Gameweek Points: 64
Gameweek Rank: 3,141,604
Overall Rank: 131,215
40k drop. That hits hard.
In many ways it wasn't too bad a week. It was mainly the Salah captaincy and the Soucek benching that stung me. The captaincy was the big one as I would've never started Soucek over Son.
In fact, it brings to mind something that I think has damaged me with my captain choices. Lack of instinct. Looking at the two respective fixtures I actually had a good feeling that the Liverpool v Brighton game would be dull, and that the United v Southampton one would be open (though I didn't quite imagine it would be that open). However, I completely ignored my gut feeling and went with the sensible choice. It's Salah. He'll be most captained.
So I think I need to start being a bit more cavalier with the captaincy. Start enjoying it, rather than fearing it.
Though saying that, it's currently now on Fernandes, who'll no doubt be most captained this time out. So I'm following the herd again.
Plans Going Forward
This week I'm going to be very boring. I've got two free transfers, but I'm simply going to do Mitchell to Struijk. A bench switch.
We now have some double gameweek fixtures penned in, which is exciting, however we're still waiting to see what GW26 and GW29 will look like. So I'm keeping my powder dry.
I actually really like my team, so ideally I don't want to change too much. My current plan for this fixture pile up is bench optimisation. (It's highly likely I'll be saving my wildcard 'til after GW29). I'm going to try to get a playing squad of 15 to cover the weeks as best as possible. Tinkering around the edges, rather than wholesale team changes.
This is why I'm doing the Struijk switch this week. I can potentially play him for the Leeds double in GW25, and Leeds also have a game in GW29. Obviously with these cheap defenders there's no guarantee they'll play the next game, let alone games in a month's time, but even so, he can potentially fill in these gaps. Plus it should mean I'll have a back-up defender if Cancelo gets a benching this gameweek. So it's dull, but it should hopefully be a net gain move.
Of course I still have Charlie Taylor sat on my bench too. He's got a hamstring issue so I'm not expecting him to return. Meaning I'll no doubt have to move him on next week. I still have a very slight hope he could return for those GW24 doubles though, so I'll see if he gets any nearer to a full return this week.
The two players I'm looking at potentially bringing in for GW26 at the moment are Calvert-Lewin and Jack Grealish. Both Everton and Villa could have some very nice doubles in the weeks 26 through 28. Again, I'm not too keen on bringing in players just for a double. So if I make major changes to my first eleven it'll be for players in the Grealish category - i.e. players that I'd want long term as well.
At the moment I'm looking like this for GW23. I'll make the Struijk switch later today, unless things change.
Soucek benched again. Will I ever learn?
Overall Points: 1365
Overall Rank: 131,215
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