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FPL Gameweek 30 – an analysis of the key underlying stats

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The final routine Gameweek before the chaos of the blanks and doubles starts takes place this weekend.

Ahead of Saturday’s deadline, we take a look at the data available to subscribers in our Members’ area and present the eye-catching statistics that could shape Fantasy managers’ transfers.

We’ve run down the stand-out stats in every position, as well as looking at the strengths and weaknesses of various teams to assess which Fantasy Premier League assets could have a profitable Gameweek.

 

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  1. evilfish
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Should I do Pogba > Brooks this GW or next?

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    1. Whazza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Next

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    2. AuFeld
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Next. BOU on the road are atrocious.

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    3. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Next. Is there no other mid you can offload ?

      I’m doing Puncheon to brooks and holding Son Pogba etc another week

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      1. evilfish
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        No other non blanking mid apart from Sterling

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        1. Richd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          I’d just wait then

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    4. captainjilflex
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      next

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  2. Je suis le chat
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Sarri might have turned a corner, Chelsea looking solid.

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    1. Ambrosiana Inter
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Soo easy to be critical nowadays...he s a good manager he deserves time

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    2. Whazza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I thought so after they beat Spurs, but they struggled against Fulham, thought a draw would have been a more fair result there

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    3. el polako
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      To be fair Kepa picked a decent team for tonight.

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  3. Maddi Son
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Just did Kola & Jota > Azpi & Brooks (-4)

    These fixtures look juicy: https://ibb.co/jw0Lf87

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    1. Wild Rover
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Jota scored v Chelsea last time

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  4. GREEN IS GOOD
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Loftus-Choke

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    1. fr3d
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Cheeky

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  5. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    David Luiz playing is a slight worry for me

    Maybe Azpi is the only chelski option at the back

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    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Did he not have his rest at the weekend just gone?

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      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        He did. But then maybe it wasn’t rest ?

        Could be making something out of nothing but with these blanks we have to be 100% sure they’re going to play..

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    2. Fingerspitzengefühl
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Same thing struck me, but tbh I think Christensen makes way and Rüdiger plays with Luiz at the weekend. But it's annoying when he starts and it makes you a bit uncertain

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      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah see I’m 95% sure he’s nailed still but that little bit of doubt is annoying

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  6. bitars
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Best midfield option for 6,2. He is only gonna be an option fot GW 30, 31, 33 because i am gonna free hit 32 and wildcard 34. Right now i am on Brooks or Fraser, is there any better ones?

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    1. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I’d go Brooks

      It’s easy to feel like you have to spend all the extra cash, but you don’t !

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  7. sneakyr
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Considering I already have Maddison and Pereira, would you over the next two weeks with 3FT do:

    A) Doherty, Son, CHO, Aguero to Ake, Haz, Lanzini, Higuain, King

    Or

    B) Doherty, Son, CHO, Aguero, Rashford to Diop, Haz, Brooks, Higuain, Vardy

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    1. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      CHO just scored. New plan !! 😉

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      1. sneakyr
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Haha

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    2. JoeSoap
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      B for me

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  8. Snevitz
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    If the doubles play out as expected then I think there will be the following fixtures in week 32:

    MUN vs WAT, wol (confirmed)
    WOL vs bur, MUN (confirmed)
    MCI vs ful, CAR (likely as MCI vs mun is confirmed for gwk 35)
    CAR vs CHE, mci
    CHE vs car, BHA (likely as if BHA beat Millwall they can't have a dgwk against Cardiff in 32 due to the City fixture)
    BHA vs SOU, che

    There could possibly be a couple more arranged but we won't know until after week 31 and they are more likely to be moved to week 35.

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    1. Dannyb
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Loading up on City then.

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      1. Snevitz
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 14 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Definitely, fixtures don't get any better than that!

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    2. GREEN IS GOOD
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      triple Cardiff essential

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  9. Ghost86
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Who to get this week?

    A) Hazard

    B) Mane (own Salah)

    Will have both the week after

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    1. _Ninja_
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Mane

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  10. arkom
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Lloris
    Robertson / Pereira / AWB
    Salah(vc) / Mane / Pogba / Richarlison
    Barnes / Jimenez / Aguero(c)

    (Speroni) 1. Shaw 2. Doherty 3. Puncheon

    2 FT
    2,2£ ITB

    Guys, any tips.. What to do? Preparing to the blanks..

    Shaw / Doherty out? Punch --> Brooks? Other?

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    1. arkom
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Let's gamble and Pogba, Puncheon and Jimenez to Brooks, Fanderson and Vardy? 😀

      Or Pogba & Doherty to Hazard & West Ham def?

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    2. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Punch to brooks is my move

      You could then save the FT and have a couple next week

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  11. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    3-0

    I’m now sold on Chelsea.

    My opinion on Vardy being gash will not change.

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    1. YEAH PITCH!
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Who's the captain this week then Flapjack?

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      1. Richd
        • 11 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        I’m pretty sure I’ll go Aguero. It’s been on him all week, but will wait for pressers to decide 🙂

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        1. FPL Pillars
          • 7 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          looking good, I'm on kun too. But yes pressers are key.

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        2. YEAH PITCH!
          • 5 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Cool. In the same boat mate. Not long to go.

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    2. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      very easy win

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  12. Hy liverpool
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Captain this week

    A. Michu
    Or
    B. Demba Ba

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    1. el polako
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Tadic

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    2. drughi
      • 14 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      tevez against blackburn for me

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    3. FCSB
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Dempsey

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    4. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Adam Johnson

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    5. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Berbatov

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    6. pjomara
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      ruel fox

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    7. Poseidon.
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Richie Wellens

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  13. FCSB
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    best replacement for Moutinho:

    1. Fraser
    2. Brooks
    3. Other?

    current midfield...

    Salah Pogba Son Snodgrass

    Thanks...

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    1. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Brooks
      Brooks
      Brooks
      Brooks

      I’ll just keep posting this

      Brooks
      Brooks

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      1. FCSB
        • 8 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        thank you, thats all the assurance i need...

        do it now, or wait til tomorrow?

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        1. Richd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Wait for sure

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  14. Richd
    • 11 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Does anyone else lay in bed watching Andy on YouTube and wonder where it all went wrong?

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    1. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Andy himself maybe?

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    2. Alpharius
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Haha I remember watching him whilst in Venice last year, lying on the hotel bed whilst it rained outside thinking exactly that.

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    3. el polako
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Yep, keep flipping between Andy on YouTube and british milfs on RedTube.

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      1. Alpharius
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        You don't want to mix those two up

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  15. Fernando Torres
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Bring in

    A) Vardy
    B) King
    C) Kane
    D) Aguero

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    1. Alpharius
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A

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    2. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      What’s your chip strategy ? If FH32.. king I guess

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      1. Fernando Torres
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        FH 32 yh

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    3. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      E) arnautovic. Depends on your strategy with chips of course

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      1. Fernando Torres
        • 12 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        He hasn't even been playing recently?

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        1. Richd
          • 11 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Arnie is a crazy risk for the blanks

          I’d honestly go King, Vardy, Higuain over him.

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          1. DandyDon
            • 5 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            He’ll play most of next three and score loads. However wk33 their fixtures go downhill so if can afford then could replace with Wilson maybe for 33

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      2. Poseidon.
        • 5 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Good lord

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  16. abaalan
    • 8 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    A) Laca -> Vardy
    B) Pogba -> Brooks
    C) Jimenez -> King

    Like B, but means playing Barnes, Laca and/or Jimenez this week (whcih i dont like!)

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    1. Alpharius
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A

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  17. SheBangsTheDrums
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    These good moves to play in 31 and 33?

    Out: Patricio, Shaw & AWB

    In: Boruc, TAA & Azpi

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    1. Richd
      • 11 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      V good

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    2. FPL Pillars
      • 7 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      yep

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  18. Bobby Digital
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    So who will try to navigate through GW32 with two freebies?

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    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Using FH so not possible

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      1. Bobby Digital
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        I could get 5 dgwers with freebies and then I could use TC that week..

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  19. Seaway
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Last question for today. Do I bring Brooks in for a hit this week and start him over AWB ? I'm going to be taking a hit to bring him in anyway for GW31 so I'm wondering should I just do it this week and play him against HUD.

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    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I wouldnt

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      1. Seaway
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Probably right. Might be better to see how Brooks and Fraser play against a weaker side before deciding.

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    2. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 10 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      You don't want to start AWB at home to Brighton?

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      1. Seaway
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Ideally I would but I'll bringing in a Bournemouth attacker anyway and I'm thinking should I get one in before HUD. Probably best to wait to see how they play.

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    3. TLF
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      As you have AWB I'd probably wait on transfer and reassess after Hudds as you suggest.

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      1. Seaway
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah seems like the sensible option. Thanks.

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  20. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    What is better this week:

    A - son and vardy + saved transfer
    B - hazard and king

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  21. emorybortz
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Is Kolasinac dropped then? Didn't start at the weekend or tonight.

    Got to make a call whether to get rid of him or Shaw this week and the fact Kola plays in 33 is tempting but also useless if he's not actually going to play.

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    1. Seaway
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Think it was more of a tactical change but I could see the same happening against United. Kola will always play against the weaker teams imo.

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      1. emorybortz
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Yeah, might as well hold i think. Not sure i'd want shaw for his doubles anyway.

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    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      This is my concern also. Had been wanting to focus on bringing in new attackers and fact arsenal have wk 33 fixture is a big plus for me

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      1. emorybortz
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Exactly. I'm tempted to hold anyway.

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  22. Daghe Munegu
    • 7 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Schmeichel
    VVD Kola Rice
    Salah Sterling Mané Anderson
    Higuain Jimenez Barnes

    X Shaw Gunnarson Peltier

    A Gunnarson to Fraser/Brooks/Madison and bench Barnes
    B Kola to Azpi
    C Jimenez and Kola to Vardy and Clyne - 4
    D save
    E other

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    1. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I’d say a but Vardy will probably score this week so hit tempting

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  23. StayoutheSpiceZone
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Gtg or something else? 2.1m itb

    Boruc
    AWB Doherty matip
    Maddison Salah mane sterling (c) haz
    Rondo hig

    Ryan, bedn, solanke, Bennett

    Thanks

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    1. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Could replace one of your wolves def, or is that the plan next week?

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      1. StayoutheSpiceZone
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Yes that’s the plan as don’t wanna take a -4

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  24. Mind över Mata
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    How does this sound?

    Pog and Jiminez -> Maddy and Higuain (-4)

    (Next week: Hojbjerg -> Brooks)

    Free Hit in gw 32.

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    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Hard to argue with if you are happy shipping pogba.

      Avoiding hazard?

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  25. tbhogal
    • 14 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi Guys, Which option is best guys? £1.7M ITB 1Ft

    A) Son to Mane
    B) Kola to TAA

    Fabianski (Hamer)
    Robertson, Kola, Bennett (Digne, AWB)
    Pogba, Son, Salah, Anderson (Hojberg)
    Rondon, Aguero, Jimenez....

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    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A

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  26. Aaa
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Have I got this lineup right? 0.3 itb and 1 ft, anything worth sorting?

    Fab
    Robbo/TAA/Pereira
    Salah(c)/Son/Fand/Rich
    Aguero/Vardy/Jim

    (Eth/Kolas/Doh/Punch)

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    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Looks solid. I'd have Doherty ahead of kola on bench. Others might disagree.

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  27. MikeLowrey
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Building towards GW31, with FH32 & WC34. Have 2FT this week

    A)
    GW30 - Camarasa > Brooks
    GW31 - Aguero, Son & Doherty > Higuain, Hazard, Periera/Chilwell

    GW31 team
    Fab
    Robbo Digne TAA Chilwell
    Hazard Salah Rich Brooks
    Higuain Barnes

    (Boruc Pogba Jimenez Bednarek)

    B)
    GW30 - Son & Doherty > Azpi & Brooks
    GW31 - Aguero & Pogba > Higs & Haz

    GW31:
    Fab
    Robbo Azpi Digne TAA
    Hazard Salah Rich Brooks
    Higs Barnes

    C)
    GW31: Camarasa > Brooks
    GW32: Aguero, Son & Jimenez > Higs, King & Hazard

    GW31:
    Fab
    Robbo Digne TAA
    Hazard Salah Rich Brooks
    Higs Barnes King

    D)
    GW31: Son, Jimenez > Fraser & Higs
    GW32: Aguero & Jimenez > Vardy & Haz

    GW31:
    Fab
    Robbo Digne TAA
    Hazard Salah Rich Fraser
    Higs Barnes Vardy

    Thanks for the feedback. This is my first year in FPL

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    1. Champ
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Best of luck. Ask little questions. Especially later in the day

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  28. cjhewitt92
    • 10 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Is Wilson an option to bring in this week with there fixtures and in preparation for next gameweek.

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    1. how now brown cow
      • 9 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      A risky one. I'd wait

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    2. DandyDon
      • 5 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      To risky

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    3. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      I'd go with King anyway... less injury-prone

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      1. cjhewitt92
        • 10 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        Wilson gets more goals than king.

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  29. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    Actually i could do this for -4. What do you think?

    Out
    Son, rashford, f Anderson

    In
    Brooks, hazard and vardy

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    1. Patch
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      Were you ever debating having Madison rather than Brooks or simply ignored due to priority focus on Vardy?

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      1. how now brown cow
        • 9 Years
        5 years, 2 months ago

        I'd intended to get mads, but now he's scored a couple I think if Leicester get goals it's likely to be vardy.

        Not sold on them enough to double up.

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        1. Patch
          • 6 Years
          5 years, 2 months ago

          Fair enough I may do the same...

          Already have Vardy for his two goals a piece

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          1. Patch
            • 6 Years
            5 years, 2 months ago

            *last two games

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            1. how now brown cow
              • 9 Years
              5 years, 2 months ago

              Nicely done

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  30. Marco Ni Motet
    • 5 Years
    5 years, 2 months ago

    A) Camarasa + Jimenez
    —> Brooks + Wilson

    or

    B) Pogba + Jimenez
    —> Brooks + King

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    1. Bobby Digital
      • 6 Years
      5 years, 2 months ago

      B

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