FF247 Site Team News GW5

Bench Pain

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After the misery of the previous week, Gameweek 4 finally decided to be nice to us.

93 points.

A full 24 points above the Gameweek average of 69, and a Gameweek rank of 595,963. We’ll take that. Very happily.

The big decision was handing the armband to João Pedro, and for once our captain actually behaved like a captain. His 12 points became 24, immediately giving the week a very healthy foundation.

And unlike some previous weeks, he actually had some help!

Groß was the star of the supporting cast with a massive 17 points, while Calvert-Lewin chipped in with 10 and Rogers added another 8. Kinsky contributed 7, while Kadıoğlu and Calafiori both returned 6, meaning there were points appearing all over the pitch rather than us desperately staring at one player carrying ten passengers.

Lovely!

Naturally, it couldn’t all go smoothly.
Maguire managed one point. Bruno Fernandes produced two. Szoboszlai gave us three. But when the rest of the team is scoring like this, you can forgive a few passengers.

There was, however, one familiar problem…the bench!

Because apparently we aren’t allowed to have a good Gameweek without leaving a small fortune sitting on it.

Verbruggen scored 8. Fine. Kinsky scored seven, so we’re not losing sleep over that one.

But then there was Leif Davis.

14 points!

Third on the bench. Of course he was. Rodon and Le Fée combined for precisely zero, while Davis sat at the very end of the bench watching 14 perfectly good points go completely unused.

Still, this time we’re not complaining too much.

93 points. Captain return. Groß hauling. Calvert-Lewin returning. Rogers returning. Two defensive returns.

After some of the nonsense we’ve already endured this season, this felt considerably more like it.

The only slight concern is that we’ve now discovered the secret to getting our players to haul:

Put them third on the bench.

But for once, the headline is simple. 93 points. A proper green-arrow kind of week. And perhaps — just perhaps — this ridiculous FPL team is finally starting to work.

Our Gameweek 4 Result

We have £0.4 in the bank and 2 free transfers to use ahead of GW5. Let’s go see what was decided….

Our GW5 Transfer(s)

We kept it really simple this week. Get rid of the red flag with a player that will actually play.

Arsenal are obviously the best defence in the league and when you have a 4.5 route into that you take it. Therefore, out went Rodon and in came Konsa.

To confirm then we have SOLD Rodon and BOUGHT Konsa

Captain – Haaland

Our GW5 team in full…

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