In the latest article from our team of Hall of Famers and guest contributors, three-time top 500 finisher FPL General reveals his big team decisions for Gameweek 31.
Gameweek 30 Wildcard Review
The new troops managed to achieve a green arrow from 95 to 91k. The goal is to get nine green arrows on the bounce following the Wildcard to finish the season as strongly as possible.
It wasn’t a spectacular start and there was plenty of frustration in Gameweek 30 but a green is a green!
Chelsea conceding twice against 10-man Burnley, Alexander Isak (£7.7m) going big against West Ham and Mohamed Salah (£13.3m) scoring just once from 12 shots were among the tilting events over the weekend. The very last buttons I clicked on Saturday morning were to remove Isak out and put Darwin Nunez (£7.6m) in. The Liverpool forward better start and deliver against Sheffield United!
The Manchester City v Arsenal game finishing 0-0 was the worst possible outcome, having brought Erling Haaland (£14.3m) and Bukayo Saka (£9.0m) back in and benching Gabriel Magalhaes (£5.3m). Two new defenders picking up injuries was also not in the Wildcard script!
On a more positive note, Salah, Cole Palmer (£5.9m) and Dominic Solanke (£7.2m), all of whom were Wildcard signings, delivered the goods. It was a close decision between Salah and Son Heung-min (£10.1m) for the armband so it was nice to fall on the right side of those points.
Gameweek 31 Bus Team
Best of luck for the midweek Gameweek, folks. Make sure you check out this week’s General’s Orders video and the latest episode of the 59th Minute Podcast.
11 months, 25 days agoTrailing my ML by 20 and guy on top has TC and BB in hand. I have my WC and BB in hand but no Salah (own Diaz though). What to do?
A) Watkins + Diaz —> Salah + 4.4 (-4) (not bad on paper but given the context above seems sort of sideways and a -4 loss on pursuit of top)
B) Son + Foden —> Salah + 5.8 (MGW, Johnson, or Rice) (-4) (same as above)
C) Foden —> Saka/Havertz (FT) (Hope Diaz covers Salah)
D) Wildcard
Cheers!