I’m so close to being top of the Greece league and I’m sad. Not for me, I’ll be fine. But I’m sad for you because I have some really great content lined up for if I ever do make it to the top. I just hope you get to see it. It is now two weeks in a row where “if only” has re-entered my vocabulary. If only Grealish had taken the penalty vs City. If only the West Ham goal had stood. If either of those things had happened I’d be top. I just hope this isn’t one of those moments Eminem was talking about.
Anyway, no rash decisions, I said I’d be happy with 60 points and I got 55, so not a disaster by any means. I’m still 2nd in Greece – did I mention I could have been top? And I’m still in the top 2k, although I fell around 700 spots down to 1804. As well as finishing a gameweek top of Greece, I’d also like to spend at least one week in the top 1k before the season is done. PLEASE ZEUS, MAKE IT HAPPEN!
The Friday night game saw Lundstram get the standard 6 points – got subbed off on 70 mins meaning I was then hoping for a West Ham goal to leave me with a clean sheet while all the other Sheff Utd defenders lost theirs – this phenomenon is known as the Sauberhalten Paradox. But VAR (correctly) robbed me of that. Still, mustn’t be greedy.
Next up, the meaningless Palace v Arsenal game. Just hope that Aubameyang doesn’t score because loads of people ha-OH he’s scored. I hope this isn’t one of those weeks where everyone I don’t have sco-OH he’s been sent off. Lovely stuff. Bad tackle but I don’t think he meant it, btw. Palace equaliser is great, 1-1 is the perfect result when you don’t have any players involved.
Then, it’s time for the big one – I did my maths and decided against Maddison, and went with Martial. What happens in those two games will define this week. Vardy with an early assist, 3-0 prediction looking likely. But out of nowhere Southampton equalise and remove a potential 8 points. And it wasn’t Ings. Absolutely disgusting. And then he goes and nearly snaps the crossbar in half. Ings eventually scores, but takes his top off and gets booked. Didn’t get a close enough look at his tats but I’m pretty sure one of them said “Screw You, Westermania” with a little Greek flag.
Maddison does nothing, and Martial scores in the other game. Of course loads of people have Rashford though, so I feel like I’m falling behind.
Jimenez doesn’t score against Newcastle, he’s on the maybe list for the coming weeks. Might be time to swap him for someone cheaper to give myself more options for the imminent Double GW.
Liverpool keep a clean sheet, so TAA gets 6 but Mane isn’t involved in the goal. Huge dilemma incoming for the DGW. Robertson, VVD, Salah, Firmino all vying for a place in the Westermania team. The calculator will probably be coming out again soon.
Speaking of the calculator, how did my maths hold up? Let’s check shall we?
- Soyuncu plus [Alli replacement up to 10.7m]
- Soyuncu (1) + Martial (8) = 9 points
- Robertson/VVD plus Maddison minus 4
- Robertson (6) + Maddison (2) minus 4 = 4 points
Good decision Ben. Mm Thanks Ben.
I do my maths overnight and am fairly sure that Grealish needs 4 points to take me to the summit of Mt Olympus. An assist will do it. Villa absolutely capitulate and Aguero scores a hattrick. In previous seasons this would be a disaster for a non-owner, but I am not distraught as he’s not been a “must have” this season (same with Salah, Sterling and Kane). As the late, great, Baz Luhrmann (edit: he’s not dead, in fact he’s quite handsome) said..
Thanks Baz. Although my race is also with Dimitris Tsiambazis.
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