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S3 Ep27: Off The Bench: Premiums continue to disappoint · 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 FBL Harry and.
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Speaker 3: I'm Oscar FBL Focal.
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Speaker 1: Well, we have just two weeks left. I'm not quite
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Speaker 1: sure where this season has gone. We are really into
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Speaker 1: the business end and most of us just have two
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Speaker 1: transfers left us between now and the end of the season,
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Speaker 1: so we've really got to make the most of them,
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Speaker 1: buying the right players and making the best decisions.
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Speaker 2: First of all, did you do that this week? How
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Speaker 2: did your game Week thirty six go?
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Speaker 3: It was one of my best gamings of the season.
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Speaker 4: Actually, yeah, loads went right where they kind of least
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Speaker 4: expected it to. So I got seventy seven points all out,
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Speaker 4: which took me up to three point four K. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'll be honest, I had some really jammy points,
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Speaker 4: Like i'd burn You've got eleven points. Oh you got
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Speaker 4: that assist for Bruno G's I Wambisaco he got twelve
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Speaker 4: points as Brace, Martinez and goal. So yeah, like my
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Speaker 4: back three in Keepra alone got thirty seven points. So yeah,
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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm happy to be finishing the season strongly.
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Speaker 4: And I guess you have a similar target, right of
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Speaker 4: top ten K, which is where you currently are as well, right,
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Speaker 4: But I saw he took a minus eight, didn't, Yarry,
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Speaker 4: can get a chip back to how.
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Speaker 3: Do you get?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Probably one of the biggest and most memorable game
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Speaker 1: weeks of the season, not necessarily one of my best,
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Speaker 1: so yeah. Going into the deadline, I decided to take
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Speaker 1: a minus eight because I just got such Ken de
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Speaker 1: Bruyn fear. I just couldn't go into this week without him,
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Speaker 1: so I brought Ken de Bruyn, I bought Evannilson, and
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Speaker 1: I brought Wissa in from minus eight, who scored a
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Speaker 1: grand total of six points for my minus eight. So
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Speaker 1: that started off really well, and the rest of my
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Speaker 1: starting eleven didn't do very much at all. I got
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Speaker 1: thirty four points from my starting eleven, but luckily I
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Speaker 1: also played the bench bruge this week, which managed thirty
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Speaker 1: points on its own, which basically doubled my score. So
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Speaker 1: I had Ariola, sar Manors and Con on the bench.
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Speaker 1: And you might say, Harry, there's no way you're benching Minyals.
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Speaker 1: He's been one of the best defenders, but unfortunately I've
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Speaker 1: been holding double Nossingham Forest defense for this week. Alone
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Speaker 1: just for them to concede twice to Leicester. So I
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Speaker 1: was quite fortunate because I was very worried about that
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Speaker 1: double forest defense. I didn't expect very much from them,
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Speaker 1: but I just couldn't bench them playing against Esta, so
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Speaker 1: that the bench boost bailed me out of a pretty
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Speaker 1: horrific starting eleven and a not very good minor say
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Speaker 1: to get me. It was a small red in the end,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, it could have been a lot worse.
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Speaker 4: Well, I will say, is your bench boost went significantly
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Speaker 4: better than mine?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: Do you get thirty off your bench yeah?
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Speaker 2: Thirty?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's mine.
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Speaker 4: Was that double game at thirty five or thereabouts and
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Speaker 4: I ended up getting four points from my bench boost.
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Speaker 4: That's when Bambasacker wasn't in the squad, Burns squed the
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Speaker 4: own goals. So I guess it was kind of like
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Speaker 4: a redemption arc this week with the double digitals that
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Speaker 4: they got.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean one of them.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the west Ham Mansion United game Ariola.
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Speaker 1: Manchester Uniteds were the biggest underperformers of XGI this weekend,
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Speaker 1: and actually the second highest biggest under performers with the
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Speaker 1: other Manchester team. Those two Manchester clubs created four XGI
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Speaker 1: between them and failed to score a single goal. So
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Speaker 1: I think as best we talk about what is probably
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Speaker 1: the biggest shock and surprise of the game week with
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Speaker 1: so much investment in it in Southampton nil and Manchester
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Speaker 1: City nil. I of course have said that I decided
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Speaker 1: to buy Kevin de Bruyn as part of a minus eight.
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Speaker 1: He was the second biggest underperformer of the game week,
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Speaker 1: creating one point one to eight expected goal involvement and
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Speaker 1: just to come away with a three pointer. I have
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Speaker 1: to say, though, looking at the game, it felt like
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of quantity rather than too much
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Speaker 1: quality for Manchester City.
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Speaker 2: In that game.
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Speaker 1: They created an awful lot of chances, but nothing really
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Speaker 1: broke sort of. I don't think their highest chance was
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Speaker 1: zero point two to five XGI in that game, which
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel nearly high enough for that game. Now, they
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Speaker 1: probably should have capitalized on something, but defensively they continued
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Speaker 1: to look really strong, but going forward just wasn't their day.
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Speaker 4: It's strange, isn't it that Southampton had almost been City's
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Speaker 4: bogey team? Was it one nil in the reverse fixture?
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Speaker 4: I think yeah, exactly, But yeah, kadib I really was
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Speaker 4: scared of him because I had the fomo as well
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Speaker 4: like you did, and I didn't buy him in the end,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, he took five shots over seven hundred thousand
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Speaker 4: people bought him. Understandab belief for such a great fixture,
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Speaker 4: but yeah, I mean zero point one one xg for
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Speaker 4: Southampton one point eight nine for man City, so crazy
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Speaker 4: for that to end nil nil Harland as well, like starting,
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Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I didn't predict that. I thought maybe
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Speaker 4: comes off the bench, gets some minutes a cameo before
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Speaker 4: the FA Cup final, but he started and he ended
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Speaker 4: up playing ninety plus as well, because obviously they were
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Speaker 4: chasing that goal.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, a bit of a poor game from him.
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Speaker 4: Didn't even shoot until about the ninety second minute, and
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Speaker 4: yeah mar Mooch benched as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah what do you think about mar Mousch now?
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Speaker 1: I of course I sold him this week as trying
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Speaker 1: to find a way to buy Kevin de boy in
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Speaker 1: this week feels like particularly because it's worth noting that
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Speaker 1: Manchester City played the FA Cup final after the game
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Speaker 1: week thirty seven deadline before they're born with a home fixture,
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Speaker 1: so lots could happen that in that FA Cup Final
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Speaker 1: that we won't know until after the FPL deadline.
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Speaker 2: So I feel like if you've got mar moves now,
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Speaker 2: there might be more pressing.
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Speaker 1: Things that people look at that they need to do
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Speaker 1: with their squads. But he feels like a real issue now,
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Speaker 1: particularly because he missed out. The only thing I would
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Speaker 1: say is I feel like they've missed him a little
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Speaker 1: bit in this game. They feel like they've missed a
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Speaker 1: bit of a runner. He's actually been, although not from
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Speaker 1: an FPL point of view, been pretty good recently, and
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that Harland quite hit the ground running
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Speaker 1: that maybe Pep wanted him to. He needed minutes before
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Speaker 1: the FA Cup final and before the run in as well.
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Speaker 1: So I don't think it's all doom and gloom for
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Speaker 1: our moods, but I'd be pretty worried holding him now,
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Speaker 1: I think.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree as you say, like we're going in
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Speaker 4: a bit blind next game meet because it's the FA
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Speaker 4: Cup on the weekend and then the actual game meet
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Speaker 4: for them is on Tuesday, So yeah, we're a bit
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Speaker 4: blind in terms of what could happen in the FA Cup.
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Speaker 4: What is minutes like if he can predict he starts
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Speaker 4: again or not so. Yeah, I think it's a terrible
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Speaker 4: thing to keep him because it's born of home. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: he's a strange one's he has been pretty good, but
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Speaker 4: just not from FPO as you say, Like I captained
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Speaker 4: him in that double game week where he got four points.
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Speaker 4: I think I captained him against Wolves and he got
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Speaker 4: two points there as well. But yeah, he had an
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Speaker 4: impact when he came on, like he had that nice moment,
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Speaker 4: like an early touch shot across Ramsdelle. He came off
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Speaker 4: the crossbar and back. Yeah, it's tricky, isn't it, Like
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Speaker 4: where do you go with the fours? Because a lot
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Speaker 4: of the fours disappointed? Didn't they last game week?
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Speaker 1: Well, exactly like Wissa I bought Evan Nielsen, couldn't you.
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Speaker 1: I didn't do anything Olie Watkins, I'm sure as one
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Speaker 1: will talk about did. But Alexander Izac did and Chris
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Speaker 1: Wood got one goal. Meteta of course continuing to disappoint
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Speaker 1: and there aren't loads of forwards. So if you do
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Speaker 1: have marmus you're looking around, it might not actually be
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Speaker 1: the best week to go and to go and look
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Speaker 1: for replacement. The one thing at Manchester City that does
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Speaker 1: seem to be sticking at the moment, it's the clean
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Speaker 1: sheets and the defense. If you're one of those that
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Speaker 1: went on Guardio and Rippin Diaz as a double up,
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Speaker 1: you're laughing at everyone trying to predict the attack and
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Speaker 1: trying to predict is it going to be Marmose, Harlan
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Speaker 1: de Bruyn, Who's it going to be? Because they're just
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Speaker 1: rolling in clean sheets at the moment. Gavardi al outer
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Speaker 1: left back, which didn't do his bonus points any favors.
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Speaker 1: It was Ruben Diaz who decided to mop them up
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Speaker 1: this week. But maybe in hindsight, looking back at when
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Speaker 1: we all decided to try and buy a Savinio buyer
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Speaker 1: debroy and although de Bryn's been pretty good, maybe the
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Speaker 1: safest route was the Ruben Diaz Gavardi ol double up,
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Speaker 1: which has done so well again this week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I mean, of course Katie Big got that eleven pointed
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Speaker 4: in the week before, but yeah, I mean, the real
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Speaker 4: winners in that game, especially with those double up on defense.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, as you said, he'sac blank. Do you want
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Speaker 4: to get that game out of the way. I know
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Speaker 4: you're a Chelsea fan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, from a roller coaster FPL week to a roller
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Speaker 1: coaster football fan week as well as a Chelsea fan,
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Speaker 1: having managedter City drop points, then Chelsea unfortunately losing, and
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Speaker 1: then Forest dropping points as well, but asen Villa winning.
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Speaker 2: It was an all roller coaster weekend of football emotions
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Speaker 2: for me.
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Speaker 1: I have to admit, Yeah, unfortunately going down early against Newcastle,
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Speaker 1: they changed their system which Chelsea just really struggled to
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Speaker 1: deal with early on. They sort of played a which
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Speaker 1: with wing backs of living mental and Murphy Murphy getting
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Speaker 1: the assist. They just had so much time and space
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Speaker 1: early on in that game which we just couldn't get
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Speaker 1: near and that's where they created the first goal from.
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Speaker 1: And then the Jackson red card. The list said on
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Speaker 1: that I think the better at the moment, but from
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Speaker 1: when we were ten players down, we didn't really create enough.
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Speaker 1: We prayed we played a lot better than I thought
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Speaker 1: we would once we went down to ten men, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: we didn't create nearly enough chances and Newcastle kind of
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Speaker 1: just saw the game out in the second half without
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Speaker 1: letting us get too close to the goal. They had
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Speaker 1: a lot of the ball but didn't let us create
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Speaker 1: basically any chances. But from an FBL point of view,
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Speaker 1: defensively burned did well.
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Speaker 2: Livermento. At one point I was very worried for him.
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Speaker 1: He went down with what looked like a horrible injury,
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Speaker 1: but then twenty seconds later he was up and running around,
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Speaker 1: which was good for good to see for him. But
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Speaker 1: I think the main takeaway is Alexander Izak blanks and
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Speaker 1: it feels like he's been a little bit disappointing recently.
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Speaker 1: He's very highly owned, and it could be that if
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Speaker 1: you're chasing in your mini leagues, betting against Alexander Easac
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Speaker 1: now could be one of the ways to do it.
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Speaker 3: That's exactly what I'd written in my notes.
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Speaker 4: Is he the player the right one to sell if
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Speaker 4: you're chasing, because yeah, it's arsenal way next game, because
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Speaker 4: well Everton home Gami thirty eight. Obviously that one potentially
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Speaker 4: runs a bit of risk. There could be lots of
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Speaker 4: goals there. Everton haven't been bad in fairness, but yeah,
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Speaker 4: I think he's definitely one of the options because he's
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Speaker 4: so highly owned in the game and obviously in your league,
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Speaker 4: so he could be the one to sacrifice if you're chasing.
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Speaker 4: You know, Eazac to Watkins for example, could be a
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Speaker 4: move that really pays well. Yeah, that's Newcastle's twentieth win
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Speaker 4: of the season as well. The last time they won
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Speaker 4: twenty was two thousand and two h three and that
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Speaker 4: was FBO's first ever season. So unbelievable. How well Eddie
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Speaker 4: Howe's done. I mean, who do you reckon wins Manager
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Speaker 4: of the Season on a bit of a tangent like
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Speaker 4: how do you get Nuno slot?
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Speaker 3: Like Frank if they get Europe?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it often goes in defaults to a
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Speaker 1: manager who ends up winning something, So it could end
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Speaker 1: up being Eddie Howe because of course they won the
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Speaker 1: Caravell carp or I think you'll probably end.
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Speaker 2: Up being Arnie Slot.
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Speaker 1: Although they're fading a little bit towards the end of
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Speaker 1: the season now that they've won the Premier League title.
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Speaker 1: If Newcastle ends up finishing in the top five, top four,
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Speaker 1: could even be top three at the way things are
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Speaker 1: going as well now, I definitely wouldn't rull it out
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Speaker 1: because they have looked very good and they've maintained their
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Speaker 1: momentum towards the end of the season. The only caveat
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Speaker 1: I'd put if you're looking to sell Newcastle players between
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Speaker 1: now and the end of the season is exactly that right.
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Speaker 1: They are one of the teams left in the Premier
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Speaker 1: League with something to play for, and it feels like
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Speaker 1: an awful lot to play for going away to Arsenal
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Speaker 1: that if they were to lose that game, they would
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Speaker 1: have to win on the final day in order to
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Speaker 1: get a Champions League spot most likely. So not only
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Speaker 1: is the Arsenal game absolutely huge for both the clubs
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Speaker 1: in there, because if Arsenal were to lose, although they're
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Speaker 1: not going to slip out of the Champions League places,
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Speaker 1: they might start slipping down the table a little bit.
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Speaker 1: So I do still think the Newcastle have a lot
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Speaker 1: to play for, and eazak Is is definitely a player
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Speaker 1: who's always at the focal point right. Although he didn't
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Speaker 1: get anything in these two goals, he was still in
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Speaker 1: and around it. He was still there. I think the
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Speaker 1: Tonali goal, if Tanali doesn't put it in, I think
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Speaker 1: Alexander is actually cuting up behind him to be the
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Speaker 1: one to score. So I do still like newcast Lassets
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Speaker 1: despite them going away to Arsenal, but I think Arsenal
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Speaker 1: showed their fragility going into this game with as well,
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Speaker 1: and after their Champions League game that they were a
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Speaker 1: little bit high just before we probably moved to that game.
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Speaker 1: A quick word on Chelsea, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest
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Speaker 1: again another club with a decent amount to play for
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Speaker 1: a little bit uncertainty about what the Jackson red card
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Speaker 1: will do to our lineup. It will probably put Netto
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Speaker 1: up front and we'll probably see Sancho come back into
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Speaker 1: the starting lineup. I think Palmer will be one that
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Speaker 1: people can look at again if we're thinking about differentials.
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Speaker 1: The only thing I'd say about it is the past
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Speaker 1: couple of games his positioning from an FPL point of view, its.
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Speaker 2: Not been great.
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Speaker 1: He's dropping quite deep, trying to get on the ball,
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Speaker 1: trying to create a little bit more because it doesn't
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Speaker 1: feel like there's that much creativity in this Chelsea team
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Speaker 1: at the moment. And I think we saw that again
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Speaker 1: against Newcastle. There wasn't loads of Cole Palmer in the
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Speaker 1: final third, which as Chelsea fans we love to see.
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Speaker 1: We didn't see it quite as much and that would
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Speaker 1: worry me a little bit for the final two weeks.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's strange.
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Speaker 4: It's been a trend reitionally, not even just Palmer, like
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Speaker 4: the premiums have just not done much in recent weeks.
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Speaker 4: I was looking for some interesting stats to mention to
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Speaker 4: you on the pod, and I've got good one here.
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Speaker 4: So over the last eight game weeks, no player priced
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Speaker 4: above eight million is in the top twenty FPL points scorers, right,
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Speaker 4: so we're like buying, We're selecting, like even captain in
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Speaker 4: these premiums on the promise of what they've shown earlier
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Speaker 4: in the season. But Eazac's highest, He's twenty four for
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Speaker 4: points over that run, Saler's twenty fifth, Watkins twenty seventh,
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Speaker 4: KDB forty first, and Palmer's seventy seconds. So yeah, it's
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Speaker 4: a bit of an unusual end of the season in
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Speaker 4: that respect, isn't it, Where Like all the premiums have
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Speaker 4: underwhelmed recently, Like you almost forget the Salers destroyed the
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Speaker 4: points record, you know, based on his recent form, whereas
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Speaker 4: you know, you look at last season the last eight
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Speaker 4: game weeks, Palmer was number one, Eazac was fourth, like
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Speaker 4: Harland eighth. So yeah, it's an interesting trend, and maybe
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Speaker 4: thats a case for captain and some non premiums you know,
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Speaker 4: like and boom oh last game.
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Speaker 3: But I think we both did that.
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Speaker 4: He's got Fulham home next, it could go Watkins home
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Speaker 4: to Spurs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as someone who's got four players who fit into
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Speaker 1: that premium bracket in their team, that is not what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to hear with Debroyne, Sakka Mosala and Alexander Izak.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is definitely interesting.
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Speaker 1: It does feel like those ones that, you know, if
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Speaker 1: we're uncertain where to go with Captaincy, or you know,
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Speaker 1: we're not certain who to buy, we often default the
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Speaker 1: most expensive players because generally, historically they've been the ones
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Speaker 1: that performed well. But it is definitely fair to say
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Speaker 1: now a lot of that could be that's those stats
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Speaker 1: would look a little bit different if Manchester City had
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Speaker 1: maybe converted some of their chances this week. But yeah
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Speaker 1: they didn't, and yeah, fair to say that they have
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Speaker 1: definitely disappointed. Let's go to a couple of those premium players.
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Speaker 1: Then the game on Sunday afternoon Liverpool two Arsenal two.
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Speaker 1: Liverpool came out of the blocks absolutely flying and I
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Speaker 1: thought this game was going to go three or four noil,
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Speaker 1: but Arsenal their way back into it, got to half time,
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Speaker 1: had only two down and looked a lot better in
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Speaker 1: the second half. Unfortunately, as a Sacar owner, he did
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Speaker 1: miss quite a big chance early on in the game,
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Speaker 1: where Arsenal very well managed to deploy a sort of
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Speaker 1: counter off side track as all the Liverpool defenders rushed
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Speaker 1: up and Soaker ran in behind two clubs that obviously
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Speaker 1: don't have loads to play for in the league but
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Speaker 1: wanted to put on a bit of a show in
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Speaker 1: what is first versus second in the Premier League.
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Speaker 4: You say that Arsenal've got a lot to We've still
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Speaker 4: got loads to play for. We have to be careful,
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Speaker 4: like if we don't dig out results, we can still
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Speaker 4: move down the table. So it's still a big game
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Speaker 4: for us that one. But yeah, like a fifth blank
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Speaker 4: in seventh for Salah, Yeah, as you say, sack of
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Speaker 4: blanked eighty seven seconds between the two goals as well,
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Speaker 4: and I was I just was like, oh no, here
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Speaker 4: we go, like they're going to run away of it already.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, as you say, like credit for Crawn, the
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Speaker 4: game backers Martinelli and Marino right, and then of course
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Speaker 4: Marina got the red cards. So after that happened, I
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Speaker 4: thought I'll take the point at this point. Yeah, Trent
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Speaker 4: was benched of course, I mean, I'm going to miss
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Speaker 4: him in FPL, like ninety goal involvements over the last eight.
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Speaker 3: Seasons he's been.
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Speaker 4: I think for me it's between him and Baines as
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Speaker 4: the greatest FPL defenders that we've ever had. But yeah,
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Speaker 4: as we say, credit to Arsenal, I mean, the last
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Speaker 4: time Liverpool failed to win at anfield in the league
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Speaker 4: after being two or more up at half time was
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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen against Newcastle, so just over nine years ago.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, he was credit to Arsenal for cloring back
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Speaker 4: the point. That's twenty gold involvements with Diaz this season
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Speaker 4: as well, he's gone a little bit under the raidar
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Speaker 4: isn't he just how good the season he's had.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was definitely popular at the beginning, and then
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Speaker 1: it was pretty uncertain with Gappro playing well, with Jotta
15:40
Speaker 1: being there and of course Darwin as well about who
15:42
Speaker 1: was going to line up that we weren't certain enough
15:45
Speaker 1: one minutes, so a lot of us decided to move
15:47
Speaker 1: away from him. But he has continued to tick along
15:49
Speaker 1: very well. Most salary is a really interesting one and
15:52
Speaker 1: zero shots for him in this game, and I can't
15:56
Speaker 1: decide when I'm watching the game he is feels like
15:58
Speaker 1: he's chasing the assist more than he's chasing anything else
16:01
Speaker 1: at the moment. I just feel like when he's playing,
16:03
Speaker 1: he's looking to pass, he's looking to create much more
16:06
Speaker 1: than he's looking to shoot. When he's in and around
16:08
Speaker 1: the box. Normally, I feel like Mosalah would look to
16:10
Speaker 1: shoot and he'd go, right, I'm going to put it
16:12
Speaker 1: in that far post. Like Mosalah does. He feels like
16:15
Speaker 1: he massively wants that assist record more than anything else
16:18
Speaker 1: at the moment, and he is just looking to write
16:21
Speaker 1: who's making the run? Where can I put it on
16:23
Speaker 1: a plate for someone? And I felt it again with
16:25
Speaker 1: this as we saw zero shots for him again in
16:28
Speaker 1: this game. I've currently got my Camcy armband on him
16:30
Speaker 1: for game week thirty seven, and this was really concerning
16:33
Speaker 1: because I just thought his goal threat was definitely not there.
16:36
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like he's really got the eye for
16:38
Speaker 1: goal that he maybe had earlier on in the season. Now,
16:40
Speaker 1: Mosalah can score whenever Mosalah wants to score, but it
16:43
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it's a big priority for him at
16:45
Speaker 1: the moment.
16:46
Speaker 4: Exact same thinking. At the moment, I've got the armband
16:50
Speaker 4: on Salah. But yeah, it's a bit worrying how unselfish
16:53
Speaker 4: he's been so one player. I might end up moving
16:55
Speaker 4: the armband too is in boomohs. So maybe we talk
16:58
Speaker 4: about Ipswich versus Brentford obviously just the assist for him.
17:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, we's a blank and yellow card.
17:05
Speaker 4: You know, he'd scored against the bottom of three every
17:08
Speaker 4: time he played them this season, all five times, and
17:10
Speaker 4: then of course on his sixth for tempt when he's
17:13
Speaker 4: one of the most popular transfers in the blanks And yeah,
17:15
Speaker 4: it gets the yellow card for a one pointer.
17:17
Speaker 2: That was part of the minor sight, Yeah, of course.
17:19
Speaker 3: Yeah. How many points did you lose in the end
17:21
Speaker 3: on that on the miners.
17:22
Speaker 1: Eleven which actually it could have been a lot worse
17:25
Speaker 1: given that De Bruyn, Evan, Hilson and Wissa scored six combined.
17:31
Speaker 1: It could have been a lot worse than only losing
17:33
Speaker 1: eleven points. And luckily the bench Bruce went so well
17:36
Speaker 1: that if I just forget those eleven points and say
17:38
Speaker 1: my bench Bruce scored nineteen, it sounds a lot better.
17:41
Speaker 4: And negated it. Yeah, exactly, and you sold Mettet, didn't you?
17:44
Speaker 4: Was that one of the players, yeah got.
17:45
Speaker 1: Rid of Yeah, let's stick with Brentford just for a moment,
17:48
Speaker 1: and then I think we do need to talk about
17:49
Speaker 1: Crystal Palace because like Manchester City, they are one of
17:52
Speaker 1: the teams in the FA Cup that could cause a
17:54
Speaker 1: big headache going into game week thirty seven. So yeah,
17:57
Speaker 1: it was Kevin Charter, the cheat mid fielder that some
18:00
Speaker 1: people decided to buy in and is going massively under
18:03
Speaker 1: the radar. I think for Brentford at the moment, a
18:04
Speaker 1: lot of us are looking at Wissa Anon Bermo because
18:06
Speaker 1: they're tried and tested assets, right, But Kevin Charda definitely
18:09
Speaker 1: can't be one that we can go without talking with
18:12
Speaker 1: because five point one million the cheapest way into the
18:15
Speaker 1: midfield of any team at the moment and has very
18:18
Speaker 1: good goal threat. I think that's goal is in back
18:20
Speaker 1: to back games and he's got a lot of returns
18:21
Speaker 1: recently as well. Maybe he should be the one. You know,
18:25
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be looking at the price tag, we shouldn't
18:27
Speaker 1: be looking at Wissa. Is that you know, the forward,
18:29
Speaker 1: He's the striker. Kevin chard is creating and scoring a
18:32
Speaker 1: lot of chances at the moment.
18:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he's so cheap as well, five point
18:35
Speaker 4: two mil thirty five points over the last four game weeks.
18:40
Speaker 4: Literally only Bowen and Esse have got more points over
18:42
Speaker 4: the last four and they've just got thirty six, one
18:44
Speaker 4: more point than Charda. I like a player that gets
18:47
Speaker 4: ninety minutes, but yeah, he's definitely someone need to pay
18:50
Speaker 4: attention to, even though he's not getting the nineties, definitely
18:53
Speaker 4: delivering as of late. I think he's on eleven goals
18:56
Speaker 4: this season something like that, So he's another one that's
18:59
Speaker 4: gone under the radar. Yeah, Brentford really shown form right
19:02
Speaker 4: four wins and a draw in their last five, so
19:05
Speaker 4: they're fine for Europe. They've got all the motivation still.
19:07
Speaker 1: Well exactly, and they actually have a very big game
19:10
Speaker 1: for that Europeans place at home to Fulham this week
19:13
Speaker 1: as well, so they definitely have the motivation that we
19:15
Speaker 1: were talking about with the likes of Alexander Zak and
19:18
Speaker 1: the other players in around the Champions League spots because
19:21
Speaker 1: of course, if they finish eight, they may end up
19:23
Speaker 1: in the Conference League. Of course that will depend a
19:25
Speaker 1: little bit on what happens in the FA Cup, but
19:28
Speaker 1: it is nice to know that although they didn't do
19:30
Speaker 1: loads this week, we are buying into Brentford, who do
19:33
Speaker 1: have a lot to play for. One of them that
19:35
Speaker 1: actually I think is going under the radar if you
19:37
Speaker 1: needed a defender is Nathan Collins. I think he's got
19:39
Speaker 1: nine attacking returns this season is nine quietly going under
19:43
Speaker 1: the radar, and a clean sheet for them this week
19:46
Speaker 1: he came out with two bonus points as well in
19:49
Speaker 1: a one nil win Fulham at home Wolves away in
19:52
Speaker 1: the last two is okay. I don't think there's loads
19:54
Speaker 1: of defenses over the last two weeks that work well
19:57
Speaker 1: for both and actually Brentford could end up being one
19:59
Speaker 1: of those. And I think Collins could be a really
20:01
Speaker 1: good differential because of his actual attacking threat looking much
20:05
Speaker 1: better than maybe it would look just because he's a
20:07
Speaker 1: center back and historically hasn't been great for that. But
20:10
Speaker 1: he's had a pretty good season from FBL gone very
20:13
Speaker 1: under the radar, and I'd expect him to have a
20:14
Speaker 1: bit of a price boost next season given of how
20:17
Speaker 1: good his attacking threat has been.
20:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully FPL overlook how well he's done, then keep
20:23
Speaker 4: him maybe four point five mil. But yeah, they've got
20:26
Speaker 4: three clean sheets in the last six Brentford so yeah,
20:29
Speaker 4: they're really like showing good form recently three of those
20:31
Speaker 4: games under one expected gold conceded. So yeah, really impressed
20:36
Speaker 4: by Brentford and the job that Frank's done.
20:39
Speaker 1: Another team that we spoke about a lot of ownership
20:42
Speaker 1: in Crystal Palace this week two nil victory over Spurs.
20:46
Speaker 1: But this feel like, in particularly in the first half,
20:48
Speaker 1: it could have been an awful lot more. I had
20:50
Speaker 1: sar An minors who had their goal ruled out, one
20:54
Speaker 1: assisting the other, and I thought, finally, this is the
20:56
Speaker 1: time that that sort of minor state and my starting
20:59
Speaker 1: eleven would start to get some points. To be fair
21:01
Speaker 1: to Sara min yours, they both did come up with
21:03
Speaker 1: returns later on in the game, both picking up and
21:05
Speaker 1: assist for both of ESA's goals. A player that you
21:08
Speaker 1: have here has been a revelation, and anyone who sat
21:11
Speaker 1: on the Sar side of that Essar coin flip at
21:14
Speaker 1: the moment is looking at it thinking how did I
21:16
Speaker 1: get this decision so wrong?
21:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing.
21:19
Speaker 4: Fpo's full of these fifty to fifties, and it's such
21:22
Speaker 4: an unforgiving game at times, isn't it. Sometimes there can
21:24
Speaker 4: be a genuine fifty to fifty, and it can go
21:26
Speaker 4: one way or the other. Like I was looking at
21:28
Speaker 4: who to start knat or Wambsaka, and I thought ah
21:32
Speaker 4: Canaate's home, but I ended up going wan Besaca and
21:34
Speaker 4: I ended up like eleven point swing in my favor.
21:37
Speaker 4: But another week that could have gone wrong and yeah,
21:39
Speaker 4: it's it's one of those.
21:41
Speaker 3: I couldn't work out whether that was good or not.
21:43
Speaker 4: When Munos had assisted Sar before it got ruled out
21:45
Speaker 4: because I didn't have Munyos but I.
21:47
Speaker 3: Did have Sar.
21:48
Speaker 4: But yeah, a couple of double digit hales. Well done
21:50
Speaker 4: Munyos owners, eleven points. Well done to my fellow owners
21:54
Speaker 4: with the brace. Yeah, two off side goals. Though Spurs
21:57
Speaker 4: rotated lots, which we thought they might do after the
22:00
Speaker 4: Europa League. Yeah, man, you might have course did as well.
22:03
Speaker 4: They also lost to Nil. I'm wondering if maybe we
22:06
Speaker 4: don't see as much rotation in gamick thirty seven from them,
22:09
Speaker 4: like perhaps the manager wants a bit more riven in
22:12
Speaker 4: the Yeah, I think that's hard to predict.
22:14
Speaker 1: I think that feels more likely they play Friday and
22:17
Speaker 1: then the finals not till Wednesday, and if they were
22:19
Speaker 1: to rotate again a lot of those players wouldn't have
22:21
Speaker 1: played proper football for almost two weeks since their semi final.
22:25
Speaker 1: The Thursday just gone on a crystal palace. They of
22:28
Speaker 1: course play the FA Cup final and then play Wolves
22:31
Speaker 1: at home on the Tuesday. I think there is a
22:34
Speaker 1: little bit of a worry that we might see rotation
22:36
Speaker 1: for them. Of course, alongside man she United and Spurs
22:39
Speaker 1: that there is the worry for as well. You've got
22:41
Speaker 1: z a Ansar and there's a lot of owners of
22:43
Speaker 1: Mateta as well, and Mateta didn't even make it to
22:46
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. Mateta feels like the biggest risk. It's also
22:49
Speaker 1: their final home game, which I feel like does add
22:51
Speaker 1: a little bit of uncertainty to that game. That if
22:53
Speaker 1: they played at home on the final day of the season,
22:56
Speaker 1: that maybe they know rest players during that midweek and
22:59
Speaker 1: then have a big final home game. But because it's
23:01
Speaker 1: their final home game, I'm inclined to think it won't
23:03
Speaker 1: be fully rotated. We might see the odd player drop in.
23:07
Speaker 1: But yeah, when Pallas are playing as well as this,
23:10
Speaker 1: it's difficult to want to sell them. It's difficult to
23:12
Speaker 1: want to take out some of their midfielders and someone
23:14
Speaker 1: like a manyors because if they do start, Wolves at
23:17
Speaker 1: Home is a great fixture and one you know, if
23:19
Speaker 1: they just had this and didn't have the FA Cup final,
23:22
Speaker 1: we'd all be keeping and starting Triple Palace this week.
23:24
Speaker 1: So yeah, how do you feel on those you've got
23:27
Speaker 1: two or if you've got three at the moment.
23:28
Speaker 4: Yeah, I went, so we went slightly differently of our
23:30
Speaker 4: palace because they had those back to back doubles. So
23:33
Speaker 4: a lot of people went Triple Palace at the time.
23:35
Speaker 4: You went Munyo's sar Mateta. I think, yes, I went
23:39
Speaker 4: Triple Attacks. I went esse Mateta, and I've been happy,
23:43
Speaker 4: to be honest with you with how Sarah and Es
23:46
Speaker 4: they have done. It's just Mateta, as you say, like
23:48
Speaker 4: he's coming off early most games. It's fifty nine minutes
23:51
Speaker 4: forty two seconds as well, and so yeah, if he
23:54
Speaker 4: just waited twenty seconds longer, he would have made it
23:57
Speaker 4: to that elusive sixty minute mark for the extra appearance point.
24:00
Speaker 4: But yeah, he's the one I'm worried about. I'm not
24:03
Speaker 4: too worried about Saran for Wolves Home. I think I
24:06
Speaker 4: won't be surprised if they all start to be honest
24:08
Speaker 4: with you, but maybe Mateta's the question mark there. Maybe
24:10
Speaker 4: in Ketya comes in, but yeah, I'm currently starting the
24:14
Speaker 4: two mid still and benching Mateta in favor of Eazak.
24:19
Speaker 4: But another shocking result for Spurs, like they've lost twenty
24:22
Speaker 4: four matches in all competitions this season. That's the second
24:27
Speaker 4: most ever in the league in the league season only
24:30
Speaker 4: behind twenty five they lost back in nineteen ninety one.
24:33
Speaker 4: So it's unbelievable when you look at the league table
24:36
Speaker 4: to see them seventeenth Tottenham, sixteenth man United just a
24:41
Speaker 4: relegate that way, that was unimaginable to start the season.
24:45
Speaker 1: But of course they have the europ League Final to
24:47
Speaker 1: look forward to. I think the talking of Spurs, I
24:50
Speaker 1: think the team that is probably getting an awful lot
24:52
Speaker 1: of investment is Aston Villa. So they have Spurs at
24:55
Speaker 1: home in game week thirty seven and then also have
24:57
Speaker 1: manch United away in game week thirty eight, which the
25:00
Speaker 1: game after the Europa League Final, so asen Villa have
25:03
Speaker 1: what could be a perfect storm of playing. The two
25:06
Speaker 1: teams very much focused on that European final. Now only
25:10
Speaker 1: one nil winners away at Bournemouth and it wasn't the
25:13
Speaker 1: most exciting of games there weren't loads of chances. Watkins
25:16
Speaker 1: took his chance very well and Bournemouth didn't take their
25:19
Speaker 1: chance or a couple of chances.
25:21
Speaker 2: Well at all.
25:22
Speaker 1: Outside of that, there wasn't that much to talk about
25:25
Speaker 1: really in this game. I bought Evan Nilson didn't really
25:28
Speaker 1: have a sniff. We saw cliber bench in this game,
25:30
Speaker 1: so Meno, there wasn't much from a Bournemouth point of
25:33
Speaker 1: view until Jefferson had a chance very late on. What
25:36
Speaker 1: I think is a little bit interesting is asen Villa
25:37
Speaker 1: feel like they've turned a corner, particularly defensively over the
25:40
Speaker 1: past few weeks. Conza has been one of the players
25:43
Speaker 1: for me over the past few weeks that has really
25:45
Speaker 1: stepped up and actually got returns when I least expected
25:48
Speaker 1: it to. So you've also owned Martinez. We'll talk about
25:51
Speaker 1: the attack in a moment, but defensively, actually, I've been
25:54
Speaker 1: quite impressed with them.
25:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too. He's been an absolute hero for you.
25:57
Speaker 4: Martinez played him the last couple of game weeks and
26:00
Speaker 4: I think he's got me nine and eight pointers. So yeah,
26:03
Speaker 4: it's another thing I guess we need to factor and
26:05
Speaker 4: so I think him without FBR decisions like who's got
26:07
Speaker 4: the motivation. What are they playing for? Still, I don't
26:10
Speaker 4: get me wrong. I know Bornemouth for also playing for
26:13
Speaker 4: Europe as well, but yeah, thea Villa. Every game matters
26:16
Speaker 4: right now, so I'm tempted to start Martinez again for
26:20
Speaker 4: Spurs home. And I think right now if I was buying,
26:22
Speaker 4: if I could buy any player for Gemmick thirty seven,
26:25
Speaker 4: it would be Watkins. I think he's probably the best
26:27
Speaker 4: forward in the game for the final two game weeks.
26:30
Speaker 4: So that's a decision I need to weigh up this
26:31
Speaker 4: week because I can buy him now I can afford
26:34
Speaker 4: to do that. I can then sell me Teta, but
26:37
Speaker 4: for my team it blocks me buying soccer in Gamie
26:40
Speaker 4: thirty eight, so I'm trying to keep the options flexible
26:42
Speaker 4: because otherwise I'm kind of shoehorned into looking elsewhere. I
26:46
Speaker 4: mean Bournemouth They've got less to home thirty eight, so
26:49
Speaker 4: there are options there forlone if I can't afford soccer.
26:52
Speaker 4: But yeah, are you buying Watkins or tempted?
26:56
Speaker 2: I'm definitely tempted.
26:57
Speaker 1: So I've only got Conza as asen love player this week,
27:01
Speaker 1: which doesn't feel great.
27:03
Speaker 2: I am trying to claw on.
27:04
Speaker 1: At the moment to the fact that Spurs will need
27:06
Speaker 1: to create a little bit of fluidity and a little
27:08
Speaker 1: bit of rhythm in this game. But going into this
27:10
Speaker 1: without any asen Villa doesn't feel like a particularly sensible
27:13
Speaker 1: thing to do. So I've got my eye on Morgan Rodgers.
27:16
Speaker 1: I've got my eye on Ollie Watkins as well. The
27:18
Speaker 1: other one I'm interested in is Marcus Asensio. With Jacob
27:22
Speaker 1: Ramsey getting a red card, you'd hope that it might
27:24
Speaker 1: boost Essentia's minutes just a little bit with them having
27:27
Speaker 1: slightly less options in that sort of attacking midfield area,
27:30
Speaker 1: and we expect him to be on penalties for aston
27:33
Speaker 1: Villa as well.
27:34
Speaker 2: It could be differential.
27:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, with Tilaman's out, also Marcus Rashford looking like he's
27:39
Speaker 1: not going to be available as well, both of which
27:41
Speaker 1: were probably above or in line with Asensio for penalties.
27:45
Speaker 1: It's definitely one if you're looking for a differential and
27:47
Speaker 1: you want to target this fixture, but you're thinking everyone's
27:49
Speaker 1: going to buy Watkins. There's already loads of ownership in Rogers.
27:52
Speaker 1: I do like a Censia. I think the Telaman's injury
27:54
Speaker 1: is an interesting thing. I don't think then they're quite
27:57
Speaker 1: as good going forward without him.
27:59
Speaker 2: He's great at.
27:59
Speaker 1: Pick that pass over the top with Watkins or Rogers
28:02
Speaker 1: or whoever it is running in behind, and without Telaman's
28:05
Speaker 1: doing that, they do have to create chances a little
28:08
Speaker 1: bit differently to how maybe they have done for the
28:10
Speaker 1: majority of the season. So I still think they score
28:12
Speaker 1: goals against Burs I do. I still think they're great
28:14
Speaker 1: to buy, but I don't think it's quite as much
28:17
Speaker 1: a shoe in as if, for example, this game had
28:19
Speaker 1: been played closer to the final and Tilaman's had been playing,
28:22
Speaker 1: maybe as someone who doesn't own them, though that's just
28:25
Speaker 1: me trying to convince myself that it might be okay
28:27
Speaker 1: if I don't buy them this week. But yeah, I
28:29
Speaker 1: agree with you, right, Watkins. If I could buy one
28:32
Speaker 1: player this week and not have to worry about what
28:34
Speaker 1: it means going forward or the money it spent, I
28:36
Speaker 1: think it would be Watkins.
28:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that.
28:39
Speaker 4: The only other one I think is an interesting pick
28:41
Speaker 4: is Palmer for thirty seven, of course because he's got
28:43
Speaker 4: Man United home. But yeah, I think at this point
28:46
Speaker 4: of the season you want to spend your transfers on
28:48
Speaker 4: who's offering you the upside. I just can't imagine many
28:50
Speaker 4: people are looking at keeper or defender transfers if you
28:54
Speaker 4: can help it. I think at this point in the season,
28:56
Speaker 4: we've got two more game meets, so two free transfers
29:00
Speaker 4: get added to our teams. So I think i'd be
29:02
Speaker 4: looking at the mids and forwards. So really this week
29:05
Speaker 4: Watkins and Palmer leap out, and then thirty eight it's
29:07
Speaker 4: like the bomb of attackers maybe soccer.
29:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, one other player who could leap out in game
29:13
Speaker 1: week thirty eight I think is Jared Bowen. That's four
29:15
Speaker 1: returns on the balance for him. They've got Ipswick, They've
29:18
Speaker 1: got Knotingham Forest at home, who don't look nearly as
29:20
Speaker 1: assure defensively, and if Marillo is still out for them,
29:24
Speaker 1: this could be a pretty decent fixture. Of course, their
29:26
Speaker 1: final home game of the season and then they go
29:27
Speaker 1: awe to whipswitch on the final day. So if you
29:30
Speaker 1: can't stretch to someone like a Dubroyn or a Soaker
29:32
Speaker 1: for example, over the next couple of weeks, I think
29:35
Speaker 1: Jared Bowen, alongside Brian and Burmo, they offer very good value.
29:38
Speaker 1: Of course, he scored again, came away with the clean
29:41
Speaker 1: sheet points. I think he got an eight or a
29:42
Speaker 1: nine pointer this week, looked very good, created some chances.
29:45
Speaker 1: He's just their main man at the moment, and even
29:47
Speaker 1: when fulcrowk comes on, his minutes weren't quite as good
29:51
Speaker 1: this week as maybe we'd seen. He got taken off
29:53
Speaker 1: slightly earlier, but the game felt like it had kind
29:55
Speaker 1: of been one from an attacking point of view for
29:57
Speaker 1: west Ham when that happened. He's one that I I
30:00
Speaker 1: am almost certainly not going to own for the remainder
30:02
Speaker 1: of this season, and he's one I definitely wish I could.
30:06
Speaker 1: He's looked very good recently and this is the first
30:08
Speaker 1: time in FPL he's ever returned four games in a row,
30:12
Speaker 1: so yeah, he's on a very good run. I had
30:14
Speaker 1: and you had the defensive half of this game. I
30:18
Speaker 1: had Ariola in goal, one save away from two save points,
30:22
Speaker 1: and that could have even put him higher up the
30:23
Speaker 1: bonus points, but I won't complain. I had an Ariola
30:26
Speaker 1: eight points and you had Wambasaka as well. I think
30:29
Speaker 1: their actual last two games must be one of the
30:32
Speaker 1: best combination of two games we've got right Forrest at
30:35
Speaker 1: home looks on paper difficult because of how Forrest had
30:37
Speaker 1: been this season, but haven't been nearly as good recently,
30:40
Speaker 1: and then they traveled to Ipswich on the final day. Again,
30:43
Speaker 1: as I said with Collins, if you're looking for a
30:45
Speaker 1: defender for one week or for two weeks, sorry, surely
30:48
Speaker 1: Wambasaka is one to consider as well.
30:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, an interesting pick.
30:51
Speaker 4: You know, I made the mistake of benching in gaming
30:54
Speaker 4: thirty five, so I thought I'm not making that mistake again,
30:56
Speaker 4: so I started him, but I did not expect. Yeah,
30:58
Speaker 4: a clean sheet, assist, three bonus type game.
31:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
31:01
Speaker 4: Bowen's actually a great shout Forrest obviously this season. Overall
31:05
Speaker 4: they've been defensively sound, but not as of late, you know,
31:09
Speaker 4: even conceding twice the Leicester. But Bowen, Yeah, eleven goals,
31:13
Speaker 4: ten assists this season. I feel like he's January one
31:16
Speaker 4: of the most underrated players in the league. Like he's
31:18
Speaker 4: averaged twenty two gone avolvements over the last four seasons
31:23
Speaker 4: per season twenty two. So yeah, and as I said earlier,
31:26
Speaker 4: he's on the joint most points over the last four
31:29
Speaker 4: game weeks. Another poor result for Manunite, of course, that's
31:33
Speaker 4: their ninth home Premier League defeat this season. That's their
31:36
Speaker 4: joint most ever in a single league campaign. The last
31:40
Speaker 4: time they lost that many teams at home in the
31:42
Speaker 4: league season was the nineteen sixty two to sixty three season.
31:46
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember that season, but Jimmy
31:48
Speaker 4: Greaves was essential in FPL thirty seven goals that season,
31:53
Speaker 4: but loved choking aside Bowen, I think is yeah a
31:56
Speaker 4: great shout. Actually, I'd overlooked him really going under radar fouled.
32:00
Speaker 4: Well he's done this season in his recent form.
32:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean defense. Yeah, Jared Boone I really like
32:05
Speaker 1: and I think he's the one in attack. Kudos could
32:07
Speaker 1: offer a good differential if you're looking at it again,
32:09
Speaker 1: if we're trying to find players that maybe are a
32:11
Speaker 1: little bit different, kudos picking up and assist zu check scoring.
32:15
Speaker 1: But it does really feel like Jared burn Also, we
32:18
Speaker 1: expect him to be on penalties depending on who else
32:20
Speaker 1: is on the pitch as well. Manch United were the
32:23
Speaker 1: biggest underperformers in terms of x G this week. Hoyland
32:27
Speaker 1: the single biggest in terms of actual player underperformer this week.
32:31
Speaker 1: That was because of that Ariola save from about three
32:34
Speaker 1: yards out for Hoyland in the second half, which in theory,
32:37
Speaker 1: if that had gone in the game, would have looked
32:39
Speaker 1: an awful lot different. But it doesn't feel like we're
32:41
Speaker 1: looking loads at mans United for the final couple of games,
32:44
Speaker 1: maybe apart from looking at the teams that they're playing against,
32:46
Speaker 1: as we've spoken about with Chelsea and with Aston Villa
32:50
Speaker 1: in the last couple. Let's go to the early kickoff
32:53
Speaker 1: very quickly, and actually the only team this week. Only
32:55
Speaker 1: one team in the league scored three goals this week.
32:58
Speaker 1: And if I'd have asked you going into the which
33:00
Speaker 1: team would score three goals this week and you can
33:03
Speaker 1: only pick one, I'm not sure Everton would have been
33:06
Speaker 1: the team that you would have gone with away of
33:08
Speaker 1: Fulham this week. Fulham, of course, were in theories still
33:11
Speaker 1: are in a team that are fighting for a European place.
33:15
Speaker 1: Three to one victory for Everton in this they play
33:19
Speaker 1: Southampton this week. If you need a one week then
33:21
Speaker 1: there's got to be some at Everton, right.
33:23
Speaker 4: I know Mi Kahlenko has been a massive frustration for
33:26
Speaker 4: you this season, and that's a touchy subject, right, every
33:28
Speaker 4: time you bench him he gets a return. I know
33:31
Speaker 4: you haven't got many more on your team but yeah
33:32
Speaker 4: he scored as well, big deflection, but nice to see
33:35
Speaker 4: him on the score sheet. Yeah, Southampton home next. So
33:39
Speaker 4: I don't know if you're looking for like the hail
33:41
Speaker 4: Mary picks rather than the obvious picks. There's got to
33:44
Speaker 4: be some options there, like Beto. Right, he's scored in
33:47
Speaker 4: his last two games in a row. He could be
33:49
Speaker 4: an interesting mine. You'd back Everton to put a few
33:51
Speaker 4: past Southampton, wouldn't you. So he's an option and McNeill
33:55
Speaker 4: and he got an assist off the bench he was bench.
33:58
Speaker 4: I don't know if i'd go there, but if he starts,
34:00
Speaker 4: I feel like that's a fixture of so much potential.
34:02
Speaker 4: But I think better would be the interest in hell
34:04
Speaker 4: Mary pick. Maybe even captain if you're really looking to
34:07
Speaker 4: chase upside.
34:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly because it showed against Manchester City for Southampton
34:13
Speaker 1: how important that last point to beat that derby points
34:16
Speaker 1: total was and they got it. And you could tell
34:18
Speaker 1: in that game, you know, they weren't a team that
34:20
Speaker 1: were thinking in their minds, oh we're relegated, you know,
34:23
Speaker 1: we don't need to focus or it doesn't mean as
34:25
Speaker 1: much anymore. They were focused like as much as those
34:28
Speaker 1: teams trying to qualify for the Champions League in that game,
34:31
Speaker 1: and now you wonder now that they finally got across
34:34
Speaker 1: that line and how much obviously meant to them to
34:36
Speaker 1: do that. Maybe they do switch off, particularly because this
34:40
Speaker 1: is away from home, and maybe they go back to
34:42
Speaker 1: it and trying to put on a show in their
34:43
Speaker 1: final home game in game week thirty eight. But it
34:45
Speaker 1: does feel like Everton, although they don't have loads to
34:48
Speaker 1: play for this, you would hope in the final game
34:50
Speaker 1: at Goodison Park as well. If we want to create narratives,
34:53
Speaker 1: surely that is one that we've got to go and create.
34:55
Speaker 2: The other one is of course Jamie Vardy.
34:57
Speaker 1: He is one goal away from hunting and fifty pen
34:59
Speaker 1: league goals, one goal away from two hundred Leicester goals
35:03
Speaker 1: as well. So if you're looking for a cheap forward
35:05
Speaker 1: and you want to create a narrative, it feels like
35:07
Speaker 1: you've got better on one side when the final game
35:09
Speaker 1: at Goodison at home Southampton, or you've got Jamie Vardy
35:11
Speaker 1: on the other side in what is his final home
35:14
Speaker 1: game for Leicester at home to Ipswich.
35:16
Speaker 2: As well.
35:17
Speaker 1: Defensively, I think they're fine if you need a defender
35:19
Speaker 1: O'Brien actually missed out.
35:21
Speaker 3: So if that's going to be the case, say the same.
35:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Keene is very cheap and he scored again
35:25
Speaker 1: and his goal threat is actually pretty good when he
35:27
Speaker 1: does start. Mikhalenka of course coming in with the goal.
35:30
Speaker 1: But I think in midfield de Corey McNeil if he
35:33
Speaker 1: is going to start, and Beto offer good punts if
35:36
Speaker 1: you needed them for this week. The only issue is
35:38
Speaker 1: if they go away to Newcastle on the final day,
35:40
Speaker 1: so you'd have to probably have an idea of what
35:43
Speaker 1: you do with them on the final day.
35:45
Speaker 3: And I think the last game we haven't touched on
35:47
Speaker 3: was wolvesby Brighton.
35:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not how I thought this game was
35:50
Speaker 2: going to go.
35:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, two one hundred thousand new Cune your owners another
35:55
Speaker 4: the curse of the most transferred in players continuing really Yeah,
35:58
Speaker 4: two hundred thousand or so picked up Una understandably home
36:01
Speaker 4: to Brighton. You know been informed he ends up getting
36:04
Speaker 4: booked for giving away penalty and he's off before sixty
36:07
Speaker 4: minutes as well, so zero pointer.
36:10
Speaker 1: I had the choice of selling Matteta to either Wissa
36:13
Speaker 1: or Kunya this week, and all three of them combined
36:15
Speaker 1: to a total of two points, so it didn't really
36:17
Speaker 1: matter in the end which of them. But I agree
36:19
Speaker 1: I thought we'd see more from Wolves than we did
36:22
Speaker 1: in this game, but it was the penalty he gave
36:25
Speaker 1: away and then he got subbed off. With strand Larson
36:27
Speaker 1: being back, and I think the good thing for Kunya
36:29
Speaker 1: and those of us who've owned him over the past
36:31
Speaker 1: few weeks and on the free hit has been the
36:33
Speaker 1: Strand Larson hasn't been available, which has boosted Kunya's minutes.
36:37
Speaker 2: He's should start games as he looks like he's going
36:40
Speaker 2: to be moving in the summer.
36:41
Speaker 1: But with strand Larson back, of course, with Bella guard
36:44
Speaker 1: back as well, they do have a lot of forwards
36:46
Speaker 1: with which they're trying to give some minutes too. With
36:48
Speaker 1: not that much to play for in the Premier League
36:51
Speaker 1: over the final few games, so.
36:52
Speaker 2: Maybe Kunya's minutes aren't quite as certain.
36:55
Speaker 1: We don't know whether that was the yellow card that
36:56
Speaker 1: drove him to be subbed off, but Brighton really put
36:59
Speaker 1: in a performance that I didn't massively think they had
37:02
Speaker 1: left in them this season. Now they have Liverpool at home,
37:04
Speaker 1: but do have Spurs away on the final day. They
37:07
Speaker 1: are still in contention for a eighth place finish, which
37:10
Speaker 1: could be Conference League football. The final two games with
37:13
Speaker 1: Liverpool and Spurs don't feel quite as good as maybe
37:16
Speaker 1: they'd want to go and chase that. But well Beck,
37:19
Speaker 1: particularly with you know Joe Beder having been suspended, has
37:22
Speaker 1: really stepped up. He's got a goal here in with
37:25
Speaker 1: three bonus points as well and a clean sheet. If
37:27
Speaker 1: you owned someone like a Verbrugen. It does feel a
37:30
Speaker 1: little bit though, because of the pitches they've got, they're
37:32
Speaker 1: not massive buys now rights and it's one we've got
37:35
Speaker 1: to let go.
37:35
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, definitely, But yeah, well Beck it was
37:39
Speaker 4: him that took the penalty of course, and know Jaques
37:41
Speaker 4: Pedro and that's his first ten plus goal league season
37:44
Speaker 4: in seventeen seasons, which is really surprising stat isn't it.
37:47
Speaker 4: I know he's had injury troubles over the years, but
37:50
Speaker 4: I'm happy for him, Like I've got a sousput for
37:52
Speaker 4: well Beck obviously as an Arsenal fan. But in terms
37:54
Speaker 4: of Cunya, then would you say avoid now.
37:57
Speaker 1: I would say so. I don't actually think this is
37:59
Speaker 1: the best week to be buying forwards. I think there's
38:01
Speaker 1: a lot of good forwards that have a good fixture
38:04
Speaker 1: in game week thirty eight, but actually there's not loads
38:06
Speaker 1: that combine both this week and next week. You can
38:08
Speaker 1: still buy Wissa. He's got Fulham at home this week,
38:10
Speaker 1: which isn't bad. Of course, if you've got the money
38:13
Speaker 1: for an Oarlie Watkins then that is probably where you
38:15
Speaker 1: end up. But for example, Kunya goes away to Crystal Palace.
38:18
Speaker 1: Now we're saying that Pallace. We don't quite know what
38:21
Speaker 1: that motivation is going to be going into that game,
38:23
Speaker 1: So I don't think he's a buying new I don't
38:25
Speaker 1: think for the final couple of games.
38:27
Speaker 2: That he's probably the one that we want. But you
38:29
Speaker 2: never know.
38:29
Speaker 1: The final game of the season is at home, and
38:31
Speaker 1: if he is rumored to have a transfer away like
38:33
Speaker 1: he is, then that could be the final Kunya show
38:36
Speaker 1: for Wolves, and you could write your narrative there. We
38:38
Speaker 1: are at the point of the season which is two
38:40
Speaker 1: weeks left that you do need to create your narratives.
38:42
Speaker 2: This week is better.
38:43
Speaker 1: This week it's Jamie Vardy and maybe next week it'll
38:46
Speaker 1: be Kunya's final Wolves game and then you can create
38:49
Speaker 1: the one there if you wanted to.
38:50
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean transfers are so precious right now and
38:52
Speaker 4: those could be the sort of fun punts to end
38:54
Speaker 4: the season on. It feels like this is the first
38:56
Speaker 4: week in ages where we haven't actually got any midweek
38:58
Speaker 4: fixtures like either in you or the Premier League to
39:01
Speaker 4: contend with. It doesn't mean GEMMI thirty seven isn't without
39:04
Speaker 4: its complications. The Gamik starts on Friday, but we've got
39:07
Speaker 4: the FA Cup Final on Saturday, dividing the game we
39:09
Speaker 4: can two.
39:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels weird that we've got the two games
39:12
Speaker 1: on Friday night. They're nothing at all on the Saturday.
39:14
Speaker 1: We actually have no Premier League games left on the
39:17
Speaker 1: Saturday between now and the end of the season because
39:20
Speaker 1: of course the final day takes place on Sunday as well.
39:23
Speaker 1: With all that in mind, Kelly, Jules and Sam will
39:25
Speaker 1: be back on Thursday previewing at Game Week thirty seven
39:28
Speaker 1: and discussing how to manage the game week with a
39:30
Speaker 1: cup final in the middle of it.
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Speaker 4: It's been great chatting to you, Harry. I really enjoyed
39:34
Speaker 4: it off the bench this season and I'll see you
39:36
Speaker 4: back next season.
39:38
Speaker 2: Perfect.
39:38
Speaker 1: Good luck with your final two weeks and here's to
39:40
Speaker 1: us ending it on a high