Welcome back to this week's off the bench podcast from the Premier League.

I'm Janie Batesi and I'm press.

It was a week where many FPL managers around the world found themselves,

logging onto the app to remind themselves who they handed the vice captain's armband to

with Harlan not travelling with Man City for the game against Luton.

And players like Charlie Taylor, Douglas Louise, Luca Dean, Bruno Fernandez, Kieran Trippio,

these are all key FPL assets.

They picked up their fifth yellow cards and now face suspension from Game Week 17.

But then there were also the highs of the Game Weeks.

Son and Sala owners, they were very happy.

How was your Game Week 16, Pras?

Hey, Gianni, yeah.

Look, I mean, my Game Week 16 was a little bit like, you know, a case of two players

saving the game week, which is Sala, who turned out to be my vice captain. So happy to have that.

I think that's the same for you. And then Sunny Boy, I mean, I think apart from him, everybody

else blanked, but just those two meant that I got a big green arrow and 58 points. Yeah, similar. I relied heavily

on those two key men in the midfield. I finished on 60, but I did take a minus four. So 56 still got me

a small green arrow, which I was happy about this game week. It's nice to get green arrows over

the festive season, and especially when the game weeks come thick and fast. We obviously had the

midweek round last week.

How did that work for you? Like the quick turnaround times two. It meant we treated FPL a little bit

differently. We didn't have all the information. We always have surprises with injuries. But it was great

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