The gameweek started with a poor Arsenal performance that led to an unlikely blank against West Ham on Saturday afternoon. Unai Emery’s Gunners were uncharacteristically poor in attack and they never really tested the, at the day, solid West Ham defense.
In Crystal Palaceś 2-1 defeat to Watford it was the Palace right back ,Aaron Wan-Bissaka, who picked up maximum bonus points despite not being involved in a goal or keeping a clean sheet. AWB has been the “cheap” defender to own all season and sits in 33 % of all teams. His recent display shows the power of his Fantasy appeal, with more decent scored expected from him in future as his style of play is favoured by the Bonus Points System.
Manchester City kept their first clean sheet since November as they took quite an easy win against a ten-man (19th-minute red card from Willy Boly) Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Etihad.
Leicester suffered a home defeat to Southampton but once again Ricardo Pereira showed his a great fantasy asset. His assist for Leicester only goal was his third attacking return in four matches for the defender. Pereira was shifted back to right-back on Saturday after playing in attacking midfield against Everton in Gameweek 21. Even from the right-back position he managed to have most penalty box touches of all players who started at the King Power Stadium.
Fulham keep on struggling. This time they managed to lose 2-1 to Burnley without conceding a shot on target to their hosts. This was possible due to two own-goals.
The biggest fantasy news from the weekend has to be Harry Kane’s injury.
Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford delivered more attacking returns as Manchester United kept up their 100% record under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer by winning 1-0 away to Spurs. From a fantasy perspective though, the Red Devils’ victory was overshadowed – by an injury to Harry Kane late in the game. Now it looks like Kane will miss out until early March and he has already been sold by over half a million managers.
Gameweek 22 results:
WEST HAM 1-0 ARSENAL
Goals: Declan Rice (£4.4m)
Assists: Samir Nasri (£5.5m)
CRYSTAL PALACE 1-2 WATFORD
Goals: Craig Cathcart (£4.5m), Tom Cleverley (£5.0m)
Own Goals: Cathcart
Assists: Jose Holebas (£4.8m)
MANCHESTER CITY 3-0 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Goals: Gabriel Jesus (£10.1m) x2, Conor Coady (£4.5m) own-goal
Assists: Leroy Sane (£9.6m), Raheem Sterling (£11.3m), Kevin De Bruyne (£9.7m)
CARDIFF CITY 0-0 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN
LEICESTER 1-2 SOUTHAMPTON
Goals: Wilfred Ndidi (£4.9m) | James Ward-Prowse (£5.0m), Shane Long (£4.7m)
Assists: Ricardo Pereira (£5.3m) | Long
BURNLEY 2-1 FULHAM
Goals: Joe Bryan (£4.8m) own-goal, Denis Odoi (£4.4m) own-goal | Andre Schurrle (£5.6m)
Assists: Jeff Hendrick (£5.2m) x2 | Denis Odoi
CHELSEA 2-1 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Goals: Pedro (£6.3m), Willian (£7.2m) | Ciaran Clark (£4.5m)
Assists: David Luiz (£5.9m), Eden Hazard (£11.1m) | Matt Ritchie (£5.8m)
TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 0-1 MANCHESTER UNITED
Goal: Marcus Rashford (£7.4m)
Assist: Paul Pogba (£8.5m)
EVERTON 2-0 BOURNEMOUTH
Goals: Kurt Zouma (£5.0m), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.3m)
Assists: Lucas Digne (£5.2m), Ademola Lookman (£5.1m)
BRIGHTON 0-1 LIVERPOOL
Goals: Mohamed Salah (£13.3m)
Assists: None
In Steem Fantasy League team “Metalheadz” keep on scoring good scores every week. In gameweek 22 Metalheadz were the highest scoring team with 81 points and is now on place 1,422 in the world. Metalheadz have got a 31 points lead and a really strong team. At the moment nothing seems to stop the leader from cruising to a League-win. But, for us who are chasing, there is still hope and 16 gameweeks to go. Come on!
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