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Forward Thinking | Gameweek 13 | FPL 24/25 | EP. 158
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And it's made possible by thousands of hard-working crew, suppliers and the small business owners who own and operate our restaurants. Every day we help to meet the highest standards for our customers. Our commitment will never change. We will always do the right thing. Good evening everybody. Welcome to a free Black Box ahead of Game Week 13. You are listening to as who is 1.6 million in the world and Mr Mark Southerns, who despite being also 1.6 million in the world is very cocky this week. I'm celebrating, I'm celebrating going above you as I've got a small reach for you. It's bit by bit, quite bit we get there. Yeah, it was a turning point, wasn't it, last week? That was the name of last week's show and it proved to be the case, the turning point. Two points, two points, two points, two points, two points, a few points. You weren't happy were you, weren't happy at all. There was a bit as well where you actually messaged me saying, "Oh, I'm only two points above you now." And I was like, "Ah, you didn't waste all sorts of fresh." I know. I'm sure I did the checks. I'm sure I checked our points and everything. But I think they hadn't updated either and, yeah, because I knew we both had Hall going into the final week. So I was thinking, "Oh, two points, that's it." And it's just completely turned around. It was just, we're talking about it a bit. I hate this game. We're going to review our game so much. In obviously quite a lot of detail. I didn't do a walk around video, so I've got some notes from the game week as well. I've managed to do a table at the top points course. I'm going to quickly go through that and touch on a few things that I picked out. Then, yeah, forward thinking is the name of the show and we're going to talk in depth about forward to know it because I do think, and this is the thing I'm going to put out there. This is what I was going to say in the walkabout video, I do think that a template is forming in midfield. It's madness at the back. I mean, there's kind of a template at the back, but you can take your pick of four fives and Gabrielle, currently, really. That seems to be the way people are going. But in midfield, I think there's a template of which we both are beginning to subscribe to. And that might change a bit with Boomo being sold next week, but I think there's already a favorite to a place in Boomo up from it's where the excitement is. There's a little bit of a template this week where a couple of players definitely favored but you're holding Harland and there'll be there'll be some. Wow. Oh, okay. Well, I noticed Jules on the podcast said today, he can't bring himself to so Harland as well. So there'll be some you don't do that. But I think the up front is where the action is in terms of us moving using our transfers, move into fixture and form. That's my theory. Try that first of all. Yeah, I agree. I think I'm actually really happy with my defense now. I feel like I've got it. I've taken some money out. I've taken Trent out. I've got obviously the double Arsenal defense. I'm actually pretty happy with where that is. Yeah, it's whether I move to boards that midfield template this week or kind of do it stagger it over the next few minutes, I don't honestly, I don't really know what I'm doing anymore. I've been too like broken by this, this Harland just, you know, I was so sure he was going to get something in spurs and in the first 15 minutes of that game, I thought I was going to be onto something really good and well, I've got some stats for you. Let's talk about this now because I've got some stats for you. So he had nine shots, shot involvements, seven shots, two chances created, 0.98 XGI, which is strong. He's averaging. Get this. He's got two goals in his last six game week. He's averaging 0.99 XGI per 90 in that sixth game week run. So he should have had a lot more than two goals, but that's always returned. Now I've had him at that spell apart from last week. So I've suffered too, but I've decided to get off, but you were absolutely adamant you weren't going to. I mean, I had him last week, but I've got off since, but you're still clinging to it. I watched the, oh, so I did the Hot Ones video with the other weekend. And I was asked that question and I was like, no, I'm going to stick with him. And then I watched the Champions League game and I saw Pep afterwards and just thought this ain't a healthy team because it's weird. I've never seen anything like it. I've not known a team like city to go on a run like this, five losses and then a defeat and then a draw, which must feel like a defeat after being three and a lap or 80 minutes. Whatever. I mean, it's, I can't remember any of the top sides doing that, you know, like Mantis, you know, the Ferguson at the helm, you know, your vengas, your, whoever, it's, it's unprecedented, this kind of thing. So the whole self harm thing, which was all a bit odd and the way he said that, I want to hurt myself and I mean, he's not, he's obviously not in a good place, is he? It's all very odd. I mean, like, if you knew, I mean, if you want flags, there's been several of them of which that was the latest, I mean, he's a perfectionist, isn't he? He's a perfectionist in terms of everything and watching your team struggle like that and then throw away a three goal lead, you know, it should have just been a comfortable win, see it out, get the season back on track. And now they're struggling in the, in the Champions League, you know, there's, there's no, well, I mean, they'll, they'll still, I imagine get through on the, at least on the playoffs. But you would have thought they'd cruise to an easy, you know, an easier set of fixtures and then, you know, straight through into into the, into the knockouts and have to go through and another qualifier is more games. It's more pressure on a depleted squad, more pressure on him. It's, it's not good. It's not good. And that's in case, I think how you saying they're, they're finished. We should say hello to everybody in the chat. We've got 400 bang on 400 as I mentioned that. BB defend, Brian O'Brien, FBL have a beer. Oh, the guy does support you've seen that. Have you been on that yet? I'm going on it in the new year and, and Yale's was, was on it recently and the top of the video channel. It's a, it's a new up and coming podcast and both Yale's and, and as has been on it, haven't had my invite yet. Maybe I haven't. I haven't been on it. I haven't been on it yet. I haven't been on it. Okay. He's got a bat. Do you know what's got a bat? No, no, no. Well, I probably haven't just ignored it because I'm terrible in my DMS, but I'd love to come on it when I'm not so busy. Well, he's starting with the main, the main face of black box and then, and then moving on to it. Well, it's, it's the power in the power trio is yellow now, basically he's gone straight to you. Yeah. Yeah. God straight. I don't blame it. People be next. Christau is there. Kenneth M. thanks. Smith. I saw Oscars in the house. Marissimo. Heji. I was at a boy, of course, is always there. Chris Cullen, Andrew Sands, Groundhog, Big Dave, FBL Sandman, I saw Forest Focus was in. That's my, that'll be, that'll be Matt from Forest Focus. I expect, Henning, British A7, J77 lag, and FBL Yellow Army is always with us at this time. And I thank you for all your support. More flooding as we speak. We're up to 450 now, which is lovely. Come and join us for this laid back FBL chat for the next couple of hours. As we talk through some data, we talk through some forwards chat, we've got, we've got some more tables to throw in, but we're going to start with as well. You're like a video presenter. It's not a mark. I'm in the groove. I've got a face for it. The camera's got a beautification feature. 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It's a golden moment, which is very hard to describe, but yes, it did happen as almost as funny. Game week. Go on. Yeah. I mean, what is there to say? I mean, I thought it would seem rare and gold with Gabrielle, six and six, eight Norrie, and who I thought was going to be a banker for a clean sheet, with Lewis Hall with one, both blanked. Palmer was the transfer in. How he blanked in that game, I've got no idea. Well, I do have an idea. I've got Madawakay to thank. Phil Foden, who, since I bought him in, has scored, let me just read through it, 2-4-3-2-2-2. And that's despite home games against Southampton and Fulham. He's also played Bournemouth, Wolves, Brighton, and Spurs away with Dragosin and Ben Davis. It sent the back and he has not got what he's got. Yeah, he's got one assist. That's right. And despite being in, when we get, I mean, I'll go to it now, in terms of the last six, he's a six, or extra high per 90, not 0.72, but out of that 0.72 per 90, he's got you one assist. One luckiest from a corner in the 90th minute. He's meant to be your boy. Yeah, he's. Well, I think when I sold him before his hat trick last season, you know, the one in the second half and since then, it's been, it's been a nightmare. Harland was captain. I was incredibly bullish on him. Obviously, that didn't work out. I'm sorry if anyone is still foolish enough to listen to me. Slanky with the assist. And basically, the one good thing I've done in the last seven weeks is Koona with, you know, I can see why people benched him. I was not expecting him to come good with a 16-point return, full of away. I thought that was a really tough game for Wolves. So yeah, without him, it would have been a complete disaster. I mean, my moves were Palmering for gone at show who actually started, which neither of us predicted to happen. That was a shock. So I got away with a bit of one there and I took out Trent for Hall. So I would have been better. I bought in Palmer and Hall and I would have been better off doing nothing because it was for a hit. And obviously it's not actually that bad, but obviously Salah captain, Salah captain for other people just absolutely murdered me. And I was on a, I'd gone from 1.2 million to about 700 K before Salah played. And then after he was done, I was at 1.6. How was Belushi's by the way, enjoy your burger, where we are? No, not really. It was. I was thinking of you. The video wasn't that bad. I thought you were going to be more agony, but you know, it took it quite well. We were there with Villan's friends. One of them was a Liverpool fan. And that made it tougher and yells didn't tell me, but she bought in Salah. I thought we were going into that game as friends. We were. She filmed herself on camera before going in saying she was going to do that. And didn't tell me. So that's lovely. And yeah, it was paid. And do you know what? I thought I was getting away with it. That's the worst part. It got to like 65 minutes. And I thought, do you know what? I'm going to get away with it. And then there's just that long ball over the top and McCarthy goes, "Oh, I don't really know what I'm doing." And, you know, great finish from Salah. And the penalty was just, that was just pain. That was more painful than the Hot Ones challenge. I refer the honorable gentleman to the fact we were on the FPL show and I actually made a point of saying, "You've got to catch in Salah because I've entered and made more errors in any other defense and more errors leading to goals in an over defense." And what happened? And then people were on there going, "Oh, yeah, well Salah was gifted the goals." Yes. Because they made errors, which was also a data point which you could have looked at. And with McCarthy, I mean, he looked like an outfield player in goal except he wasn't an handful of blacks. He couldn't really kick it. He was a bit like the whole Matt Turner situation. I mean, he's a good shot stopper, but he's not confident with the ball at his feet. Yeah, that's why he's never really been like a first choice for a team as he's kind of flicked around. I mean, the really frustrating thing is that, you know, you look at my three heavy hitters here, you look at Foden, Palmer and Harland, and if any of them had got a return, I'd have been all right. I'd only have been like five or six points off what a lot of people got because of Coon and they've had a goal. Yeah. People up to a lot of the Harland people, obviously no one's got Foden because they don't love pain as much as I do. And actually, our ranks, Palmer is a bit more of a different, I think it's about 50, 60% owned. So any of those come in and I haven't got so much egg on my face, but none of them did. And it was in Salsa. So there we go. Yeah, and it's been quick to defend itself and say that you told me to stick with Harland and Brennan. I knew you wanted to talk to me. This is the way the relationship goes in your house. That's almost toxic, I would say, in FBL terms. FBL is a very toxic game. And when you've got two people in the house that play it, it's never good. Yeah. And I have a Sam and Lisa vibe all this time. It's a miracle, but that's the type of toxic Mr. Southern's. Yeah. You have got a lot of explaining to do about your team. Why? Why? Why? Oh, I'm on the FPL show. Oh, I'm going to buy Luca Dean as I'm going to buy Luca Dean. What'd you make of me buying Luca Dean? Don't buy Luca Dean. I've got a black box. Oh, I've got a minus four plan. I'm going to get ESAC in for Stuart. It's going to be really clever. Me, me, me. And then what'd you do? Tell the viewers what you did in the end. No, I changed my mind. I changed my mind. You know what I mean? I changed my mind. And now when we finish black box, you are like, I'm going to do something completely different. Yeah, because I basically, I basically thought, no, I need to move to Palmer this week because otherwise, I'm going to have to take the hit next week anyway to get him in for the Villa game, because I'd looked at him for what I don't want to I don't want to cat. I won't have Holland. I don't necessarily want to catch in selling going into the home game, the city, although now after watching the last couple of games, I've changed my mind, maybe. So I thought if I don't if I don't move to Palmer this week, I've got to take a hit next week and he's playing Leicester. So why don't I just take the hit this week and get him now. So that was my logic. The other logic was Brennan. I thought, I don't know, it's her. I was lucky there. I got bench, but then he scored. Yeah. Lucky. Lucky. Lucky. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would have Dean and Johnson both get benched. It's just the way it is. You've taken one. I can't believe the Dean of Benching. I can't tell conspiracies. But this is. This is outrageous. I was like, what? I couldn't think about it. Apparently, he was fit enough. Oh, what? Oh, no. Oh, what a shame. I've just told him fun to buy. I didn't know. And basically, I went online at 10 o'clock in the morning to go, I've changed my mind. This is what I'm doing. I posted that on Twitter because I knew if I didn't do that, people would be angry. So I thought, I got to get it out anyway. I knew you would be anyway. Yeah. But this is what you've got to do though. It's bad, isn't it? I'm sitting there thinking, well, I changed my mind and my transfer. So I better tell the world that I've changed my mind, because otherwise I'm going to be accused of cheating. That's what it's come to, isn't it? I just wish. I just wish you. How do you do that? Yeah. I just wish you'd bought in Dean because that would have been so funny. After all the talk, I'm just like, I know the stats are good. I know the fixtures are good, but it's Lou Godin. And there will have been people that bought him in. And. Delia, don't fuel the fire, Delia. I can't do it. Yeah. I mean, I can't, I mean, he played well last night. He's straight back in the day. I don't think he's dropped. I think that it was, I guess, with the European time mind and international duty, I guess. And Matt's a mad astink, hello, didn't he? So there's no question Dean is still first choice, but I was very. You'd be better by him then. But having said I was very fortunate, Brennan scored, Paul O, who you sat here last weekend, oh, why have we all got Paul O, why are we bothering with Paul O, he never gets any of his bang, 14 pointer. Thanks very much. Oh, you, you must have been disagreed with me, didn't you, at the time as well? You said, oh, he's a must keep. Well, I tell you what, I want him back now and the only consolation is I hand on heart. I would not have played. Oh, I would have played Lewis ahead of him. So how agonizing would that have been to see? I can't believe he's with the zero pointer. Yeah. Anyway, I need to go for my team. Flecken nine points. Yes. Flecken. But the returns. Nice. Beautiful. Hall one point Gabriel six Davis to Davis as much transferred as well, as well as Hall Davis as unlucky should have gotten a sis because the lap Mr. Sitter, did you see that? Yeah. Welcome. Welcome to owning Davis. I've only put ages. It's always happened. You don't even play him. You don't even put the boy on the pitch. So you can't complain that he did one for you in Boomo three, Palmer two, some fellow called Salo looks to be quite handy 26 as my captain, one from Sameno who's now suspended, Rogers to Harlan to who's washed and to lanky five. My bench was a bunch full of zeros and Lewis Grieves and Stuart all with zero points because free of the leg turned up at Lewis got nothing. Yeah. Flecken very handy indeed that was deservedly so I mean, and it's funny the minute that Benford went down to 10 men, I was like, that's actually more likely to be a clean sheet now because Brentford will do what they did at Fulham, which was pretty dower. Wasn't it? Yeah, they just didn't bother going forward at all and hardly let Fulham have any chances until the final three or four minutes when they lost the game. But Evan don't have that firepower ever and have, you know, have kawaloo in 27 shots. Yeah. But yeah, he only made what five saves I think so 27 shots though, and they only had just over one XG. So I'm not saying it was massively undeserved, but how a team can have 27 shots and not even, they're not even good ones. No. Yeah, it's true. And 14 seats and six for Everton, but we're not going to get on them because of the pictures. But I was okay with the game, but yeah, I regret selling Apollo now. I was pretty upset about your team. You got no returns. Yeah. Yeah. Well, you saw me a couple, but yeah, it's it's a lot of two's and one's in it. And what does it mean for the great and the good? It means I've gone above you up to the giddy heights of what, nine for 10th, somewhere like that where Joe's meeting the sandwich, the black box sandwich there. So you're ranked 1.6 on 1.5. It's nothing to brag about, is it? I'm sorry. You're not ranked 1.5. You are also ranked 1.6 because you've got a five. No. 1.5. Not rounding that down. No. You definitely round down. All right. Not five, nine. You're 1.7 because you're 1.6, six. Oh, shit. Yeah. Okay. No, I retract. I retract. Let's go down. Anyway, we should be talking about our ranks there. I mean, we don't know what looks to the ranks till Christmas. I know it's nearly Christmas, but you know, that one really bothers God, but yes, it's not good, but you know, only only five red arrows in the guy in the good league and we've two of them. I was, you know, after Southampton, I was, I was pretty much level on points with Prez and he took, he obviously did the Salah in move and bought Koona in early and I obviously went in different direction and now look at it, it's like nothing's different. Don't worry. It's fine. We can catch up. It's plenty of time and this season's a volatile one as I keep saying. Thanks, Mark. That's good. And it's good fun. The fact that we're two points apart. Yeah, it's like, you know, imagine eating chicken wings with levels of hotness to your sauce. That's fun. Imagine doing that. You don't have to imagine that. That was bad. It was fun. I enjoy watching that. If you haven't watched the Hot Ones video that has been with Yelena, do dig that one out. It's definitely... The bomb is, if you ever watched Hot Ones like the actual version, then you see them on doing the bomb, it is worse than you could imagine. You look like a tear gas victim after about number four, would you? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, Yelena held it together until the bomb, then she did collapse, or ever, remarkably after that. Yeah. Go and get more of that out. Yes. Right. This is the game we review. So this is something new I thought I'd throw in because every week now I'm tracking kind of the points and what makes up those points and these are the top scores and it gives you a chance to talk about your friend, Madison, a birthday brace, five in eight games, two shots, two chances created. He was unquestionably the best player on the pitch, I would say, at the Etihad. But only had two touches in the box and those two shots. Completely. Yeah. What do you make of him? Not an asset, is he? We want to go for. I think he... I mean, you know, he's one of my favourite players, but I do appreciate he's very hot and cold and it seemed like Possekoglu had found the system that he preferred, you know, with Coolazevsky playing in that kind of central role, a bit more balanced in midfield. And then he shifted Coolazevsky out wide, obviously, in Baltimore, Madison in because he felt he just felt that city had no midfield and obviously thought they could boss it with, you know, with one less kind of there and they did. They were unbelievable and Rico Lewis and Gundwin is just so lightweight, isn't it? It's just getting absolutely played through at every opportunity. So it was brilliant from Ange. I just wonder what that means for Brennan Johnson going forward because if he keeps Madison there, he's not going to drop Coolazevsky, the way Coolazevsky is playing it. No, but he can drop one of Basuma or Si, it'll be Basuma, and he can play Coolazevsky and Madison with one behind, which is what he can do at home, but I think the reason he played Coolazevsky out there is the level of control he gave them as well, like when the ball went out there, Coolazevsky keeps the ball, Brennan's a runner, Brennan wants the ball to feed and take a man on, because he can do that, but he's better at retaining the ball and he's better at passing. That's Basuma, Goodazevsky, probably, if you're listing the top 10 players this season so far, I think he's going to be in it. I think he's been out there. I think top three. Yeah, he's been really good. He's been unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable, but I do think, given how good has actually cited the season and given that performance from Madison, I think, if you have still got Brennan, he's gone from arguably the most secure starter in that Spurs team. Yeah, tricky one, I think he's a gamble though, isn't it? If he doesn't start again, you'd probably give him another week, but if he doesn't start against Fulham, then you probably can have to ship him. I think he will. I think he'll go to play in Coolazevsky and Madison in the tens, because he thinks against Fulham he can do that, but the thing is, we've also seen him change it at half time when he fills the midfields over run and put a Benton core, Basuma one, obviously Benton calls out for a long time. So I think Johnson will start at the weekend, but like you say, it's not certain, is it? Yeah. Yeah. It's not an option, though, is he? He's annoying player because he's not really an option for us, Madison, but he also makes other players less good options. Yeah, he's a disruptor. He's going to play. He's a disruptor. But I tell you who it is good news for, I'll make Sankey, because I think if you're picking a Spurs attacker now, I think he's the only one I'd be comfortable going with. I think you're right, and the Spurs attack is still very much at the top of the, this is the season table, 2.02 Xg non penalty per 90. And if we look at the last six, their top as well, 1.75, in fact, they're not because I haven't sorted that correctly. They're not Man City at top, 2.01, they're actually third on 1.75, I haven't done the sorting. That's the first thing that's gone wrong today. You're messing up a team's state of tables. It's the data's right. It's just, I haven't sorted it correctly. You're going to get that guy back. I mean, it's funny, I mean, I look at review quite a lot and look at what the wildcard would look like if you've had it today. And I do that every week. I look at what they recommend for a wildcard and Sankey's in all of them. He's in all the solves that they throw at you. So for the very reason that we've said, that Spurs attack is strong. And he's probably now, unless you can shell out for some, which you're probably not going to do with the midfielders that we've got on available to us, it's the easy option to go for. So when we're looking at forwards later, perhaps that's one slot gone. Anyone else you want to pick out here, Paul, we've talked about already, Kuna, we've talked about where the Salah Saka incredible. Again, I was very, very impressed. Obviously Arsenal put Forrest of the sword, but he's got six returns in his last six, three goals, three assists. Now what's interesting about Saka as well, Salah's got a 67% goal involvement for Liverpool this season, which is strong. We didn't expect that. We didn't expect him to be hogging the points quite as much as he has done, because we thought that Diaz, we thought that Nunez, we thought that Jota, we thought that Gapho would perhaps take bits off him. But in fact, it's been the opposite. He's been more dominant this season than he's ever been before so far. Saka has got a 60% goal involvement. I think it's similar. I didn't really expect him to be as pivotal in terms of contribution as he has been. But that's clearly been the case. Oda Guard is back now, and I think what I saw in that game was a very different Arsenal, and then we saw last night against ball team, they looked like a machine now, I think. Must own. Or you think on Saka? Must own. You think? Gotta get him. Gotta get him. All the West, Adam, the forest game, and he was just, you know, him and Oda Guard just lit up the pitch. And then sporting. I mean, they're a good side. I know obviously they've lost Amarin, but there's still a good side, and they made them look amateur. It was an amateur hour in there, and look at the fixed Arsenal have got. Yeah. I mean, I've already moved for Saka. I moved for him Saturday night, you know, I had the money to do phone into Saka. Exact funds done. So if I am getting Salarin, it's going to be for a minus eight, which we're going to talk about kind of towards the end of the stream. It's good to get your your thoughts on it. But yeah, I mean, it's really interesting with, like, I always compare, like, Saka and Palmer together, you know, because like Salar and Harlan are like in the kind of like league of their own. And then you've got the 10 11ish million assets in Saka and Palmer. I mean, where would you go if you could only have one of them? Because a lot of people are getting cold feet with Palmer at the moment. I see him, you know, talking about maybe a deeper role he's playing in, the form of Jackson. Maybe you can go for him elsewhere. I don't think the Saka have that's argument as any weight to it, or not as much weight to it as the Palmer and Jackson argument. So yeah, what were your, who'd you go for? We have to bring the fixtures up and we find, you know, Chelsea at the top of the long view ticker. So this is 12 game weeks. They're both. They both are strong as well. So fixtures are there up to game week 20. If we're looking more short term, I would say, I'd say game week 20 because that's where you can get the second wildcard, it's, it's food in a new year as well. I don't think you can not have Palmer myself, I, I get what you're saying. I mean, if we look at the data over the last six, let's bring that up. Let's bring midfielders last six up. So we've got Palmer there in 13th for extra non penalty per 90, 0.57. So he has drifted down and, but Saka's further down, 0.52. But in terms of returns, you know, Saka's got six returns in five starts, Palmer, just the two returns in the six starts and Palmer's only in the top 10 here for one metric, which is shots per 90, 3.3, three, where as you look at Saka, he's in the top 10 for touches in the box for shots per 90 and for shots in the box per 90 and he, and he beats Palmer in all those departments. So I agree with you, I'd want both. If I had to choose, oh, dear, it's tough. Isn't it? Isn't it? Because you've got, you've got alternatives in both cases in the, you've got habits and you've got Jackson, see, I, I think actually Saka is more important because you can cover Palmer with Jackson. I don't think there's going to be as much between Jackson and, and Palmer as there will be between habits and Saka. I think I still favor Palmer, because the other thing with, if you don't go Saka is you can, you could, you could even do what slippers have done and go free at the back. I know. I saw that. Yeah, crazy. Locking yourself out of Saka, though. That is. Yeah. I think he regrets that now. It is a really, really tough question to answer. I think that I would still give Palmer time. I still think that those fixtures, I think he's, I'm not. Not worried about his role. I think that in home games, and he was back on the right side against Leicester and he, you know, let's face it, let's go back to the game week data. Is he in there? I think he, no, he's not because it's listed by points, but I'll tell you what is, is his actual game week data was in terms of XG? I think it was pretty high. Yeah, Palmer came out with 1.10 XGI, which was in the top three or four for the, for the game week, and he's still got 52% gold involvement for Chelsea. And if you look at the Chelsea attack, the third 1.82 XG non penalty per 90, I'm going to go to the last, the last six again, even though it's not sorted correctly, 1.174. So they are fourth in terms of attacking that as well. But, Bruce Lee over the last six, they've had tougher fixtures, they've had pretty tough for a serve Arsenal, but they were above, they were stronger attacking unit in the moment than Arsenal based on the last six. But what I would counter that with is Odegard's return and Odegard, you know, he's on this table 29, he's down 0.40 XG on penalty per 90. He's the opposite to Madison, really, he's, he's kind of like a, a false multiplier in that we're not going to get him, but he multiplies the appeal of that average soccer attacking options because of his presence and his creativity. We wouldn't go Odegard, maybe some might, but I think he activates average and soccer and makes us think we've got to have at least one of them. Yeah, I think so. And you know, the right hand side of Arsenal was their key, is their key strength. And Ben White's out now for a while, Tim has come in, he's, I think he's a pretty good understudy to Ben White and can do a lot of what Ben White done, has done for the last few years. Can't replace Odegard, irreplaceable, just absolute quality when he plays. And yeah, that right side looks strong again. And I think when that right side is strong, Arsenal look strong and they've got the fixtures as well. So I think it's really tough between them. They're both going to get in and around 250 points, probably 250 points this season. Yeah, I think you want both, but at the moment I think soccer, if I had to pick one between now and get me 20, like you said, I think I'll be going to soccer. The sounds of the season can often sound like this, so why do we get into grandkids? But with Hilton's season to stay sail, they could sound a bit more like this, or this. Stay and save up to 20% off when you book before January 5th at Hilton.com. Hilton, for this day, minimum two nights day required excludes luxury in all inclusive properties, terms and conditions apply. At McDonald's, our customer's well-being is at the heart of what we do, from how we source our food to how we deliver quality in our restaurants. 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All right, dad. Sorry. We're going to get them. We're going to get them. We're going to get them. Smothers. It's ever the critic. The thing about parmour and salad, and Holland, they are talisman, and they're not players that are likely to be affected by the rotation fears that we have always this time of year when we go into Christmas, and this is what the diagram for Leggamarnie shows. It is basically the frequency of fixture for some of these teams and the gaps between fixtures, given that we throw European fixtures in their caribou cup as well, and Man City at the top here in terms of the intensity of their Christmas spell. From Game Week 12 on was obviously we've had that. We're up to Game Week 13 now, but they've got very small gaps between playing Liverpool away, Forest at Home, Palace away, before they visit Juventus before United. It's a very, very tougher, and they've got to take that event as going very, very seriously, given where they are in that talman now, or league now. Arsenal, similarly, really, really tough spell, and Liverpool the same. As you would expect, the Champions League teams are the ones that suffer most here. Now, we're going to talk us out some players like Watkins who may be vulnerable to rotation, but I don't think we can put soccer and parmour in that bracket, and we know parmour is out of the European squad. He might get back in it in the new year, but he's not going to play a part over his Christmas period. So, parmour, we can select him over Christmas and go, he's playing every game. Playing every game, soccer, probably the same, he's not going to get a rest, is he? We've seen that he doesn't, and we've seen that he even gets bought on in meaningless Champions League games when they're like, what, throwing it up, and he was, you know, he'd pay him on, played 20 minutes or whatever it was, there's no way he's, if he's fit and available, he's no way he's getting a rest. No way. But, as I said, if you look at the likes of Villa and Spurs here, I look at Villa and think, we're going to look at Watkins later, and he is in our table when we consider forwards. And I was looking at the fixture ticket thinking, you know what, moving to Watkins ahead of Brentford, Southampton at home, that could be a really nice idea. Then you move off Watkins onto maybe someone like Isaac, but then I looked at this and thought, hold on a minute, they're going to get a Chelsea three days later, they're going to go to Brentford at home, and then three days after that, Southampton, you know, then it's a European game. Watkins has got Duran, you know, as an understudy, surely Duran's going to get a start in one of those games. One of those four games is going to get a start. It's not going to come at Chelsea, but it could come at Brentford at home to Brentford, right? What do you think to that? Yeah, almost certainly. Yeah. And I got off Watkins last week for kind of that reason. I know it wasn't last week, the one he scored, it was kind of the one before that. But I think this is as good as the time as any to get off. You've got your points from Watkins, if you've still got him, it's Chelsea away next, tough fixture. And then it's a really brutal fixture congestion list. So I think he's an easy side. I mean, Rogers is the other interesting one. I mean, there is, I mean, Wendy has been a real bit part player, he played like eight minutes and he's been getting like 10 minutes here and there. I mean, there is Barkley there too, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if Watkins misses one, Rogers maybe misses another one, it's hard to predict. But that, I mean, Liverpool and Villa, in terms of though that fixture just is the toughest of all teams. Yeah. And Liverpool is going to be rotation, isn't it? But we've had a season. Yeah. I don't know. I wouldn't be too surprised to see Rogers get a break over the next three. Yeah. I think if you're going in with Rogers, you're keeping him for this period, you've got to think you need to be watchful of that. I think he's so important to them, though, in terms of the ball carry and knee does. I don't think they've got a light for light, really, but I get your points. Spurs, we will have rotation there. And again, that could affect Johnson. I don't see it with a Charles and injured. I don't see it affecting Solanke. No. No. So again, that's why he appeals. Right? Because I look at that and think he'll be OK and he'll play all the league games. That's why I'm keeping him. I think if it wasn't, if it wasn't December, say we were a bit earlier in the season or a bit later, I think I'd be maybe looking for the exit door for him. But when you've got a team with such good attacking stats, you know, he's going to play 90 every game. And the fixes are pretty good as well. So yeah, I'm keeping. Chelsea, what do you think to Jackson? Because so far, Jackson has just battered away any kind of chance of incunku taking a start off him in the league. But Maresco has hinted that incunku will get a look in in the Premier League. And it's possible here that, you know, they've got Villa at home and Southampton and Spurs a quick turnaround. But Jackson doesn't play Europe, does he? So I think Southampton away, could he get rested for that one and then incunku coming? No. I don't know. I mean, the rest might come if he gets that fifth booking, right? And then, of course, yeah, maybe he goes to Villa and he says, God, I'll just get yourself a little, you know, give someone a little push over or something, get that booking, go into Southampton. Give you a little break in that one and then you can go into Spurs after that, you know, and no risk. Because obviously, if you play Southampton and get booked in that, they're not going to want to miss things Spurs game, are they? So could there be a bit of tactics? I don't know. It sounds a bit underhanded. I just think where Jackson's available, he plays, he's him and, you know, the form he's had at the start of the season, you know, he was already given a big vote of confidence by Maresco at the start because there was some question marks around him. Why would you drop him now? You know, I just don't think it's going to happen. I think he plays every game. He's available for. And United have got a tight turn around, they're playing in Europe tonight, of course, an Everton Arsenal forest. You've got to think that there's going to be rotation there, but we expect it anyway because Amoryne is feeling his way into that squad, isn't he? Yeah. Bruno playing deeper tonight. I noticed a mount in the team. That was interesting. As Amoryne said, in his Ed Sheeran interrupted posts, a match interview. So, uh, er, Sheeran, Sheeran, yeah, she wouldn't, you wouldn't Sheeran. Oh, okay. Sorry. I thought it was as football as you couldn't try out. I'm not bad. I'm not bad. I'm not bad. He was interrupted by the, uh, single songwriter, the, uh, multi award winning single songwriter, rather rudely. But he was in the middle of saying about Bruno and he said, uh, I thought it was quite interesting. He mentioned there that he liked seeing Bruno in that role late on because he was able to unlock long passes through him, and he did knocks and really good long balls when he went deeper, when they brought on the two forwards and he moved to a deeper role. And I thought to myself, well, that's interesting, is that a hint and lo and behold tonight, he's done exactly that. He's played him deep and put him out in and he, we know he likes Mount as well. So Bruno could be, I think he'll start every game of the Christmas period, but he could be playing in the more withdrawn world, which would be interesting. I don't, we don't necessarily think that's going to lead to less output, but probably lightly, I would say. Um, do we see any other rotation there? I mean, Rashford, we don't know yet. I mean, he started out from, what did you make of that? You know, performance, giving shivers, weren't it thinking about who to play where I say I'm room. Mm. You don't know a good shoe and well enough puns there. So no, I don't. I'm quite proud to say I don't know it. Sure. And what else? Just bad habit. Just bad habit. Uh, I think he, uh, yeah, I think he'll, that was an experimental lineup, wasn't it? It's been real. I mean, I had a, uh, that wing back, um, well, as row, yeah, kind of in the back three. Yeah. And he's talked up and down quite a lot already. And obviously he's, he's playing today. So you've got to think maybe he's going to get a spot in the, in the lineup. Um, hoyland scored two tonight as well as the experiment with, with Rashford up top. I don't know if Rashford could move down into one of the spots behind the striker. Go Nacho has now played two in a row. Could he get a rest? Although I'm giving up trying to predict when go Nacho isn't going to stop. All of the windbacks tonight, if he played different windbacks, I think he has. Yeah. I think Dallow came on at half time. Um, it might, it might even have been Ahmad again at, at, at windback. Maybe it was Ahmad and Maz Rawi. See, I, I think it's only the defense that I'd look at. If I was brave enough to go knee united at the moment and, and this spell over Christmas just makes me think, no, it's probably not worth it. It's just, there's so much uncertainty there. The times was a couple of weeks ago. I think it's, it's just, you look, you look at this run, you look at the games they've got. I don't know. I'm not massively coveting any of their players. So as we move down the table, of course, it gets a lot better and you look at teams like, you know, born with full on wolves and I'm not worried really. I don't, I don't look at it and think, well, I don't want Kuna because of the Christmas rotation. It's not going to happen. He's going to do me fine. He's a talisman of calls anyway, but even ever to have you, do you fine? You've got it. Might have, might have. We'll see at the end. But I want to ask you about Brighton because obviously Jal Pedro's got a lot of traffic and we're going to touch on him later. He'll start against the mountain. I'm pretty sure, although I'm sure people will be hanging on for any of those leaky things that might happen on a Friday evening, ahead of the early kickoff. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What do you reckon? Is he going to start all of these games or do you think that, you know, maybe the lesser spotted Ferguson might get a game on? It was interesting. He played well back down the middle. He played, he played root air out on the right, I think, and Jal Pedro Moore on the left, Flanking Wilbeck, and although Jal Pedro did tuck in quite a lot, as did root air. Do you think that's the first choice three though, those three at the moment? Yeah, I think so. It's interesting that he basically declared Minto fit and then he wasn't even in the squad. He wasn't even in the bench in that game, so there might be a bit more going on with that. He probably was playing there and he's not, he wasn't back on the bench either. So you've got to think for the next three, given its three games in what nine days, it might be hard to get those players back if they weren't even in the squad for the last game. Unless something quite dramatic happened this week, then, then yeah, I think it's, it's pretty clear who is going to start. I did an article for sports casting on, on Bryson. I think, I think Pedro starts all three. Yeah. I just think you are, you are buying a player who is going to get 60 to 70 minutes in each of those three games. Right. It would be my guess. I mean, it's, you know, it's hard to, I don't know what Pedro's fitness level is alike. He was playing 90 minutes to start. I just think he's, he's come back from an injury. He played 60 minutes a week ago. He's got three games. He's, he's not going to play 90 in three games. There's just no way he is. So he even misses like the middle fixture, but I think he's too important to miss. So my best guess would be he starts and then plays and then it gets nearly sub. Well, he's going to play Palace at home because that's a Derby. And there's a big gap between the matches there. It's really only the Fulham Leicester game, but one of those two, I would say, if he's going to miss one, it'd be one of those two. And they were away from home. So possibly not. It's a big gap, it's a big gap between Leicester and Palace. So I can't see why he wouldn't start the one. I think it's, it's, it's that Fulham Leicester. Fulham. Yeah. That's, that's, that's the tricky one. I just think it, it makes sense to me to play in for Southampton, taking off at 60, playing for 60 against Fulham and then, and then playing against Palace. Obviously it might depend on if we need, you know, but it was interesting. We were won the lap against Bournemouth, tight, tight game against a really, really good side off at 60. That was pre-planned. Yeah. No matter what was going on in that game, he, he only had the legs in him to play 60 minutes. So are we going to see that much of a dramatic change in his fitness in the... But you had a man sent off as well. Was that not a factor? That was a bit later, wasn't it? Yeah. But I even saw it. I mean, it's like, I don't know. I think it, no, he went off before, didn't he go off before Jean-Poucher was subbed? I think it was more or less the same time. Yeah. Check that. As I saw that and thought, presumed it was down to that, but maybe it wasn't. Maybe you were subbed before the, the sending off, but as I thought that was a bit strange. But if you're saying it was pre-planned and it was, wasn't a factor then, when did belabia get sent off? Blabia went off at 15, yeah, 59, okay? So yeah, it was, it was just before. Yeah, it was just before. Okay. That's hard. Yeah, okay. That's hard. You can't be sure. I think you might be right. I mean, like, I think on Friday night, I don't, there's no way he's going to, I saw a post tonight, FPL instinctive saying don't, you know, I don't see him as a captain because he's probably only going to get 70, 75 most at X-Men's and that's probably why 70 is probably what he gets. So I think, I think that's something you've got to take on the chin and it's whether or not that's going to hold him back. It does make me, I, when I made my transfers and I made them early, I was looking at Pedro and thinking, no, I'm going to hold off, I might not get in because I, I want to see where I am. So I'm going to see how many minutes he gets before this Christmas bell. But this diagram is really useful because you look at a tickle and you think, oh yeah, good fixtures. And in the context of the gap, it, it's got to play a part, isn't it? I think this, I think this today, I think this table is absolutely crucial for people. And I saw a few comments at the start saying, you know, he looks like a Christmas tree and you know, things like that. But honestly, of all the tools and all the graphics and all the, all graphs available, this is, you know, fixtures on steroids because I think you need to have this extra context when you're, when you're planning moves and always overthinking. Do you want to jump into a great option? Well, yeah. What I do say is we do tend to overthink sometimes every year when we get this Christmas period, we expect rotation, we don't see it as heavily. But I do think when there are understudies, you know, the Watkins, Duran thing is, is a good example where Emery will, I don't, I don't think he can look Duran in the eye if he doesn't give him a start over this spell. Yeah. I mean, I just think it's completely unfeasible that Duran doesn't start a Premier League game over this spell because he's been so good. If I was Duran, I'd be like, if you're not going to play me against Bremford when there's like, you know, three games in six, six, seven days, when are you going to give me a start? So there are some examples where I think it's obvious. This makes it obvious. Whereas if you look at the ticker, you don't get that. So that's where, yeah, that's where it's really valuable. I think, well, we'll go through some team data quite quickly. I don't think it's too much to look at the season day. So let's look at last six in, in both cases, nothing too surprising here. I have sorted this one correctly. I asked all top defense, which we know about. I want to talk about timber. You said that the right hand side is back alive again with road to guard there and it is. And we saw Ben Wyatt basically capitalize on that trio last season and really live up to his mystifying, what I thought was mystifying price at the start of season, but actually more than justified it with attacking returns. And timber scored against four has had it disallowed, got forward well, got an assist in the sporting game as well. Five, five, got to be an option, isn't he? You know what I think? I like him. Yeah, I like him. I guess it's tricky if you've got Ray and Gabrielle, obviously, you know, then it's unless you're doing the triple up, it's difficult. If you haven't got Raya and you're looking to double up in defense, I think he's the next, I'd go timber now over sleeper. Would you? I think so. Just given the price and that kind of attacking threat, I guess the question is if you don't have any Arsenal defense and Gabrielle's obviously got the yellow flag on him, could you even make the case for going for timber over Gabrielle? Well, I guess the only thing is when we talked about on the last screen is the rotation because they have got options there. Um, Yasu could play one of the games over Christmas. Caliphore, we could play right back as well, but I do think timber, yeah, he can play both sides too, can't he? So I do think timber's the most likely fall back to start at the moment because as Zinchen goes in the equation two, um, I think I'd still have Gabrielle first though, because he's fit. But I think as a second Arsenal asset, I think he's very interesting because I do think attacking returns could be coming his way with Odegar back in the team and that triangle work in so well on that side. We looked at him and he says, didn't we, how vital that is to Arsenal's build up? And if anything, timber's probably better going forward than Ben Wyatt in terms of what he offered us. So I think that could be profitable. Elsewhere on his table, surprisingly new castle up there, um, given what we saw, um, obviously they lost the clean sheet against West Ham and I would pretty, it's a pretty average performance. West Ham were outstanding. I thought, I thought Boeing was fantastic, um, the new castle, they perhaps did enough to score, but certainly didn't enough to keep West Ham out, but I don't know. I think it still think Lewis is a goodbye. I thought I was really impressed with Lewis. I mean, he was taking some corners before Trippia came on, um, he was getting in. Yeah. Yeah. The reason also Lewis there is, um, but I thought the, the, the runs he was making was a play full of confidence. He was getting into the penalty area quite a bit as well, wasn't always getting found, but then did have shot in the area as well. And yeah, I just looked at that before, yeah, four, four, I'm over the moon with, with that, if he's going to keep playing, as well, didn't he? Yeah, he did. Yeah. Good. Tucked in. Yeah. Um, and he, and he did get full. We had a couple of shots. I was impressed with him. I think he's got that nailed down. I think that there could be some threat of rotation. They've got options there, but I think he's, he's strong. I mean, when Burns back, I guess there's a chance of burn when I get a left back start, but Kelly was terrible. That's not until bars back in the new year that yeah, yeah, I mean, they're back in there, won't I? Yeah. They're missing bottom and massively. And Kelly is, is a massive downgrade on that. I thought, you know, in the first 15, 20 minutes again, I thought Newcastle were going to win that game three nil. Like nice, comfortable. So many people bought an ESA at home fixture against West Ham Monday night. It will all look prime for a big haul and he scored early, didn't he? And then it was obviously disallowed. He missed an absolute sitter a little bit later on to, and then just completely faded away towards the end of the game. We, we had game, but we, we said, didn't we, we said these fixtures are the easiest ones to predict. Yeah, we did all our predictions in like, don't say that, don't say we said, you said all paper. I mean, they looked very easy to predict villa versus palace, easy villa wins, city versus spurs, no set of acts, easy spurs win, easy city win, Newcastle be West Ham, easy Newcastle win. And yeah, it would didn't turn out like that at all. Yeah. I mean, the Newcastle game, I thought Isaac was okay, but they were just very disappointing in many ways. And West Ham contained them quite comfortably. Fabiansky played well, but I don't know, I just didn't, it was strange, they seem to regress. I mean, that forwards Newcastle were really strong and I thought, I mean, watch that game that yeah, they're out of that malaise now and they're, they're a team we can invest in and Isaac is going to, is going to fly off at this point. And then against West Ham, I thought they were blessed again, obviously, the reason why they're not a top six side at the moment is that inconsistency or they're not looking likely going to be a top six side at the end of the season at the moment. But they can turn that round and maybe the Christmas period back to back games is what they need. That intensity will help. I, I'm still a big fan of Isaac and we'll look at his data later as to why a team attack last six, which isn't sorted correctly, but the top attack is man city, which is extraordinary, isn't it? That's on what we've seen recently, the data has always been there 20 shots per 90 over the last six matches. This really just makes the misery of owning the heartland over that spell even worse than it when you see how strong the attack has been in terms of data. Yeah, I mean, if you, if you really quickly just flick back to that last, that last chart man city, what 18th, I believe on the defense, under the data, yeah. So we've never seen that before. Normally they're top for attack and, and top for defense. Um, I mean, I, I saw a very disjointed man city sides in, in that Spurs game. They were lots of misplaced passes. They didn't really seem to have any answers. I thought draggers in Davis was superb. They just marched at it. Vicari was coming out and catching everything. Obviously, Harlem was a threat when they were able to get the ball to him, but after about 60 minutes, I just didn't feel like city was going to score in that game. They just, I don't know, they were, they just looked not, not right. And there's only so much I can look at the stats and think they're going to start clicking because this is just poor, you know, finishing or whatever it is over a such a consistent spell now. Um, so I look at this data and it, it doesn't really, this doesn't help. It doesn't make you feel better about it. No, it makes you look like the last stone. It makes it like, yeah, keeping the city players on the must own, but 54% goal involvement for Harlan this season is the highest it's been, um, since he's been there, that they're more reliant than everyone in, and I watched the game and think, yeah, it shows because I look around the pitch and think, while Foden with one assist in six matches or one assist in six game weeks, Foden's not, not providing the goal for it out wide. They haven't really got goal scores. They haven't got a Mario's anymore who don't ship him a goals, and that's what they used to have. They used to have a sterling and then they used to have a Mario's. But now when you look at it, Savio, Grilish, Doku, these aren't really players that are going to get 10 to 15 goals like Mario's and Sterling did. So I look around the, I mean, good in the one is completely a shadow of himself. He's not in goals in the field. De Bruyne doesn't look like he can start a game and that's being confirmed by the minutes he's getting. I mean, you know, City are losing four one and he's coming on with the last five minutes mysteriously. I mean, he's clearly not fit enough to start. So I don't know, they're missing, obviously we've talked about laundry countless times, so we don't want to go back there. They're missing the other players around Harlan to support him. The pressure on him to deliver is absolutely intense, more than ever, I think. But there's also quite an easy team to defend against at times because it's just the Marshall Harlan and you know they're going to be trying to get him the ball and he just stopped that service coming in. They're missing the why play is definitely cutting in and chipping in the goals. They're missing Foden's brilliance of last season. Obviously, they're missing Roger, that's without question, but they're also missing that runner from midfield to the penalty area like they had with Gonduin when he was at his prime. Like I've had with De Bruyne, he's one of the best in the world at doing that. They just don't have that, you know, that strength, that that Rogers role that he has for Villa where he just gets the ball and just drives forward because that's what creates the space and draws defenders in and no one's doing that. The midfield is so, so weak. Yeah. Curtis saying Alvarez, I've forgotten about that. When you look back on that, letting Alvarez go. That's a major error, isn't it? Because he was that all Zidery striker to Harlan, which meant every now and then you could rest Harlan. But Alvarez was always, he was nothing spectacular, I didn't think, but he was always a source of goals. When they took him out the team, they never really replaced him. Yeah. It's just never been replaced. So Savio for all his fantastic skills and he has looked good this season, isn't really a marvellous in terms of his goal output, so they've deprived themselves of goals around Harlan. And now the pressure is on a striker who clearly is, for whatever reason, not hitting the target regularity like he used to. It's the best player they could have right now would be Cole Palmer. They had it the last season. That's another one. I mean, what do they do? I mean, if Harlan gets injured, what do they do? What do they do? They put like Foden at the false nine. They know that hasn't worked in the past. They haven't got any real plan B. Well, they must be looking at the lap and going, we could have done with him back. Yeah, I know. Frankly. Yeah. It's, yeah. James Harlan said, "Why are Spurs, top of the table?" It says, "I love Spurs." No, it's because I didn't assault the table before I snapped it. So that's my bad. So Spurs aren't top of the table. City are top. Brentford a second based on the XG non penalty per 90 over the last game. No. Spurs a second. No. No. No. Brentford a second, 1.80. Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. 1.80. Yes, sir. 1.75. Spurs a third. Chelsea, 1.74. Yeah. But that's the sorting that should have been made. But obviously, I didn't do that. I'll correct that next week. But the data is correct. I don't know about that. As long as the data is correct, we've got... Yeah, that's fine. Let's get close. Yeah. Keepers don't want to look much to say here. Let's go to keepers last six. Pickford's been amazing. Four clean sheets and no six darts. He's done it again, isn't he? He's done it again to us. And you think like, "Oh, no, that's how we look. Pickford, we're all right. We're all right about not having people." And he's had that spell where he's just been fantastic. And Everton get the clean sheets, mainly because they can't score goals at the other end at the moment. And he's delivered for us. And in every clean sheet, he's delivered 1.5 bonus points. He saves per 90. He hasn't been that high, 2.67. But he's been the top-scoring goalkeeper over that spell. Fabianski, a word on the bargain that he's become. Yeah. Fabianski just annoys me. I annoys me when I'm seeing him in people's teams. If you've got him and you've played him in Newcastle, why? Why? What? No. I just can't give people it. No, he's ridiculous. He just seems to crop up every year and be an option for us, isn't he? I mean, it's just groundhog day with keepers, isn't it? It's those two again. They were the two last season who kind of broke the template until Raya came in towards the end of the season. And here we are with Flecken and Raya, literally celebrating when we get a clean sheet. And those two are just getting points every week. Yeah. I thought Keller has been performing well, but he's only kept the 1 clean sheet in 5. And then you have to go down here to find Raya, who's also just the 1 clean sheet in 6 starts. So, yeah, the bigger goalkeepers, as it was when we went into these sick last six games, it was Liverpool and Arsenal in the top defense. Or in terms of output that hasn't been maintained. And it's been a period where the 5 0 and the 4.5 keepers have come to the 4. Sadly, we've not had them. It's been picked for, it's been sales and to a lesser extent, you know, keepers like Henderson who have got save points as well. But there's not too much on offer here. What do you make at the Vicalio injury? Most of them will probably start. We look at Vicalio the last six, just the 1 clean sheet, 2.8, 3 points per 90. You don't imagine Forster is going to do much better, do you? Let's have a look at the fixtures. He'll play all of these probably. All of these 12 because Vicalio won't be back for ages. There. Nothing there is. I mean, how many clean sheets are getting in this? I mean, born with Chelsea Liverpool in the next 5 and forest away. I would just pay the extra 0.2 and get in Verbroggan who's got Southampton, Leicester, Palace, West Ham, Brentford. But there's a couple of clean sheets in there. I'd love it to be a thing. When we helped the carway got an injury, there were some excited tweets going for a Forster. A 4.3. I was like, yeah, but it still spurs and the fixtures are bad. And let's face it, Forster is not the carway there as well. I always think he struggles getting down low. You know, there's that cliche about big keepers to shoot low. He really struggles. I think that is a thing with Forster. I think he is a good shot stopper elsewhere. But you hit it low towards his feet. And he struggles, I think. He was at mainstay for us, wasn't he? Seasons ago, when he was at Southampton. Yeah. Was that like a Tadditch-Pella years? Yeah. What a year. Golden year. That one. Golden year. Yeah, that's a good year. I had Tadditch-Pella and Manet in that game. I think they got like 50 points between them or something. Nine, nine, they all, isn't it? Yeah. Absolutely. One of the four memories. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. I think that's a good idea. 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Strangely, I think Vodio was one of the players who stepped up and can score goals, and I think he is really important to them. But we're not paying six free, are we, from attacking City Defender at the moment? He was also massively at fault for two of the goals against... Who did they play? No, not for the battery. Who do they play for? I found it. He was at fault for two of those. That's probably one of the reasons why Peps all scratched up and has a busted lip for some reason. But yeah, he's a good option. But yeah, you just wouldn't be paying that for him. I can't see why you would. I think it's time to go down to the four fives rather than invest more money. If you've got it, you probably hold it now. And Trent, back in the squad, not fit enough to start last night, but we've got to think he's going to come back over Christmas. Yep. He's there a time in this ticker here, this long view of Liverpool's features, where you would be tempted to go back Trent. 18. 18 Leicester at home. Leicester, West Ham, Man United for West Brentford, it's which. I like that. There's clean sheets there. There's maybe some attacking returns. It is tricky though. I mean, obviously that's the time when Harlan's games get ridiculous as well. That's Everton, Leicester, West Ham, Brenton, Ipswich for Harlan. We're going to have this core three of Saka, Salah and Palmer. It might be hard to move the funds around to bring him back in. Maybe that's a time when if you've got Esack, for example, you think about taking him out, they've got Villa Man United spurs. You could maybe move things around there and bring Trent back in. I'll be tempted though, because he's going to be a real differential from 18. I'm going to say something controversial here. Do you not think that I just Van Dyke and Canadian is just as good? Because look at the attacking output we've seen from Trent. I mean, he's got no assists and no goals in the last five starts. I think his season in total is what? One assist? Yeah, one assist by the season in 867 minutes. So he's attacking output. We're buying him really for what he brings in terms of these extra points. And Salah is hoovering up on us, so he's not really getting a look in there. And you've got to think that in terms of gold threat, you still put Van Dyke ahead of him in terms of pure gold threat. And obviously what we want from Trent is the assists, the creativity. We haven't really seen much. The data doesn't lie, but also what we've seen doesn't lie. Would you go back to him or would you just go and get Canate? It turns out my rank is... I think if you're cruising and looking strong, I think you obviously just go for a Canate and then stick him in. But I think if you are looking for someone to potentially turn your season around, getting in a livable defender on corners with the history he's got, isn't a bad shout. I agree. I don't think it's the start of the season. We were waxing lyrical, but I'm saying he was absolutely must own, and the points were coming. There were definitely some doubts around it now, but he's going to be a Trent at crazy love ownership in 18. It's going to be a real, real differential. And Buma, for example, is 7.5. The fixtures turned for him. God, I wonder if maybe... Yeah, I wonder if maybe there's a way. You bring him in a defensive fall, potentially, and just treat him like a midfielder. I don't know, maybe. I'm hopeful. We'll have to see how he gets on over next weekend. Let's look at midfielders. And Buma, you're right to call out, because he's right down this list. In fact, where is he? Did I actually include him? I think he's dropped out of the top 30. He has dropped out the top 30 over the last six, because I think he's had zero shots and zero chances great in the last three games. We go back to the season data. I think in Buma, we'll find him on here still. Yeah, down in 30th, 0.43 over the season. But you look at the last six, and he's nowhere to be found. He's outside the top 30, and I haven't picked him out previously. And the key for in Buma is the fixtures. I just don't see me keeping him there. Bottom of the ticker, if you look at the next 12, Lester at home will be his stay of execution. But then it's Villanue Castle, Chelsea Forest, Bryant, and Arsenal. That is as bad as it comes, I think. And what we've seen from him recently is zero output in terms of shot involvement. It's a sell, isn't it? Do you know what's amazing with him? He's literally doing what Gordon did last year. He's blanking every away game this season, and he's got an attack in returning every home game. Yeah, well, they've been ridiculous as that. They've been incredible at home, absolutely terrible away. And obviously that's a major factor in what we see from Buma. So when you look at the home games, and this is significant, look at the home games they've got coming up. After Lester, Newcastle Forest, Arsenal City Liverpool Spurs. They're the next six home games. Now, they're playing some of the best teams you can face in that run. Like Newcastle, OK, what kind of Newcastle are we going to get? If we get the new calls that go into the seat grand, Grandford aren't going to score. And Newcastle are going to beat them. If Forest turn up and play as we can do a wave moment, we're not going to give too much away either. Then it's Arsenal and City and Liverpool. Probably the three best defences you could face. I mean, City, maybe not. But I still think I'd like to think by then, Pep's figured it out. By game with 21. Pep should have figured it out with this face. He's not bad at this management game. So it's really tough. The home games are so tough. You just think, well, if he's only getting joy at home and they're about to embark on a very difficult run of home games, it's straightforward for me, isn't it? What do you think? I guess the only kind of saving grace with him is, obviously, he's got the penalties and he's got that pedigree. And it's where do you go around the 7 million, 8 million mark? Yeah. And everyone is flocking to the same player, which is Jared Bowen. That is going to be the movie. It's going to either be holding Boomo or moving to Bowen. I mean, obviously, there's going to be some random plays that go out there. But I think that is going to be the most likely transfer for a lot of people. And when you look at this midfield list and we've got on the screen here, there isn't just anyone really that massively stands out to me. You could go from a toma, for example, but I think Bowen is going to walk. It's going to ask about Mattoma. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, he's fine. He's a great player and I love him. Obviously, he's got a great goal from a great pass. But, you know, it's not many attacking returns from this season. And I don't know. I don't really feel like he's an amazing FPL asset, even though he brings so much to the to the Brighton team. Whereas I think Bowen is everything. He is West Ham's like everything, you know? So if you're looking between the two, I think it's quite an easy choice to go for Bowen, given the features are relatively the same. Greg said it's going to be Bowen. I mean, the only thing is you're not getting necessarily getting the penalties because they've got Picasso in there who probably will take them. Yeah. And he played better at Newcastle. I mean, Picasso's had a very poor season, but he looks like he's redeemed himself. Bowen's in his time was 31st, 0.39. Over the season, does Bowen feature at all? Yeah, 51st, 0.34. So he's not, in terms of data, he's nowhere near the top players as he was last season. But I've got to say, I test against Newcastle. He thought he was heading shoulder is the best player on the pit. He's outstanding. I think everything he did was he protected the ball well. He put it at risk when he needed to. He just looked comfortable with the boy, making great runs. And he really led by example. I thought he was out. And I was skeptical about Bowen replacing Bowen until I saw that. And then I thought, oh, yeah, he looks like he's fully activated and on it again. And yeah, West Ham, let's have a look at the fixtures over Christmas. I don't think it's too bad. But once they face Arsenal this weekend, Lester, Wall was born with Brighton and Southampton. That's a good run of five. That's what you're looking at. Bowen's not going to get rotated. Just a lot of techie, isn't it? I just still don't really like that fit with West Ham. And was that Newcastle one a blip? I mean, if they go to Arsenal and get spanked four-nil. Oh, they're at home. Sorry, if they're at home, they get spanked by Arsenal four-nil. That might temper a little bit of investment in them. But I think I'll probably do it. And I think a lot of it depends on whether I take this minus eight. I'm debating this this week. If I do it, then that kind of frees me up to move and boom him out. Whereas if I don't, I'm going to still be playing catch-up to move other players around. So yeah, I could go either way at the moment. But I can see why people are thinking about it. I think they're all I've bought. I mean, Brennan, we've talked about. If we thought Brennan was assured who starts, I think he's still an outstanding prospect of six, seven. Given where he is on his table, 0.82, he's right up there in terms of XGI. And he came on up city and I think he got what he left the game with 1.13 XGI with just two shots. So the quality of chance that he gets and the number of shots he gets in the box means that we've got to look at Brennan still if we think he's a regular starter. It's a menu. I sold it. I was just about to ask about some menu. Surely some menu deserves a look in. He's 23rd on this, this 0.44. We look at the short-term fixtures for Bulmouth. Wolves this week. And Spurs, it's which rest down the night at Palace. That's all right. That's all right. I mean, you know, home games, they're a match for anybody as we've seen. They've beaten Arsenal and city already. They can certainly score goals against Spurs, rest down at Palace. And away. Yeah, they're not nowhere near as strong, but it's which you think he gets something. So surely it's a menu, isn't it? Yeah, I like, I like, I like some menu. I think if you, if you can get away with benching him, even if you're benching him for like Rogers or someone this week, I would be very tempted to keep him because I, I think he is probably is going to be one of the best value picks over the next kind of four or five weeks. And they have a little rest. It's nice when a play gets a little rest going into a hectic schedule. You know, he's going to play every minute and probably do quite well. And like I said, there's not really a huge amount of other options that I'm, I'm looking at. I mean, Gordon, Gordon potentially. What about route at five, six? I just, I just don't really know why you would go there. Like, is, is he like, you just never know. You're always going to be worried about him lining up. And even when he does line up, he's not scoring huge points. Like when Minte is back, like, surely he plays over router. That's not his natural position on the right wing. Pedro is too good in the 10. I think he, I think he just becomes a squad. I've got a bit of a squad player. Well, I got, I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I wouldn't go near, I wouldn't go near him. Okay. Semenio and Rogers are the ones still, I think, at five, five, five. So in terms of the replacement for boom, boom, oh, you would say Boeing and then Mattema, would you? Yeah. If you weren't going back to Semenio. Yeah. Yeah. Anybody else? You wouldn't go Madison, I guess. People have, I've seen some mentions of Martinelli in the chat as well. Yeah. I mean, I would have got up potentially if you wanted to go up to me too. I mean, maybe he's more of a replacement for Fernandez, because he's kind of around the same place. Yeah. I don't know. I think the midfield is like, you just want to be moving towards Saka Palmer and Sala. I think that's just so obvious. Yeah. And then to accommodate that, you need to have a couple of five million. So that's when your Semenio and Rogers comes in. And I think that's, that's really good. I think that's a really good team. If you've got a bit more team value, maybe go Miss Homer over over. Yeah. I mean, but that's probably about it. I think you're right. I mean, Semenio for me doesn't get rotated for Bournemouth. He is as close as they've got to a talisman, I think. Yeah. Evan Nelson could be an option up top. The fixtures are good. And he's, you know, he's been absolutely prolific with his shooting in terms of volume. Kudos beats him shot per 90, but only just because of the lack of, lack of minutes. Saka actually beats him 4.01 shots per 90 of the last six. The menu on four. Yeah. I, I, I want to get him back in the team because I liked him. I liked him when I owned him. I only got rid because of the suspension basically for this week. Yeah, I got, I got rid for gone actual and regretted it. Yeah. We're going to throw out forwards. And I'm probably going to bring up another table in a minute because we're going to look at this situation because I do think that this is where we will be using a lot of our transfers over the Christmas period because I do think that, like you said, the midfield feels rather settled, Palmer, Saka, Salah, two cheaper mids who we've named a few. The menu, Rogers, defense, we won't go there because it's pretty random. But up top. Yeah. This is where the options are. This is where we're going to move with fixtures and form, I think. I'm going to bring up the table we've got here. These are forwards ranked by price. Without Harlan. So what can ZZAC have? It's Jackson, Salanki, Koona, Giao Pedro. First thing that leaps out there, Giao Pedro's 67% goal involvement. But he has only had four starts. So the injury kind of warps out a little bit. Do you think he's that valuable to Brighton that he's going to be around a 60% goal involvement? Yeah, probably. I think he probably is. I think everything just goes. Everything just goes play through him. I mean, you look at Matoma on the left. Matoma's role isn't to cut inside and score. I mean, he can do that, obviously, but a lot of the time he hugs a touchline, cuts in there, and then plays the ball into the box for a player to tap in. Who's the best player to run in and score from, you know, a brilliant run into the box. It's probably Pedro, because Walbeck's already in the box, and they need that player coming in from a bit deeper. I just think, yeah, I just think he's so important when he's on the pitch. Look at his vision. I mean, the past he did for Matoma. That goal. You know, if a De Bruyne or a Fernandez or someone is playing that, people are talking about it for months. It's an underrated kind of side of his game. These stats are unsustainable. Don't get me wrong. It would be a lot for him to carry on doing this. Look at his vision. That's right. 44%. Yeah. He's not going there again. Yeah. And that hasn't always been the best part of his game. He's never looked to me like a really clinical finisher. So I would expect that to regress down to what some of these other players are. Maybe around 15, 20% or like that, but he's still, he's still going to be. I did you think him and Rogers at five and five six are absolute steals given their kind of prominence and then important to the team. So do you, do you think that we should ignore the price? Do you forget that he's a bargain? Do you think he's the best option anyway? In terms of strikers. How are these strikers? Well, we did the list and we last week for the, for the FPL show. I think we had, we had Cooner. I think you had Haverts and you and I had, and I had, no, I had, who did we have? I can't remember. We had, we had, we had, he's sacked up. Both had, he's sacked up. He's at top. I had, he's like, I have a Jackson and you went for Cooner. You went for, he's at Cooner Jackson. He's at Cooner Jackson. Yeah. We both had Jackson. Yeah. The Pedro was nowhere near it. And yeah. There's a lot of traffic going his way. If, if price wasn't an object here, it wasn't a factor rather. I don't think he's, no, I don't think he is because I think over the next three years minutes get managed. I would rather have Cooner playing 90 minutes than the Pedro. Well, Cooner's not going to get 90 minutes because he will get subbed as well. But I think there's more chance of, he's going to get something that's like 65, 70, that would be. No, possibly not, particularly if you need him in the game. Yeah. I, I, that's how I thought about it as well. I, I, I got rid of Harlem this week and I moved to Cooner and I was thinking, and I'm still thinking, maybe I moved Stuart up to another striker. But Joe Pedro wouldn't be my choice. My choice would probably be because I'm going to keep to Lanka. Even though he doesn't figure in any of the, you don't wait top for any of these stats that we've got on show here. Um, to thank his column completely without any pink highlights, which means he's not sad. Isn't it the best friend? Yeah. Um, I'm going to keep slanky because of the fixtures and I want to buzz cover. Jackson would probably be my pick. Yeah. And what I want to pick out for Jackson is the goal involvement of 52%, exactly the same as Palmer. Those two are absolutely dominating for Chelsea in a moment in terms of output. The fixtures we've seen, they're top of the ticker. Um, the only thing that worries me a little bit is the accuracy 73% is not sustainable. Conversion rate. I saw last season he had a conversion rate of 17%. That's gone up to 25%. So we expect that to drop a bit as well. He's not going to keep that conversion rate up. The XG per shot is interesting. 0.24 is the best on show here. So in other words, in terms of quality of chance per shot, Jackson's getting the best quality chances. That's important, if you ask me because, you know, he's markedly above the Zach. He's markedly above, um, heart habits. He's miles ahead of Koona. And we've seen that Koona's at the school world class goals from 25 yards to get his goals in many times. So in terms of, you know, fox in the box, slanky Jackson are the top two strikers on show here. Makes me favor Jackson falls on that. I love it. I thought he was brilliant in the game against Leicester. You know, he was just shogging off defenders with ease, wasn't he? And massively deserved. They're all the points that he got. Southampton in 14, you know, Brentford in 16. We've talked about the fixtures. They're unbelievable. And it does almost feel like we've said on a couple of streams, haven't we? That maybe Palmer isn't, isn't enough. Um, and I don't think you can go for a netto or a Madaway K or anyone like that. So the only way you can really tap into it is to go for Jackson. You would be guided though if you bought in Jackson this week and he got booked. That's the thing, isn't it? You would be guided. And I know everyone says, oh, Diego Costa and all that. But I think this week, particularly given that it's Southampton next. It, I think it would just temper me off him a bit. And I'd wait a week because I'd won him for that Southampton game. Yeah, you could be right. You could be right. Um, one stat that I think we should draw out here, the conversion rate for easy. That's the lowest he's been since he arrives in the Premier League. He's had a couple of seasons and he's averaged around 17, 19. So we, I'd expect his conversion rate to go up. So if you look at this stat, these stats are making, well, who's the one likely to not regress if anything to step up? It probably will be Isaac in terms of what we've seen from him so far. Well, he was essential last week. Yeah, blank and then that was getting worried about him. Yeah, I guess we got to look at this though. This is a matrix of the fixtures, right? And he's ax on there. And this really just shows where the patterns are. Koona for me was important because of those fixtures. Born with Everton, West Ham, it switched Leicester. That's a very, very good run. And I don't think that he's not going to start those games. And even though, you know, he's having to score world-class goals to keep track and to be that, well, he's second to Holland now in total points, isn't he? He's capable of keeping that up. He would suggest it's going to regress and he's not going to keep doing that. But even so, those fixtures are too good. You can see why Jean Pedro is popular because of the fixtures. So, Hampton, Fulham, Leicester, Palace, West Ham, Brimford. But Jackson, if you look down, equally strong, I think. I don't think there's anything to fear for Villa at home. They walk and see goals and have. So, Hampton away, good fixture, Spurs away. They can score at Spurs. I mean, that's a big game and I think there'll be goals. Then it's Brimford, Everton, Fulham, it switched. So, it's just the in Kunku factor. I just don't know whether Kunku is going to be completely frozen out. And if that's not a factor, what do you think? I think there's a top four here, pretty obviously, which is Pedro, Cooner, Jackson and Esak. And then you sort of put Slanky maybe a little bit below that. And then I think Watkins and Haverts are just completely cut adrift from it. They wouldn't, all the rest, you know, I've got Slanky and I'm debating whether to sell him or not. But I just wouldn't be considering Haverts or Watkins when you've got Jackson, when you've got Pedro, when you've got Cooner. He just, yeah, just wouldn't even occur to me. So, Esak, I think from 15, this is what I mean. Again, I want to keep mentioning this minus eight for the things I'm doing because it would let me do something like bringing in Boomo and then bring in Slanky out in 15. It gives me that little bit of flexibility to move things around. Whereas at the moment, I'm just quiet because I've got Harland. It's all quite rigid. And that is why you think about moving him out because it frees up other areas and avenues to explore. This is going to change like week to week that there's going to be, you know, one of these, you know, Watkins could get a brace against Chelsea. And then suddenly all the fears about Durana gone because it's burning for the seven next and we're going to see people moving towards him. So it can change. It can all change very quickly. As of right now though, I still think Cooner and Jackson would be my priority targets. Yeah. Pedro is the value. Yeah, I agree. I think I'm happy keeping Slanky. But I have got one eye on going to Lanky to Isaac 15 because you look at the run to Lanky's got Chelsea. They've entered away, Liverpool and forest away versus Isaac having Brimford Lester, it's which villa that Brimford Lester, it's which Trio from 15 to 17. I mean, the only fact is Wilson a factor. I mean, someone bought it up last week and I laughed it off. I think it's half way. No way. Easy it though. Is there a chance that. Is there a chance that Wilson takes a start off him over that run? I just can't see it because they don't exactly strong on the left. So why wouldn't they just move. He's like over to the left and Gordon can play on the right or he's getting been sub off early. I just I just don't think it's a I just don't think it's a threat. I don't also look at these fixtures and I'm like, well, I mean, what are the games they could do that in? I mean, maybe Lester at home. Potentially give Wilson a game then over. I think he said plays them all. Yeah. I mean, they I mean, they've got Barnes and Gordon on the left. So they're too strong on the left, not strong on the right, but they've been playing gold on the right when they haven't. Yeah. But they haven't they haven't exactly been like amazing this season. Have they either of them? No, but we've got to mention Harvey Barnes because he's a favorite of the show. And he's so okay. He's that because of Harvey Barnes. That's the new Gordon. I think you're right. I think, though, that if you've got a top three now, whatever it is, and I'm sitting on Koona Solanki. And if I was going to move Stuart up, it would be the Jackson. I would then look again in 15. And that's my point. I think we're not going to sit still on our forward lines. We're going to look and move them according to fixture because I think there's opportunities here. And what we what we shouldn't forget is well, isn't it nice to be sitting here in the middle? Well, apart from Holland, we've got seven strikers we can look at and consider and the mighty Chris Wood's not even on there. So the three things that needed to happen this season to really turn things around from four weeks in was Holland to go on the poor on a form he's been on for the strikers, loads of striker options to emerge and obviously salads take that captaincy away. And all three of those things have happened. And now you look at non Holland teams and think, yep, you don't need them. If you've got a front free of Koona, D sack and Jackson. You're laughing, aren't you? You're not. You're not. You have a bit of fear about Holland because it's Holland, but you're going to think every week those three can score points. And if you look at, well, let's look at falls over the season, in fact, and, you know, Jackson's right up there, 0.68 in the chase impact to Holland. Well, Pedro's right up there, 0.70 over the season. Okay, we've only 370 minutes. Holland is way out on top, 0.97 extra on penalty. But paying 15 million for that minus eight to get rid of a player with 0.97 extra. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? So we should have scored six goals over the last six games and he's not done that because I think over the last six up again, is it? Yeah, 0.97 the last six as well. So that's he sees an average is the same, 0.9. He's conversion six percent. Yeah, six percent conversion over the last six. Shocking, isn't it? That can't continue. So if you are holding him, there's going to be an uptick, surely. There's no question. So he's valid. But I think when we touch on those strikers, there's such a choice. There's such a plethora of options. And we talked about the bonus in the previous show about, well, you only need one goal and these strikers are getting free bonus. So you don't need braces now to get close to double figures because they're always getting those free bonus as well. So I just think there's too much value up top on a moment. Hmm. Yeah. No, no, I completely agree. And yeah, Holland is, it almost feels again, like I've said it before, this is kind of you sell this week or you probably just hold him because it doesn't get any tougher than Anfield, you know, for him. But then after that, it's actually a pretty decent run. Forest Palace, Manchester United. And then obviously from 18, it's an unbelievable set of fixtures. So if you're going to sell him for a hit, like I'm thinking of, I think it has to be. What are you going to do, 18? What are you going to do there? You're not going to go back to him. If I get rid of, I think if you get rid of him now, you have to just accept that you're not going to have him because how are you going to get him back? You're going to have to sell one of Salah, Saka or Palmer. And like in 18 Chelsea have Fulham and then they're going to Ipswich in 19, Arsenal have Ipswich at home. You're not going to sell him there. And then obviously Salah is going to be a really difficult sell and it's less driving in 18. So you're not going to do that. So yeah, you're just, you're not going to have him. I can't believe if we'd gone back a year that we would be sitting here going, I'll tell you what, I'm not going to have Harlan because I'll be all right because I've got Nicholas Jackson is, which I can't believe we're doing. Yes, guys. Can you believe that? I'm going to have the front free of Jell Pedro, Nicholas Jackson and we were not fans, were we? It wasn't until the end of the scene. Yeah. It's hard to believe, isn't it? It is. They call Calvallooine isn't the fact. I do feel for those who went Calvallooine all that time ago. Yeah. Let's talk about predictions. But before we do, we're going to touch on Sleeper and our friends at Sleeper and the pick them game. Yeah. We're going to have some fun. Yeah. Yes. Big, big week in the pick and game because obviously we do a monthly prize and the monthly prizes are getting reset as we head into December. So if you've watched and thought to yourself, what is Sleeper? What are they on about every week? This is the time to get involved. Set the QR code on the screen. Check out the link in the description below. Get involved in our pick and game. All we've got to do, predict the outcome of all the games over Christmas. And if you get the most outcomes right out of everyone in the group, you will win a prize up to 500 pounds. And that could be an iPhone, an Apple watch, a Google Pixel, a steam deck, whatever you want. As long as it costs no more than 500 pounds, you send me an email and say, "How's I want this?" And I buy it for you as a nice Christmas present. So get involved. Yeah. You'll be supporting the stream, obviously. There's no gambling, no kind of pay to win elements, just purely your own football brain, and you can compete against Mark and I as well. You can indeed. And, uh, Apple brains has got off here in the prediction league at the moment. This is the, uh, patrons' predictions league. And, uh, just about edging you out, 89 points to your 80, 51%. You drop below the 50% as on the correct school outcome. Oh. Tough week. I think I only got about three, three right or something in this easy week, um, to predict. Uh, does you want to give a shout out to Lee and Liv here because they are constantly making updates and upgrades to our, um, of, uh, uh, Premier League predictions website that we've got, which is Patreons Only. Um, so there's a really cool new, um, way of checking your scores and things. And they're bringing in a way of looking at other people's predictions. So it's a great time to get involved on, on Patreon if you haven't already, because you can take part in this league and, uh, compete with Mark and I, and this is obviously separate to, to sleeper. So if you fancy yourself as a prediction specialist, then join the sleeper league and also get involved on Patreon. Can you get a 55%? Cause only the moment that famous Jimmy's got that 55% correct outcome. Um, pretty good. Everybody else is below that at the moment. And he's sitting in fourth or 96 points. I'm trying to close a gap and I'm beating ass. That's all it matters. It amazes me though that like we've always been kind of consistently around the 50% ish mark when we, when we've done these and you look at this score and actually a really good record is around 55 to 60%. Yeah. And it just shows, doesn't it? Every week you're going to get four fixtures, which are just completely against what at least the pictures that go completely against what it's at. And it's interesting when you look at, you look at when you're looking at the pictures in relation to your transverse decisions, if you're always thinking, well, I'm only going to be 50% right. Yes. We've got, yeah, yeah, we've got a huge amount of data now, which suggests that we are only going to be 50% right. And even the very best people are only going to be around 50% right. There's not, there's not FBL managers out there. We're going to be 60 or 70% right with their predictions on the scores. And the predictions are the scores. Play a big part in how we manage our transfers. So it is food for, isn't it? When you go, well, I'm more or less only going to be 50% right with my decisions in terms of predictions. So therefore if I translate that to transfers, what do I expect, right? I know. Crazy. And that, but again, when we do these scores, sometimes people ask us, we've predicted a clean sheet for, you know, Westam, why haven't you played one Bessaka? And it's like, because I'm probably going to be wrong. Because I've seen my predictions over the last few years and I'm going to get off them wrong. They do it in the Westam. Don't they? I mean, like, you know, the transfers that we're making and team that we've got are going to influence our perspective on that team and their likelihood of getting their result or a clean sheet. So I'm sure, subliminally, that's playing into these predictions. But it just shows you the accuracy that we can expect. Not much better than 50%. This is a Reese's peanut butter cup sound experiment. We're looking to find the perfect way to hear Reese's so you'll buy more of them. Here we go. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Get out of here, you old stinker. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Reese's. Peanut butter cups. 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I took some footage at the local garden center the other day that I'm going to use in my videos. And there's some. What I'm going to do, I'm going to over Christmas. I'm going to represent my game week by the quality of the Christmas decoration that I feature in my video. Somehow I'm going to represent my game week by the Christmas decoration that I show. I give you one week before you get sick of doing that. No, no, I've got a collection of stuff. I've went to the garden center to film some stuff. And I know there's plenty more I can get. So I've got three or four in the bank already. But the garden center game is the eight o'clock kickoff on Friday. It's not. No, it's not. This is decided without any consultation from me outrageous. Where would you, where would you go? If you had to get to a garden center during a live football match, well, you wouldn't go Westam Arsenal, would you? And you wouldn't go Chelseaville. Well, I would personally go Chelseaville, though, would you? Right. Okay. Well, eight o'clock on a frog garden center is even open at your clock on Friday. Yeah, they are because they've all got Santa. So you can book Santa this late. No, it's fine. I mean, I don't know what kids are up at eight o'clock go and see Santa, but, you know, some are. I suppose if you aren't a Brighton fan and you haven't got a gel Pedro. Yeah. That probably is the game. I don't know if Brian's haven't. Yeah. I think it's a big, big game. I feel there'll be lots of girls. I think it'll be exciting. Well, I've predicted three nil and you've gone to nil. So I'm more buoyant about Brian's chances is and you are. But you've got to go too hard. Yeah. Okay. It's just that defense of Southampton, isn't it? And many of this. Even if Brian failed to create Southampton, they're going to give them a couple, aren't they? Surely. You would think so. And I think similar to Liverpool, the way we press hige and trying to win the ball back. They're going to make mistakes and I can just see like Pedro and well bit kind of benefiting from that because they'll make mistakes in central areas and we'll all in and stick a couple past them, I'm sure. BB Defender and Derek Knolls, you do not know the rules for the gardens and the game. You're saying Brentford Leicester, like Brentford Leicester isn't the most boring fixture. We were aware of that, but that's not live on telly. Think the maker. In the UK. No, I forget some people can't get the head around the fact that we can't watch all the games. Yeah, that is true. There's probably scandal out there. So yeah, of course, if that was live on TV, if by some miracle, some broadcast organizers said, I know what we'll have live. We'll have Brentford Leicester. We'll take that one. Thank you very much. That will show you BT sports. No, that's not live. So we can't go to the gun. We're only allowed to go to a gun set of doing a live game because this is recreating the thing that I have to do with my partner sometimes, where she says to me on a Sunday morning, "Oh, we need to go to the gun set today." And I look at the live games and go, "What time is she going to say?" I really hope it's not four o'clock. Let's go two o'clock because that's blah, blah versus blah. It's got a hit o'clock on a Friday, Pivensy Centre. But I don't say that to her. I'm saying it in my head and I'm waiting for the answer of hoping, "Don't say four o'clock. Don't say four o'clock." And then I have to try and sway the bus saying, "Well, we're going to have dinner about six, so we don't want to be, you know, it's going to be difficult to get that in." Try and persuade her to go around one o'clock when the boring game is on. That's how Garden Centre game... There's no way she still falls flat after all these years. No, I know she doesn't. I know. I know. But, you know, I like to think that happens. But, yes, I was at the gun set a last Sunday and I had to record the Arsenal game. And yeah, and then I have to avoid the scores and then get back and watch it as long as... Oh, wow. You go all out. I do. I do indeed. Brentford Leicester, having said it as a Garden Centre game, or could be, I've gone to all. I think new manager, you know, rude coming in maybe. Is that confirmed yet? I think it's all but confirmed. It won't be all but confirmed. Yeah. It won't be in place fully. But I think that Brentford's defence is terrible and they've been involved in... They don't win games too, Neil. Brentford, did they? They win games four, three, two, five, four, don't they? So... I've gone to all... I'd like rude to do well at Leicester, but... Would you? I think they're going to go down. I do think it's a strange appointment. I've seen people say on Twitter, but he's not a manager for relegation battle, is he? And he wouldn't think he was, would you? So... I don't know. I mean, he's only getting that off the back of a couple of good results for Manchester United. If he'd... If he'd, you know, got a couple of draws and the old loss, I don't think he's... He's no way he's getting a Premier League job, is there? So... Of course. They are literally judging him on that. I think it's a... It's a strange appointment, but no, I like rude. I wish he won. Yeah, OK. Palace Newcastle. This is also dull. We've both gone on all very difficult to separate the two sides, isn't it? Palace getting the result of a villa of us are getting the draw, looking good in that game as well. Yeah. And Newcastle patchy again. I just... I don't know what to make a Newcastle. I thought I'd thrust them and they're going to win this, but I've gone a draw you have as well. I think Palace is starting to... You know, there was... There's a bit of panic, isn't there? Around, you know, the manager offers such a good dinner last season. I'm seeing signs they're starting to learn how to play with ASA and, at least say, they should be looking for a point in this one. Oh, it's... It's which we've both gone a home win. You've gone one deal. I think we will concede. I think we're going to need two goals to beat them. I do like it, Switch, actually. Of the three teams, I stand by the fact they're the ones most likely to stay up. I agree with them. I think they've got in-de-lap a player who can cause any one trouble. I think they've got some creativity, mainly from Davis, but Hutchinson as well, and when Grieves is back, and I think he could be fit for the weekend, they might be more solid. So I think we might struggle here. You've gone one deal and I've gone two-one, so it's probably about right. I think this is a really big game for you because you know, you've had such a strong start to the season. You've lost the last two without really putting up any fight whatsoever. You've been battered by Newcastle and Arsenal, and then after this, you're going to run a game just City, Man United, Villa, Brentford away, and Spurs. That's a tough series of games. Yeah, we could get pulled down, couldn't we? Quite easily. We need this. We'll get this on 22, and we should be more out of there for a while. So, yes, indeed, Wall's born with you've gone away win, but born with away at Hannibal. Okay. I think it's a difficult one to call. I was thinking a draw, but I've gone two-one Wolves. West Ham Arsenal, which is the 5.30 kickoff on a Saturday, and we've both gone away win. You think West Ham will get one? I've gone two-nil. You've gone three-one. Oh, two-nil would be such a nice result, which means it's not going to happen. I think they win to Neil. I think so. It's a tough game for Arsenal, particularly after West Ham's performance at Newcastle, but I think they can win this with a clean sheet. Chelsea, Villa, both gone two-one. This is an interesting one, because we're talking about captaincy in a minute. Obviously, people are thinking about taking the captaincy off Sal. I'm seeing quite a few Palmer captains in this. I'm seeing quite some good tactical analysis about how Villa's start-of-play could play into Chelsea's system, like on the transitions and the break. Lee was talking about it on the FPL podcast earlier this season. They smashed him in the last season, Chelsea's smashed, Villa. Was it four-nil or something like that? It could be repeated that. We both gone for a more conservative two-one, but Palmer's got to be in consideration this week. Oh, absolutely. We'll see that in a minute, for sure. United, Evan, you've gone two-nil. I've gone one-nil. It's just ever not having the goal for it, isn't it? I don't know where the goals come from. That's a trouble. Yeah, I mean, this is – I mean, Adam's got to win this one, surely. Yeah. It'd be a nice bit of disaster if he lost this or drew it for his stop. Spurs, Fulham. Lots of goals here. Three-one to you. Three-two for me. I think that's – yeah. I just don't see clean sheets. Spurs may have a mirror back at Novanderven and, obviously, Novacare, who we talked about. Fulham – well, they may have Anderson out. I think he's an injury down as well. So, defensively there, week and two. And lots of attacking talent on show here. So, 3-2-3-1. I think it's about right. One of those goals around that. It was 3-1, sorry, that's – I remember Chelsea got a couple of tickets for the last season. Right. Yeah, 3-1. And Liverpool-Man City, we both agree. 2-nil Liverpool. I mean, it could be more, couldn't it? That's the thing. I didn't know where to be conservative here or go wild and go, "This could be 4-1" or something ridiculous, but… I mean, if I'm predicting a 2-nil Liverpool, I've got to get rid of Harland. Yeah. Of course. You have. I've got to. I've got to. Yeah. Done. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you can see he's scoring. I mean, obviously they can score in any game, but given they've got the best striker in the world, I'll go be up top. But I've got to create for him. And they're up against a very solid Liverpool defence. Canate should be fit from what we've heard tonight as well. Yeah. I just think he can. I just think he can. Do you think he can? No, I don't think he can start. If he could start, he'd have started by now, so just don't see it. I was really surprised when he didn't start against Spurs. I thought that was the game. We'd see him to unlock that Spurs' back line. Unless the player, all the longest to save him for this one, but… Yeah. And they left it late, didn't they? To bring him on. Even though they were getting thrashing that game. It came on about 65 minutes or something, didn't they? Yeah. So he's clearly not able to play more than half an hour at the moment. So yeah, I don't see him starting this game, and I just don't see him keeping him out. Unless he turns up with a much more pragmatic defensive approach, which he could do. But has he got the players to do that? I just don't know. I don't know if he has. It's… Yeah. We're both agreed then, and that surely means that you're not considering keeping Harland and that surely means you're not going to catch in Harland. No, I think even the most loyal Harland owner surely is not thinking of catching him this week. Yeah. I don't think… It is annoying, though. The most annoying thing of owning him is every week he becomes more and more of a differential, and you think, if you could pick any differential in the game, it would be earning Harland. Yeah, but not a 15 million one. I mean, that's the thing is… I know. The 15 million is… I mean, this is where the price in the genius of making that expensive comes in, because you just can't really do that. I just don't think… I mean, he's got to get a brace, right? He's got to get a brace to justify 15 million. Is he going to get a brace that Liverpool, he could do, but I just… I mean, the data says that he should be scoring on a regular basis when he hasn't been, and that is going to change. We know, right? We know that's going to jump up. He's toppled his table over the season, he's second Agile Pedro of the last six, only because the Shell Pedro's played a few minutes and managed to score goals and get two goals to assist in the last six game weeks with only two starts. So, for me though, I'm going Palmer. He's fallen his table 0.68, and I got Palmer in last week with a review that I was going to catch in this week, so I'm going to stick to that plan, I think, and I think that is the route that most will go down her own Palmer. Back as a shout as well, given how heavily involved he is for Arsenal. Anybody else there you see? I think Salah, obviously, is a passive consideration. Actually, I think he'll be less captain than obviously it was against Southampton, because I think people will be looking elsewhere. I wouldn't be going for like Pedram, seeing a few people debating Pedram, seeing a few people debating Koona. I still think those three premiums are the safest route to points, so I'll be picking those. Go Salah if I bring him in. Would you? Yeah. I just think they're going to get, like, I can't see any way in which Salah doesn't do something against it the way they are at the moment. There's two teams at completely different ends of where they are in terms of everything. Quality, form, you know, slots got a non-scratched face, Salah's making little digs about the Liverpool board, but it's almost like that's fueling him. Even more, isn't it? Just to score more goals and be like, "I know I'm asking for $350k a week, but you are not going to get anything better than me, give my free year contract." Eight returns in the last six. He's only blanked in two games all season. Two games he's blanked in all season, in 12 starts, right? Yeah. The rest are double digits, aren't they? He has got eight double-digit returns. How many double digits returns did he get last season? All season. How many did he get? I'm going to say 12. He got nine. He's got one fewer double-digit return in the last season, and he's done it in 12 games. That is absolutely crazy, isn't it? I still don't bloody have him. I was amazed at that. That's amazing. I was amazed that he's only blanked in two games, and I was amazed that he's almost matched his double-digit tally of last season. Yeah. It's not even a bad season last season, but to do that already is just crazy, and it's the bonus. We talked about it. It's just part. Yeah. I'm with you. I mean, I'm favoring Palmer only because that was the plan, but I've got to admit Salah is tempting. If you look at Rob's graphic, follow @RobTFPL.com on Twitter. I'm sure he's on blue sky as well. He is because he's the only person I'm following at the moment. I'm drawing that for five minutes just to follow Rob, and he messaged me again. It's just you or an imposter. I said, "No, he's me. I've only followed you at the moment." He's changed my handle on it. Let's go get the blue sky one. I don't just use X anymore. No. Keep me gone. That's a good point. Yeah. We should do that. Liverpool on this. This is a spread betting hold. 1.85 projected goals. Now that is behind the likes of Arsenal, Man United, Bromford, Spurs, Chelsea, so they're not... You know, the book is obviously hedging here going, "Well, it's still Man City, still a big game." I guess what they're thinking is this will be a very Liverpool don't need to win the game. They've got already got an eight-point lead over City, if they don't lose, they're in a good place. Why would they gamble on going for broke? The flip side of that is if they beat them, they've probably taken City out of it completely, haven't they? A little point. Yeah. And they're sure... You cannot lose. They cannot lose this one. No. No. But I can't see how... I just can't see how they win. I can't see how they... But it cannot see how they win. It could be one of those games where they both are happy to take a kneel now, isn't it? They City don't want to lose it. And Liverpool think, "Well, actually, a point's okay." I mean, if it was Klopp, I'd be thinking, "Now, Klopp will go for it because it's City, a wounded animal on Klopp will go for it." Slop maybe will go, "Ah, I'll take a point." I'm not saying they're going to say that to the players or set them up that way. But I think the tendency will be... I think it'll be a chess match first half, Neil Neil at half time, is my take would be the outcome. Because that midfield in Liverpool looks so strong, doesn't it? Michaelas have played really well last night in the Champions League. They've just got Gravenberg who's playing well, so Boslai Jones is really here for a good time for him. They're going to have Trent back and he's going to be slotting into midfield. They're just going to completely overrun City in midfield. So it's like Minnegan's boy, is that midfield battle at the moment? Yeah. They lack physicality and legs, don't they? Because Gunduone doesn't have it. Lewis... I mean, he's a good player. He's played well, but where is his best position? I still don't know. I don't think Pep does. So they haven't got the players to fill in now. And the boy and I just... It'll be great to see the boy on the pitch, but I don't think you can start. So we've said it. They're in a bad place right now. It just depends what a slot one for this game. Does he want them to go for the throw and win it and take City out the race completely? Or will he take the point? And that will influence the outcome, I think. It could be three or four, Neil, or it could be Neil, Neil. I think those outcomes are both very, very similar in terms of likelihood. And I wouldn't be surprised if it's a drab game, Neil, Neil, at all. I hope slot goes for it, but I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't. So I'm on Palmer. Chelsea 2.10, the bookies think they'll get at least two goals. Villa just defensively don't look strong off the back of the European game. I know Chelsea have had that as well, but Chelsea have got a completely different 11-out whereas Villa have obviously had a taxing game last night, which they were lucky not to win, but it was still going to tell on the legs, and that was their first 11-out last night. So it's not helped them. It's clearly not helped them in terms of what we see in their consistency has been off. So I think Chelsea win this by at least two goals. So I'm going Palmer. That's where I am. OK. Let's look at our teams. This is where you are? Yes. So a move's already been made, and that is Foden to Saka as planned. So it's Raya and Gabriel and Gull, eight Nori Moreno, Rodgers, Palmer, Saka and Bumo, Harlan, Slanky, Koona, with Hall, Davis and Dibbling on the bench. Like, I feel like I'm only two moves away from actually a really strong team, and the minus eight I'm thinking of is Dibbling out for Salah and Harlan down to Jel Pedro. And the great thing about bringing in Jel Pedro is that I can bench Rodgers, because I don't fancy Rodgers away at Chelsea anyway. So it's basically Rodgers and Harlan versus Salah and Pedro, and then obviously the eight points. Yeah. The eight points is massive. That's massive. I mean, there's no, I do it for free, no question. Yeah. For an eight point hit though, but I mean, the other good things about it are it means that it's almost like a reset. It means that I can go into next week, obviously as a quick turnaround, and I can look at and boom, I would think, right, who can I move him to to maximize on that? I can move him to, you know, Bowen, for example, if I want to do that, or I can even bank the transfer and just get a start to get a bit more ahead of things. Whereas if I don't do it, I'm going to be looking at Harlan again, and if Salah does get another brace, I'm going to be like, okay, now I need to make what I'm not going to bring him in ahead of Newcastle, it is basically if I don't get salary now, I just don't think I get him. I just honestly, I just don't think I get him because it will come, I'll come to like 1718 with Harlan's and I won't want to sell him. Yeah. It is. I even get salad now and just set myself up. What I think is quite a decent team going forward, but just take the fact it's going to be a minus eight, or I just stick with Harlan's and just hope that, you know, but taking Harlan down for a minus eight just feels... Yeah, well, fast as saying that's wrong. Well, we're getting contrast in opinions in chat, do you guys say an end, the misery gets salad in, which I can't agree with, but then fast as saying, yeah, taking the hitting out Harlan, well, I've hit him out as well, but not for a minus eight. I think I'll probably do it because I would much rather. I think Pedro over Rogers is a big, big advantage this week. Pedro could get two and then that's the eight points back just in that. It's just, if Harlan gets anything against Liverpool, the eight, the minus eight isn't going to pay off. And you're putting the cat, Zeon, salad, if you get him in. I think I probably would be between him and Palmer. I think I probably would. Yeah. What do you reckon? Would you do it? Well, yeah, I mean, I think obviously I would have gone salad last week and I would have got rid of Harlan then, I didn't, but I got rid of Harlan this week from minus four. So I already had salad, but I think you've got to have him. I just think the output we're seeing from him. I think there will be some regression, but I just think the bonuses play in such a big part in the points that he's getting and he's so dominant for Liverpool. If they score, if they beat C2, he's getting something, he's getting an assist at the very least, isn't he? Didn't last night. Mr. Pennant, he couldn't have done that at the weekend. Yeah. I mean, lovely. I know, I know. I just, yeah, I think that he always turns out for big games as well. He seems to as well. That's the narrative. I haven't checked the date about on that, but I do feel that if they're going to put C2 to the sword, Sallow will be in the points. I've got a start watchers and a little bit fancier. I do think Villa can get a goal at Chelsea, but I'm not expecting too much from him. So I don't think you need to fear benching him as a result, those moves either. El Pedro should get something, shouldn't he? He really should on Friday night. I think you'll get your eight points back. I think he will. It's just so tricky. It's so hard to know what the right move is. It's here. The fact that it's even kind of acceptable to be thinking of taking him on a take at Holland, I think is probably what's going to push me, push me, do it. And like BB defense says, if I don't do it, and those eight points are payback and I'm stuck still with Holland and no Sallow next week, I'm going to feel, you know, it's really, really tough. I mean, if you don't do it, it'll make our teams very, very different. It's a reminder of the season. So for the sake of the year, you'd love that, but you shouldn't do it. Well, it's ironic, isn't it? Because if we go back six weeks, you would talk about go back to the start season. You were talking into not having a heart and for that reason as well. And I did say, when do you want to go? You bought in three players that I owned this last week. You bought in Davis, Paul and Palmer, all the ones I've already owned. I'm saying it was about differentiating. The start of the season, I went Sallow and Sacker and didn't go Harland. And I was like, no, I want to do that. I want to have different team to you. And that completely went against me. Now, now I've gone back to that. I've got Sallow and Sacker. And so, you know, it'd be quite nice with that differentiation between our teams. But if you do hold in this week, you are holding until 18 as well. That's the thing. That's it. And you know, I mean, it doesn't feel like the right week to buy Sallow as stupid as it sounds, because it is Man City, it is Newcastle Away. And then it is Everton. That is that is tough, potentially, three tough fixtures. It might be maybe maybe if we'll blow them all out of the water, but on paper, I think they're three, three quite tough ones. And we're only right 50% the time as well as so you're going to be wrong. I'm probably going to do it because I'm not, I'm not like, I don't, I've never played this game as a sit back. I've played this game too long just to sit back and just, you know, be really like passive. I'd rather just go for it and it all goes tits up. Yeah, there's a lot of support for his content. Lots of, but I'm put, I'm put, I'm put, I'm like, 80% going to do it. Ellie, I don't mean that's the case. Surely not. That'll be amazing. Are they played there? Amazing. Um, the second my team, because I've made some moves already, and I think they're reflected in the team. I'm going to show. Yes. They are. I've made two transfers already. That hit. Yep. Tim minus four. Ah, sack is okay. Oh, yeah. We are going to have exactly the same team. Harlan's come out. Harlan's come out for Kuna and I can't even remember us. Oh, a semeno went out for Saka, of course, a semeno suspended. So I'm going to be playing Flecken for Gabriel Davis in Boomo, Palmer, Rogers, Sala, Saka, Uno and Salanki, Lewis on the bench. I'm going to play Davis over Lewis. I'm going to play Rogers over Lewis, I think. I think. Um, and I was talking, we're going minus eight as well. I was talking, we're going straight to Pedro and benching Rogers, which I'm still not ruling out because obviously you did that. We'd have an identical front seven. Right. Okay. Were you up? Yeah. Yeah. It's so depressing. And we'd have Hall Davis Gabrielle, we'd literally have Flecken different from next week. Yeah. Well, if I was going to move Stuart out, it would probably be the Jackson, to be honest. So I might consider doing Stuart to Jackson because I can afford it, but that would be for a minus eight. And I don't know if I want to do that. I like it though, because I don't really like Rogers playing him, but that's why I am captain C on Palmer. I don't think I'm going to shake from that. The vice is on Sala though, and it does get stronger by the hour thinking, shall I switch it? Everyone is mad at the same template. Yeah. It is bad. It is bad. But I do think the variation, like I've said, it will show is going to be up for up top, up front. And captain C potentially with Liverpool, it's a couple of games. Yeah. I don't mind it. I don't mind it if the template becomes settled for a period of time. I don't see it here now and think, oh, that's going to be the template forever. Because I think we're going to move in Boomo off a lot will go in some won't. I mean, if Johnson starts and scores, I'm going to be tempted to go back to Johnson. I'm going to be tempted to go back to Semenio, so I might go to Semenio and spend more money in defense. So I think the in Boomo transfer could change things up a bit. And I do think that moving Solanki to Isaac in 15 could be something I look at. We touched on that tonight as well. So changes are coming, but I think the templates set all for the next couple of game weeks. Yeah. Sadly. It's like we've taken all out the equation and we thought that would massively like different JRTs. And actually, we all just go into the same. Well, I don't have to take him out of the equation as no one's faulting you. You could change your mind and not do the minus eight. I've done my transfers. I've gone early like I always do, so a Joe. But you haven't. So you don't have to do that yet. You could decide that you don't want to play that game and go against a template. So two points would become six by the moment, I'm too ahead as you've taken the minus four. Yeah. Do you not want to preserve that lead you've got on me and it's and we and we'd literally have Harlan versus Salah different basically this week rest would be the same. Yeah. If I'm purely playing against you, I think it's the best move to to stick this week. But you won't do it. You're going to get seller. Yeah. I probably am. Oh, it's been a good show. It's been a good season so far. I really enjoy it. Like and subscribe, of course, if you're one of the 1333, I love that number who are currently watching, please hit the like and thank you for your support. And if you are new around here, hit the subscribe as slippers would say on a regular basis, it's it's it's enjoyable. Well, I like it was two points between us and yeah, our teams are looking similar, but I think, you know, come Christmas when the jump has come out in a few shows time and the decorations are out and I put some nice snow on the back on the overlays. I'll do a little bit of that. I think that, oh, I think it's not spamming that. I think that teams will be different by then by Christmas. I promise. What do you think? Yeah. It's what we both do with Boomo. If we both do end up moving for Bo and that'd be that'd be pretty boring. I do think there'll be some, there'll be some forward moves taking place. And obviously, when the fixtures turn for wolves, we're not going to be keeping cooler are we? That's kind of in the new year. So they will be some moves that move around. But I think it's going to be quite a dull Christmas for us because I think our teams are going to be pretty similar unfortunately. Just get Jackson spicy. I'm going to get Jackson. No, I think I will. Well, get to the minus eight and get Jackson. I'm definitely getting him, I'm definitely getting him next week. How much money have you got in the bank? Three minutes. I'm an early transfer market person. I know. So I've probably got quite a bit. I'll have a quick look at the moving my team out now. 3.9 left in the bank. So is that enough to do Stuart to Jackson? Yeah, it is. Stuart's fun. And to Benj Rogers, that's got to be tempting surely. Yeah, Jackson's eight million and I've got eight point four. Oh yeah, I can get to Jackson. That's got to be tempting. It is tempting. It is tempting. Yeah. Yeah. So I might do it. I might still do it. Because I like him and I think he's going to be good for the next two. Oh, super chats. Yes. We've got to do the super chats. Let's go and look at that. We've got five super chats in. Whoa. Let's bring them up. BB Defender, first of all. Thank you very much for your Fiverr. Which of you is best over December? Trent Alexander Arnold and Nimbumo or Hall and Saka, thanks for the streams every week. It's no question for me. It's Hall and Saka. Easy. Yeah. I think that's an easy one. It's a massively out-school. The other two. Yeah. I'd love it to be Trent and Nimbumo, but Nimbumo's features are terrible. When his output's been low, Trent's attacking output's been low. And I just think Saka's on fire with Odigarh back. All could get rotated in one or two games over Christmas. I don't think that's out of the question. But I still prefer those two. I think Saka's... We had a debate about him and Palmer. I don't think he's too far behind Salah at the moment in terms of, you know, his consistency is not. Ceiling is higher for Salah. No question. But I just think, yeah, Saka, I didn't hesitate to take a hit to get him in. Yeah. Interestingly, his home form is dominant. He's only got three assists in five away games. He's not scored away from home yet. And if we look at the ticker very soon, he's got three... Yeah, he's got three home games in the next day. So he's got West Ham United, Fulham, Everton, Palace, Ipswich, Brentford, Brighton. That's eight games, only three at home, United, Everton, Ipswich. So he's only got three assists all season away from home. Do you put any stock in that? Do you think that he's a player who's only going to deliver at home? Or do you think that that's just... I don't think he's in that same bracket. I think Garson will have the same kind of way of playing in the same style. I think he'll be the top scorer in the next five weeks in the Premier League. So that's why I've got him as well. I did have a look at the away games that they've played, and they have had really, really tough away games. So I think that's a factor in that output. I don't think there's too much in it, but it's worth keeping I nearly putting me off. But now I saw too much of Odegard and Saka had to think that I could ignore it. Omri Yamon says Barco, who went back in January essential, yeah, he's absolutely right. He's coming back a year. He only paid 300 minutes for Seville, took a few corners. Imagine if he came back and somehow got a starting left back spelt for Brighton and just went on and became my bargain in the season. I'm not holding it at home. No, I would have done it at home, if I was you. No, thank you, Omri, for the essential Barco. So you're losing hope, I mean, I'm not holding it at home. My famous family first, regular viewers, Vadio to Van Hicke, Dunk 8, 8, Norrie, Rogers to Palmer for minus four. Right. So basically what he wants to know is, should he take a minus four to take Vadio out for a brilliant defender in order to enable doing Rogers to Palmer? I think, or he could go 8 Norrie instead of that Brighton defender. So first of all, what would you do 8 Norrie or a Brighton defender? Well, 8 Norrie played a kind of centre back, didn't they? Because they had some defensive issues. I think we need to wait for the press conference to see what's going to happen there. Because he was like crazy reserved compared to what he's been before. If he's at wing back or if he's in the front three, then him. But if he's playing at kind of left centre back, then he's not going to be the one. He's going to be left. But I mean, it was interesting. I had to look at the defenders last six. 8 Norrie, for XGI non-perotipo 90, he's had six starts, 539 minutes. 0.10 is XGI per 90. That's not what you want to see from 8 Norrie. It's not what we expected either. Because when he was playing wing back, he was in the top 10 of this right up there. He has got two goals and assists in those six starts. But in terms of chances created per 90, one chance created per 90. 0.83 shots per 90 is good, but not in the top 10. So yeah, I don't think he's a shoe in, is he? How is 4D old to 8 Norrie getting enough funds to do Rogers to Palmer? It's like six million difference. Sure, he's winning money in the bank. But I mean, I like the Palmer move. I think Palmer for this run. I know he's been off the boil in terms of output, but he's still quality. I think it's the only way you can get Palmer than yeah. But I like Rogers. He'd be a very reluctant self me. I still think he's a good holder. There's two home games coming up, which look pretty good. And I thought I wasn't a bad pick from this week either. No, if it's your only way to Palmer, then yeah. But if he's another way, he could do it. Yeah, and you've got to be catching him. But you're going to be wanting to catch him Palmer to do it as well, I think. Yeah. And if he's going bright and defend, it wouldn't be done. Because he's not absolutely certain to be back. It probably Van Heck for me. You go Van Heck. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I would prefer 8 Norrie if I knew he was going to be back and left back. I just I think that that data we showed will improve. Because the things are good enough over the next five. I think I think I'd go 8 Norrie, he's just a bit more fun, isn't he? 8 Norrie and Palmer, I'd endorse that. Thank you very much, David's family first. Kenneth M comes in with 9.99. Thank you very much. Wow, that's very generous. Thank you very much. Salah or coal as captains without looking at stats. Who do your instincts say? My instincts say coal Palmer. To my instincts say Salah. Well, it's which of these 1.6 million reg managers? You're going to try and warm 50% at the time, but which one of us is wrong this time? One of us might be right. Yeah, I say Palmer because that was always the plan. I say Palmer, it's a home game villa off the back of the European game. I think we'll be there to be got out. I just love coal Palmer. I just think he's an absolutely brilliant player who can conjure anything in a game. Every time he gets the ball, it makes things happen. Unlike Salah. Yeah, I think Salah has become more like that. But he didn't used to be. He didn't used to be so economical with his, with his... When he gets the ball now, he makes things happen. In the past, he used to take people on lose the ball and used to be quite erratic and not everything he did turned to goals. But now he seems to be that this player is just... Yeah, he doesn't touch the ball as often. He doesn't get involved as often. He can go missing for an entire half. Still in the game on a double figure, hasn't he? Yeah. He's perfected that art of being such a factor in a game even when he's not in. And he said it himself, didn't he? He said, "I think you've said, I don't think it was Vengar who said to him, the sign of a great player is a player who can go be missing and then make that crucial intervention in a game and not be a factor throughout the game, but just do that thing that turns the result. And that's what he's become. He's become that player. He can do that. Palmer is a player who just influences throughout the game, everything good for Chelsea come through him. I think they'd be at Basten Villaboy. I think they scored two. I don't know if Liverpool score two against City. They should do. The Liverpool City game, I think you're right. It could be like a two or three-nil or it could be a nil-nil, whereas you know that Chelsea are more than likely going to score a couple in that match. I think so. I just think at the moment, Salah is just kind of everything's going through cold, but it's not necessarily always translating into points, whereas it is for Salah. He's just got that mind as touched at the moment. It's 50/50, isn't it? You could be give it. That's it with Salah, but only just. So it depends, Ken, if you want to go with, but we're different to the opinion there. Sorry about that. I hope we helped somewhat. Russell Baker, thank you very much. You're too quid. Russell says, "Havitz or Saka to Pedro to fund in Boomo, Saka going week 14." That's all Saka. I can't be Saka. Have at all. It must be ESAC. It must be ESAC. Okay. Have at all ESAC to Pedro to fund in Boomb. I'd want Saka, I definitely want Saka. So I probably would be Havitz to Pedro, would you think? Yeah. And I think I'd probably do it this week. I might even know you wouldn't lose in Boomb in this week. Havitz to Pedro this week for free, maybe just wait a week from both next week. But Pedro, it's home to Southampton. Yeah, I'd probably do Havitz to Pedro. Yeah. I think Pedro. Saka's Havitz this week. Yeah. It's just... Someone disliked that. So someone didn't agree with you there. No, that's... No, that's... That's new. That's not new. That's not a new experience for that. I think I've been quite... That's good. Pecated today. We've got eight dislikes, 339 likes. Please hit the likes. Eight dislikes. If you... If you dislike it... As you say, feel free to hit the dislike, of course. Don't even cut Bob. Don't encourage people to hit the dislike. Digvj Singh. Thank you very much for your super chat. Salenki de Pedro and Johnson de Saka, would you do it? So I presume he needs to do that to a full Saka. Don't even spell his name out before follow him at home. I don't know if I would. I think it's for free. Yeah. I think I would. Would you? Yeah. I think Pedro and Saka is a better combination than Salenki and Johnson. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right. Yeah. You're getting two penalty takers. Yeah. I think you do it. Yeah. And Zubin. Johari. Thank you very much for your super chat. Thank you for your support. Would you buy Odagard from Bumo, if you had Palmer, Salomon, Harland, and Wanna Keep Harland. Yeah. Yeah. We talked about Odagard and we said that he wasn't necessarily going to be an asset attempts us. But why not? Because that means no Saka. Yeah. I guess he's looking at that as a way of covering them. Yeah. Yeah. I think you have to. If you want to keep Harland, you can't have Palmer, Saka, and Salah. It's impossible. So you need to either go for Odagard or Havas instead of Saka. Jackson instead of Palmer. And there isn't any, you have to go for Salah. There's no alternative for him. So yeah. I don't mind Odagard. If that's, if you want to keep Harland, you can have to. Yeah. I don't mind him at all. I think that we're yet to see what we're going to get from him. Obviously, we've had one season where we was getting the box and getting goals. I think it halvets his presence, might reduce that. And what we saw last season was a creator, was someone who came deeper. And I think that's probably what we're going to get. But he's still going to be influential. He's still going to have some output. And more often not, if Saka converts something, it converts a goal, Odagard's created it. So I don't mind it for a differential at all. Russell saying, I'll be more generous last week. I wasn't getting at you with the two quiddies, fine, no, don't be doing, don't even send us any money. We'll try and answer questions. Talking about weight rows, having to go with people giving a super chance. I know. We're talking about the cartel, yes or what, you know, that's what we're like, awful. So no, Russell, thank you for your support. There's no hard feelings at all. And I hope we did help. One last super chat from Guto, Tim Boporo and J.P. or Hall, Jal Pedro or Hall, Anderson and Jackson, wild card. Oh, okay. So Tim Boporo or Pedro or Hall, Anderson and Jack, I don't know what the, I don't really understand the question here, Tim Boporo, I say Tim Boporo, Jal Pedro, Hall, Anderson and Jackson, Anderson, well, he's injured, isn't he? I think he's out. I wouldn't be going anywhere near Anderson, not with Phillip's fixtures. And I do like Pobo. I think the first three are way stronger. Yeah, I tend to agree with you. Yeah, they are, aren't they? Yeah, because you're covering Arsenal, Pobo for the attack, not for the defense, but for the attack and Jal Pedro probably has the edge over Jackson for this week as well. Yeah. I wouldn't say Tim Boporo or Hall and Anderson out of the water completely. And then Jackson's a better pick than Pedro, but not enough to cover the rest, I don't think. Particularly this week. I mean, look at Jackson later, but I think you, I think those three are the best routes. Yep. There you go, Guto. I hope we help you there. We went up to 11 dislikes and went up to three single legs. That's funny. Absolutely. For you as we are back, there was a mid-week, game week next week. So what are we going to do? What are we going to do about that? We're going to do a watch along or something. We could do a watch along. I was thinking. Well, I didn't play Thursday, don't they? Do you want to do that? The only issue is it would have to be a Thursday game because I'm out Tuesday and Wednesday. So it would have to be either Fulham Brighton or Bournemouth Spurs, which aren't the most exciting games. No. But you all have Pedro, won't you, because you'll be doing the minus eight tonight. Most probably. Whatever you do. Yeah. Well, we'll do something because we got, we got to do a show and so. Yeah. It will be Thursday. Yeah. It'll be a lot. It'll be a watch on there, won't it? It'll be a watch on Thursday. And that's football on. We both got Solanki. You're like Pedro. You can just have both games on because they're on prime. Yeah, yeah. So that's fine. So we can just do a show while the games are on. Do a watch along. Throw some stats in. Answer Russell's question when he gives us some super chat. Only if he pays us double. Yeah, of course. He'll call double each time. David J. Singh has come back again. My conundrum was minus four for a hit. Would you do it? Right. I'm going to go back. Hold on. I'm going to go onto the second for a hit. Solanki, to Pedro, and Johnson was like that. Oh, that makes it even tougher. What did you do that for? Oh. Oh. No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do it for a hit. No. No, I wouldn't do it. Not for full and for home. I mean, we were kind of 50/50 before the hit, won't we? Yeah. Johnson, go off tonight. Did he get minutes? How many minutes did he get? I wouldn't do it. Because if he got subbed off, that's a sign post he starts, right? Have a look, will you? Yeah. Have a look. It's only what time is it? It's only like 1.11. He got subbed at 68 minutes. Yeah. There you go. He starts. He starts. For me, he starts. If you're subbed at 68. Yeah. I think he starts as well. I wouldn't do it. Yep. There you go. Thank you very much. Everyone for your super chats and your support. And everybody watching, still 1,200 watching. So thank you very much for that. We'll be back next week and we'll be streaming during the first day gains by the sounds of it. And as we'll have got rid of Harland and moved his team ever closer to mine. From my understanding. God. What can go wrong? What could possibly go wrong, guys? No, it's funny. But yeah, we have similar teams for now, but I'm sure it's not going to last. But we'll still get some fun out of these next couple of game weeks and we'll see you next week. It's a good night for me. Good night, everyone. [MUSIC] This podcast is part of the sports social podcast network. [SPEAKING SPANISH]