Theon
Lord of the Iron Islands
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I understand the argument, it’s the exact one I used to justify Sane/Silva over Laporte about five posts about yours.Just seems like everyone has Rashford, Pogba and Lindelof in their teams. What points are people expecting from United defence though realistically? 1 clean sheet? So, 8 points?
You only need a goal and some bonus points from Martial to eclipse that.
The fact is though you can’t have 11 attackers, so whilst I get the point around attackers ‘only needing a goal and some bonus points’ to eclipse defenders you can’t use that logic ad infinitum, as eventually you’ll need to reconcile picking three defenders.
It’s clearly a bit of a balancing act given you’re limited to three players from each team, as ultimately you’ll have to use some spots from good teams on defenders. In my draft above for example I’ve got three City attackers, two United and Hazard. So that’s six out of a maximum seven attacking spots.
Martial looks a good pick to me (not disagreeing there) but that would mean having no City and Utd in defence, leaving something like Palace or Spurs as potential options - I think Son (or maybe Alli) are just as likely to score as Martial, whereas Lindelof is the best defensive option outside of City/Chelsea players. Balancing those things together it seems better to ‘waste’ a United spot on a defender, as I think it can be covered by Spurs, whereas the reverse doesn’t hold true.
Obviously Martial could score a hatrick and make all that nonsense.
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