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Here our main focus is on Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 33!

We start today with an exclusive piece from highly rated expert FPL General who talks through his Gameweek 33 team, transfer plans and his captain.

GAMEWEEK 32 REVIEW

The dream of achieving nine green arrows following the Wildcard is already over! The score of 58 points resulted in a red arrow from 87k to 103k. Looking back on the season, I was ranked at 103k in Gameweek 14, too. I’ve made no progress, which is frustrating, but the top 50k end-of-season goal is still alive. 

The plan last week was to bring in Phil Foden (£8.3m) for the Crystal Palace fixture. With the early team news before the deadline, those plans changed.

I was set on moving Darwin Nunez (£7.7m) to Alexander Isak (£7.9m) but I needed to free up funds. I was concerned that Bukayo Saka (£8.9m) could miss out again having not even made the bench the previous midweek so I took the gamble and shipped him out for teammate Martin Odegaard (£8.6m), to enable the Isak transfer. As is often the case in FPL, doing nothing would’ve been much better! Odegaard and Isak blanked, while Saka and Darwin delivered. There’s a lesson in there somewhere…

Going forward, I’m happier to own Isak over Darwin but Saka may need to come back in at some point. It was easier to lose them with the Free Hit chip available for their doubles in Gameweek 34.  

Why do I own three Chelsea players? Double Gameweek fever strikes again. Dorde Petrovic (£4.6m) and Malo Gusto (£4.3m) have done absolutely nothing since coming in on the Gameweek 30 Wildcard. The Blues have conceded seven goals in their last three matches. They better do something in the doubles! The Cole Palmer (£6.1m) captaincy call didn’t pay off, either, but at least he got something. 

One of the most satisfying things in FPL is when you get rewarded for your faith in a player. Pedro Porro (£5.9m) has been passing the eye test all season and he finally registered his first goal of the campaign in the last fixture of the Gameweek. My rank was heading towards 150k but the Tottenham Hotspur right-back saved the day. More of that during the final six Gameweeks please, Pedro! 

GAMEWEEK 33 BUS TEAM

On paper, the team looks good for the weekend. However, banking the transfer isn’t an option due to the Free Hit in Gameweek 34 (you can’t have two frees the week after a Free Hit). With just £0.3m in the bank, I can’t afford the Jamaal Lascelles (£3.8m) to Harry Maguire (£4.2m) switch yet. That’s something I’ll be doing with the Gameweek 37 Bench Boost in mind. 

Doing nothing and letting the transfer burn is an option but I think it makes sense to make a move that frees up some cash for future moves. I’ll need to upgrade Lascelles and Caoimhin Kelleher (£3.9m) at some point. I’m hoping to get one more start from Kelleher this weekend before Alisson Becker (£5.7m) returns.

When Odegaard came in last week, I viewed it as a possible one-week punt so I’m open to freeing up cash there. The plan was to get Foden in for Luton Town (home) but the knock in the Champions League game has put me off that idea. Unless there’s concrete news that he starts, I won’t be going there out of fear of another rest.   

Newcastle United’s Anthony Gordon (£6.0m) is currently winning the race. He’s a player I regretted selling on the Gameweek 20 Wildcard and I was close to getting him again on the Gameweek 30 Wildcard. I like the Spurs fixture this week as there should be plenty of goals. It’s Sheffield United (home) and Burnley (away) on the other side of the Free Hit before Newcastle’s Double Gameweek 37. The Magpies fit into that strategy nicely and Gordon frees up a lot more cash than the likes of Luis Diaz (£7.6m), Kai Havertz (£7.3m) and Bruno Fernandes (£8.2m), who are all under consideration, too.

Another cheaper midfielder in the running is Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo (£6.7m). Ignoring Gameweek 34, the Brentford fixtures are Sheffield United (home), Everton (away), Fulham (home), Bournemouth (away) and Newcastle (home). Pretty good! The extra fixture for Gordon is likely to swing it in his favour, though. 

Regardless of which midfielder I bring in this week, maybe the best option of all is sitting first on my bench. There’s a small chance whoever comes in is a substitute this week, with Alejandro Garnacho (£4.9m) getting the nod for the Bournemouth game.  

An alternative route to replacing Odegaard is getting Rasmus Hojlund (£7.0m) in for Dominic Solanke (£7.3m) but it doesn’t free up as much cash as I would like and I’m happy to hold Solanke a little longer. 

There are lots of good captaincy candidates again this week but I’m likely to land on Erling Haaland (£14.3m) due to the fixture. Next in line for the armband is Mohamed Salah (£13.4m), with Palmer a close third. 

Best of luck for Gameweek 33 everyone and make sure you check out the latest General’s Orders video with Joe. There will be a new 59th Minute Podcast on Friday.

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