A captaincy blank but a green arrow thankfully, 55 points all out 📈, a small green arrow to 6.7K. A couple of players completely carried the gameweek: Martinez with 9 points and Eze with 10. Fortunately, Mbeumo only scored 5 points in the end and he was the only other captain in consideration so just 3 points dropped. Gvardiol with a clean sheet, while Burn and Saliba conceded. Wan-Bissaka's 7 pointer on the bench a bit painful 😖. Newcastle and West Ham had equal clean sheet odds and I boiled it down to backing the better team with more to play for; Wan-Bissaka lost his clean sheet early on but did assist Bowen's goal and got some bonus. Well done KDB, Bowen, Isak captainers 🎉, it was a gameweek where there were loads of genuinely good choices with little to separate them. If you got it right it made a big difference.
So in case you missed it, Villa's GW37 fixture against Spurs has been moved to Friday 16th May. This means it will remain in GW37 and no DGWs for them or Spurs. So that's it for the rest of the season, 3 single gameweeks ahead of us. The FA Cup finalists have had their games moved a few days backwards to Tuesday in GW37. I was rooting for a DGW36 having picked Martinez and Rogers while leaving a third spot open for Watkins, but it wasn't to be.
Let's get into the team for GW36 and transfer plans. 👇
It's another start for Martinez this week. Every season there's those heroes that make a big difference in your team when used sparingly, if he can keep another clean sheet then he's that player for me. Strand Larsen is the other one who I had for that really long run at about 1% ownership when Joao Pedro was template. I think there's others I'm forgetting. Jose Sa actually, 12 pointer on the free hit was legendary ✨. Are there any players who have been heroes for your team this season? Besides the obvious like Salah. Let us know in the comments 👇.
My defence is pretty grim this week 😟: Gvardiol who is about 91% owned in the Top 10K so there's almost no rank gain from him, then it's Burn home to Chelsea, Konate home to Arsenal.
I'm not sure if a Gvardiol clean sheet even does me any favours, due to the fact that other managers have Ruben, and when Gvardiol is 90+% owned around me it's probably a small rank drop if he keeps a clean sheet which is crazy. However, what he does individually helps and if he can chip in with an attacking return against bottom of the league Southampton that would be huge 🙌. Let's see if we see him in LB next match, after Akanji came on last game we saw Gvardiol move to his favoured position.
Here are your GW36 clean sheet odds:
- Forest are top with 49.5%
- Man City 45%
- Burn given a 25% chance
- Konate 29%
I've got two choices this week: option 1 is sell one of those 2 and improve my defence this week, option 2 is to just leave it and hope to get very lucky 🙏, and look to use a transfer elsewhere. Forest defenders are tempting, although they've been off it as of late, Leicester home is still a fixture I'd back them fully in.
Konate an unused sub last match, fully expecting him to start the next one personally. Quansah had a game to forget with an unfortunate own goal but also giving away a penalty as Liverpool lost 3 - 1. I think Slot may go with a stronger 11 all round for this one but let's see. 👀
In midfield it's Sarr, Eze, Mbeumo and Salah. ✨
Mbeumo captain this week against already relegated Ipswich. Target those bottom 3 in the final 3 gameweeks wherever you can, that's my plan with all remaining free transfers. Their defensive data is miles worse than the other 17 teams. AllAboutFPL did a nice piece of analysis on Mbeumo and Wissa's records against the bottom 3.
- Mbeumo has played 5 games, has 7 goals and 2 assists. Averaging 12.8 points per game.
- Wissa has 5 goals 2 assists in 5, averaging 9 points per game.
