Here’s the first of our fantasy premier league pre-season articles where we look at the pre-season games and see what we can learn. It will help with predicting team lineups for GW1 when the fantasy premier league website opens. It can also help with form although history doesn’t exactly back that up to a great extent. We look at Everton, Man Utd, Hull, Middlesboro, Stoke, WBA and Chelsea’s games.
Fantasy Premier League pre-season – Saturday 16 July games
So we give the lineups of the games and make any relevant comments although these early games are a bit of a waste of time. We then give a first go of predicting the GW1 lineup although we leave gaps where there is a reasonable amount of uncertainty. It’s pretty early days so I welcome any comments from fans of teams although please give me some latitude this early
Wigan 0 Man Utd 2
Here’s the line up with ratings from the Daily Mail
MANCHESTER UNITED (4-1-4-1): Johnstone 6 (J Pereira 82, 6); Fosu-Mensah 6 (Jones 45, 6), Bailly 6.5 (Tuanzebe 82, 5), Blind 7 (Blackett 74, 6), Shaw 6.5 (Valencia 45, 6); Herrera 7.5 (Varela 74, 6); Lingard 6.5 (Januzaj 45, 6), Carrick 6.5 (A Pereira 45, 6.5), Mkhitaryan 7 (Mata 45, 7), Depay 6 (Young 45, 6); Wilson 6 (Keane 46, 6)
Goals: Keane 48, A Pereira 59
Team nothing like the GW1 team will be so of little use
Mkhitaryan impressed as a number 10
Potential GW1
R Vienna 2 Chelsea 0
Chelsea (4-2-3-1): Begovic, Ivanovic, Djilobodji, Terry, Baba Rahman (Aina 45), Mikel (Chalobah 59), Matic (Traore 77), Loftus-Cheek (Oscar 45), Moses (Atsu 80), Willian (Kenedy 72), Costa (Remy 72).
Subs: Blackman, Delac, Hector, Miazga, Cuevas.
A reasonably strong team. Interesting he played 4-2-3-1
A poor defensive performance with a mistake from Ivanovic causing a goal
Possible GW1 lineup if Conte goes for 3-5-2? Not sure how it would work? No Willian
Everton 1 Jablonec 0
Everton (4-2-3-1)
Joel – Davies Holgate Galloway Baines – Gibson Besic – Lennon Dowell Mirallas – Rodriguez
Goal Galloway
Again a team that won’t look anything like GW1
Possible GW1 team:
Hull 2 North Ferriby 0
Hull City: Will Mannion, Josh Clackstone, Ellis Barkworth, Harvey Rodgers, Josh Tymon, Ahmed Elmohamady (Johan Ter Horst 56), Robbie McKenzie (Brad Maslin-Jones 73), Dan Batty, Jarrod Bowen (Ben Hinchcliffe 58), Greg Olley (Tyler Hamilton 77), Greg Luer (Jonny Edwards 55)
Subs: Steve Croudson, Steve Akbas, Lewis Ritson, Luke Lofts
Friendly of no relevance
Potential GW1 lineup
Middlesboro 1 Doncaster 0
Boro first half: Mejias, Nsue, Morris, Gibson, McGinley, Clayton, Forshaw, Carayol, Downing, De Pena, Nugent.
Boro second half: Dimi, Halliday, Friend, De Sart, Pattison, Baptiste, De Roon, Jackson, Reach, Fischer, Rhodes.
Again a game of little relevance to GW1 with a team of 2 halves
Too difficult to predict Middlesboro with so many new players
Kidderminster 1 WBA 2
ALBION: Foster; Gardner, Dawson, Fitzwater, Field; Phillips, Yacob, Fletcher, Leko; Rondon, Berahino.
Subs not used: Palmer; McCourt, Elbouzedi, Sweeney, Smith.
A reasonably strong team
2 goals from Saido Berahino was the highlight
Stoke 0 Burton Alb 3
Stoke XI: Butland (Haugaard 45), Wilson (Bardsley 45), Wollscheid (Taylor 86), Muniesa (Edwards 79), Johnson (Molina 70),
Lecygne, Adam (Telford 70), Imbula (Waring 63), Pieters (Choulay 70), Bojan (Shenton 63), Joselu (N’Goy 63)
That’s it. Hope you found it useful
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