You failed to start with Teemu Pukki, sold Jamie Vardy just before his goal spree and left Michail Antonio on the bench last weekend when the West Ham utility man scored four in one game. But what else did you do wrong in 2019/20 that caused your workmates, friends and even family to change their usual greeting of a hug, handshake or Zoom wave to just pointing and laughing? Let’s get out a pad and pen and write down all the mistakes you made during the 2019/20 Premier League Fantasy Football season.
Goalkeepers
You started out relying on the previously unbeatable David De Gea. Sure, you thought, he’s one of the most expensive keepers in the league, but he makes game-saving stops that others simply can’t. Whether you waited until after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side slumped to their 4th defeat of the season by early November or their 8th defeat of the season by January is irrelevant, because you then made the catastrophic error of plumping for Manchester City’s Ederson.
Ederson, such a spectacular goalkeeper at his best, looked terribly exposed during a turn of the year period for you when it seemed like he must be cursed. You left him in for the second Manchester derby just before lockdown, whereupon he provided the assist for Scott McTominay’s goal in the 2-0 defeat.