FPL is back after the Cups took centre stage.

We discussed the impact of those, plus the returnees from Afcon and January transfers, plus we do a deep dive into Sam's wildcard, which is almost ready.

Hello, guys, welcome back to the FPL pods. And I'm going to say this early.

We are recording this podcast and there is a penalty shootout going on.

And if you're a regular listener to this podcast, you'll know that one person, out of the three of us, definitely has the penalties on whilst we're recording.

I'm looking at you, Jules.

Hello, Kelly.

It's just there, but it's just to keep you too informed about the evolution of the

Morocco and Nigeria-Afghani-fghani-fghani-fghani-final penalty shootout. Okay, well, that will finish somewhere during this podcast, I'm sure. And to honest, by the time you're listening to this, you'll probably know the results. So it's pretty much useless. But just to explain why Jules might be distracted, Sam, first question, how's the

wild guard? I'm might be distracted, Sam, first question, how's the

wild guard? I'm also quite distracted, but by that, not by the penalty shootout that's going on

over in Africa. Yeah, it's going okay. I'll run you through it later, but I might have done

some tinkering while the Arsenal Chelsea game is on because I might have changed my mind about

a couple of things. I was watching that game play out. But yeah, I'm enjoying it. It's nice to have a wild card active. Is it? Is it really? Do you know what? It feels like a fresh late. Like, it feels like I can just start again. It's the hope that kills you. No, I'm joking. I also love It's fun, isn't it, for a couple of weeks to feel like you've got all the power and can make all the changes while things are happening, injuries and the like. So, yeah, I'm only joking, I am quite envious. Of course, we're all missing FPL a little bit, aren't we? Because we've had a little break for the FA Cup. We've also seen the League Cup semi-finals being played as well, or the first legs of those.

We've just finished with Chelsea versus Arsenal.

We'll talk more about that later. But just to check in on our mini-lead because we talked about most of our Game Week 21 scores in the Game Week 21 pod, which was last week. But we did still have a match to play between Arsenal and Liverpool. Let's be honest, wasn't a great deal of help to anyone unless you had defenders from this game. So, Jules, you finished on 63. You got 15 points from Rea, Gabrielle and Rice. So you did a write out of that game. Sam, you got 18 points from Rea, Gabrielle, Saka and Verdes. I just got nine points. But yeah, nice points, I guess, but not too much to say about it. In terms of the FPL, Bobmini League, absolutely nothing changed in the top three. And the code is XY6. XPL. Okay, then, let's just quickly take stock of what we've seen in terms of Premier League teams that were involved in the FA Cup last weekend. At the weekend, it was the FA Cup third round, as I said, then Tuesday and Wednesday evening, saw the League Cup semi-final first legs. Jules, what were your big takeaways? Stop looking at the penalties. What were your big takeaways for those games? You're right, Kay. You're right. I should focus on the show. There was a lot of things happening, as you said in the FA Cup. We will start really by the massive upset, probably the biggest in the FA Cup history.

Macclesfield knocking at Crystal Palace, we've said for many weeks now,

how tired is Chris Palace team have been, how not great they've been playing Morocco just won't, by the way, and we'll play Senegal in the African final.

So for Palace, if you still own maybe Gehi, maybe Mateta, those kind of players, this, it would be hard, I think, to bounce back from the humiliating defeat. Amacro's field, Antoine Semino with an instant impact amongst a city, both in the FAC Cup and the Leacup. We'll talk about that a little bit later. We saw Phelan Verst continuing his good form and same

with the Kittiki, coming back fit and playing against Barnsley, a goal and an assist for each

of them. That was good. Tati Castellanos, the new West Ham forwards, scoring on his debut against

QPR, the winner as well in the FA Cup for them. Rogers being very good. I didn't know how

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