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Sky Sports Fantasy Football: Sticks and Stones? Who to bring in before the Overhaul?

With a few Gameweeks, some Double, still to go until the overhaul on February 6, which players could you bring into your side to give your team a much-needed boost heading into the period of unlimited changes?

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John Stones

What is there to say about John Stones that has not been said in the last couple of weeks or so? In the last eight games in all competitions, Stones has helped his side to keep seven clean sheets alongside Ruben Dias, winning seven and drawing one of those matches.

On a Sky Sports Fantasy Football front, the England international has posted 52 points from his last seven matches, despite not featuring in City’s 1-1 draw against West Brom. These have stemmed from five clean sheets, four tier two passing bonus points and a Man of the Match award in the Manchester derby.

Brighton, Crystal Palace and Aston Villa all await Pep Guardiola’s team at the Etihad, before trips to West Brom and Burnley in between a home fixture against Sheffield United. I expect Stones to comfortably pick up 40 points from these six games alone, so now more than ever is a superb time to bring the revitalised centre-half into your side.

Phil Foden

Latching onto the fixtures, one man who is set to feature more is Phil Foden. The youngster shone against Chelsea and played his part in the Carabao Cup derby victory too, but there is an opportunity for some serious standing-swinging points in City’s next six fixtures alone.

Foden has only started six games this season, so there is always a case of potentially falling victim to the ‘Pep Roulette’. In the six games he has started, the City attacker has scored on two occasions and assisted twice, as well as scoring and assisting from the bench against West Ham and Burnley.

He only has 48 points for the campaign, but he does have the capacity to double this if he features in at least four or five of Man City’s next six. Particularly if you are bringing in Foden to captain, he could well surpass this for your Fantasy Football XI. Will you take the leap?

Bukayo Saka

Bukayo Saka has been the man in form for Arsenal, and has just landed their December Player of the Month. The third England international featuring in this week’s tips has recorded 29 points from his last three games, scoring twice and assisting once, picking up two Man of the Match awards in that period.

Saka is the highest-scoring Arsenal midfielder in Sky Fantasy Football, and a promising aspect of a move to the 19-year old is the fact that there are single games and therefore concrete captaincy choices with an Arsenal asset. If you bring in Saka ahead of Thursday, you can captain him against Crystal Palace and Newcastle, both of which are at home.

Move fast, as currently only 5.4% of the top 1,000 Sky Fantasy Football players are on board with the Arsenal winger. I expect this to move into the double figure mark by next weekend, so do not miss out on a potential steal.

With less than a month to go before the Overhaul is active, make sure your last couple of transfers pay dividends and fire you up the table.

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416 Comments Post a Comment
  1. DannyDrinkVodka
    • 4 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    What is the consensus on FH forwards? Lacazette and.........?

    1. St Pauli Walnuts
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Wilson probably

      1. HuttonDressedasLahm
        • 14 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Maybe injured though
        4-5-1

        1. St Pauli Walnuts
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 5 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Ah, I hadn't seen that yet.

          DCL is marginally more interesting now Coleman, Digne, Hamez and Rich all back.

        1. My heart goes Salalalalah
          • 7 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Fernandez in for Wilson then. 1/2 to nil either way I'll be happy

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Gundogan, unfortunately classed as a mid.

  2. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    How much fpl plus related content would you estimate you ‘consume’ per day on average?
    And do you consume fpl on YouTube?

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      5 mins every other day on here during non match days, alot more during match days

      don't watch youtube fpl content anymore. got tiring

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Fair enough, sounds healthy enough

    2. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Average..
      Maybe an hour a day?
      I walk a lot though and it’s mainly podcasts

      1. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Sounds like a nice combination.
        I guess like many I find myself thinking about it too much!

    3. RoysCallerAnne
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      15 minutes on here.
      2 hours somewhere else.
      zero YT or pods as I've nothing left to learn. I did watch scoutcast every week for years but stopped 3 years ago.

    4. Firminooooo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Maybe 1 hour on FFS. Always watch Scoutcast, Blackbox, FPLwire and ofcourse every game in the premierleague. My wife is not so angry after I won 3k £ in cash leagues last season.

      1. Brosstan
        • 9 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        1 hour a day to earn 3k a year is a great return

        1. Firminooooo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 8 Years
          3 years, 2 months ago

          Its not my job. It’s a hobby I enjoy. My wife enjoy some extra cash.

      2. Big boy Bowen
        • 7 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Wow nice going!

    5. Forza
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      About an hour a day to keep up with price changes, hot topics, stats/captains/transfers and Black Box on YouTube.

    6. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Only on here, but it's 10 times a day @ average 5min each. Coz it's weekend

    7. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      ...and we're locked down like slaves

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

    A or B on FH ?

    A. Leno and Martial
    B. DDG and Lacazette

    1. HuttonDressedasLahm
      • 14 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      B

  4. Firminooooo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Seems nobody knows if Balbuena has lost his place, rested or injured. Thinking about Balbuena to Lindelof or Shaw, would give me 7players for BGW18 if AstonV vs Spurs is off. One hit next GW would give me 15 DGW players for BB. (Save FH and WC).

    Anyone with info on Balbuena and who to get from ManU defence up to 4.9?

    1. Ruth_NZ
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      He's lost his place to Dawson while West Ham are playing 4-2-3-1. When Masuaku is back they may revert to the 3-4-3 and Balbuena was preferred in that formation because he's quicker than Dawson.

      OGS has indicated that Bailly has done well enough to keep his place for now. I'd take Shaw as a preference to Lindelöf.

      Incidentally, why do you need 15 doublers for a BB? They won't all start twice anyway.

      1. Firminooooo
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 8 Years
        3 years, 2 months ago

        Thanks. 15dgw players because I love to gamble. Even a single GW player might not start.

  5. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Ole playing hot prospect Lingard, will be interesting to see #futureofunited

    1. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      #futuretc

    2. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Maybe its Jesse Lingard's son?

  6. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    Arteta clueless keeping Laca on the bench...

    1. My heart goes Salalalalah
      • 7 Years
      3 years, 2 months ago

      Rested I hope. Hattie incoming

  7. ivantys
    • 3 Years
    3 years, 2 months ago

    What a save