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Your bench is used when your first selection of players doesn't play in the game. Game auto subtitues them in order you have arranged them on bench, if formations allow it. You can't play without attacker or with less then 3 defenders/midfilders.

It is arguably less important to have strong bench this season since we have 5 substitutes rule. Even if our player doesn't start he will probably come into the game later on. That being said there will be last minute injuries/covid and than your bench is the only thing that can save your GW.

Really unfortunate for that Brighton postponement. That will be a though GW for me to navigate with 2 Brighton players in the team.

I am in that group

had to see what to do over this weekend, not sure what to do with Salah TBH, to keep him, or change him and put the bench up (my bench is set to zero points, not sure how the bench points are counted in, if there is a way?)

looking at stats, not sure about Mitrovic either, he is scoring regularly, but hoovering around 5-6 points, without goals he is a certain miss in the team (I am looking at 5 points per player as an average limit)

Double or even triple on Brighton players just a week ago wasn't such a bad idea, but now with Graham Potter likely move to Chelsea and Brighton's game with Palace in GW8 being postponed makes things a bit complicated:

source: https://twitter.com/OfficialBHAFC/status/1567543291230445569

The ultimate plan was to use my first wildcard in GW15 followed by a bench boost in GW16 and then the World Cup free transfers "thing" in GW17.

Guess i have to move to plan B and wildcard in GW8 which is not ideal given the fixtures swing after the intl. break in GW9...and i thought this year's going to be a bit less hectic, i guess not. Gl to those who already used their first WC...

I'm keeping James. He's in the top 3 best RB in the league next to TAA and Cancelo. Hard to find another RB from the top 6 who has as much impact as those three. However, I will get rid of Koulibaly, that was such a dumb transfer from my part.

isn't Auba like the only centre forward they have on the team? i know they have some guy called Broja who plays as cf, but honestly who tf is this guy? lol i would keep Auba

the free hit is such a risky one. You might be stuck with a brand new team for one GW who barely gets any points, or you use the free hit right when the managers decide to bench all those premiums you got with your free hit. Then again, that same team could break 100 pts in that GW, so   High risk, high reward

Just a week huh, gotta make the best use out of it. Kinda interesting


Benched Jorginho and going to try out another player for the next GW. Still have one more Chelsea defenders but its a defender though so points are going to be low either way


Probably not for now as some City might need to keep winning as the other top teams are winning as well. Aside from that, Haaland is a beast though and I was kinda wondering if he could keep up with EPL with that big posture but it turns out that he could.

I'm definitely going to prioritize having playing subs in the 2nd half of the season, I'm just trying to the build my team and ensure the players I have in bench don't depreciate in value, having playing subs especially those in 5m zone for defenders will really come in handy as the season progresses, there will be need rotate your formation and have players with tougher fixture on the bench instead of taking them out and losing half of their increased value, if there will need to bring them back in the next or in 2 Game weeks.

I think there are certain players you can stick with, if you want them as you'd expect them to make the first squad regardless of the manager that club hires, I'm thinking of having Aubameyang, I just want to be sure he's fit enough before deciding, but I'm sure he'd become very valuable.

We will need that bench sooner or later, maybe we don't need 3 playing subs but 1 is a must. My sweet spot is one proper sub, one cheapest possible but still good like Pereira, Neco... and one bench fodder who will never enter.

Getting a bit noxious about whole Chelsea situation...I even made an early transfer for Sterling since Chelsea has so good fixtures going forward. We shall see what will happen but I still think Chelsea will do good in those easy games. James & Sterling are without doubt best Chelsea players so I expect them to play on their position no matter who the manager is.

to those with Chelsea players on their team,, we can't catch a break, can we? Not only is the team in dreadful form, now Tuchel got sacked which means Chelsea will be coachless for a while and when they do find a new coach he'll probably revamp the starting eleven (no more 3 atb perhaps?) meaning our FPL picks could be in danger. Tiresome

well it looks like managers don't give a toss about rotating squads, I see the same starting XI's in every single match. So much for having a strong bench for the fixture congestion

No, you can't compare the two leagues; the EPL is massive and far more intense than the Dutch league, and VDJ having only four yellow cards throughout the season demonstrates how composed he is because he is always the last man and also the target man for every attacker; I can't say the same for Martinez.

Nope! They are two different options. I also put myself to good use.

No, they are different chips. Wildcard changes your whole team and it stays like that while free hit is a chip that changes your whole team for just one week. Next game you get back all the players you had before. Basically you can change your whole team for just one match day. Best used when something really strange happens. Like a game week with just a couple of games.

Haaland played again today and scored of course, but he got subbed at minute 70. so I expect him to start in PL as well.

Only 1 yellow card differences though last season but Martinez has alot more tackle per game according to the site but yeah VVD is a big guy so he doesnt really need to throw his body out there like Martinez. Overall yeah VVD is just a much better defenders than Martinez for sure


Is free hit = wildcard? If it is then I have used mine because I messed up early on the season. Well it would have costed me 28 points if I didnt use it back then so its all good I guess

Are you for real? VDJ is one of the most composed defenders I've seen in a long time; he rarely makes unnecessary tackles or goes to the ground to stop a dangerous ball; he prevents those from happening with his positioning and body awareness. VDJ and Martinez have very different personalities.



I was forced to use mine as early as GW3 after being left with three players with no points, and I'm glad I got my second team cheap. I believe it's best to use the Wildcard when the players are still cheap and things aren't working out. So far, I've only used triple captain and wildcard.

I'm thinking of Game week 11 or 10, except I need to make to make significant changes, but with the injuries and knocks that could come from the break, you never can tell. But I guess we'll see, and the fixtures after the break looks kinda ugly for the highly coveted premium players, one might need to rotate the squad almost every other week and the captaincy then will a lot of changes, no premium player will be worth taking the captain risk with for 3 consecutive weeks in that period.

Towards the end of the season, when we start to have blank and double game weeks. There will be a game week where maybe only 6 teams play and you have just few players from them - perfect for free hit.

Than those games get crammed in another game week and you have players playing 2 games and getting you more points. Perfect to boost it even more with TC or BB.

Just forget about them for now. Only chip that you should use in first half of the season is wildcard. Best week for those of you who have it is GW9 probably. Lots of fixture swings and after international break, will be chaos in our teams.

Aside from that, being chosen as a starter on the front line compared to Ronaldo is just a no brainer so that probably gave him all those confidence boost that he needed. He plays way better in the last 3 games compared to few games that he had last season imo


Thats also how Van djik plays and yet he is one of the top defenders last season in fantasy. Well its probably too early for now but Im definitely keeping Martinez in check for now though

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So, a question here. When is the best time to use free hit, triple captain and bench boost though?

I looked into both teams and think Webster from Brighton is a good alternative at a lower cost, is one of the £4.4m defenders with 20+ points this season. I'm thinking about getting firing Martinez after your thorough analysis; I see him as the type of aggressive player who attaches too much emotion to his game; he plays to please his manager, and I'm convinced that when things get tough, he'll pick a lot of cards for the team. As I previously stated, it would be unjust of me not to get at least one United player in their current form.

Isn't this how both teams have played the last three games? I'm not surprised that they're playing deep and taking goal chances


Judging based on current form, Arsenal would thrash this toothless Liverpool side.

If you guys had though game week, I have something to cheer you up. Images are from twitter profile FPL disasters. Perfectly show how you can have terrible game weeks even if you have a solid team. In the long run, good tactics and making informed decisions usually pays off but every single game week is mostly luck

Arsenal were the better team for majority of the 90 minutes , Man United in the end were able to make the most of their chances, but I think if the Martinelli first goal had stood, it all could have turned out differently, Arsenal have done well in their first 5 games, but also failed their first test, which also isn't what will be their biggest or 2nd to the biggest test, I wonder how they'll fare against the likes of City and Liverpool.

Rashford had a decent game and If were to have some from Man United it would be him because of the game time, and he's been preferred at the at front line which makes him a very dangerous threat to opposition with his pace, the only question is how often will Man United score that many goals per game, prior to this game they only average 1 per game despite playing teams are conceding decent amount of goals.

I have a tough game week ahead, too many conflicts of interest for me, my first choice Keeper "Jose Sa" facing Liverpool where my captain might come from, then Man City hosting Tottenham, and I've got two Tottenham defenders and one from Man City, so a 1-1 score line will end up being the first devasting blow for the game week, but opting for another Chelsea defender or one more from Liverpool might be another no brainer given how often they both concede goals too, and meanwhile Chelsea vs Liverpool are also due to play each other after this game week, while Man United and Arsenal seemed to have the better fixtures for the next two GWs.

Brighton score so far is pretty unbelievable to me, having them going down each round, and they are kicking me down on pool and FPL table

I think that they will slump in second part of the season for sure, maybe earlier, but will start to follow their success track at the moment, winning strike it is for now

had one defender from Liverpool, one from Everton this week, third is from Chelsea since beginning, just bringing troubles and shitty points

Dalot looks better to me than Malacia, more attacking and just 0.1M more expensive.

Didn't even check Crystal Palace defense so far so I have no clue what to think of Ghehi. I must check them out as well as whole Wolves defense. Seems to me that with so many premium defenders failing there could be a lot of value in picking defenders from teams like Brighton and Wolves.