GW31 has just 5 fixtures and if you are one of the many managers who have planned for a free hit this GW then we bring you our picks on the best teams you can build up for this week with of course keeping team value in mind.



The first thing to do while building a FH team is to choose the lowest priced GK on the bench as we wont be using his points for this week. The second important thing is to have one of your three outfield bench players be someone who will actually get some points in the unlikely event of one of your main XI players not playing the game due to unforeseen conditions. This means that we have two spaces for non playing lowest priced players. Lets have a look at these players for every position. Remember that we do not care if these players blank or play.

Lowest priced non-playing bench players

GK Hamer (HUD) £ 3.9m DEF Simpson (BOU) £ 3.8m DEF Connolly (CAR) £ 3.8m MID Romeu (SOU) £ 4.2m MID Bacuna (HUD) £ 4.2m FWD Surridge (BOU) £ 4.5m FWD Crouch (BUR) £ 4.5m

Building your team

As we have a free-hit to pick the best team to field, the problem lies in picking the three best players from the teams we know will do well and then filling up the team with star players from smaller teams. Liverpool and Chelsea are the two top-6 teams featuring in this GW and you would want to capitalize by picking up as many players as you can from these two teams.

Liverpool – Alisson, Dijk, TAA, Robertson, Salah, Mane are all good picks.

Chelsea – Hazard, Higuain (may be out due to illness) are good picks.



Apart from these West Ham have an easy match for their defenders as they face Huddersfield, Fabianski is an obvious shout out but you can also fill up defensive spaces with Rice and Diop. Anderson has been very poor on the attacks so we will ignore him for now, but is a nice pick if a better alternative is not in sight.

Bournemouth play at home and their attack is great value for money, if you haven’t read yet, do check out our blog about the best BOU players here. Fraser, Brooks in MID and Wilson King in attack are great shouts, you can have Ake in the defense if you fancy a BOU cleansheet.

Leicester play Burnley and there are some good picks on both sides. Barnes, Maddison, Tielemans are good midfield picks for LEI and so are McNeil and Westwood for BUR. Vardy (LEI) and Barnes, Wood (BUR) are good picks for forwards.

Fulham and Huddersfield options do not make it into the ‘good picks’ category for this week. Everton have some decent players like Sigurdsson and Digne but facing a Chelsea side full of confidence after their thumping Europa match may be difficult. Newcastle too have some decent options in midfield and up top but do stay away from NEW defence for this week.

Best Team : £101.9m

As you can see from the crude markings, Hamer, Simpson and Crouch will go on the bench. Choosing which player from the remaining 12 goes on the bench is entirely dependent on your choice. Subsequently, lower team values can have the following replacements for Maddison, according to your money-caps.

Player Price Team Value Maddison £ 6.8m £ 101.9m+ Pedro £ 6.3m £ 101.4m+ Tielemans £ 6.0m £ 101.1m+ Barnes £ 5.5m £ 100.6m+ Westwood £ 4.6m £ 99.7m+ McNeil £ 4.4m £ 99.5m+

Incase you still need money elsewhere, you can replace Azpi with Ake/Clyne or David Luiz.



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