A green arrow at last albeit a small one, had been over a month since we'd seen green, 70 points all out. Just 1 point gained nothing lost on the transfers, Szoboszlai and Wissa left the team, Rogers and Barry came in so it was Wissa vs Rogers and Rogers with a 2 pointer. So far not impactful enough transfers, King the other transfer in recently who blanked again despite having a good chance to score. Fulham are lacking an end product, they battered Hull but only put 1 away. Was saying last week that the risk with triple Chelsea attack is that in the weeks where they blank it's tough to get a green when you've got 8 players left to make the difference and they just about did between them.
Raya and Konsa with shared 9 poointers on max bonus, another De Cuyper and Gross return, unbelievable season from Brighton continues. Haaland captain with the brace, well done triple captainers. Van Hecke's been a decent pick on the wildcard, 8, 8, 6 and 4 points in the team. Chelsea away next where he'll be on the bench, after that lots of solid fixtures where he'll be a regular starter in the team again.
And now Saka is injured and needs to be sold so I'll be making a couple of transfers this week without a doubt.
🧤 Goalkeeper
In goal we've got Raya with a defence of Konsa, Thiaw and De Cuyper.
🛡️ Defenders
A couple of concerns in defence this week. First of all Thiaw who has 1 clean sheet all season and that was GW2 vs Spurs before I bought him, since then he has 6 points in 5 games. Newcastle are looking shaky in defence and while Palace have been poor themselves I don't have a lot of confidence, so I'm thinking about making a transfer. Hall feels more playable because of his attacking threat even if they concede, if you have him.
The other slight concern is De Cuyper, in an ideal world this is a fixture I'd bench him in if there was a better option on the bench. Mendy is a doubt with his home fixture so not considering him. Liverpool away where they've been given a 16% chance of a clean sheet. Arsenal are top this week on 48%, then Brentford with 34% vs Hull, Leeds 31% vs Sunderland, Chelsea and City on 29%.
Now, obviously it's not all about the clean sheets with De Cuyper, he's playing left wing so it's not the end of the world at all. I modified my midfielders table on Fantasy Football Scout to include De Cuyper and here's how it came out. 2.6 xGI this season is just ahead of Szoboszlai, Dewsbury-Hall, Palmer, Schade. How mad is that. Some of you have got the luxury of options like Ajer or Muharemovic to play over De Cuyper, I would do that if I had them, I've not got the luxury so he's in the 11.