Fantasy Premier League GW18 – Where’s West Ham and Liverpool… Gone

The Hare and the Tortoise

Both teams took it easy last week, bringing in Martin Kelly for a cheap defender with a guaranteed clean sheet at home to Brighton… Obviously that didn’t work out too well! It doesn’t help that the Hare left Fredericks’ clean sheet and Traore’s goal on the bench. He finished on 58 and will be ringing the changes this week.

The Tortoise finished on 56 thanks to the likes of Salah and Sterling but also left points on the bench with Fredericks and Rico. It will likely make another transfer this week as Fredericks is suspended, the bottom of the fixture rankings and not even playing this week!

This week I will be ditching Liverpool players with a view to buy them back on the wildcard before Boxing Day…

The Top Flight Mini-League

There’s a new leader in the mini-league as Stephen Aherne rocketed to the top with a massive 98 point week! He has doubled up across the team and it paid off.

Salah and Mane gave a combined 38 points (with Salah captained), as well as TAA’s clean sheet. He has a triple Sheffield United defence, which paid dividends with 18 points plus Lundstram’s additional attacking returns.

That still wasn’t the biggest score in the league as a seemingly dead team racked up 101 points! Rihadh de Souza hasn’t made a transfer to the Dark Elves team since GW4 and scored just 28 last week, but a captain KDB, combined with Salah, Sterling, Pope, Lundstram, TAA and even forgotten man Pukki managed to get them through the 100 barrier!

Just goes to show sometimes us managers who stick with it all season can be undone by long-forgotten teams.