Welcome to a new series for the 2024/25 season, provided by Siva & Sam, the twisted minds behind the weekly FPL Banger Podcast. After our successful Salah captaincy in the last round of fixtures, it’s time to cook again – with their FPL tips for Gameweek 12.
Gameweek 12 FPL Tips From FPL_Banger
With the latest international break behind us, Fantasy Football fans will be eager to get stuck back into their squads – and with around two weeks to ponder changes there’s sure to have been a stack of transfers as managers ready their teams for the upcoming busy festive period.
FPL_ Banger reveals his best captain, plus has four more top picks to try and squeeze into your GW12 sides.
FPL Tips – BEST CAPTAIN
Salah (£12.9m)
Fixture: Southampton (A)
2 blanks all season for the best FPL asset of all time. After a goal and assist against Villa in GW11, the Egypt national team coach made FPL managers everywhere very happy by giving Salah a full rest during the international break.
Next up for Mo is a Southampton side who will be without first choice goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale and top (by Southampton standards anyway) center back Jan Bednarek. As we always say with captaincy, don’t over think it.
The best asset in the best team playing at home against a defence that has kept 1 clean all season, against Everton. And this time, the Southampton defence won’t have FPL fraud Dominic Calvert-Lewin to bail them out.
FPL Tips – TOP PICKS
Pope (£5m)
Fixture: West Ham (H)
Just 11 points separate the top 6 goalkeepers in FPL. It is the position that you should spend no time and no transfers on, unless you own Mark Flekken.
Nick Pope is a respectable 5th for points scored so far, and is well placed to improve that as Newcastle host a flailing West Ham who (fresh off back to back games without a goal) inexplicably are playing either 34 year old Michail Antonio or 32 year old Danny Ings at striker because their 31 year old summer signing Niclas Fullkrug has been injured all season.
This combined with the fact that Mo Kudus is still suspended should mean that a simple clean sheet for Pope is in the post.
Konate (£5.4m)
Fixture: Southampton (A)
I assume that the only reason Ibou Konate has risen in price just 4 times this season is because we’re all too busy dealing with yellow flags in our FPL teams.
Konate has matched Trent Alexander-Arnold this season despite costing a whole lot less, and arguably has more attacking threat at the moment.
Liverpool’s fixtures are a mixed bag, with tough games against Man City and Newcastle sandwiched in between easier ones v Southampton, Everton, Fulham and Spurs.
However Arne Slot’s team have been consistently solid all season, and Konate is just too cheap for a nailed route into the best defence in the league.
Palmer (£10.9m)
Fixture: Leicester (A)
After 2 back-to-back blanks I’m already seeing posts on X and Reddit about how Cole Palmer might be overpriced, that his earlier returns were a fluke and that he’s playing too deep. And that is music to my ears as a Palmer owner.
Palmer’s only blanks this season have been against Man City, Bournemouth, Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal. In other words, bar one game, he’s only blanked against traditional Big Six teams.
Between now and GW22, Palmer plays just 1 Big Six team (Spurs) and one UCL team (Villa). Cole lives to statpad against weaker teams and you’ve only got 2 options as an FPL manager: get on board now and enjoy the points, or wait and get left behind.
Alexander Isak (£8.5m)
Fixture: West Ham (H)
Have I mentioned that West Ham are really bad? The Hammers have kept 2 cleans in 11, and one of those was against Dominic Calvert-Lewin (we don’t count those).
Reports suggest that Julen Lopetegui has 2 games to save his job and seeing as those 2 games are against Newcastle and Arsenal, I think it’s safe to say that we’ll be saying hello to caretaker manager David Moyes in GW14.
In the meantime, I expect the West Ham players to do everything they can to bring this sorry reign to an end, starting with conceding a bunch of goals to an Alexander Isak who will be very hungry and very angry after blanking in a 6-0 win over Azerbaijan midweek while his strike partner Viktor Gyokeres scored 4.
A hungry forward against a team that has basically checked out under a soon-to-be-sacked coach? Sometimes FPL is just too easy.
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