WEEK 14 - STAN HOLDS THE FORT IN A POOR WEEK
The end of our good form as this time out just one of the eight players manage to post a win, although it's one of the better ones and it's saved us from catastrophe.
@Pyfish retains his comfortable lead but loses for a second week running after neither selection, both ambitious and on paper safer, pay out. Under 4.5 is an angle I like but it's always a bit risky with a fixture like that I think. Fernandes avoids a yellow this week.
@CaaC (John) makes the best pick of the week in Newcastle but is let down by Leicester's defeat to Leeds. I backed a Leicester win myself, thinking that a side with 13 wins in 14 are worth a go at evens in nearly any situation, but not paying off this time.
Cartagena's game with Leganes with subject to a lot of discussion in here and as I suspected, the league leaders Leganes, the bizarrely priced underdogs, ran out 0-3 winners meaning that @Machado lands his pick of Cartagena not getting to two goals. Boavista however, a team I backed elsewhere, didn't get the goal needed against bottom of the table Rio Ave, so he loses this time out.
@Stan ends his losing run and climbs two places with a good double in the FA Cup, landing two of the stronger outfits to deliver comfortable wins against vastly inferior non-league sides. With 7-2 and 5-1 wins respectively, this was as comfortable as it gets.
@Lucas lands neither shot on target pick in the surprise Sunday results that saw neither favourite win. @RandoEFC's Midtjylland tip paid off with a 1-4 win at a dreadful Hvidovre (I think I'm going to back them to lose basically weekly) but Glentoran fell to a shock defeat at home to Carrick Rangers meaning there is no win at all here.
I couldn't make it two wins on the bounce, both of my away picks had the better of their games but both could only draw. @...Dan probably the closest of all losers to a winner this week as Zwolle won comfortably and Hamburg did too, but too comfortably, as they didn't concede - seemingly out of character for them.
It's no surprise to see a poor week here, in a week where the FPL average was as low as I've ever seen it, where Liverpool didn't beat Luton, Tottenham lost, Arsenal lost, Milan lost at home to Udinese, Porto lost at home to Estoril, Real Madrid drew at home to Rayo, Atletico lost at Las Palmas, to put it short there were absolutely loads of surprise results all over the place this weekend and I highly doubt many people collected winners so well done to Stan for managing to do it. I certainly had a relative shitter this time after a pretty brilliant weekend last time out. But we move on. It wasn't our hardest hit, but a hit nontheless.
WEEK 14 STATS
Winning bets: 1/8
Winning selections: 6/16
Weekly forum position: -£35.90 (Ranked 9/14)
OVERALL STATS
Winning bets: 26/102
Winning selections: 90/192
Total forum position: -£167.15