Antonio Valencia - The Next King of Fantasy Premier League?

Playing fantasy football manager games means one thing: you're always after the next hot player. That could be Manchester United midfielder Antonio Valencia. The Ecuador-born player has been part of ManU for half a season now and has already broken his previous EPL-record with 5 goals scored and 6 assisted.

The start of the season was a bit slow for the skilled midfielder but he has surely picked up the pace in last 8 games, which have brought him 3 goals and 4 assists. Valencia's rising form hasn't gone unnoticed as he's currently in 16.3% of the all the teams in Fantasy Premier League. And with the price of £8.7M, you could do much worse.

Currently Valencia has collected an impressive 102 points and is in fourth place among midfielders, and the names in front...Fabregas, Lampard and Aston Villa's season surprise Milner. Not too shabby a group to be in. And with many matches still to come in English Premier League, Antonio Valencia may very well be able to break the 200-point mark before the end of the season.

As for the question in the title... The pieces are all there. When you are the number one midfielder in Manchester United, with a skillset to score and assist goals that help your team win the championship...He just might be crowned someday...

Premier Fantasy League Gameweek 3 - Arsenal dominates, ManU back on track

First games of gameweek 3 in the fantasy premier league have been played. Arsenal continued with great effort, 4-1 win over Portsmouth shows the team really is on top of it's game. Midfielder Diaby scored two goals and it seems Arsenal is not short on players with great ability to score goals and turn matches. Arshavin still played under radar and was substituted after 75 minutes of play.

Manchester United turned their sleigh with 0-5 win over Wigan. Lost match against Burnley seems to have awakened the team and with forwards Rooney(2 goals) and Berbatov(goal and an assist) in awesome form, team gave Wigan no chance in tonights game.

Also Manchester City remains undefeated this season, City acquired one goal win over riser Wolverhampton. Emmanuel Adebayor scored after 16 minutes of play and even though both teams had many scoring opportunites after that, the match ended 1-0.

English Premier League results 22.8.2009
Arsenal - Portsmouth 4-1
Birmingham - Stoke 0-0
Hull - Bolton 1-0
Man City - Wolverhampton 1-0
Sunderland - Blackburn 2-1
Wigan - ManU 0-5



Arsenal - Portsmouth highlights

Teams most likely to perform well in the opening weeks of Premier League Fantasy Football

The season opening matches usually offer many surprises but there are couple of teams whose first opponents should be easily beaten. The best team to buy players from considering the first few gameweeks is definitely Manchester United. Birmingham, Burnley and Wigan should all be easy wins for last years champions. I also believe Manchester City will be at 6 points after first three gameweeks. And the reason they only have 6 points, instead of 9, is that they don't have a match in gameweek 2.

Seven other teams that don't play on gameweek 2 are Arsenal, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton, Everton, Fulham and West Ham Utd. Of course they get to play these matches some other fantasy premier league gameweeks, and then these teams' players will be worth their weight in gold.