Here’s my imaginary wildcard team if I chose to play my wildcard today. Its a practical application of my barclays fantasy premier league “ones to watch” article
- Zabaleta
- £5.7
- not in the “ones to watch article” however City are the best defence in the league no matter what you are told. however with their fixtures I wouldn’t be investing the £7.0m needed for Hart or Kompany. Zabaleta is liked by the coach. Unfortunately i dont think he will play this weekend with the Champs league and playing for argentina during the week.
- Rafael
- £6.4
- Despite all the negative hype Utd’s defensive stats aren’t that bad, just not the best. However Rafael always gives you the chance for attacking points to compensate. The great fixtures start now and a presence is necessary. Smallings performance at Villa helped Rafaels case although Jones coming back from injury is another risk. However there’s no security in the Utd defence anywhere with everyone having some game time issues
- Johnson
- £6.3
- The class act in the Liverpool defence with the most attacking potential of any defender in the league apart from maybe Baines. The Liverpool defence is statistically very strong and unless Wisdom fixes his place he’s good value compared to Skrtel and Agger who are the only other 2 people in the defence that have some security
- Taarabt
- £5.5
- How he hasn’t scored in the last 2 is beyond totally me as he’s done everything but. Has good shooting stats and getting in the box to shoot far more often than last year. Home to Saints is a good time to start and at a reasonable price wih excellent fixtures I’m still recommending him for BUY
- Santi Cazorla
- £9.4
- Last weeks home performance to Fulham was pretty disturbing as far as Cazorla was concerned and even with the fixtures to me he is a hold rather than a buy. Still has good underlying stats if not Fellaini or Mata standard and unless you believe that Walcott will suddenly become an option again the best in the Arsenal midfield