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Welcome back for another video.
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107 points in the green arrow to about 600k and the wildcard now active.
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Proper rollercoaster game week last one.
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It was looking very very bad before Man United had played.
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I was sat ranked just under 7 millionth in the world with basically no returns barring Haaland's brace.
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And that only hurt rank as well because of captaincy.
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And then Man United battle Ipswich.
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Bruno registers the biggest FPL score we've seen in over a year.
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23 pointer, a hat trick and an assist well played if you captained him.
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The scary part is that in my eyes the best Gameweek 3 or even Gameweek 4 wildcard actually doesn't include Bruno.
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Could that be a big mistake to lose him after such a big return?
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I'm gonna have to point out that it was just inevitable
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that the bench smashed it after that carefully planned Gameweek 1 bench boost which flopped.
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Gross ends up with a goal and an assist at Stamford Bridge.
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Max Bone is 13 pointer.
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Hume keeps a clean sheet as well
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so 21 points on the bench you couldn't write it
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so let's take a quick look at how you all got on then we'll talk about the wild card
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and i'll explain the decision as you can imagine there were
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some truly ridiculous scores last game week sj city says 138
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with the bench boost glad i got the bench boost out
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of the way since it's looking like premium players are the
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way to go right now in my opinion i'm not sure
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if i should walk up this week
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or in game week four got 18 points on the bench
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boost captain bruno plus he had returns from raya ballard calafuri
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and bumo xao pedro dcl harland
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and some defcons what a week they can says you can
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count me in for the worst one i tried to be
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that guy with a wild card but failed disaster start to the wild card
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so no bruno 71 points all out i can't remember a week like it before like
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so early in the season where the average score was
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so high it was over 80 points average points globally anyway
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i hope you bounce back next week can hold firm or no Bruno.
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Let's do a couple more.
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Rahul says let me know if you want any FPL tips.
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Look at this for a team, 144 points all out.
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That's probably the best gameweek rank you'll ever achieve, like not far off the world's best score last gameweek.
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Only 3 blanks out of 15.
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By the way I'm really enjoying seeing how many of you have been using my live rank tool.
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Maybe that is the secret behind these huge scores, so do make sure you check your rank next gameweek fpl.page slash rank
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or fpl focal in the app store it's free
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so did anyone beat 144 points there was one manager it's
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mythen with an absurd 147 pointer six double digit returns
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and mythen says my highest individual points tally ever well played
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fantasy football scout are currently doing five pounds off membership plus seven months free with the annual option
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so don't miss the flash sale.
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There's a QR code on screen.
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I'll go to the link in the description s.id slash fplfocal.
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I never go through a game without spending time using the members tool, and every stat that I use in these videos comes from there, so do check them out and it supports the channel.
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So, wildcard is active.
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Why have I activated it?
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The plan before the season started was GW4, so it's a week earlier basically.
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A few factors contributed.
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One was Zolis getting taken off for half-time against Villa.
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He didn't have the best game and obviously it's still too early to assess him.
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I'm sure he'll be a great pick long term
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but with some uncertainty of whether he starts or as he starts against Chelsea, it meant I was going to be making a transfer in GW3 before wildcard him.
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So it's a transfer saved this week.
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Another factor, I was looking at how I would line up for GW4 on the wildcard
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and it was almost identical to GW3.
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So there is a case of bringing it forward in those situations.
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If you think there's enough to gain doing so one week early.
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Obviously there's a lot of information to be gained so early in the season so that is a risk by going now.
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Things could change fast and it'd be a mistake.
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Another factor was team value.
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It was like a 0.5 million team value swing to take advantage of.
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And that's only after activating it last night, let alone if I'd gone last Friday like many did.
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And activating it later than others has actually presented an opportunity that I really like.
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So all the GW3 wildcards have got Palmer playing Arsenal way.
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Palmer rose last Friday so they're not going to take him out before the deadline.
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but there is an opportunity now that I've missed
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that to chuck in a City attacker in his place and then swap them to Palma and Gemic 4.
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So this setup basically gets you triple City attack home to Coventry and then double Chelsea attack home to Hull.
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Plus the rest of the team's been refreshed as well so let's run through it.
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One of the arguable downsides of the Gemic 3 wildcard is Arsenal facing Chelsea.
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Not an easy fixture but I've opted for Ryer in goal who's going to be my set
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and forget keeper all the way until the second wildcard unless he gets injured or something.
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I know he's expensive at 6mm
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but I do like the idea of playing the premium
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and not having to mess around with trying to guess the right 4.5mm keeper.
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You know there's Kinski, Verbruggen, Petsch, Rich Leno.
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One of them will do really well, maybe a couple of them will.
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It's not gone that well for me owning a couple of them early on this season.
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I did notice though you can rotate Kinski and Leno and it actually gives you an incredible run of fixtures long term.
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Does have potential but I'm going set and forget Raya.
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In defence it's Gabriel, Hall and Chau.
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So Gabriel another set and forget spot for obvious reasons.
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Very expensive.
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But if he scores anything close to last season he'll actually be well worth it.
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And the early signs are Arsenal's defence is going to remain the best in the league.
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Like 209 points or thereabouts for 8 million would actually be fantastic.
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But let's not forget Haaland for 7.5 million more scored just 30 more points last season.
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I think it's very important on a wildcard to build a robust long term team and he does tick that box.
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Arsenal are actually third on the clean sheet odds for game week three.
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Man City are top 48%, Brentford 40%, Arsenal third in 36% and then it's Aston Villa and Brighton of 34%.
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So double Newcastle defence I think is probably the weak point in the team.
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It doesn't feel ideal this game week.
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They do have Bournemouth home, it's a home fixture but Bournemouth are a pretty good team.
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But just to clarify this is not the setup every week.
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It's just for game week three and five and six.
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So that's Bournemouth home, Hull, Home and Coventry away.
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Outside of those game weeks, it's just one of them that starts, one on the bench for strong depth.
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Newcastle's long-term fixtures are so good and they're actually looking much better than many expected them to play, myself included.
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Could it be a similar story to Brentford last season?
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Who remembers when they lost Thomas Frank, Norgaard and Bumo, Vista etc. Many thought they would be in trouble but they ended up looking better than ever.
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Newcastle have lost Tonali, Bruno G, Gordon, Howe.
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I've been really impressed by them.
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I know it's still early days but I have been impressed.
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Van Heek is another one that I'm looking at especially if he drops to 4.9 mil before the deadline.
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He's getting really close so maybe I could go for Van Heek and Chao.
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I think I like Chao more than Hall.
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Dedich as well for 4.5 mil worth of mention.
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Newcastle defender as well.
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He got an assist last game week and the clean sheet
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and the game before he got two assists in the League Cup so that's three assists in his last two games.
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Really attacking player.
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Now, Liveramento is meant to be back sometime this month, but it seems to be dead at his spot to lose.
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And this quote makes me think Liveramento isn't actually near threatening his minutes yet.
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First of all, we're happy that he's back in training.
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Now, also fully integrated, he still follows some of his individual program.
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Sooner than later, he is fully back in training.
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And then we can also talk about the squad and
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when he's able to be in the match they scored getting the first minutes
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but again step by step and take our time
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and as I said ultimately I'm trying to set up a robust wildcard team
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which is why I've opted for Hall for the extra 0.5 mil.
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Hall actually does have Defcon points in both games so far
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and he's an attacking player himself
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and I just know for certain there's no way he becomes
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a problem later barring injury whereas Dedic maybe it'll happen maybe it won't
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but you know in a month or two perhaps Livramento starts to threaten his minutes
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so I'm just kind of removing that risk from my team right now on the wildcard.
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The midfield is Anderson, Semenyo, Sangare, Zabosla and Gross.
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I'm expecting Anderson to be a great pick long term.
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He got 14 Defcons last game.
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I think he'll continue to churn out consistent Defcon returns
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and he's going to finish the season on something like 10 goal level points so he's a patient long term pick.
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Sangare is the same and I was a bit conflicted whether to include him in the team
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because I can actually afford O'Reilly or Vardio instead of Hall but I'd have to drop Sangare to Slater.
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If you could tell me with 100% certainty that Vardio or O'Reilly will never miss a game, they'd be in the team.
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But City's depth is absolutely ridiculous in all positions.
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I think the few nailed players are Haaland, Anderson, maybe Semenya, but maybe not even Semenya.
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But in left back, you've got Vardio, you've got O'Reilly.
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You've got 8 Norrie that can play there.
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Left centre back, you've got Vardio and Gehi competing.
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And obviously O'Reilly can play in midfield, but there's so much competition in midfield as well.
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so I'm wondering
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if there's a chance Mureska uses some of those quote-unquote easier
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upcoming games just to rotate a little bit you know like Ipswich home perhaps
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and those are the games you really want Vardy or O'Reilly starting
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but I don't know I just feel like it's not out of the question 8-Nori gets a rare start
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and left back you know maybe then it is Vardy
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and Ruben Diaz and centre back yeah he misses out a game something like
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that just could happen it might be totally wrong with this
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but I'm just deciding not to take the risk on in the wild card.
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Who remembers that chart from preseason, Alex showing where Sangare plots for Defcons per 90 and XGI per 90.
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It's a small sample size but he's recreating those exact same numbers, 0.34 XGI per 90, 14.7 Defcons per 90,
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almost exactly in the same spot on the chart as he was last season.
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So he looks amazing for 5.7mm and he's got Sunderland home.
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And just for added context, I've taken a chance on Concer on my bench but not for this game week.
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Upgrading Slater gives me Sangare home to Sunderland which just makes sense
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and I can remove that risk of starting concert going triple defence and hoping that he starts.
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So yeah those that had committed to wildcard 3 back on Friday picked up Palmer before he rose.
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I missed that ride but I've spotted an opportunity
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which is chucking in another Man City attacker home to Coventry
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and leaving enough in the bank to swap them to Palmer in game week 4.
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It feels like a rare exception where I think a booked
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in transfer after a wildcard could be worth it given the fixtures, plus I've got the second free transfer banked, plus I've set up with good bench depth in case something else goes wrong.
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So the question is which Man City attacker, Cherky or Semenya or Fodum?
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I know Cherky just scored a brace and got 2 assists off the bench game at 1.
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I do think he'll come off early again though.
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Obviously it might not matter, he could have hauled by then.
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But Semenya has played back to back 90s and that was the trend last season.
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He was getting the best minutes of the attackers, obviously plus Haaland.
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So I'm going for Semenyo.
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So Bostolaj and Gros are one of the few players that remain in the team from before the wildcard.
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So we'll pretty much skip over them.
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I just think in my eyes, they're such good picks for their price with the free kicks, corners and pens.
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Like Gros just showed last match what he's capable of.
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A 13-pointer, even in a game like Chelsea away.
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And then up front, it's Visser and Haaland.
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So Haaland captain, obviously.
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He's on five stars on the captain tour, so it's not even close this week.
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I really wouldn't recommend going against Haaland.
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Everyone else is on 1 star.
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And well played if he did follow the captain tool last week for Bruno's 23 pointer.
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So Volta Mada has left Newcastle, I think it's a loan for the season.
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I'm really liking Wisser for 6.1 mil.
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Probably even on penalties as well.
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And we know from a couple of years ago what his level can be, 24 goal environments in the league.
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He's returned in both games so far and look at the fixtures.
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Bournemouth, Leeds, Hull, Coventry, Villa, Palace, Everton, Fulham.
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Really good long-term fixtures.
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For projected goals over that run, they're 6th top in the league and that's behind Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man United.
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The bookies odds for team goals for GW3 have got Man City far and away top on 3.0 goals, Liverpool 2nd on 2.3, Arsenal, Brentford 1.9.
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So yeah, I'm happy to have triple Man City attack for that one.
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I don't know if you can call it triple attack because one of them is Anderson, so 2.5 attackers.
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Saka, obviously a really valid option as well on the wildcard.
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It's really easy to have Saka, Palm and Haaland in a team.
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It basically means you drop Gabriel to Calafiore, Anderson then goes up to Saka and you have to find 0.3mm from somewhere else,
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like maybe one of the Newcastle defenders to a 4.5mm defender or maybe losing Raya.
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Really could go either way that one because Saka is really explosive.
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As I keep saying, I've gone for the most robust setup possible.
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It might not happen, but at some point, Hincapia could come in for a game or two for Calafiore.
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And obviously Saka's injury record the last couple of years is not the best.
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Whereas Gabriel, Hall and Anderson are just three solid, reliable picks.
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So let's do the bench.
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It's still João Pedro, Conce and O'Shea.
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One more week without João Pedro in the team or in the starting XI this week.
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Going to take on his ownership one more time for that Arsenal game.
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Which in itself is massive upside.
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Like an Arsenal clean sheet isn't just huge because it means the clean sheet points may be bonus from Ryan Gabriel.
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It also means João Pedro is blanked.
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On those projected goals bookies odds, you might not have even spotted Chelsea.
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There are 1.0 projected goals for GW3, so third from bottom of all teams.
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It could backfire given how good Jaipedro's look, but the odds suggest it is a valid strategy for GW3.
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The hope is that Konza breaks into the team imminently, potentially even this game against Chelsea, and then he's a set-up to get starter as well.
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Like for 4.4 mil, if it happens, he'll be a joke for that cheap.
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I wouldn't expect Arteta to chop
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and change it like some managers do once he gives Konza
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that start I think that's it the minutes are going to be invaluable to build
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that centre-back partnership with Gabriel and I think if it happens then Konza basically starts every game Mosquera gets cup games
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and as I say 1.4 mil left in the bank with this draft
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which is Semenyo to Parma that has 0.3 mil left over after making
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that switch in game week four lastly let's just talk about triple captain quick then
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because I was looking at going to game week three.
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This does feel like a very good week to use it because Man City have got a full week before Coventry home.
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Other opportunities later have got midweek football either side like Ipswich home is nice, Sunderland home is nice and Hull home is nice.
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They're the obvious alternatives and I'm 100% going in one of those weeks.
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I think Sunderland could potentially be going under the radar as an option.
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They've got Arsenal and then they've got Europa midweek and then they've got Man City a few days after that.
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That's a really rough run But after Ipswich just conceded 5 goals to Man Utd in the way they did, I think maybe that's even better than Sunderland.
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Man City play against PSG 3 days before the Ipswich game though, which isn't the best timing but at least it's a home fixture as well so it's 2 home games in a row.
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That's the wildcard team, what do you guys think?
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Hopefully I've explained myself why and how I landed on the decision.
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Make sure you're subscribed to find out how it goes next week.
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I'll see you soon for the next one.
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