Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 32

Keep it simple, stupid….
Welcome to Fantasy Football Fixture Analysis Gameweek 32. GW31 was good, wasn’t it?! Regardless, we jump straight from famine to feast, in theory anyway. GW32 is our first bumper double game-week, with no less than 10 teams having no more or less than two games to contend with. And then we have another 2 double weeks to get our heads around; GW34 being a relative mini one and GW35 being another bumper one with 8 teams involved. And we have a blank game-week in between all those with 8 teams not playing in GW33. Confused yet?! Worry not if so, we shall straighten it all out for you in the following article. Sort of…

Now, we appreciate that we are catering for about 4 different audiences here; Free Hitters, Wildcarders, neither of the previous and so potentially -4 or -8’ers, or even just Triple Captainers. We can’t really help the latter, we can however help the previous three. Sort of…

So with all those different scenarios in mind let’s try and make sense of what is coming up, if we can. Let’s start with the simples;

Teams who have a double in GW32;
Brighton – Southampton (H), Chelsea (A)
Cardiff – Chelsea (H), Man City (A)
Chelsea – Cardiff (A), Brighton (H)
Crystal Palace – Huddersfield (H), Spurs (A)
Fulham – Man City (H), Watford (A)
Man City – Fulham (A), Cardiff (H)
Man Utd – Watford (H), Wolves (A)
Spurs – Liverpool (A), Crystal Palace (H)
Watford – Man Utd (A), Fulham (A)
Wolves – Burnley (A), Man Utd (H)

Teams who have a double in GW34;
Brighton – Burnley (A), Cardiff (H)
Cardiff – Burnley (A), Brighton (A)

Teams who have a double in GW35;
Arsenal – Crystal Palace (H), Wolves (A)
Brighton – Wolves (A), Spurs (H)
Man City – Spurs (H), Man Utd (A)
Man Utd – Everton (A), Man City (H)
Southampton – Newcastle (A), Watford (A)
Spurs – Man City (A), Brighton (H)
Watford – Huddersfield (A), Southampton (H)
Wolves – Brighton (A), Arsenal (H)

That’s as simple as it gets in terms of who has a double and when.

And now to get complicated…

Teams who have a double in DGW32 AND a game in BGW33;
Chelsea – Cardiff (A), Brighton (H) & West Ham (H)
Crystal Palace – Huddersfield (H), Spurs (A) & Newcastle (A)

For those without a FH chip;

Teams who play (any games at all) in both DGW32 and BGW33;
Arsenal – Newcastle (H), Everton (A)
Bournemouth – Leicester (A), Burnley (H)
Burnley – Wolves (H), Bournemouth (A)
Chelsea – Cardiff (A), Brighton (H) & West Ham (H)
Crystal Palace – Huddersfield (H), Spurs (A) & Newcastle (A)
Everton – West Ham (A), Arsenal (H)
Huddersfield – Crystal Palace (A), Leicester (H)
Leicester Bournemouth (H), Huddersfield (A)
Liverpool – Spurs (H), Southampton (A)
Newcastle – Arsenal (A), Crystal Palace (H)
Southampton – Brighton (A), Liverpool (H)
West Ham – Everton (H), Chelsea (A)

Teams who have a pair of doubles (or more) and when;
Brighton; GW’s 32, 34 and 35
Cardiff; GW’s 32 and 35
Man City; GW’s 32 and 35
Man Utd; GW’s 32 and 35
Spurs; GW’s 32 and 35
Watford; GW’s 32 and 35
Wolves; GW’s 32 and 35

What to make of all that then? In all honesty it’s too much info to make simple, plus there are far too many scenarios to consider, all you can do is take your own situation with both your team and your chips and adapt it accordingly. It’s all become a strange combo of teams playing twice and then not at all and then twice again, sometimes even thrice.

Not to leave you hanging though, here are our (brief) thoughts on the 10 teams who have a double in DGW32 and our ratings for each, in order;

1. Man City – Fulham (A), Cardiff (H)
Hand pick two fixtures that you’d want Man City to have in a double and these would probably be close to it. Maybe both would be at home, if we are being picky, but whatever.

Positives; Both games promise goals aplenty, both should in theory bring clean sheets too.

Negatives; Rotation. In a nutshell. City are still active in three competitions, having already won the first. The other two follow their DGW in quick succession; they have the semi of the FA Cup on the Saturday after they conclude their DGW on Wednesday and then go straight to a CL quarter-final with Spurs on Tuesday. Good luck picking which three play both in DGW32 then….

2. Chelsea – Cardiff (A), Brighton (H)
Hand pick two fixtures that you’d want Chelsea to have in a double and these would probably be close to it. Maybe the second would be Fulham at home, if we are being picky, but whatever.

Positives; Both games promise goals aplenty, both should in theory bring clean sheets too. Certainly the first should anyway.

Negatives; There are few, really. Chelsea have a PL game in BGW33 but it isn’t until the Monday following the 2nd of their DGW32 games on Wednesday so rotation shouldn’t really be an issue. They have a Europa game on the Thursday but they tend to rotate in those rather than in the league.

3. Brighton – Southampton (H), Chelsea (A)
Probably not the best two fixtures but Brighton get a slot in third place based solely on the fact that they have three doubles on the spin. Albeit with a blank in between them, but buy and stash if you can.

Positives; Three doubles.

Negatives; An FA Cup semi in place of a GW33 fixture possibly means rotation in part 2 of DGW32.

4. Man Utd – Watford (H), Wolves (A)
The best (maybe only) positive thing about being eliminated from the FA Cup is that you then have carte blanche to concentrate on the league, which is exactly what Ole and co need to do right now.

Positives; Playing two FA Cup semi-finalists, neither of whom have anything much left to contest in the league.

Negatives; Nothing really, other than waiting to confirm who is fit and who isn’t (Rashford / Lukaku) and whose wife is dropping and when (Lindelof).

5. Spurs – Liverpool (A), Crystal Palace (H)
We’re coming home; football’s coming home, etc. Maybe.

Spurs have two doubles, but blank in GW33.

Positives; Have much to play for and will be massively up for their first ‘home’ game, should it transpire.

Negatives; Aren’t in the best of form.

6. Crystal Palace – Huddersfield (H), Spurs (A)

Positives; Have Huddersfield at home in part 1.

Negatives; Have Spurs away in part 2.

7. Watford – Man Utd (A), Fulham (A)

Positives; Have Fulham away in part 2.

Negatives; Have an FA Cup semi after Fulham and so will probably prioritise that and rest everybody against Fulham.

8. Wolves – Burnley (A), Man Utd (H)

Positives; Have a double GW, in theory.

Negatives; Don’t actually have a DGW as they will rest and rotate like heck.

9. Fulham – Man City (H), Watford (A)

Positives; Will throw everything at these games, no rotation is expected. They may play Watford reserves in the second.

Negatives; They have little to throw, and will get hammered by City at the very least.

10. Cardiff – Chelsea (H), Man City (A)

Positives; None.

Negatives; They are Cardiff. And they play Chelsea and Man City.

There isn’t a definitive answer as to how to approach all this, apologies if you came looking for one but there just isn’t really. Realistically it’s a case by case basis, your best bet is to post your team, your chip situation, your bank and your aspirations in the comments below and talk it through with everyone else.

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