Week 11 - My Team

Fabianski

Bale   Coleman   Evra

Larsson   Adam   Fabregas   Van Der Vaart   Silva

Hernandez   Chamakh

I'm sure you'll agree this was the most difficult week of the season so far to pick a team, with a huge number of high profiles names (held at discount) out injured or listed as major doubts.

Having looked at the 100's of comments on the blog over the past few days, fantasy managers have dealt with the uncertainty in different ways, and therefore we have real variety in team selections. Get it right and you'll be shooting up the overall standings, but get it wrong and it could be a disaster.

I really don't know if I'm satisfied with my own team. I had the above line-up yesterday lunchtime and had a look at it last night / this morning trying to improve it, yet I couldn't find any combination of players I preferred. There are some risksy picks and if things go badly I could struggle to break 60 points, but in the end I backed my hunches.

In goal I stuck with Fabianski at home to Newcastle. I hold him at around £9m which is a lot for me to spend on a keeper, but he's playing well and brought good points last weekend so I settled on him over Robinson. Bale is in form, playing left wing & will be back on set pieces at Bolton, Coleman is playing right wing so I gave him another shot (after he was subbed after 60 mins last weekend), but the big risk in my Week 11 team is spending over £10m on Patrice Evra.

Evra isn't having a great season, but I found myself with funds left over & I just had a gut feeling that he could do well at home to Wolves. Also, I wanted two Manchester United players but didn't fancy any of their midfelders due to uncertainty over who starts ( 4 from Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Fletcher, Oberton, Park) and didn't want to go with two United strikers. I think any success this week will hinge on how this one pans out for me.

In midfield I dropped Nani (at around £15m) but decided to hang on to VDV as I think he has a chance of being back for Sunderland on Tuesday. Adam is a season-keeper, Fabregas was confirmed fit by Wenger so I had to pick him for the Newcastle match and my final two picks are further hunches. David Silva is looking more settled each time I see him play and I expect him to start and do well at West Brom after being benched in the Europa Cup while Seb Larsson has been quietly consistent all season for Birmingham and I think he has a chance for great points at home to bottom club West Ham.

I have the same front two as last week, although this is probably the last chance for Chamakh. He does ok and is averaging around his cost but too often he disappoints in home games. I was looking at dropping him but noticed a hell of a lot of people have dropped him this week, so sticking with me could give me the edge if he can knock in a goal of 2! Hernandez was the pick of the week, in form, at home, playing Wolves, no brainer.

So that's my team!  Please remember Week 12 is in midweek and is the 3rd Round of The Blog Cup.

Lots of nice fixtures to look at for the barndoor, Chelsea home to Fulham, Spurs home to Sunderland, Arsenal at Wolves, Aston Villa home to Blackpool, Newcastle home to Blackburn & Everton at home to Bolton, plus it's the Manchester derby!

Please let me know what you settled on for Week 11. Who's coming in on the barndoor?

Cheers,
AM