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FPL Pod

S3 Ep1: Off The Bench: How Gameweek 1 went down

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

With FPL returning, so too does Off The Bench, as experts Az Phillips and Lee Bonfield discuss all things from the opening weekend 🫶♻️

The pair examine Spurs assets, what to do with Liverpool’s bargain defender Quansah, and even tout Erling Haaland as a potential Triple Captain option next Gameweek.

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* Holding Spurs (08m 19s)
* Man City defence (18m 03s)
* Triple Captaining Haaland (21m 17s)
* Quansah conundrum (28m 41s)
* Man Utd decisions (30m 23s)
* Arsenal assets (40m 40s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:18.6

I'm Lee from FPL family.

0:20.1

And I'm As from FPL Blackbox. And it's great to be back. Great to have the Premier League. I'm Lee from FPL family and I'm as from FPL Blackbox.

0:21.7

Ah, it's great to be back. Great to have the football back. Great to have FPL back and an even

0:27.6

better weekend for you. Brighton, top of the league. You must have enjoyed that. Brighton, top of the

0:32.4

league. Decent starts. My game week. I'm with you for the first off the bench. What could be better?

0:39.5

Perfect, the perfect opening week.

0:42.4

Yeah, it's been a good start, as I'm sure we're going to talk about on this.

0:46.6

So yeah, I'm pretty happy.

0:47.4

Very good.

0:47.9

And game week's score wise, go on.

0:49.2

Hit me.

0:49.5

What did you get?

0:50.1

I'm on 65 points, which, you know, it's 2.3 million overall, but I do we're looking at

0:57.5

overall ranks already. No, come on, we're not. I think we, I think we have to, but only because

1:02.2

every other year, I think I've been about four or five million off to a bad start. You know,

1:07.0

we're going to talk about some of the issues that people have got with different players, not to rub it in for anyone with your concerts and people, but I haven't got too many issues

1:13.3

in my side, apart from a certain Brighton left back. Well, yeah, we'll cover him in just a second. It was

1:18.6

it was 64 for me, so one point behind you. And I feel the same as you. It feels like a solid start. I'm kind of pretty much okay with it. I always try and come out of game week one,

1:28.0

as you've said there, I was with as fewer problems as possible. That's, that to me is success. And I don't

1:32.8

feel like I've got too many of those. Christopher and Cuncoe, I'm looking at you. Let's get into it.

1:38.3

Then game week one bought plenty of FPL points with a high game week average of 57. So we both did all right. Some issues for FPL

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