Giroud missed 2 good chances yday. Big whoop.

Still an awesome striker. Double figures incoming before January 1st.

As it was a while ago do you have a video gif of the challenge?

My beer based contribution is that i tried Chang properly for the first time last night and really liked it

Just realised I've gone top of the fantasy league. Really hoping to hold on for a victory which will demonstrate the superiority of model-antagonists over model-enthusiasts.

Because the one who wins the WSOP main event is always superior to the rest of the field amiright?

This will be attributed to variance.

You can thank mahrez giving his peno to vardy for that! Gonna be an interesting few weeks with all the injuries.

mansfield or oldham at home. could be worse.

Huh? I captained Mahrez and don't own Vardy so that little situation hit me harder than you.

One disadvantage of flying the flag for the anti-stat blokes is that nobody is going to credit me for being ironic in making an unjustified generalisation, so I have to point it out. But the joke wouldn't work if I'm not being that character. Doomed to fail

our 7th choice RW was starting, we had to bring our 8th choice winger on, a LB, to save the day.
enough said

great 12 game stat review

cliffs:
- City historically dominant, best in show on both ends
- Arsenal great attack, meh defense with insane save ratio from cech which is unlikely to be sustainable
- Spurs/So'ton both have very solid shot numbers, spurs excelling on the front end (similar to Arsenal) and So'ton excelling in shot repression (note: Spurs have 10+ goal difference after 12 games, 25 out of the last 26 teams to do so have made top 4)
- Utd on par with city defensively, on par with WBA offensively
- West ham been running super hot in terms of conversion,
- Sunderland, Newcastle and Villa worst teams in the league thus far
- Three teams conceding more than 16 shots per game (often a big hint towards relegation battlers): Geordie teams and Palace (palace have faced an opposition conversion rate of 6%(!!!) thus far)
- Bournemouth have been alright but have a 47% save ratio (worst on record since 2009-2010)
- Chelsea are conceding a lot of good quality chances but not-so-horrible elsewhere
- Leicester running hot but not as much as hammers
- Liverpool alright defensively, **** elsewhere

Alex Iwobi was our only attacker on the bench, a 17 year old with under 10 minutes played for Arsenal.
HH going full HH.

KW, the point of "headed chances are much harder to score" is still hard to grasp? You learn this when you're 7 and start trying to head a football.

Thought you had vardy for some reason. Bony has... Boned me.. for a few weeks running.

The giddy thought in the back of my mind hopes Abramovich walks away, taking his billion quid in loans with him

Meh defense is a little over generalizing for arsenal. It's better than meh but not league bestish as results have suggested. Prob like 3rd or 4th in the league while basically tied for first offensive numbers.

Right enough. Crosses can't be low and players who take the ball wide can't square the ball either. I forgot about that. No wonder 100% of attacks should go through the middle!

City had over 70% possession. Their CF went out injured. Their main attackers were KDB playing as a CF and Raheem Sterling. It really isn't a huge leap to suggest these players would have preferred a slower build up with balls to feet.

https://streamable.com/bfhp

Probably why Navas passed it to feet for the biggest chance of the game?

Build up too quick though.

yeah I guess meh defense is maybe too brash but:

Saw this stat earlier today - really not sure how impressive it is.

The 2-0 win against the Baggies marked the 3,764 consecutive games in which the Red Devils had a youth player in the squad, a run which stretches back to October 1937

I suppose because everyone else has him you assumed I did.

I gave Vardy a lot of consideration when deciding who to bring in for Aguero when he got injured. I went with Costa who has cost me just like Bony boned you. Slightly kicking myself as I'd have clearly done well out of that move but having missed that opportunity and with Aguero back in the next few weeks, I'm not rushing to acquire him.

I think people are seeing Vardy as the 2015/16 version of Harry Kane last season in FPL terms and hopping on because they think they can't afford to miss out. It's not the same IMO chiefly because part of the reason Kane was so essential last season was to enable the purchase of expensive players who were also essential (Hazard, Aguero, Alexis, Silva, in that order). You were picking Kane over the other ****ty bargain basement options and it was really no contest. This season, players like Payet and Mahrez are top tier options at a much lower price. For this reason, you don't have that same budget constraint so when you pick Vardy, you're picking him over the likes of Pelle/Lukaku/Benteke as well as the budget options. Not saying that definitely won't work out well but I'm pretty happy to take one of the other guys instead (Lukaku in my case) as a way to differentiate myself when > 50% of the game jumps on him.

I find this aspect of the game (when/when not to follow the crowd) interesting but suspect I'm in a minority here. Apologies to the majority for what is most likely a boring post!

Ya this year is essentially a pick em. Very rare that band wagoning is correct.

.......for Mansfield or Oldham.

Don't even know who you support to be honest.

If United win their next 2 away games( obviously not easy) after the Internationals I'd be pretty confident of a title challenge this season. Only 1 goal conceded in Old Trafford this season. We are a really tough team to beat.