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S4 Ep19: Off The Bench: Bruno does it again · 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. I'm Lee from FPL Family.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm Sam, the other half of f PL family.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, what a nice surprise the FPL family together on
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  Speaker 1: and Off the Bench podcast for the very first time.
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  Speaker 1: And we have to say before we get started, get
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  Speaker 1: well soon to my usual partnering crime as Philips yellow
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  Speaker 1: flagged right now, Sam yellow flagged might be orange. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure he's going to be fit to play sooner rather
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  Speaker 1: than later. But it is an appropriate week for us
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  Speaker 1: to appear on off the Bench together for the first time, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: because our sides, Liverpool and Spurs met each other on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon, which we'll get to later on.
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  Speaker 2: How'd he go?
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  Speaker 1: Week thirty go for you? Though?
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  Speaker 2: That was a really good week actually for the first
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  Speaker 2: time in a little while seventy three. Everything that could
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  Speaker 2: kind of go right, it went right. Debravka had to
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  Speaker 2: come off the bench because rus is injured, but that
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  Speaker 2: was nice for a six pointer obviously, like most of
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  Speaker 2: the game had. Gabrielle Senesi and with a ten pointer
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  Speaker 2: was really lovely. Having benched in the previous week and
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  Speaker 2: felt quite annoyed at myself for that had Bruno as captain,
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  Speaker 2: Saboslai with his eleven pointer. I didn't even mind that
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  Speaker 2: goal against burs when it bought me and an.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven didn't celebrated, did you? But you were kind of
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  Speaker 1: like in your head you were like, oh, good for FBL.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, there's worse things that could have happened here.
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  Speaker 1: At least I got some FPR points out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then Tiago with the goal in the Monday night
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  Speaker 1: at football. So yeah, up nearly six hundred k in rank,
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  Speaker 1: a really really nice big green era. I think it
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  Speaker 1: was like twenty six percent change on my rank overall,
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  Speaker 1: So very very happy with that.
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  Speaker 2: How about you?
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  Speaker 1: How did he go good? Yeah, not as good as you,
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  Speaker 1: but still pretty good. At sixty two, I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: happy with that. Gabrielle with you know what seems to
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  Speaker 1: be the kind of standard nine pointer now, Like what
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  Speaker 1: a good asset he's been for us this season, and
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact that they blank in game week thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see me selling gabriel I think I'm to
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  Speaker 1: hold him through, probably just bench him next week. Helling
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  Speaker 1: with the eight points of a Broggan seven, Thiago six,
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  Speaker 1: and then Bruno Fernandez as captain with the twenty, so
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  Speaker 1: you feel like I've got the captaincy right, and then
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  Speaker 1: had you know, a little bit of unexpected. I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say luck, but I wasn't expecting for Briognt to keep
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  Speaker 1: a clean sheet theirs, but a seven point was very welcome.
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  Speaker 1: So sixty two, that puts me up to about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty odd K, one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: od K something like that. So I think that's my
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  Speaker 1: seventh green arrow in a row. So I'm just waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the I'm waiting for the luck to run out,
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  Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? But it seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be on a bit of a run here. But of course,
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  Speaker 1: as we both know, we're about to come into a
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  Speaker 1: pretty well let's just call it a fun the time
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  Speaker 1: in FPR. The next few weeks are going to sort
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  Speaker 1: the engaged FPR managers from those that kind of casually
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  Speaker 1: play the game, aren't they. I mean, we've got blank
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  Speaker 1: game Week thirty one coming up. We're going to have
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  Speaker 1: we have doubles, We're going to have all sorts going
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  Speaker 1: on Chip season as well. I'm ready to attack it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, I feel ready for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's It's interesting, isn't it, because we're
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  Speaker 2: on very different strategies. Obviously, I've already played my World card,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm kind of managing around with three transfers making
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  Speaker 2: sure that I've got enough players for this week. You
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  Speaker 2: haven't played your World card, so you can be maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more rogue this week going into it,
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  Speaker 2: I suppose, because you can always bring players back in
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  Speaker 2: on worldcard, whereas I have to plan for that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely going to be the part of the season
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  Speaker 2: where all the fun begins, I think. And you can
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  Speaker 2: really have big game weeks that go well for you
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  Speaker 2: and ones that don't if you don't have your strategy right,
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  Speaker 2: particularly in terms of the chips that you can use
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  Speaker 2: over the coming weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally true. Totally true. Well, speaking of the fun beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and I use fun loosely with this game, Liverpool one
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  Speaker 1: Spurs one, I think we need to get this one
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  Speaker 1: out of the way, don't we start with the FKL
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  Speaker 1: family Derby Liverpool one point sixty seven XG created so
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  Speaker 1: you know, not bad but zero big chances. Like I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember Vicario really making a very good save in
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  Speaker 1: actual fact, probably should have saved, should have done better
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  Speaker 1: with the Suppo's life pray kick in my opinion. Yeah, however,
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  Speaker 1: Spurs two big chances and actually I saw on x
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  Speaker 1: actually over the weekend was that Spurs covered nine kilometers
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  Speaker 1: more than Liverpool. Here you outrun us by fifteen percent.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's just oh, I'd have to be careful. I
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  Speaker 1: got to keep my call Lib when we have this
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  Speaker 1: conversation about Liverpool, because I was so frustrated with the game,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, because we were watching it together. Just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the Lethard g the kind of lack
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  Speaker 1: of effort, the lack of intensity from Liverpool was was
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  Speaker 1: kind of stark really, but let's talk about obviously an
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  Speaker 1: FPL perspective, the big news I suppose coming into this
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  Speaker 1: game was Liverpool starting eleven. A lot of FPR managers
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  Speaker 1: me included bringing in Hugo Ektk upfront for Liverpool. Some
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  Speaker 1: managers also investing in Salah in midfield, largely because of
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  Speaker 1: what he can do for us rather than what he
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  Speaker 1: has been doing lately. I think both on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: both started on the bench for this game, and both
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  Speaker 1: come on and had minimal impact in reality, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that's now Liverpool have conceded twenty one
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  Speaker 1: goals after the seventy fifth minute in games across all
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  Speaker 1: competitions now and just two clean sheets in nine slots. Men,
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  Speaker 1: So even those that have got Virgil van Dijk weren't
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  Speaker 1: counting their points as they have been in previous week.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, talk to me about how you felt about
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  Speaker 1: ekity K and Salaby and Benched As a subbos Co owner,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to be happy, and then we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: Spurs in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ekityk two hundred and fifty nine thousand transfers in
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  Speaker 2: for him. He was the fourth most bought this week.
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  Speaker 2: He was the second most captained player in the game week,
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  Speaker 2: which doesn't normally happen. Normally we would see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: somebody like a Bruno Fernandez or maybe one of the
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  Speaker 2: really informed players Jeo Pedro, that kind of thing. So
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  Speaker 2: for Ekityk to be given the armband shows how people
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  Speaker 2: were feeling about the Spurs Liverpool game and the way
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  Speaker 2: that it might go. So one point two million managers
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  Speaker 2: gave him the armband this week obviously comes off. He
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  Speaker 2: gets that one pointer didn't really look like doing much
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  Speaker 2: either when he came off the bench. As you said,
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  Speaker 2: no big chances for Liverpool in this one, but I
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  Speaker 2: think remains a hold despite that. But what's really interesting
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  Speaker 2: is is the amount of times that Liverpool kind of
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  Speaker 2: doing this that the commentary was talking about. And you
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  Speaker 2: talk all the time time about how Liverpool sleepwalking matches
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  Speaker 2: and I think it was that's that that you read
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  Speaker 2: out about the distance that Spurs covered in comparison to
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  Speaker 2: Liverpool kind of highlights that there was a real hard
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  Speaker 2: working effort from Spurs. Dom Sa Bosla has been a
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  Speaker 2: really good bye for me over the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 2: He has been one that's kind of been consistently returning
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  Speaker 2: And obviously we talk all the time in FPL about
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  Speaker 2: roots to points and historically Salah would always be the
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  Speaker 2: player at Liverpool that you'd want for the roots to
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  Speaker 2: points because you have the penalties and his attacking threat
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  Speaker 2: and particularly last season he was unbelievable in FBL. This
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  Speaker 2: year not so much. But dom to Bosli and another
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  Speaker 2: free kick. Now I agree with what you said. I
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  Speaker 2: do think the Cairo probably should do better with that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he pretty much gets a full hand to it, but Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 2: that's his second attacking return in three game weeks now.
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  Speaker 2: He also got defensive contribution points and some bonus points.
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  Speaker 2: He's now registered in an attacking return or defensive contribution
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  Speaker 2: points in six of his last seven appearances for Liverpool.
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  Speaker 2: So Dom s Bosli as the cheaper route into investing
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  Speaker 2: in Liverpool definitely feels like the best option right now
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  Speaker 2: in comparison to the level of money that you're spending
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  Speaker 2: on the likes of Verts or Ekatek. I just think
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  Speaker 2: for consistency at seven million, and for those that have
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  Speaker 2: got you know, Rice who's not going to play this week,
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  Speaker 2: or Manchester City midfielder who's also not going to play
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  Speaker 2: coming up in thirty one. Dom suppose I just feels
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  Speaker 2: like a bit of a gift, to be honest, because
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  Speaker 2: he's always getting something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I think he's so good. And there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of FPR managers that didn't go there
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  Speaker 1: because Slot likes to play him at right back, and
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  Speaker 1: even I was virgin caution you know, don't want him
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  Speaker 1: to be playing out of position. But let me tell you,
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  Speaker 1: when he plays right back, he still takes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of corners and free kicks. So he's got some roots
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  Speaker 1: to assist there and goals as we saw at the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: and he usually gets the defensive contributions when he plays
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  Speaker 1: right back. Yeah, So whether Slot plays him in the
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  Speaker 1: ten and in the ten, I think he's great in
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  Speaker 1: the ten, perfect right goal for it, assists for everything
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  Speaker 1: that he'd want. But even at right back, he's got
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to get defensive contributions and still get assists
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  Speaker 1: and goals. So I think he's a really good I
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  Speaker 1: think he's a really really good option ATKO though. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: having brought him in, I was obviously disappointed to see
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  Speaker 1: him benched starting a game. What you were saying there
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  Speaker 1: about him being a hold up, I'm not so sure,
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  Speaker 1: you know. I'm not so sure.
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  Speaker 2: You have to with the blank coming up there, you
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  Speaker 2: can't send it having a blank game week you do.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing is I've got I've got a keen
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  Speaker 1: eye on how we get on with against Galatasterai in
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  Speaker 1: the week. If he plays ninety again against Galatasterai, particularly
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  Speaker 1: if we get through against Galatasarai, you've got to think
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  Speaker 1: then that you know, there'll be a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: mentality shift at Liverpool towards maybe all in on the
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  Speaker 1: Champions League rather than listen. We can't afford to the
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  Speaker 1: Premier League form slip, can we? But you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we just see reduced minutes for Hugo because we start
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  Speaker 1: to prioritize the Champions League. That's a big game against Galatasara.
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  Speaker 1: If he plays ninety, I think there's a there's a
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  Speaker 1: real chance that he gets benched again in the next
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  Speaker 1: game out. But you're right, I think given that he
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  Speaker 1: plays in thirty one, you've got to hold him. Let's
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  Speaker 1: use that as a bit of a transition to Spurs
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  Speaker 1: because one of the players that I was really impressed with,
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  Speaker 1: and despite Spurs obviously, you know, coming into this game
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  Speaker 1: one in fourteen five straight defeats. You don't need me
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  Speaker 1: to reel out that rhetoric anymore, right, But the one
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  Speaker 1: player that's kind of stood out for me, there's been
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  Speaker 1: a couple of thot. Jed Spent's very good in this
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  Speaker 1: game and has been in recent weeks. But Ray Charlison's
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  Speaker 1: got this. There's something about Richardson, isn't they He done
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  Speaker 1: it for Everton as well when he was there. He's
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  Speaker 1: got this kind of like anti relegation I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: down kind of attitude. And as a Spurs fan and
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  Speaker 1: there's a Spurs community, you guys must love to see it, right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean he had five shots in total in this game,
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  Speaker 1: which was the most of any player on the pitch.
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  Speaker 1: He actually suspended for the Spurs game in Europe in midweek,
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  Speaker 1: so you've got to suspect he's going to be rolled
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  Speaker 1: out in game week thirty one. Of course, Spurs have
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  Speaker 1: got that really important game against Forrest that home. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a huge six pointer, we have to say it's a
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  Speaker 1: six pointer. He's six point seven million. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 1: rich Arlison's an all right punp for those that want
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  Speaker 1: to play him in thirty one, particularly if then you're
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  Speaker 1: wild carding in thirty two, because you can reverse to
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  Speaker 1: the decision if you want to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a Spurs fan base, we've been talking about how
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  Speaker 2: we've unlocked relegation rich Arlison because it does feel like
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  Speaker 2: he has He turns in to this kind of like
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  Speaker 2: force that is like he's out there, he's given everything
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  Speaker 2: for the cause and as a Spurs fan, I love
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  Speaker 2: to see it. But this is now his second goal
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  Speaker 2: in three matches and he got the bonus points in
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  Speaker 2: the game against against Liverpool at the weekend. Look, I
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  Speaker 2: don't I'm not normally going to sit here and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think for for months and months now, I've sat
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  Speaker 2: on any podcasts and said you should invest in Spurs.
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  Speaker 2: But this weekend is slightly different because obviously we don't
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  Speaker 2: have the four teams playing, and two of those teams,
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  Speaker 2: the Manchester City and Arsenals, are teams that we're heavily
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  Speaker 2: invested in. And for those managers that are holding a
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  Speaker 2: wild card and looking to do that in game week
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  Speaker 2: thirty two or heading into game week thirty two game
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  Speaker 2: week thirty one is the perfect opportunity to take a
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  Speaker 2: punt on a player. It's the perfect opportunity to go right, well,
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  Speaker 2: who's got something to really fight for, who's got form?
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  Speaker 2: Wellbra Charlison's got both of those things. He's got form,
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  Speaker 2: he's got something to fight for, and as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: cannot play in Wednesday evening's Champions League game, So that
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  Speaker 2: makes a massive difference in terms of what team I
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  Speaker 2: would expect to set up. Plus we're still without fourteen
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  Speaker 2: team players, so it's not like he's got loads of
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  Speaker 2: other options that he can rotate into either. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that long term you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: investing in Spurs. But for game week thirty one, I
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  Speaker 2: don't mind a little bit of a punt on rich Arlison.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got a forward slot that you need to fail,
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  Speaker 2: or if you're looking to do something different across your
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  Speaker 2: front line, then it does feel like there's an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: there to go somewhere new.
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  Speaker 1: Goodness me, they won't be inviting us back on Samway
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  Speaker 1: what first time? And we're punsing Richarlison. We're punting Richarldson.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Manchester United three Aston Villa one then
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  Speaker 1: and you know we'll have the conversation about Erlin hard
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  Speaker 1: and later on. But in previously, over the course of
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  Speaker 1: this season and in many seasons, we've talked about him
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  Speaker 1: being a perma cap. We've talked about you know, you
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  Speaker 1: put the armband on Harland and you set and forget. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying Bruno fer Andanz is that guy. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: that guy. He's reached ten double digit halls in FPL
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  Speaker 1: this season. Now, that's the most of any player. He's
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth assists of the season. That's for short of the
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  Speaker 1: all time Premier League assist record, and that's his hundredths
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  Speaker 1: for United as well, by the way, So he's now
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  Speaker 1: breaking records. He's he's coming up against these milestones I
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  Speaker 1: noticed under Carrick actually in the last few weeks. He's
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  Speaker 1: just got this. He's defending a lot less, right, He's
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  Speaker 1: not getting as many defensive contributions, He's not being asked
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  Speaker 1: to do much defensive work. Carrock's almost kind of gone
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  Speaker 1: in and gone, yep, you're our best player. Go do
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  Speaker 1: it right, go directly. Yeah. Absolutely, And he's been fantastic
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  Speaker 1: as his sixth consecutive double digit hole on home turf,
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  Speaker 1: he's got like ten ten, ten thirteen, ten thirteen or like,
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  Speaker 1: he's got ridiculous hauls. So I'm just saying Bruno Fernandez
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  Speaker 1: is now kind of perma captain in FPR and I'm
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  Speaker 1: certainly looking at him as a captaincy option for game
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  Speaker 1: week thirty one. What do you make of the game
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  Speaker 1: and do you agree with the whole kind of Bruno
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  Speaker 1: you know, default captain narrative that I'm trying to spin hit. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I think at a time when we're struggling
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  Speaker 2: a little bit with captain c because Harlan hasn't exactly
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  Speaker 2: been performing. We haven't really had anyone from Arsenal that's
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  Speaker 2: been consistently their best player and that you could hand
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  Speaker 2: the arm ben too late in previous seasons maybe it
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  Speaker 2: was soccer or you know, you had an option there.
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  Speaker 2: We haven't had the Salah that we did last season.
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  Speaker 2: We could go to either col Palmer has been out injured.
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  Speaker 2: So all of these kind of like important premium assets
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  Speaker 2: that you maybe would have handed the arm ban two
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  Speaker 2: before just haven't been consistently there. Well, look over at
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  Speaker 2: Manchester United and you've got a guy that's been consistently there. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: he had a couple of games out through injury earlier
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  Speaker 2: on in the season, but he's consistently there. When he starts,
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  Speaker 2: you know he's starting, and he's paying ninety minutes. He's
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  Speaker 2: involved in everything good that Manchester United do and when
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at ninety minute men, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: much better. And so for me, I agree. I think
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  Speaker 2: he is the one now that I kind of always
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  Speaker 2: bust team my captain on. He's the one that I
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  Speaker 2: start with it there and then somebody has to be
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  Speaker 2: really impressive in order to take the armband away from
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  Speaker 2: him now, like they have to be really good or
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  Speaker 2: have a really good fixture that is worth making that
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  Speaker 2: move away from Bruno because it does feel like you're
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  Speaker 2: constantly getting something from him, and if you don't get
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  Speaker 2: the attacking returns, then you get the defensive contribution points.
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  Speaker 2: You also get the bonus points regularly with him as well,
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  Speaker 2: so we have this side of him and then obviously
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  Speaker 2: you have the set piece threat as well, which adds
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  Speaker 2: to his appeal in FBL. So yeah, very much a
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  Speaker 2: fan of the Bruno Fernandez captaincy outside of him, though
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  Speaker 2: I think it's difficult In Manchester United a few weeks back,
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  Speaker 2: it was Enbomo that everyone was going to go to
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple we haven't really seen the consistency
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  Speaker 2: from him. Caunya this week with something, but we haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen that previously from him. Casimiro, weirdly is probably the
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  Speaker 2: one that's been the most consistent outside of Bruno. That's
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: back to back goals now from him. Only three midfielders
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: can better. He's forty one points across the last seven
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: game weeks, three goals and this is four defensive contribution.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Points this time that he's assisted Casimira, right, that's that's
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: the most any player's assisted in another We're getting to
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: Canaan Sun levels here with it.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: So much happened on a minute. Let's not go too far,
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: but in a way, isn't this is exactly what we want.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Right when we're an FPL and we're looking for players,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: you want the ones that play really nicely together, know
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: each other really well, that kind of teamwork because you
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: know then that you're likely to get both of those things.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: A bit like when we have Canaan so and you
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: would invest in both of them in fl because you
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: knew that they were always going to be part of
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: the attacking returns together. Well, Bruno and Casimiro definitely feel
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: like that, and for me right now, like there will
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: be managers that are looking for a cheap fifth midfielder
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: and Casimiro at five point seven million is fitting that
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: bill really really nicely because he's in that conversation. I
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: guess with the likes of Elliot Anderson, who maybe we'll
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: come to you later potentially Harry Wilson, but you're looking
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: at the cheaper options at that end. Now, we're not
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: getting much more consistency from those guys than you are
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: from Casamiro and they only have the Premier League to
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: contend with. There's no FA Cup, there's no league action.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: That's what Casimiro is doing well, isn't it. Because he's
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: got that rest he can afford to you know, he
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: hasn't got playing mid week. He can just sort of
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: train as much as he needs to and get be
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: ready for the weekends. Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And then Cesco. We had a conversation over the
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: weekend about how is Cesco a player that you can
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: invest in? And I said to you, why not, just
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: because he's getting benched? Why not? You know, we've got
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: five goals and seven league matches. I think it's seven
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: in nine now in all competitions. All right, Sometimes he's
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: coming off the bench, but does that actually matter. If
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: he's coming off the bench but regularly returning, that's more
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: than we're getting from players that are starting every week.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: So I don't know. I quite like it as a
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: bit of a differential punt up top. You know, if
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: we're talking about Richtarlison, there's a differential punt in there.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I think Cesco's got to be in that conversation as well.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's only seven point three million as well. I
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: have to say I agree. I think I think great
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: mentality from him right, because there's a lot of players
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: that you know, we'll come off the bench, score goals
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: and be like, well I expect to be in the team.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I should be in the team. But you know, Carrott
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: will roll out and Bmo in that position when he
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: feels it's right tactically, and he'll play Cesco when he
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: thinks it's right tactically. And no, I haven't seen anything
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: other I haven't seen anything from Cesco. You know, he's
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: not wingy and he's not on exit I'm putting anything about.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: He's just getting his head down, doing the right things
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: and coming on and he's ready whenever Manchester United Carrently
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: to call him so great mentality, I love it. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: think it's very very good from a Villa perspective though. Listen,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: they've just managed seven goals in their last ten Premier
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: League games, which is the fewest of any team, so
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: they're really struggling up top and Watkins again a bit ineffective.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: And I have to say, for a few weeks you've
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: not been a massive Morgan Rodgers fan. We've been trying
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: to get We've both been trying to get Morgan Rogers
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: out of our team. But the reason we've kept him,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and I think the reason a lot of FPR managers
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: have kept him is because he plays in game week
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: thirty one. He's not been a priority transer out. Not
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: only does he play, but he plays west Ham at home,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: which I mean on papers decent paper's a decent looking game.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: But west Ham seriously improved over the last few weeks,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: so who's to say they can't go to Villa Park
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: and get something west Ham? So I don't know. The
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: fixtures remain good even after game week thirty one. It's
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Forest Sunderland, Fulham Spurs Burnley. You know the narrative is
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: going to be there to keep Rogers, right. I think
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: if you've got anybody else you could probably sell. But
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: with those fixtures, he's going to be a tough sell.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Or if you did have a wild card in thirty two,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: if you're in my position and the same position as
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a lot of FPR managers playing the carding thirty tw
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: would you keep Rogers or would that be the end
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: for you? Do? You know?
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: It's really difficult because in game week twenty five we
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: had a ten pointer from him. Outside of that, we've
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: had two to one, two two two two. There was
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: an eight point two against Newcastle, then it was two
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: three five one. Like, there's just not been the highs
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: from Rogers. And we're not talking about an insignificant price
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: investment where at seven point five million, So he is
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a player that is a relatively big part of your
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: team budget and we're paying for avility that you would
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: expect to be doing a lot better than they are.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: In recent weeks. Their forms as massively dipped, and that's
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: in part because they're just one they're not creating enough,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: and two when they are creating, they're not finishing those chances.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: So that's the difficulty with Morgan Rodgers. It's not all
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Rogers's fault. It's not like I'm sat here going wow, Rogers,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: you've been used to You're not creating any chances, you're
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: not scoring goals. He is creating some chances, but they're
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: not being scored. And also he's not then getting the
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: opportunities to score the goals because the others around him
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: aren't creating as much. Now I thought this might be
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: better game for aston Villa We're starting to see a
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: couple of their players come back, and I thought that
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: might strengthen them, and that might improve the way that
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: we are with Morgan Rodgers, and maybe over the coming
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: weeks that improvement will be seen. But I wasn't impressed
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: by them now. The problem is, as you say, we
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: go into the next few weeks, and I mean, they're
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: going to have an impact on what happens in the
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: relegation battle, aren't they, Because they face everybody they're trying
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to get out of the relegation zone in west ham
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Forest Burs. You know, they've got all of those teams
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: to play between now and the end of the season.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: So let's let's see. I think for me this week,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: given the blanking teams, given that I have arsenal assets
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and man city assets and managers out there will have
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: palace assets potentially some Wolves ones as well, selling Morgan
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Rogers does not feel like a priority. If I was
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: wild carding, I still don't think he'd feel like a
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: priority sell because I think you'll be looking to upgrade
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: players that don't have a fixture at all this week
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: rather than taking out somebody that does all.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Right, very good. Let's moving on Chelsea nil Newcastle one,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and as a Jacques Pedro owner and an FBL player
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that played Enzo Fernandez this week, this one had a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: bit of a detrimental impact on my rank. I can't lie.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: This is one I wasn't I didn't foresee. I thought
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: this would be a home win. Actually, but we have
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: to talk about one clean sheet in fourteen league matches
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: now for Chelsea, right, So definite problems at that end
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of the pitch. Doesn't seem to be too many problems
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: despite the blank here. It doesn't seem to be too
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: many problems at the other end of the pitch. They're
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: top for XG since Rasenia came in by some distance,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: by the way, so they are creating despite you know,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: like I say, the blank here. So what do we
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: make of this game? Chelsea seemed to be going for
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: all out attack, all out flair and jar Pedro in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: previous weeks has been great. A lot of FPL managers
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: bought him in seven point seven million. He's not going
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to break the bank. But he kind of had any
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: really had one meaningful attempted didn't. It was a kind
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: of a late looping header, wasn't it. Towards the end
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: of the game, and he had three other shots that
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: were blocked. So do want to discuss nuke because I've
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: got really nice looking fixture in game week thirty one,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: but let's do Chelsea first. Seem to be creating XG.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Jean Pedro transferred in by a lot of FBI managers
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: blanking this week. How do you feel about Chelsea in
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a minute? Do you know?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: This was the game I was most worried about. I
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: didn't have any assets in this game, don't have jel Pedro,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and that over the last couple of weeks has been
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Who's been painful not having jeal Pedro, to be honest,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: because every time he does something you see the rank
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: topp all every time. However, going into this one, I
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: was concerned. I was worried about Newcastle's defensive abilities. They
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: haven't been that solid defensively over recent weeks. I was
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: worried that we might see some rotation around the important
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Champions League game that they have next week against Barcelona,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: and so I was looking at this game thinking this
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: is a problem and I need to try and find
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: a root to jel Pedro, and I didn't really have
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: one without selling Earlan Harlan, and I wasn't prepared to
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: do that ahead of his fixture against west Ham, which
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: we'll talk about later. Before this game, Pedro had scored
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: eight goals and six assists in eight matches like that
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: is that was yeah, absolutely, But in this one, as
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you say, didn't really do anything. And defensively, I always
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: worry about Chelsea, despite what you were saying about only
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: one clean sheen in fourteen. When they do get one,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: it does hurt your rank, because again I didn't have
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: one there. Now obviously we've subsequently heard that now James
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: is going to be out for several weeks. Defensively, they
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: are not as good when Reece James is not on
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the pitch, and so I do worry now that if
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: you've got the likes of Sanchez or Chaliber that maybe
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: now is the time that you need to start thinking
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: about an exit plan for them, although I wouldn't do
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that ahead of the blank because again I think you're
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: going to have bigger issues to deal with a head
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: of the blank game week, but it's probably one for
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: dealing with in sort of thirty two onwards. I still
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: want our own jail Pedro despite this result, I still
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: think of you. Yeah, I don't know.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: The pictures get a lot more difficult from thirty two
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and wasn't it It's City and then man United at
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: home right and away who are defensively low key doing
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: pretty well, particularly out the amate forest at home in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: thirty five you'd won in But I don't know, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: despite the form that he's shown in recent weeks, I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: think it's a case for not having him, Or am
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I mad?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe? I mean, I think the performances over the recent
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: weeks show that he has got the potential to do
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: well against any owners and I think that's the problem,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: isn't it is that you're is that risk redd strategy?
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Isn't It's like, okay, well I could go without him,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and I could take a punt on the Cessco's and
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the Charlassans and those players that we've talked about earlier
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: and not have him, But it's Everton up in the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: blank game week. He is going to be not just
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: very heavily owned, but a very popular captaincy in the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: absence of Arsenal and Manchester City assets. That's going to
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: hurt even more not having him. So again it comes
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: down to where are your boundaries at the moment. Do
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: you want to go and really attack it? And if
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: you do, then probably jub Pedgo isn't the one. If
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you want to play a little bit safer, have a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: little bit of protection of rank and go different elsewhere,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: then I think he probably still is the player to
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: go to. But outside of him at Chelsea, there isn't
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: really anybody else that I would want to invest in
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: right now. I do think the Reech James injury will
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: have a big impact on them, all.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Right, very good and Newcastle mentioned a second ago that
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they do have a nice fixture in game week thirty one.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: They've got Sundland at home, you know, a real out
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: of form Sunderland as well. At the moment, I think
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the season might be catching up with them, and they've
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: got a lot of injuries Sunderland right, Maybe we'll discuss
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that later on, but Anthony Gordon looks to have that
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: kind of center forward spot sewing up right now and
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: he's returned three of the last five game weeks. He's
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: on penalties as we know, Like I say, a nice fixture,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: we'll all be looking for potentially a Semnio or a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Rice replacement because both of those guys won't play in
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: game week thirty one, you could do a lot worse
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: than Anthony Gordon, right, And from a defensive perspective, that's
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: their first clean sheet in fifteen games and all competitions Newcastle,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: so they've not really been defensively that solid for us.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: But I think you'd back them in game week thirty
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: one against Sunderland. So could someone like a Malik Chow
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: who we know is also a threat from set piece
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: as we've seen that over the course of this season.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Could he come into our thinking. But the one I'd
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: like to discuss is Anthony Gordon because I think he's
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: going to get some attention I think going into GA
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: week thirty one.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, eleven points this week. That's his highest score of
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: the season so far from him because obviously he gets
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the bonus points as well in this one. Missed out
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: in the Champions League because he was ill, so maybe
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: that hadn't impact. It allowed him to have the midweek
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: off whereas some of the others maybe didn't, and obviously
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the Chelsea team didn't either. I think what you said
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: is interesting because when you look at the fixtures that
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: NUCOSS will have coming up over the next three weeks.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Obviously it's the Derby in thirty one. Now Derby's can
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: go all kinds of ways, and we saw we saw
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: earlier on in the season Sunderland beating Newcastle in the
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: reverse of this. Now, obviously Sunderland were in a very
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: different moment. It was their home fixture, but nonetheless they
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: have got one over on them earlier on in the season.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: After that is Crystal Palace, Bournemouth before Arsenal and then
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Brighton and they're nototting of Forest Walls and Fulham to
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: end the season. It's actually a decent block of fixtures obviously, no,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: it's only really that US game there is is above
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: a three on the fixture difficulty ratings. So Newcastle do
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: feel like a team to invest in. I'm kind of
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: intrigued as to how the Champions League plays out though,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: because obviously they've got a very big match away in
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Barcelona in midweek and so we just have to wait
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: and see how that goes, I think, and make sure
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: that they all get through that and then going going
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: into the weekend can make a decision around around investment.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: For me again, though, I think if you're going to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: go for an attacker. It's Anthony Gordon or no one
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: at Newcastle, because I don't see the consistency from anybody else.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I agree, but I don't mind the child pick at
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: the back either. I think with the pictures that they
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: have coming up, there should definitely be some clean sheets.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: I mean Sunderland, Crystal Palace Born with all of them
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: failing to score in game week thirty and then the
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: next three opponents. So there's maybe a potential to go
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: for somebody like a child this week, particularly if you're
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: losing a couple of defenders to the blank game week
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: in the likes of Gabrielle or Gayhee.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very good. All right, let's move it on Arsenal
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to Everton Neil. And even as I suppose that, even
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: as a Spurs fan, you have to say, what a
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: moment for the young sixteen. You know, what a moment
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: for young Max Downman. There's the four point two in
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: an attacker on FPIL. I don't think any of us
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are going to go there, right, but talk about super
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: sub because obviously the goal will get the headlines. The
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: fact that he kind of Pickford was Arpani sort of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: ran the length of the pitch to slot home his
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: first goal and become the youngest ever scorer in the
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Premier League. But let me tell you the pre assist,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the assist for the assist. If you like the ball
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: in that hits, I think it's Encapier that. Then Joccas
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: scores to open the scoring for Arsenal and break the deadlock.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: He made the difference. Max downmen, you have to say
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Arteta bringing him on in the game of that magnitude
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in an atmosphere like that at nil nil, I think takes,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you know, takes some nerves of steel from Arteta to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: do it. But for him to come on and change
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the game, Max down and take about absolutely sensational stuff.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I think if you look at the XG of this game,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: it looks like Arsenal were fairly convincing winners. I think
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: they racked up two point seven against Everton's one point
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: zero five, so just over one for Everton. But I'm
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: here to telly that wasn't really the case, right If
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: you look at the two goals that they scored, Dowmond's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: was clearly out an open goal right from not far out,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and then Jockarettes largely was an open goal as well,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: because the reason it hit Hincapier on the way over
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: from Max Damon was because Pickford had got a bit
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: of a finger on it, but you know he was
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: out the game, Pickford right at that stage, Jocres taps
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: into an empty net. So those two goals were very
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: very high XG and everything else, you know, the rest
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: of the Arsenal shots, and there was twenty three other
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: shots that they had in this game amounted to just
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: zero point eight XG combined. So twenty three shots nor
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: point eight XG combined. I think, for example, ESA had
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: six shots from outside the box, right, so this was
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: kind of long range speculative stuff from Arsenal. Everton did
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a really good job keeping them at bay and in
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the end, like I say, it was Dowmond that come
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: on and made the difference. Now, I don't know how
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: much we want to discuss Arsenal here, because of course
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: they don't have the game in game week thirty one
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: because of the League Cup final against City, But just
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a quick comment or two about, you know, the Arsenal
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: ass that we've got Gabrielle Rice. There'll be a few
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: that have got Timber who now looks like he might
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: be injured. There might even be a few jacresoners out there.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: If you've got those arsenal players, who do you keep
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and who do you sell? What's your kind of priority litter?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: For Game Week thirty one.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I'm Dan's just one now, Just Gabrielle. I've been selling
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: him over the last couple of weeks, and Gabrielle, I
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: think is an absolute hold. I mean, obviously it gets
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the key sheet this one too defensive contribution, he gets
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: some of the bonus points. He's now on one hundred
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and seventy three points for the season. That's forty six
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: more than he's ever had by game week thirty in
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a season, and it's also four points more than Robertson
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: had at the same point in the twenty eighteen twenty
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: nineteen season, when he set the record for the most
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: points ever by defender in a season with two hundred
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: and thirty. So he's absolutely on track to be the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: highest scoring defender ever in the game as a result.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: For goodness sake, don't sell Gabrielle. Just put him on
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: your bench, because what if you sell him, You're just
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: going to have to buy him straight back again. For
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Game Week thirty two, and then you're going to have
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: an issue because you probably going to have some value
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: in him that you lose because most managers will not
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: sell Gabrielle, so pop him on the bench either. Also,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: assets I've been selling over the last few weeks, and
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: in fact into this one I sold Declan Rice because
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: we just haven't seen we haven't seen the same level
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: of returns from Rice over the last couple of weeks
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: as we were seeing earlier on in the season. So
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: when I look back at my team from early on
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: in the season, he was regularly returning. Now at points
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: they were a little bit lucky those returns, Like we
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: had the corner that went in and the opponent hand
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: balled it that led to a penalty that led to
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: an assist. We had the corner that went in and
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: was headed in for an own goal. Like, yes, you
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: can say that they were lucky, and maybe they were.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: But over the.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Last few weeks, I mean, we had obviously nothing against
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Everton bar the clean sheet. We had nothing against Brighton
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: bar the clean sheet.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Point.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: We had an assist against Chelsea in twenty eight. We
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: had some defensive contributions against Spurs in twenty seven, but
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: they've been like low level returns for Rice and as
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: a result, I kind of felt like this a good
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: moment to take a punt on somebody else in midfield,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: and I went for Tavoniir, who will talk about later,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: but I think he can be and he can be
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: one that you can sell because I'm not convinced that
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: you'll want them back, and I think what you have
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: to do with your arsenal assets is look at them
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: and go, will I want to own you again in
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: game week thirty two, And if the answer is yes,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: put them to your bench. If the answer is no,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: sell them ahead of the blank.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, No, I agree. I think he's probably
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: going to be on the chopping block for me rights
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: just because I think there's lots of other nice options
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: that we can go to in midfield for game week
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: thirty one, particularly if I'm wild carding in thirty two.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of nice punts that I want to take.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: I think in thirty one. Quick shout out to Everton,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: though they listen, they created chances, they defended well in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: this game. That's not an easy game against Chelsea in
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: game week thirty one, I won't be an easy game
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: for Chelsea either. That's a tough one to call. Actually,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I find that a tough one to call. Despite the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: blank here against Arsenal A kid and drewsby Hall. Again,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: he's a favorite of mine from earlier on in the season.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: He's five point one million, so still a nice budget
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: enabler for attacking returns in six matches, you know, spite
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: this blank, and still think he looked pretty threatening in
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: this game. So I think if you wanted to go
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: in on Everton, he's probably the one. Or is there
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: anybody else from Everton that caught your eye?
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: No, I think he is probably the one. What are
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: you going to do with Tarkovski now? I guess it's
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: a wait and see because obviously for a lot of
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: managers that have him will have been disappointed to see
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: him maybe not playing in this one, but not because
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: they played him in this one. I suspect, like you,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: most managers would have put him on the bench for
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: this game against Arsenal. But for managers that have Tarkovski,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: you'll have been wanting him for blank game week thirty
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: one because he helps you to cover out the defenders
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: that you have going out. So I guess it's just
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: a wait and see with Tarco and see what Moys
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: has got to say later on in the week about
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: his availability for the weekend.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much is. I held on to him for weeks,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: mainly for game week twenty nine when they did when
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: they played Burnley at home and did well, didn't he
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: got the guy on a clean sheet and happy day,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: he's got a double digit haul. But yeah, for this
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: game against Arsenal, I benched him, so for him not
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: to show up was kind of like, you know, Okay,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: well I've benched him, so that's fine. What am I
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: going to do with him going forward? Yeahs, it'd be
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: a bit of a luxury cell for me for game
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: week thirty one, like I said, because I've got plenty
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: of Arsenal and man City assets that could make way
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: or probably do need to make way ahead ahead of
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: a wild card in thirty two.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: But if he is.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Injured, then you know, I probably got probably got the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: opportunity to do one luxury transfer or even if I
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: wanted to take a hit, I could do, but I'd
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: have to I'd have to really believe in the defender
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: that I'm bringing in, maybe a Fulham defender, maybe a
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Newcastle defender. I don't know. Does he stay the course
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: of me in game week thirty two is wildcard? I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: doubt it. Sound to be honest, I doubt it. With Brentford
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: away in thirty two, and then it's the Merseyside Derby
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: in thirty three, west Ham and improve west Ham away
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: in thirty four before man City in thirty five doesn't
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: strike me as a run where I'd want to keep Tarkovski.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: So yeah, reluctantly, because he's been a right for me
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: over many many weeks. For this season, he's probably a cell. Yeah,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: probably a self for me, Tarkovski. Let's move it on
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to west Ham one Manchester City one. And that narrative
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: that I was just discussing there about Arsenal having you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: a couple of big opportunities for XG but mostly kind
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of innocuous low XG shots, I think you can probably
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: say the same thing about Manchester City here. They had
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: an XG in this game of two just over two
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: two point zero one actually, and that was spread over
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: twenty four efforts, so twenty four efforts on GOO and
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: two XG. So again a bit like Arsenal was a
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: bit kind of like bits and pieces, opportunities, long shots,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: not really many big chances, and of course early in
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Harland again in this game with another blank, which I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: have to say, as a Harlan seller going into this week,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: maybe very uncomfortable. I didn't like watching. I know a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: lot of FPL managers sold it, but I didn't like it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I did not like it. I was behind the sofa
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: for much of this game. But you know it's been
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: not since game week seventeen as Harland's non penalty XG
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I have been above one in a single game, right,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: So that's what that's the stats that are backing up
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: what our eyes are seeing. Right, Yes, he's not bringing
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: home the FPL points, So we start to look at
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: how he's performing and yeah, he's not really getting the chances.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: He's not really getting the under in stats that suggest
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: that things are going to change. And we've spoken on
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: podcasts on here before about this kind of split striker
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: system with Semeno. We have Churkey as well in there
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: at the weekend, who potentially can take some of that
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: gold burden away from Harland. The team just doesn't feel
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: like it's built around him anymore. I don't feel like
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he's going to be banging in a hat trick anytime soon.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: And to that end one of the reasons I sold him.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: And of course he's got the blank in thirty one.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do as a Harland? You
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: still got Harland, right, and you're going to not obviously
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: not got the wild hid in thirty two. So no,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: you're holding him through.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've spent a lot of this podcast talking
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: about other options up top the cesscos there are Charlison's.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Charlison, I can see it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe you'll talk about Darren Bowen in a minute,
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: because you know, like there are other forwards in the
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: game that are returning that obviously I've been talking about
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: job Pedro as well, and in the fact I don't have him,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: there are other forwards in the game that I could,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I could and would like to go to for game
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: week thirty one, I also still have Cooepy Jr. Who,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: despite the fact that he is actually regularly starting at
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: the moment, isn't really returning anything when he does. He's
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: always there, he's starting the games, but we're not really
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: seeing any returns from him. In fact, there was his
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: seventh start in ten game weeks. So maybe I'm alright
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: with him, but I would like to change up my
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: forward line my fear with Harlan, and some people say, well,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: you know, you've got to think about the price that yeah,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: all right right now. If I sold him this moment,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: I'd lose point two in him. My suspicion is that
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: by the end of the week he'll price will probably
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: have come down anyway there whereas a lot of managers
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: open the app see that he's not playing and think, well,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I'll sell him and I'll buy whoever it is that
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: they fancy instead, So we probably won't be it probably
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: be point one, might even come down to where I
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: bought him from by that point. The question for me, though, is,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: unlike you, who's got an easy way to get him
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: back on a world card. If I sell Harlan, do
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: I need to leave the money for buying him back again?
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Do I risk just not having him and spread the
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: money elsewhere? Do I need to spread the money elsewhere?
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Because to be honest, the rest of my team is
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: looking quite nice and it's not really anyone else that
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: sounds standing out. I don't feel the need to go
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: and buy a cold Palmer or anybody.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Else so expensive.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely. I mean, I'm happy to have Bruno Fernanders
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: as my most expensive player in the game, because to
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: be honest, he's performing like he should be my most
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: expensive asset in the game. So yeah, maybe this week
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: might be the week that I do sell Harlan. It
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: would then be one of those where for the next
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: few weeks, would I want to bring him straight back
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: in again? Would I leave it until we get a
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: little bit further on, maybe past the Arsenal game in
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: game week thirty three, Maybe I'll leave it for that
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: one and then look at reinvesting because they end the
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: season nicely, and of course by then we'll know a
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: little bit more about progression in the Champions League, what
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: the FA Cup looks like, we hopefully know a little
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: bit more about when the Crystal Palace versus Man City
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: game is going to be scheduled four because of course
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: they blank, but they will therefore have a double that
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: we haven't played out yet. So I can't see me
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: going into a game week where Harlan has two fixtures
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: and I don't have him. Despite the malays in his
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: form at the moment.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I agree, and a shout out to
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: west Ham as well. In this game then only have
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: one shot or match, but goodness me, they made it count,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: didn't They have Rapanos with not just the goal but
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: a great performance as well. Right, I saw towards the
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: end of the game et too square in the face,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: didn't he from a Harlan shot that Harland courts very
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: very sweetly looked as if it was on target and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Mavrapanos putting his body on the line. In seven of
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: their last nine Premier League games, actually west Ham have
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: conceded zero or one, right, So they're not They're low
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: key doing very very well defensively, the Nuno Espirito Santo
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: kind of defensive DNA that were used to seeing from
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: him as a manager across some of his other teams.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: West Ham are absolutely starting to get that right, well
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: not starting, so that's nine games that they are getting
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: it right, no doubt about it, just very quickly. A
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: shout out to Bowen though you mentioned him a second
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: ago seven point five. We've discussed Cesco, We've discussed Richarlison,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: We've discussed plenty of other forward options, including chial Pedro
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: and others. In this kind of price bracket seven point
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: five for Bowen blank Tony once in his last eight
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: game weeks. He's kind of going under the raid, aren't it. Yeah.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, six attacking returns in the last eight and the
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: other game was defensive contributions, where he is by far
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: the best forward in the game for defensive contributions.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Look, I really like him. He's on one hundred and
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: forty one points after thirty game weeks so far. That's
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: fourteen more than he had this stage last season, so
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: performing better than he did last year in a western side.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: That a finding form of the perfect moment to try
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: and avoid the drop. I keep saying week after week
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: that investing in teams that are fighting for something, whether
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: it be avoiding the drop or whether it be Champions
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: League or Europa League or Conference leagu football, these are
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the teams that you want to invest in because those
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: players have the additional motivation and going into these final
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: weeks of the season, that's exactly what you need. Jarreed,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Barne and I have had a bit of a hockey
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: cochi kind of relationship this year. I bought him in,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: had him as a differential earlier on in the season.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: He didn't really return. I sold him for Tiago after
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Thiago did those two massive double digit hauls. They then
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: swapped over and Bubban's form since then has just been
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: unbelievably good. So yeah, he is definitely on the list.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, like we've made a list of of forwards
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: this week, so it's very hard to hold Harlem when
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: you've got the likes of Bowen who's consistently returning and
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: it's like half the price.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, yeah, totally. Well, look in some of the
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: remaining games, we only really had we had one goal,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: didn't we Sunderland Neil Brighton one, but then it was
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Neil Neil Palas and leads Neil Neil Forrest and Fulham
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and Neil Neil Burnley and Bournemouth. So a bit of
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: a lack of goals across these games on Sunday in particular,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: any kind of key FPL talking points from those games,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I guess the one that I'd like to pick out
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: is Fulham And one of the reasons I want to
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: do that is because there will be a lot of
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: FPR managers with Harry Wilson with Anderson at the back,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: of course, and they got that really nice game Burnley
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: at home in game week thirty one, So I don't
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: have any Fulham right now, but I am for sure
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: looking at both of those players and maybe others from Fulham.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Wilson in this game a couple of shots, took some
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: decent set pieces. I don't know if he was he
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: had a bit of an injury, has been carrying something
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, and I wonder whether he was
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: kind of fully read for this game. I don't know.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: He's obviously a key player for them, but Anderson, for
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: sure a key player for them. Has always only four
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: point five in FPL. He was back in the team.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: That's Fulham's first clean sheet since December, so you know, coincidence,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I think, not right. He's a key player for them
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: at the back. So Fulham is just a a as
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: options in game week thirty one, are you thinking about
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: a Wilson or Anderson or anybody else?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, I think Wilson, Anderson, row him and Az
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: again if we want to add another forward. Didn't really
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: do much in this one, him and AiZ. But I think,
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: you know, over the last few weeks has been consistent,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: So I think Fulham are a team that I don't have.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: I don't have any investment in Fulham right now. Again,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: a bit like what I was saying about Chelsea. I
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: don't like watching Chelsea at the moment because I don't
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: have investment and I worry that they're going to absolutely tank.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: My FPL rank Fulham are similar because if the clean
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: sheet sticks, you know that the Anderson's owners, they do
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: do well out of it. Right now, as you said,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: we haven't been having the clean sheet, so that hasn't
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: been too much of an issue. But Harry Wilson is
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: regular problem for non FBL owners and so I do
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: think he is one that I'll be looking at. Fulham
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: feel like the team of these teams that you have
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: played out, these kind of more boring nil nil jaws
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: that we won't spend a long time talking about. They
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: feel like the team I need to invest in. I'm
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: already heavily invested in Bournemouth. I've got Cinesi, who was
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: the most bought defender of the game week two hundred
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: and sixty eight thousand new owners for him, brings in
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: another clean sheet, defensive contribution points. Again, he is looking
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: like a really great asset. If you don't want to
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: spend that much on him. James Hill also continuing his
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: brilliant form, also picking up the defense of contribution points
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: in the clean sheet. In fact, Hill has only failed
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: to provide a return in one of his last eight matches.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: He's got three assistant four clean sheets in that period
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  Speaker 2: as well, so those two looking great. As I mentioned earlier,
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Kroupee despite the fact he's not really doing a lot.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Seventh start in ten matches so doesn't feel like necessarily
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: a priority sell ahead of this one. And then in
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Tavanir for this one, who again was unlucky. I mean,
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: he has a love affair with hitting the post. This man,
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: it's unreal.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: He missed points dodger extraordinariy in fil isn't he tavan here?
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: It's mad he missed out on the deaf con by one.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: He got eleven defensive contributions And I was lucky, really
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: desperately watching back hoping that I could ring up Opta
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  Speaker 2: and say please, there's an extra defensive contribution point here,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: but I couldn't find one. So yeah, do Bournemouth feel
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: like another team that I'm already heavily invested, But I
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: think you can invest there as well. And those two
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: for like the two teams that would you would want
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: to go to.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I think so, yeah, just before we wrap up, I
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: do want to just touch on that thing you've said
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: about Bournemouth. I mean that is that's pretty key because
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of us are going into thirty one and
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: we've discussed before about Bruno being kind of perma cap
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: or the default captain for game week thirty one. That's
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: not an easy fixture that for Manchester United to go
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: to Bournemouth in game week thirty one. They've conceded fifteen
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: opt to define big chances at home in twenty five
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, which is fewer than any other team Bournemouth,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: so they do not give up big chances easily. And
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: you said before, right, both Hill and SNESSI they've formed
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: a great partnership there. They're the two top FPL defenders
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: for death compoints since game week nineteen, right, So they're
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: regularly hitting the deaf common doing all that good stuff
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  Speaker 1: up front. I think it's looking maybe a little bit
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: weaker for them, Like they're on a bit of a
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: gold rout at the moment, aren't They Just one go
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: in four and they're still even though that gold rout
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: is ongoing. They're still the league's joint fifth highest scorers
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: by the way Bournemouth, so maybe it's just a blip.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: But I expect that Man United game in Game Week
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: thirty one to be pretty cagy. I'm not expecting too
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: many goals in that so I don't know if Bruno
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: is quite the default go to captaincy option for Game
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Week thirty one. I think there will be other options well.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Before we get to deciding on captaincy options, it's going
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: to be another big week of Football League. First up,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: it's the second leg off the Champions League Ground of
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: sixteen as well as the Europa League and Conference YE competition,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: so Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and City, Newcastle Spurs, Forest Villa
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: and Palace all in action again in midweek. We'll then
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: have the deadline for blank game Week thirty one, which
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: is on Friday evening, and of course it's a blank
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: gang week because we have the League Cup final between
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: Arsenal and Manchester City on Sunday afternoon.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good luck to those two teams. Kelly Jewels and
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: yourself Sam will be back on Thursday. They'll be discussing
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: how to manage blank Game Week thirty one and the
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: best players to invest in.
• 45:20
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• 45:28
  Speaker 2: chatting to you today.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: It certainly has it certainly has green arrows everyone, thanks
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: for listening.