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S2 Ep27: Off The Bench: Wildcards pay off · FPL Pod

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to this week's Off the Bench podcast from
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  Speaker 1: the Premier League.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Janny Batici and I'm Sam from FPR Family.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Sam, we still have one match to go. It's
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  Speaker 1: Chelsea versus Spurs, It's Jenny versus Sam. But the first
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  Speaker 1: ten games of the week have thrown up a number
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  Speaker 1: of huge talking points, haven't they. I mean, we saw
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  Speaker 1: Harlan come off the bench to score. We saw Foden
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  Speaker 1: miss out through illness. We saw Salah and Darwin while
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  Speaker 1: they were sold on mass but both found themselves on
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  Speaker 1: the bench by klop and we had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: goalkeeper injuries Martinez and Edison. But how was game Week
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  Speaker 1: thirty five for you? Sam? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? Johnny? I was getting myself in a
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  Speaker 2: bit of a state going into this one because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the community had their wildcards active, and I
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  Speaker 2: had a bit of a bit of a moment of
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  Speaker 2: kind of like I wish I still had my wild
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  Speaker 2: card because it's so fun, isn't it, our carden. There's
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  Speaker 2: this whole wave of expectations and things that might happen
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  Speaker 2: when you've played it, and it could be great. And
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  Speaker 2: I was looking at my team thinking well, I don't
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  Speaker 2: really want Salah anymore and I don't really want Darwin
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  Speaker 2: anymore because the form hasn't been there and the double
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  Speaker 2: is passed now for Liverpool and you know, some trickier
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  Speaker 2: fixtures on the horizon, so I wanted to change them up.
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  Speaker 2: So I ended up taking a minus eight heading into
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  Speaker 2: game week thirty five, which is something that I never do,
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  Speaker 2: and of course, Johnny, it's one of those, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Where part of the decision for the minus eight was
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  Speaker 2: to bring in is Sacha, who I really wanted, and
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  Speaker 2: that obviously went incredibly well. We'll talk about him later,
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  Speaker 2: but the other two parts of that minus eight have
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  Speaker 2: failed dramatically because one of them was to bring in Foden,
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  Speaker 2: who obviously then was ill and missed out in the
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  Speaker 2: in the week. Although I did get very jammy and
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  Speaker 2: get soccer off the bench in replacement for Foden, I did.
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  Speaker 2: I did, so you know that's my Spurs bias coming in.
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  Speaker 2: I guess that i'd bench soccer. I really struggled with
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  Speaker 2: you to bench this week, and in the end plumped
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  Speaker 2: for soccer, which was a terrible decision. I've sat in
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  Speaker 2: the Spur Stadium with three nail down to Assen or
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  Speaker 2: thinking why on earth have I benched soccer? But he
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  Speaker 2: did come on in replacement for Foden, so it's nice
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  Speaker 2: to get those twelve points off the bench. And then
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  Speaker 2: the other decision I made based upon last week was
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  Speaker 2: I really needed Differmento last week and we had nine
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  Speaker 2: players last week. I really needed Livremento to come off
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  Speaker 2: the bench and get me something just the point, that's
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  Speaker 2: all I wanted, and he didn't. So this week I thought,
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  Speaker 2: heading into bench beast in thirty seven, probably need to
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  Speaker 2: change up my Newcastle defender, so sold Livermento for Fabian Share,
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  Speaker 2: only to then find that Livermentos started anyway and shar
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  Speaker 2: went off injured. So all of that sounds like it
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  Speaker 2: was a tale of woe. Actually it hasn't been. I've
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  Speaker 2: had a really good week. I'm on a nice green
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  Speaker 2: arrow because I had players that most people had sold
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  Speaker 2: on their wild cards. Like soccer. The only frustration for
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  Speaker 2: me so far, apart from the Livermento and Shah transfer,
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  Speaker 2: which ended up costing me more than the four points
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  Speaker 2: because obviously liver Mento outscored him, was the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I Pickford this week for Petrovich because you kind of
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  Speaker 2: have to play a double game week goal keeper. So
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  Speaker 2: having him on the bench hasn't filled me with confidence.
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  Speaker 2: But I did captain's son and so far in the
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  Speaker 2: battle between Son and Palma, Son is winning out. It'd
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  Speaker 2: be interesting to see what's happening on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, will be. I mean Son got his points late
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  Speaker 1: with that penalty and Palmer could have had his points late.
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  Speaker 1: He has that a brilliant chance late on that you expect.
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  Speaker 1: They did all the hard work and then it's one
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  Speaker 1: on one with the keeper and Eat he doesn't find
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  Speaker 1: it past the keeper to keep his legs. But versus Son,
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  Speaker 1: as always, captaincy is a huge part of this game.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll talk more about maybe that later, but should
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  Speaker 1: we kick off with that. London, Wu're at Tottenham Verus Arsenal.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned benching Sakka there, who was brilliant in that
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  Speaker 1: first half an hour. Why is it when you told
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  Speaker 1: me about getting some bench jam sack off the points
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  Speaker 1: as a fellow FPL manager, I just can't be happy
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  Speaker 1: for you straight away. I'm like, ah, there's something about
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  Speaker 1: bench jam that no other FPL manager welcomes. Whether it's
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  Speaker 1: for their mates or not, You're like, ah, you just
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  Speaker 1: resent it. It just resents it because everyone wants it.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing more frustrated than getting bench points. So often
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  Speaker 1: we see it and we don't see the auto sub.
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  Speaker 1: But when you hear of those auto sub stories, you
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  Speaker 1: just go, oh, man, that's so jammy.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, no, but it was incredibly jammy because so I
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  Speaker 2: was looking at my front eight for this week with
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  Speaker 2: Foden Gordon's son Palmer Matteta on the back of his
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  Speaker 2: four goals on the CIS last week Harland and Esak
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  Speaker 2: and then Soccer and thinking who on earth do I
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  Speaker 2: bench here? Because I can't mention either of the two
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  Speaker 2: Newcastle guys at home because we know what Newcastle are
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  Speaker 2: like at home. I don't want to bench Mateta based
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  Speaker 2: upon what we just seen from him and him being
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  Speaker 2: an absolute hero for me in game week thirty four,
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  Speaker 2: And in the end I thought, I'm gonna bench Soccer
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna like it, and I hated every
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  Speaker 2: minute of it. But I benched him on the basis
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  Speaker 2: that I thought maybe Harlan might not be available, because
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  Speaker 2: we weren't really sure what that was looking like in
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  Speaker 2: terms of his recovery from the injury that kept him
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  Speaker 2: out in midweek, so I kind of thought, well, our
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  Speaker 2: bench sacker put him first sub and then maybe he
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  Speaker 2: going to come off the bench. And honestly, I'm sitting
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  Speaker 2: there and I'm watching the Spurs game play out and
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  Speaker 2: it gets to halftime and I turned to my mum,
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  Speaker 2: who I was there with, and I was like, she
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  Speaker 2: was like, I don't think it could get any worse
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  Speaker 2: than this. I was like, yeah, it can. I've got
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  Speaker 2: Soccer on my FPL bench alongside Gabrielle and Saliba. I
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  Speaker 2: benched all three of my asst on play its now.
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  Speaker 2: The decision to bench Sleebra and Gabrielle actually in the
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  Speaker 2: end went fine. It didn't look like it was going
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  Speaker 2: to at halftime, but in the end it did. But
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  Speaker 2: I do feel incredibly jammy to have got soccer off
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  Speaker 2: the bench. I'm not going to sit here and say
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  Speaker 2: it was good FPL management, because I mean, I suppose
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  Speaker 2: it was good FPL management to having first sub.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because so many sold soaker. I'm someone that sold
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  Speaker 1: soccer on wildcard, and if you did wildcard ahead of
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  Speaker 1: this game Week thirty five, there's a very good chance
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  Speaker 1: you were one of the Sacca sellers because to fit
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  Speaker 1: in all those luxury players in the midfield that we've
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  Speaker 1: just spoken about, something had to give. And Arsenal of
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  Speaker 1: course don't have a double in thirty seven. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're looking at the players everyone's been buying of late,
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  Speaker 1: it's all those with either it's either Chelsea or Spurs
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  Speaker 1: players because they double double, or all those that double
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  Speaker 1: in thirty seven. So we're b lining for the likes
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  Speaker 1: of you know, mag United or Newcastle players. So Socca
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  Speaker 1: made way and I sold hats and Soaker both came up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, yeah, and you know it was great to
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  Speaker 1: get their points last time out in thirty four, which
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  Speaker 1: was a high scoring week. But both Harts and Soaker
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  Speaker 1: have Bournemouth next now and they've got mag United in
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven when other team's double, well I see goals
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  Speaker 1: in that, and then they've got a good fixture in
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  Speaker 1: the last day of the season. So you know, still
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  Speaker 1: very good owns clearly, and sometimes we say it every
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  Speaker 1: season we get a little bit of tunnel vision for
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  Speaker 1: those double game week assets, don't we.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely you talk about selling Socaca, you definitely weren't alone.
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  Speaker 2: Five one hundred and twenty one thousand managers sold soccer
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  Speaker 2: heading into this week, and I think, like you say,
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  Speaker 2: that was in part due to the fact that it
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  Speaker 2: was no doubles left for Arsenal, it was in part
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  Speaker 2: due to the fact that people wanted all of these
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  Speaker 2: other assets, you know, the Foden, the Anthony Gordon's, the Palmers,
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  Speaker 2: the Suns, all of these players that have the double
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  Speaker 2: game week to come in in game week thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Bruno Fernandez of course being really popular as well with
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  Speaker 2: managers on wild cards. So I totally get it. I
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  Speaker 2: totally get why you would sell soccer and have its
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  Speaker 2: But having sat there and watched them, I mean, for
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  Speaker 2: the first fifteen minutes of that game, it was the
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  Speaker 2: best Spurs performance that I've seen potentially all season. We
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  Speaker 2: came out, we were really really good for those fifteen minutes,
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  Speaker 2: and for whatever reason, Spurs and their ability to defend
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  Speaker 2: from a set piece is just terrible, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: heading into next week actually looks really good if you
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  Speaker 2: own tren Alexander Arnold or somebody like that from Liverpool,
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  Speaker 2: even Van Dijke from his set piece threat, because they
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  Speaker 2: are so bad at defending from set pieces, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they had two in the game, and Arsenal scored from
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  Speaker 2: both of them. It was just one of those performances. Defensively.
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  Speaker 2: Having said all of that, I did think going in
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  Speaker 2: at halftime we were a bit unlucky to be three
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  Speaker 2: nailed down because Van Dervennad obviously had one ruled out
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  Speaker 2: for offside. But it was very tight that decision. There
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  Speaker 2: were a number of occasions where Spurs had got through,
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  Speaker 2: like there was one for Son where he just skied it.
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  Speaker 2: I think it hit Rose and I watched it because
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  Speaker 2: from the other end of the stadium and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: what is going on with you? Because he was so
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  Speaker 2: out of the game for the majority of it, and
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  Speaker 2: it was only really at the end of the game
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  Speaker 2: on sixty ish minute when Apostolic took off, James Madison
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  Speaker 2: moved kulis Eski into that number ten, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: Kutuseski was, in my opinion, the best best player on
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  Speaker 2: the pitch.
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  Speaker 1: I thought so even the right I thought he was brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Was he was really good? Maybe fatherhood. He became a
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  Speaker 2: dad at the weekend, so maybe his father had encouraged
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  Speaker 2: him to know he.
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  Speaker 1: Had the baby celebration that he couldn't use. I bet
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  Speaker 1: he was ready for the baby celebration.
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  Speaker 2: I reckon so on Thursday night you'll see that as
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  Speaker 2: stamp for Bridge, but I think yeah, for me, he
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  Speaker 2: was the best player, and then when we moved him
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  Speaker 2: into the number ten he continued to look good. It
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  Speaker 2: also meant that because obviously Johnson had come on to
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  Speaker 2: a place Berner who got injured on thirty one minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Johnson then moved out onto the side that he prefers
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  Speaker 2: to play, put him on the right. He was much
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  Speaker 2: more effective down that side and it allowed some to
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  Speaker 2: go out on the left where he suddenly started to
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  Speaker 2: flourish and we started to see bits of sun that
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  Speaker 2: I really have missed in the last few weeks when
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  Speaker 2: he's been playing in that number nine because he's not
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  Speaker 2: been so comfortable in front of goal in the last
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  Speaker 2: few weeks. But seeing with Charlison come back, I think
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  Speaker 2: he's huge for Spurs and from FBL perspective, obviously you
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  Speaker 2: can't do anything ahead of the game against Chelsea on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday evening, but with Werna looking like he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be out of that one, probably because he goes off
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  Speaker 2: on thirty one and It was a very quick decision
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  Speaker 2: to bring him off. It was one of those like
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  Speaker 2: he just goes down and the next thing you know
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  Speaker 2: is being subbed, and it was kind of like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: no real attempt to even continue with the game. Iways
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  Speaker 2: worry a little bit when that happens to players, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see. I think that probably makes for Charlison a
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  Speaker 2: really really nice option again heading forward with Spurs if
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  Speaker 2: you are thinking about how you are investing money, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to take some money back out of that
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  Speaker 2: midfield to whenever you to get back to an as
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  Speaker 2: on midfielder, which some managers might be wanting to do.
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  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, watching that going, you know, why did I
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  Speaker 1: sell both of them? Forget the doubles? Is it worth
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  Speaker 1: looking at bringing one back in. I don't think I will,
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  Speaker 1: but I can completely understand why those will look at that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's move. Should we look at this? We've spoken to
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  Speaker 1: Arsenal title challenge. It's so there for them, but they
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to drop a single point and obviously they're
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  Speaker 1: relying on Man City slipping up, which doesn't look like
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  Speaker 1: it's going to happen. But when you watch that first
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  Speaker 1: half of man City versus Forest. It very easily could
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  Speaker 1: have happened in terms of a slip up, because I
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  Speaker 1: thought City were a little bit fortunate, certainly not to concede.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we saw a fair few chances for Forest.
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  Speaker 1: Chris would guilty of missing a few big ones. I
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  Speaker 1: guess the headlines from the game other than those chances
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  Speaker 1: missed from Forest were Harlan backfit. Great. Good to know
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  Speaker 1: Foden missed the match through illness, but you would think
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  Speaker 1: through illness. We saw Palmer missing a match through illness
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  Speaker 1: a couple of games ago and then back, so likely
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  Speaker 1: Foden not out too long and back next time out.
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  Speaker 1: But also we saw the Edison injury. I bought Edison
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  Speaker 1: in on wildcard now with thirty seven in mind, and
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  Speaker 1: now I'm not going to have to sell him. I
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  Speaker 1: think if that's it doesn't look good. We saw postmatch
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  Speaker 1: pictures of him in a sling. I think Pep was
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  Speaker 1: quoted saying it doesn't sound or look great. Tager can
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  Speaker 1: obviously come in and with that is an opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: save some money because you're selling Edison, who's five million
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  Speaker 1: plus and you're potentially replacing him with the new man
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  Speaker 1: city number one in Ortega, who's three point seven millions.
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  Speaker 1: So I guess every cloud has a silver lining there
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  Speaker 1: if I do make the move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Edison brought him by over one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: seven thousand managers last week, and only Petrovich if the
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  Speaker 2: goalkeepers actually had more new managers heading into this one
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  Speaker 2: than Edison did. And honestly, Jenney, I think he was
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  Speaker 2: a really goodbye. Like I sat on the Fantasy Show
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  Speaker 2: last week and we spoke about Edison, and I was
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  Speaker 2: looking at him, thinking, sometimes it's quite hard, isn't it
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  Speaker 2: with the defenders to work out where you go, particularly
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  Speaker 2: when there were good options from some other teams, but
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  Speaker 2: also some terrible kind of fixtures coming out for some
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  Speaker 2: teams that you maybe want to be investing in, And
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  Speaker 2: it was quite difficult, I think, with the defenders to
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  Speaker 2: work out where you would go. But Edison felt like
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  Speaker 2: a really nice opportunity to invest in a player that
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have to necessarily play every week if you
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to. But you know, when you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: the Man City goalkeeper, you probably are talking about playing
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  Speaker 2: them every week, but also like you say, have them
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  Speaker 2: in that double in game week thirty seven, which feels
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  Speaker 2: like a great opportunity. Now it does still feel to
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  Speaker 2: me like a good opportunity. Or Tager I thought did
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  Speaker 2: well when he came on. You know, he's a really
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  Speaker 2: good understudy. Like it's not it's not going to weaken
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  Speaker 2: Manchester Cities offensively having or Tager there instead of Edison.
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  Speaker 2: But I think from an FPL perspective, it's just a frustration,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it If you've bought in Edison this week? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I guess the thing is you don't have to make
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  Speaker 2: that transfer straight away because you will have another goalkeeper
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  Speaker 2: having just world card, and it's not like you're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a non playing goalkeeper in your second goalie slot.
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  Speaker 2: So you potentially can afford to wait a week and
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  Speaker 2: do it ahead of game week thirty seven if you
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  Speaker 2: wanted to, and that might give us a bit more
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  Speaker 2: understanding about Edison. But like you say, seeing him in
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  Speaker 2: a sling and hearing Pep saying that it doesn't look
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  Speaker 2: good after the game makes you think that we potentially
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  Speaker 2: might not see him again. And therefore, at three point seven,
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  Speaker 2: or Tager feeling like a really nice cheap route into
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  Speaker 2: the Manchester City defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a hard one for me. I thought, if
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  Speaker 1: I do go without Edison, I could replace him with
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  Speaker 1: a non man City player, which then allows for Kevin
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  Speaker 1: de Bruyner on a Man City triple attack. I've got
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  Speaker 1: Harlan and Foden already. And it was de Bruner my
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  Speaker 1: biggest headach on Wildcard. It was Bruno or de Bruyner,
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  Speaker 1: and I went Bruno. But having watched de Breuner against
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  Speaker 1: Forest again, he's just so effective in picking up creative
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  Speaker 1: points through assists and through bonus points. And again we
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  Speaker 1: saw that a couple of assists always does well in
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  Speaker 1: the bonus points to Bruner, whether he's returning or not.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm watching that game thinking, oh, de Bruyner in
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  Speaker 1: double game week thirty seven, if you're looking for a differential,
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  Speaker 1: if you had the funds available, he's a really nice option.
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  Speaker 1: I guess we should talk a little bit about Forest
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  Speaker 1: because they were good value, so unfortunate for them again
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  Speaker 1: not picking up any points. But what did you make
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  Speaker 1: of Chris Wood because he's been so so effective under
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  Speaker 1: the new manager, under Nuno, he's been so clinical in
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  Speaker 1: front of goal. He's been the perfect number nine pretty
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  Speaker 1: much in the target every time. I think he's had
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  Speaker 1: a shot success rate of over sort of thirty five
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  Speaker 1: percent in terms of scoring. But Chris Wood was poor.
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  Speaker 1: He missed a couple of sitters, didn't he. I think
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  Speaker 1: his EXG was zero point ninety four in that game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was the top top exty underperformer of the game
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  Speaker 2: week for Chris Wood this week, and it was one
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  Speaker 2: of those weeks, wasn't it for him? You just thought
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  Speaker 2: that nothing was quite going to go right for him.
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  Speaker 2: But Nottingham Forest. I mean at the end of that
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  Speaker 2: first half, if you'd have said to me, Nottingham Forest
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  Speaker 2: are winning this game one nil, that would have been
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  Speaker 2: a reasonable reflection on the game. Nottingham Forest were good.
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  Speaker 2: They could easily have taken their chances. It's just that
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: they didn't in this one. Morgan Gibbs Why. It's also
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: been outstanding in recent weeks. So in the sixth prior
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: to this one, he'd had sixteen goalscoring opportunities in the
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: last six matches, which you know is really excellent given
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: where we were with Nottingham Forest a few months ago
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: before the arrival of Nuno. And in that time he's
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: had five big chances as well, picking up three assists.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Now in this one he had did a further chance
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: created against Manchester City on Sunday, So that's seventeen now
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: and seven for him and only eight players have been
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: more creative in that period of time than Morgan gives
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: white hats. So I think you know most managers and
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: it's the same all the time, isn't it Like when
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: you get to this point of the season and you've
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: got three game weeks left to go, and one of
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: them is a double game week and a double game
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: week that contains doubles for teams like Manchester City, Spurs, Newcastle, Chelsea,
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: Manchester United, the chances are that that is going to
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: be your tunnel focus because the potential for them to
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: go massive is there. But then there are teams like
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Nottingham Forest who are doing their business really, really nicely.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: And I know that they lost in this one, but
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: they certainly didn't lose badly. They could have and maybe
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: should have got something out of this game. It's just
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: man City. They are such a well oiled machine, aren't
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: They know exactly how to get what they need out
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: of the game. And I take what you say about
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: about Kevin De Bruyn. He's a phenomenal asset, but I
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: don't think he's quite as good when Foden is on
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: the pitch, And that's what kind of put me off
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: the double up of the two midfielders, because you never
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: really know where they're going to play, how they're going
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: to play together, if Harlan's there, what impact that's going
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: to have on their positioning on the pitch. So I
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: find it quite difficult with kdbing with Foden then earlier
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: on this season, So this is the first time I've
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: owned Phil Foden and he was ill for it because
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: earlier on in this season I had the straight choice
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: between Foden and De Bruyne, and it was when De
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Bryn was just coming back from his injury, and he
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: came on and he was phenomenal in that last twenty minutes.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: And he scored a couple, din't he That's right?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: And Foden was much more heavily owned, of course, because
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: KDB had been that injured, and I was like, right,
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: here's an opportunity, his opportunity to go for Kevin, who
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: is a tried and tested fpil asset. It's coming back
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: from injury looks like a really nice option, and Foden
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: just bit me every single week. It was just one
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: decision after another after another after another, and so this
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: time I was like, I have to have Foden and
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't expect him. I don't think any of us
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: did to miss this one, because you know, he was
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: fully fair of firing on Thursday evening when we watched
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: him play against Brighton, and with an illness, obviously we
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: would expect him to be back for game week thirty six.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: So I'm not overly concerned about Foden. I think the
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: question is do double up on the middle, or now
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: that we're starting to see some clean sheets from Manchester
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: City as we have against Brighton and now against Forest,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: should we be looking at an Ortaga or a Vardil
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: who just seems to be on goal scoring form right
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: now in both the Champions League and in the Premier League,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: or Walker who's regularly picking up at sis points. Again,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: now it's a difficult dynama. I think it's how to
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: travel up with City.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind you want three.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: It's just what three Because as you say, we haven't
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: always this season gone for their defenders because there's a
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: lack of upside and clean sheets haven't always been guaranteed.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: We're seeing the clean sheets now, but then when we
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: look at ceiling, that combination of of owning triple attack
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: feels so so fun for the last few game weeks.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, though Foden and de Bruyn are the
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: same team, you do lose a little something. I wonder
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: if you lose it more with Foden than de Bruyner.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: When I watched them both, it kind of feels like, okay,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: when they're in the team together, Foden is sacrificed out
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: wide and de Bruyne still gets to be the main
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: man against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi final a
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks back. You know they've played both centrally
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: the prepared it's the two number tens, which you haven't
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: seen that much. But when they play in that position
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: together again, everything is going through de Bruyner and it's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Foden still who feel sacrificed in terms of time on
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: the ball. I never feel like de Bruyne's sacrificed in
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: any way, shape or form when he's on the pitch,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: and that's why I think he's such a good asset
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: if you can afford him speaking a good asset, Sam,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: I speak about wild card and kind of a few
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: things that went wrong, but one thing that went right
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: was the combination of Gordon and Esak. What I mean,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: especially when they play at home. A couple of weeks
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: back they beat they beat Spurs four hill at home
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and it was those two that combined.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: So so well.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean Spurs at home. So then they go
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: away from home and I think they're both blank. And
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: then again at the weekend they're at home again against
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Sheffield United. They don't put four goals on the table
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: this time they put five and Gordon and Esak combined
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: for twenty three points. It's a common theme at home.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: These two combined so well and just are so so consistent.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: The slight issue with Newcastle now is from the four
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: remaining games, only one of them is at home. They
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: do go away to Burnley, Man United and Brentford and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: they've got Brighton at home. So on paper they're all
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: four are good fixtures, but you just know the points
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: away from home aren't quite as consistent. But Gordon and Esak,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I love them both and We're really worried with e
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Sak picking him. Anyone that picks Esak goes or will
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: he get injured or at some point will will he
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: get reduced minutes because Wilson's around. But at the moment,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: when you look at his minutes in the last few games,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he's just been playing huge sets of ninety. I think
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he's on one, two, three, four, five, six, seven sets
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: of ninety in the last seven games. You cannot complain
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: with that form. And then Gordon, obviously he's so so cheap,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: but also he's got that great incentive for an England
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: call up this summer. He's got a very good chance
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: of getting it, and he's playing the best football's career.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: It's got to be on the plane for me. Anthony Gordon,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: he's playing so well at the moment. Yeah, Gordon and Esak.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I've had Gordon for most of the season. Now I've
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: really enjoy owning him. He is one of those players
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: that you just consistently can rely upon, particularly at Saint James's. Now,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: what I've kind of done over the last few weeks
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: and months, he's just benched him when he's gone away
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: from home because I'm never really that afraid of benching
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: a massive haul because the way that he's played away
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: from home hasn't been quite well, it hasn't been anywhere
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: near the form as you say that he's had at
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: home this season. But that's quite nice because at the
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: moment where we've all sold Salah and other big assets,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: there isn't so much of a really really cheap forward
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: player in the game that we can bench every week.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You know, in the past, we'd have to have somebody
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: like a Cameron Archer or somebody that you know, you
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: couldn't necessarily rely on week upon week to get the start,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: whereas right now, all eight of our front a you
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: are no pretty much a're going to start every week
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: unless they're ill like Foden was this time around, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: then you're going to need your spare. But Anthony Gordon,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: for me, is just one of those players that he'd
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: be in my Team of the Season from an FL perspective,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: because I just think he has been phenomenal and esac
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: to that since he's come back from injury, he's not
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: blanked at home. He's been just phenomenal. And like you say,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: this time last year, if you remember, we were all
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: having the do you go Esset, do you go Wilson?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Who's going to get the minutes, who's going to get
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: the goals? And it was decisive, wasn't it at the
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: end of the.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Season season that did I went Wilson and it was
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: It was a huge call because Esack was a popular choice,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but Wilson got the points.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did exactly the same thing, and I when
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I was bringing in Esack this week, I was thinking
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: to myself, goodness is again, this is the total reverse
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: of what I did last time around because I went
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: for Wilson and he fundamentally change the outcome of my
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: season because he was so lowly owned. The boost was
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: there now even with Gordon and he said, they're still
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: not that highly owned these two. It's phenomenal to me
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: that they aren't. And you are right. In the games
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: that they have left, they only have that one home
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: fixture and that does make you kind of question, well
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: is it worth it? But for me, with the form
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: that they're in, it doesn't mean they're not going to
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: return points away from home. It just means they're less
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: likely to haul That's what we've seen so far. And
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I don't I don't worry too much about the return
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: of Callum Wilson. I think Eddie Howe will ease him
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: back in massively because we've seen such problematic injuries for
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Callum Wilson over the last year or so that rushing
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: him back when you don't need to because you've got
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Esak in such good form does doesn't feel like it's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: worth it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, away from home, I think Gordon's only had that
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: one haul this season, but it was against Sheffield United
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: on the road. He got twelve points. They won eight
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: mierl that day. But so going to a team like
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Burnley who will come out and play a bit and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: there'll be lots of space, maybe we see that again Gordon.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Even away from home. Newcastle defense was an interesting choice
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: for those on world card because I think everyone went
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: there and there there were some that perhaps didn't go
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Gordon and e Sachs, so they could go double Newcastle
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: defense because you know, affordable assets in the likes of
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Share Liverimento dan Byrne. The fixtures are there and they'd
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: started keeping clean sheets. Didn't keep a clean sheet to
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Sheffeld United and Share going off injured. We won't get
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a huge amount. I don't think from Eddie Howe on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Friday for his press conference, because Eddie Howe is not
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: one of the managers that gives us a huge, huge steer.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: He'll keep his cards close to his chest on that one.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So I think FPR managers like you sound that own
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Share will probably have a bit of a decision to
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: make Willie won'ty. I mean, it's a you kind of
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: need him available for thirty seven if you've got a bench,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Boos Steel.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's honestly, this is the thing that there's any
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: most about this week because part of the reason for
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: going share is this one hundred percent appearance record that
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: he's had this season. And last week I really wanted
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: to go for Share, and I just couldn't afford it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't have the budget because I was I had
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: to keep Salo and had to keep Darwin, and I
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: had real problems last week heading into game week thirty four,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: and I was thinking my bench is looking weaker than
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: weak because I had Son sitting there, had Gusto who
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: then was flagged and obviously wasn't expected to start, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: I was thinking I don't really have oh when I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: had lass cells as my other options so I was like,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I've got real problems here and I'd like a new
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Castle defender, but the only way to get a new
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: cast or defender is really to deal with the cells.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: And at that point I had the money for Livermento
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: and liver Amnto alone, and I was like, well, look,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: liver Mento came back on last week. He's not probably
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: going to get ninety minutes, he's probably not going to
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: get the start most weeks, but he will get some points.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: He'll get some appearance points. So last week, when Cole
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Palmer didn't turn up, when Harlan didn't turn up, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: I was looking at my team with eleven players, and
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, at least live Amento, you know, you
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: come off the bench now. He didn't. Stayed there, sat
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: on the bench the whole time, and so I was
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: frustrated with him and was thinking, Okay, I need to
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: make some choices about what I do with Ivromentto now,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: because what I can't do is hold him through thirty
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: seven because I no longer have the security of at
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: least there being one or two points him in that
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: double game week. So I made the decision to go
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: for share and I did that over Dan Burne. It
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: was a kind of a choice between the two of them.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: It now looks like it might be problematic. It does
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: seem like it was a tightening of the hamstring as
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: opposed to a full blown pull, which maybe bodes well.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: We'll have to see. I mean, if he doesn't play
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: in game week thirty six, it's not the end of
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the world to me, Like I would obviously like to
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: have him play against Burnley, but Bernie I've got some grit.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe we'll talk about Bernie in a minute. They've got
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: bit of fight about them at the moment, trying to
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: stay in the league. So maybe I'm not so worried
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: about not having him for thirty six, But I do
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: as you said, I really need him to be fit
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: for thirty seven because that bench boost. I can't bench
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: boost an injured player. So having taken a minus four
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: for him this week, if he's then not available for
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: thirty seven, the thought of having to take another minus
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: four to take him back out again is really not ideal.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's painful, but something we always tend to do
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: on bench boost to get those fifteen players out. It
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: feels so important that on those weeks you mentioned Burnley, Sam,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: they picked up another point against bang United and they're
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: definitely fighting for their lives there at the bottom of
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the league. But I mean mag United clopped two point
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: seventy one Xy in that game. So when we look
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: at that number alone, you go, Okay, Burnley are definitely still,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: as we know, a defense we can target, which bodes
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: well for those on Newcastle attackers next week. But who
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: impressed me the most? I mean Anthony got the goal,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and Anthony, I know, has had a huge amount of criticism,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: But when you look at the pure numbers and you
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: look at the stats, no player in the league this
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: weekend had more attempts than Anthony. He copped eight attempts.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I think Cody Gapo eight as well, and then we
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: had a few like Garnatt show and Palmer on six,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and then a handful of players on five attempts. But
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Anthony is a greedy option and in FPL we historically
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: like greedy players. Now, am I be lining to go
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and by Anthony, no, I'm not. But if you are
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: looking for a differential with a doublin thirty seven in midfield,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: then maybe he becomes a really outside of the box option.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You're looking for someone that no one in your mini
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: leigue has got. I said, similar with Madoweke at Chelsea
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: last week, like you're going for someone that's really lowly
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: owned that's actually getting some shots on goal in a
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: similar way to Madaweke. Anthony is clocking the shot and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: now he's getting the minutes. Maybe he's one to consider,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: but I mean, Man United still disappoint overall. I guess
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the headline for many is Bruno is still looking good
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and many went Bruno on wildcard, myself included, so I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: was fairly happy that he's still mopped up a couple
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: of bonus points despite not producing an attack in return.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because we were watching soccer Sasday come
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: through on Saturday afternoon and Lee was sat there having
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: just weld carded like yourself and brought in Bruno Fernandez
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: and also with Harry Maguire in his starting eleven, so
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: he was sitting there one no one managed you, I said, thinking, okay, well,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: nothing for Bruno, but at least Harry Maguire is going
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to get the clean sheet and Onana. I think this
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: was probably one of his best performances. Of the season.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I was standing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I was so impressed with him until the eighty seventh
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: minute where he just he just had a bit of
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: a moment, didn't he. And so on the TV when
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: they said, oh, there's a penalty at Old Trafford, Lee's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: little eyes were like, yes, Bruno Fernandez, surely, but no.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Not only was it not Bruno Fernandez, but it was
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: taking away the Manchester United clean sheet. And I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: a lot of managers that went for the likes of
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Harry Maguire or Dallo or Onana because the three of
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: them were quite popular for wild carding players because one,
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: particularly with Maguire so cheap and has had attacking threat
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: in the last few weeks. Yeah, it made so much
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: sense to go for Maguire, particularly if you weren't going
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: thrown Ana. But Bruno I just thought was excellent. He
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: was top for chances created across the game week with nine.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Four of those were big chances. He had three attempts
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: on goal, he put in a crosses, he was on
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: pieces of course he took three of those. He had
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: forty five touches in the final third. Only Madawaki, who've
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: just mentioned a Kulosvski who we just ranted and raved about.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: From Spa Raves exactly.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: They are the only ones that have more touches in
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the final third this week than Bruno Fernandez did. So
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: it goes to show sometimes that is worth paying that
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: little bit extra for a player because even when they
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: don't get an attacking return, they still pick up a
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: couple of bonus points because their involvement in the game
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: is so much. And I'm not saying you should make
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: your FPL decisions based purely on their ability to get
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: bonus points, because clearly you make your FPL decisions based
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: upon their opportunities for returns. But Bruno has opportunities to
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: returns in shed loads because obviously we have penalty responsibilities,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: we have set piece responsibilities. His attacking threat from open
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: players there as well. But the fact that he also
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: has this underlying bonus point number which continues to tick
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: over really nicely. It means that he always feels like
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: he's going to get a bonus point or two even
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: when the attacking return isn't their So you get the
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: attack in return and you almost guarantee yourself the three
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: bonus points for Bruno. So of the two I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Bruno is a far better, more attractive pick in my
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: view than ansty Anthony just hasn't had the consistency. Yes,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: he played well in this one, but Willy in game
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: week thirty six Willian thirty seven. For me if I'm
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: going Manchester United, and I probably will ahead of game
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: week thirty seven, Bruno will be one that I'll look at.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: The defenders, the Maguires, the Dallos will also be want
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: to look at. And then up top there's Hoyland as
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: a kind of outside pick because that third forward slot
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: where I've currently got Mateta, maybe that's an opportunity because
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: there's money in the bank now from selling Sala. Just
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: put a little upgrade on there and have a double
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: game week forward from Manchester United. But the double isn't
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: particularly lovely, is it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It's not in Hoyland's not cheap ginaccho is And it's
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: worth noting Gaynacci show is a nice option in midfield
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: for those that are looking at a fifth midfielder with
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: not much money to spend. Perhaps you know Palmer and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Gordon Killy better options, but guy that show even cheaper Bruno.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah even hit the post in that game. And here
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: write out about his creativity for underlying BPS. He's brilliant,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: especially when he plays in the number ten role, and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: we have seen at times this season Bruno has had
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to be a little bit more restrictive and he's been
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a bit deeper and ten Haggs played him in the
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: midfield two that definitely restricts his bonus points potential. Now
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: he's playing in the number ten and he has been
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: for a few weeks. Not only do we see the
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: open place stuff and we're seeing goals and assists, but
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: his underlying BPS is so much better as well. And
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: if you're not familiar the bonus points system thirty plus
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: metrics including stuff like key passes, successful dribbles, tackles, inceptions, blocks,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Bruno is a really good performer in the same way
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that De Bruyner is. These guys Trent again bonus point magnets.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: They don't actually have to score, get a clean sheet
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: or an assist to register in the BPS. Yeah. Yeah,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: love that Bruno is back and he's still quite cheap. Yeah.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I was surprised when I bought Bruno and Worldcard. I
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I just expected to be around nine million. No, no, no,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: he's almost a million cheaper than that. So fairly happy
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: with with Bruno at his price point. And you know
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: you can't compare him like for like with a de
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Bruno anymore because there's a couple of million between the two.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I think the other thing that makes Bruno
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: an attractive option is that usually by this point in
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the season, Bruno Fernandez would be owned by like fifty
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: sixty percent of the game. We're talking about eighteen eighteen
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: percent ownership for Bruno, it's not even twenty percent of
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the game have him. When you're talking about mini leagues
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: boosting your overall rank, you're looking for players who have
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: the opportunity to do something massive for you. And those
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: players that you want are the kind of the big
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: game ones. Because you know the likes of Sokker fifty
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: five percent owned, he's not going to really make much
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: difference to your rank regardless of what happens over the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: next few weeks. Same with Harlan writers sixty one percent,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Captaincy goes on him, Suddenly your rank is not really
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: being affected by Harlan at all. Even the same with
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Cob Harmer, now like, yeah, he was a lovely different
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: You're for me when I first bought him in Now
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: at nearly fifty percent ownership, the impact on my rank
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: is far less than it was two three four months
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: ago with him. So when you're looking at players like
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Bruno Fernandez, like maybe some of the Chelsea boys that
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: you talked about before, because let's be honest, outside of
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: col Palm and nobody's very heavily owned at Chelsea, these
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: are exactly the sort of players that we need to
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: be looking at heading into the final few weeks of
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: the season because these are the ones that are gonna
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: give us some rank boosts. Even Kevin de Bruyn, he's
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: down there at low level ownership. So when you're talking about,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you know, getting on players, you don't have to take
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: massive risks and go for out their picks. You can
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: go for the likes of Bruno Fernandez, Kevin de Bruyn,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Kudoseski from Spurs if you want to, even Richardason from
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Spurs now that he's back. These are players that you
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: would expect to return in the final three weeks of
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: the season, yet could have an absolutely huge rank game
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: for you if you go there as well.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just saw Anthony Gordon's only nineteen percent, which
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: is spoken about how good he's been and you've been
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: on him for some time, but still there's so many
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: that are fairly late to the party. Well it's not
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: too late. Still go buy him and there's points on
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the table. My big differential last week are super Happy Sam.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: You know both we both get asked on air quite
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: often to pick a player and sell that player. So
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: when you do it and it works when you're on
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: Premier League TV or Sky Sports News and you get
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: to big up one player that everyone's looking at, going
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: why is he pick that player? But you're doing it
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: because they're a differential and you like the look of them.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: When I went mad Awake on Sky Sports News at
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: the weekend, I could see people tweeting, what's this guy on?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: About zero point two percent? Owned? Chelsea are rubbish? He's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: five point three million. Why would you pick Madawake? But
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: recently he has caught the eye and if you're a
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Chelsea fan you've watched them closely, you go, he's now
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: getting game time or pretty much he's nailed because of
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the Enzo injury. It means Gallagher plays in the midfield too.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: It means Arma then plays the number ten role and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: that that right hand side of Cole Palmer is now
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: a vacant spot. Well, Sterling hasn't exactly been covering himself
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: in glory in recent months, and Madawake was given the
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: chance by Potch And yeah, Madawake is super impressive against
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: aston Villa. Got a goal, got an assist, got some
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: bonus points. If you're looking to spend around five million
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: in the midfield and you want someone that should play
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: in the run in, should play all the games in
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the run in, got the double game week coming up
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: in thirty seven. Outside of Cole Palmer, there is one
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: or two others at Chelsea that can catch her eye,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and Medawak is definitely one of them.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I asked a bit when I heard you say that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: I was like, right, this about is this the Chelsea
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: fan in him? Or is this a genuinely good option?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, I was.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I mean I'd gone from Atteta the week before and
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: was thrilled about that one, but this one's gone just
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: as well so far. I think for me, this game
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: was really interesting. It was a game that I expected
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: at aston Villa to wipe the floor with Chelsea. If
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: I'm want because Aston Villa at home are so good
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: and the first half did kind of go that way.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Aston Villa were firmly on the driving seat, they just
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: seem to ease off, and in their easing off, which
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: maybe coincided with Martinez going off through injury. And it's
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: not like they had a terrible goalkeeper coming into a
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: place in in Olsen, because Olsen's a good goalkeeper in
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: his own right. But there's something about losing that leadership,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: isn't there, and particularly when they've been without the likes
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: of Conza and Mings for so long this season, that
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: when you lose that leadership from the back, you do
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: always kind of worry about how that's going to look.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: And I remember saying as watching Olson come out, this
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: will be really interesting for Villa now because it'll be
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: interesting to see how they are managed to defend against
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: a Chelsea team that we know can attack.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Chelsea.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: I've got their defensive weaknesses, but going forward they can
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: be a good attacking unit, as they proved in this
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: second half. And I don't know, as somebody who had
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: not captain Cole Palmer, I watched this game and there
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: was a moment towards the end of the game where
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: he was through on goal and Olsen saved it, and
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I had my head like behind my hands, thinking this.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You knew his effective ownership was gonna was going to
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: get you there. It was like at my rank, I
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: think he was like one hundred and seventy percent effective ownership,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: and he was slaloming through. He did all the hard
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: bits and then he just fired straight at Olson.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And in my head I was thinking
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Palmer will return at Stamford Bridge, because I mean, that's
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: that goes together, like I don't know, Toast and jam
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: or something, doesn't it Palma and Stanford Bridge returns. So
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: in my head, I was thinking, I have to survive
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the Saturday evening game without Palmer returning because I know
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: he's going to hurt me. And then I have to
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: hope that Sun gets something in the home game against Arsenal,
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: because if that happens, I'm in the driving seat head
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: of this Thursday one and maybe they level out on
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Thursday night. We'll find out when we get to that one.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: But I don't know how he didn't return. And there
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: were a number of moments I thought Madawaki was actually excellent.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: He had some moments of a bit of petulance where
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: I was thinking, you know, the yellow cards could be
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: a bit of an issue in the final few weeks
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the season. But you know, Chelsea did look they look
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: so much better in that second half. It's just whether
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: we can have that consistency now. Beously, Gusto missed out
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: this time around, so be interesting to see. I'm not
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: expecting him to play on Thursday evening either, given what
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: what said in the pre matches press conferences last week.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: But did you hold him on wild card. Are you
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: expecting to see him for the final weeks of the season.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we'll see Gusto back. But I mean
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: it was a difficult decision for those that wanted to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: go triple Chelsea because it was finding three good assets.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: And if you're looking at the back line, I mean
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: some went Petrovich for save points, Gusto what was clearly
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the best of the starting defenders. For any upside, I
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: went Mark co Corella. I mean, I don't rate co
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Corella as a player. Potch likes him. He plays him
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: at left back, He's played ninety the last handful of games.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Chilwell is out injured and even when Chilwell is fit,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: I think we'll see Chilwell's appearances come on and play
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: left wing, which we've seen in recent weeks. So Co
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Corrella to get an own goal four minutes in, I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: was just like, oh, what a rubbish outcome. He's there
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: purely and the chance of getting lucky for a goal
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: or an assist, and he did actually register a few
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: chances created, including one where we tied up Nicholas Jackson
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: for a header from a couple of yards out and
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Jackson hit the post. Now I own both those guys.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: That would have been a lovely differential combination. I mean,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: who who's cheering on a co Corella assist Jackson goal? Well,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I bias Chelsea fan actually was and it is worth
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: noting that Jackson will get his criticism, but I still
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: think is a good own for the run in because
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: he's getting minutes and chances. Now we know he's not
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: official in front of goal, but you don't always have
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: to be. If he gets enough chances, he will score
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: some goals and you could argue. Rather than purely poor
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: finishing against Villa, which has been the case a lot
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: this season for Jackson, he was actually a little bit
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: unfortunate hitting the post with a header. The one on
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: one which he's tucked away nicely in the first half
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: was marginally offside and var rightly ruded offside. But Jackson's
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: getting close and I don't think he's necessarily a bad own,
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: despite of course not being a clinical finisher. But as
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I mentioned, I don't think he necessarily always has to be.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a bit of a It
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: was a difficult decision, I think for a lot of
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: managers on wildcard, because a lot of managers were selling
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Darwin Nunas, who had been struggling for returns in the
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: weeks leading up to game week thirty four and obviously
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: wasn't consistently getting those, only to then have replaced him
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: with Nico Jackson, who again felt really frustrating. Yeah, that
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: would have felt really frustrating watching him against Villa. But
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, moving into the final weeks of
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: the season, Chelsea's fixtures are nice and so there should
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: be plenty of opportunity for returns for the likes of
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: career in Niko Jackson. If you went there and if
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: you have held onto Darwin Nuna's and maybe this is
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: a nice segue into just having a quick conversation about Liverpool,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: because well, it was a very very interesting performance, wasn't
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: it from Liverpool at lunch time? No, Darwin and Salah,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: both of them benched, which came as a massive surprise
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: to me. With Salah, I just did not see that coming,
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: particularly after what we've seen in the the weeks leading
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: up to that, with the benching also last week in
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: game week thirty four as well. I think if you
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: still have Liverpool assets, given it's a game, it's a
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: home game against Burs next time. We spoke at the
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: beginning of this pod about how from set pieces, particularly
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: from corners, Burs are really really vulnerable. So Trent and
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: van Dijk maybe a good holds, but I think if
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: you've got Darwin or you've got Salah, I just can't
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: see that it's worth spending the level of money that
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: you have to, particularly on Salah anymore. With the other
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: options that we have in midfield, particularly with KDB going
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: off the way that he did in this.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: One, feels like it's just time to sell if you
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: haven't already. I mean, Lewis Diasmin, I look at that
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: front three is the one that's still getting the start,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: and I thought he was the sharpest of the front
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: three against west Ham and Klopp clearly trusts him at
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the moment. You know, he sacrificed Salah and Darwin, but
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Diaz still got his spots. So maybe I wouldn't be
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: selling Diaz but Darwin Salah, yeah, I think I would be.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I mean we saw Gackfo have eight attempts, but this
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: is the story of Liverpool's last couple of months. Chances
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: galore and just not effective in front of go I
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: know they registered too, but for the amount of attempts
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: we're seeing at Liverpool and years gone by, their conversion
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: rates so much higher. I mean, Robertson caught the eye again.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: You could argue he had sixteen crosses, he created five chances,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: he did score. But again west Ham, if you're buying
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a Robertson or a trend, it's nice to get those
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: attack in returns, sure it is, but you need some
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: clean sheet guarantee and I honestly I can't When did
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Liverpool lask keep a clean sheet. It seems like it's
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: been forever, so there's absolutely no guarantee there. And fair
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: play to west Ham and Jared Bowen again continues to
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: be an fpl asset that we overlook because he doesn't
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: play in a side that creates a ton of chances,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: So his underlying numbers are never that great because west
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Ham aren't that attacking. But again they don't need to
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: be because Jared Bowen finds ways of getting goals assists
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: and with that bonus points thirteen point haul for Bowen
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: at the weekend, he's produced five attacking returns in his
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: last four starts, brilliant as set. One note I make
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: for next season is don't overlook Jared Bowen.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: No, just going back to your clean sheets for Liverpool.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Last one was in game week twenty seven. One before
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: that was in game WE twenty one, So they're not
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: consistently doing And honestly, I think you know the Spurs
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: up next, and I'm not just my Spurs fans talking.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: I just don't see Spurs not scoring at Anfiord. We
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: always score on the road at Anfield, So I totally
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: agree with what you're saying about Robo and Trent. Both
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: of them look like decent options, particularly against that Spurs defense. However,
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: you can't spend that level of budget on them on
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: the basis that you would rather spend it on the
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: attackers and the clean sheets just aren't there. And as
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: for Jared Bowen, I've owned him for a lot of
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: this season for you, dam yeah. I had him right
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: at the start of the season and owned him for
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: a lot and he has been phenomenal for me this year.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: I took him out when he was injured a few
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: weeks ago and just haven't been able to tind to
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: stop to bring him back in. And partly that's been
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: because he hasn't been consistently fit. He's been kind of
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: in and out of the team of Lay. Obviously he
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: played for them in Europe and then missed the next one,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: and it feels like it's been a bit of a
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: difficult time for Jared Bowen's grew injury, but he has
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: been so impressive over the course of this season and
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: the next year he will be top of my list
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: or very near the top of my list of different
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: midfielders that I'll be looking to go to, because you know,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: I think we'll all automatically go, oh, well, I'll need
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: a soccer and maybe I need a KDB or a
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: FODE And depending upon how you want to invest in
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Man City and in the past it would have been
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: most sala or we'll see if it still is come
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: next season. But I think for me Jared Bowen will
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: be one of those players that I'll be looking at
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: thinking I want him in my FPL team because even
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: when west Ham aren't playing great, you can nearly always
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: rely on Jared Bowen.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he always overperforms his expected as well, like he
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: could score. I remember him scoring a hat trick not
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: that long ago and the combined XG for that hat
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: trick was like zero point six or something like what
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: how is this conversionated? So so good? Really good in
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: the air as well, Worth noting with his headed goal
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: again he scores headed goals. He's certainly, you know, not
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the tallest shows you don't have to be. In terms
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: of forwards that didn't score this weekend, Sam, we have
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: to touch on a couple that many like me sold
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: on wildcard and were praying that they didn't return because
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: again the ownership's fairly high. We saw blanks thankfully from
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the likes of Solanki and Watkins, so that was a
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: nice treat at least.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as a non Slanki owner for a fair few
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: weeks now. Since my game Week thirty World Card, he
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: has been haunting me because every time he's playing, I'm
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: thinking he looks like he's going to get something. So
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I was quite relieved to see him blagged Watkins. Really,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: there was one moment towards the end of that game
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: where I don't know how Watkins didn't score it, because
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: he has been unbelievable this season. He's one of my
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: biggest regrets selling Watkins for Darwin on a few weeks ago,
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: because I did it for all the right reasons, all
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: the potential upside, but these are exactly the type of
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: players where sometimes you just have to stop and think.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Because the form that he's had this season, even with
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: single game weeks, he was and continues to be a
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: better option than some of our double game we counterparts.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed. We also saw Jordan Pickford needs a shout
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: out because he is producing points every week. Yeah, eighteen
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: points in thirty four, ten points in thirty five. This
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: isn't news to us that Sean Diish teams keep clean
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: sheets when it matters, and we're going to the business
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: end of the season for Everton when they really need
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: to put in one nil wins. They find a way
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: of doing so. Now, whether you're on a branthway At
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Tarkowski or a Pickford, these guys have been efficient sources
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: of points and dish defenders or dicech goalkeepers. We have
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: to remember again note to self for next season that
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: worth investing in.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny, isn't it, Because at the beginning of
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: last season a lot of managers had Pickford as their goalkeeper,
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Pickford and on Nana combination and it didn't start particularly well.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: But over the course of this season, Sean Diyche has
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: improved Everton dramatically defensively as we would expect for one
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: of his teams and Pickford. Look, I really hope that
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: we see this Jordan Pickford at the Euros for England
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: in the summer because the last couple of weeks, I mean,
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: he was phenomenal for me in game Week thirty four,
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: one of my highest scoring players. I was so thrilled
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: with him. Had to bench him this week because I
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: had Petrovich who had the double and it was a frustration,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: but another ten pointer for Pickford. I just think Everton
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: are one of those teams that also have a lovely
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: fixture in game week thirty seven, when everyone's bench beat
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: singing Againt Shefford United, which was my reason for having
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Pickford in the first place. So yeah, I think shout
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: outs Pickford. He's just been great. I'm sorry for benching
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: you this week.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't believe I've not owned him. I mean,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: he's by far the best performing goalkeeper of the season
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: so far. Final note from me, Sam is just on
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: the some of the beach teams. I don't know if
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: on the beach is necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes on
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the beach means teams playing with a bit of freedom,
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: a bit of expression, and they can go out guilt
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: free and just have a go. And we saw that
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: with Bournemouth beating Brighton three nil. You know, Bournemouth have
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: nothing to play for whether or not there on the beach.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, okay, I can play with a bit
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: of expression. Crystal Palace last few weeks been doing the same.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Fulham Palace was one all this weekend, but both teams
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: have been playing well of late. Wolves are another one.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: Mid table mediocrity not necessarily a bad thing. They go
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: and put a win up against Luton. I don't mind
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: those teams that are often classified on the beach if
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: it means they're going out there and playing with a
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: bit of fun.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Agreed. I think there are plenty of options that you
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: just kind of need to keep your eyes on. Like
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: as an eight Nori owner, I was disappointed to see
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: that clean sheet go quite lay on because I was
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: expecting the clean sheet there. But yes, I think you're right.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: I think there are teams like Wolves that you can
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: stay invested in over the closing weeks of the season.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: You don't have to get off them.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Born with Pallas, I'm definitely putting in that bracket too. Well. Sam,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: good luck for the next couple of days when you
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: and I will both be looking at our flagged players
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: thinking will they won't they? Around share in Edison, but
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: I expect if we're making transfers this week, it'll probably
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: be either to roll or to make a transfer on
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: an injured player.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I think for me the plan is try and
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: try and roll this week so that we can have
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: two transfers going into that all important final double in
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: game week thirty seven, because I need to make sure
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: that every single player is going to play ahead of
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: that bench boost.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely my plan to cool right.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: So, Game Week thirty five, as we said, is going
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: to finish on Thursday, and then we were head straight
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: into Game Week thirty six. The deadline for that one
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: is going to be on Friday evening, so it's going
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: to be a very quick turnaround for most of us. Kelly,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Jorge and I'll be back on Thursday with the official
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: FPL pod. We're going to be talking through our plans
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: for Game Week thirty six and reviewing how Kelly's wildcard
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: went now that she's finally played.
• 49:26
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• 49:35
  Speaker 2: See you next time, everyone, See you later.