Week 37 - My Team

Carson

Fabio   Vermaelen   Craddock  

Hitzlsperger   Adam   Lampard   Valencia

Suarez   Torres   Van Persie

Please let me know your team...and good luck to all!

Cheers,

AM

Week 37 - Update

What a nightmare!

Blogger are having major problems, all of my analysis from the Week 37 Player Picks and all of the comments from the past 48 hours have disappeared (how annoying!?) and I've only just managed to login to my account to post this. Not good.

Anyway, here's what I posted on Facebook earlier today...

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Week 37 - Player Picks

"Week 37 - The Penultimate Week" is here, and while I'm sure there's still plenty of excitement left from a fantasy football standpoint as you try to hold on to/stage a late fightback for top spot in your Blog Leagues/Private Groups, the top of the Premier is more-or-less decided.

Man Utd are almost home and dry - with just a point required from either Blackburn or Blackpool to seal their 19th title, it's theirs. Man City secured the final Champions League spot last night so that's done, while in-form Liverpool are set to usurp Spurs to the final Europa League place.

I never want Spurs to lose and I'm feeling really down about the end to a season that promised so much (9 points from the last 10 games is relegation form btw), but I won't be disappointed if we don't have to take part in that muddled mess of a competition next season. The majority of Liverpool fans I know don't want the distraction either.

So anyway, that's the top pretty much sorted, but that doesn't mean there isn't huge drama still to be found in these closing weeks. I'm not talking about this weekend's FA Cup Final between City & Stoke, or even the Champions League Final on May 28th between Barca & Utd; it's the 6 teams fighting for their lives at the foot of the Premier League table.

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Week 36 So Far

Just a quick update on how my week is going so far with Manchester City vs Tottenham to come tonight. I'm sitting on 92 points, up to 80th overall with what should be 8 DGers to go. I say "should" because the injury news is not good for Spurs.

Bale is definitely out for the season after Adam's horror tackle on Saturday and according Harry Redknapp, Luka Modric is struggling with a hip injury and Peter Crouch is unlikely to make the squad due to a back injury. That means it could be just 5 DGers tonight - Gallas, Lescott, VDV, Silva & Balotelli (if they all start).

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Week 36 - My Team

Friedel

Gallas   Lescott   Bale   

Hitzlsperger   Modric   Silva   Van Der Vaart

Suarez   Crouch   Balotelli

I only had 5 minutes to look at my team this morning (I'm off to another wedding in an an hour) so I decided to keep it as it was yesterday. 8 DGers + Friedel, Hitz & Suarez, fingers crossed it'll give me a decent week.

A reminder that it's the Fantasy Football Challenge Champions League & Europa League Finals this week. These competitions were set up independently by Hans India and few of the chatroom regulars and they've done a fantastic job. Please visit http://www.ffchallenge.moonfruit.com/ for details on how you can join up next season.

Now on the barndoor you'll want to get involved in Arsenal, Chelsea & Man United players, as they have the pick of the fixtures next weekend (Arsenal v Villa, Chelsea v Newcastle, Man Utd @ Blackburn).

  

That's it - please let me know what you ended up with!

Cheers,

AM

Week 36 - Update

In an ideal world Harry Redknapp and Roberto Mancini would've "done an Ancelotti" in their press conferences today and revealed their exact starting line-ups for this weekend's matches to help us all make some sense of this DG dilemma.

Unfortunately we've only been fed scraps of information from Spurs & City today, so we're left chopping and changing our teams, having to make final decisions based on rumours, our own hunches and hoping for a little bit of luck when the team-sheets are announced tomorrow/Tuesday.

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Week 36 - Player Picks

The end is nigh - just 3 fantasy weeks to go until the end of the 2010/11 season. Week 36 is our final double game week this term and unfortunately it's one of those annoying occasions when only two teams have two games.

Those teams are Tottenham Hotspur & Manchester City. City are in form, Spurs are not, but Spurs have a nice fixture at home to Blackpool (probably the stand-out game of the weekend in terms of attacking fantasy points), whereas City have a tough trip away to Everton. The sides then meet at Eastlands where City are favourites, but a draw wouldn't be a great surprise.

The big question is - which players do we think are certain to start both fixtures? When you think about it there aren't actually that many we can be sure of getting two games. Spurs will field their strongest side in both, but City have an FA Cup final coming up, so with 4th almost in the bag they could rest some players.

I see it like this:

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Week 35 - Summary

With 3 weeks of the season to go, the title race is back on! Arsenal's 1-0 win over Manchester United leaves Chelsea 3 points behind the leaders with the pair facing off next Sunday. It would be truly incredible if Chelsea come back to win it from where they were just a few weeks ago, but they have the momentum right now.

They also had a fair bit of luck against Spurs on Saturday. Ancelotti's men did dominate the majority of the game, and Gomes has to go after another clanger, but we could all see that the first goal wasn't over the line and the second goal was offside. Chelsea probably should've had a penalty, so perhaps a draw would've been a fair result, but life isn't always fair.

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