FPL Scout: Gameweek 35 Hints, Tips and Advice
Scout will be using their expertise to provide info, advice and Gameweek tips which may prove useful in ensuring you sit on top of your mini-leagues.
Best of the Bees
A cup semi-final rearrangement meant that Brentford had the weekend off last week and didn't face Nottingham Forest until Thursday night, completing Blank Gameweek 34 for FPL managers.
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Therefore, it's a good time to take a stock check on the Bees' assets, before the final four encounters versus Manchester United, Ipswich, Fulham and Wolves.
Since the turn of the year, Brentford have been a team to target for FPL managers. January saw Thomas Frank's side winning five successive trips. Easter's 4-2 victory over Brighton was the first at Gtech Community Stadium since early December, but highlighted the importance of the Bees' assets in FPL.
Chasing an eighth-place finish that would be the club's best since the 1930s, Brentford currently rank seventh for goals (58). By claiming 17 of them, Yoane Wissa (£6.6m) has been one of FPL's best forwards, while Kevin Schade (£5.1m) still has the second-biggest score for one match, grabbing 23 points against Leicester in Gameweek 13.
No goalkeeper in Europe's top five leagues has more saves than Mark Flekken (£4.4m) and, in front of him, is centre-back Nathan Collins (£4.5m), whose recent assists against Arsenal and Nottingham Forest take him up to nine attacking returns.
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However, the Bees' star FPL asset has been Mbeumo - the sole player apart from Mohamed Salah (£13.8m) to surpass 200 points in this campaign.
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His 18-point haul versus Brighton was a timely reminder to managers that he is near-essential for these final Gameweeks. This penalty-taker and frequent set-piece taker has played the most minutes of all midfielders and forwards, only once playing fewer than 88 of them, finding time to accumulate 25 attacking returns.
Simply put, Mbeumo seems irresistible for these closing Gameweeks. His ownership has slightly dropped from its 4.5 million peak but expect an imminent increase, as managers begin considering the strong captaincy potential.
Best of the Rest
Meanwhile, the first seven matches of Blank Gameweek 34 brought success to one million Free Hit users, at the time of writing. When activated, this chip lets managers pick a one-week-only FPL squad and many selected the 15 points of Matheus Cunha (£7.0m) and Kieran Trippier (£5.7m).
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Defensive team-mates Dan Burn (£4.5m), José Sá (£4.4m) and Rayan Aït-Nouri (£5.0m) each added success on top of their basic clean sheets, to achieve double-digit joy.
While Fulham went 1-0 down to Southampton, a late Ryan Sessegnon (£4.2m) winner rewarded almost 700,000 managers with 11 points.
In Demand
Mbeumo is currently the most bought individual heading into Gameweek 35, where we're back to all 20 Premier League teams playing exactly once.
Next is Cunha, having delivered two goals, three assists and 30 points in a mere 203 minutes since coming back from suspension. He's helped Wolves reach six consecutive wins, but they must travel to Man City straight after Friday night's deadline.
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His opponents Joško Gvardiol (£6.3m) and Omar Marmoush (£7.6m) complete the top four, as Pep Guardiola's side try to secure Champions League football for next season.
In terms of sales, Cole Palmer (£10.6m) keeps being ditched, having reached a stunning 12 league games without scoring.
Captaincy
Not many leading names have a standout Gameweek 34 fixture. Salah's Liverpool have already secured the Premier League title but the Egyptian still has personal records to chase. He visits his former club, Chelsea.
At Arsenal, their Champions League semi-final could keep Bukayo Saka (£10.5m) as a looked-after substitute against Bournemouth. Perhaps Mbeumo could instead be this week's answer!
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