While Bale and Michu both scored a couple of goals, it was Ben Foster who saved the day for his fantasy owners with a man-of-the-match performance against Liverpool
It was a higher scoring week, the 26th, than the previous one at Premier League with fantasy football owners garnering a truckload of points.
Gareth Bale has already earned comparisons with Christiano Ronaldo and apart from enticing interest from club from round the world, he’s made it to many a fantasy owners’ teams as well. Good on those who did include him last week with Welshman scoring two for Tottenham Hotspurs including a screamer of a free-kick.
At the expense of being called too greedy, I thought that fantasy-owners missed out on a second Bale hat-trick this Premier League after letting some easy chances go begging towards the end.
My three picks goal-scoring and assist-providing picks for the week 26 were Michu, Eden Hazard and Robin van Persie and boy did they dazzle!
Michu broke his own goal-drought and the QPR defence quite early in the game and ended with a couple of goals and an assist, Hazard’s couple of weeks off seemed to have energised him enough to get him a goal and an assist for Chelsea while van Persie followed an easy miss against Everton with an assist and a goal too.
Among those who did well at the back are two West Bromwich Albion players who caused one of the two big upsets of the week. Defender Gareth McAuley and goal-keeper Ben Foster were both involved in WBA’s stunning victory over Liverpool at Anfield that pushed the hosts down a spot in the points table.
While McAuley and Foster both got clean sheet points, the former also headed one in off a Chris Brunt corner while the latter was involved in a series of saves that made him the player of the match to me. This included stopping a Steven Gerrard penalty that earned fantasy managers aplenty.
And of course, the penalty miss from Gerrard earned him negatives, to go with an otherwise low-key performance after an excellent show against Manchester City last week.
The other upset of the week was Southampton’s crushing 3-1 win over Robert Mancini’s Manchester City. Fantasy managers would be ruing City’s defence line which made one error after another to allow the Saints three goals – this after they had conceded three in their last seven matches!
Joe Hart was in the middle of it all, making two amateur errors on what was a terribly off-day for the reigning champions.
Some other vital contributions included Charles N’Zogbia for Aston Villa, Robert Huth for Stoke City and defensive set-ups of Norwich and Fulham who played out a 0-0 draw.
There will be only one game this coming weekend, as Liverpool host Swansea at Anfield. As important is the game for the two mid-table teams, it will mean a lot to football fantasy managers, who will look at Luis Suarez and Michu as their two viable captaincy options.
These two teams do not play the following weekend. This means that unless fantasy owners made changes to their team last to include players from Liverpool or Swansea before the 26th gameweek, it may not make too much sense to use your subs to bring in players from either team. That’s unless of course you do not have even one player from either side in which case, you could miss out on naming the captain for an extra week.
Gareth Bale has already earned comparisons with Christiano Ronaldo and apart from enticing interest from club from round the world, he’s made it to many a fantasy owners’ teams as well. Good on those who did include him last week with Welshman scoring two for Tottenham Hotspurs including a screamer of a free-kick.
At the expense of being called too greedy, I thought that fantasy-owners missed out on a second Bale hat-trick this Premier League after letting some easy chances go begging towards the end.
My three picks goal-scoring and assist-providing picks for the week 26 were Michu, Eden Hazard and Robin van Persie and boy did they dazzle!
Michu broke his own goal-drought and the QPR defence quite early in the game and ended with a couple of goals and an assist, Hazard’s couple of weeks off seemed to have energised him enough to get him a goal and an assist for Chelsea while van Persie followed an easy miss against Everton with an assist and a goal too.
Among those who did well at the back are two West Bromwich Albion players who caused one of the two big upsets of the week. Defender Gareth McAuley and goal-keeper Ben Foster were both involved in WBA’s stunning victory over Liverpool at Anfield that pushed the hosts down a spot in the points table.
While McAuley and Foster both got clean sheet points, the former also headed one in off a Chris Brunt corner while the latter was involved in a series of saves that made him the player of the match to me. This included stopping a Steven Gerrard penalty that earned fantasy managers aplenty.
And of course, the penalty miss from Gerrard earned him negatives, to go with an otherwise low-key performance after an excellent show against Manchester City last week.
The other upset of the week was Southampton’s crushing 3-1 win over Robert Mancini’s Manchester City. Fantasy managers would be ruing City’s defence line which made one error after another to allow the Saints three goals – this after they had conceded three in their last seven matches!
Joe Hart was in the middle of it all, making two amateur errors on what was a terribly off-day for the reigning champions.
Some other vital contributions included Charles N’Zogbia for Aston Villa, Robert Huth for Stoke City and defensive set-ups of Norwich and Fulham who played out a 0-0 draw.
There will be only one game this coming weekend, as Liverpool host Swansea at Anfield. As important is the game for the two mid-table teams, it will mean a lot to football fantasy managers, who will look at Luis Suarez and Michu as their two viable captaincy options.
These two teams do not play the following weekend. This means that unless fantasy owners made changes to their team last to include players from Liverpool or Swansea before the 26th gameweek, it may not make too much sense to use your subs to bring in players from either team. That’s unless of course you do not have even one player from either side in which case, you could miss out on naming the captain for an extra week.
