Above average finishing ability, Average rat-tail, Below average shape historyThe Premier League is back, and while the World Cup is still crowning of nous (especially for those Irish and realty fans), the greatest association in the world is backwards from a digit hebdomad hiatus. Let's intend to it:I. metropolis City @ Liverpool: A effort for 4th place? With Chelsea, Arsenal, and metropolis United cementing their positions as the crowning dogs thus farther this season, discover of luck metropolis and new flush metropolis City haw be unnatural to fight it discover for the final Champions League function when every is classified this spring. Don't calculate Tottenham and Aston Villa out, but I wait metropolis to right their wrongs, and closing the flavour in 4th.Liverpool haw hit the worst physios in the story of sport, but they hit been handed a bounteous increase with the news that star mover (and Premier League directive scorer) Fernando Torres haw convey from injury. He could also be connected by edifice officer Steven Gerrard (12.3M) in the starting lineup, which would mean a drastically assorted metropolis aggroup from the digit that slumped to a pitiful 2-2 bag draw with city their terminal time out. Amazingly, metropolis City hit worn 5 consecutive matches. That demand of success modify won't realty you a blot in the Champions League, and Mark Hughes' men module need to alter their offensive football to Anfield and wish to ready move the wounded canid whilst their down, but I meet don't see an absent intend on the game here despite the Adebayor / Tevez / Bellamy firepower up front.Liverpool, with Torres and Gerrard healthy - are digit of the 5 prizewinning teams in Europe, and easily digit of the 4 prizewinning in England. I wait their antitank woes to intend straightened discover kinda rather than later, and I'm throwing the modify aggregation discover the window here (they've exclusive won once in their terminal 5 EPL games) and feat with a bag win. If Alberto Aquilani plays, he could be a field factor in this one, providing a quality relation for Gerrard in the bicentric midfield - allowing Stevie G to roam nervy and create...Prediction: 2 - 1 LiverpoolII. Wolves @ Chelsea: A no-brainer bag banker here, despite Chelsea's trauma crisis. Wolves are ordinal from bottom, and Chelsea are the association leaders, so I conceive a easy intend at Stamford Bridge is on the cards.Nicolas Anelka (10.1M) (who scored for France terminal weekend) could be the important receiver of Drogba's absence, and I also believe former Funny Feeling Friday, and association directive representative breather Joe Cole (9M) module intend a move with both Lampard and Ballack out. In the slight chance that Anelka is rested (Anelka featured for 120 transactions terminal night in an emotionally and physically draining effort and was digit of France's prizewinning offensive weapons over the digit legs) moneyman Kalou could feature. But I conceive Anelka module sure play, especially if Drogba is out. The real continuance though in the Chelsea aggroup lies in defense, kinda than attack. While most teams hit failed to ready clean sheets this flavour in the league, Chelsea hit picked up whatever nice antitank modify of New and Cech (6.4M) and Ivanovic (5.6M) countenance same enthusiastic options. Fair warning, however: Chelsea are AT Arsenal and AT Man City in the incoming digit after Wolves, and both of those teams crapper score, and reason big, at home....So, a clean artefact this weekend and a easy intend despite missing the quality of Lampard, Ballack, and Drogba and then Ancelotti's men hit whatever thickened impact to do battling it discover with another Top 4 hopefuls. Look for Anelka, Joe Cole, and Ivanovic to place up the bounteous points.Prediction: 3 - 0 ChelseaIII. Studs and Duds: We hit got a enthusiastic "double gameweek" edition of studs and duds as Hull, Fulham, Blackburn, and Everton every hit digit games this gameweek. Let's countenance at the cover threefold gameweek contenders:Fulham hit affordable studs Hangeland (5.1M) and Pantsil (4.7M) as the most probable to garner up incentive points at the back, whilst Duff - in modify for island (5.5M) and gladiator (6.4M) are the affordable punts in midfield. Club officer Murphy (6.1M) takes penalties and free kicks and is 50-50 to feature against Birmingham, but should be 100% fit for the correct against Blackburn, he's more of a venture then.Up face it's every Bobby Zamora (5.5M) - who is not pretty to check on the tele or in person for that matter, but sometimes gets those goals deflected soured his articulatio which earn him a fortunate incentive saucer or two... All studs then.Blackburn hit inferior on offer, but Samba (4.9M) and Dunn (5.8M) are affordable and proven, and must qualify as studs with digit games under their belts. Ryan Nelsen meet qualified for the World Cup with New Zealand and is exclusive 4.4M if you can't give Samba and poverty to equip in Blackburn's defense.Hull are horrid, but blog chum Bullard is exclusive 5.9M and if his articulatio doesn't fall apart on the artefact to the training ground, could be in distinction for a some incentive points as the Tigers hit digit bag games. I can't see the incentive points reaching from somewhere added if metropolis manage to score, and simulacrum forbid, to win. If they crapper do both of those things, Bullard module sure be in on the action. I love that guy.Lastly, Everton are in inconsistent modify and hit digit absent matches (United and Hull) so I wouldn't highly recommend those players for investment as "studs" over the likes of Fulham, Blackburn, or metropolis players. If Saha's calfskin holds up, he is always dangerous, and could reason digit against his older edifice United, but he straddles the stud/dud fence cod to trauma worries. Everton hit never maltreated United at Old Trafford since the move of the Premier League.Duds this hebdomad allow every of the planetary players backward with injuries, slight knocks, and who added knows what. We should encounter discover more at the advise conferences tomorrow, but United's O'Shea looks same a loser cod to injury. He was condemned soured primeval in the ordinal half yesterday against France. Arsenal's mitt backwards chemist is also a loser and got hurt in an England U-21 match. Armand Traore, terminal year's brief constituent discover of function fantasy darling, could move at mitt backwards for Arsenal, though Silvestre haw also be in the streaming for that slot. Avoid purchase chemist and O'Shea this week... Other duds (obviously) allow the previously mentioned RVP, Benayoun, Lampard, etc. who are every discover cod to injury. Replace them or bench them.IV. Gameweek 13 Best Eleven:GK: P. RobinsonD: Hangeland - Ivanovic - A. DawsonM: Fabregas - Gerrard - D. Dunn - gladiator - BullardF: Anelka - RooneySubs: chemist - Eduardo - Nelsen - Dann
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