Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 29
Welcome to Fantasy Football Tips Gameweek 29
I’m back — again — and so soon! What’s changed in one short month? Unfortunately, the credibility of my overall ranking most certainly hasn’t. Nor has No Time to Die’s prebooking revenue. At least some global normality’s been restored lately; Liverpool have now lost 3 of their last 4 matches. Beyond pitiful comments, the DGW–BGW landscape’s become clearer. We now know to bring in Arsenal and Man City assets before ditching just about everybody for a BGW31 abomination. Preparing for near-inevitable disappointment naturally follows on from this. It’s time: No Time to Get Your Hopes Up just yet, though. Nope, only time to reveal my misguided suggestions. Enjoy but, as always, don’t pay this too much attention. Please wash your hands and eyes after skimming over this.
Goalkeepers
(Photo by Victoria Haydn/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)
Top shelf: Ederson (£6.0m) isn’t, upon first glance, a particularly attractive prospect. I mean on paper. Not on a poster either, per se, but as an FPL option — paying a premium price for a ‘keeper who rarely makes 3 saves in a given match and is reliant upon protection from John Stones — however, with DGW29 confirmed and another DGW on the cards, he’s got plenty of potential to prove that he’s not just a pretty face. An excellent run of PL fixtures commence from GW32 onwards; few of Pep’s men are this nailed-on.
Mid-price: Nick Pope (£4.8m) has (just as Rosco recently noted) mocked those who lost faith in him over the Christmas period. It’s just like dad. Well, folks, Saint Nicholas has officially struck back. Another gritty double-digit haul, his 3rd of the season and yet 3rd over the past 6 matches, brought him up to 49 points over the latter period and 126 points overall. He’s got absolutely no scheduled blanks and, if Burnley negotiate Spurs (a relatively simple feat) and Man City without getting thrashed, has a fairly clean set of PL fixtures for the run-in.
Bargain basement: Pope’s big promise largely applies to Tim Krul (£4.5m) too. If you’re shopping on a tight budget but still fancy a few (3 in his last 6) clean sheets, don’t visit a nunnery, just go to Norwich’s burly shot-stopper. Not a Pope (sorry, guys, it’s getting late…) in sight.
(Photo by Sebastian Frej/MB Media/Getty Images)
Defenders
Top shelf: I seem to have finally found my calling in life — successfully tipping Wolves players. Only the Wolves players, granted, but c’est la vie. It’s a start. Traoré before he was cool, now Matt Doherty (£6.2m) before 28 points in the 3 matches that have been played since, jeeEeeEeez — you might as well stop reading this now. His upcoming fixtures imply that similar performances are to come.
Mid-price: Marcos Alonso (£6.0m) may not be “mid-price” by most definitions but, with a certain young Scouser having risen to £7.8 now, I feel that he’s loosely justifiable. Chelsea have the same number of clean sheets (5) as Norwich and Brighton so far but, if his attacking form continues, that doesn’t matter: 3 strikes have saved Chelsea’s blushes during their most-recent pair of PL matches. Alonso’s gained 70 points from just 9 starts in the PL thus far, including 4 goals, 3 assists and exactly 0 fatal car crashes. He’s been having an exemplary season both on and off the pitch…
Bargain basement: Adam Masina (£4.3m) has kept a clean sheet against both Spurs and, most infamously by far, Liverpool in recent weeks. The next few look comparably kind and remain crucial to Watford’s chances of survival.
(Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Midfielders
Top shelf: facing his 5th away match in a row, nursing a poorly shoulder that’s presumably arisen due to bearing the full weight of his team on them, Kevin De Bruyne (£10.7m) may well struggle when Man City commute west and face Ole’s man. However, with Arsenal at home following on the DGW29 menu, it’d be kicking-a-baby-level criminal of me to not personally recommend him right here. Arteta will be keen to prevent him from going on a repeat 2-goal, 1-assist, 19-point riot against his boys.
Mid-price: 10 goals, 5 assists, 131 points and yet Richarlison (£8.3m) only sits in 12.3% of squads as of early Thursday morning. Admittedly, yes, 4 of the next 5 fixtures look gruesome — Chelsea, Liverpool, then facing Leicester and Spurs later — but he’s already scored in most of the reverse fixtures. Most crucially Everton have form, and he’s out of position so this Brazilian could become nigh on essential.
Bargain basement: Bukayo Saka (£4.6m) is easily the fastest-ever player to gain his place within the beloved bargain basement. This buoyant 18-year-old just keeps on chipping in with assists and it’s becoming a frequent event in the PL now. Even if he doesn’t get a 90-minute run-out in either DGW fixture, at such a modest price, not much can go wrong. For once.
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Forwards
Top shelf: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (£11.0m) is another Arsenal tip for the DGW but he, in contrast, can feel assured of getting 90-minute run-outs. He’s not yet scored more than 13 points in a given match but has 20 goal contributions and 150 points in total. It’s his apparent security of starts (and arguably penalties too) that makes Agüero, albeit a deadly player, seem a riskier FPL prospect right now. Shopping at M&S isn’t always best.
Mid-price: errr, nahhh, I’ll pass…
Bargain basement: form boys Diogo Jota (£6.3m) and Troy Deeney (£6.2m) have the fixtures to keep it rolling. The former player’s made 5 goal contributions in 2 matches; the latter, despite his potato-like physique, has just earned 11 points against a side that was rumoured to be the next Invincibles team. I enjoyed typing that sentence more than any other tonight.
All of the best with your GW29 plans and beyond, guys and girls, and keep calm. Cheers for getting this far. Now get scrubbing…
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Good morning all.
If you were going to bring in Jota, who would you lose out of Ings or DCL?
Finding it a tough call. I should also say its for a hit (one of two hits ill take to shape my team for GW31, and therefore save my FH).
Any opinions? TIA
Who is your other striker?
Auba mate.
I’ve got Jimi – DCL – Ings & I’m thinking of bringing in Auba (keeping till season’s end perhaps) + Jota (almost did this last week but took DCL in his stead
). Gunna perhaps trade Ings + DCL for these two. But then again, over the last few weeks, I’m no reference in trades 
.
Cheers for the thoughts AJW.
I think Ings. Just.
Cheers mate. I agree though, its a close one. Think that’s the way i go.
Lose Ings
Thanks Smash.
Any help here guys ??
What’s the disadvantage of free hitting in GW 31 cod am thinking might do that then ??
The main disadvantage is losing that chip which might be used during a DGW later on.
You have 8 players for gw31 if I’m not mistaking, if they all play of course. I wouldn’t use free hit then. Make a ft or two and you’ll probably have like 9-10 playing players…
Have 7players, Rico & Kelly included. Any suggestions on present moves to make pls ??
I’m having seller’s remorse re Vardy. I looked at his 6 games of 2020, and compared them to his last 6 games of 2019 (basically ignoring GWs 20, 21 and 28 when he didn’t play). Now, there is a clear correlation between Ndidi playing and Vardy hauling. And Ndidi is back. So I’m sh!tting my pants. However, Smash has made a good point previously that Vardy hasn’t looked right since his injury (indeed this is why GWs 20 and 21 are missing from my stats) so maybe the absence of Ndidi wasn’t to blame. Either way, we’re going to find out soon. If Vardy starts hauling again, it’s because Ndidi is back. If Vardy continues to blank, it looks like that injury really has screwed him over.
I agree i took Vardy out recently and the same thought has crossed my mind. Would not be shocked if he got a couple on Monday night. Guess we will see.
I think perhaps he has a niggling injury which prevents him from achieving. Add to this that maybe he’s giving bottles to bubs late at night (or maybe I’m attributing normal qualities to superhuman PL stars! ) and there’s some underlying fatigue.
Having said that, maybe the real Jamie V will turn up on Monday.
I’ve still got Vardy. Sometimes I feel like I’m hanging on to him for the sake of hanging on to him, but I hope he gets his mojo back on Monday! :bop: I like the Ndidi correlation, I’d never thought of that link!
My biggest worry of this coming week is having no DGWers :rabbi: .
Could work out for you on the other hand. If KDB doesn’t play and Abua blanks (your main worry) and Vardy and Salah (c) hauls could see a big rank jump for you. Plus lots will have taken a hit in get in Abua and others this week.
Wasn’t there a similar Kane – Dembele correlation hypothesis that eventually wasn’t true?
Yeah I don’t buy it. Yeah they are a better team but Vardy is out of form and it’s not like Ndidi sets up Vardy every week is it
I hope you’re right Smash! :focus:
By the way, thanks James. Always very well considered articles – you’ve really put in the hard yards again. No borderline jokes this time? You fully concentrated on the game, are you?
Cheers mate!
I have 2 FT & 0 ITB.
Please help
Can you get to Ings and KDB to Auba and sarr? (If you are willing to lose KDB with his potential injury concerns)
Yes this is do able with 0.3 left over
Nice, it would certainly tempt me. Love the look of Sarr.
Are we likely to have an update on KDB before the first match tomorrow? :scratch_one-s_head:
Probably a dubious one at best. Saw an article saying KdB felt good and hoping he’d be ready for the derby, but I think it was the Mirror so who knows… Also FPL Sage’s tweeted KdB likely out for both games, so yeah… Uhm. Good luck I suppose :wacko:
Pep is on at 1.30pm