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The Complete Guide to our FPL Gameweek 37 tips and advice

The penultimate Gameweek of the season brings us another Friday evening deadline in FPL – 19:00 UK Time – and with it the chance to consolidate a lead or find that last-minute differential in a valiant attempt to push for glory.

The tactic for many in recent weeks has been to back whoever Huddersfield are playing. After double-digit returns for Gerard Deulofeu, Lucas Moura, and Jamie Vardy it was no surprise that Liverpool duo Sadio Mané and Mohamed Salah continued the trend in Gameweek 36.

This week Huddersfield take on top-six side Manchester United. For those considering United assets, Neale uncovered a persuasive nugget in his members-only analysis of the key underlying stats:

35 goals conceded by Huddersfield Town in 11 matches against the “big six” this season. Cardiff City have shipped 33 goals in their own 11 meetings with the top half-dozen clubs so far. Both teams face Manchester United in the final two Gameweeks of the season and have yet to gain a single point between them in a combined 22 matches against this elite group.

At the time of writing Pogba is the fourth-most-bought player ahead of the deadline. Curiously, he’s also the fourth-most sold. It’s a classic form vs fixtures dilemma. Zoumas Bloomers neatly summarises the conundrum in this week’s FPL Question Time.

Pogba has excellent fixtures, gets a lot of penalties, and is nailed on. The main issue has been his lack of attacking intent in some games this season, and it’s hard to know which Pogba will turn up.

Excluding spot-kicks, Pogba has 0.88 expected goals over the last ten Gameweeks. Not exactly a confidence-boosting number. However, can we really ignore penalties?

Huddersfield and Cardiff have conceded 15 spot-kicks between them this season… and no team has been awarded more spot-kicks than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s troops.

So perhaps the fact Pogba hasn’t scored from open play since Gameweek 26 shouldn’t be a huge concern. In our FPL Digest Neale presents both sides of the argument to help you make your mind up. Interestingly Pogba is not one of the players included in the Scout Picks.

Buying Pogba depends partly on who you are selling. Az observed on the ScoutcastSon to Pogba could be a really clever move, or it could be the most idiotic move ever.

Spurs are going through a difficult patch with injuries and fatigue affecting their performances. A hot topic from Gregor asked what managers are planning to do with their Spurs assets. Gregor himself plans to keep Son but is considering selling Eriksen. Ben McNair agrees:

I see the logic in selling Eriksen. He looks tired and there are doubts about how many minutes he will play against Bournemouth on Saturday ahead of the Champions League semi-final second leg in Amsterdam.

A player at the opposite end of the form v fixtures debate to Paul Pogba is Jamie Vardy. The Leicester man is in red hot form but has an awful-looking fixture in Manchester City away. For Holly Shand, however, it’s an easy decision to keep him:

Vardy loves playing top-six opposition… Manchester City are definitely the sort of team he thrives against with the space that will be available behind the high line that their defence plays.

Manchester City provide our two stand-out captain picks this week in Raheem Sterling and Sergio Agüero. Neale quipped in this week’s captaincy video that it’s really a coin toss between them – Agüero has Fantasy returns in every single match he has started at the Etihad Stadium this season, however in the 10 home matches that both Sterling and Aguero have started this season, the Englishman has outscored his colleague on six occasions.

David’s Captain Sensible article goes into its usual detail for those struggling to separate the pair. A possible differential captain highlighted by David is Eden Hazard. To quote from David’s article:

The case for Hazard is strengthened somewhat when we look at what Watford’s defence has been up to in the last four away matches. No team has conceded more big chances than them in such fixtures, the 15 they have shipped keeping them level with the likes of Huddersfield and West Ham. In fact, the Hornets have allowed more big chances than any other Premier League side in 2019.

Compelling stuff. Reduced minutes in last night’s Europa League tie means the Belgian should be fresh for Chelsea’s home match against Watford. Jafalad is one FPL manager who is tempted by Hazard’s differential appeal.

Elsewhere on FFS, top-100 manager Grey Head brought us his regular take on The Great and The Good, which this week includes a look at how these elite managers used their chips this season. Meltens looks ahead to Gameweek 6 in Fantasy Allsvenskan, while Hutch_James predicts good things for Manchester United and Liverpool in the Wisdom of the Crowd. Manchester City and Arsenal are preferred in the DS stats, fixtures and clean sheet odds brought to us by G-Whizz.

To view all our discussions please visit our Hot Topics page, and if you’ve got some analysis, scout reports or features brewing, be sure to visit our community section to submit your article.

If you’re a member and are yet to get to grips with the custom statistics tables, you can view this movie for an explanation of how they work. Also, remember to tag them so that people can find the tables with ease.

COMMUNITY TOURNAMENTS

Two community finals take place in Gameweek 37: The Fantasy Football Scout Cup and TorresMagic’s Last Man Standing competition.

In the FFS Cup final, site moderator Rotation’s Alter Ego will take on LOKOMOTIV after both managers successfully navigated their semi-finals. Closely matched inside the top 2,000 overall, it promises to be a tightly contested affair. Neale outlined the differentials in his cup final preview – a victory for Arsenal would be good news for LOKOMOTIV, while Jota continuing his fine form would help Rotation’s Alter Ego.

Losing semi-finalists Skogen89 and Ibra-gum will contest the third-place play-off.

The safety score for Gameweek 36 in TorresMagic’s Last Man Standing was 104, this saw 18 managers eliminated. Congratulations to the four managers who made it through to the final: Alan Robertson, Peter Guss, Sekhar Anand, and Daniel Hall.

Alan Robertson was the highest-scoring manager with 118 points and also the only manager to make the final who didn’t play his Triple Captain chip in Gameweek 36. Uniquely among the finalists, Alan doesn’t own either Sterling or Agüero. Although he has two free transfers to use should he wish to get one, or both, in.

Another manager who didn’t own either City player in Gameweek 36 is world number one Adam Levy. Adam still heads both our main FFS League and our FFS Members League, and has been world number one for eight Gameweeks in a row. He increased the gap at the top to 68 points in Gameweek 36.

Like a long-distance runner breaking away from the field, Adam is now chasing world records. He needs 119 points over the last two Gameweeks to beat the current high-water mark set by FFS member Jon Reeson (aka Westfield Irons) in the 2009/10 season. Impressively, Jon recorded his mammoth points total when the only chip available was a single Wildcard.

Adam has two free transfers available and it would appear he has used one of them to transfer in Sterling for Salah.

Mark remains top of the FFS Mods & Cons and moves back into the top 1,000 at 696th position after Triple Captaining Salah for his third century of the season. Rotation’s Alter Ego still occupies second spot after Triple Captaining Mané, also for his third century. Mark has an 18-point lead going into the final two Gameweeks.

Andy Sullivan holds onto first place in RedLightning’s Top 10k Any Season mini-league despite slipping a few places to 55th overall. Grey Head has regained second place from Luke Aiello after Triple Captaining Mané for his second century of the season. Grey Head briefly moved top of the league during Gameweek 36 and now only trails Andy by 5 points.

Vimal Krishnan has regained the lead in RedLightning’s January to May League, having last led in Gameweek 32. Previous leader, JOZ V, drops to seventh. This is Vimal’s eighth FPL season, his best finish of 7,632 came in 2016/17. He’s had 13 green arrows in 15 Gameweeks, rising from 95k in Gameweek 21 to his current position of 3,796.

Ted Maw (aka Rotation’s Alter Ego) leads RedLightning’s The Last Ten Gameweeks mini-league. His excellent end of season run comprises 8 green arrows in the past 9 Gameweeks, he’s risen from 46k in Gameweek 27 to 1,280 in the overall standings.

These mini-league leaders have now played all their chips.

If you are running a community tournament and would like the latest scores included in future Community Round-Ups, please email us a summary of the current leaders and a link to your league, spreadsheet or head-to-head competition at geoff@fantasyfootballscout.co.uk.

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  1. DR0GBA
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    What would you do if you had this team?

    Ryan (Boruc)
    TAA, Robbo, Luiz, Jonny (Cathcart)
    Hazard, Sterling, Mane, Son (Fraser)
    Vardy, Jimenez (Llorente)

    1FT, 0.2m ITB

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Delete my team and try again next season.

      1. SPorting
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Or Fraser -> Babel

    2. Catastrophe
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Probably just carry on my life as normal

    3. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Grab a beer.

    4. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Save the FT
      Or get Pogba

    5. Now I'm Panicking
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Post it on FFS

  2. FC Bazalona
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Last spot in starting 11 ???
    A. Boly
    B. Jwp

    1. Catastrophe
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      A

    2. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      JWP

  3. Catastrophe
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    0.3 ITB, 1 FT. 

    Fabianski
    Azpi, Robertson, Boly
    Sterling, Son, Jota, Salah, Mane
    Jimenez, Wilson

    (Ryan, Llorente, Kolasinac, Bednarek)

    A) Azpi -> Laporte
    B) Kolasinac -> Shaw (drop Boly/Azpi/Wilson)
    C) Son -> Pogba
    D) Something Else
    E) Save FT

    Cheers

    1. Rust Cohle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      E

  4. AccountAnt80
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    For those with TC chip - when are you using it? & on who?

    1. Torres76
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Last week. For the Liverpool game

      1. AccountAnt80
        • 8 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Genius!

    2. Twisted Saltergater
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Only an accountant could still have a chip at this stage of the season!

    3. Baps hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Save it for next season 🙂

    4. Vlad Tepes
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Saved it for this GW, it is Aguero or Sterling for me.

  5. Manani
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hazard or Sterling?

    got Aguero

    1. Catastrophe
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Sterling for me

    2. Rust Cohle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Sterling

  6. Rust Cohle
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Start 1: Fraser or Mitro

    1. Catastrophe
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Fraser

      1. Rust Cohle
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 6 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Cheers

  7. AVFCChris1984
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pick one

    A) Shaw
    B) Digne
    C) Laporte
    D) TAA
    E) PVA
    F) other under 6.2m

    1. Rust Cohle
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      E

  8. The Ejiptian King
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    G2G?

    Lloris
    TAA Doherty Shaw
    Sterling Mane Son Pogba Jota
    Aguero(C) Jimenez

    Foster Wilson Valery Bednarek

    1. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Good team, mate.
      Got pogba this gw ??

      1. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Yeah just now did Dunk, Eriksen > Shaw, Pogba with 2 FT, I think I can risk it with Wilson as first sub, he's in great form anyway.

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Yeah
          I haveSon to sell for pogba with Bournemouth so not sure.
          He'll play & haul now (pogba) 😀

  9. Amey
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Team is:

    Lloris
    Robbo Taa Doherty
    Hazard © Raz Pogba Jota
    Aguero Jimenez Zaha

    Foster Deulofeu Yoshida Valery

    Used FT already.
    Do Son to Pogba (-4) or keep it as it is ??
    Thank you!!

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      You already have Pogba

    2. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      You mean Pogba to Son?? You have Pog listed in your team.

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Sorry
        Son in tge team

    3. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Hey amey, good luck. I think i would hold son this week. All week i planned on pogba in and ended up without him. Too much united uncertainty for me.

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Pogba can explode 🙁
        Pathetic that we don't have any information on him

        Keep Son then.
        Thank you & GL to you bro 🙂

        1. VanDijksToWatchOutFor
          • 6 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Really frustrated at ole. I wanted to go big on united but I’m not playing roulette with another manager! At least it will keep lots off them.

          Thanks, see you on the other side.

          1. Amey
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Yep
            Very frustrating.

    4. Amey
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Son in for pogba the team
      .......

      1. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Think you're good to go mate.

        1. Amey
          • 5 Years
          4 years, 11 months ago

          Thank you !!

          1. The Ejiptian King
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 11 months ago

            Do I need to do anything above?

            1. Amey
              • 5 Years
              4 years, 11 months ago

              Nothing for hit mate.

    5. HollywoodXI
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Keep as is.

      1. Amey
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Cheers bro.
        You are my lucky charm from last gw
        Will listen to you again !!

  10. MikeS
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    1. Deulofeu to Pogba or
    2. Gray to Rashford???

    1. BluesArmy Chief
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      2

  11. royals forever
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Best Origi replacement out of

    Zaha
    Rashford
    A N other (if so who)

    Other strikers are Aguero and Lacazette

    Any ideas would be appreciated and welcomed

    1. BluesArmy Chief
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I would go for Rashford

  12. Tempestic
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Firmino to Rashford on a FT or hold? (also have Mane)

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Hold

    2. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yep

  13. BluesArmy Chief
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    A) Siggy
    B) Pogba

    1. Zladan
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      B

  14. MOZIL
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Matip or Lovren gonna start?

    1. Brehmeren
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yes

      1. MOZIL
        • 7 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        whos gonna start? Matip or Lovren?

  15. John Colby (Capt)
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Pogba + Lacazette out for

    Hazard and Zaha (no hits)?

    1. Manani
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      feels weird to ditch Pogba this week, but Hazard can be very explosive i think

      1. Eddie
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 11 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Last chances to audition before August transfer action.

      2. John Colby (Capt)
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        I’ve given up on Pogba. Too many half-hearted performances. Keane was right - can’t be trusted.

  16. TyroneGAA
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Last thought and I want some good strong committed reassurance ..

    Deulofeu to siggy for a minus four and bench Wilson

    Hit me up it’s a really big decision !!!

    1. TAArt
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      No

    2. Baked baines
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I know Wilson is playing better away from home but surly Wilson has to start against a tired Spurs!

      1. Twisted Saltergater
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        absolutely

    3. TyroneGAA
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      I’ll stay away from the minus 4... or will I??? 🙂

  17. Baked baines
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Ahead of all my mini league be an average of 30 points. Have 2 FT this GW but not sure what the likely transfer is.

    Lloris

    Robbo Laporte Doherty

    Mane Sterling Son Jota

    Aguero Wilson Jimi

    Foster AWB Deulofeu Duffy

    Possibly Lloris > De Gea, Kepa?!

  18. TAArt
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Start deulo or JWP?

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Gerry

  19. Bubbles1985
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Bench order correct?

    Camarasa, Gray, Bednarek

  20. sminkypinky
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Decent team right?
    Ryan
    Laporte Robbo Doherty
    Haz (c) Son Bilva Jota Mane
    Kun Jimenez

    Wilson Valery ...

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Oh yes

      1. sminkypinky
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Cheers Sporty spice!

  21. Miguel Sanchez
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Brooks or Deeney higher on bench?

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Brooks

      1. MB10
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 11 months ago

        Is Brooks not injured ?

  22. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Oh boyyyyy

    1. SPorting
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      B

  23. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Evening gorgeous people!
    Any ideas here?

    Boruc
    TAA | Doherty | Peltier
    Salah | Mane | Hazard | Son | Fraser
    Aguero | Jimenez

    Ryan | Bednarek | Dunk | Crouch

    1FT, 0ITB

    Thanks

    1. Big boy Bowen
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Thinking Ryan & Fraser to Guaita & Jota (-4) and playing Guaita over Boruc

  24. mundian
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    1ft, 0.9 itb
    Which one:

    A. Son, Duffy, Deulofeu > Hazard, Shaw, 4 Mid. -8
    B. Duffy > Shaw

  25. Eastman
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Just home from work. Any news on Rashford?

  26. Lignja
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Ryan to Guita? Other keeper Gunn noone else that i want to change in team. 1ft 0.0itb

  27. MB10
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Start Camarasa or AWB ?

  28. Romford Pele - Don't w…
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Bench Shaw (hud) or Wilson (TOT)?

    1. MB10
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Tough one, i would play both but if you had to pick I would bench Wilson (just)

  29. TOPCAT1960
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    TC on Sterling a no brainer ? if you have it ......

    1. Redalert
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 11 months ago

      Yep

  30. Redalert
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 11 months ago

    Quick. Kun to vardy for -4