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S1 Ep20: Off The Bench: Managing Double Gameweek hype

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

FPL experts Lee Bonfield and FPL Focal (Oscar) review a challenging Double Gameweek 25 and what lessons there are to learn about identifying teams for short and long term gain 📈

They discuss Man Utd prospects, an up turn in Spurs’ form, and single Gameweek players.

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  • Keeping Man Utd (02m 44s)
  • Learning from GW25 (09m 32s)
  • Chelsea conundrum (14m 54s)
  • Spurs assets (17m 47s)
  • Looking ahead to GW28 (26m 58s)
  • No for Nketiah (32m 50s)
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this week's off the bench podcast from the Premier League. I'm Lee from

0:19.2

FPL family. And I'm Oscar, FPL

0:21.0

FPL focal. Ah, so Oscar, Game Week 25, still in play. As we know, we've got two midweek

0:25.8

matches between Arsenal and Everton, and we've got Liverpool and Wolves still to come. So

0:30.6

fingers crossed for better performances from standout captain picks, Saka and Sala. More on that a bit later on. But overall, it's been a bit of a disappointing, I think, is the word I'd use,

0:40.1

double game week for, well, certainly for those popular players that had two matches.

0:44.6

But of course, that could all still change.

0:46.0

And as usual, what we usually get in double game weeks in FPL is some standout

0:49.8

performances from the often overlooked single game week players as well. So my first question to

0:55.0

you, Oscar, is how did you get on and did we all buy into the double game week hype a bit too

1:00.6

much? What do you think? Yeah, I certainly did. Yeah, I was taking a minus eight this week. Obviously,

1:06.5

I had a few players blanking, the likes of Bruno. Maybe that was a mistake. I was one of those that sold

1:11.7

cane for Darwin as well, so absolutely bruised all to see. Many have done that. Yeah, it was brutal to

1:16.2

see him not make the squad. But it was one of those. It was a combination move. It gave me some

1:20.9

money to buy Sallow and Trent. So juries out at the time of recording, we still got the Wednesday games, of course. So we'll have to see what happens there, whether that was a good move or not.

1:30.0

How did you get on?

1:30.6

I did okay. I was a little bit below par, though, I have to say.

1:33.5

So I'm on 32 points currently, so a little bit below the average.

1:37.0

And the same as you. I kind of loaded up my three Arsenal, obviously.

1:40.4

I had Darwin in my team anyway, so didn't bring him in, but of course, wasn't going to transfer him out ahead of a double game week, but moved some stuff around so that I

1:47.6

could afford Mosala in midfield and captain him. Yeah, it was all a little bit kind of mere for the

1:52.5

game week. I have to say, I mean, I got Ben White's clean sheet at the back, so I was happy with

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