take on it. It would mean.
Southampton have Palace and fulham at home
Palace have southampton at home and Villa away
Villa have Everton at home and palace away
Everton have Villa away and Sheff utd at home.
It would suit me perfect as I have the FH and it works better than if they are in GW 35 .

If it is that it isn't too bad. I have a bench boost to play, I don't want any blanks in that gameweek ideally.

COH wrote: »

8 teams have a DGW35

https://www.premierleague.com/news/2121833

Would much have preferred it the other way. Starting to hate my bench boost.

Have 10 DGW players and then 7 missing GW36 with no chips left. Hard to know what to do as dont particularly want SOU or CPL players and not many villa players either

Anyone want to throw up a FH team they wpuld pick for next week. Hard to leave Salah and Kane out is my thinking.

Ace2007 wrote: »

Remember the last DGW palace had - double CS's.

You have completely undersold this episode in FPL lore.

It was the year 2016 and all was right with the world. Vardez had entered the lexicon of the day and ElTel was en route to 7th place overall.

It was the week before the big double game week and Everton and Palace had a random double. Palace hadn’t kept a clean sheet in the calendar year. Lukaku was on fire. Common sense called for a Lukaku captaincy, triple captaincy was common.

Into the scene strode a young GetWithIt with a red hot wildcard and triple Crystal Palace defence. The rest, as they say, is history.

I’m not listening. That’s the only double I care for.

Still waiting to see what happens with Liverpools fixture. I see Ben is now walking back the idea of them having a DGW of Brom and Southampton in 35. He now thinks they will have a double in 36 of Brom and United

https://twitter.com/BenCrellin/status/1389575996945301510

Its a mess, just hoping they announce what is going on today or tomorrow. If there is no announcment before the deadline Friday then that probably makes DGW36 for Liverpoool more likely as if there is to be a DGW35 for them they kind of need to be announcing it very soon as the Brom fixture would be played on May the 12th, i.e. one week from now

mieletech wrote: »

Latest amended fixtures
(all times BST)

Tuesday 11 May
18:00 Man Utd v Leicester (BT Sport)
20:15 Southampton v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports)

Thursday 13 May
18:00 Aston Villa v Everton (Sky Sports)
20:15 Man Utd v Liverpool (Sky Sports)

Tuesday 18 May
18:00 Man Utd v Fulham (Sky Sports)
18:00 Southampton v Leeds (Sky Sports)
19:00 Brighton v Man City (BT Sport)
20:15 Chelsea v Leicester (Sky Sports)

Wednesday 19 May
18:00 Everton v Wolves (Sky Sports)
18:00 Newcastle v Sheff Utd (Sky Sports)
18:00 Spurs v Aston Villa (Sky Sports)
19:00 Crystal Palace v Arsenal (BT Sport)
20:15 Burnley v Liverpool (Sky Sports)
20:15 West Brom v West Ham (Sky Sports)

Big Sam must have kicked up a fuss. Which 3 Utd? I have Bruno and Shaw.

Holy mother of god. Sunday, Tue and Thursday tho, they’ll have to rotate everyone for that. And there’s no easy fixtures

ShaneU wrote: »

Maguire will play them all, I'm getting him in

I think so too, Shaw and AWB are rarely rotated too.

Maguire the most nailed.

Hopefully SolskJaer rests Bruno shaw in rome now with those 3 games in quick succession

Muahahaha wrote: »

That United triple followed by a blank is really punishing players with only Bruno with or no United assets at all. Ive no United players and neither do my rivals but still have the free hit whereas theyve no chips left. Will be hoping to make hay by tripling up on United players.

It's hard to know really. How many players will realistically start 3 games and get more than 60 mins in them?

A lot will probably get 180 mins combined over the course of the GW, rather than 270 mins. Rashford, Cavani, Greenwood, Pogba, Shaw all won't start 3 games IMO. Lindelof maybe but not likely. The likes of Fred & McTominay are not FPL assets.

That leaves Henderson, AWB, Maguire, Bruno as the players with a chance of starting 3.

In theory, a Luke Thomas could be just as valuable as a Shaw, with both players playing 2 games. AWB or Maguire could be the smart defender to bring in with more chance of a treble start. Henderson probably more likely, depending on your GK situation.

If you don't have Bruno, and have been getting by without him for this long, I think it's possible to get by without him. Bold statement I know. 2 returns in 8 but then it is Bruno and he could get a couple monsters hauls. There isn't really an other attacker for 3 games so you're going for an attacker for 2 games really. And there are other clubs with doubles. Is Bruno worth a -4 or -8, only to have no fixture the game after? And then possibly be rested for EL final so missing the final game after too.

I'm without Bruno the last couple of GWs and have Greenwood only from United with Salah & Jota too. Think I'll just go without Bruno and bring in AWB/Maguire and Zaha. Zaha is the one who has always let me down in the past though so very apprehensive.

No Utd player is safe from rotation. Even Maguire and Bruno will be rested. Could even see Goalkeeper rotation. 4 games in a week is just too much. Especially assuming they get through to the Europa league final and City win the league this weekend. Ole will have little to play for in the league and won't risk Maguire etc getting injured in this crazy schedule and missing the Europa final.

So in effect this is a double for Utd followed by a blank. Most of their players will play two games. You might pick up one point in the third if they come off the bench. Other teams have a double and a single. That's better overall. Looking over 2 weeks lots of players will have three games vs two and a bit for the Utd players.

I had planned two Utd players for this gameweek anyway. Bruno and Shaw. Sticking with that.

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

I think it makes Leicester players become better options. They will get to play a weakened Utd team and now have an extra day rest before the FA cup final.

Yes and no.

There is no guarantee that the team will be weakened or what exactly that means. I think Bruno will start all 3 PL games but may be taken off early.

Matic/Fred/McTominay will each start at least one game.
James/VDB will probably start one of Villa/Leicester
Likes of Mata will probably get game time
Cavani/Rashford/Greenwood will interchange

So while they may be different players they aren't going to be weakened dramatically imo. Do you think that United are more likely to concede or blank with a "weaker" team?

There is also the issue that Leicester also blank in 36.

Will Bruno be the highest captain pick of the season?