I was also blaming Kepa all night long even though it was of much advantage to me that they didn't keep the clean sheet but I saw England's No 1 choice in Jordan Pickford concede a very similar goal today and I felt maybe it's the modern day sort of keeper instinct not to react in such situations ? Because both goals looked very similar, and Kepa could have been excused for not being No 1 choice by default but due some issues with Mendy and injury too, but what would be our excuse for Jordan Pickford.

I'm actually looking to double/triple on Man City players but then I don't want to go for a defender and De Bruyne is rather to expensive imo, as there are several other cheaper options make getting very close points or even more while saving more than 4-5m, so I've got my eyes on an Arsenal player, there are just so many players on that 4 yellows card threshold and one away a suspension, that includes two Arsenal defenders, and Saka as well, so I might just wait a bit more, I'm however going to be likely taking some points hit, to get my team in better shape as it requires selling Cancelo, but I'd need to let go of another player in a different position to get what I'm longing for.

Every team that won in NBA today did so with quite some ease, I didn't expect Denver Nuggets to blow the Clippers out that early into the game, while Kawhi Leonard and Paul George both in the starting lineup but the Denver still were able to restrict the Clippers to 32 points in the first, while putting up 66 points themselves, the major damage was done from behind the arc where Denver Nuggets were very effective in that half, so the game was pretty much a done deal from the first half, Kawhi and PG didn't even need to play in the second half.

Playing against certain teams do have adverse effect on the self esteem of their opponents, I could say Chelsea didn't play to win, even though that a decent amount of chance than I expected them to, but I reckon that if they had scored first in the match, it would have been a very difficult situation for Man City and I strongly doubt they'd have been able to get back on level terms, but in the end, the better team won, I believe!

1. IND
2. IND
3. IND
4. Over
5. 3rd
6. Odd
7. Odd
8. IND
9. TEX
10. IND

Final Score prediction  23-19

I guess this type of suspension doesn't get carried to all other FA competitions after all, because Fulham game vs Hull City should have been the one he was supposed to miss, but with all the assurance about him missing the next league game, I knew something must have been wrong.


Chelsea are playing so much better, I would have expected at least a goal from Man City given their starting line up, but Chelsea have been the team with most attempts so far. Now with Guardiola returning to what is popularly known to be his strongest starting xi, would you say I was right about him probably saving these players for these though fixtures ?

The loss to Inter by Napoli came more as reality check to inform Napoli that the league is far from over just yet, Napoli were yet to concede a loss until that bullet header from Edin Dzeko brought them back down to earth and humble beginnings.

I really don't agree that the win came from Inter being the better team over the course of the game, as they score the goal from their only shot on target, although they were able to create one or two more chances.

Lecce deserved to win the game, if you considered their performance of the 2nd half, they were the better team for that 45 minutes and got their duly deserved reward for it.

All things must come to an end, and that's the same for Brooklyn Nets, They barely could just win one quarter, while losing the other three.

Lakers despite No Lebron James and Anthony Davis, they're still thriving hard to get this win for tonight, Klay Thompson have also gone really cold tonight, he's still 0/5 from his 3-point attempt, GSW are only trailing by 3 points, and they're about to start the 4th Quarter, so It's sill either side's game to win or loss, it's 50/50 situation imo.

Chelsea performance since the resumption makes a fair game imo, while Man City performance since they resumed the is raising a lot of eyebrows, of course that's Guardiola's fault of selection but until I see their best xi play, I really can make any conclusion as to what should be expected of them, I'll probably go for BTTS or Over 2.5 for the game, but I'm not comfortable with a Man City to win bet, although they're very likely to remain my pick in the pool.

I like the Brooklyn Nets, they've played very beautiful basketball recently and I also agree that they should be able to continue their 12 point winning streak tonight, I'm however only taking the -4.5 full time spread @ 1.84, as well as the Golden State Warriors -5.5 spread @ 1.78, although I still find it to be a tricky bet with Wiggins and Curry still out until further notice, but If Klay Thompson is able to step up like he did some days ago, then there will no contest for Detroit Pistons at all.

I'm very pissed with Mitrovic to be honest and I had to even check if Fulham are in the FA Cup since suspension are also meant to be carried over to that fixture.

It's going to be the second week in a row where my bench player amassing significant points, and Perisic leading the line today with 9 already and another potential bonus, Cancelo will be better off not playing at all if Guardiola has an intention of giving him a limited playing time or perform woefully again.

1.  Davis
2.  11
3.  2

A lot of things are hanging in the balance of how my points will be or performance of the GW, If Haaland should score more than Mitrovic did yesterday, then that's the first disadvantage for me but me still owning Haaland will only reduce how fatal the blow would be. Since, I never and still don't own De Bruyne so every single point he make is bad for me, However, I'm for all possible points from Cancelo.

It would have been a complete shit show if he had scored and picked up that Yellow card, but I would have fancied my chance with Haaland playing against Chelsea over the 5 points I got from Mitrovic.

My gameweek haven't been entirely bad too, If only I had left Nick Pope in starting line up, those 8 extra points would have come in handy, but that's past now, and I'll take any point I can get off Cancelo and I hope Haaland doesn't get a haul.

That was like vintage Brighton from this season's performance, they've struggled a bit in their last few matches but the trashing of Everton in such a manners is what I didn't see coming...

Arsenal vs Newcastle playing goalless draw is bad for me, due to my FPL I done have any Arsenal players and there a lot of team consisting of just Arsenal and Newcastle defense, that gives both side a huge point, 1-1 draw would have been a perfect result for me, and how was the handball in the dying minutes against Newcastle wasn't awarded as a penalty ?

Perhaps, it's time for me to recuperate my losses on the Bucks the last time, I'll be taking both the Bucks and Utah Jazz tonight, with Giannis and Jrue back it should be a much easier game than the last time.

I like the Celtics too, and I think they should get back to winning ways after their loss to Denver Nuggets a few days ago, but they'll need to do a much better job than they did with guarding Jokic.

It so far so good, I'm literally glad to have ditched Nunez for him too, but I think he should still get a couple of goals or assist more over the two games, I'm partially regretting my choice of playing Ward for Pope, because Newcastle are still yet to concede in the game, but Ward is down by a goal from Mitrovic, It was as though I was edging my pick of Mitrovic as captain by playing Ward because Fulham failing to score would literally mean Ward at least 7 points.

Newcastle are still trying to prove a point here, despite being heavily deprived of ball possession, they're still being a threat while attacking

EDIT: Damn Mitrovic, he just had to pick up that yellow card, didn't he ? I'd bet it was intentional from striker, he just had fu*k us over, doesn't he ? What a twat!

I'm yet to own Kevin De Bruyne for just a single game week in team so far, but it's not due to how highly or not I rate him, because I consider him to be the best Man City player even ahead of Haaland, but my problems lies on him person and what amount of points I can get from him, Saka for Arsenal right now is a must use option for as often as he's available, even though their upcoming fixtures are very tough ones, I still expect a number of Arsenal goals to go through Saka and/or Martinelli, I guess that's the the same reason why a lot of us go for strikers like Ivan Toney and Mitrovic, because they're often the major source of goal for their team, but a team like City have a vast number of alternatives, but we're all on the Haaland train simply because of his consistency and max playing time.

I get your drift but my thought process for the decision is that assuming both players go blank and Mitrovic doesn't pick up a yellow card against Leicester he'd get 4 points that's twice what Haaland would get.

I'm glad to be rid of Nunez already, and I might likely go the same route for Salah too once Cody Gakpo gets his playing chance, he's quite cheap at just 8.0m as I predicted the day after Liverpool announced his signing.

I believe the Guardiola would all out against Chelsea so I think Foden and Cancelo should definitely get back into the starting XI all things being considered, however it's not going to be an easy fixture still imo.

Damn! That hurts, lol.

I finally made the choice, and I'm rid of Darwin Nunez, I just couldn't have another blank week from him, I brought in and opted for Mitrovic as my captain for the gameweek and my decision is solely guided by their double fixtures, it was just to hard to ignore despite being at a risk of the 5th yellow, It only made sense due to Leicester struggle defensively, and Man City also facing Chelsea, I could have stick with Haaland if they're playing a less tougher team, and Guardiola may also decide to go mehh again.

It was a tough call to decide between keeping Pope or bring in Ward to be between the sticks, I however settled for Ward at least because of Arsenal's prowess in front of goal, but I kept Tripper in, there way too much to him than just the chances of a clean sheet.