The second double gameweek of the season arrives on our fantasy football calendars Saturday through Thursday. Manchester United, Middlesbrough and Crystal Palace all play twice over the course of those six days, with West Brom facing a blank gameweek due to Manchester City’s FA Cup semi final involvement.

Read on as we analyse the clean sheet and anytime goalscorer odds from all of the relevant fixtures and present our Gameweek 34 squad…

Defensive odds

Team Clean sheet odds Chance of a clean sheet Man Utd 1.95 & 5.4 60% Middlesbrough 5.1 & 2.55 51% Chelsea 2.05 49% Liverpool 2.3 43% Tottenham 2.5 40% Hull 2.6 38% Bournemouth 2.62 38% Arsenal 2.8 36% Swansea 2.9 34% Man City 3.1 32% Everton 3.5 29% Stoke 3.8 26% Crystal Palace 7.5 & 6.6 26% Sunderland 4 25% Watford 4.6 22% West Ham 4.8 21% Burnley 5.4 19% Southampton 7.9 13% Leicester 10 10% West Brom No fixture No fixture

Two away games, against Burnley and Manchester City, see Manchester United top the clean sheet rankings with a 60% chance of registering a shutout in Gameweek 34. In all likelihood, the Burnley game is the one most likely to produce defensive returns for United assets, but nevertheless, with the Red Devils in possession of the best travelling defence in the league (13 goals conceded in 14 games), we opt for two of Mourinho’s men in order to maximize the double gameweek potential. David de Gea and Eric Bailly provide two of the most secure routes into the United defence, with rotation following Europa League duty on Thursday night a concern, and make our starting XI.

Middlesbrough (51%) rank second ahead of their pair of fixtures away to Bournemouth and at home to Sunderland. Boro have the sixth best defence in the division (39 goals conceded in 32 games) so, in the same vein as United, we opt to double up on their defensive assets. Ben Gibson has been the star performer from the Middlesbrough back line this term, whilst an injury to Fabio last time out should see George Friend nailed on for both fixtures in Gameweek 34.

To fill the remainder of our defensive slots, we opt for Hull’s budget shot stopper Eldin Jakupovic (£4.0m – 38%) as our backup keeper, with Everton’s Matthew Pennington (£4.0m – 29%) and Southampton’s Jack Stephens (£4.0m – 13%) taking the second and third spots on our bench respectively.

Before moving onto our analysis of the bookmakers attacking odds, a quick look at the bottom rungs of the clean sheet ladder tells us that defensive assets from Burnley (19% – home to Man United), Southampton (13% – away to Chelsea) and Leicester (10% – away to Arsenal) should be avoided this weekend, whilst West Brom do not play in Gameweek 34.

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Attacking odds

Player Anytime goalscorer odds Chance of scoring Alvaro Negredo 2.45 & 3.4 58% Alexis Sanchez 1.8 56% Diego Costa 1.87 53% Harry Kane 1.91 52% Marcus Rashford 2.9 & 4 51% Christian Benteke 3.3 & 4 48% Romelu Lukaku 2.1 48% Sergio Aguero 2.1 48% Eden Hazard 2.23 45% Theo Walcott 2.25 44% Roberto Firmino 2.4 42% Henrikh Mkhitaryan 5.2 & 3.75 41% Divock Origi 2.48 40% Paul Pogba 4 & 5.5 39% Gaston Ramirez 4.1 & 5.75 38% Joshua King 2.7 37% Son Heung-Min 2.75 36% Philippe Coutinho 2.85 35% Dele Alli 2.88 35% Fernando Llorente 2.88 35% Abel Hernandez 2.88 35% Rudy Gestede 2.88 35% Pedro 3 33% Benik Afobe 3 33% Andy Carroll 3.1 32% Jermain Defoe 3.2 31% Jamie Vardy 3.4 29% Gylfi Sigurdsson 3.4 29% Willian 3.5 29% Wilfried Zaha 6.75 & 6.3 28% Troy Deeney 3.6 28% Christian Eriksen 3.8 26% Andros Townsend 6.4 & 8 26% Raheem Sterling 3.9 26% Kamil Grosicki 3.95 25% Leroy Sane 4 25% Andre Ayew 4.1 24% Ross Barkley 4.1 24% Kevin de Bruyne 4.1 24% Marko Arnautovic 4.3 23% Peter Crouch 4.5 22% Manuel Lanzini 4.5 22% Andre Gray 4.6 22% Shane Long 4.7 21% Riyad Mahrez 4.7 21% MBaye Niang 4.9 20% Sam Vokes 5.2 19% Dusan Tadic 6.1 16% Nathan Redmond 6.1 16% Adnan Januzaj 6.25 16% Etienne Capoue 8 13% Robbie Brady 9 11% Tom Carroll 15 7%

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With the injury of Zlatan, our captaincy goes to Alvaro Negredo (58%) ahead of his double against Bournemouth and Sunderland, the third and fifth worst defences in the top flight respectively. The former Manchester City striker will be looking to build on 2 goals in his last 3 outings to help Steve Agnew’s men climb towards Premier League survival. Diego Costa (53%) completes our front three ahead of his home game against Southampton. Whilst the goals have dried up of late for the fiery Spaniard, he still has 17 to his name in the league this term and scored against the Saints in the reverse fixture back in October. With Chelsea faltering of late, he’ll need to stand up and be counted come Tuesday night.

In the middle of the park, Alexis Sanchez (56%) was back amongst the goals last time out, his 19th of the campaign, and entertains Leicester on Wednesday evening. The Foxes have the third worst travelling defence in the division – 35 goals conceded in 16 games. Eden Hazard (45%) is also selected as we double up on the Chelsea attack ahead of their Stamford Bridge clash with the Saints. 3 goals in his last 3 appearances make the Belgian the Blues’ form player at present.

Two consistent performers complete our starting XI: Roberto Firmino (42%) and Josh King (37%). Firmino has produced attacking returns in each of his last 6 outings (3 goals, 4 assists) and has a home clash with Crystal Palace to look forward to, whilst Bournemouth’s Norwegian OOP prospect has chalked up 9 goals and an assist in the last 10 gameweeks and enjoys home comforts against Middlesbrough on Saturday afternoon. Wilfried Zaha’s (28%) double gameweek away to Liverpool and at home to Tottenham sees him take first spot on our bench, with the Palace trickster producing 2 goals and 3 assists over his last 6 games.

The bookies also fancy the chances of Theo Walcott, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Paul Pogba and Gaston Ramirez, but the quartet fail to make our squad due to a lack of starting security surrounding the former, whilst we have already reached our maximum allocation of 3 players from both Manchester United and Middlesbrough.