Looking ahead to Fantasy Football Gameweek 30, FantasyYIRMA.com have frisked the fixtures to try and make sense of where the points are going to come from in this week's games.
"WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK MARTY!!"
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The Premier League returns on Saturday following the release of the new Power Rangers Movie last week, or maybe it was an International Break or something equally as pointless? Who knows, who cares, regardless - the Premier League is back which means keyboard idiots like myself get back up on a soapbox and bang a drum to say PICK MATHIEU FLAMINI for your Fantasy Football team.*
In recent years Diego Costa has proved to be a fantasy pain in the hole. A complete and utter prick actually. I'd go further with my personal distain but I'm not sure that even the libertarian platform The Bible Boy's provide me would post it on their website.
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Regardless, when Mourinho was at the Stamford Bridge helm there was more than one occasion when Diego Costa would be potentially missing with an injury only to turn up on match day with his boots laced up and shin pads round his ears ready to play.
My bitterness may or may not stem from the fact that I once sold Costa due to an apparent injury only for him to turn up, hit a hat trick and royally **** me off. The important thing is I'm not bitter and have moved on
Whilst writing this, Mr. Costa is currently sitting with a yellow injury flag above his name on the FPL site.
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Well..well..well..
NOT THIS TIME DIEGO...
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I'm not having any of it.
Chelsea take on Palace who in fairness have actually been strong defensively in recent weeks having had their defence enhanced by the mad as a bag of frog wonderfulness that is Sahko in their team. I can't see Palace keeping another consecutive clean sheet though and I'm banking on Costa getting in on the points.
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And I am still bitter, I haven't moved on and he owes me - So there's that!
This is the time of the season where the end is in sight. There are only nine gameweeks left and with that in mind I'm having to actually move out of my comfort zone of picking fantasy players because they have a nice beard or because they follow me on twitter @FantasyYIRMA.
(Hello to my good friend Christian Fuchs who I've never met or spoke to.)
I'm gonna actually have to try and be strategic... so nine gameweeks remaining, however - because of fixture disruption Southampton have 11 games remaining in the league.
Now by my calculations 11 is a bigger number than 9 meaning my strategic masterplan here will be to get a Southampton player in.
Nathan Redmond impressed me in pre-season so much so that he was in my GW1 team as a cunning out of position differential.
I've just gone all Fantasy Football geek sheek there but basically I thought he'd be pushed up front and little other folk would have him. However Yaya Sanogo has also scored in a pre-season friendly for Arsenal so I really shouldn't use this as a barometer for success.
Dusan Tadic would be a more well thought out option and he has started to hit some of the previous form that made him a fantasy goldmine in seasons past.
He is more than capable of coming up with an assist or two or three or even four in one match as he has done previously (vs Sunderland, Oct 2014) He still has that low ownership in his favour also which is appealing in the run in if you can get it right.
If you have that one guy in your mini-league who "hasn't looked at his team since August" but for some reason is still above you this is your time. This is your moment. This my friends, is your time to shine! Two foot, studs up tackle the b*****d down the table and rejoice in your mini league glory as the life defining achievement you and I both know it is
And again, 11 is more than 9 so there's that!
In defence easily the most asked question I've had on Twitter this week is in regards to replacement options for Seamus Coleman who suffered a genuinely horrible looking injury during the International Break. In all seriousness - best wishes for a speedy and successful recovery for the Irish full back.
I've been a Funes Mori fan this season and he's been a cost effective way into the Everton defence so I would have been looking at him as a replacement option however he's only gone and injured himself also proving once again that mid-season International Breaks are only ever going to cause heartache, misery and a significant amount of swearing on my behalf.
I would rather go to curtain drape shopping with my mother-in-law than buy into them. That's how much I dislike them. Honestly detest them. Can't stand them
Future Ballon D'or nominee Gareth McAuley has signed a one year contract extension with West Brom which will take him up to his 67th birthday, however, as usual, I'm going to try and go a bit left field with my defensive pick and take a punt on Marcos Rojo. There is method to my madness here.
Both Smalling and Phil "Face like a scared goat" Jones are also crocked which should provide Rojo with an opportunity to step up into a Man United team that are looking defensively strong at the minute.
Big Tony Valencia has been an incredibly popular pick this week as players bring him into their squads in the hope of both attacking and defensive returns but this guy has clocked up a shed load of airmiles this week during my aforementioned joy time which should be taken into consideration.
And it's fun to say his name...try it..Rojo..Rojo..ROWWWW-HOE...So there's that!
Written by Ryan @FantasyYIRMA
FantasyYIRMA.com established in 2012, is a niche Fantasy Football site focused on providing news, views and insight for the English Premier League.
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