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Selected FPL forwards sorted by points scored

Thiago omitted as on 4 ycs, not bothering with a few others e.g. Arsenal forwards, Gonzalo, etc.

To be discussed on WGTA tonight, but fully expect Nic Jackson to be the main choice most go with - do like Isak too but not the right week to be jumping in probably

Jackson is just about a Maybe for pens btw - I think it's probably a No but there's a remote chance if Buendia and Barkley are off the pitch he might take one. Who knows

Typo on Osula - he's 5.8 of course.

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So, this weekend's fixture list is one of those ones where it'll be incredibly hard to pick the winning teams. We've got the Top 4 all playing each other, 19th vs 20th, and all the highly owned but massively trollish assets are localised entirely within a single game:

• LIV vs ars - Loads of us will have both Arsenal defenders and Liverpool attackers (who are starting to gel successfully) and the difference between an away clean sheet or clean sheet wipe will have massive consequences one way of the other.
• MCI vs bri - Haaland against De Cuyper? Grob against Gvardiol? Some huge ownership players are almost guaranteed to score very poorly in this fixture.
• CHE vs mun - It's the FPL trolls against the meme team, and basically anything could happen. Will Bruno or Pedro even play? Will Palmer be warm enough? Will Mbeumo unleash his inner fraud? To make matters worse it's even the early kickoff. You know, just to maximise the unpredictability factor.

Instead of trying to predict these most volatile of games, and potentially even taking enormous risks like benching your Arsenal or Liverpool assets, a better solution may be to consider playing your Free Hit chip this week.

This would allow you to play less riskily, instead of gambling on which hugely expensive players to bench or fielding both sides and inevitably having half of them suffer a terrible week. It also has the benefit of keeping all those juicy Top 4 players in your team for their more foolproof games going forward and preventing the need to spunk multiple transfers fixing your team afterwards.

So if you do use your Free Hit, which teams should you target? With the Top 4, Bottom 2 and Chaos 2 all involved with each other, there aren't really any obvious Hydrogen Bomb vs Coughing Baby fixtures to capitalise on.

• AVL, BOU, BRE and TOT (fool me 37 times, shame on me) are probably the likeliest winners from the rest, and have players going into GW9 with good form.
• HUL (and either team from COV vs sun) could offer a decent chance of a one-off clean sheet.
• NEW vs eve features individually good FPL assets but they're also playing each other.
• Of course you'd probably need your head examining if you actually took out Haaland, and the brave among us will be happy keeping other Top 4 players like Grob or Raya despite their challenging fixtures.

Some players on decent form and with reasonable GW9 fixtures to consider would include:

GK - Tzolakis (HUL), Kinsky (TOT)

DF - Tarkowski (EVE), Fogle (LEE), Hall (NEW), Van Hecke (TOT), Egan (HUL), Dasila (COV), Muklele (SUN)

MF - Tavernier (BOU), Belloumi (HUL), Dewsbury-Hall (EVE), McGinn (AVL), Barnes (NEW), Schade (BRE), Tonali (TOT)

ST - Jackson (AVL), Thiago (BRE), Evanilson (BOU), Calvert-Lewin (LEE)

Of course, spending Free Hit now will leave you without it until we get a new one in GW19. If you're absurdly unlucky then doing this could leave you vulnerable to a potential injury crisis (or MCI players having to attend a war crimes tribunal) in a future GW if you haven't been hoarding your free transfers.

I think I've convinced myself while writing this out, but do you lot think it's a good idea to use FH9 in order to navigate this sudden conflux of unpredictable games for our most owned FPL assets? Any other players you'd like to give a shout out to for a cheeky one week spectacular love affair?

He's returned in every gameweek except the first. He's absurdly strong on minutes. I've capped every week and he's making up for a lot of my bad decisions.

Would like to hear from those who shuffle it about. Any big successes? Any tips for the next 5 gameweeks?

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Greetings all, and welcome to your latest load of ramblings from Full 90 FPL.

You're stuck with Old Joe this week, and I've had an absolute stinker in Gameweek 8. I will try to heroically put my personal tragedy aside though, and deliver a calm and unbiased-

WHY THE HELL IS LAMMENS STILL IN MY TEAM?!

I FINALLY BRING YOU IN, MORGAN ROGERS, AND SUDDENLY YOU FORGET HOW TO SHOOT?

WHY DIDN’T I JUST GET GET TAVERNIER INSTEAD, AS I KNEW I SHOULD???

Ahem. Do excuse me.

As I was saying, here is a calm and unbiased Gameweek 9 preview:

full90fpl.com/gameweek-9-preview-2026/

Alternatively, as always, there's a short TLDR summary below.

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Best Upcoming Fixture Runs

As ever these runs come from our customisable and completley free fixture ticker.

Here are the best attacking runs over the next five gameweeks:

And the best defensive runs:

There's lots of actual analysis of the teams and players to target in the full article.

Here are a few quick takeaways, though:

• Bournemouth - Tavernier might actually be the best midfield pick in FPL right now, and he's only 6.4. Nice upcoming fixtures too
• Man City - I'm staying away from all their attackers except Haaland, the rotation is just too much. The bald fraud is dead - long live the bald fraud
• Villa - Talented attacking lineup, and I'd be more than happy to buy Nico Jackson right now
• Arsenal defence - If I was wildcarding, I'd triple up (preferably after Liverpool away). They're still the best defence in the league by miles
• Liverpool defence - I'm officially a believer. Jacquet looks particularly good value at 5.0. Again, preferably after Arsenal, but Arteta tends to play this fixture pretty defensively
• Spurs defence - Have actually looked excellent lately, and now have five very nice fixtures. Van Hecke remains the clear pick
• Brighton defence - Still very good. I'd happily hold De Cuyper through City away, and potentially double up afterwards

Should I Buy?

Here are my brutally brief verdicts on the most-bought players heading into GW9.

Full explanations are in the article, or just ask below.

• Yes - Nico Jackson, Tavernier, Konsa
• Maybe - Isak, Evanilson, Manzambi, Rogers
• No - Gabriel, Cherki, De Cuyper

I'm especially keen on Jacko right now (along with everyone else). He was my highest-upside budget forward pick last week, then promptly scored twice against City. Now he's got Fulham and Man U coming up, lovely jubbly.

Tavernier is another big (and admittedly obvious) recommendation. I've been banging on about him for weeks, then picked Rogers over him for my own team like an idiot, and was duly punished.

Should I Sell?

• Yes - Bruno F, Cherki, Wissa, Gonzalo, Odegaard
• Maybe - Joao Pedro, DCL, Palmer
• No - Calafiori

(Obviously it's also a 'Yes' to long term injured players like Saka and Szob.)

Re: JP, we need to wait for proper injury news before making any decisions.

If you're still holding Wissa I don't know what to tell you.

I'd also finally get rid of Bruno. Man U remain rubbish, as you might have heard, he's been rubbish, and he costs a fortune.

Erling Haaland's Captaincy Corner

It's Haaland, as usual. Brighton are good, but he's still the best player in the game.

JP would be my sexy alternative pick vs Man U at home, if he's definitely actually fit.

Tavernier, home to Leeds, is another sensible shout... but just be boring and give it to big Erl.

That's It

Okie dokie, that'll do it for this week.

As ever, there's far more actual detail in the main piece, if you can be arsed.

Whether you can or not, thanks for reading, everybody, and best of luck in Gameweek 9!

Typical FPL meta is to go heavy on midfield in 3-5-2 or 3-4-3. But right now? Outside of Groß and Tavernier, who is actually worth owning?

- Palmer and Rogers delivering back-to-back blanks, plus a red card for dessert. FPL heritage.

- Predicting Cherki/Foden/Doku/Ndiaye minutes is harder than finding a stray hair on Maresca's pillow.

- Gibbs-White is forced to play with Liam Delap.

- Arsenal: Saka's broken, Odegaard vanished, Rice is a DM. Triple their defence and save yourself the headache.

- Schade started season strongly. Went 1-0-2 in the last 3.

- Mbeumo plays up top for a club down bottom.

- Bruno costs 11.7 mil to watch Mbeumo.

- Liverpool mids offer zero upside when Isak hogs all the chances.

- Manzambi is in good form with lovely fixtures. Never completed 90 minutes though.

Do you think it's just a blip? Or are you binning midfield for premium forwards and defenders?

Barry obviously has a lot of chances but burns most of them. So even when he scores bonus is usually of the table.

I'm leaning more and more towards going with an extra defender and just bench him permanently.

If you get a defcon defender in a decent team, ex: Silva at Bournemouth, then I can't really see a 4-week run where the defender doesn't outperform him.

Thoughts?

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Looking at my own team, have 3 flagged players, and a few who I'd like to swap out for their upcoming run of fixtures, still got the wildcard and thinking about using it now, but unsure. Anybody else in the same boat?