GW9: FPL Expert's Team Reveal | Best Aston Villa Players

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Hello, and welcome to another video and podcast from Fantasy Football Scout. My name is Joe, and today I'm joined by Fantasy Football Scout's Deputy Editor, Tom Freeman, who will be revealing his plans for Gameweek 9 Hello everyone, and welcome Tom, how are you?

Tom Freeman (0:52)

Hey Joe, yeah, I'm good thanks. I was in Norfolk over the weekend, so I didn't see quite as much football as I normally do when I'm doing my Sunday shifts. So I did see some of it, and I saw the important game on Saturday lunchtime with Villa, of course. Yeah, looking forward to having a light catch up today. And yeah, it was a really difficult week for a lot of managers this week, wasn't it? So it feels like now there's maybe a few more fixture swings. It feels like a better entry point for quite a few players now. So yeah, got some free transfers and we'll certainly look to use a couple of them this week.

Joe (1:25)

Certainly, yes. So this week, next week and Gameweek 11, which I've earmarked for a wild card now.

And I think all three of those are good weeks to move in and move off players. I think the stars should align over that time, whether you got transfers or a chip or whatever to use that. OK, so today's show, we'll look back and see how Tom got on in Gameweek 8 and his plans for the game week ahead. He's got four free transfers, so he's very lucky position. So how many will he use following a raft of injuries and problems over the last few days? Lots to ask about. Before we do that, do check out latest membership offers at fantasyfootballscout.co.uk to get access to the latest tools and gadgets to help you climb up your mini leagues. Also do subscribe, keep up to date with all our videos on YouTube and also wherever you receive your podcasts. And do press that like button, it does help us out or leave us a five star review if you want to join our content. Okay, let's have a look and see how you got on in Gameweek nine. So 49 points, a small green arrow, or basically a green arrow. I got a small red arrow. So a green arrow looks like an absolute luxurious week. So do you want to just take us through your week? What transfers you made? I see Jal Pedro's in.

And sort of what happened? How many of the awful things impacted you?

Tom Freeman (2:45)

Well, yes, certainly a couple. I was surprised to get a green arrow. Didn't feel like a very good week at all. I made two free transfers. I think even when we recorded last week, I had already done the one move. I did Whissa to Jal Pedro. And of course, then Jal Pedro doesn't turn up. And my other transfer was Shaboz Lai to Sharder. So the transfer is not great this week because Sharder got hooked early as well just after the hour mark. That's something I'm going to need to look at. But Captain C was kind of trumped all of those because I had it on Cole Palmer as you can see there.

So running through the team from back to front, I had Verbruggen in goal just two points there.

I ended up playing five at the back because of that auto sub, Hall came in for Joe Petro. With five points. Yeah, so kind of happy with that. Calafiore just the one, and now he's flagged, of course, as well. Muhamovic did really well on Sunday, nine pointer.

Had Konza with 14 points as well, and then Neco Williams with eight points on Friday night. So defense really kind of helped me this week because it gets a lot worse in midfield. I had Palmer captain got minus two. Stach just got the one point he came on as a sub. Shada just two, Rodgers one, Haaland got eight. And then on the bench, Kinski got nine. I was considering playing him, but the fact I had those three Chelsea attackers made me sway towards Wabrougan. And Jal Pedro, of course, and then the two Everton guys, Dewsbury Hall and Barry, both with two away at Everton. Sorry, away at Arsenal, of course.