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S4 Ep3: Off The Bench: What to do with Ollie Watkins? · 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 Jenny.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Jenny, this is Press.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you pros. It's been a while.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, Game week three is over as we head
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  Speaker 1: into the international break and we head into the closing
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  Speaker 1: off the transfer market. Of course that's crucial threshpl and
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  Speaker 1: this is a great time I think to reassess our
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  Speaker 1: teams and our decision making, our chip strategy moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: And in today's episode as we've got to talk about
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  Speaker 1: all of the major players we're at to date, the
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  Speaker 1: three blanks in a row, Frey Watkins, should we have
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  Speaker 1: Harland over Sala? It's four four two back on the
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  Speaker 1: menu and more defender points up for grabs. But first
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  Speaker 1: and foremost, mate, how is your your game week? And
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  Speaker 1: how's your start the season been?
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  Speaker 3: I mean the game because fine, and the start of
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  Speaker 3: the season has been fine. Like I what do you
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  Speaker 3: judge a start of the season by? Because points are
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  Speaker 3: bunched up? You know, somebody could be ahead of you
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  Speaker 3: by ten points, but have you know four million rank
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  Speaker 3: better than you? So I think start of the season
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  Speaker 3: has to be just right. Are you happy with your team?
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  Speaker 3: And you know we'll talk about it as we go
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  Speaker 3: along this podcast. I'm not unhappy with it. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: delighted with it. So that's where I am. I got
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  Speaker 3: fifty two points this week. But you know what, like
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  Speaker 3: the team is fine. I've got Liverpool players, I've got
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  Speaker 3: some Crystal Palace players. I've got Bruno who scored for
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  Speaker 3: me as captain. So the team looks okay. But the
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  Speaker 3: start of the season has been such that no one's
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  Speaker 3: really sure and who actually is a good pick?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you define that so well. I think I'm in
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  Speaker 1: a similar boat. I'm not reading too much into the numbers.
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  Speaker 1: It's more am I happy with my squad? Am I
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  Speaker 1: happy with my transfers in the bank, my money in
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  Speaker 1: the bank, my plans moving forward, and I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of yeses. So yeah, it's so lovely having
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  Speaker 1: fpl back. It does feel like when you look at
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the engage managers, it's been a fairly
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  Speaker 1: slow start in terms of rank.
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  Speaker 2: But as you say, it's so bunched up. I had
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  Speaker 2: two good weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming off the back of a bad week, captain Kunya,
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  Speaker 1: so that was a that was a bad one. I
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  Speaker 1: was I was kind of torn on two things this week.
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  Speaker 1: Do I bring in a Man United attacker? And if
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  Speaker 1: I do, which one do I bring in? If I don't,
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  Speaker 1: a captain jol Pedro. If I do, I bring in
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  Speaker 1: Bruno and captain him or Kunya and captain him. So
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  Speaker 1: both those fifty to fifty calls were really bad. But
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  Speaker 1: other than that, I'm happy I Daniel mcno's to save
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  Speaker 1: my game week on the final game on Sunday evening,
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  Speaker 1: so I was happy with that. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 1: some great games over the weekend. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: getting into them. I think there's some wider topics we
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  Speaker 1: need to touch on in today's show, and we touch
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  Speaker 1: on chip strategy and four four two and defensive contribution points.
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  Speaker 1: But first and foremost, should we go game by game?
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  Speaker 1: Where should we start?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's start with Chelsea the lunchtime kickoff, right, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't own Jel Pedro, And every game I watch
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  Speaker 3: him thinking, well, I don't know ow Jel Pedrol.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's become like a key cog in the keycog
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  Speaker 1: in Chelsea's team. And I don't think we necessarily knew
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  Speaker 1: that pre season. It was like, okay, this is Palmer's
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  Speaker 1: team and we'll see who fits around him. But he
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  Speaker 1: really has hit the ground running and he's never been
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  Speaker 1: overly prolific, but boy are we seeing that now. It's
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  Speaker 1: continued from the Club World Cup preseason he scored and
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  Speaker 1: then obviously early on in the season as well, like
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  Speaker 1: his record's been outstanding and playing in the number ten
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  Speaker 1: role might even be better for him. The nas Chelsea's
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  Speaker 1: number nine. But regardless where he is on the pitch,
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  Speaker 1: he's become a keykog at ninety minute man, he's scoring
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  Speaker 1: goals from corners a lot of the time. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: take the penalty though, which was interesting. We all thought
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  Speaker 1: with no Palmer, Jacques Pedro will take the pen and
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  Speaker 1: it was Enzo. But even without that, like mid price point,
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  Speaker 1: he feels like a no brainer, doesn't he.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a very good striker. I tend to
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  Speaker 3: like strikers will take penalties. It's just the thing I've
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  Speaker 3: done for you know, when I've played a field for
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  Speaker 3: fifteen years. But at seven and a half of what
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  Speaker 3: he's in now seven point seven, he is great value.
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  Speaker 3: And you're right that when he plays the ten, which
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  Speaker 3: is what he used to do at Brighton. He's just
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  Speaker 3: really good at finding spaces and you know, you know,
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  Speaker 3: looking pivotal around at the attack. He's the guy who
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  Speaker 3: makes things happened. So I love him as a player.
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  Speaker 3: I've loved onwing him as a Brighton player. Look, he's
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  Speaker 3: doing very well at Chelsea. I you know, whether whether
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  Speaker 3: I get him in or art it depends on many
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  Speaker 3: other things. What I do with what kins, what you
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  Speaker 3: do with your care is I went for Matteta. I
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  Speaker 3: had a choice last week and I chose Matteta because
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  Speaker 3: of the penalty. Now Mateta didn't match out Pedro, but
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  Speaker 3: it showed just in one game week where Matteta had
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  Speaker 3: you know, arguably the tougher fixture of her to Villa.
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  Speaker 3: Of course how Villa doing is a different question will
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  Speaker 3: come to them, but it just shows that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I got the penalty and now he is home to Sunderland.
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  Speaker 3: So having set piece take a penalty takers sometimes also
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  Speaker 3: works out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it absolutely does.
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  Speaker 1: And same surer price point Matteta Chris wood On pen's
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  Speaker 1: as well as same price point. The Mateta pen was
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  Speaker 1: interesting this week. We saw it with Bruno as well.
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  Speaker 1: How the bonus points system has changed this season. The
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  Speaker 1: penalty in the BPS doesn't reward you a penalty go
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  Speaker 1: in the same way as a normal goal, so we
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  Speaker 1: didn't see Matteta get bonus points. Ordinarily he'd have been
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  Speaker 1: amongst it. Same with Bruno. He didn't get the three.
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  Speaker 1: He would have had the three bonus points if his
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  Speaker 1: penalty goal had the same weight as a normal goal.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously I think it's plus ten in the BPS,
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  Speaker 1: and a midfielder gets plus eighteen for an open play goal.
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  Speaker 1: A forward I think it's plus twenty two or twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, nice little tweak there to the bonus points system.
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  Speaker 1: We also saw goal clearance off the line from jau Pedro,
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  Speaker 1: another change to the BPS. There's only four or five changes.
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  Speaker 1: They were two of them and jau Pedro then got
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  Speaker 1: three bonus. He would have only got two bonus without
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  Speaker 1: that clearance off the line at the end, Shalliber would
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  Speaker 1: have got all three. And actually Chelsea defense is worth
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  Speaker 1: talking about because it's two clean sheets from three. Only
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  Speaker 1: a Lewis Paquetta Worldie has stopped them keeping three clean
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  Speaker 1: sheets on the bounce. Chelsea defense, whether you're on a
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  Speaker 1: cou Corella or a Shallaba or even a sanchezin goal
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  Speaker 1: feels again like a really safe pick covering that back line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. I'm not going to get into the
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  Speaker 3: Josh King Ruleedard goal, but yeah, I mean I think
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  Speaker 3: they short at the back end of last season that
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  Speaker 3: it's a good defense. Maresca lakes the solidity at the back,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it's carried through this season. So more surprises.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I'm just looking at Chelsea now and again
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'd have to think about when do you
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  Speaker 3: player chips? You know, for example, if I look at
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  Speaker 3: three hit six, then do I need to jump on
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  Speaker 3: Chelsea when two out of the next three of Liverpool
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  Speaker 3: and Man United. So it's these things that people need
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  Speaker 3: to think about. But other than that, I think for
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  Speaker 3: a long term Sanchez you know, was the number one
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  Speaker 3: pick between him and Sells as the goalkeeper and for
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  Speaker 3: that reason, like you mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and look, I mean Coubo Cup, they're amazing at
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  Speaker 1: the back. Three nil in the final against PSG. Clean
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  Speaker 1: sheet mate. Watching Chelsea colas as I do as a fan,
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  Speaker 1: notice like Neil n Neil, the fairly tight games like Fulham
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  Speaker 1: could have taken the lead. Chelsea struggled against Palace on
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  Speaker 1: the opening day that stayed at Nil Neil, and it's
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  Speaker 1: very much a defense first approach from Maresca at the
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  Speaker 1: moment until they score a goal, Chelsea go one nil
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  Speaker 1: up and then they actually start attacking much better with
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  Speaker 1: a bit more freedom, and you see one nil often
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  Speaker 1: then becomes two or three. We saw it in the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. We didn't see it against Crystal
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  Speaker 1: Palace because it stayed at Neil Nil Ages, but at
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  Speaker 1: Neil Neil it's tight and it does feel like a
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  Speaker 1: defense first approach first and foremost biber Maresca, and then
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  Speaker 1: late in games if they're leading, that's when we see
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  Speaker 1: the goals flow. So I'm definitely a big fan of
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  Speaker 1: that Chelsea back line, and yeah, very happy to be
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  Speaker 1: on Sanchez for those six pointers. I think he'll get
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  Speaker 1: loads of them. I guess for Fulham there's very little
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  Speaker 1: leftpl interest and I feel like they're often a team
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  Speaker 1: that's overlooked because they're always mid table. The fixtures are
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  Speaker 1: actually quite good now for Fulham. I think they've got
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  Speaker 1: three from four coming up that are at home, a
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  Speaker 1: player newly promoted team or two, but there's very few
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  Speaker 1: players there I'd look at and go yeah, I want
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  Speaker 1: them in my team. It's a shame with Manis and
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  Speaker 1: him Andez that you know there's always going to be
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  Speaker 1: a minute share between them as the number nine. Like
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  Speaker 1: even when Minia is getting the starts, he's really going
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  Speaker 1: to get ninety exactly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I would say in terms of Fulham attack,
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  Speaker 3: not really, but I have a little budget gem from
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  Speaker 3: Fulham and Anderson who has been delivering defensive contribution points
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  Speaker 3: for me in a couple of weeks. So I just
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  Speaker 3: think that with him, I think of him like a
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  Speaker 3: mini Tarikowski, where you know, in fifty percent or more
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  Speaker 3: games he will get defensive contribution points. And Fulham is
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  Speaker 3: a decent defense. So at four and a half million,
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  Speaker 3: I think he's one of the better picks between him, Cinesi, Richards.
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  Speaker 3: There's some nice four point five million defenders that are
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  Speaker 3: coming up that could be nailed. Center Backs get defensive
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  Speaker 3: contribution points in every other game, don't really have the
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  Speaker 3: same attacking output. But I think that's the only pick
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  Speaker 3: I would say from Fulham that if you were looking
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  Speaker 3: at then Anderson is one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a great fine praz I noticed he was
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  Speaker 1: in your team, and I think you're right he's going
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  Speaker 1: to if he hits deaf cone in fifty percent. He
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  Speaker 1: actually could have scored against Chelsea as well, left foot
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  Speaker 1: kind of twelve fifteen yards out. It was he went
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  Speaker 1: for the top corner, but he had loads of time
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  Speaker 1: and space and you think if that falls to any
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  Speaker 1: other Fulham player on the pitch, they'd probably go one,
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  Speaker 1: they'll up, But yeah, it was it was Anderson's left
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  Speaker 1: foot mate with the deaf cone there on Anderson, have
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  Speaker 1: you looked at fixtures and gone he's more likely to
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  Speaker 1: get them in the tougher games. Therefore he's someone I
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  Speaker 1: just want to set and forget in my eleven or
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  Speaker 1: do you obviously you're going to play and when the
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  Speaker 1: fixtures are better, but when the fixtures are tough, it
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  Speaker 1: feels like he's going to get death con So his
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  Speaker 1: floor is almost three four points and worth playing.
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  Speaker 2: If you looked at that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah I have, But look I think you know we
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  Speaker 3: had this discussion pre game week one where you still
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  Speaker 3: want the clean sheet points, so you definitely still want
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  Speaker 3: to play them for their easier fixtures and hope they
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  Speaker 3: still hit the threshold in some of the medium fixtures
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  Speaker 3: and it's not like they can't. You know, like Bruno
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  Speaker 3: Fernandez hit defensive contributions in the Burnley home game, so
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  Speaker 3: it's not like they can't, it says. I just think
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  Speaker 3: of it as one point per game week. You have
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  Speaker 3: some surety because every other game week they will hit that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's the way I look at it. I try
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  Speaker 3: not to predict it too much and just think, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's good for these points. There's a little flow there.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably going to get about fifteen to twenty of
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  Speaker 3: them over the season, and you can't really predict it
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  Speaker 3: as well. Of course, if he's playing a Chelsea or
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  Speaker 3: a man City or at Arsenal, he's more likely to
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  Speaker 3: get them. That's what we've seen so far. But it's
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  Speaker 3: not like he can't in the other game, so I
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  Speaker 3: would of course, I'm planning to play him home to
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  Speaker 3: Leeds this week and then we take it from there.
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  Speaker 3: If he doesn't get contribution point defensive contribution points, he'll
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  Speaker 3: get a clean sheet point. So just a generally good pick.
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  Speaker 1: I think have you looked at four four two because
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  Speaker 1: I set up my team this season. I went into
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  Speaker 1: game week one with a four four to two option
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  Speaker 1: and four defenders that are priced five or five point five,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really happy with it. And I do think
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  Speaker 1: now we've start the season and we've seen so many
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  Speaker 1: defenders picking up lots of extra points, I would argue,
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  Speaker 1: like Anderson at four and a half million is going
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  Speaker 1: to be way better value than a four and a
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  Speaker 1: half million midfielder or forward by some distance. And even
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  Speaker 1: someone like Daniel MNOs at five point five, is he
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  Speaker 1: going to outperform the five point five attackers. Probably, So
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  Speaker 1: I think four four two might be something we will
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  Speaker 1: move to when people wild card, and I hope I'm
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  Speaker 1: ahead of the curve on that, but especially if you
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  Speaker 1: want to get to a point where you're having a
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  Speaker 1: saler Anna Harlan team, like you're going to need more
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  Speaker 1: five million players in your eleven and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: the best value in those five million brackets comes in
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  Speaker 1: the defenders, and therefore four for two I think makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that's something people will move towards? Is
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a meta I think so.
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  Speaker 3: Right now we're in a little bit of a strange
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  Speaker 3: situation in FPL where because Palmer got injured, his money
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  Speaker 3: has spread around into our squads. So you say four
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  Speaker 3: four two, I could put on four five three. I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's not a valid formation, but I mean is
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  Speaker 3: I've got three playing strikers five playing midfielders. So it's
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  Speaker 3: about finding nice rotations and within that. For example, this
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  Speaker 3: particular week that is coming up after the international break,
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  Speaker 3: I hope to put out four defenders because I'll have
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  Speaker 3: double crystal Palace defense home to Sunderland, I'll have Anderson,
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  Speaker 3: who I said, home to Leeds, and then of course
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  Speaker 3: i have bredro Poro, who I'm not going to bench.
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  Speaker 3: So this week is a natural for at the back
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  Speaker 3: week for me, and I can bench somebody like in
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  Speaker 3: Anderson from Nottingham Forest or somebody or like Morillo if
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  Speaker 3: you have so people can do that. But you can
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  Speaker 3: also think about rotations with your third striker, fourth or
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  Speaker 3: fifth midfielder. But you're right in the sense that defenders
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  Speaker 3: just need to be thought about a lot more now
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  Speaker 3: in terms of how much you spend on them. The
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  Speaker 3: fourth and even potentially the fifth defender needs a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of love. Where we've typically in the past ignored
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  Speaker 3: the fifth defender and just said, you know what, they're
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  Speaker 3: like a puma bench. I'll only get them in if needed.
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  Speaker 3: But actually, if you spent point five more on your
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  Speaker 3: fifth defender, you suddenly could have a very nice rotation
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  Speaker 3: and you know, a good root to points.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: It's so interesting that with the tweaks to the game.
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  Speaker 1: We spoke about the bonus point tweaks, but the deaf
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  Speaker 1: con tweaks. I just think it makes for a really
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  Speaker 1: interesting refresh, Like Pras and I have been playing FPL
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  Speaker 1: for fifteen years, like this is such a welcome addition,
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  Speaker 1: a change to the game, I think, which like encourages
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  Speaker 1: all to really look into the intricacies of FPL. So
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  Speaker 1: buzz in to be playing FPL this season. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you guys listening at home are as well. Spurs Bournemouth,
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  Speaker 1: let's get onto it, let's stay in London. This was
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  Speaker 1: a result I don't think that many saw coming, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should have because Bournemouth went to anfield on
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  Speaker 1: the opening day cause problems, comfortable win game meet two
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  Speaker 1: for them and then game week three so impressive yet
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  Speaker 1: again like dominant on Spurs from start to finish. Spurs
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  Speaker 1: barely had a chance and Bournemouth, like Evanilsen Semeno Brooks,
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  Speaker 1: had a great game like they're so refreshing to watch,
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  Speaker 1: aren't they?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? And this is after them selling Otara, Clivetz still
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  Speaker 3: not come back into the first eleven because he's coming
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  Speaker 3: back on the back of an injury. So I just
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  Speaker 3: think could we have predicted it, Yes, because Bournemouth have
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  Speaker 3: done this to good teams even last season, But could
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  Speaker 3: we have predicted also that there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: a downfall because they've sold house and they've sold you know,
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  Speaker 3: kirkiz Zabarney, you know, Clive's been injured, so you could
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  Speaker 3: have also seen the opposite coming where they could have
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  Speaker 3: started slower. So it's just one of those things where
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  Speaker 3: if you have a Bonnemouth pick and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people who had for se menu it's great because they're
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  Speaker 3: a good team. They've got good medium term fixtures now,
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  Speaker 3: But in terms of this result, it was less about Boonnemouth,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe I'm taking credit away from Bournemouth, but also
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  Speaker 3: shocking to see Spurs because after you beat man City,
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  Speaker 3: not that this is the first time this is happened.
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  Speaker 3: After beating Man City, this was not the performance you wanted.
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  Speaker 3: You wanted a very solid creating zero point one nine
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  Speaker 3: x g at home means you literally just you know,
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  Speaker 3: you had no chances at Gaul at home. That's very
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  Speaker 3: surprising to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, to not get a big chance is poor, is
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  Speaker 1: really poor, and especially against a Bornma team which is
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  Speaker 1: a completely new back line, including a new goalkeeper, Like
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  Speaker 1: you think you're going to test them, but they seem
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: to have gelled really well. And Spurs it looks like
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: Selanki's going to be out for some time with Rasharlason there.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Maybe they're lacking a little bit of something up top
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: and we'll see what what the next couple of game
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: weeks brings for them in terms of how they're going
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: to shape up. But yeah, it's put me off Spurs
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: attack a little bit that performance. I still think they'll
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: keep lots of clean sheets under Thomas Frank, but maybe
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: they're not quite as attractive an FBL team as we
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: thought they were going to be early on on me
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: to give Frank time. You mentioned justin klive it there.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: I thought that was really interesting because this season he's
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: been We saw pre season he was injured but then
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: also linked with a move away. I think ten hugs
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: lever cues and we're in for him at some point
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: as a verts replacement. But cliver at Bournemouth we know
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: is brilliant because he takes penalties and they're a team
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: that win penalties. But I'm not sure if he's getting
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: straight into the eleven. Just watching Bournemouth the last few weeks,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: there's been a bit of a shift in terms of positioning,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Like Marcus Tiverney is playing the number ten role. When
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: he's playing it really well, We're used to seeing him
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: out wide. We're seeing David Brooks now out wide again.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Played really well against Spurs, put it on a plate
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: with an outside of the boot cross for Semeno. Semenio
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: missed another big chance. He keeps missing them, but he's
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: getting them, but Timernial on the ten, Brooks on the right.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: I wonder if Clive gets straight back into this eleven.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: He did play in the League Cup the other day
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: and again I thought maybe he has a chance of
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: starting against Spurs, but I wonder if he struggles to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: get in, and if he does, begs a question who's
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: going to be on pens. Last season, Evanilsen took a pen,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: missed it and Semenia took a pen scored it, so
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: I think only had one each last season. Semeno's may
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: have been in the shootout. I can't remember, but I
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: think Semeno is a very good chance of being on
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: pens if Clive it's not on the pitch. It's a
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: bit of a coin toss between him and him and Evanilsen.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: But watch this space because sevenio is not cheap. But
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: he gets the big chances. And if he has penalties
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: and he gets ninety minutes and his team score a
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: lot of goals, there's a lot to like about some Mania.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: The fixtures are kind as well.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he could have a big season, like he could
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: have a Imboomo twenty four to twenty five Pinds season
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: if he gets penalties. Penalties just adds six free goals. Now,
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: of course people can miss penalties as well, but if
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: he gets them, that just elevates you. You know, I
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: would bump up anyone's f PL price or adjust it
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: plus or minus one million, depending on if they get
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: penalties nailed on or not. So this is why in
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: my mind Mateta went up. Even though es A left.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: You could think that, you know, what is the impact
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: of es leaving, But then you're one hundred percent nailed
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: on Mateta taking penalties for Crystal Palace. You're like, you
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: know what I've actually got that's gone up in my assessment.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: So if you tell me that Clive, it's not going
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: to be taking penalties, are not going to be starting
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: se Menu gets them. Oh, I'm in, I'm in. That's
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: that's the kind of thing I like to hear if
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: it happens.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Semenio last season is penalty. I watched it
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: back the other day. Semenio has one finish in football.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: He does not know how to place the ball. He
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: knows how to lace the ball and smash it. And
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: his penalty he laced it. I remember Evan Neilson went, Yeah,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I feel like it was in the League Cup, but
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it was Evanilson had a side foot saved by Sanchez.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Bit tame and Semenio, yeah, we've seen it this season.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Like he's he does get the big chances and even
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: in open plays he either blazes them high and wide
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: or if they're on target, they usually go in because
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: he hits the ball so hard. So watch this base
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: on SEMENI I am interested in Bournemouth. Timlio is like
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: five point five, Brooks is five. The problem with midfielder
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: is in that price band. Is if you're going to
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: spend five point five or five, do you just go
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: for a defensive contribution monster. And there's lots of them
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: in that price band who probably clock more points over time,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: although less explosive. Perhaps we've managed really well. We've gone
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes in and we've still not mentioned Man United.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: I was trying to avoid it for as long as possible,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: but it feels like we have to go to the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: very I obviously bought in Cunia and captained him, you own,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Bruno captained him. We all knew United would score goals
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: versus Burnley. I think we probably couldn't guarantee that win
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: the football match, but we felt like they would score goals.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: So fair play for you keeping the faith with Bruno.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: That was a well deserved return from Bruno. Because some
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: will say last minute penalty, you're getting lucky. But Bruno
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: was amazing all game, wasn't he.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I mean he was even at halftime, he'd created the
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: most number of chances, he'd had the most number of shots,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: and of course he does all the other defensive stuff
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: which gets him defensive contribution points. So I just felt
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: like this is a game where if Man United have
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: a lot of the ball, it's not like Bruno's going
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: to sit back. You can look at the positions all
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: you want, but he's always the guy who joins in
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: the attack if there is you know, if they're in possession.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: So I felt it was a good game for him.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I would have felt very unlucky had he not come
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: out with anything other than that a defensive contribution, two
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: pointer and a yellow card. But ultimately I also feel
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: for people who went Kunya because Counia was probably a
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Man United player in the three games they've played so
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: far before Burnley, and you know he was playing number
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: nine because Cesco is still not ready. I think Amorim
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: said that he ended the League Cup game with some cramps,
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: so playing number nine against Burnley as an out of
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: position midfielder looking great. It's just it's just unlucky, right,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, he should have been part of my net.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: It had some twenty odd shots not on target, but
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: shots in general in the first half. He only got
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: the one, which is I think also unlucky because it's
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: just one of those things that didn't fall to him.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: But it wasn't like he wasn't involved in the build
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: up or anything. So I just I just feel that
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: if you went Kunia, that was very very unlucky.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, fair play.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: If you went at Burmo too, like it was going
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: against the obvious. Bruno was the obvious pick, and maybe
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: some went for the short term, one week nature of
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a higher ceiling Kunya or on Burmo, but I feel
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: like Bruno was a sensible pick, and with hindsight, I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: don't know why I didn't go there. I think I
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: just went, I only want this player for one week
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: and then I'm selling them and I'll go against the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: obvious and go the upside that could you can bring.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: But Bruno brings upside too. But those when and Burmo
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: were awarded scored a goal looked really good. And obviously
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: we saw a glimmer from Amburma against Grimsby, Like he
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: came off the bench and scored a really good goal
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: against Grimsby and he feels like he's up and running
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: now in the United.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Yet yeah, I mean, he's just class. I mean, Man
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: United have not had a left footed right winger for ages.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time they did. I mean,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: of course Anthony was one but didn't work out. But
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: it's just never been the case that they've had a
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: good player. Sancho was right footed, Rashford was right footed,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: so it's now the balance of the team on the
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: right hand side looks a lot better. I think there's
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: more to do between his chemistry with a mud and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: when they overlap or underlap. I think there's sometimes a
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: little bit of confusion. Ahmad's not just going to overlap
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: all the time. He's not that traditional defender right He
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: also wants to get into the box, so that chemistry
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: needs to develop a little bit. But from an FBI
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: point of view, purely, I think Boom was great because
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: he's taking all the left sided set pieces, corners and
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: free kicks, and he just has an eye for goal.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: He missed or he had a couple of chances saved
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: in this game. This could have been a fifteen to
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: twenty point game for Bomo.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Should we be buying a United mid though, City Chelsea
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: up next? I mean Sunderland after that, but City United
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: up next. It feels like you've had your time. If
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: you're going to buy them, it had to be before
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Burnley and now you just you just hold if you
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: have them. Depending on Kunya's injury status you keep, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: if you don't, you don't buy.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Is that fair assessment on United attackers.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very fair. I mean I would say that
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: even when it's Sunderland, like I mean, you don't have
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to pick a man United attacker for any fixture, especially
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: if you think about the Sunderland fixture, they will be
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Arsenal who are playing West Tamatome always have to think
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: about captaincy right, gave.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Me three, we didn't.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: I think the Palmer injury made it worse for people.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: So people who didn't have Palmer or had Palmer would
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: have Captain Palmer home to Fulham, but then that option
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: went away, so people like you had to go for
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: somebody I would have, you know, been in a major
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: dilemma if Palmer was fit with at Captain Bruno or
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Palmer but ended up working working out. So it's one
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: of those things. By Gamemix seven, people may not even
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: want to go there, and I don't hate it. You
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: don't have to go from an United pick. There's a
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: little bit of nostalgia associated with their picks, but ultimately
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: if you look at supply and demand, their picks are
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: actually more expensive for what they offer in terms of attack,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: in terms of where they will finish in the Premier League,
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: paying nine million eight million for their attackers, you can
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: do better with a se menu or you know other
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: picks that we'll talk about from Palace for example.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good point, I come with you there. The mag
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: United fixtures with Captaincy is so important. Like the reason
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: we all went there was we were short this week.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: When they play Sunland in a couple of weeks, we
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: probably won't be short. There will be other options also
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: worth No a mag United hosted Bernie and I do
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: feel like the newly promoted teams on the road will
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: be fixtures we can target, but at home they might
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: put up a bigger fight than we expect, or a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: bigger fight than what we've seen from newly promoted teams
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in the past. Like I think I calculated. The newly
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: promoted teams have had five home games so far. Burnie
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: have had one leeds and sudden number two each. In
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: those fixtures. We've seen four wins in a draw from
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: those promoted teams. Like they're quite good at home at
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the moment. Sure they're not going to win all their
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: home games, but they're gonna put up a good fight
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and sudden of course host Man United.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: In a couple of weeks time, I.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Know it's actually managed it home to Sundron.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Oh is it?
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, I'm gonna have to buy your night a
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: player again or keep hold of I was really hoping
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that was at the stadium a life.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: I do agree with with with your with your hypothesis
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: on on the on the Premier League promoted teams though,
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: because I think they are better than what we've seen
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: in the last two three years. They are looking much
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: better defensively, which is the important point. Like if you
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: think about Ipswich that came up last season, they were
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: really good in attack, they were really good in build
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: up play, but then when you come to the Premier League,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: just don't have the ball as much so you cannot attack.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: So the discipline of staying back, you know, keeping your lines,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: being good in the counter. I think Burley and leads
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: specially Sunday, and I'm still not sure because they have
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: so many new signings that they could land anywhere and
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: the eeror Bars are very high in terms of how
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: they do this season. But I think the other do
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: especially They're just good teams build on good systems and
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: a good defensive block, and I think they should do Okay.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like we're seeing some clean sheets there. Let's go
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: to the other side of Manaster because this was a
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: fun game. I feel like Brighton City is always a
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: fun game like that. Two teams that just when you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: are going to play football and have a go and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: not to worry too much about the opposition, and it
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: was end to end. I feel like City looked quite
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: good to start off with Harlan could have scored a
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: couple of goals. They go one nil up and they're
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: looking comfortable, but then a minute Brighton score, and we
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: saw so many shades of this last season with man City.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: As soon as they concede, they look they they just
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: crumble a little bit, like they've got a bit of
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a soft center. And it's not the city we saw
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: when PEP first came in or when they were winning
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: titles or champions leagues. It's they're just not as ruthless.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: They're just not as confident. And as soon as Brighton
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: scored that goal, it looked like there was only ever
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: going to be one winner. So fair play to Brighton,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: but I guess we should analyze City first, because there's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: more fpel interested in that team, and Harland is just
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: as always the big chance hogged like everything filters to Harland.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: The share of points and the share of XG. It's
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: so swayed towards Harland that there's not really any point
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: shopping for the Man City attackers. It's either go Harland
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: or go no One. You could argue Rinders, but I'm
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: not going to call him an attacker yet. What's your
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: take there on watching Harland? We knew he was going
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to score lots of goals. Some have got extra Palmer
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: money could upgrade a Watkins to Harland for example.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm still you know, like I said, this
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: was the introduction we had where I'm not sure on
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: what the meta is or what the best strategy is.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Yet it so happened that Sucker and Palmer are injured,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: so that everybody's thinking, Okay, Harland and Salo works, but
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: maybe it doesn't work when Sacker and Palmer have great
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: fixtures in game week seven and beyond. So coming to
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: specifically the question on Harland, Yeah, I mean, I think
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: nothing has changed with him in the first six touches
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: he had. I think it was in the first half
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: five or so. That tells you that he's doing nothing
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: other than just being there waiting to get the ball
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: and shoot the ball, and so he will get a
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: lot of chances. On the other side of the coin
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: is he's fourteen million for a team that's got one
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: victory and two losses in the first three games. So
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: which side of the coin are you in terms of
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: our man City is going to have another okay season
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: where they have a cup run. They do all right
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: in the Champions League, but they're nowhere near in the
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: in the actual league. But it's too early to say that,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: so I'm not sure. You know, it's I think early season,
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: it's okay to say you're not sure whether Holland is
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: the pick or not, because I don't want to fall
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: for the trap where I've restructured my whole team around Holland. Again,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: remember the people game week ten to game week twenty
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: where people who just held on to Holland for that
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: period and Salah went crazy. That was season defining ultimately,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: that was me in It ruined my season exactly. So
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want to fall into that Harland Sala structure.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Commit to it and then I see everybody else around
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: me starting to do well again because your careers has
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: good fixtures esk. You know if he ends up at Liverpool,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: which is looking likely, if you know that, he would
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: have something to say at some point. So going for
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: that structure feels a little bit rigid to me. Harland
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: instead of Sala. I can have a conversition around that.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Salah has Burnley coming up, so it's not the best
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: point to do that switch. But I think at some
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: point if you wanted to do that switch, I can
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: have a confision around that, because there's changes in Liverpool
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: as well, which will come to after this game.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know how I feel about Harland. I've
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: got what I've got money left over from Palmer. I'm
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: going to downgrade Kunya to someone possibly as low as
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: saying Elliott Anderson. I could go up from Watkins to Harland,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: but I'm very conscious that it's a rigid structure as
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: soon as you've got Salo and Harland in your team.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And then there's the captaincy argument. It's not just forty
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: million on a player that's in a team that's not
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: playing that well. It's forty million on a player that
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you might not captain that much. I mean game week
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: six versus Burnley. Sure, everyone's going to captain Harland if
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you own him. Outside of that, it's not a huge
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: amount of fixtures. But then if you're captaining Salah, should
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: we be or should we be captaining Harland? Maybe maybe
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: there's a question there too, like Salah is a bit
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: of a set and forget when we're not sure and
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: actually maybe there's a slight shift there in Liverpool and yeah,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: let's get to Liverpool in a sec. But I guess
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: man City defense like swerve goalkeeper, swerve, like we don't
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: know if it will be Trafford on a rima, Like
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: let's just watch this space with city defense a lot
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: on eight Norri that he's showing signs of getting forward
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and it created a big chance for Harland in the
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: first half, put it right on his Hardland should have scored.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: But again, I don't know if we're going to see
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: a huge amount of clean sheets. So I think I'm
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: happy just to monitor eate Norri. Are you are you
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: in the same boat there? Same with a lot of
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: those six million defenders. To be fair, do you go
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: for a five and a half defender that can get
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: deaf con or do you go for a six million
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: that plays for one of the better teams but actually
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: isn't getting many attacking returns.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is good to be the dilemma of the season,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: which is why I think if people have done really
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: well with the pricing, where the big teams have got
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: their defenders at six million, and you know you have
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: these five point fives that can match or at least
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: try to match with the contribution points. I think on
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: on City, I particularly my strategy is to free hit
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: in game week six, which is their prime home home
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: to Burnley fixture. So I'm of the opinion that just
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: watch watch the minutes for these players, pick your three
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: for game week six, and then after that, at some
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: point you'll go for your double triple Man City, you'll
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: get your Harland's after gimmick thirteen. Their fixtion is incredible.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: They play three promoted teams in the next six so
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: that will be the time where you have to think
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: about should I go Horland, should I go Salah, should
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I go both? And should I go for eight Nori
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: or don Ruma if he's playing and you know if
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: he's if he's there, so there's a lot of question
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: marks on city, both in terms of form, both in
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: terms of FPL interest. Harland is still very good. Everybody
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: else wait and watch. That's where I am at least.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: I love that 're on different approaches because I think
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: three hit six will be popular, Wildcard six will be popular,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and it will be getting Harland in for Burnley.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: My approach is, I.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Don't think I want to free hit all wildcard in six,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: but I do need Harland in my team, hence thinking
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: about going for the double up Harland Salin now. But
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: then as a get out clause. If it's too rigid
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: come game week seven eight and I need Arsenal players whatever,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: then I've got a World card as an out. I
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: think that's what I'm going with. My team in six
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is quite well set up. I don't want to free
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: hit that week. I've got forests for example, I'll be
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: on triple Forest like it's interesting, it's great. I love
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the extra chips. The extra chips are really welcome addition
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: to FPL and gives us more fun and more creativity
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and more differences and less of an optimal route. Let's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: move on to Liverpool Arsenal because I mean it wasn't
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a great game, was it. Arteta does this big game
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: up against a top of the table clash, especially away
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: from home. He goes and he just makes it really
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: really tight. And yeah, it took us abotsly worldI to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: get a winner, but we very nearly. It was very
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: nearly a Neil Neil And it's just what Arteta does
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: in these big games. And it would have been three
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: from three for Arsenal clean sheets. But they're not attacking well,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: they're not creating open play XG. I think only Sunderland
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: have produced lower XG and open play the Arsenal this season.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: But they are efficient in terms of they will partner
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the bus and they will very rarely conceive big chances.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I wonder if we're being a little bit
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: hard on them because Liverpool away is a tough fixture.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: They were without oder guard without soccer As is still
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: not completely you know, he's not ready to start games,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: so I wonder if that changes slightly with you know,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: once your careers is also more bedded into the league.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: So they have tried, but what we've seen so far
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: is the same Arsenal as last season, where they're struggling
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: to create chances, but still getting out the one nil
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: two nil wins because their defense is still great. They're
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: still great at set pieces. So I don't think we've
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: learned anything new. We were hoping to learn something new
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: where with your careers, with everybody else who they've signed
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: as a maduake that there's a little bit of spice
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: in their attack. Haven't seen it yet. I mean, what
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: can I say in terms of FBL picks. I think
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: they will be all great, three great FBL picks will
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: emerge by gimmicks and maybe more, and we just need
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: to be flexible enough to go there when the time
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: is right. But it's never bad to go double arsenal
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: defense strip with arsenal defense that we know is not
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: going anywhere, right. I mean, Gabrielle is still great, Raya
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: is still a good goalkeeper option. Although Saliba had a
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: little bit of an injury or an ankle sprint that
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: we found out after that he got in the warm
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: up and he couldn't continue even though he started. Does
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: that put you off at all arsenal defense or it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: just a machine that will continue anyway.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a machine that will continue anyway. It feels
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: like yes, We know Sleibra and Gabriell were world class,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: but even last season I remember seeing injuries.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: It was in the running.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I think we saw Kivi or get loads of games
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: at center back and did really well. It was like
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: they still keep Clanchees. It's just a style of players
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: to protection in front of them. He often goes with
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: four center backs, like Klafiori and Timber. You could argue
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Calafury especially, you know he's more a center back than
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a fallback. But Ben White when he paid right back,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you know by trade, he was originally a center back.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: So it's just what Arteta does. It doesn't really matter
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: too much on the part personnel. And actually the fullbacks
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: are interesting because if it consistently is Timber and Cali Fury,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: then now we're looking at too because you get some
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: attack my turns and they're cheaper. But of course Champions
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: League is coming up and you expect there to be
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit of rotation for the fallbacks and then
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Sleebra and Gabrielle set and forget. But even Rya is interesting.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: You're right, Gyokearez, Yeah, I think he'll be good in
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the fixtures. We need him to be good. The ones
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: where we captain him, where he's playing Burnley in Sunderland.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I think he'll score goals in some of the tough
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: games when he goes to an Aclod. I didn't expect much,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: but I didn't expect much from Arsenal, didn't expect much
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: from Arteta, so it makes sense.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: I'm happy there.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And again, if we get Gyakras on pens, he could
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: have that bump again. You look at him and go
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: nine million. That's great value because he's taken pens and
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: he's probably been priced without them. Let's see if he
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: takes them off soccer, I expect you will. Let's talk
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: at Liverpool because the Esak signing Salah lots of discuss.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right, Liverpool's attack looks looks really good. I mean,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: if we don't even know how this will work. Once
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Essec joins, will Sec share some minutes with Ekitik, Will
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Ekk take minutes off Gatpo, Will Will Will verts play
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: in the number ten the whole time. Because Subosla is
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: looking really good. I think you know, people are defaulting
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Rosala simply because they just don't know who else to
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: pick as a Liverpool attacker who will consistently get minutes
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: over the next two or three, especially now that Esak
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: has also been thrown into the mix.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: There are all the questions and we just don't have
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: the answers, but you're right to pose them all. Like
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the Ekitk Gakpo VI's potential rotation is there, subbots Liers
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: is playing so well, and free Pomp will be back
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: soon playing right back. You can't drop subbotsly does he
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: play in the ten or? Saloh is the ninety minute man.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: He's the guy that is just so history tells us
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: is so reliable. Will he be reliable this season? I
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: expect he still will be. I am really really conscious
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that Esak up front, VI's in the ten ekitk or
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Gagpo on the left. Let's say it's ekitk like there's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: more goals in that team now. But does more goals
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: lower the share for Sala I think it absolutely will.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: But if the team is scoring more goals overall, then
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: maybe that doesn't matter too much. So let's see what
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: happens with Salary still on pens. He's still a ninety
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: minute man, He's still going to get chances, and he's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: still often going to be the best captaincy option because
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the fixtures are there and the team he plays for
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: are playing so well that they're going to be the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: best attack in the league. I've got no doubt, but
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: I'm slightly worried that Esak's going to steal a lot
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: of goals from him. But you could argue someone's got
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: to serve him and Salah maybe maybe gets more of
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: his points.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: That's that's the hope. But I think it's one of
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: those cases which which puts me off wild card a
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: little bit, where or you know, the structure that you've
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: talked about with Salah and Highland, where I'm just thinking,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I have no idea which if I want two Liverpool attackers,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: who the second one is, or if I even want Salah,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: if I want, you know, you could have your nice
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Liverpool triple up within Esak. I'm just throwing names out
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: there for the moment, Esk, Wirtz and van Dyk, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: of course there's question marks and words as well, but
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: you could have that as a viable ripple up to
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: a four day Harland Palmer structure. So it's just so
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: much up in the air that I just feel so
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: nervous that if you're looking to wildcard that you're committing
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: to structures. Of course you can make transfers, you can
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: change it later. Then I just we get through the
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: season early part of the season, understand these teams a
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: little better in terms of dynamics. Everybody's got a new
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: signing or two, and watch how this interplace where the
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: goal chaers are landing, and then you can wildcard at
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: some point. That's at least my thinking, because at the
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: moment there's Salah. Default just happens because he's probably the
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: best captain in game weeg four game week five.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I think so.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: And there's two players, as we both own, that we
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: need to discuss because there's a lot of managers out
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: there selling them. They've both dropped in price. We are
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: probably staying patient. But Florin VI it's first and foremost.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I think we're both very happy to carry it for Burnley.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: He looked good in the second half, I thought Viz.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: I thought I had a good half an hour before
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: he came off, and that was promising. And against Burnley,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: of course you cannot sell flowing vit. Surely guys don't
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: do it. But then the other players are Watkins and
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: we should move on to aston Villa Palace because Ollie
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Watkins has had three games now three blanks, and people
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: have Palmer money, and there's players out there like Mateta
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: with a great fixture. You could move down Jau Pedro
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: people don't own. You could move to Jao Pedro from Watkins,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: or you can maybe go up to a Esak if
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you fancy him, although I don't expect him to start
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: game week four.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Or in Earling Harland.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Like I am getting twitchy on Watkins, I'm not twitchy
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: on Bits and yes Watkins has some good fixtures, but
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Watkins has had three really good fixtures. At some point
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: we need to say you can't keep him just because
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: he's got good fixtures. The team are not functioning well.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: They've had zero goals, they're not creating high XG. They
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: look off it, and I think there's a chance I
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: sell Watkins for game week four.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Look, I can't fault it. If you have to sell him,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: you have to sell him, but I will be sting patient.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: But you see in FBO it's not should we sell
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: or by because it depends on your team. If there's
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: other more immediate games you can make from selling either
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: players then that's the way to look at it. If
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: your team is in a good enough shape where you go,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm just going to do Watkins to
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: give cares because he's going to be home to Nottingham
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: first and then he has a fantastic fixture and of
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: course he has man City after, but that's at home.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: So you could just take that view and say I'm
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: going to do that, or like you said, you could
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: upgrade him to Harland. You can do other stuff. So
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: if your team allows it and there's no other potential
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: issues in the team, go for it. In my case,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I'll be free hitting in game Mex six, So bookending
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: game Meek six is his fixtures against Sunderland and Burnley.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: No chance I'm selling him before those two. Am I concerned?
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Of course I am concerned. You know, they haven't scored
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: a single goal in the league in the first three games.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: But it's just one of those things where if I
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: don't have a striker and I sell Watkins for that
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: striker and Watkins does well, it's just not the thing
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: that you know it will gives me so much regret
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: that I just think I got Watkins for the first
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: seven game weeks and I'm going to stay patient. That's
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: just the way I play. And if it doesn't work out,
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: it doesn't work out. It's not like he's never going
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: to score. Yeah, yeah, it's inevitable. The goals will come,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: and they could. He missed a one on one yesterday. Yeah,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: on Sunday. I bought him for the first seven game
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: weeks two. But I'm a little bit more impatient. I
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: don't know if I think there's a good chance he
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: leaves my team, but I do expect him to score.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: And look, I'll probably free hit him in one of
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: those other weeks against against Sunland and Burnley. So yeah,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Villa not very convincing at all. But it is now
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: fourteen games on the bounce without the feet for Crystal
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: Palace in all comps, and they are looking very good,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: even without Essay Daniel Minos. I think like Daniel Minos,
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: SA and Metteta. Oh, actually, let's put Laquir in the mix,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: like four incredible FPI options, Like there's a lot to
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: like about Crystal Palace. And in game week four they
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: play Sunland at home. The entry point is amazing. I
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: think those four players are going to get a lot
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: of love in the international break, aren't they. Well, I'll
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: add my four point five million boy, Chris Richards in
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: the mix as well. I mean he's great for defensive
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: contributions as well. He got his defensive contributions for any
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: other player in the game last night. And yeah, I
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: think Pallace have some very good picks, and you know,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: look at your team structure and see which one you
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: want to go with. But for me, number one above
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: everybody else is Daniel Munos because if you're getting a
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: guy who's essentially an attacker, because when you think about
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: teams that you know teams attack with five players. Any
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Premier League team that you look without over committing, they
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: look at five players who are their attackers. In certain
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: cases that is just your you know, your three attackers
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: or your three forwards and two midfielders to join it.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: In Crystal Palace's case, one of those attackers is Daniel Munos.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Every single time they're they're ahead, or they're in the
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: opposition third, he's there. He's in the box waiting and
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: he will get attacking returns. So if you're looking for
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: somebody who has clean sheet potential, attacking returns and the
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: occasional defensive contribution points. Daniel Munos is as good as
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: anybody else. So I just think with any fixture run
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: which starts with sunderline at home and it's then decent
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: for a while, you just get him and hold him.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: And this was always an entry point that I was
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: thinking at the back of my mind that I'll get
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Muna's for this week. And the reason I didn't get
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Star and Macheta last week, because I made two free
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: transfers I could have afforded both, was because I wanted
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: to leave a space for Daniel Munoz, who will come
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: into my team this week.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Nice one.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he's the most obvious by in fl
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: At the moment, I was watching the game, knowing I
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: had a terrible game week. I needed those Mano's points
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: right heading into the international break, and I see eighty five.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: I've had loads of clean sheet wipeouts this season. We
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: all have, right, I've got double knot and in forest defense,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: so I'm used to clean sheet wipeouts. At the death
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Daniel Mina's eighty four minutes, I think are on the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: clock and I see Nathaniel Klein is coming off the bench,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: and I'm like perfect. Manos is going to come off
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: with a clean sheet, banks with bonus points banked, I
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: don't have to sweat, and I knew there was going
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: to be a lot of it. At a time. It
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: was seven minutes and Client comes on and Minna stays
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: on the pitch. I was, oh my no, So Client
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: comes on at right wing back. Manat's actually go from
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: his right wing back position. As you say, he's a
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: front five player, he goes and plays front three. So
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Minot's for the remainder of the football match. I mean,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I didn't want him on the pitch, but I was
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: part of it. Was like, oh, I might get a
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: goal here, he is so attacking. But yeah, it was
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: lovely to see him actually the end of the game,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: not even as a wing back, even higher. But yeah,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: he's a great bite and he's a ninety minute man.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: And with European football, I'm slightly worried about Pallace because
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: they've not got the biggest squads to rotate mid week
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: and European foot was a big deal for them. I
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: don't see them putting out a B team on Thursday
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: nights necessarily, But even with that, Minods can play nineteen
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: ninety ninety. He is a fitness monster, so again another
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: reason to pick him.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: I think yeah so, And apart from him, I think
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: you can't go wrong with anyone else. Like if you
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: wanted to pick a Matteta or a Sar I think
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: if a structure allows, Sarah is slightly better because midfielders
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: are generally better, but then Manteta mix up for it
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: with his penalty, So I think you can pick one,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: you can pick both. You can go for double defense
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: because I think people would say Christian Palace double defense
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: question mark, but they're good even away from home. In fact,
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: I would say away from home they're even better because
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: the way that Glassner sets them up. Remember last season
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: when we had the assistant manager Chip, the most joy
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: was when Crystal Palace was away from home because you know,
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: the table position doesn't do justice to how Crystal Palace
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: perform when they do a discipline performance away from home.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Use the pace of Sar to then you know, get
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: the counter going. So there was lots of reasons to
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: go for a Crystal Palace player. I hope it continues.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I do have some concerns though, like you mentioned, with
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: the Europe with the fatigue start to build up, but
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: it's early season for now, a lot of their players
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: are now resting. Mateta has no international football, so their
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: players will get a little bit of a break. I
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: think Munas is away with Columbia, Sar will be away
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: as well, But by and large, I think it's a
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: two week where it's not going to be midweek weekend
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: midweek weekend. Right, They're going to play two games over
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: the two weeks, so I think that that, you know,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: international breaks come at a good time for a Crystal Palace.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: I just think they're a good team, even more so
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: for people free hitting in Gimbek six like myself, because
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: you can just take out that Liverpool fixture that they
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: have in Gimbek six, So just lord up if you're
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: on that strategy.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: They're the giant killers, though, prout the I'll go and
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: beat Liverpool three in ill. Yeah, I hear you, but
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: you're right. I go after Palace guys, and probably don't
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: go after not in a forest. I mean, these are
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: my biggest disappointment disappointment in my team. Certainly I went
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: double forest defense. That was a big error, Like they've
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: not kept a clean sheet yet, conceding three all late
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: to west Ham and that's Arsenal up next. The fixtures
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: are still good for Forest, but they're not keeping clean
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: sheets at the back. Sales has worked and he's making
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: lots of saves again he was doing that last year.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: They were conceding chances in the second half of the
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: season especially, But then even in attack, I look at
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: players like Chris Wood and Morgan Gibbs White, I'm seeing
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: these players not even get ninety minutes anymore. They used
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: to be ninety minute men. But the squad depth there
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: is there at Forest, Like you've got a bench of
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: like Macte, Hutchinson, Callum Wado and Eager Jay Zus, like
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: four really good attackers that will all come on. So
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: you don't have ninety minute pail in for the attackers,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: you don't have clean sheet guarantee for the defenders.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: That's just not as good this year.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: Is I mean, they were fine until the eighty fifth
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: minute yesterday. All of them were getting were on bonus.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Cells was on three bonus. I think Morillo was on
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: one or two. I just don't know, like, is it
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: just differences in priorities or play style change or just
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: luck that they haven't got a single clean sheet so far.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: The fixture is still there, especially if you're not playing
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: a free hit in Gamemick six home to Sunderland in
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: Game WEX six. Definitely keep them. Am I concerned medium term? Yes,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: because the fixtures after Game Mex six actually are not
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: great at all. And so this is why I didn't
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: want to overload on Forest, because I feel if you
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: have too many forests, you know, for example, you mentioned
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: you have the triple up. You may be okay in
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: game Weex six without a chip, but then you will
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: need a chip to get rid of them at some
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: point that could be wild card. So it's it. It's
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: one of those things where you know, to get rid
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: of them or to deal with them, you might need
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: a chip one way or the other. In my case,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: I'm going to just sell them and I've just got
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: the one, or I've got Anderson. I don't really count
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: it because he's my perma bench going forward from now on.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: But I won't be playing Nottingham Forest Defenders after game
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: week six and I don't have Chris Wood because I
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: just think there is concerns there in terms of the manager,
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: be the players, the new signings and Europe, which is
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: always always very critical for teams that are that squad
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: isn't built up for midweek football, weekend weekard.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Last season's not in the forest. I think this year
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: is going to be Everton. And they were so convincing
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: again at the weekend, like looking really good upfront. They've
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: got and Die, Greenish and jews Behol all playing behind
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the number nine. Now all three of them produce lots
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: of chances, They've got goal threat and they all play
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: with their socks down. That absolutely love that. They are
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: completely expressive and fun. And I own jews Behore. I
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: benched him and it really hurt the twelve points on
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: the bench because I was so close to starting him.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: But I won't be doing that again. I wanted more
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: in my eleven. He's playing number ten, he's taking corners
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and he's getting ninety minutes, a bit like Forrest. All
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: the other attackers are getting subbed off, but jews Beyhoe
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: ninety minutes every week. I'm very happy with him, but
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: it's Greedish the standout pick because he's looking like Greenish
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: five years ago.
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, don't we all love this? I mean, you know,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: as a neutral watching Greenish happily playing football, getting attacking returns,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: playing consistent football. It's it's just so nice. It's such
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: a nice story, and I hope that continues. Is he
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: the best pick in the team. I mean, at the moment,
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: it looks like he's creating everything, but he's not scoring everything.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: He won the goal scorers right, So I think eventually,
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: between Better and Barry, whoever seals his number nine spot,
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: maybe it's neither if they keep rotating. But in Die
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: still to me looks like the best shout. He's still
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: I think, going to be on penalties. He's still going
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: to be the guy who takes a lot of shots
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: on short volume midfielder scoring goals is amazing, like we
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: talked about with Semeno and others in the past. So
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: I still like in Die. But then for budget options
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: five million five point one million, I think Dewsbury Holl
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: is perfect. I was very close to getting him. I
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: was so hot on him, but it was based on
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: one preseason. Ultimately I went for Rinders because I only
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: had one cheap midfielders slot at the time in Gambieck one.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: But I was very close in Dewsbury Hall. I think
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: he's just a very nice pick.
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely up there for the best in class
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: at of five million, mids Sunland one at home again,
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Leeds kept two clean sheets in two Like again, we're
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: seeing the newly promoted teams put up a fight. I
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: don't know if there's huge FPL interest in these teams,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: but defenders, certainly from Leads, look like they'll keep some
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: clean sheet.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: I think Leads defenders are great. Like Goodmunson has been
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: very good on bonus as well in the two clean
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: sheets that they've kept at home. If you can reliably
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: have somebody from Leeds for four point oh million who
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: you can say, you know what, I'm going to start
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: them in their home games, that's great. That's like a
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: lot of value that you can get out of that
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: one position if you only play them in the home games.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: So let's see if it continues like with promoted teams
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: we've we've we've been here before where they start up
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: really strong and slowly they with their down and then
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: it becomes, you know, in the second half the season
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: not as great. So let's see. As we talked about
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the show, I think I think
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: we're both at a little bit more bullish on Burnley
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: and leads. Initially we'll see with Sundron, but yeah, I
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: think there's some good budget gems. Think about bench boosts.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: A lot of you you know have Estev or Goodmunson
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: or Rodon. I think these are all solid picks if
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: they have a home fixture to target them for a
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: bench post at some point if you wanted to do it.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bench boosts to the game. We too.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I had a Stev and Debravka at home to Sunder
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and they kept the clean sheets. So yeah, you can
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: target those good home fixtures and maybe have a little
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: wins mate.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Lovely chatting. I guess we're we just kick back and
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: relaxing now for a couple of weeks. We'll look it.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: We won't make any moves, so what's the international right,
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: will think about our long term strategy and then as
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: that deadline draws closer, we'll be looking in moves. But
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: good to know what we're looking to do now and
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: see if that's still relevant in ten days time. So yeah,
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: looking forward to chatting again soon.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And look, I mean there's also the element
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: of transfer window, right, some key moves could happen between
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: now and the next deadline. I've got Strand Larson, for example,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: in my team nervously watching any tweets. So it's those
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: times where yeah, sit back, listen to you know that,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: what's happening in the transfer window? Watch the highlights again
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: of the Premier League matches. Are there any trends that
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: you've picked up? But other than that, like you mentioned,
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: you know, kick back, take a little bit of a break.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: It's been a world will start to the Premier League
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: and yeah, if you're not planning to wildcard, then think
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: about your chip strategy as well.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: There will be.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Boredom kicking in and managers that wildcard for the sake
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: of it. They'll also be managers wildcarding because they need to.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure Kelly, Jules and Sam Well on Thursday,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I've got no doubt. On the pod they'll be touching
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: on the all important ship strategy, including how to know
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: if it's the right time to wildcard.
• 50:58
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  Speaker 3: y six x p l Joanny. It's been great chatting man,
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: enjoy the break. Good luck in game week four
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: You too, mate, I'll see See you lady guys here