FPL Team Of The Week GW2 – Best XI For Gameweek 2 Who is our FPL expert choosing in his Gameweek 2 Team of the Week? Join fantasy football guru Ben Dinnery as he picks the best squad for this weekend… Overall, squad values are already beginning to creep up, so I’m looking to capitalise on the shift to maximise my chances of a significant return. At £101.1m, my squad this week may cost a lot, but it’s worth every penny. Thank me later… Goalkeeper Nick Pope (£5.0m) – (3.4 Predicted Points) I am going against the prediction models and stating my belief that Newcastle will perform well on the south coast. Looking at how the team played throughout the second half of last season and the win over Nottingham Forest, I believe most underestimate just how good the Black...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek GW1 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek GW1 We appreciate that different people will be in different stages of creating their GW1 team right now. Some, let’s call them Camp One, will have been at this for weeks already and so will probably look at this article and say / shout manically ‘YEAH I KNOW!’. Camp Two folk will be more relaxed amd may have an idea of a team on the go and so will look at this and say ‘nice one, that’s really helpful, thank you’. Some will still be in Camp Three and won’t even have looked at a team yet and so will say ‘perfect, just what I needed’. Whichever ‘Camp’ you are in there will be something here for you. It’s an important article and so we carefully ...[Read More]
Promoted Teams analysis – Fulham In the final part of our trilogy on the newly promoted teams, we turn our attention to the winners of last season’s Championship: Fulham. To call them ‘winners’ doesn’t do them justice – the way in which they triumphed was stunning. They were simply head and shoulders – and then some – above their rivals and were unrivalled in nearly every department. They boasted the best attacking record in the league – 106 goals, 27 wins, 99 big chances, 16 shots a game, three 7-0 victories…the list goes on and on. They were good – very good! London’s oldest professional club, Fulham first played in the Premier League in the 2001/02 season having been away from the top flight since 1968. Since the ea...[Read More]
Promoted Teams analysis – Nottingham Forest Welcome to the second part of our look at the promoted teams for the coming season. Following Bournemouth, the only way is north really, so let’s head to Robin Hood country. Nottingham Forest (or Notts Forest) are back in the Premier League after 23 years away. The last time they played a PL match The Backstreet Boys were top of the charts (with ‘I Want It That Way’, fact fans). Harking back even further (pre-Premier League), they remain one of only two UK clubs (the other being Liverpool) to win the European Cup twice in a row (1979 & 1980). Their nicknames include ‘The Garibaldi’, ‘The Reds’ and ‘The Tricky Trees’. They ply their trade at the City Ground in front of a maximum crow...[Read More]
Promoted Teams analysis – Bournemouth Another season beckons, and with that comes a trio of new clubs to ride the storm. They have reached this hallowed league through grit, determination, and goals galore. Realistically, one of them (or all of them?!) will probably return to the Championship once GW38 has been played. As part of our build-up to another thrilling season, let’s look at each promoted club in turn and see what fantasy gems we can unearth. Let’s begin at the top of the pile, alphabetically speaking, with AFC Bournemouth. Having finished second in the 2021/22 Sky Bet Championship season they gained automatic promotion back to the Premier League, after two seasons away. The Vitality Stadium (AKA Dean Court) is their home ground which also happens to be the PL...[Read More]
FF247 FPL Pre Season Hub 2022/23 Welcome to FF247 FPL Pre Season Hub 2022/23 In this season of a first ever winter World Cup, and hence an early start to the domestic football calendars across the European Continent, you could be forgiven for saying …. “What, Pre Season games? Already?” Last season only ‘ended’ 35 days ago domestically with the Champions League final in Paris. Still, Liverpool will be back in action a week on Tuesday against Manchester United in a friendly. In Thailand. When you factor in that most players then had to go represent their country in World Cup, African Nations Cup or Nations League matches, then there truly is no break these days. More FPL rotation than ever before, anyone? – that’s before you consider we now have 5 subs per team per game now. Ha! But we at F...[Read More]
UEFA Champions League Fantasy Football 2021/22 LIVERPOOL vs REAL MADRID FINAL – DEADLINE: SATURDAY 28th MAY 8pm UK One game left and we are done for the season once more. Ahead of this all you really need to know is the following: For THE FINAL (deadline is 8pm on Saturday 28th May) you get another 5 free transfers. For this final round you can have a maximum of 8 players from each club. And that is literally it. For those who have been with us on this journey throughout we thank you massively as this is always one of our favourite distractions throughout the season, and in many ways it is actually a more enjoyable and interactive game than FPL itself! For anyone who hasn’t bothered yet we would encourage you to take part next season. The Regulars League Top 16… League Up...[Read More]
Reading can rebuild after narrowly avoiding the drop It’s been a strange year for Reading fans in the Championship. Next season will mark a decade since they were last relegated from the Premier League and in all honesty, they’ve never really convinced anyone that they could genuinely orchestrate a plot back to the top flight, condemned to Championship mediocrity after another underwhelming season. In a way, Reading fans would have craved their usual nine months treading water in mid-table after this year almost saw them relegated to League One. The Royals had flattered to deceive at the start of the campaign, failing to replace Michael Olise, who joined Crystal Palace in what look to be a steal now, but while the Berkshire outfit were far from promotion favourites in the football odds tod...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Tips DGW36 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips DGW36 We, ladies and gentlemen, are at the business end of the season! We head into the next gameweek and it’s a big ‘un. A double gameweek for nearly everyone and we only have three to go including this one so as I introduce to you a run down of the fancied players per position from our brilliant band of writers, I forewarn you to ensure you have a plan in place for your remaining chips. Remember, you can use only one a week and time is running out. Let’s go find out who are the sure-fire point winners, the differentials and the best bets amongst the dark horses. Goalkeepers – by Smash Kasper Schmeichel (4.9) Leicester City ‘keeper Kasper Schmeichel (4.9m) is the only safe route into Brendan Rodgers...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Inside The Mind Of An FPL Player Gameweek 33 Once more we delve into the personal lives FPL minds of our wonderful team of writers… So, what exactly is this all about? Well, in essence, you should know by now, quite frankly! With a DGW looming we have looked to a few of our older hands to tell us what their plans are, which is especially helpful given that they all have different Chips left to use and so therefore different stategies to consider. SWIRLY – TEAM LINK GW32 points: 60 Total Points: 2010 Overall Rank: 242,986 Rank Change: Red arrow – 6k Free transfers: 1 Money In the bank: £0.4m Chips: Just the bench boost left! GW32 Review The good: My captain returned! Good old Harry Kane. This season, it’s always been a gamble to take the armband anyw...[Read More]
Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 31 Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 31 Goalkeepers Nick Pope at 5.4 is my top pick here. Burnley play City (A) and Everton (H) in GW31, they travel to Norwich in GW32 and then have another double in GW33 with West Ham away and Saints at home. They even have another double GW to reschedule. There could be some clean sheets here but there should also be plenty of saves and Pope is a magnet for those bonus points. Kasper Schmeichel (4.8) is the most nailed Leicester defensive asset. The defence is now pretty much all fully fit with Evans, Fofana, Castagne and Justin all returning to training so it might suddenly prove difficult to pick a Leicester defender so why not just go with the keeper. Two clean sheets in their last four games and with Evans and F...[Read More]
FF247 Site Team & Predicted Line Ups Gameweek 28 Cast your minds back to last week if you can and you will remember that we played our first chip of the season (not counting the first wildcard) by utilising our Free Hit chip to set our team up for the double gameweek. The headline is we scored 62 points which was 22 points above the weekly average which was, to all intents and purposes, a very good score. However as usual, when you drill a little deeper, your eyes are inevitably drawn to the captain and 6 points from a striker who played two games is a poor return so we say thanks to Wout Weghorst (6) – probably your first and last time carrying our armband mate. But cheers! His fellow strikers were Armand Broja (2) and Harry Kane (11) – who was up against an embarrassingl...[Read More]