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

I'm Sam from FPL family.

And I'm Tom from Fantasy Football Scout. Tom, this is your debut on the Off the Bench

podcast. I'm delighted to have you on with me this week. And it was a very big week for FPL.

Erlen Harlem was captain by over seven million managers and alongside Phil Foden, they were benched

for Manchester City. Both coming on, however, for that dreaded one-point cameo.

Now, you have been having a fantastic season, but had a Game Week 23 go.

It was better than previous ones, to be fair.

I had a bit of a rough festive period.

The festive pictures weren't very kind to me,

basically built over selling Tiago for Bowen

before he scored five times in about four days. So that kind of doubled, tripled my rank.

But yeah, the Game Me 23 was decent. I got 53. So yeah, I got back up to about 110K. Enzo,

Rogers, Dorgoo with that brilliant goal, and Jared Bowen,

who obviously has caused me a bit of pain in recent weeks, finally, finally did something on Saturday lunchtime. And Tiago didn't score this week, which made it all the sweeter. But yeah,

how was your game week? It was decidedly MIR this week. I made it all the sweeter. But yeah, how was your game week?

It was decidedly meir this week. I think it started off okay. I had Semenio and Gahy with their returns. And I thought, okay, maybe we're going to get somewhere. I'd had the

captain's armband on Verts. And I very went for Semenio, wished I had in the end,

because we'll talk about it later, but I think Sala's performance and just Sala being back in that,

Liverpool team has had a bit of a detrimental impact on VIRTS over the last couple of matches in both the Champions League and in the Premier League itself.

I had Enzo's points and Rogers both of them

doing well so those those were nice outside of that though I managed to bench mickey van derven

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