I went into gameweek 10 full of enthusiasm and hope. Sitting in my highest ever (that I can recall) rank of around 13,400 I was sure my team full of killers were ready to propel me into the top 5k, and they duly delivered! I had a great week, putting more distance between myself and my mini league counterparts, as well as getting into the top 4k overall.
Let’s have a look how everyone performed.
Keeper:
I took the option of a set and forget keeper this season, and not only that, I did it with a 4.5er in Nick Pope. He’s been a FPL favourite for people in the past, but currently this season hasn’t really lived up to that for me. I wasn’t expecting a clean sheet this week, but some save points would have been welcome.
Defence:
I’ve not gone big in defence this season and it’s been working out. I saw a lot of 5 at the back teams and while I understand the attraction, you have to have strong hands and hold those players for the duration of the season to reap the benefits imo, and can you do that when they aren’t keeping clean sheets? I know I can’t. Otamendi was a disappointment, while Soyun did his job with a clean sheet and the rest chipped in with a few points, so not the best, but the midfield and attack made up for this.
Midfield:
If you’d read my previous post you’d seen that I went with KDB over Sterling as captain. That didn’t work out how I’d hoped, but at least my captain, along with Mane and Mount all did their bit with an assist each and Sterling brought home 11 points. It’s not often everyone in midfield has some returns so I have to happy with this.
Strikeforce:
Just like my midfield, all of my attackers brought something to the table. Tammy, while I was disappointed he didn’t do more since Chelsea scored 4, at least got me an assist. Maupay scored and goal and secured all three bonus points, and the man of the moment, Jamie Vardy hauled 20 points for me. I’d captained him the week before when they played Burnley, and it’s one of those weeks where not realizing it was a Friday deadline would have helped me, but with a gameweek total of 77 points I cannot complain.
I’ll post again before the next gameweek to share my thoughts on how I plan to approach the week and what I’m doing regarding transfers, I have to make at least one since I have two free.
Moving into gameweek 11 with a rank of 3,800 overall is both exciting and worrying, I don’t want this hot streak to end!
