Here’s our FPL wildcard team GW11 article where I pretend I’m using my wildcard. This is to give you transfer suggestions for the GW11 with more longevity than just 1 gameweek alone.
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Introduction
Note this article was written before Fridays managers press conferences
The idea of this article is to bring together the other articles of the gameweek.
The article is brief as there’s loads of information on individual players in the rankings articles:
There’s also:
The underlying stats form table
You can also see who the 10 top FPL managers I follow each week have in their team. You can also see which players have the best fixtures in our fixture ease article
There’s also who I’m thinking of in my article early FFGeek team thoughts
The FFGeek imaginary wildcard team
Here’s the team. It’s TV is £100.9m
Structure
The introduction of Connolly and his fixtures after GW11 means it’s likely the team would play 3-5-2 or 4-4-2 depending on fixtures.
Goalkeepers
The non playing reserve GK is a choice between McGovern and Button at the moment on the basis of the most likely to play if an injury occurs. McGovern has the advantage that Krul and Fahrmann have doubts around their fitness at the moment so short term is an advantage. However McGovern is 3rd choice whereas Button is 2nd to Ryan and would play in the event of an injury as he has done before. So whoever you choose depends on that.
The Spurs defence is bad. There’s no question of that. Gazzaniga showed admirable shot stopping potential v Liverpool and with Lloris out to the end of the year he looks to have the spot for sometime. In any other world £4.4m for a Champions League chasing team who had 13 clean sheets last season looks a bargain. While the only way surely is up it still represents a risk.
Defence
I’ve generally tried to focus on the teams with the best defences.
Man Utd have the best xG against of any team. The issue is they have no real attacking player to hedge against clean sheets lost apart from maybe Maguire. Maguire would be my choice but he is an injury flag so I have gone for Wan Bissaka as the alternative
Liverpool are the best defence and Alexander Arnold the best attacking asset in the FPL defenders bar none.
The Man City defence has been a tricky one to negotiate due to rotation. Mendy at least has Zinchenko out of the way for the moment but he still has competition issues in the form of Angelino. Man City’s fixtures aren’t great though which is the negative.
Leicester are an excellent defensive side and Soyuncu the value option. Chilwell is the attacking option
Lastly there’s Lundstram in a good defensive team playing as a CM. He also is 2nd in attacking stats only to Alexander Arnold
Midfield
Martial has started 4 games. He’s produced 2 excellent underlying stats performances against Chelsea and Norwich. That’s not surprising as Man Utd have played well when sides have attacked them but not so well against sides that sit deep. Martials underlying stat performances against Palace and Wolves, 2 sides who’s idea of attacking is to play the ball sideways instead of backwards, were lamentable to say the least despite his goal v Wolves. United have a great run of fixtures and he is playing CF at a pretty handy price. It’s just whether you think that over rides the risks.
Sterling and De Bruyne in my view will produce against anyone irrespective of fixtures. However the fixtures mean, I’ve moved to 2 Man City attackers rather than adding David Silva as a 3rd which you may prefer to Mendy give the Southampton fixture next.
Yarmolenko is far from perfect. The fixtures are mixed and his minutes could be better but he’s shown enough stats wise and shoots enough to be an option for me in the right fixtures.
It seems that Mount’s days in a front 3 are numbered and at best you’re looking as the CAM in 4-2-3-1. Whether that allows him to create the same number of chances through his pressing remains to be seen but he’s still good value for me.
Forwards
Connolly is a designated bench player but currently starting which is a massive bonus.
Abraham is the one certainty for me at the moment in the forward positions as he is consistently producing great underlying stats. Shame about being a 70 odd minute sub magnet although he has got to the 80’s in 3 of the last 4 games.
Lastly there’s Vardy. I have pointed out that Vardy’s underlying stats are pretty ordinary to say the least. That’s his xG and his shooting volumes. He’s currently scored 9 goals vs an xG of 4.28 according to the excellent free site understat . His 17/18 season saw 20 goals from similar stats at a PPM of 4.9 (it’s currently 7.4) although he did need 5 pens to get there and better his xG by close to 5 goals.
However as I said about Vardy in my forwards player rankings article he does have 3 reasons to go for him at the moment which depends on whether you believe it over rides his current underlying stats. That’s history including post Rodgers returns, fixtures and the fact that you’re pretty guaranteed 90 minutes.
No Liverpool
With City in GW12 I’ve left Liverpool out and you would want to bring them back for Brighton at the latest in GW14.
More imaginary wildcard articles
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Fixture Ease schedules
Just so you can easily check out a players fixtures if you’re trying to make a transfer decision using this article
A fixture ease schedule for attacking players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the defences they face over the next 6 gameweeks.
A fixture ease schedule for defensive players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face over the next 6 gameweeks.
Other posts
FFGeek contributors show their teams part 1
GW11 captain and transfer poll
FFGeek contributors show their GW11 teams part 2
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