Tottenham travel to Blackpool on Sunday in what promises to be an open and entertaining Premier League fixture. Ian Holloway’s Blackpool have been a revelation in the Premiership this season, and Harry Redknapp’s Spurs play some of the best football in the Premier League, so it’s probably bound to be a 0-0 draw! No, there should be goals galore and for those of you selecting your Picklive fantasy football players, who should you consider?
One Tottenham player who seems to have gone off the boil a little bit recently, yet is still one of the top Premier League performers of the season, is Gareth Bale. Bale is Tottenham’s top average points scorer in Picklive this season, racking up an average of 56 points a game. Bale was largely on the periphery of the action against Chelsea last weekend, and unsurprisingly only scored 31 points, but at Bloomfield Road he’ll be looking to recapture his early season form.
A Spurs teammate that will be hoping to link up well with Bale is Benoit Assou-Ekotto. The duo will be a handful for Blackpool to keep quiet, and you feel that if Bale is closely marked then Assou-Ekotto can make the most of the space offered to him. The only other Tottenham player to average over 50 points on Picklive this season is Luka Modric, and the Croatian midfielder will be looking to pull the strings in the middle of the park for Spurs once more.
As far as Blackpool are concerned, the loss of Charlie Adam is a big one. Adam is serving a one match suspension, meaning that he can’t add to the impressive points tally he has this season. His closest Blackpool rival in the Picklive points stakes is defender Stephen Crainey who averages an impressive 80 points per game. If he can keep this up against Tottenham then it could go a long way to helping Ian Holloway’s men getting a positive result.
So the three players I would pick in the Blackpool v Tottenham match are Gareth Bale, Benoit Assou-Ekotto and Stephen Crainey, but who would you go for? Why not prove me wrong and make the most of your Picklive FREE TRIAL and show that you’re the live fantasy football king!
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