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

I'm Lee from FPL family.

And I'm Tom from Fantasy Football Scout and the FPL watch List. Well Tom, we're about to head into the biggest

double game week of the season with six teams playing twice. And for many players, Game

Week 32 was their audition to make it into our FPL managers teams for Game Week 33.

But before we get into what happened and how those auditions went,

how was Game Week 32 for you? Yeah, it was decent. I made the decision not to Wild Card and I bought

Gerald Bowen. So Friday night was enjoyable with Bowen's three assists. And then obviously Sunday,

it went slightly downhill with O'Reilly's goal in more ways than one for me. But yeah, it was okay. I think I kept pace with wild carders, maybe slightly beat them, but we'll see what happens with the bench boost this week. What about you? I'm guessing you're hoping for a big bench boost. Well, yes, I am. I mean, I did wildcard in Game Week 32. And I don't know whether I don't know whether we can call it a success or not at the moment, because really the whole point of wildcard in Game Week 32 was to prepare for this big upcoming double for Game Week 33. So I do absolutely feel ready for it. I've got loads of doublers. My team's looking great for this week for Game Week 33. But there was some risks in playing the wild card in Game Week 32, including taking out some players. And I went into it with my eyes wide open. There wasn't a part of me that thought Tiago would blank in this week. I thought it was a home game. He's bound to get something, and he did. And he did. So I did take Tiago out of my wild card because he doesn't double Game Week in 33. I took other players out like Van Dyke. Doesn't double in Game Week 33. So took him out, got the DefCon. I think he got a bonus point as well. So, yeah, in the end, I think I got a small red arrow. It was about a sort of eight or nine thousand small red arrow. So I'm down to

about 150k now. But like I say, the real determining factor of the success of wild carding

in game week 32 can only, I think, really be determined at the end of game week 33. So 55 points

this week, a small red. We take it, and I'm ready for the big double game week

in game week 33. But before we do that, Tom, we've got to discuss what happened in game

week 32. And I think we probably should start. Let's start with what happened at the

Emirates. So Arsenal versus Bourmouth, and the Opta XG in this game says that Arsenal got

2.41 XG against Bournemouth's 1.2.

So I think if you just look at that stat, you'd say, well, that's massively an Arsenal's

favour. They were unlucky to lose, which is true to some extent, but actually only 0.19 of that

2.4 Arsenal XG came from open play. So again, this is the story of Arsenal season, isn't it? They get the penalties. They are a big threat from set pieces. We know what Gabrielle and others can do from corners and free kicks, but the open play XG is just not there. And this was no fluke. Let me tell you, Bournemouth are on a 12 match unbeaten run Now, they've not lost since they sold Semenyo, by the way. How's that for a stat? You lose your best player, arguably, in Semenio, and they haven't lost since then. So give me a view on the game. And in particular, maybe we start with Bournemouth, because they have got the double game week in Game Week 33. They're playing Leeds and then Newcastle, which is a pretty looking double game week actually. I've got two. I've got Hill and Tavenir on the wildcard in 32, ready for 33. So give me your view on Bournemouth to start with, and then we'll do Arsenal after that. Well, yeah, I mean, this was more of an audition for me because I'm either going to wildcard or free hit this week. So I was looking at Bournemouth assets, thinking who's probably the three,

if I'm free hitting, to be fair, that I want to get in. Obviously, Hill and Senesey at the

back. DefCon again. As per. Brilliant stuff. Probably nothing to suggest you pay more for

Senesi. I wouldn't have thought at this stage. And then, yeah, the attacker's quiet, albeit you do expect that against the best team in the league.

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