GW 21 Matchday Thread

KevIRL · 13-01-2014 08:36PM

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

kos and ozil tonight. Will gladly give up the kos c.s as lots have doubled up on arsenal including the 2 people ahead of me in paid league and am sure nearly everybody has atleast 1 arsenal def at this stage.

Plenty of people dont, clean sheet would be better than not getting it.

Kent Brockman · 13-01-2014 08:37PM

Bit late but heres the teams + subs:

ASTON VILLA: Guzan, Lowton, Vlaar, Clark, Baker, Luna, El Ahmadi, Westwood, Delph, Agbonlahor, Benteke... Subs: Steer, Sylla, Bacuna, Tonev, Helenius, Weimann, Albrighton.

ARSENAL: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Monreal, Wilshere, Flamini, Cazorla, Ozil, Gnabry, Giroud... Subs: Fabianski, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Rosicky, Podolski, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ju-Young Park.

mailburner · 13-01-2014 08:38PM

i'd take a 0-0 but would prefer 2-0 with sagna being involved
in both and ozil and merte being involved in neither

irish son · 13-01-2014 08:41PM

Who else doesn't have any Arsenal defensive cover tonight?

GLaDOS · 13-01-2014 08:44PM

Just realised I've Vlaar coming off the bench too (Nastasic and Turner no-shows), can't see that coming to much

alchemist33 · 13-01-2014 08:45PM

No Rambo. Hopefully he'll drop another 6% now and I can pick him up before the weekend (assuming he'll be fit then)

FHFC · 13-01-2014 08:45PM

irish son wrote: »

Who else doesn't have any Arsenal defensive cover tonight?

Double club myself. Any fcker jinxes a clean sheet with 5 minutes left tonight, I'll hunt you down.....

Kylo Ren · 13-01-2014 08:48PM

On 72 points with Szczesny and Ozil.

Still praying for a Villa win.

PARlance · 13-01-2014 08:49PM

irish son wrote: »

Who else doesn't have any Arsenal defensive cover tonight?

I benched Mert in favour of Clyne.
There will be goals

Hopefully

PARlance · 13-01-2014 08:51PM

On phone lads, anyone have Ozils ownership % to hand?

GLaDOS · 13-01-2014 08:53PM

PARlance wrote: »

On phone lads, anyone have Ozils ownership % to hand?

21.2%

eh i dunno · 13-01-2014 08:53PM

PARlance wrote: »

On phone lads, anyone have Ozils ownership % to hand?

21.2%

roryc · 13-01-2014 08:53PM

the incredible pudding wrote: »

I've two as well but the cost of a single goal costing you 12 points (plus likely bonus) would be too much for me to bare!
Plus it makes it a lot harder to get any offensive coverage for a team that scores goals pretty much every game.

KevIRL wrote: »

Assuming* you mean defenders, if so then the big drawback (after the obvious if they concede you lose 3 clean sheets in one go) would be that all Arsenal slots are taken up and you'd have no attacking players from a team likely to score well given the fixtures

*if you didnt mean defenders then carry on, nothing to see here

Yep, it's definitely high-risk but Arsenal seem to be most likely of getting a clean sheet lately and their fixtures are great. It wouldn't be a bad move for a few weeks (pre-wildcard) if you are chasing a big lead and feel like a gamble. True, you don't get the benefit of Arsenal attackers, but with Walcott out the only one I would pump for would be Ozil, and there are a whole host of other midfielders to choose from.

I wouldn't recommend this as a long-term strategy, but for a few week gamble it could work really well. If you had Kos, Sagna + Mert for the last 2 weeks you would have pulled in 48 points, an average of 8 each per game, and there's nothing stopping them continuing this over the next 4 matches - Villa (A), Fulham (H), Southampton (A), Palace (H).

That being said, I didn't have the balls to do this myself - I'm nervous enough tonight having 2 Arsenal defenders!

roryc · 13-01-2014 08:58PM

PARlance wrote: »

On phone lads, anyone have Ozils ownership % to hand?

That 21% isn't a true reflection. 36% of the top players have Ozil (as per SetMiners stats)

BNMC · 13-01-2014 08:59PM

KevIRL wrote: »

Gnabry starts, no Arteta means Ozil on pens?

Giroud will be on penalties.

finnharpsboy · 13-01-2014 09:01PM

el ahmadi booked

roryc · 13-01-2014 09:02PM

89 minutes left. Keep up the good work Arsenal back line.

the incredible pudding · 13-01-2014 09:03PM

BNMC wrote: »

Giroud will be on penalties.

I think the time he scored that penalty ozil was off the pitch. I'm pretty sure he (ozil) will be on them.

roryc · 13-01-2014 09:05PM

Sagna almost with an assist. Pity it was Giroud on the end of it

BNMC · 13-01-2014 09:05PM

the incredible pudding wrote: »

I think the time he scored that penalty ozil was off the pitch. I'm pretty sure he (ozil) will be on them.

I'm not so sure.

What makes you so sure Ozil will take it? Has he taken one for Arsenal yet?

Iused2likebusts · 13-01-2014 09:06PM

KevIRL wrote: »

Plenty of people dont, clean sheet would be better than not getting it.

All my rivals seem to have atleast one. Sczeney 13% mert 30 % kos 9% sagna 5% are the ownership % I did think it would be a bit higher ( most of this ownership is probably active players though). I checked the top 20 of the new fsa league 2 people have no arsenal defenders, 4 people have 2, with the remaining 14 with 1. Ideal scenario for me is arsenal concede and kos goal

Scorpion Sting · 13-01-2014 09:06PM

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

kos and ozil tonight. Will gladly give up the kos c.s as lots have doubled up on arsenal including the 2 people ahead of me in paid league and am sure nearly everybody has atleast 1 arsenal def at this stage.

I'm a Gunnerless defender manager.

the incredible pudding · 13-01-2014 09:08PM

BNMC wrote: »

I'm not so sure.

What makes you so sure Ozil will take it? Has he taken one for Arsenal yet?

Well, he missed one against Marseille!
According to ffs he's second in line anyways. Hopefully we'll see (after Kos/Sagna get fouled :pac:)

Lucas Hood · 13-01-2014 09:10PM

BNMC wrote: »

I'm not so sure.

What makes you so sure Ozil will take it? Has he taken one for Arsenal yet?

I think Wenger said awhile ago he was second choice for penalties .

roryc · 13-01-2014 09:10PM

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

All my rivals seem to have atleast one. Sczeney 13% mert 30 % kos 9% sagna 5% are the ownership % I did think it would be a bit higher ( most of this ownership is probably active players though). I checked the top 20 of the new fsa league 2 people have no arsenal defenders, 4 people have 2, with the remaining 14 with 1. Ideal scenario for me is arsenal concede and kos goal

I don't know why people seem to be avoiding TheSetMiner's info, it's gold!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E4yzy3zTWTWEWQMpGYCARD3brXnKPfPYLvXCR2wu6r4/edit

Correct figures are Szczesny 17%, Mert 64%, Kos 14.5% and Sagna 11.5%

Mr.Prodston · 13-01-2014 09:11PM

I don't even care for this game tonight now and it's ended up being my first week without fielding 11 players. 10 players and a -4 which is really -1 as AJ got 3 points when Ravel wouldn't have played.

If Ozil hadn't been injured against Cardiff I wouldn't have sold him and brought in Arteta. Walcott then goes and gets a long-term injury thus making Ozil hot property again. So instead of saving .2 or more I now have the luxury of paying at least .1 more than I sold him for having already lost .2 that I originally purchased him for way back.

It's a cruel joke that's been played on me by the FPL gods and my own errors have compounded things. It'd be a relative non-issue if Walcott didn't get injured as Arteta would have been moved on this week rather than Wally. I'd better leave it at that but I am annoyed over it all.

roryc · 13-01-2014 09:13PM

Thank f**k that was Delph!

KevIRL · 13-01-2014 09:15PM

Baker looks shagged here

KevIRL · 13-01-2014 09:18PM

bps latest - everyone 3pts

El Ahmadi - 0

roryc · 13-01-2014 09:25PM

Arsenal aren't keeping a clean sheet here, Villa look dangerous.

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