Fantasy Premier League

Matchday Open Thread

Sat Mar 29 05:39AM by Jeremy

General view of Pride Park, home of Derby County

From Super Sunday to Strugglers Saturday.  All eyes will be on Pride Park as Fulham visit Derby - two teams who if you combined their point total would still be in the bottom half of the table!  It's one of those matches that will most likely end scoreless, but if someone gets an early goal the floodgates could open.

It's the last set of matches before the Champions League resumes and the top four Engllish teams are all still involved.  Arsenal have already hinted that they're going to rest K2 and we'll see what the other clubs do. I'm developing a theory that if Liverpool can beat Everton that they're best strategy will be to tank the league match with Arsenal and concentrate on the Champions League matches against the Gunners.  If they can open a five point lead over Everton they'll have the breathing room to not sweat a loss at Emirates.  And if Arsenal can stay in the race for the league title than not only will their attentions be divided but Chelsea and ManU won't be able to focus on the Champions League alone either, should Liverpool meet them in the next round.

But I could be wrong.

Continuing our look ahead - our barn(es) door report, if you will - Everton get their home match against Derby.  So by hook or by crook you have to get the Yak and Arteta on your team.  AJ, Osman and any defender in your budget should also be considered and corralled.  A lot of the other bottom teams match up with each other and I'm not sure any are worth backing.  Villa get Bolton at Villa Park and could use the chance to break out of their slump -assuming it continues this week at Old Trattford.  Chelsea visit Citeh and ManU visit Boro but too much depends on who gets rotated because of the Champions League matches.

So basically, get Everton.  And Jummy home to Sunderland.  But mostly Everton.

But let's not look too far ahead, we have a lot of matches this weekend.  Who you got, who you watching, and how are they doing for you?  This is your matchday open thread. 

(103 user comments)

Comment on this article

Please sign in to add your comments.

User comments

  • (71)

    Spurs are succesfully destroying a great weekend for most of us...

    Posted by: alwinlourdes on Sun Mar 30 04:26PM | Report abuse
  • (72)

    Yes, Geremi is having a great game, but is he a 10+ middie even in the post-inflation barndoor?

    Posted by: the_burning_pen on Sun Mar 30 04:32PM | Report abuse
  • (73)

    Please, Juande, please get rid of Dawson. He's a constant liability.

    Posted by: the_burning_pen on Sun Mar 30 04:34PM | Report abuse
  • (74)

    PROBlem!!! Ugh! (I'm glad the burning pen likes the nickname.) I did what I said I'd never do again and picked him up this weekend. Now he's making me pay like he has every other time. How does Newcastle get three in on him? Ok, I'm done with PROBlem for good.

    Posted by: betonjuventus on Sun Mar 30 04:41PM | Report abuse
  • (75)

    dawson has had a bad season, but he was great last year, sure spurs let in a lot of goals but his partner was continually changing between gardner, rocha and whoever else. dawson is a good player with a run of bad form. lennon too.

    Posted by: joshtottenham on Sun Mar 30 04:41PM | Report abuse
  • (76)

    A NUF win today will be a massive table-shaker and see the Magpies go from 15th to 12th, leapfrogging Reading, Sunderland, and Boro. Huge.

    Posted by: the_burning_pen on Sun Mar 30 04:42PM | Report abuse
  • (77)

    no-one want to give newcastle some credit? i for one congratulate keegan (after all the stick he was getting) - even tho i have PROB in goal.

    Posted by: jiverson2x on Sun Mar 30 04:43PM | Report abuse
  • (78)

    PaulRobinmypoints is pissin me off - 4 GA?? David James would have had a field day..

    Posted by: wsuliman88 on Sun Mar 30 04:54PM | Report abuse
  • (79)

    All credit due given to NUF. Keegan got the message that he needs to play three strikers in order to score, to win, and to satisfy the Toon. Huge turnaround since this happened last week. Spurs trying the same thing today, but no Ledley and no Chimbonda will hurt a team. As for Dawson, his discipline is his downfall, and I've no patience with that selfishness and immaturity. Dawson, like Barton and many others, gives away kicks and penalties way too easily because he can't control his lashouts. Lennon is indeed also having a bad run, but he always shows a good attitude and never gets nasty or gives it away due to temper. Discipline and attitude are essential, perhaps more so than ever as we see more cards, more nasty tackles, more dives, more backtalk, etc.

    Posted by: the_burning_pen on Sun Mar 30 04:56PM | Report abuse
  • (80)

    we should never bet on spurs. except when we do (:

    Posted by: the_great_one2000000 on Sun Mar 30 04:57PM | Report abuse