fantasy premier league match analysis Saturday part 2

Gameweek analysis

Here’s the fantasy premier league match analysis for gameweek 7 part 2 with Cardiff v Newcastle , Fulham v Stoke  and Hull v Villa.  I’ll be concentrating on line ups and player performance

Line ups and ratings from the Daily Mail

CARDIFF (4-1-4-1): Marshall 7; Theophile-Catherine 4, Caulker 5, Turner 6, Taylor 6; Medel 6; Odemwingie 7 (Maynard 81), Kim 6 (Mutch 46, 7), Gunnarsson 5, Whittingham 6; Campbell 6 (Bellamy 66, 6).
Subs not used: Hudson, Noone, Cowie, Maynard, Lewis.
Goal: Odemwingie 58.  Assist:  Mutch
Booked: Gunnarsson.

NEWCASTLE (4-1-3-2): Krul 6; Debuchy 6, Williamson 6, Coloccini 6, Santon 6; Tiote 7; Gouffran 7, Sissoko 7, Cabaye 8 (Ben Arfa 86); Cisse 6, Remy 8 (Gutierrez 71, 6)
Subs not used: Anita, Yanga-Mbiwa, Elliot, Sammy Ameobi, Dummett.
Goals: Remy 30,38.  Assists:  Sissoko Cisse

For Cardiff,  Odemwingie starting for  Bellamy and Kim starting ahead of Mutch was probably the only surprises

No real surprises for Newcastle.  Tiote started again and Williamson ahead of Yanga-Mbiwa

Newcastle killed the game with 2 great finishes from Remy.  Cardiff came back strongly but couldn’t get the equaliser

Player comments 

Remy

Yet another competitor for our forward line?  I had a lot of thought about him before my last forwards “ones to watch ” article but didn’t put him in as he seemed to have scored on very little shots and that looked a little unsustainable.  however today it definitely wasn’t the case and he had great shooting stats.  5 goals in his last 3 starts says it all.  While there’s Sunderland away in GW9, the 3 around that are Liverpool H Chelsea H and Spurs A so for that reason I’m still in the holding off .

HBA 

4 minutes today and with a pretty vibrant attacking performance and difficult fixtures to come it seems highly unlikely he will get a look in again

 Campbell

Another pretty anonymous performance with very little stats to get some comfort from

Fulham 1 Stoke 0

Fulham 4-4-1-1: Stockdale 6; Reither 7, Senderos 6, Hangeland 5 (Richardson 46, 6), Amorebieta 6; Ruiz 6, Karagounis 6 (Boateng 60, 6), Sidwell 6, Duff 6; Kasami 7; Berbatov 6 (Bent 66, 7)
Subs not used: Etheridge, Taarabt, Rodallega, Zverotic
Booked: Amorebieta, Richardson
Goal: Bent 83

Stoke 4-3-3: Begovic 6; Cameron 6, Shawcross 6, Huth 7, Pieters 6; Wilson 6 (Whelan 59, 5), Nzonzi 6, Ireland 6; Walters 6 (Crouch 83), Arnautovic 7, Etherington 6 (Assaidi 63, 6)
Subs not used: Sorensen, Palacios, Jones, Adam, Crouch
Booked: Whelan, Walters

Amorbieta started at LB which was a surprise.  Bent was dropped for the old Berba Ruiz combination up front. Kasami and Duff  took the flanks

Stoke with a false 9?  Whatever next?  Stoke played Arnautovic as a striker.  The defence was as expected.  The midfield saw Adam drop to the bench and Ireland start

Hughes said he didn’t know how they lost that game and I have some sympathy for him  apart from the poor refereeing decisions anytime that Stoke have 56% possession and nearly double the amount of shots then you know you didn’t play well.  Stoke really should have won this game but Bent came on and showed how you should finish in a way that the strikerless Stoke team couldn’t

Player comments

Defences

The Stoke defence performed well and can consider themselves unlucky to concede.  Only Bent was a threat.  Fulham were average defensively despite the clean sheet and should have conceded 2 pens.

Bent

if you believe anyone falls into the 1 shot 1 goal category its Darren Bent.  2 goals in 312 minutes of football and a point every 15 fantasy premier league minutes is excellent but is Jol going to play him or not that’s the question? palace away next is attractive but then its Saints A, United H, and Liverpool A so not for me

Kasami 

£4.6m cheapie started the last 4 despite the fiddling of Jol but didn’t return in any and hasn’t since his opening day goal.  Other cheapie midfielders look better.

Arnautovic

Anytime a £5.5m midfielder plays as a striker it gets attention but although that was his position he seemed to shoot from anywhere except the penalty area and didn’t have many touches in it either.  only his high average position would have given you a clue that he was the striker.  WBA home next is an ok fixture but the United A and Southampton H after that  puts me off and again there seem better options

Hull 0 Villa 0

HULL: (4-4-2) McGregor 6; Rosenior 5, Faye 6, Davies 6, Figueroa 6; Elmohamady 5 (Meyler 85), Huddlestone 7, Livermore 6, Quinn 6 (Boyd 69, 6); Graham 5, Aluko 5 (Sagbo 69, 6)
Subs not used: McShane, Harper, Bruce, Proschwitz
Booked: Rosenior, Davies

ASTON VILLA: (4-3-3) Guzan 6; Bacuna 6, Clark 6, Vlaar 6, Luna 6; Delph 8, Westwood 7 (Tonev 74, 6), El Ahmadi 6; Wiemann 6, Kozak 6, Agbonlahor 7 (Bowery 74, 6)
Subs not used: Baker, Sylla, Herd, Bennett, Steer,

Nothing unexpected in the Hull line up or the Villa line up.

I predicted a backs to the wall  clean sheet for Hull and it was definitely the case with villa having 55% possession and a 3 to 1 shot count.  Lambert better hope Benteke is back in the team quickly.  However Steve Bruce knows how to get clean sheets and this was another example.  Just a shame that it was after cheapie Chester got injured so I couldn’t benefit

Player comments

Defences

Lots of shots against for Villa but no real big  goal scoring chances for Villa.  The Villa defence coped well with a powder puff attack.

Agbonlahor and Weiman

Both had some chances to score and have performed reasonably well but with the multitude of forward options they’re just not going to come into anyones reckoning.

That’s it time for the Chelsea game

Follow us on twitter @fantasyfoot20 or facebook at www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballgeek.co.uk

fantasy premier league league code: 149188-42149
Telegraph fantasy football:  Code 8000919    league name:   fantasy football geek
Sky Sports fantasy football:  League name:  FANTASY FOOTBALL GEEK    PIN 8001875
Sun Dream Team:  League name:  fantasyfootballgeek  Password: ffgeeksun  League pin:  8035028

Fox Sports EPL fantasy:  League name: fantasyfootballgeek League access code: (10513-1773)

You may also like to read one of these too: