Welcome back to this week's Off the Bench podcast from the Premier League. I'm Sam from

FPL family.

And I'm FPL Harry. Harry, game week five. It was a little bonkers, wasn't it? We had three red cards.

We had no clean sheets at all on Saturday. And then an injury to the fifth most transferred in player who was also the sixth most captain player, which saw him withdraw on 21 minutes. We'll talk about

him in a minute because I imagine that was painful for you as a Chelsea fan also. But you decided it was time for your first

chip of the season in game week five. So how did that go? I did. I decided that this would be the

week that I played my bench boost. On Saturday afternoon, it was looking pretty dreadful. I

had Pedro Porro and Debravka.

Debravra getting four points looked great, but when you look at fact, my other goalkeeper

was sat on minus three at that point, it didn't feel quite as good, even though it was more,

I was thinking, well, I've made the wrong decision here because I should have just had Debravka,

but you can never predict that you're going to have a goalkeeper sent off. But actually, when it came to Sunday, I had Sinesi on my bench as part of my bench boost. He came in with nine with a clean sheet and DefCon once again at home to Newcastle. And then a bit of an unpredictable return, a player that we spoke about so much after Game Week 1 and then has been quite quiet since

then was Rinders of Manchester City.

Away at Arsenal, I didn't expect very much from him.

I actually thought he was one of the weakest players on my bench boost, but he got the assist.

He ended up with two bonus points and his defensive contributions for the first time this

season also picking up nine. So it's a chip that I always find difficult to plan, particularly when it's in a single game week at the beginning of the season. So I'm quite happy to get it out of the way. And it definitely propped up what was quite a disappointing game week elsewhere in my team. How about yours? Do you know, mine was almost the polar opposite of yours, because on Saturday, it was all looking so great. I was on a 1.4 million green arrow. I was thinking, right, here we go. I had a green arrow last week, a massive green arrow this week. This is going to be great. And on Saturday morning, Lee was like, what do you need from today? And I said, well, this is the problem because I need Semenio to do absolutely nothing. Ideally, nothing, you know, even lose the clean sheet point, that'll be, that would be ideal because I also don't have a Bournemouth defender. So if Bournemouth could, you know, lose their clean sheet with nothing for Semenio perfect. And then I need to get away because I don't have any Manchester City or Arsenal assets. So that game was really concerning because I was like if it ends up nil-0 and there's clean sheets for the Arsenal defenders, that's going to punish me. If it ends up with Manciti scoring, you'd bet on Harlem being part of it and that's going to punish me. And then I just was like, and I need Riders to do nothing. Fast forward through Sunday, to men you didn't do anything from an attacking perspective, but we'll talk about later, picks up DefCon and so that's a frustration because he ends up on five, so that hurts. You've just mentioned Senesi. He's got a hole. That hurts. And then Rinders decided it was time to assist Harlan and bring back the attacking returns that we haven't seen since game week one. So I ended up basically on a bit of a grey. I think I lost about 5K in the end, which when you were 1.4 million up heading into Sunday to lose 1.4 million in rank because of two games effectively. That's really difficult. Yeah, yeah. And I feel like this time, this time last week, we were sitting here saying,

oh, we all need to start playing our defenders. There's not going to be any goals or anything like that. And now we're sitting here the same time next week with two clean sheets for the whole game week. And they both came in the same game with Bournemouth drawing nil-nill with Newcast. And every other game had both teams scoring it. But actually, they didn't feel like there were that many

attacking returns to go round. nil with Newcastle and every other game had both teams scoring it. But actually, they didn't

feel like there were that many attacking returns to go around apart from a couple of players.

Like I was looking at some of the data, no player in the entire game had over 1xG this week.

It just felt very spread out. And it remains as bad as, you know, some of the ranks are and we might not have had the best start we'd ever want. It feels still really difficult to predict at the moment. And as a result, lots of people are in a little bit of a situation where they're trying to change a lot. And I think we're going to see an awful lot of wildcards activated this week. Oh, for sure. I mean, I am one of them. So I pondered actually, I was planning to

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