Rate My Wildcard Team Surgery – Part Three

Welcome to the third of our Rate My Wildcard Team articles of the week. These will showcase the thoughts of one of the Fantasy Football Scout moderators and contributors team on their Wildcard. Hopefully some of their key issues will mirror your own. Feel free to use this article thread to put forward your wildcard teams and to help others with their Wildcard related issues. After Jonty and Andy85wsm put forward their teams earlier in the week, next up is Spencer.

My Wildcard Team

Robles Darlow
Bellerín Smalling Sakho Jagielka Delaney
Coutinho Sánchez Payet De Bruyne Iwobi
Mitrovic Lukaku Agüero

0.1m in the bank

Strategy

I am another moderator and contributor that is going all out in double Gameweek 34 with 15 players. I’ll be bench boosting that week after wildcarding for Gameweek 33. For Gameweek 37 I’ll use my triple captaincy chip.

Key Issues

Finding Value in Goal

I’ve opted for the budget friendly Everton stopper Joel Robles and Newcastle’s bargain basement goalkeeper Karl Darlow. They offer so much value that can be invested elsewhere, but will they bring in the points in their own right?

Punting on a Palace Defender

Should I even be considering a defender from a team that hasn’t registered a Premier League clean sheet in 2016? Four games over two Gameweeks suggest they are still worth a punt, with Damian Delaney my favoured cheap-as-chips option due to his added goal threat.

Iwobi the Enabler

With 16 points across his last two games the young Arsenal midfielder offers attacking threat at a rock bottom price. But will he actually play twice during Arsenal’s double Gameweek 34 or will Arsene Wenger look to protect this young Gunner?

Blank Busting Mitrovic

Newcastle striker Alexsandar Mitrovic looks undroppable after scoring a brace off the bench in Gameweek 33. He also offers strong value and crucially plays in Gameweek 35, which is worth its weight in gold to those like me who are going all out with 15 double players in Gameweek 34.

So Long Singletons

The only upside in coming late to the Riyad Mahrez and Harry Kane points party was that I don’t have much value tied up in this pair of players that have been in sensational form this season. With the lure of having 15 double Gameweek players proving too strong I’ve bid both a fond farewell to these single Gameweek stars.