UK Fantasy Football Blog

Movers and shakers: Clinical Phillips

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:16:18 -0800

During the season our regular feature will detail whose value is rising and falling.

Kevin Phillips (FW, Birmingham City, 10.83) +6.32

Came off the bench to score a tidy match-winning brace against Wolves.

Danny Higginbotham (DF, Stoke City, 12.09) +3.96

A goal and a clean sheet against Blackburn.

Matthew Etherington (MF, Stoke City, 13.39) +3.96

One goal, one assist and 25. ...

Tactical non-review

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:24:02 -0800

The Fantasist would love to review the weekend's action, but unfortunately it can't as points have not been updated.

Hugely annoying as this obviously is, console yourselves with the knowledge that the points will be added eventually, and that this is just the start of a very long game week.

Otherwise, there's really nothing to add.

Matchday Open thread

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:13:39 -0800

Arsene Wenger knows Arsenal's hopes of staying in this season's Premier League title race will be as good as over if they lose at leaders Chelsea on Sunday.

Much was made of his side's crushing 3-1 home defeat by Manchester United last week being the first English match screened in 3D but Wenger needs no special glasses to see the confidence draining out of his side. ...

Choose 'em or lose 'em?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:16:55 -0800

It is a week to steer clear of the usual big names - Arsenal, Villa, Liverpool, Chelsea and Everton all have extremely tough games, mostly against each other.

Four teams play three times this match week, and all of them have a pretty kind schedule.

People will be jumping all over Manchester City, whose line-up of Hull away, Bolton at home and Stoke away holds few demons. ...

Injury report: Gameweek 22

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:14:45 -0800

All the injury news ahead of a potentially decisive double week in Fantasy.

Foreign view: Mancini master-stroke?

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:45 -0800

ITALY

Silvio Berlusconi may not like it, but if Mancini (4.56) can recapture the form that saw him star for Roma, rather than that which saw him sidelined at Internazionale, then Milan may have pulled off the move of the January transfer window in Italy. For that price, he could be worth sneaking into your team. Of course, Ronaldinho (21.41) is still very much the main man for Milan this season. ...

Movers and shakers: Da Silva and gold

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:05:38 -0800

During the season our regular feature will detail whose value is rising and falling.

UP
Rafael da Silva (DF, Man Utd, 11.78) +3.81
Jozy Altidore (FW, Hull, 7.77) +3.35
Alex (DF, Chelsea, 10.95) +3.01
Emmanuel Adebayor (FW, Man City, 14.02) +2.72
Vincent Kompany (MF, Man City, 6.48) +2.71
Ji-Sung Park (MF, Man Utd, 7.03) +2.53
Shay Given (GK, Man City, 10.26) +2.49
Jamie O'Hara (MF, Portsmouth, 10.70) +2. ...

Tactical review: Defending defenders

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:10:24 -0800

Last week the Fantasist proffered that the key to success in the weekend's matches lay in picking strong defenders, with decidedly mixed results.

Nobody needed to be told that the on-fire Wayne Rooney (now 24.07 in price, gained 16.50 points) would probably score against Arsenal, or that Nicolas Anelka (18.66, 15.5pts) and Carlos Tevez (16.46, 12pts) would do well in wins against Burnley and Portsmouth respectively, but you were anyway. ...

Choose 'em or lose 'em: Defensive double-dip

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:23:33 -0800

It's a two-match gameweek for Fulham, Chelsea, Hull and Portsmouth, a quartet that includes the two meanest home defences and the stingiest away back four, so selecting the correct stoppers is the name of the game this week.

GOALKEEPERS

Choose 'em: Fulham have the joint-meanest defence at home this season. ...

Foreign View: Catch Chamakh

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:43:58 -0800

ITALY

Milan will be itching to get back on track after their defeat to Internazionale last week, and the visit of Livorno will provide the perfect opportunity to restore pride. Ronaldinho (21.52) will be most eager to put things right after he squandered a penalty in that match, and the Brazilian is well priced to add to his nine goals and eight assists this season. ...

Club	Gameweek 22 Status	Player	Injury
Arsenal	OUT	Robin van Persie	Ankle