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FPL Pod

S4 Ep21: Time to ditch the Chelsea defender double-up?

FPL Pod

Premier League

Sports, Fantasy Sports

4.6749 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kelly Somers is joined by Duncan Alexander, Jonathan Fadugba and Ted Wickham ahead of this season's second midweek fixture round to analyse all the latest FPL discussion points.

On the podcast today; Is it time to stop doubling up on Chelsea defenders? Should you keep João Cancelo despite his one-game suspension? Do you stick or twist with Emile Smith-Rowe? And should we look to take advantage of Aston Villa's good upcoming fixtures?

• Intro (00m 28s)
• Key FPL conundrums; Chelsea defence, João Cancelo, Emile Smith-Rowe (7m 28s)
• Gameweek 17  fixtures (23m 17s)
• Transfers & Captains (36m 42s)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

From the Premier League, it's the official fantasy Premier League podcast.

0:12.5

Midweek madness means game week 17 is fast approaching what to do with Chelsea's defence and swerving suspensions.

0:20.0

All that and more on this week's official

0:22.2

Fantasy Premier League podcast. Well, hello, nice to be with you on a Monday. We are, of course,

0:31.0

back because Game Week 17 kicks off on Tuesday the 14th of December at 6pm UK time So I'm joining me, Kelly Summers, this week.

0:39.1

It is football consultant and journalist Jonathan.

0:41.1

Jonathan, hi, Kelly.

0:43.5

How are you doing?

0:44.4

I am very good, thank you.

0:46.2

Still reeling from not a very good game.

0:48.3

We can go out of the FPL Cup,

0:49.8

but we don't need to talk about that.

0:51.0

Anyway, moving on from the analyst is Duncan Alexander. Hi, Duncan.

0:55.2

Hello, Kelly. Hello. And we also have a pod debut for Ted Wickham of Ted Talks, FPL, who finished 63rd in the world in 2019. He comes on here with quite some credentials. Ted, welcome to the podcast. How's your season been going?

1:12.1

Goodness me, what an introduction. I try and live up to it. No pressure.

1:16.7

Season's been going okay. Yeah, started okay. We're about 45K at the moment. So fingers crossed for a fast finish. But yeah, excited to be here. Thank you for having me on.

1:25.9

No, we're very exciting to have you here. Just a small matter of letting it down. I've started the season all right, up to be here. Thank you for having me on. No, we're very exciting to have you here.

1:27.6

Just a small matter of playing it down.

1:29.8

I've started the season all right, up in the top 50K in the world.

1:33.4

How the rest of us can dream of that.

1:35.2

Hopefully you'll have plenty of tips for us coming up.

1:37.4

But before we do look back on how the rest of the panel did in Game Week 16,

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