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S1 Ep23: Off The Bench: Looking back at Blank Gameweek 28

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

FPL experts Harry Daniels and FPL Focal (Oscar) review the tricky Blank Gameweek 28 as managers navigated a reduced fixture list as they attempted to get a full XI out 🧐

The pair discuss Arsenal assets, Chelsea’s performance, when to bring back Erling Haaland and exciting picks from Man Utd.

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  • Martinelli decisions (03m 06s)
  • Moving on Man Utd (06m 14s)
  • Chelsea conundrum (8m 18s)
  • Isak consideration (19m 10s)
  • Haaland returns (24m 18s)
  • Aston Villa assets (25m 29s)
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to this week's off the bench. I'm FPL Harry and I'm FPL

0:19.0

Focal. Blank Game Week 28 was quite a mixed game

0:22.1

week for FPR managers. Some people putting out full 11s, some putting out sort of restricted

0:26.4

squads with eight or nine players. Some people deciding to play chips, free hits, others deciding

0:31.6

not to as well. And then on top of that, we also had Erling Harland, the perma captain of

0:35.9

this season, not having a game this

0:37.7

week as well. So that opened up a little bit of a captaincy debate between Harry Kane and

0:41.9

Bacayasaka, mostly, which if you were on Baccai Saka, it feels like you won this week, which

0:46.3

wasn't me, and I don't think it was you either, was it, Oscar? Let me know how did you this week. Yeah, I was on Kane Captain as well. Not too bad. 52 points. Yeah, I decided to get

0:55.4

rid of Harlan for that blank you mentioned. Just in the hopes that, you know, Watkins can

0:59.7

outscore him over Game Week 28 and 29. Just the assist, he got against Bournemouth, but of course

1:05.2

he's got the double game week after the break and Harlan's got Liverpool. But yeah, it was a

1:09.6

frustrating week at the back.

1:11.5

The defenders, you know, most disappointing.

1:13.9

I double Arsenal defence, double Newcastle defence,

1:16.5

obviously both conceding once.

1:18.4

But yeah, captaincy was a big swing.

1:20.1

So well done to anyone who went for Saka.

1:22.5

Yeah, I went for Kane myself.

1:23.8

How did you get on?

1:24.4

Yeah, so 54 for me, but again, as you say,

1:27.3

the defence was where the painful amount of points lie.

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