The answer to King vs Dennis was Cucho
The answer to Saiss vs Kilman was Coady
The answer to James vs Rüdiger was Chalobah
And the answer to Robertson vs van Dijk was Matip
In the last 8 encounters between Man City and Burnley the aggregate score is 30-1. The last 4 City home games finished 5-0.
In his last two full PL seasons, 30% of all Mahrez’s goals have come vs Burnley.
Lloris 5.5 while Mendy is 5, and DCL 8.0 while Antonio, Wilson, and Watkins are 7.5 are those little reminders that the prices are still decided by three people on their Friday lunch break over a few rounds of jäger bombs
My tips for GW1:
- Ederson a lock at 5.5
- Avoid United as preseason means nothing & models say no
- Doherty a no-go as Spurs have 12 WBs if you include the U18s
- Go with the template, not who you think scores most
- Flexibility is overrated
- Mahrez the best 8.0 & now nailed
Luis Suárez golden years. Attacking returns in games:
12/13 - 43 in 44 (Liverpool)
13/14 - 50 in 37
14/15 - 47 in 42 (Barcelona)
15/16 - 83 in 53
16/17 - 56 in 51
17/18 - 51 in 51
Ridiculous footballer.
Can we please stop saying ‘X player could easily get 30+ PL goals…’
9 players have done it in history. Only 3 players have ever done it in fewer than 3000 mins:
Suarez 13/14 - 2965 mins
Salah 17/18 - 2920 mins
Ronaldo 07/08 - 2747 mins
It’s *extremely* hard to do.
Mac Allister is running on 0.03 NPxG+xA/90. (3 touches in the penalty area this season).
Jesus is running on 0.92 NPxG+xA/90.
One has been bought by 220k people already this week.
One has been sold by 150k people with Everton (H) up next.
#pts
‘Chilwell is clear first choice now’; ‘always plays when he’s fit’; ‘it’s 90:10’; ‘there’s a clear pattern’.
Chilwell vs Alonso in PL when both fit under Tuchel:
Sky using xG a lot more now (great), but presenters need catching up.
‘Chelsea’s xG was better (1.07 vs 0.85) showing they had the better chances’. No, they had a penalty.
Some FPL thoughts:
- Raya > Ramsdale > Sánchez
- Duffy crazy upside, and nailed atm
- Hwang looks the real deal
- City mids xMins may be too big a problem. Accounted for a one week punt would probs be Mahrez > Foden > Torres
- Chilly & Alonso likely share mins so neither ideal
Everton are so unpredictable.
They’ve only kept 5 CS all season and 4 of them were in wins against Tot (a), Lei (a), Che (h), Liv (a).
They’ve only failed to score in 5 games which were Lee (h), Whu (h), New (h), Ful (h), Sou (a).
My tweet this week explores Son vs Kane.
Son is now averaging 2 PPG more than Kane over the last GW, and given the price difference I therefore think it’s worth making the switch to Son.
Even if it’s for a hit.
If you own both Bowen and Antonio and are wondering who to sell my advice is just toss a coin. They should both score roughly the same and anything else is just variance