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S3 Ep22: Off The Bench: Captain fails as chips prove popular

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6 โ€ข 749 Ratings

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 8 April 2025

โฑ๏ธ 49 minutes

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Summary

It was a big weekend for chips being activated with plenty pushing the button on Assistant Managers and Wildcards ahead of back-to-back Double Gameweeks. However the top five most captained players all blanked ๐Ÿ“‰๐Ÿ˜ฑ

So FPL experts Lee Bonfield and Az Phillips take a look at which Doubling teams played well, whether itโ€™s best to reduce the number of Arsenal players you have, and whoโ€™s a good candidate for the Triple Captain chip.

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* Aston Villa assets (08m 30s)
* Struggling Man City (16m 02s)
* Palace problems (20m 42s)
* All in on Isak (27m 36s)
* Arsenal conundrum (31m 50s)
* Chelsea consideration (36m 07s)

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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. I'm Lee from FPL family.

0:22.1

And I'm as from FPL Blackbox. So as chips are plenty this week, wild card buttons were pushed,

0:28.5

assistant managers were in play, and we are entering a key part of the FPL season, doubles and blanks

0:34.6

coming up over the next few weeks. We are here, however, to discuss this weekend's action and how it might affect those

0:40.9

plans.

0:41.4

And with both Brighton and Liverpool, both losing, we're going to do our absolute best to bring

0:46.3

you the positivity.

0:47.2

How was Game Week 31 for you?

0:48.8

I think we will bring some positivity to this pod, Lee, because we've both had decent

0:53.2

game weeks for a change on this on this pod, Lee, because we've both had decent game weeks for a change on this

0:56.6

on this pod. Awful week for our teams. Obviously, Brighton, key part of the season for my team,

1:04.0

three losses effectively in the last week. Not bad form. Yeah, that's probably the season done

1:10.4

for us.

1:11.4

But my own FPL team is having a little bit of a resurgence.

1:14.5

And I was a bit worried going into the game last night.

1:16.4

I did have three Newcastle players.

1:18.6

But Livermento and Murphy, both coming through,

1:21.9

I mean 27 points between them.

1:23.6

And I hadn't captured Isaac, and he blanked, and he would cause me harm.

1:27.1

So it was the perfect

1:28.5

result for me. Who did you captain then? Sala, right? Yeah, I went for Salah. I couldn't believe it.

1:33.0

You know, Salah blanking, ESAC blanking. I don't really know of anyone that got any points from

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