The clean sheet points rule is the bane of many a fantasy football manager's existence.
If your goalkeeper or defender makes it to the hour mark and his team goes the whole game without conceding, then he gets the full bonus. Same goes with midfielders and that one extra point for no goals conceded.
Take, for instance, last season when Southampton defender Cédric was withdrawn seconds before the hour mark in a game in which his side kept a clean sheet and he was denied his bonus points. Some reacted angrily to the supposed injustice, with one fantasty manager even going as far as writing a very detailed letter of complaintabout the situation.
We hope that same guy didn't have Kasper Schmeichel in his team this week, as the Leicester goalkeeper was withdrawn with a knock 57 minutes into the game against Swansea, with the Foxes 2-0 up at the time.
https://twitter.com/LCFC/status/769553686628630532
The official Fantasy Premier League account confirmed that the introduction of Ron-Robert Zieler meant no clean sheet points for Schmeichel.
https://twitter.com/OfficialFPL/status/769553948583792640
People were left cursing their luck, especially those who brought Schmeichel into their team this week.
He didn't miss a single minute of action last season, so few could have predicted this.
https://twitter.com/Winnerr_/status/769555626854723589
The anger was evident - and with several other goalkeepers saving penalties during the afternoon the loss of points was felt even more keenly.
https://twitter.com/XhakaTheSavior/status/769554099696201728
https://twitter.com/am_alkhaled/status/769554367523516416
https://twitter.com/fanfeud/status/769554924673896448
If you're looking for someone to blame, this guy has picked three goalkeepers for his team in as many weeks and all of them have gone and got themselves injured.
It's almost certainly not his fault, but still.
https://twitter.com/Goncalo24M/status/769559680339304448
In the end, it wouldn't have mattered if Schmeichel stuck around an extra three minutes, since Leroy Fer got a late consolation for the Swans.
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