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S8 Ep11: FPL Pod: All in on Arsenal · FPL Pod

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: It's a good week for fixture swings. In the final
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  Speaker 1: matches for the internationals, we discussed double or treble arsenal.
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  Speaker 1: We have a bit of forward thinking as we worry
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  Speaker 1: about Pedro and Sam tries again to have some luck
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  Speaker 1: with her differential. Okay, then two world cards were active
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  Speaker 1: in the ends last week, so it's time for us
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  Speaker 1: to do our Thursday check in on the FPL pod.
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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone, welcome back. How did it all go?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Sam and Juels? Sam, you go first, Kelly, I've got
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  Speaker 1: Queen Arrow good. I'm sorry, but if you get a
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  Speaker 1: rod at red Erra on the wild word so I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have allowed you on this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I know. Can you imagine how awful it would have been?
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  Speaker 3: And it was a big one that sounds like two
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  Speaker 3: million places, So I was so happy when it was
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  Speaker 3: going well. It was just one of those and actually,
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  Speaker 3: to be fair, it was just a couple of players
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  Speaker 3: that did really well. Like in my head everybody had
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  Speaker 3: triple captain Erlin Harlan, so when he got that late
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  Speaker 3: brace of goals, I was thinking, oh gosh, actually this
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  Speaker 3: is going to be a nightmare because I've only kept
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  Speaker 3: and it's probably going to have a negative impact on
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  Speaker 3: my rank, but he's still actually quite slowly owned across
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  Speaker 3: the game, so actually was a was quite a positive thing.
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  Speaker 3: In the end. The two born with boys that came
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  Speaker 3: in Sternesti and Semna did really well. Oh. I nearly
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  Speaker 3: had a rage at Kudos though, because how he did
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  Speaker 3: not score in that first half I could not tell
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  Speaker 3: you from the stands at Spurs. I was just like,
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  Speaker 3: oh please, and then it was in the back of
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  Speaker 3: the air and it was offside, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: oh my goodness me. But yeah, sixty two points, a
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  Speaker 3: nice big green arrow, and now I feel like I'm
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  Speaker 3: quite well set up for the next few weeks. So
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  Speaker 3: happy Sam this morning, Happy Geels.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, very similar wildcard as well. Halan captain,
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  Speaker 4: which was obvious, although until the seventy to fifth minute
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  Speaker 4: there was not much too show really for the captain
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  Speaker 4: c and for his game, and then he got the
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  Speaker 4: two late goals, which was very good. I had se
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  Speaker 4: menu some of the players that I brought in, like
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  Speaker 4: Eastsich for example, who have pretty much regretted as soon
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  Speaker 4: as I brought him in the wildcard because I kind
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  Speaker 4: of knew this was not a good idea at all. Timber,
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  Speaker 4: I was a bit unlucky, the goalkeepers.
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  Speaker 2: A bit the same. But again it's a white card.
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  Speaker 2: Is not just for Christmas, as we say, It's for
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  Speaker 2: the longer term.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I was happy I left Gahy on the
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  Speaker 4: bench simply because I thought against Liverpool. But then he
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  Speaker 4: came in with that late assist for the winner as well,
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  Speaker 4: so that's that's the little regret I have. His knaves
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  Speaker 4: started Gaye.
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  Speaker 3: Just don't talk about benching, because I benched. Alderato is
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  Speaker 3: seventeen pointer.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that incredible.
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  Speaker 1: The thing is really on with that one where you're
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  Speaker 1: never going to play him, so you can't you can't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: If you were never going to play him, then it's yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of those where I pulled up at
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  Speaker 3: Spurs and he'd scored and I was like, oh please,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a massive hole on my bench,
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  Speaker 3: And then by the time I got into the stadium
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  Speaker 3: in the game finished, I was like, oh, that is
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  Speaker 3: a massive hole because it's a clean sheet as well.
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  Speaker 3: But I had no intention of playing him. I did
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  Speaker 3: kind of send some prayers up that maybe Timber might
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  Speaker 3: just fancy the day off on Sunday so that he
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  Speaker 3: would come off my bench, but no, unfortunately didn't. So uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he he's there for game we k and so I
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  Speaker 3: can't be too too upset about it.
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  Speaker 1: But seventeen points on the bench does stick. At least
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  Speaker 1: you know that he's a good bench player. Like it's
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  Speaker 1: quite nice. You know sometimes we fill our benches. Was
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  Speaker 1: just like whoever we can afford. At least you've got
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  Speaker 1: one of the better ones of whoever you can afford.
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  Speaker 1: I also put Dufe on the bench that was only
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  Speaker 1: five points. But yeah, Pedro Poro being benched wasn't wasn't great?
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  Speaker 1: Was it for me? I wasn't happy about that. A
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  Speaker 1: bit of a shock. Okay, So Jules, what was your
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  Speaker 1: toes to? Your total was fifty eight points? My total
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  Speaker 1: was sixty one. But I did a minus four to
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  Speaker 1: fifty seven. I can't remember. Did I say my minus
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  Speaker 1: four on the pod? I did, didn't I? So I
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  Speaker 1: did do what I said, I'd already done it last week.
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  Speaker 1: I did Watkins to Harland's. Obviously, Watkins did finally get
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  Speaker 1: off the mark verts to Semeno and Munos to NeSSI. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: Munos kept clean cheating the end, but to NeSSI even better.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm a lot happier with them, happier with that.
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  Speaker 1: So I was plus fourteen up on that minus four
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, pretty happy, I think, although I did. At
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty am, I was hovering over the triple caps him.
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  Speaker 3: Why that was you?
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  Speaker 1: Because I just felt, I don't know, it felt bold
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  Speaker 1: what I'd done already. I'm not a bold manager, and
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's a few other good opportunities to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I didn't want to go too early. I
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  Speaker 1: also don't like it when all of a sudden there's
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  Speaker 1: a bit of team news from PEP. Of course, he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been playing very much, and everyone just gets over exciting,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and you think this is too good to
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  Speaker 1: be true. I've been here before, massive regrets, should have
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  Speaker 1: done it. I was sitting next to someone who had
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  Speaker 1: triple captain Thareland when he scored those two goals. I
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  Speaker 1: was at work, and yeah, I was very envious at
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  Speaker 1: that feeling, because there's nothing better, is there? Really? I
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  Speaker 1: think that he when a triple captain pays off, because
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  Speaker 1: so often it doesn't. So yeah, anyway, I got sixty
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  Speaker 1: one overall, still got my wild card, still got one
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  Speaker 1: hundred decisions to make and my team still doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: great for this week actually now, but we'll come on
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  Speaker 1: to that very soon. As the FPR Pop Mini Leigua
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  Speaker 1: new leader Ray Evans raised team is called Ray twenty
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  Speaker 1: five twenty six does exactly what it says on the team.
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  Speaker 1: It's raised team for this season, he got one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and six points to co minus four. Triple captain Thaarland
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  Speaker 1: also brought in Docer as well. He has however played
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  Speaker 1: his World Car bench boost and triple captains his ninetieth
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  Speaker 1: though overall in the FPL standings we've also got odiambo Adera.
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  Speaker 1: He's gone into second place, also triple captain Harland as
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  Speaker 1: if third place Ross Loby no singer trend here. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: all of the top six managers in the league played
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  Speaker 1: the triple captain on Harlan. So well done, master stroke
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  Speaker 1: from you guys are reminded the codes x Y six
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  Speaker 1: x p L before we go any further, and before
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  Speaker 1: I forget it. Joe's European roundup.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, because we are Champions League football in midweek and
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  Speaker 4: obviously six Premier Leage clubs involved a lot of our
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  Speaker 4: players from FPL involved, So let's go with a Tuesday
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  Speaker 4: game to start with. Mickey van Deven scored for Spurs
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  Speaker 4: on a Pedro Poro assist. Spurs were not very good time.
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  Speaker 4: I think you would agree no, but they got a
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  Speaker 4: draw in the end thanks to Mickey van Deven. We
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  Speaker 4: had Joe Padro center for Chelsea in the one near
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  Speaker 4: win against Benfica. Ksid was outstanding in that game. Pedron
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  Speaker 4: it was pretty good, but the rest again a bit average.
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  Speaker 4: Mozille I was benched by on the slot for Liverpool's
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  Speaker 4: defeat the way I gotta. Alison got injured and we
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  Speaker 4: missed the game against Chelsea at the weekend. We know
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  Speaker 4: that for sure also got injured and came off. We're
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  Speaker 4: not sure yet about his fitness. But Isak came on,
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  Speaker 4: was poor. Mosala came on and was really anonymous. Not
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  Speaker 4: much better from Verts. We suppose I right back and
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  Speaker 4: that was not a good idea. Uh. And then the
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  Speaker 4: Arson Boys on Wednesday night, we're pretty good. Martin ord
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  Speaker 4: gana maybe his best game of the season, because you
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  Speaker 4: called Martinelli's called your Carris was was decent too, and
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  Speaker 4: I forgot Newcastle who wont phony away to God for Gordon,
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  Speaker 4: one for for the tomato again and we will talk about
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  Speaker 4: fours later. For tomato could be in the conversation. So
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  Speaker 4: pretty good, pretty good for some and some like Liverpool
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  Speaker 4: and especially Liverpool not so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, why does that leave us with Liverpool?
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  Speaker 2: Sam?
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  Speaker 1: Because two defeats in a week having had a perfect start.
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  Speaker 1: I think a few people have said maybe they weren't
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  Speaker 1: firing and all Cylinder's a lot of like to get
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  Speaker 1: them over the line. But two defeats is quite big,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it? Really it is?
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  Speaker 3: And I think what you said is right, Cals, because
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  Speaker 3: the last or the first five weeks of the season,
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  Speaker 3: they weren't exactly impressing. They weren't looking great, but they
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  Speaker 3: were finding a way to win the games right at
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  Speaker 3: the end, and maybe that was kind of papering over
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  Speaker 3: the difficulties that they had. And the fact that Salah
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been performing in the way that we would have
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  Speaker 3: expected him to coming into this season is also interesting.
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  Speaker 2: And I forgot City as well. Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Two goals for Arsens to draw with Monaco rhinders pretty good,
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  Speaker 4: but again City in the leads, get pegged back and
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  Speaker 4: that second half was not convincing.
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  Speaker 1: At all, yeah, yeah, it's interesting that with the top
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  Speaker 1: teams at the moment, they all maybe other than Arsenal
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  Speaker 1: at the moment, all seem to kind of maybe have issues,
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  Speaker 1: or I'm sure Arsenal their issues. So let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: Arsenal actually, Jules, because we've been looking for this fixture
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  Speaker 1: run quite a while, because they're actually top of the
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  Speaker 1: fixture ticket all the way through to game week nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and of course that's when the second World car starts.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the time, isn't it to maybe double
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  Speaker 1: eaving triple up on Arsenal? Would you say?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely, And I think they've got good momentum going
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  Speaker 4: into this kind of schedule if you want and run
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  Speaker 4: a fixtures. We'd said they had the toughest start of
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  Speaker 4: the Promintic season and to have thirteen points to just
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  Speaker 4: be two behind Liverpool second in the table after those
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  Speaker 4: first six games, when you have to play aware Liverpool,
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  Speaker 4: where Newcastle or where United? I know it's so only
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  Speaker 4: master United but still home to City. I think they
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  Speaker 4: will be pretty happy with that. And some players are
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  Speaker 4: clearly coming into form now. We saw Saka and all
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  Speaker 4: the guards or the Guard especially being very good against
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  Speaker 4: Olympiacos on Wednesday night. The defenders are bringing you the
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  Speaker 4: points really right now, the three Arsal Prize with the
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  Speaker 4: most points are Gabrielle, Calafiori and Timber So they've been
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  Speaker 4: very solid defensively and because they're the best team in
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  Speaker 4: the world on set pieces, those guys can also return
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  Speaker 4: from said pieces attacking wise. So it's a no brainer
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  Speaker 4: that at least two Arsenal players I think are I
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  Speaker 4: probably need it, and we can add a few deciding
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  Speaker 4: which of the two.
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  Speaker 2: But if you wanted to go for three, I think
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  Speaker 2: you can go as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the defense then, Sam, because they're pretty
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: much an FPL dream, particularly with the addition of death corn.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like because they're center backs will get deaf
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  Speaker 1: con points, keep clean cheese, and potentially score goals.
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  Speaker 3: As you all said, yeah, I think it will be
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  Speaker 3: interesting over the next few weeks as to how many
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  Speaker 3: defensive contributions they get, because what we've been seeing so
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  Speaker 3: far is that generally speaking, in the more difficult fixtures,
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  Speaker 3: that's when the players seem to be picking up the
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  Speaker 3: defensive contribution points because you're playing against teams that are
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  Speaker 3: going to come and really attack, whereas when you play
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  Speaker 3: against teams that maybe sit a bit deeper and try
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  Speaker 3: and defend against you, maybe you see less of those.
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  Speaker 3: So over the next few weeks, I'm kind of intrigued
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  Speaker 3: as to how Gabrielle and Slieber do for deaf Gune points,
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  Speaker 3: because they would be the two that would expect to
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  Speaker 3: pick them up at Arsenal. But as you say, their
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  Speaker 3: defense has been incredibly good already. I think we said
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  Speaker 3: at the start of the season that's the sort of
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  Speaker 3: run of fixtures that most people won't invest in the
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  Speaker 3: Arsenal defense because the clean sheets don't look like they're there.
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  Speaker 3: But they had an excellent record against all of these
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  Speaker 3: big clubs that they were going to face, and in
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  Speaker 3: terms of clean sheets, had the potential for them to come.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got Timber. I was sort of pleased to
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  Speaker 3: see him not starting in the Champions League because that
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  Speaker 3: probably bodes well for the weekend, because you know, going
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  Speaker 3: for Timber and Kalifury on the other side is maybe
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  Speaker 3: slightly risky given that they have got too good replacements
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  Speaker 3: for those two, whereas Gabrielle and Sleepy you feel like
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: they are maybe more certain of the starts, and obviously
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  Speaker 3: you have to pay a little bit more for them,
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  Speaker 3: So it depends on how prepared you are to go
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  Speaker 3: risky with it. And we shouldn't forget about Raya either.
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  Speaker 3: When we're talking about the defenders, there's less upside because
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he'll get that many safe points over
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  Speaker 3: this period either, So you really are looking at two
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  Speaker 3: or six for him, and probably six in most weeks.
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  Speaker 3: Whereas the defenders, like you say, you've got def con,
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  Speaker 3: you've got goal threat, you've got assist potential. You know,
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  Speaker 3: tim Timber and Kalifury. Sorry, Timber's got two goals, Kalifhur
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  Speaker 3: and Gabrielle one each. Kalafury's got assist, so's Timber. Kalif
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  Speaker 3: He actually has the same number of attacking returns as
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: your Curez does right now. So when you think about
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  Speaker 3: it in that way, they are really attractive the defense.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm starting to regret the decision not to get
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  Speaker 3: two of them on my wild card already.
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  Speaker 1: That was only a week ago, one.
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  Speaker 3: Game, and I already think, oh, I should have got two,
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  Speaker 3: because the problem is is that I look at it
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  Speaker 3: and everybody, everyone is going to have an Arsenal defender.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be the same as it was last season,
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  Speaker 3: season before, a season before. So if everyone's got one,
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  Speaker 3: they're actually not making any difference to you unless they
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  Speaker 3: get upsides, So unless they've got a deaf compoint that
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  Speaker 3: the others haven't, or they've got and a sister or
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  Speaker 3: a goal that the others haven't. Whereas if you get
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  Speaker 3: two of them, they become almost a differential across your
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  Speaker 3: team against everyone else's teams in your league. So that's
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  Speaker 3: why I regret it, because everyone around me's got an
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  Speaker 3: arsenal defender. If I had two, that would massively help
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  Speaker 3: to improve rank.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you mean. Actually that's something I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to consider. I think on my wild card. It
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: feels like ray A plus A plus a defender is
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  Speaker 1: quite a nice way to go, to be honest, because
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: would you would you say Sammy's the best goalkeeping option
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  Speaker 1: at the moment?
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  Speaker 3: Raya him or Nick Pope? And I went backwards and
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  Speaker 3: forwards and backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards between
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  Speaker 3: the two of them last week, and in the end
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  Speaker 3: I settled on Pope, and I thought I was going
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  Speaker 3: to get wants to haul out of Nick Pope at
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  Speaker 3: one point as well, because he was on for three
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  Speaker 3: bonus points keeping a clean sheet and then right o
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  Speaker 3: the deaf lost both of those things. But I think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the Newcastle fixtures are also nice, so if
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  Speaker 3: you are struggling with a point five, then you can
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  Speaker 3: come down to Nick Pope. I just wanted to keep
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: point five in the bank for a bit of a
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: rainy day just in case. But also a second on
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  Speaker 3: the fixture ticker. Apart from the game against man City
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  Speaker 3: that they have in twelve, the Newcastle fixtures are also
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  Speaker 3: really nice, so yes, I think Raya is probably the
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  Speaker 3: best choice, but I also think that Pope is a
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  Speaker 3: really great option as well if you want to save
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  Speaker 3: point five.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, going back to Arsenal players jowls. What about the
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: attack is because Decan Rice and with Mendy the highest
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  Speaker 1: scoring midfielders, and I think Rice is probably interesting because
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  Speaker 1: he gets Deaf on. He's one of the players as
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  Speaker 1: well that's maybe been benefited by that this season. Are
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  Speaker 1: they good options? Of course Rice is only I think
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  Speaker 1: six point five year, six point five million.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think Rice is also because he's on
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  Speaker 4: unset pieces and the quality of his delivery. It's pretty amazing,
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  Speaker 4: as we saw against in the game against against Newcastle,
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  Speaker 4: where that cross for Marino is just a perfect cross
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  Speaker 4: really and and he puts those in so regularly for
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  Speaker 4: def con he averages right now eight point five defensive
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  Speaker 4: contribution per nineteen minutes. So he's not regular with that
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  Speaker 4: extra point if you want, but he's not far at all.
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  Speaker 4: And I think is more than more than to be
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  Speaker 4: Mendy maybe because I think just Rice is just more
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: involved and there's more of a of outside of those
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  Speaker 4: deliveries and said pieces. He's the one that is going
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  Speaker 4: more into duels I think than to me Mendy maybe,
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  Speaker 4: who's just there to dictate the play the pace of
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  Speaker 4: the game really for Arsenal.
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  Speaker 2: So I think Rice is very.
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  Speaker 4: Good if you look really low into the Arsenal point
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  Speaker 4: scorer if you want. Saka and all the guard only
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: have twelve each due to the injuries mostly and they're
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: like stop and start kind of start of the season,
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  Speaker 4: if you see what I mean. But now they fully fit.
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  Speaker 4: As I said, against Olympia Courtsaka was on the bench
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  Speaker 4: but came on and did really well and score slightly
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  Speaker 4: lucky goal, but still scored the goal. But I thought
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: all the Guard was incredible, and remember I told you
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  Speaker 4: that during the earlier in the season. I thought All
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: the Guard was out standing in pre season for Arsenal,
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  Speaker 4: and then he had that shoulder injury that really bothered
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: him and he started a game. Then then he had
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: to come up early twice and didn't really have that
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: kind of rhythm.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: I think now he.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: Seems to be back to his kind of best or
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: not far from best. I think he's going to play
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: slightly in the most central role. And again there was
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: no easy from the start for Arsenal against olymplaic Cous
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: on Wednesday night, So I don't know exactly what the
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: role would be for both Asi and of the guy
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: when they are on the pitch together and where they
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: play exactly, but I think all the Guard could be
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: a very nice option. He's so low lowally owned, and
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: yet it seems to be really sharp again.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he is that little bit cheaper, isn't he
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: seven point nine million? And probably also not back at
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: full fitness yet, is he really? Because he's only just returned,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: so it should get even better. Sam, did you you
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: had soccer in the end on your World Card, didn't you.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I think you both did, didn't you. Yeah, he's at
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: nine point eight at the moment. You raised a really
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: valid point last week about the fact that his price
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: is just going to rise as soon as there's any
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: returns hasn't rised as Risen sorry as of yet has it?
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: But do you like what you see?
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Are you?
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Is he still? Is he still worth the money?
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: I sure. I'm scoring the Champions League as well, so
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: I think, Look, soccer is always worth the money. There's
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: debate about whether whether he's going to be on penalties
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: or not. Probably not, but maybe you take some here
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: or there. But I just think that the roots to
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: points that you have from him is so good. And
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: you know, over the last few weeks when he's been
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: injured and Madawak has been playing, Madawak has created the
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: second most chances across that Arsenal team from that side,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: and you would expect that soccer come in and do
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: more than that as well. So I'm pleased to have him.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: Maybe it was a week too early to go there,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: but equally, I just I didn't want to be making
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: that change because he's the player I wanted longer term
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: from Arsenal, so I thought it's probably best to just
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: go there a week earlier than maybe I was originally
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: hoping to do. We'll see increased minutes from him over
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: the next few weeks as well. So yeah, I'm I'm
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: happy to be there and I'm expecting him to be
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: ten before long, particularly if he scores this weekend, his
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: price all rise.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: What about your Crez Jewels. How's he settling in do
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: you think, because obviously you guys went for Esak on
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: your wild card and there was kind of a lot
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: of I think a lot of people were split between
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: if they were going big on the forward line, people
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: were tending to go either your Carez or Esak.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's an interesting one because I think it still
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: brings a lot to this team. We saw that again
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: against Olympiacos, but even against Newcastle when you got that
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: penalty that was overturned, then it's just that physicality. He
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: reached a game well, he makes some good runs and
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: yet he's still trying to find his feet in this team,
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: and I think for the team to find a way
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: of using him better in a way, and that's why
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: maybe there's not has been as many goals as some
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: people would have liked or maybe even expected, but I
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: think he's getting there. And the gold that Martinellie scores
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: against Olympiakos, and the run that your arrestment that both
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: from other guards, and how that physicality helps him to
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: get in front of his defender and then has that
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: shot that then bounds off the post and Martin ellis
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: cause nobody else in the Arsenal team can do that.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: So I think he's a he's a big he's a
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: massive value for Arsenal, in this team on the page.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: For us, it might be a little bit earlier, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not amazed, but twenty five percent of
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: the managers own him already, and I can I can
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: see why, although I still think that there's a he's.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: A few weeks away from.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Being really at his best and the team knowing exactly
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: how they need to serve him and how they need
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: to use him the best. So I would not put
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: him in now, but very soon I think he'd be
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: ready and I think he'll be firing.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: It's also a lot of money, isn't it if you've
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: got soccer as well, So I guess it's kind of
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: you guy for one or the other would you say.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: It's tough, isn't it? Because I think like part of
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: my thinking was that I wanted to spread a bit
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of love across all of the teams that I think
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: are going to be in the title race, because generally speaking,
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: all of those teams offer good routes to points in
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: terms of gold potential because they're likely to score girls
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: and they're likely to keep cleaning sheets. That's why they're
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: likely to be in the title race. So I wanted
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: to have investment in the Liverpool attack as well as
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Manchester City and as well as Arsenal, like they were
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: the three that I was kind of looking at. At Liverpool,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: it's tough because you know, if you're not going to
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: have Salah, who are you going to have? Because Gakpo,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I mean we saw him get benched, Vertus just really
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: hasn't hit the ground running. Ekitik was suspended, and they
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: felt like a really nice opportunity to go early on
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Esach and know that you it's easy to come down
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: from Esak to your kuz if for any reason, I
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: do want to double up on the Arsenal attack, but
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I also felt like doubling up on the arsenal attack
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: right now limited. It's part of the reason I also
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: didn't go for RAA. I wanted to go into the
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: next few weeks with just two arsenals so that I
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: could see how they played against Newcastle, see what happened
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: in the Champions League, and then decide whether it was
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: going to be double defense or double attack that I
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: went for. And I think if you've go on, if
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: you go early and you triple up on them, you
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: have to then sell one of them in order to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: bring somebody else in. So for me, that was why
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I went for your I didn't go for your Cresin instead,
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I went for esext It allowed coverage of Liverpool and
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: didn't lock me on three arsenal before I was really
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: certain about which three I wanted, so I do kind
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: of regret it. I kind of watched your chorism as like, oh,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I think in these nice green fixtures that you've got
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: coming up, you'll do really, really well. But then if
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: you're going to do well, Sack is going to do
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: well as well, so I have to stick with you
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: sat for a couple of weeks, but if it's not
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: if he's not firing in one or two weeks time,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: then they'll definitely be the little devil and on my
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: shoulder will be going make make this swart. So we'll
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: see how that goes.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about fours in a little more
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: depth in just a moment, but just very quickly. Who
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: are your two or three Arsenal assets that you I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: know you only world carded last week? Who do you
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: think of the two three best shows?
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: So I think Timber is the best value for money, really.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I know Gabrielle right now is the Arsenal player with
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the most points this season, but just one one below,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: one behind sorry is is Timber and is a little
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: bit cheaper and than Gabrielle too. And I think Timber,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: who Almos should have scored really against Newcastle, had a
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: great chance on the Zubi mandy Ball, also can bring
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: an assist to his game because he's quite unattacking right
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: back to which Gabrielle can't really do. So I think
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: in terms of what Timber could bring you to your
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: team more than Calafuri who doesn't really do assist, more
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: than Gabrielle who doesn't do a cist for example, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: more than Taliba for the same reason. I think Timber,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: for his price as well for me, is the best
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: of them. If you want to go with Raya and
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: no problem, and then I think Saka is still despite
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: your careers, this past the guy getting back in form
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: or rights to be mendy. I think Socca is a
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: messt up right.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Now, Okay, Sam, Yeah, I agree, which is a bit weird.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I still think Timber is the best, the best option. Like,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: he's created the second most chances in the Arsenal team
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: apart from Declan Rice, who's created more. So I like him.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I like Sokka. The third one's more contentious because I
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: really like if I thought he was going to start regularly,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: i'd go there, but you just got the rotation with
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: so I don't think you can. Rice is really nice
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: as an option. If you want a cheap third, then
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I think he's a really nice option. Ray is the
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: obvious third. I think I think he's the obvious there,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: but Euchreas shouldn't be ruled out, and I think in
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: a few weeks time we'd all want him. So the
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: third one's more contentious.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, So if in a few weeks time we're all
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: going to want big to Yokarez then we've probably got
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a bit of a colundrum on our hands.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Joelle Pedro is currently the most heavily owned player in FPL,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: although he's the second most sold ahead of game week seven. Meanwhile,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: there's been a bit of a change with Harland now
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: becoming higher owned than Mohammed Salah, so there is a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: bit of a sea change. Let's start with Harland. I mean,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a very short chat, isn't it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Sam must must pet Bardiolas said it's the best version
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: of him he's seen, It's the best he's been playing.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So if Pep says it, we all follow suit, don't we.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I love what Harlan himself has been, oh
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: you know, disappointed in myself, Like I sort of loved
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: what he was saying after the game yesterday about not
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: feeling like he put the game away and he should
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: have done more Like that kind of hunger is exactly
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: what you want in a player in FPL. So yeah, sure, answer,
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Kelly is just just by Harlan if you haven't go
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: him already, agree yours?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, completely.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: And I still think that sometimes they don't use him
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: enough to create chances for him. I think he could
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: score more goals, and we saw that against Monaco in
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: the Champion League in the second half where he hardly
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: touched the ball. City went off very good either in
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: the second half, but it seemed that every time you
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: give him a decent ball in the box then he
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: would score. So I think, I think there's probably even
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: more to come from him. But we've said it from
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: the beginning of the season that we knew he was
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: going to have a good season.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: We knew it, and it was just a.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Case of Halean and Salad from the beginning both Maybe
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: we had that discussion so many times and I think
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: if you didn't go with haland from the beginning, the
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: time is now you can you can't have.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: It's hurting you now if you don't have him in
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: your team.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Why are people selling child pedro son because it's.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Had one shot in the last three matches And yeah,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: and I just think that, you know, you look at
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: him and the opening weeks of the season, he was phenomenal.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: He came from the Club World Cup playing really well
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: on a Chelsea side that we're playing well. He was
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: doing all the right things and was significantly cheaper than
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Cole Palmer, so much easier to invest in him. He
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: came in at this kind of like ideal price point
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: for us in FPL because you're looking at, well, I
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: want Salah and I want all these other players, so
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: if I've got somebody that's seven point five. Evezzie was
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: then playing in this Chelsea team that's playing well, attacking
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: all this stuff. Opening weeks, the season have gone well,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: Club World Cup's gone well. Like you can understand the
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: hyper around Jil Pedro, what's happened over the last few
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: weeks is that it's not his position changes depending upon
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: who else is available in that Chelsea team where he plays.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: Sometimes he's in the ten, sometimes he's up in the nine.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Sometimes like he's here, there and everywhere, and depending upon
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: where he is, he becomes more or less attractive to
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: us in FPL. Plus, you've had the fact that Chelsea
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: have been down to ten men in the last two
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: well not just Premier leagueains. I was going to say,
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: if you include the the Champions League as well, last three,
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: so you take them down to ten men and it
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: changes the system. So, particularly when we look back to
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: game week five, the system changed entirely because Pedro netto
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: came off. Then cor Palmer got injured and came off,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and Joe Pedro just wasn't He wasn't really in the
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: game at that point, and then we've seen that even
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: last week as well. So one shot in three Premier
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: League matches is not good enough in the forward line.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: And so you can understand why people are looking at
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: whether they keep him or not because on wild card
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I had Harlan and I had Atak and then the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: third spot i'd have liked with kept Mateta. As you
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: all know, I love him and he was unlucky not
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: to get something. But job Pedro felt like I had
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: to keep him because he was so heavily owned too
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: that it felt like a massive risk, an unnecessary risk
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: to take him out of the of your team because
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: if he scores, because so many people have got him,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: it's going to have a negative impact on overall ranks.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: So for me, he stayed for that reason. But then
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: I watched him in game week six and I thought,
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not that impressed really, So now I mean the fixtures,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the fixtures still remain nice ish, well they're nice ish
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: after the Liverpool game because it's Nottingham Forest. Then Sunderland
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: before Spurs who they always beat us, and then Wolves
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: and Burnley before Arsenal. So when you look at that
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: black the gaps between Liverpool and Arsenal, Liverpool Arsenal's horrendous,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: but the games in the middle don't look too bad.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: And that's why I wanted to keep him. But now
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at it and thinking maybe I shouldn't have,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Maybe I should have kept Matessa instead.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Is it because it's quite a difficult Well, I suppose
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you could have kept matesa, couldn't you? Because I was
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: going to say, who else? Who else? At that price point?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: If we're all going big on Harland, it feels like
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: we're all thing one of Isak or your Cares that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: seems to be the kind of tem player at the moment.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I guess unless you go really cheap and put more
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: money into midfield, it just feels like seven point five
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: for a Chelsea forward. Is why we're all staying there? Jewels?
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe, yeah, yeah, I think you're right, Cares, that's a
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: good point.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I also, as Sam just said, it's so heavily owned
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: that it just don't assists, you know, unless you're the
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: forward that you've that you've play or that you got
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: instead of drog Pedro is outnumbered him or like I
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: don't know how you said, like it does better than
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: him than fair enough, but otherwise it's going to hurt
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: you massively. So for now, if you have him, just
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: keep him because of that and see how that goes.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I think the Palmer injury is a massive loss for
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: draw Pedro two because they had a good understanding on
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: the page in terms of creativity. Without Parma, it's not
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: the same either. We saw the red card that drow
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Pedro picked up, as I mentioned earlier in the Champions League,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: which maybe is a little bit down to frustration having
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: been benched for that game, and maybe he was benched
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: for that game to be ready for the Liverpool game
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: at the weekend, of course, but also it's not a
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: good look when you get your yellow car before having
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: touched the ball, like literally thirty seconds after you're coming on,
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: and then the second one later. Maybe this one was
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: a bit harsh, but it's still a red card, which
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: is not good. So I didn't want to keep him
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: really in the wild card, but I had to, I
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: felt because of how much he's owned. But it's one
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: that in two games, maybe three. If there's not much
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: improvement to what we saw against United and Brentford and
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: again with ten men for Chelsea for most of those games,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: then I think he would be the right time to
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: let him go.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, so potentially hold for now, but he's won very
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: much on our potential sale list. And we've already spoken
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: about your careers. But I think there's a conversation Sam
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to we had around the three best forwards, because I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: think I think it has changed in the last few weeks.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: As I said, Yeah, I mean Harland is the obvious one,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: and then I think you have to make a call
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: between Essak and your careers. Potentially, if you're prepared to
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: go a little bit rogue and not have jel Pedro,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: it's not that hard to get from jal Pedro to
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: your caurez. It's doable right now, It's doable.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: It's a couple of transfers though for some people, isn't
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: it really? Yeah, you got money in the bank, but
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: not everyone does.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So if you've got money in the bank or
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: your wild carding, I think probably going for a very
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: You've got two options. You either go very heavy up
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: top and you go for the three most expensive and
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: you have them, or you could look that there are
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: mid price options Matessa. I mean, how Mateta didn't get
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: something in that game at the weekend against Liverpool. I've
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: literally got no idea. He was so unlucky. So you
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: could go there. There are some like much cheaper options
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: as well, So you could go down to like a
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Tiago at Brentford and that would free up quite a
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: lot of money and that helps you to invest us
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: where if you do want to if you want to
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: go double arsenal defense and you don't want to go ray,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: you want to go for the two, you want to
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: go for two defenders, you're going to need to find
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: a bit of money from somewhere and maybe you can
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: come there. I very very nearly went is a door
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: at Sunderland and as part of that, came very close
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: to doing that because it's stave significant budget and that
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: allows you, as you said, Kels, to either improve your
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: midfield or also improve your defense, and it allows you
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: to spend that money around a little bit more. And
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: I think traditionally in fl that's what we like to do.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: We like to go for two heavy ones in the
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: forward line and then maybe have a third cheap option
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: that's playing, and he does kind of fit that bracket
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: quite nicely right now.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Actually, who do you think the three
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: best are then, Joels?
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree for Isido if you want a cheaper
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: third foster as well, at Burnley could be in that bracket.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: They start with Bowen, who's actually, if you look at it,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: the third best forward in the game right now with
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: thirty three points, and.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: The price drops as well for Bout Yeah, yeah, price dropped.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Nuno coming in.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: We saw him scoring a really nice well against Everton
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: on Monday night, and I think I think Nuno's style,
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: which we saw a Forest and at Wolves to a
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: certain extent, not with the same success, but could suit
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: Bowen and Packet and some of it by the way,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: who I thought this and against Everton two really could
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: suit them, I think, and we could see a much
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: better version of them than what we saw that we've
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: seen so far. Sorry this season and the grind Potter,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: but Bowen, even with the bad start of west Ham,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: he's still still thirty three points of four this season
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: and again the third third most points in the in
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: the forward section. So I think Bowen is one to
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: keep an eye on. And then there's volto Malada I
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: mentioned earlier, because the fixtures are nice from a Newcastle
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: point of view, because he's scoring goals right now that
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: is not really the kind of goals that you expect
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: him to score. Last season in the whole of the
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Bundesliga with Sugar, he had one goal with his head.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: He already has.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Two with Newcastle this season and trust me, he's not
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: a good head of the boat at all.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: This is not what he likes doing.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: So once Newcastle play on his strength as well, which
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: they don't really do right now because he's still adapting
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: to their style and integrating into this team, he's going
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: to be even better.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: And it's seven point one million.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: I think he's already had a price rise, so it's
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: not cheap. But I think with the firepower they've got
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: going far forwards, I think it could be a decent option.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: And he's load on less than five percent right now.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, and just a quick word on Esac before we
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: move on. Neither of you feeling that happy, I can
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: tell from your faces yours has already said it. Sam,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Where do you stand on that at the moment?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Well, echitk went off in the Champions League, like you
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: just said, in his brand up. We have to see
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: how that is. I hope hopefully for es SAC's starting's sake.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: It means he can't start at the weekend, but you
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: know he's available to come on. That'd be nice. The
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: fixtures are interesting, aren't they, Because obviously it's Chelsea up
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: next to They're going to be without charliber now because
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: he was sent off in game week six, so that
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the Chelsea backline is going to be weaken and then
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: after that it's Manchester United Brentford Austin Villa before Manchester City.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Like Liverpool, do have to improve across those games, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I do wonder whether we might see a bit of
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: a change of system to get Essak a bit more
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: into into things and maybe set him off running, because
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I don't think the system of Liverpool playing is working
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: great well for them right now, so and give them
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks if we get to the man
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: City game in eleven, possibly even the Villa game, because
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: at the time when Liverpool playing Villa in Manchester City,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Ocueza's got Bernie in Sunderland. So I think I'll probably
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: wait until just ahead of ten and then make a
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: call on Esak and hope that he's returned in those
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: periods because in doing that, I'm also missing out on
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: West ham Pham and Palace for Arsenal. So it's a
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: tough one. He's a tough hold.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, then let's move on to Differential of
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the week. A reminder, differential player I owned by under
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: ten percent. Sam is eye rolling. I wonder if that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: because she what we're going to do? Yeah? Was it
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: game week seven?
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Game?
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: What were game week we on? You're on game week seven,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: aren't we? And Sam? How many returns have you had
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: for me? Differentials?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: None? Love beating you every week?
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Oh my god?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: You know the word curb when you see the board
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: and there's only all the blue from Europe.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: That's me, That's that's me.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: I would I would like see the spreadsheet with all
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: my my win please.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll share it with you.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: So I don't know why Joels is quite so cocky,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: because I mean, he's outscored you by one point, but
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: neither of your differentials returned. Fodon got a point, you.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Know, swell in that game that we have had Man
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: City players and neither of them got anything.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I rarely got two points, so congratulations to
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: both of you. Grand total of three not even enough
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: for one return between the two of you. I mean,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Jeels you narrowly want, so you do get to go first, Thank.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: You very much.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: My differential this week is Akuba Minte Brighton, who is
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: in absolutely banging form five point nine million, so you know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: I think at decent price if you have a slot
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: in that midfield for him, only on by two point
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: three percent of the managers. He gives you pretty much
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: and is zero point forty forty seven. But I give
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: him the zero point five expected goals plus assist for
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: nineteen minutes so far in the league. So he creates
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: a lot, and I know sometimes the end product is
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: a little bit frustrating because I think he's so so
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: good until maybe that last part or the last shot.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: But he's getting better at it and I.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Think working with al will will really help him and
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: he's he's going to develop really really well. So Minte,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: for me, all that pace Brighton play Wolves at the weekend.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: He already has one goals.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: And to assist in the first six Premier League matches,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: so not bad at all. And I really think that
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: he's the main threat now for this brightoned team that
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: play is attacking football. So hopefully there should be a
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: good weekend for Yakuba Minte.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I quite like that pick so.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: At this point, I feel like, whoever I pick, I'm
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: just jinxing. So like, sorry to anyone that owns Deck
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: and Rise, because I'm going to jinx him this week.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: He's going to cost you. As we've mentioned, six point
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: five million. He's own by eight point two percent of managers.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: He's got three attacking returns so far this season and
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: is averaging five point six points per start. It's also
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: suppribed the most crosses at Arsenal with thirty two, has
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: created the most chances at Arsenal with nine, and of
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: those nine, two have been big chances. He's also top
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: for expected assists across the Arsenal team. So Deck and Rise,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: but if this one doesn't return, we might as well
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: just I might as well just give Jors the win
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: right now for the whole season.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: At this point, she's defeated.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: The thing is, Kelly, I'm normally really good. This is
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: normally the thing I'm really good at is picking out
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: the differentials and for some reason this season has been horrendous.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well do your team's getting better, so maybe
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: a differentials will get better.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: That's let's hope that that's the case. Let's hope the
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: upward trajectory on my team also is reflected in what
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: happens in my differentials as well.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, well let's move on to transfers
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and captains. Are you doing anything this week?
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I mean, because I convinced myself with my great differential
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: of Yakuba Minte, I think I might bring him in
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: for Rinders.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: The thing with Rinders, I love Rinders.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Hold on, I was going to say, I think you're
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a fan. You said he's him in your round up,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: so why would you do?
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you should have for two goals against when I
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: call on Wednesday night.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: He was very good. It's just that I don't know.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: He was great against that assist for for Hrland and
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: and that's pretty much all he did in the game.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: With the board going forward, because that's what I mean, like,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I want Rinders to be scoring or assisting goals, not
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: the defending and fraud plays.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Right, If Roudery plays, then Rinders is much better from an.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Evidence for the play essentially now, and it feels like
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: food them takes a lot of the boat in those
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: key areas. And against United there was not much from Rinders.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Against Burnley at the weekend, I mean, they score five
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: goals or four goals, they've got nothing for there was
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: nothing from Rinders either. And there's there's there's there's shots
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: where he's not far but not far.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: It's not a great either for for a game, you know.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: So that's that's the thing. So that might be what
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I'm doing.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure yet, but I think Minta is a
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: really good option, not just because it's my differential, but
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I think it's a really good option too.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, Sam, what about you?
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I think I'm just going to roll. I looked at
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: my team for this week, and when I set it
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: up on wild card, I was like, right, the next
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: three weeks, barring an injury, they should be able to
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: play through. My hope is that I can play through
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: this week, bench boots next week with a playthrough, and
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: then have five transfers heading into game.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: You're hoping that you can play through an international break
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: as well and with no transfers.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: Or Yeah, that's the hope and bench boost after the
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: international break as well cls and you.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Need every single is to go well.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Everything needs to go well, which has not really been
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: how this season has gone. But that's the plan. So
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: this week I look at it. Jill Pedro is the
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: one I dislike the most in my team at the moment.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Having said that, it's a Liverpool team without Allison who
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: are sleepwalking into conceding goals theft Wright and center. So
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I think I'll just give Jill Pedro this one more
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: game and then we'll look at it after the Chelsea game.
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: And maybe because because I'm planning to bench boost, and
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: because international duty for Jill Pedro is not great in
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: terms of the distance that he's going to travel, maybe
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: I might sell him ahead of my bench boost in
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: game week eight. But right now I think I'll just
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: need to be boring and roll my ch answer.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, So in terms of World Cards, we spoke about
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: World Cars last week is obviously you guys World carded s.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: A lot of people did play the chip. There's currently
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: over two hundred and seventy six thousand active for this week.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: If people haven't played it so far, when would you
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: kind of recommend or it always now the time to
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: kind of take advantage of the likes of Arsenal's fixtures swinging.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: A lot of the other content creators who played their
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: triple captain chip last week have gone straight from the
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Hipple Captain into a wildcard this week, because I think
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: it does make sense. It allows you to target Arsenal
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: and Manchester City's fixture swings, It allows you to jump
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: off those players that we're not entirely sure about. It
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: allows you to make some good decisions moving forward. The
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: only thing that it doesn't do is give you the
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: knowledge of the international break. So I think this week
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: or wait a week and go in the international break
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: are probably the right moments to do it, because you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: maybe we're seeing a little bit of a change at
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: west Ham with the new manager coming in. They looked
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: a lot better on Munday, so you know, maybe Arsenal
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: you could wait one more week on if you want to,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: or just use a transfer to go on an Arsenal
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: player and then use it over the international break where
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: you're going to have knowledge of international minutes and all
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: of that jazz. So I do kind of like it
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: this week cause I'm actually surprised that you're not world
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: card in this week. You to cont week.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Because I just think taking a minus four and then
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: doing a world card the next week, just to me,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: just doesn't feel quite right. Although I am at risk
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: of not having arsenal. So yeah, there was there was
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: a serious saw pattern, but I think I think it's
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: going to be next week.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Take another minus four to get arsenal.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: No, I won't. I can't get one this week.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: You're not going to have the arsenal for this week.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Don't laugh at me.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: Tools don't think it's just I would never take a
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: minus for ever in my life.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Again, I'm not taking this week. I'm not going to
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: say no.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: But at the start of the season you often say,
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: like one of my decisions for this season coming is
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: not to take minus four, and then you take one,
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: and no.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: I'm definitely not going to take one for an Arsenal player.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: I could.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I have a couple of ways of getting them. I've
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: just got to work out if I'm comfortable doing that.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: But yeah, obviously took a minus for last week, but
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I just find it really has to taken minus fare
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: and then a wild card. You can't you I almost
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: put you in a couple of weeks. Well I did
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: pay it back straight away, didn't it. But yeah, I
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: don't want to.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Well you kind of your minuses already paid.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Off, like yeah, yeah, I'm still not sure on my
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: front line though the conversation we've just where would you
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: want just a defender? I think probably just Timber or
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: even maybe this week I just cover myself and I
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: could just do like a Grealish to Rice, But that's
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: a pretty boring kind of I haven't got goep. You're
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: just Greish selling him again fashion just very quickly. Captains,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: guys here were going with.
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Probably if you have some menu, a home to Fulham
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: is decent. I know you can't. But for people who
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: are not OCD like you.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Maybe the thing what would say with soccer and Arsonal
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: players or roll against west Ham is going to be
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: a war, like a double war?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Right for this game?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: You know it already that West tim I'm going to
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: just be that kind of team on Saturday.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: So it might not be pretty for Arsenal.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: They might score early and then destroy them, but it
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: might also be difficult because you know is going to
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: build a wall. So I mean, let's see I think
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Harland even away. Also, men, you are home to.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Full Harland a whare Branford is probably the way to
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: go for me, so.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I agree, Yeah, I'm going Harland. I kind of do
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: want to go Socca. I like the upside points of
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: a midfielder as well the clean sheet potential.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: And but you just said, maybe this is me trying
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: to persuade myself. But you just said, noo knows west
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Ham a better.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah they are, and they did look a lot better,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: which is what's put me off that. I also kind
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: of like going really rogue on Easak against a week
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: in Chelsea defense. But I'm just going to play it
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: safe and go with Hart and I think this.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Week, yeah, it does feel like that's the sensible move,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: particularly with so many people ree and Harland dih okay,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: that's why we'll leave it. I reminder it's a Friday
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: deadline this week because Bournemouth versus Fulham is the Friday
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: night football deadline then is six at thirty pm. The
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: fantasy shows back Jenny's in the studio with me on
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Friday morning. Off the Bench will also be back on Tuesday.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: As in Lee talking is through all the key talking
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: points from gay Week seven. Ahead of the international break,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: there might not be any football for us to preview
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: next week. As always, we'll be back guys, so have
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: a good week on weekend and I hope your loads
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: of points will see them