Gameweek 1 started with two games with quite the same character between Man Utd-Leicester and Newcastle-Tottenham. Both matches ended in 2-1 wins for the so called “bigger team” but both Leicester and Newcastle played well and could well have had 1 point from their opening games. Fantasy wise Luke Shaw (5.0) scored his first goal in a Manchester United shirt and was the highest scoring player in the game with his 11 points. Also Jan Vertonghen (6.0) managed the same amount of point with his goal and 3 bps points. Harry Kane (12.5) started the game, played 90 min, took a yellow card and didn’t manage a single shot on goal. Quite disappointing for his 1.5 million owners.
In the Saturday afternoon games there were quite a few double digit scorers. Stand-outs were Crystal Palace defenders Wan-Bissaka (4.0) (12 points), Schlupp (4.5) (11 points) and Van Anholt (5.5) (11 points). Some of the over 500 000 fpl players (me included) that benched Wan-Bissaka may regret their decision. Watford won 2-0 over Brighton and the players to have from their team were Pereira (6.0) (16 points) with his two great goals and Holebas (4.5) (13 points) who assisted them both. My steem-pick King (6.5) ( 2 points) had a disappointing afternoon with only 1 goal attempt and instead I should have gone for his forward partner Wilson (6.0) (8 points) who managed 1 goal, 1 assist but also a missed penalty in Bournemouth’s 2-0 0 win over Cardiff.
In the match between Wolverhampton and Everton midfielders Richarlison (6.5) (14 points) and Neves (5.0) (12 points) stole the show. The 50 million summer-buy started his Everton career with two goals but it wasn’t enough to secure an away-win. Jagielka’s red car in the end of first half made it difficult for Everton and with 15 minutes left to play Jimenez (5.5) secured a 2-2 draw with his header. Richarlison was subbed off with 15 minutes remaining and is now an injury doubt for next gameweek.
Mohamed Salah (13.5) started the new season as he finished the last. It took only 18 minutes for the highest owned player (54 %) in FPL to score his first goal of the season. Liverpool cruised to an easy 4-0 win over West Ham and they looked really sharp. Mané (9.5) scored two goals and ended up with 16 points. Not only the result but also the way Liverpool dominated the game showed us fpl managers that it will be hard, if not stupid to ignore having Liverpool players in our teams.
Why the hell did i bench Mendy? No idea! I don’t really know if I think he was that good (sloppy passes and poor defending) but he was so attacking and got 2 assists, a clean sheet and 3 bonus points. Maybe I have to put him on the pitch next time.
Pep’s words after game about Mendy was hilarious: “Sometimes we want to kill him and sometimes you think wow what a player we have. He gives us energy. Mendy has a lot of things to improve and hopefully we can convince him to forget a little bit the social media and improve a few things.”
Otherwise it was a super-sunday game between two teams that weren’t at their best. Man City dominated the first half and Sterling (11.0) came straight back from the World Cup without a single minute of pre-season, looked lively, and scored the winning goal after just 14 minutes. Arsenal played better in the second half and had their chances to score but didn’t. Lacazette (9.5) came in from the bench and was a bright spark. In the end 2-0 was a fair result.
Gameweek 1 results:
MANCHESTER UNITED 2-1 LEICESTER CITY
Goals: Pogba (£8.0), Shaw (£5.0), Vardy (£9.0)
Assists: Sancheź (£10.5), Mata (£6.5), Pereira (£5.0)
NEWCASTLE 1-2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
Goals: Joselu (£5.0m), Jan Vertonghen (£6.0m), Dele Alli (£9.0m)
Assists: Matt Ritchie (£6.0m) | Davinson Sánchez (£6.0m), Serge Aurier (£6.0m)
FULHAM 0-2 CRYSTAL PALACE
Goals: Jeffrey Schlupp (£4.5m), Wilfried Zaha (£7.0m)
Assists: Patrick van Aanholt (£5.5m), Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£4.0m)
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 0-3 CHELSEA
Goals: N’Golo Kante (£5.0m), Jorginho (£5.0m), Pedro (£6.5m)
Assists: Willian (£7.5m), Marcos Alonso (£6.5m), Eden Hazard (£10.5m)
BOURNEMOUTH 2-0 CARDIFF CITY
Goals: Ryan Fraser (£5.5m) | Callum Wilson (£6.0m)
Assists: Wilson, Simon Francis (£4.5m)
WATFORD 2-0 BRIGHTON ALBION
Goals: Pereyra (£6.0) x2
Assists: Holebas (£4.5) x2
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2-2 Everton
Goals: Ruben Neves (£5.0m), Raul Jimenez (£5.5m) | Richarlison (£6.5m) x2
Assists: Diogo Jota (£6.5m), Ruben Neves | Michael Keane (£5.0m), Cenk Tosun (£7.0m)
LIVERPOOL 4-0 WEST HAM UNITED
Goals: Mohamed Salah (£13.0m), Sadio Mane (£9.5m) x2, Daniel Sturridge (£6.0m)
Assists: Andrew Robertson (£6.0m), James Milner (£5.5m), Roberto Firmino (£9.5m)
SOUTHAMPTON 0-0 BURNLEY
Arsenal 0-2 Manchester City
Goals: Raheem Sterling (£11.0m), Bernardo Silva (£7.5m)
Assists: Benjamin Mendy (£6.0m) x2
This is how our leaderboard stands after gameweek 1:
Glad I had Neves in my team. Been watching him for a while now. He's a gem.
Glad I took Neves in
My team. Been watching for a
While now. He's a gem.
- arbaazshaikh10
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Guess who's used his wildcard already!
xDD
Picked Son at Spurs who's off to the Asian games and just didn't like half my team. I'll regret it when the new selections do FA at the weekend!
Looool 😭😂
Oh no baby what is you doing?
:D
Might have had one too many beers and got a bit angry!
We get another at Christmas! :D
Been there done that, haha.
Made 5 changes to my team before deadline, 4 of the guys that i changed from, all scored double digits and the guys i changed too, couldn't manage double digits between them, ahhh gutted.
:( I changed captain from Mané to Firminho last minute.
Ohh, that's a painful one. Luckily i had salah as my captain, he was my saving grace.
Long season ahead, unlucky, but at least Firmino got an assist.
I took out Richarlieson for Milivojevic, Neves for Cairney, Mendy for Davies from my team before the gameweek started. My inspiration is flawless!
GREAT POST KEEP IT UP @acidyo
Going Salah-less paid off for me for now, but I'm still shitting myself every time I get a notification that Liverpool scored, lol.
Brave choice, I didn't dare as he is owned by so many players:)
Premier league the best football league in the world.
no entiendo tu concurso mejor era como lo hacias antes que 12x uno si ganaba el local 2 si ganaba el visitante o x si empataban aslo haci otra vez
i like the way things going lol
Can’t see myself there, it is all because I switched to Aguero as captain at the last moment
what a beautiful way to start. I rank #12 on the table.
Brother's excellent post, always brother's success
I´m a fan of R.Neves since he left my club, obviously I had to pick him and he didn't fail this week. In general I did well, but what hurted my points the most was my captain H.Kane that only gave me 2 points.
Great report, thank you :) If you want check my review and GW 1 squad, read my blog.
friend what is the code to participate in "La Liga" and for the bundesliga fantasy?
La liga will be made public this week (most likely tomorrow).
excellent dear friend @acidyo eager to participate
It is back champion league.
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STOPDefensively this was a good week for me 3/3 clean sheets on defense. Richarlison and Salah saved my GW.
I fucked up by choosing Son as well. I can't believe everyone from the world cup is back without resting.
That's insane and completely unexpected.. I'll have to use my WC soon if I want to get a shot at this.
I just found this. Where have i been, to have been missing a review like this, that would have helped in my fantasy team? Wow!.
Good one. I wouldn't have picked Mendy too, so don't beat yourself up about it.
Does someone else have problems to register to the la liga site?
it seems not that great and smooth as the premier and bundesliga site
Steem fantasy is the best.
It's a pity that I missed the first round. I will try to play the lost.
It's a pity that
I missed the first round. I will
Try to play the lost.
- cranium
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