Fantasy Football Blog

Week 31 – Momentum swings towards City…

At last we’re back with a full set of EPL fixtures ! Important big victories at either end of the table for Man City and West Ham gives them three players each in the Team of the Week, with former Gunner K. Mavropanos (£2.8m) scoring a brace of goals to compliment his clean sheet and…
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Week 29 – Master and Apprentice lock horns

This season’s ‘Big Two’ contested the Carabao Cup final in Week 29….with Pep ‘The – 115 charges – Master’ getting one over his young upstart apprentice Arteta (again 🙄) when it really matters. A brace of goals for N. O’Reilly (£3.1m) gets him 14 points and second place in the Team of the Week, pipped…
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Week 28 – Time to Ditch Haaland….?

With relatively few goals, Week 28 was the lowest points scoring week of the season for the Team of the Week ! and poor R. Barkley (£3.2m) has the dubious ‘honour’ of being the lowest scoring Star Player of the Week this season with 9 points 😆 With not many points on offer there is…
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Week 27 – Wow Pedro !

A partial double game week with FA Cup 5th round ties at the weekend meant plenty of point scoring opportunities were on offer, at least for players from FA Cup participating sides who weren’t rested ! Our player of the week, J. Pedro (£4.5m) was such a player, he followed up his midweek hat-rick and…
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Week 26 – A Win for Wolves ! and key player injury worries..

A fantastic result for rock bottom Wolves (2-0 against, now 4th placed Villa!) kicked off Week 26 and that gives us 5 Wolves players in the Team of the Week, although it is M. Damsgaard (£3.9m) of high-flying Brentford who grabs the Star Player of the Week award :- A number of worrying injuries for…
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Week 25 – Eze come, Eze Go(als) !

A double game week for Arsenal and Wolves only, led to four Arsenal players in the Team of the Week (no Wolves representatives I’m afraid despite the league’s bottom side battling to an excellent 2-2 draw with the league leaders!) Star Man of the Week is D. Henderson (£3.1m) with a penalty save and clean…
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Week 24 – Muy S. Bueno (£2.6m)

Our second double game week in a row for those sides still in the FA Cup, most of the big boys progressed in the Cup although as expected there was heavy rotation. Some less familiar names in this weeks Team of the Week – star man goes to S. Bueno (£2.6m) who’s points haul matched…
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Week 23 – Back to the Arsenal defence and Haaland

A partial double game week led to lots of points scoring opportunities for the Carabao Cup semi finalists, in particular Arsenal who notched two clean sheet victories against Chelsea (1-0) and then Sunderland (3-0). Unsurprisingly, it is Arsenal players who dominate the Team of the Week, although it is hat-trick hero C. Palmer (£6.2m) who…
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Week 22 – Advantage Arsenal

A great week for the league leaders Arsenal, with Spurs doing them a favour, mounting an unexpected second half comeback and taking two points off City. With Aston Villa losing at home to Brentford, Arsenal have extended their lead at the top to 6 points. Two fine goals for H. Ekitike (£5.1m) in Liverpool’s 4-1…
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Week 21 – Utds on the Up, Haaland on the down

More twists and turns in the Premier League title race this week ! – Man Utd proved that their derby victory over Man City wasn’t just a new manager bounce, delivering a first home defeat to Arsenal this season. The cheap United defender playing as a winger, P. Dorgu (£2.9m) scored a cracker again and…
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