FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW35 Free Hit Special
Welcome to the FF247 Fantasy Football Site Team GW35 Free Hit Special. We’ve taken a slightly different approach to our usually formulaic Site Team article this week, and this is why… Rather than deluge you with all sorts of different Tips and Captain Picks this week we thought it may be wiser to (almost) let the elongated DGW34 play out to its natural conclusion and then come in with a (relatively) simple look at GW35. Just in case you’ve been under a rock or something GW35 is also known as Blank GW35 as there are only 6 fixtures this week. Just to be completely prescriptive then the 6 fixtures, or 12 teams involved, are as follows –
If this comes as some sort of a surprise to you… then said rock may be your best friend, go back and give him another hug. If however you’ve planned accordingly then there’s a fair to middling chance that you are playing your Free Hit Chip this week. If you have then this is certainly a relevant article for you as we are playing ours too and will show you it below, along with an alternative (emergency) one. We shall explain the emergency one also! If you aren’t playing it this week then hopefully you can still ascertain from ours the key players we would be bringing in on normal transfers and we shall also explain our Captain Pick. Basically, it’s a bit of an all in one job, you just need to read between the lines to pick the bits you need.
Before we show you our actual picks there a few key points which you may like to consider –
- Liverpool and Arsenal may screw us all over! Both have decent GW35 fixtures but both also have European semi-finals in the midweek following it and may well prioritise those and choose to rest their key players accordingly.
- Aubameyang is your best bet from Arsenal as he is ineligible to play in Europe for them.
- The Liverpool line-up for GW35 will most likely be released prior to the deadline. And will most likely dictate how you play your FH Chip! We shall endeavour to retweet this and post it in the comments, if and when it happens. It’s usually spot on too so we would have an ’emergency’ FH team ready if the worst was to be reported with the likes of Mane, Firmino and Salah possibly rested.
- Man City have now won the league and so literally have nothing to play for. That smacks of rotation and maybe blooding some youngsters. The next (actual) meaningful match for the majority of their players will probably be a World Cup Group game in June!
And so onto the team itself…
We actually have 3 teams and 3 scenarios! As we have said above picking a team this week may all depend upon us seeing that Liverpool line-up. As such we are leaving no stone unturned. We won’t go into the player specifics on each and that’s simply because we have seen so many teams this week and in having done so, and in all honesty, outside of having a raft of Man City and (hopefully!) Liverpool assets along with Aubameyang it’s a bit of a lottery with the rest!
Scenario 1
This is our A Team. This is what we would pick if no other scenarios existed. And also what we will go in with if it is revealed ahead of time that Liverpool are indeed going full strength. It’s full on Liverpool attack against the bottom club and the only regret really is that we couldn’t also afford a 3rd Man City attacker. It’s a mixed bag in defence but as we say it’s a bit of a lottery back there this week anyway.
Our Captain is this scenario will be Mo Salah
Salah picks himself in this scenario. The leader of the Golden Boot, 30 goals already this season, 11 assists, on target for a record FPL score of any player ever, playing the bottom team. We’ll ignore the fact that West Brom held Liverpool to a 0-0 in GW17 or indeed that the won 1-0 at Old Trafford last week. Salah is on fire and he’ll be the popular captain this week, if he plays. And rightly so. Vice captain will be Jesus.
Scenario 2
This is our middle of the road team. This is what we will go with if there is NO leakage of information from said Liverpool camp and we are all left to go in blind. It’s kind of a half and half job on Liverpool. We will go with Salah, because you know ‘just in case’! And it’s a bit more of a full and rounded squad, for obvious reasons. What it does allow us is 3 City attackers, so it may be a blessing in disguise in all honesty as even if Mane and Salah were somehow allowed to start what’s the chance they will actually be allowed to go the full 90?!
Our Captain in scenario 2 will be Jesus
With no leaking of the Liverpool side, there will be panic, uproar and utter confusion – not a situation where you want to be gambling on your captain. In that regard, Jesus will have the armband – with Kun ruled out for weeks at least, Jesus looks like a shoe-in to play up front. The Brazilian has scored and/or assisted in each of his last three starts and looked lively at Spurs last weekend. The Swans come to the Etihad this weekend and they look ripe for City to dismantle them with no pressure on Pep’s men with the title won. Raheem Sterling will be our vice-captain.
Scenario 3
This is our scenario if the Liverpool team is indeed leaked and there won’t be any fancy pictures for this one! This is because if the other two were indeed hypothetical then this one would be stretching that boundary a bit too far as we would have to actually see that Liverpool team before we could even begin to tinker. It could be a second string in which case we may just turn our Liverpool assets from Scenario 1 into some of the replacements that are in place in Scenario 2. It could be a hybrid with say Mane in and Salah out and in which case we would probably just take our Scenario 2 team and do likewise ourselves!
Basically it’s just too complicated until we know either way to commit to a Scenario 3 team. What we do know is that we will be on red alert all the way up until the deadline and we will be armed and ready to react accordingly with all our different scenarios. There’s a good chance that we may end up with none of the above depending on what happens!
If you wish to follow the teams progress more closely you can do so by clicking here.
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Morning All,
How is everyone getting on? its going to feel so weird when Wenger leaves at the end of the season, he has been the manager of my club since I was 14 years old!! fingers crossed we can give him the send off he deserves and win the Europa league. #onearsenewenger
For those who have already used there FH chip how many players will you have? I currently have 4 but will look to do a -16 and have 9 – I know you will probably ridicule me for doing that but I am chasing down my ML and I am following my gut this week plus it does set up quite nicely for the remaining GW’s.
So this is the plan, I have already brought in Jesus and I am looking to bringing in Sterling, Sane, Zaha and PEA.
What do you think to the player I have gone with?
Auba might be on bench. I can’t see Zaha making up the points he rarely gets double figures and he did last week so can’t see it happening again especially away
for me PEA has to play, there’s no point risking laca especially when PEA cant play in the Europa, do you think i should go for mili instead or there is a better option that i have missed?
Wenger said he wants to play a team in preparation of Europa. Said it’s difficult to play Auba not saying he won’t play but it’s far from certain
Dam!! What should I do mate? Need players who have a chance of scoring big this weekend
Guys I already have Sterling, I want to bring in another city mid for Hazard and Jesus for Firminho this week.
I was thinking Silva, what do ye reckon? Would deBruyne/Sane be better options?
I’d prefer KDB or Sane. Not sure on Firmino our to be honest
Cheers Smash. Will firminho be risked though, and if so he surely wont play a full game.
Hopefully we get the team. I would not be taking him out if he looks like starting personally
Maybe Klopp won’t rest many…
I’d be surprised if Salah don’t play with way he’s been talking up golden boot. It’s Firmino and Mane im not sure about and the defence
#FingersCrossed
So guys. Don’t have a chip I can use this gameweek since I already used the FC and I wanted to use the WC in GW36 and bench boost in GW37. But I already have 10 starters just need a goalie. Am I set?
You look pretty good there Raz
Elliot to umm Ederson? Than I 11 starters. With no chip.
Bravo potentially playing would put me off Ederson risk
Bravo played 40 minutes all season?
Needs 4 games for a medal and league is won so small doubts
Hey guys, great article this week as always.
Last few gameweeks its gone t*ts up for me. ive still got my bench boost and TC chips intacts but got abit of a dilemma.
My intention was to use TC chip on kane for dgw 37 but im not considering using bench boost instead. Only issue is if i were to utilise getting as many DGW players id be looking at a minimum of 8 points hits which isnt ideal given that its my defence id be “upgrading” (not really as it would be newcastle and swansea defender id be looking at given lack of funds. I could field a strong 11 mostly consisting of DGW players without using bench boost. i’m considering playing TC on jesus this game week to try and catch a few of my rivals out but they will likely play it on kane gw37. So in summary my options are:-
Play TC on jesus this ghame week and play bench boost for gw37 with a -8 hit.
or
play bench boost in gw36 or 38 and triple captain kane on dwg37
heres my team as it stands.
GW36 – Firmino & mane out, Kane and erikssen in (-4)
GW 37 – Tarkowski, Lowton & mane out, Dummet, van der hoorn & erikssen in.
Thoughts would be appreciated.
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IMGINE isnt work, current team below
FAB, KARIUS
TARKOWSKI, LONG, HADERJGONAJ, CHILLWELL, LOWTON
ALLI, MANE, STERLING, GUNDOGAN, ARNIE
JESUS, FIRMINO, AUB
I would not be taking all those hits. I’d bench boost 36 when fixtures ain’t bad and triple captain in 37 personally
thank smash, fixtures are really good for gw36 and 38 so can do both, ur right taking the hits would defeat the purpose in using bench boost especially as it would be for defenders.
Thought this might be useful. Clean sheet odds: Implied chance of a clean sheet
MCI 1.83 55%
LIV 2.10 48%
ARS 2.40 42%
EVE 2.40 42%
STO 2.62 38%
BUR 3.10 32%
CPL 3.10 32%
WAT 3.20 31%
NEW 3.60 28%
WBA 8.0 13%
WHU 9.0 11%
SWA 14.0 7%
(Provided by Betfair.com)
Along similar (ish) lines AT (remember him?!) put this out on twitter.
Who’s that :shiftyeyes: ?!