Off The Bench: Coping with the Blank Gameweek
4/28/202650 min
Despite it being a Blank Gameweek, it was a huge weekend for FPL as over 1.5 million managers played a Chip to deal with the reduction in fixtures 🤑🍟🤑
FPL experts Sam Bonfield and Harry Daniels discuss the Arsenal backline, cheap options at Man Utd, and what to do with Aston Villa assets.
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* Focus on Arsenal defence (04m 02s)
* Liverpool conundrum (10m 59s)
* Villa assets (18m 41s)
* Case for Casemiro (29m 56s)
* Forest fixtures (37m 20s)
* Backing Porro (45m 10s)
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First 90 secondsHarry Daniels· Host0:12
[upbeat music] Welcome back to this week's Off the Bench podcast from the Premier League. I'm FPL Harry.
Sam Bonfield· Host0:21
And I'm Sam from FPL Family.
Harry Daniels· Host0:22
Now, it was a slightly smaller game week in terms of number of fixtures, as of course we had a blank for a few teams with the FA Cup semifinals. And as a Chelsea fan, quite happy with how that went- [laughs] ... over the weekend. But it was also a very big weekend for FPL outside of the fixtures, with a lot of chips being played, with over one million managers activating their free hit, and then a further 415,000 playing their wild card as well. So a slightly lower number of fixtures, but one of the biggest weeks of the season for number of chips. Now, I played my free hit this week, and we'll talk about that. But first of all, I'm with Sam. How are you doing?
Sam Bonfield· Host0:58
I'm all right. Yeah, I also had my free hit active this week. It went okay. I made a really last-minute decision to swap Morgan Gibbs-White for Thiago, and that immediately became a problem. As soon as the Friday night game kicked off, I thought, "Oh, I've, I've done the wrong thing here." I just found that Friday night game really difficult to call because sometimes Sunderland can be defensively super solid. Nottingham Forest have been really good in recent weeks. But they always have this one weird game in them where they just don't really turn up, and I wasn't sure