Kick-Off: Gameweek 10 Fantasy Preview

Suarez with a wonderful curl in Carling Cup against Stoke.

Overview
A very exciting League Cup should be expected as five of the Premier League giant clubs, namely Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal have all progressed to the last eight of the tournament. With so many clubs capable of challenging titles in Premier League, surely every cup counts - expect intense competition even if this is just Carling Cup.

Game of the Week: CHELSEA v ARSENAL

Will there an immediate
impact by El Nino?

Timed to perfection? Chelsea, who seemed to struggle with their form recently, will station at Stamford Bridge to await the challenge from fellow neighbours Arsenal, who are slowly rebounding from their catastrophic season start.

The Blues will be without Drogba who was suspended on last game, but will welcome the return of £50mil Fernando Torres, Ashley Cole and Jose Bosingwa who are all released from suspension. Surely FT9 will pair up with red hot Sturridge to shatter the Gunners' fragile defence.

Defensive wise, Chelsea are obviously struggling at the moment and playing against on form Van Persie certainly would not help them. Van Persie's 30 goals in last 36 games for Arsenal surely is something, and he's got better record on the road as well. Big trouble surely for Terry and co.

At the middle of the field Chelsea will have some slight edge with Lampard, Mata, Ramires (doubtful) and Meireles all available to crush the Gunners defence. It does wonder me whether the midfield composed of Arteta, Ramsey, Song and possibly Benayoun will be able level them.

On the back of Arsenal only Szczesny can be counted, so I am really looking forward for a big scoreline by both sides. A big scoring draw, if not a narrow victory by Chelsea.

Prediction: CHE 3-2 ARS
Pick: Torres, Sturridge, Van Persie, Mata, Meireles
Avoid: Defence


Fantasy Game of the Week: MANCHESTER CITY v WOLVES

David Silva is simply unstoppable.

When one team is capable of winning 6-1 at Old Trafford, surely it's irresistible to feature it almost every week in this column. And that's Manchester City.

The Blue Moon have just demolished their forthcoming visitors 5-2 in Carling Cup encounter with their team B, and you can only expect team A which composed of Silva, Aguero and Balotelli to do even better.

Mick McCarthy will probably try to hold them off with "park the bus" tactic, but with a very different team to face compared to days ago, it probably will be too hard to them to sustain all the attacks especially when there Silva and Aguero are both very good in dribbling across stubborn defences.

The points ceiling for the players might be low with Mancini's mind surely on for the coming Champions League encounter, but still it's a risk worth taking. Captain Silva, Aguero or Balotelli if you have any.

Prediction: MCI 4-0 WOL
Pick and Captain: Silva, Aguero, Balotelli
Pick: MCI defence, Milner
Avoid: WOL defence


Pick and Drop
Pick and Captain:

1. Van der Vaart/ Adebayor - Hosting against QPR without goalssssss? Hard to imagine.

Pick:

1. Suarez - The floodgate opened? Well he just scored over one goal in a single game for the first time this season, good sign.
2. Pilkington/ Morison - One thing that Blackburn never fails to do is leaking goals.
3. Rooney - Surely he wanted a rebound from slump even if it's against his mother club.

Avoid:

1. BLA defence - Never trust them. And I mean NEVER.
2. EVE defence - Man Utd are surely finding a sandbag.
3. QPR defence - Leaked 6 goals last time on the road.

Transfer Traffic

Green light (buy):

1. Adebayor/ Van der Vaart - Two of them will take up over 60% of Tottenham's goals.
2. Aguero/ Silva/ Balotelli - All on form.
3. Cleverley - With Fletcher and Anderson doing poorly last week he is set for an immediate start in the centre of the park.
4. Walters - Very very influential in the attack of Stoke.
5. Graham - Ultra cheap 3rd forward with form at the moment.

Yellow light (watch):

1. Torres - Still not trustworthy until he proves consistency and discipline.
2. A Young/ Nani - Losing some form currently.
3. Best - Offensive influence has been taken over by Ba.

Red light (sell):

1. Long - Injured.
2. Drogba - Suspended.
3. Bannan - Suspended by club following his drink-drive incident.
4. Rio Ferdinand/ Evans - Terrible defensive form.

Gameweek 10 Dream Team

Begovic

Kompany -- Walker -- Enrique

Silva -- Van der Vaart (VC) -- Sinclair -- Pilkington

Suarez -- Aguero (C) -- Adebayor

Subs: Vorm -- Cleverley -- Barnett -- Brown