FPL champions’ Gameweek 1 tips and team reveals

Rough idea is to transfer Eze for Diaz GW2, and then Diaz to Maddison moving forwards.

Doubt Nunez will start GW 1

Time to buy yourself a pair of boxing gloves

similar to my team. Nunez was one of the first players in for me

B

As a Liverpool fan im not keen on Trent at the minute. Our defence look shaky and doubt we will keep many CS early in the season. Szobo is on a lot of corners now also which limits TAA assist potential, so would say B

B

A

Neither, find the money for Shaw, go for Onana, or get a more attacking 5.0 pick like Estupiñan.

Martinez between those two, or gamble with more attacking Dalot

Bowen, Son, Trippier, Cash, Diaby, Enciso, De Bruyne.

My most left field picks are Udogie and Keane Lewis-Potter.

Udogie because he’s cheap and has been playing so far forward in pre season, seems nailed enough.

Lewis-Potter has been playing left wing, is very direct, should get decent minutes and there’s absolutely no other options at 5m.

The ones I'm floating with are Garnacho, Kulu, Dalot, Chukwuemeka, Bernardo

Double City defence, starting Garnacho over Watkins, maybe double Brighton defence. Does that count?

Someone ITK mentioned Emerson above Porro in this system. Be aware

Will Udogie start ? Ben Davies can be shifted across to LB to accommodation Van de Ven,

A hatchet-man with the bozo gene, a lad with one season of senior football (in Germany of all places) and 2 full-backs who play higher than Snoop Dogg. Hope this new keeper is up for it 'cos he's in for the shock of his life come Sunday.

Who is Van de Ven? (Spurs fan who hasn’t followed pre-season at all lol)

Wissa will score 5 at the weekend.

No Brighton attack for those first three fixtures could hurt, always prefer 3 at the back!

Mine was 07/08 too. I was playing the Channel 4 FPL before that. I think the main FPL started a year or two before we joined

02/03: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Premier_League

I started playing before they kept track of season history. I was 15.

21/22 🙂

2004, had to fax my team selection / transfer to head office at work. Could have a
2-5-3 or 5-5-0 formation

Tarkowski is flagged

I think thats pretty good tbh, very similar to what I had...could maybe change tarks for cash

I’d suggest doing that.

Good looking team, not sure I'd want double ARS and MUN in attack

GW1 and GW4 for Villa are really unattractive, you'd anticipate 2 pointers for Watkins in those matches. Will he get enough points in the other two matches to make up for it? Personally, I would go with Wissa, and either use the 2.5 to improve areas, or hang onto it for an inevitable bandwagon.

Put Salah back in

Johnstone.

Hodgson defence.

I'm on Johnstone. Think Palhinha is still out for Fulham (10GC in the 3 games he missed last season). Don't rate Everton at all

Pre season is too long. Launch the game 3 weeks before kick off.

How has Son been looking preseason?

Nice!

Only other Lewis-Potter pick I’ve seen! Fingers crossed it looks a good pick 3 weeks in

He's better than most keepers in the league

I'm surprised no one has highlighted the ridiculous spending at Forest

Absolutely torn. Currently just on Haaland, could very easily end up with Salah as well.

Pick a team you like with good balance rather than pick two expensive players and the rest to fit in there with them. If one of them looks essential to you later take a few hits or wildcard.

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Haaland and Salah for me.

Assuming Kane stays, I like the fact that he and Salah are the same price. If you go with neither, they're very hard to upgrade to if you've spread the funds and opted for the template 8m mids and premium defence.

I'm also keeping 0.5m ITB in case of any early price rises.

A

A

B with Wissa and Maddison over Mbuemo?

Strong!

I can't see paying for Chilwell but not playing him. If you're going 3-5-2, then just pick your best 3 defenders and play them every week. There are enough playing 4.0 defenders to provide cover

Not if you can afford a 6.5m mid, I can't so I'm going Pedro

I did. Was bored looking at Mbeumo but when he flagged, low risk, I got Pedro and Lewis-Potter for Mbeumo.

maybe to start with, you know how easily it could backfire though

Prefer the 6.5 mids due to flexibility. If Pedro flops or gets injured there isn't much in that price bracket upfront.

Maybe the later stages but not the groups, I wouldn't have thought.

Klopp has played him for 90 mins in dead rubber CL group stage matches before.

The 6.5m mids are the differentials.
The defence and attack is fairly template

Mitoma and Mbeumo have the best opening fixtures.

Was all over him until Arteta started Havertz up front on Sunday.

I don't think either of them will start, but expect them both to feature.

Yes ahead of Nketiah but unlikely to start ahead of Martinelli, Havertz or any of the 8s

I'd rather play slightly more for one of the more nailed Arsenal mids.

Can you find 0.5 from somewhere to upgrade your 4.5 striker to Pedro?

I like it, I'd go Onana to 4.5, then upgrade to Pedro @ 5.5M. You then have Brighton attacking coverage if you wanted to move Mitoma to Eze or Mbeumo

I wouldn’t be relying on Chukwemeka as a starter - he’s still unlikely to be

Stones makes no sense to me either, would rather a nailed, attacking 4.5 defender plus the extra mil

We are not picking City defenders for the whole season. Just for the start before UCL where I don't think rotation will be high

I'm happy to double up on City defenders.
1. I see last season as an anomaly, and the back line is significantly strengthened with Gvardiol.
2. City and Arsenal's defences are a level above all others in the PL.
3. In the first 8 GWs I see them having the highest CS
After that I lose them for Villa defenders.

the new hybrid role pep gave him was late last season so not fair to factor in his total points tally, he's an attacking threat now playing oop and for me the best player on the pitch in the CL final . wouldnt be going anywhere near him if it was just playing standard CB

Who will start for them in GW1? Barnes is decent, not sure he'll be nailed on though.

Yep lots of good 6.5 options

You're almost there IMO. I wouldn't have Shaw & Onana though, 1 Utd defence is enough. Botman tough fixtures at the start so you don't really want to be starting him. You could do Onana to 4.5, Ode to Mart then you have some spare to play about with.

Defense is a bit shaky, you need another certain starter there.
Midfield, personally I don't think 2 Liverpool mids is a good option, would rather Saka & Mart. So for me, i'd replace Diaz
Front 3 I agree with

History.
Kane uncertainty.
Postecoglou.
History.

the Kane debacle I believe. With him it makes Maddison very tempting, but without Kane at Spurs, they're bang average

I'm on Perisic but need to check how likely he is to start
Lots have Kane I thought

Tons of options in the Maddison/kulusevski price bracket - Rashford is better than Son at 9m and Kane is so expensive and future was up in the air.

Seen the full backs in a fair few teams, I’m on Udogie and will get Kane in gw3 if he’s still there

I'll get Maddi if he can stay fit/I can afford him

Already have Maddison here 🙂

A if I had to pick