'Team TSZ' is a collective FPL team where tough decisions are made during uncompromising board room meetings. Team TSZ finished a lofty 1390 in its debut year, and followed that up with a respectable 88178 in its second season. How will the third season go? Stay tuned!
‘Team TSZ’ consists of:
HOW DID WE GET ON IN GAMEWEEK 30?
GW points: 53
GW average: 46
GW rank: 2,623,335
Overall rank: 207,737 (▼)
It was only a little red arrow for Team TSZ as the dust settled on an entertaining Gameweek 30. Trystan and Alex scored a decent 53 points despite choosing the wrong goalkeeper for the 100th time in their career and Alex’s assertions that captaining Bruno Fernandes over Harry Kane was a good idea. The guys suffered only their second red arrow in six gameweeks but remain inside the top 208k in the world which is the hipsters’ preferred ranking, actually, as anything more than 207k looks like you’re trying too hard.
GAMEWEEK 31 TEAM
Formation: 3-5-2
Captain: Gundogan
Vice-captain: Kane
Transfers made: 1 (Antonio > Iheanacho)
Point deductions: 0
It may come as no surprise that since that poor captaincy decision, Alex has decided to stay clear of us this week to save his pride from at least some of Trystan’s best tutting and so this week’s Skype call was a very efficient, short and sweet one. It was interesting to watch Trystan “Mastermind FC” Pugh at work on his own. The furrowed brow of a master at play, pretending to have had several conversations with Alex this week so as to push his own agenda for the team. “Alex says he wants me to make all the decisions from now on…” said Trystan, as I joined the call, “and wants you to tell everyone that he loves Jesse Lingard, always has done… he thinks he’s a maestro, a magician, and England’s secret weapon at this summer’s European Championships”. I thought it was a bit strange to see a usually stubborn Alex so resolutely change his mind but perhaps he is mellowing with age.
The forced transfer Trystan didn’t want to make this week was Michail Antonio but the news on the stweet (street + tweet) is that his yellow flag is almost certainly a secret red one for the next couple of weeks. Having planned to save two transfers in anticipation of a Spurs double then a City and Spurs blank, Antonio’s absence only slightly scuppered a plan I did not quite understand the first time around but Trystan seems sure about it. Lloris should be coming in next week for Ederson so that the guys can continue to pick the wrong goalkeeper, a game I thought they hated and yet they pursue, but this week Antonio was moving out for a budget forward. The candidates were Ollie Watkins, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Kelechi Iheanacho, with Alex apparently particularly keen on Richarlison above those three but “Alex isn’t here,” Trystan snapped, “I’m in charge! Me! ME!” so I nodded in silence. After a possibly tricky fixture against West Ham this weekend, Leicester’s incoming gameweeks look great and even though James Maddison is back for another 2.5 games and a turned ankle to take Iheanacho’s place, the young forward looks the best option at his current, modest price.
Elsewhere, Ilkay Gundogan, everyone’s third-favourite name to mispronounce after Lucas Digne and Firmino, is captain ahead of vice Kane who will almost certainly star whilst the German is rested for 87 minutes. Raphinha makes the squad ahead of Leeds’ Patrick Bamford and Stuart Dallas this weekend but I have this funny idea in my head that Leeds are going to smash and grab this one. The last time I had this feeling it was that West Ham vs Arsenal would end up 3-3, so I wouldn’t listen to me.
Thanks for reading, and good luck in the gameweek!
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