Rooney – Van Persie Dilemma, Arsenal Players Worth A Risk – Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 17 Preview

Gameweek 17 have a flurry of scoring opportunities for the Fantasy Premier League managers as there are a number of games where the strong teams are pitted against the weak teams thus opening a lot of chance for the Goliaths to score big against the Davids. Manchester United plays Sunderland and Liverpool faces Aston Villa, games in which the managers can look to score some tidy points with the right selection of players. Among the other good games are Newcastle against Manchester City and Spurs facing Swansea, all exciting encounters with possibility of ample goalmouth action. Some of the more important points that the Fantasy Premier League managers just cannot miss this week are as follows.

Michu’s staggering ownership

Michu the MAN !!

The Swansea midfielder is currently owned by 47.2% of the total number of Fantasy Premier League managers which have raised his price to £8.0m. It is without doubt that Michu has been an absolute gem for his club and so far scored 107 points, but it is a matter of concern that Swansea’s fixture is on a decline from now on and the team faces Spurs and United in the next two. But what really should worry the Fantasy Premier League managers who do not have him in their team is the fact that every time he scores big in a match, almost half of the total players in the game goes way past them, which could really hurt their rankings. Thus we would advise the managers to pick Michu for their team so that they do not give the advantage to the other half of the players.

Stoke City’s fixture becomes horrible– although Stoke has been the best defensively organised team and their defenders have brought a lot of points to the Fantasy Premier managers, it must be taken into account that their fixture becomes worse from this weekend with Everton, Spurs and Liverpool coming in consecutive weekends and City and Chelsea to follow. Thus it may not be a very bad idea to offload the Stoke defenders now and find suitable replacements for them as it will be very hard for them to maintain the clean-sheets from now on.

A blank gameweek for Chelsea, excellent fixture for Arsenal- Gameweek 17 is a blank one for Chelsea, who are away playing the club World Cup and who are finally finding some form under their new manager. The main point of discussion is the return to form of Torres who seems to be finding his lost touch and score goals for his club. Arsenal has a brilliant fixture coming in front of them in which they face Reading, Wigan and West Ham in back to back matches. So the Fantasy Premier League managers may look upto the defense of the Gunners to provide them with some points. Gibbs and Szczesny are bound to be top draw from the Arsenal defense line with the focus also on Theo Walcott and Santi Cazorla. Although things are not going particularly well for Arsenal at the moment, they should be back in business with the kind of fixture that they have.

Is Rooney worth it?

Is it Rooney ? Is it RVP ? – We leave it to you managers to decide !

This thought must have crossed the minds of the Fantasy Premier League managers, whether to place Rooney ahead of Van Persie, given the Englishman’s current form. A conclusion is not easy to derive on this one as both the players are switching positions, with Rooney playing the lead striker’s role once and Van Persie doing so the other moment. In these circumstances, it may be wise to include both these men in your team as they have a wonder fixture ahead of them, provided the cost permits. It is one more time that Sir Alex Ferguson has made life difficult for the Fantasy Premier League managers with his tactics and brought the managers in a state of dilemma.