Fantasy Football Review – Gameweek 4

There was some exceptional scoring in the Champion J-League this week, thanks mainly to the hat-trick exploits of Wayne Rooney and Sergio Aguero.

By Conor Heneghan

Fantasy Football (In association with Champion)

Gameweek 4 review

We hate to say we told you so, but anyone that didn’t follow our recommendation of putting Wayne Rooney into their team at the earliest opportunity will be busy counting points lost this weekend, unless, of course, they had Sergio Aguero around to make up the deficit. The lucky managers who had both of them in their XI earned a handy 34 points, 51 if one of them was captain.

Unless you were completely ignorant of what was going on in the Premier League this weekend, you will have realised that the domination of the Manchester clubs continued unabated and consequently, those in red and sky blue continue to conquer the fantasy football charts.

Rooney and Aguero led the way with 17 points apiece this week after hat-tricks against Bolton and Wigan respectively. Interestingly, with eight goals, Rooney has scored more goals than every single team in the league apart from Manchester City so far, which speaks volumes for his and United’s mood so far this season.

Ominously for the rest of the league, Javier Hernandez marked his return to action with a brace against the Trotters, which earned him 12 points, the same total amassed by Phil Jones for two assists and a clean sheet. Nani, meanwhile, scored ten points after also picking up two assists, stealing the thunder from our other major recommendation for last week, Ashley Young, who had a quiet day on the left flank.

For City, David Silva continues to impress and set up two of Aguero’s goal on Saturday for 10 points, while elsewhere there were impressive showings from Stoke ‘keeper Asmir Begovic (10 points) John Terry (11), West Brom defender Nicky Shorey (11), Aston Villa midfielder Stiliyan Petrov (10) and our own Jonathan Walters, who continues to be criminally overlooked by Giovanni Trapattoni at international level.

Champion J-League

Take a bow, managers of the Champion J-League. The standard in the upper echelons this week was of the highest quality with only one team in the top ten (Hang your head Barca99) failing to register a score of over 77 points.

The fearless leader, Anton Leong, was rewarded for his decision to partner Rooney and Aguero up front in his side, Knee deep UTD, and with Rooney donning the captain’s armband, Anton scored a cool 81 points.

That was enough to put him ahead of the second placed-side, Declan McAnallen’s BlueSteal Elite, whose Manchester City dominated side (and Wayne Rooney) returned 85 points.

Declan was outdone by Robert Leavy’s FC Clunge (We’re detecting an Inbetweeners theme running through the team names in the league) in fourth place, who totalled 90 points thanks to the displays of Rooney, Aguero, Nani, David Silva and Vincent Kompany.

Despite that score, he trails the man with the best team name we’ve seen so far, Keith Coleman’s Ain’t got a Kalou, by a point in third place.

In-house, Nick Bradshaw continues to lead the way after a pretty good weekend for all the JOE heads, apart from editor Shane Breslin, of course, who rather pathetically tried to reason that his miserly 32 points was down to the fact that he was moving house. No excuses in this game Shane, we’re afraid.

J-League Top 5

1.       Knee deep UTD – Anton Leong: 306 points

2.       BlueSteal Elite – Declan McAnallen: 304 points

3.       Ain’t got a Kalou – Keith Coleman: 297 points

4.       FC Clunge – Robert Leavy: 296 points

5.       The Bit O’Red – Niall Gilligan: 295 points