Topic: Push Square Premier League Fantasy Football (soccer) 23/24 season

@BearsEatBeets Yep, had Lamptey well down on my bench and he got 7 points too. I’ve found it really hard to pick defenders so far, there’s been a bit of a roulette so far amongst a lot of teams and results have been fairly unpredictable.

@nessisonett totally. I probably would have done the swap this weekend but there weren't really any options that seemed worth going for. Hopefully after this extra round of results I might have a better idea what teams/players might get points.

Slightly worried about my team, got a bad bad feeling. Then again, Joe Hart got sent off 20 minutes against Livingston on an astroturf pitch and we still won 3-0 so maybe my luck’s alright 😂

RODRI NOOOOO

@nessisonett I see you edited, I'm guessing the Rodri bit got added later. It seems your concerns were warranted 😄
I've noticed my team name still hasn't been moderated. At this rate 'Pending Moderation' seems to be proving lucky for me.

@BearsEatBeets Haha, swings and roundabouts, took Malo Gusto out and he’s just gone and got a red card too so it could have been worse 😂

Never mind, Lamptey played 3 bloody minutes to keep Solanke from coming on. De Zerbi Roulette is honestly worse.

@nessisonett Blimey, two red cards wouldn't have been unlucky that would have been cursed 😄. That sucks about Lamptey but I'm glad he brought Mitoma on at half time. My midfield has done great bar Ward-Prowse and considering he was playing Liverpool I'm happy with that. Just need a Newcastle clean sheet now to make it a great gameweek.

Oof, chucking my Newcastle players cause of their bad start to the season proving to be a catastrophic move. I was second for the month going into this week!

Estupian getting an own goal and going off at half time is a pain. Pretty sure he’s a very widely picked player so hopefully it’s affecting a lot of teams. Glad I put Watkins in for this gameweek though.
Just sweating on four of my team suddenly showing as ‘amber’. Considering my third sub is a definite red I’ll be watching the lineups intently.

Sitting on a cool -2 points xx

Same. Took the hit from Estupinian but made up for keeping my faith with Wallie Otkins. Looks like I may not have a fun compliment of players this week as well - Botman had been by highest (unused) scoring sub for the last two weeks so obvs not available when I put him in the team! Always seems to be the way doesn't it. Hopefully my other strikers can bag a few this afternoon.

Feeling pretty good about taking the points hit to bring in Carlton Morris, a goal already and he’s still got a game left.

Just checking my team for the weekend and discovered I have 3 defenders in red status. 😬

Oh yeah and while I remember

September Manager of the Month goes to @Qualitygeezer

Things getting mighty close at the top.

Well done @Qualitygeezer I am certainly no threat this season but it's all good, Utd sh*tting the bed certainly hasn't helped 😢

I’ve gone with the bold decision of not captaining Haaland this weekend so I’m bracing myself for him to score four/five goals and benefit 90% of other managers.

@BearsEatBeets
I didn't know you could not captain Haaland. I thought that was just built into how it works these days...

@sorteddan 😄

I made Maddison my captain so when Spurs went down to ten I thought the decision might really blow up in my face but I just noticed he at least got some points with an assist. It will still probably end up being less than Haaland though.

I spend 4 points to swap out two injured defenders who won't play and they end up getting 3 points between them. Would have been a point better off leaving it and only having ten players. I think my good run has finally faltered this weekend. Now to see if will Haaland really punish me for taking the captaincy away.

Edit: Just discovered Akanji not playing, so with Saka out too I'm only going to have 10 players anyway ☹️

@BearsEatBeets Taking Haaland out for Maddison was inspired mate, I took out Sterling for Kulusevski which turned out to be far from inspired!!

@Mostik Ended up being my one of my best point scorers in an otherwise terrible week. Got to try and figure out when Haaland's bad form blip will end now.