We have chosen our best Fantasy Premier League (FPL) players for Gameweek 34.
As ever, we are limited by certain restrictions:
- An £83.0m budget for our starting XI
- An overall squad limit of £100.0m
- No more than three players per team
GOALKEEPER
Ederson (£5.4m) is our chosen goalkeeper ahead of Man City’s two fixtures in Double Gameweek 34. His status as the only completely nailed-on starter in Pep Guardiola’s backline is appealing, in a round where there is real clean-sheet potential, particularly against Fulham, who managed just one shot in a poor display at Villa Park in midweek.
DEFENDERS
Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.5m) is one of the most creative defenders in the division. Since his (on the ball) move into central midfield, he has racked up five assists in four matches, claiming 24 points. In that time, he is top in his position for key passes and expected assists (xA), with his tally of five ‘big chances created’ just one shy of Kevin De Bruyne (£12.1m) and Bruno Fernandes’ (£9.4m) league-leading totals.
Kieran Trippier (£6.2m) has provided the same number of key passes as Alexander-Arnold over the last four (12) but has failed to live up to his usual high standards. Still, a home meeting with out-of-form Southampton offers hope he can finally deliver. Newcastle once again found a way to lose a secure-looking clean sheet at Everton in Gameweek 33, but they are still the season’s best defence for total number of goals conceded.
Ruben Dias (£6.0m) joins Ederson for our Man City defensive double-up. The champions are on a run of just two clean sheets in 11 Premier League matches, but they have been performing very well of late, restricting three of their last four opponents to under 0.49 expected goals (xG). Dias, meanwhile, has now started nine league matches in a row. We considered putting Luke Shaw (£5.1m) into this spot but felt City have superior clean sheet potential, given that Man Utd’s opponents Aston Villa and Brighton have failed to score in only one of their last 40 combined league matches.
After four successive away league games, Brighton are back on home turf twice in Double Gameweek 34, where they have kept seven of their nine clean sheets this season. Pervis Estupinan (£4.8m) has failed to register an attacking return since February but lies fifth among defenders for chances created since Roberto De Zerbi took charge.
MIDFIELDERS
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COMMUNITY CHAMPION
Each week, a member of the Fantasy Football Scout community takes on the Scout Picks.
The community member who beats our team by the largest margin will win a £100 Amazon voucher and a place in our Moderators and Contributors League for the following season.
Boleyn Boy’s 81-54 victory in Gameweek 6 gave them the biggest win (27 points difference) of 2022/23 so far.
Our champion this week is benwoods82 who has gone for the following: Steele; Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Dalot; Salah, Fernandes, Rashford, Mitoma, March; Haaland (c), Alvarez
The Scout Picks are 17-15 up on the community this season.
FOLLOW THE SCOUT’S WEEKLY TRANSFER PLANS
We’re running a Scout community team in FPL this season, with regulars like TopMarx, Geoff, Tom Freeman and more contributing to the weekly decisions.
And we’re not just looking one week ahead like we are with the Scout Picks but instead planning in advance for the weeks and months to come.
You can follow our team via the Premier Fantasy Tools Pro Planner, which you can learn more about here.
