S8 Ep48: FPL Pod: Arsenal attack or defence?
FPL Pod
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4.6 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Arsenal have the title in sight but Man City are close behind, so will the Gunners be going all out attack or holding strong at the back? 🔴🥅⚽️
That’s the question Kelly Somers and the FPL Pod team discuss as they decide who to invest in, what to do with Man City players, and differential picks for the final two Gameweeks.
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* Best Arsenal trio (08m 11s)
* Man City dilemma (14m 44s)
* Backing Brighton (23m 11s)
* Investing in Everton (30m 58s)
* Differential of the Week (38m 53s)
* Transfers and Captains (40m 43s)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The penultimate game week of the season is here. |
| 0:03.4 | We're wondering what to do with City with the FA Cup final ahead. |
| 0:06.4 | We target our transfers on teams with something still to play for, |
| 0:09.6 | and we're all on an Arsenal captain, but who's the best pick? |
| 0:17.4 | I'm not quite sure how we've got here, |
| 0:19.1 | but somehow we have crawled to game week 37. |
| 0:22.8 | The penultimate game week, the final double is done, and to be honest, the less said about that, the better. |
| 0:27.5 | But this is where it all comes down to pretty much. |
| 0:30.7 | Final Friday night deadline this week as well, 6.30pm, 90 minutes out of Aston Villa versus Liverpool. |
| 0:36.7 | Morning Sam, morning Jules. |
| 0:38.1 | Do you feel the same way about the double game week as me, Sam? |
| 0:41.5 | Mine wasn't so bad because I obviously have Gahey rather than Nico Riley. |
| 0:46.8 | So I was like, well, that's okay. |
| 0:49.3 | Although I did decide quite last minute last week to do the Samanuta Cherokee move. So when I saw Cherokee was benched, I was like, oh, please, Pep, why have you done this to me? So when he came off the bench and got the assist, I was like, okay, well, this doesn't feel quite so bad anymore. But yeah, in the end, I had a good week. I got 86. It's another green arrow. |
| 1:11.1 | I feel like I'm on a little bit of a green arrow train at the minute, which is positive. So, yeah, I actually feel quite positive about it. It's one of those where getting a green arrow when you don't have a chip in a week where everyone else around you seems to have played a chip, it feels quite nice. Yeah, well, I didn't play a chip and |
| 1:29.1 | I had the three-man city players that were benched last night. And once again, my last minute |
| 1:33.1 | transfers that made so much sense on paper made zero sense when it came to points returns. But |
| 1:37.5 | there we are, Jules. What about yours? |
| 1:40.3 | 79 points, which is not too bad, but I played the bench booth, which got me 80 points, 18, sorry, 18 points, which is not too bad, but I played the bench booth, which got me 80 points, |
| 1:45.4 | 18, sorry, 18 points, which is not too bad. |
| 1:48.2 | I was a bit gutted like a lot of us with O'Reilly, not even being on the bench, |
| 1:52.9 | Cherokee on the bench, Hallen not coming on, obviously, especially with a Holland captain. |
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