After storming into the top 10 in Gameweek 6 with my team SportGuru, I was uncermoniously dumped out of it again last weekend. My only crime was not having selected Fernando Torres, Darren Bent or Robbie Keane who each offered an incredible return for their fantasy managers.
My season so far has been blighted by managerial ineptitude in the largest part, with decisions such as promoting Wayne Rooney to captain for United’s game against Burnley, jumping on the Glen Johnson bandwagon a couple of weeks too late, selecting Mario Melchiot just in time for their 5-0 drubbing, dropping Dirk Kuyt the week before he started banging in the goals…the list goes on unfortunately.
Thankfully, I’m not the only one with Fantasy Football woes. Managers that invested in Andrey Arshavin have been frustrated by his injury, those that picked Joleon Lescott have been watching his value plummeting, and the Steven Gerrard faithful have been cursing the strategy of Rafa Benitez who insists on playing him deeper in midfield than last year.
This week, there’s likely to be another feast of goals, and some of the fixtures look reasonably clear cut. Manchester United and Arsenal face Sunderland and Blackburn respectively, and both enjoy home advantage that could see their defenders earning clean sheets and valuable points.
Wigan travel to Hull City fresh from their giant-killing feats last weekend, and there could be goals and cleansheets for the away side. Wolves face basement side Portsmouth in a game that could offer low-cost scoring opportunities if you are looking for players to complement your big guns, and if like me you spent all your budget on high-profile strikers, you might have ended up with Sylvan Ebanks-Blake.
Chelsea face Liverpool in the game of the weekend, and it’s so difficult to predict which way matches between the Big Four will go. Home advantage should count for something, but I’m expecting more points for goals than for clean sheets in this fixture.
Selfishly, I’m just hoping that Bent stops scoring, that Keane has a quiet afternoon, and that Torres gets sent off!
Have a good weekend, and good luck in the Fantasy League.
By James Hutchison
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