Fantasy Football - Gameweek 5

Rich: Rich here. Welcome to our fantasy football discussion points. Jack and I are here to talk about the Premier Skills Fantasy Football team and the players that you think are right for the team.

Jack: 38 points in Gameweek 4 for the Premier Skills team. This was better than last week but we still need your help to improve the team? Let’s take a look at the good, the bad and the ugly!

Rich: First the good - Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne got us 13 points this week - the most he has scored this season. Southampton’s Dusan Tadic got his first assist of the season and Zlatan scored again. Premier Skills users chose him as captain so he got us 10 points.

Jack: We also used one of our power plays - our Premier Skills community chose to play all out attack.

Rich: This was a great idea because we only needed to play two defenders and they only scored two points and the three defenders not playing only scored one point between them!

Jack: What about the bad?

Rich: Riyad Mahrez failed to perform again. He only scored 2 points and has scored only 13 points all season. Maybe it’s time to drop him from the team?

Jack: Maybe it is. I keep choosing him as my captain which has been a bit of a disaster! What about the ugly?

Rich: Well the ugly is all my fault really. Last week we asked you to replace Sergio Aguero and on the advice from one of our followers on the Premier Skills Facebook page we chose Manchester Utd’s Marcus Rashford.

Jack: Not a terrible choice?

Rich: No, not at all. But this left us with lots of extra money so I decided to buy an extra midfielder.

Jack: Who did we get?

Rich: We swapped Liverpool’s Emre Can with Chelsea’s Eden Hazard.

Jack: He’s great. He should score lots of points.

Rich: He should but he didn’t last weekend. Rashford and Hazard only got 2 points between them and it cost four points to make the transfers!

Jack: Oh dear! Let’s tell the listeners about making too many transfers.

Rich: Yes, good idea. In the game, you get one free transfer every week and if you don’t make a transfer, the following week you get two free transfers. The problems start if you want to make more transfers.

Jack: For an extra transfer it deducts 4 points from your total score. I think from now on Rich, we should leave the transfers to the experts - our Premier Skills community.

Rich: I think that’s a good idea. So what about the Premier Skills League?

Jack: We have a new leader. Andra Tetuko from Indonesia has gone back to the top. His team, Caligula, has 223 points.

Rich: The Premier Skills team is in mid-table on 182 and I’m also in mid-table. What about you Jack?

Jack: I’m still near the bottom but I had my best week. Arsenal defender Koscielny got me a goal and Watford’s Ighalo got me 11 points. I’m moving up the league table!

Rich: So, this week, we have very little time to make decisions. Gameweek 5 kicks off on Friday with Chelsea against Liverpool.

Jack: So, we won’t make any transfers this week. This means that next week we will have two free transfers to play with our team a little.

Rich: All you have to do is pick the team for this week from our Premier Skills squad and choose the captain. Are we going to continue with Zlatan or go with Eden Hazard. You decide in our votes below!

Jack: Remember! We want to hear from you! How did your team do last weekend? What changes are you going to make? Are you happy with your team?

Rich: We’ve got this week’s matches on the side of the page to help you.

Jack: And, use the comments section to discuss the Premier Skills team. Which players do you think we should move out of the squad and which players should we buy?

Rich: Remember, you can register your own team on the fantasy football website and join the Premier Skills League at any time. I’ve added the link and the code you need at the bottom of the page.