Looking ahead to Fantasy Football Gameweek 33, FantasyYIRMA.com have frisked the fixtures to try and make sense of where the points are going to come from in this week's games.
Easter is fast approaching and that essentially means two things.
- I will try and make it through this post not making some form of Manchester City/Jesus/Easter/Return gag
- I am going to absolutely ******* destroy the Malteaser Easter Egg sitting in my living room which has been looking at me for the past couple of weeks.
Onto Gameweek 33 and Everton taking on Burnley at Goodison seem like a solid point scoring opportunity. You see some bloke Romelu Lukaku plays for Everton. This bloke Romelu Lukaku is quite good.
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Romelu Lukaku has scored 10 Premier League goals in his last 5 games at Home. Goodison is Everton's home ground. Romelu Lukaku reportedly cheated on Taylor Swift once but she was too afraid to write a song about him because of the rumour circulating that he had been called up by the Belgian Army due to a shortage of tanks.
Further rumours yet to be confirmed suggest that the Belgian Army actually sent him home stating that he was overqualified as a military vehicle.
All of this points to the fact that when Big Rom plays season, Big Rom scores this season. Currently on 23 league goals 4 clear of 2nd placed Harry Kane the Belgian Battleaxe is battering down the door to the Golden Boot and no harm to anyone else in the race, but I sure as hell ain't standing in front of that door.
And Lukaku once made an Onion Cry with one look- So there's that!
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In midfield I get the sickening feeling of remorse in the pit of my stomach that I can't be simply picking players for shits and giggles... no... no...I have to be somewhat strategic, somewhat long term in my thinking, always one step ahead.
It's a bit like buying a fruit based alcopop at the supermarket because you genuinely enjoy the taste and then spotting your mate at the check-out and having to pass it off as being "for the Mrs".
My typical laborious point to all of this is back to the old double gameweek advance preparation.
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There WILL be double gameweeks between now and the end of the season and I will be banging on about it for the remainder of the season. Sorry not Sorry.
If you are going to bring someone new into the midfield perhaps it wouldn't be the worst idea in the world to look at who has a double for GW34- Crystal Palace play v Liverpool (A)/Spurs(H)
- Manchester United v Burnley (A)/Man City (A)
- Middlesbrough v Bournemouth (A)/ Sunderland(H)
All this is pointing to someone who plays more games than someone else. Wilfried Zaha may have had a disastrous spell at Old Trafford, but put him in the same dressing room as a certain Mathieu Flamini and he looks sensational.
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Palace take on Leicester who are coming off a big week in Europe followed by tough matches at Liverpool and Spurs. This Palace team is looking sharp though and in the sort of form that could derail a top 4 finish for certain clubs or take another unexpected 3 points ala when they spanked Arsenal 3-0 last week!
And if Dave asks, I like Beer...ok?.. so there's that!
In defence and sticking with the fact that GW34 has a few doubles on the horizon it appears that Middlesbrough's Ben Gibson is the 3rd most popular defensive transfer in this week.
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Boro obviously play twice in GW34 yet have what would appear to be on paper a difficult fixture at home to Arsenal.
The reality here is that Arsenal could turn up, decide they remember how to play football and finish chances or.. Boro could issue up the same level of humiliation Palace did last week minus the Cheerleaders.
Regardless - Gibson can be a double gameweek player for you next week and given that Arsenal are essentially hurtling towards the end of the season like Thelma and Louise off a cliff he could end up with a point or two in gameweek 33 also.
And almost 30,000 have bought him this week, So there's that!
Written by Ryan @FantasyYIRMA
FantasyYIRMA.com established in 2012, is a niche Fantasy Football site focused on providing news, views and insight for the English Premier League.
