Hive FPL Head to Head League GW31 Previews

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Welcome back to another week in the Hive head to head FPL.

The Easter bank holiday makes for a quick turnaround so be sure to get your squad changes in prior to the opening fixtures for GW31 on Tuesday evening.

GW30 saw sides generally reliant on popular picks such as Son, Palmer and Salah doing the business. Big points were on offer from the likes of Ben Breton-Diaz (owned by 0.1% of managers) and his Sheffield United teammate Ollie McBurnie who was selected by just 4800 managers across the entire game. If you had one of those 2 guys in your team last week then hats off to you!

However, with things getting a bit tense at the top of the table then perhaps managers should start looking for assets who are involved in the relegation scrap as opposed to those who are battling for the title!

It was another fairly drab game between City and Arsenal this season as the visitors in paticular decided to settle for a point while the defending champions failed to really hit their stride. With City at home to a Villa side on Thursday that has already shut them out once this season then things don't look likely to get any easier for managers to extract points from City's high price attacking assets.

If managers are looking for alternative buys for the run in then here are a few to consider

Rodrigo Muniz

Club: Fulham
Position: Forward
Price: £4.7 mil

The loss of Mitrovic over the summer clearly had a major impact on Fulham during the first of this season and it's no great surprise that their more consistent performances of late have coincided with the discovery of a goal-scorer in the form of Muniz. Despite having scored 8 times in his last 8 Premier League matches he's still only owned by 8% of teams making him a very useful and very affordable differential.

Fulham play away at Forest this week and they do have fixtures against Liverpool and City on the horizon but otherwise you'd fancy that the Cottagers and Muniz can continue their current late season run for a top half finish.

Antoine Semenyo

Club: Bournemouth
Position: Forward
Price: £4.5 mil

Semenyo has been in and out of the Bournemouth side this season but appears to be very much in the manager's thinking at the moment having started the last 5 Premier League matches for the Cherries. In his last 4 appearances he's looked a real menace registering expected goal involvements of 1.87 and hitting the back of the net on 3 occasions.

Upcoming fixtures against Palace and Luton might also produce further opportunities for points and he is owned by just 3.1% of teams at the moment. The disadvantage is that he's listed as a forward without regularly playing as such, so it's probably a straight pick between him and Muniz.

Nicolas Jackson

Club: Chelsea
Position: Forward
Price: £6.8 mil

Ok so he and Chelsea are shit, let's just make that very clear from the off but with the Blues due to have some double game weeks between now and the end of the season then managers will be thinking about who they can bring in to utilise that advantage.

3 times as many managers own Darwin Nunez who like Jackson continues to spurn plenty of opportunities and costs 0.7 mil more than the Chelsea man! Jackson has also managed a goal involvement in 3 of his last 4 games and at least for the first half of April, the West London club have a winnable run of fixtures.

Morgan Gibbs-White

Club: Notts Forest
Position: Midfield
Price: £5.7 mil

Forest are going to need their main men to step-up for the remainder of the season if they are to escape relegation. Even if they don't go down then the risk of further FFP sanctions will probably mean they are left having to sell the likes of Gibbs-White and plenty of Premier League clubs will be interested in a player who has provided 20 assists Premier League assists since the start of last season.

2 of those have come in his last 2 games where he's set-up another key man for Forest in Chris Wood. If Forest can keep Wood fit then Gibbs-White can provide him with the ammunition to fire them to safety. Forest's run-in includes matches against Everton, Sheffield United and Burnley.

Malo Gusto

Club: Chelsea
Position: Defender
Price: £4.3 mil

Was a popular pick earlier in the season but quickly fell out of favour with managers after his red card against Villa. After that, he started just 1 of the next 11 Premier League matches due to injury, suspension and the availability of Reece James but in recent months he's come back into the side and is looking like one of the few good signings alongside Cole Palmer that Chelsea have made this season.

For much the same reason as Nicolas Jackson, many will now be considering Gusto. In fact, his ownership shot-up for the home match against Burnley to leave him in 10% of Premier League squads but Chelsea were unable to keep a clean sheet against the relegation threatened 10 men. While defensive frailty is likely to persist, going forward, he is ranked no.1 on ICT creativity for defenders over the last 5 GWs.

GW30 Results

Prizes for winners of last week's head to head matches will be sent soon.

Division 1

Team	Hive Account	Score	Score	Team	Hive Account
Nonz FC	@nonsowrites	36	53	WhyteFC	@Ipalibo
FC McKane	@McKane	40	58	Legion Fc	@b0s
Hiveheadz	@borran	55	57	Creekside FC	@pappyelblanco
Augment Fc	@vickoly	55	62	Espada Numero Uno	@elmose
The Amirians	@amirtheawesome1	61	48	I Feel Qatari	@deniskj
@BlockchainFPL	@blockchainFPL	61	79	Lazz	@Martinlazizi
Shamzy FC	@shamzy	62	68	Suffragette City	@talesfrmthecrypt
YAGMAN FC	@yagman01	63	59	Izanagi FC	@belemo
thoth442FC	@thoth442	66	53	Content Creators	@Pvmihalache
Likodra FC	@teofilex11	74	59	Hungry Lions	@GvKanten

Division 2

Team	Hive Account	Score	Score	Team	Hive Account
Folox fc	@thelonegreywolf	42	47	EVIAN CF	@nasfyneboy92
Satoshi99	@kraken99	40	57	HighWay2Anfield	@kenechukwu97
Apples and Pears	@stuartcturnbull	40	49	MUFC	@tiyumtaba
Rosh FC	@officialrosh1	55	40	Michupa Brasil F.C.	@michupa
Stevelight (Herbae)	@Herbae	64	63	Simcard fpl	@akomoajong
Samostically	@samostically	39	25	Happy Fc	@Happy411
SOLAT	@reservedsingle	56	67	Tequeños United	@aaalviarez
Mount Everest	@khaleesii	56	51	Unbothered	@Dapomolaaaa
The inferno Squad	@jimah1k	33	70	Formidable Milano	@Damolexy
Stevenson FC	@stevenson7	33	67	Roboski	@Gentleshaid
Lens world fc	@Lensworld	33	78	The Beast	@iamchuks
Tengo Rangers FC	@tengolotodo	61	73	RHYDA1	@rhyda1
Twycejoy	@twicejoy	58	54	valchiz fc	@valchiz
Uwabbs Fc	@uwabbs001	53	35	Diistroyers	@diikaan
AVERAGE	n/a	47	65	Beyond Horizon	@beyondhorizonmm
Stom FC	@stomade	45	45	Praiz Empire	@praizking
Hivetastic	@acidyo	37	41	adedayoolumide	@adedayoolumide
Skander TN	@skanderh	30	55	Smiley Team	@carita-feliz
rubilu	@rubilu	39	70	Yahuzah	@yahuzah
George Of D Jungle	@George-dee	47	84	Testing FC	@sperosamuel15
Emeka4	@Emeka4	32	46	legaliza	@legalizabrazil
abu78	@abu78	30	39	HappyBoys FC	@Happyboy1
BLAngechys Matildas	@blanchy	55	46	racibo	@racibo

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GW31 Fixtures

I don't have time to do the full preview of the Division 1 fixtures for GW31 as a result of the tight turnaround in game weeks.

I will however look to do some more targeted previews from GW32 onwards of the really key head to heads in both Division 1 and Division 2 as we get to the business end of the season and teams battle for survival and promotion.

Division 1

Team	Hive Account		Team	Hive Account
Legion Fc	@b0s	v	Shamzy FC	@shamzy
Suffragette City	@talesfrmthecrypt	v	thoth442FC	@thoth442
Content Creators	@Pvmihalache	v	YAGMAN FC	@yagman01
Izanagi FC	@belemo	v	The Amirians	@amirtheawesome1
I Feel Qatari	@deniskj	v	Augment Fc	@vickoly
Espada Numero Uno	@elmose	v	@BlockchainFPL	@blockchainFPL
Lazz	@Martinlazizi	v	Likodra FC	@teofilex11
Hungry Lions	@GvKanten	v	Hiveheadz	@borran
Creekside FC	@pappyelblanco	v	Nonz FC	@nonsowrites
WhyteFC	@Ipalibo	v	FC McKane	@McKane

Division 1

Team	Hive Account		Team	Hive Account
Folox fc	@thelonegreywolf	v	Mount Everest	@khaleesii
The inferno Squad	@jimah1k	v	SOLAT	@reservedsingle
Stevenson FC	@stevenson7	v	Samostically	@samostically
Lens world fc	@Lensworld	v	Stevelight (Herbae)	@Herbae
Tengo Rangers FC	@tengolotodo	v	Rosh FC	@officialrosh1
Twycejoy	@twicejoy	v	Apples and Pears	@stuartcturnbull
Uwabbs Fc	@uwabbs001	v	Satoshi99	@kraken99
AVERAGE	n/a	v	EVIAN CF	@nasfyneboy92
Stom FC	@stomade	v	HighWay2Anfield	@kenechukwu97
Hivetastic	@acidyo	v	MUFC	@tiyumtaba
Skander TN	@skanderh	v	Michupa Brasil F.C.	@michupa
rubilu	@rubilu	v	Simcard fpl	@akomoajong
George Of D Jungle	@George-dee	v	Happy Fc	@Happy411
Emeka4	@Emeka4	v	Tequeños United	@aaalviarez
abu78	@abu78	v	Unbothered	@Dapomolaaaa
BLAngechys Matildas	@blanchy	v	Formidable Milano	@Damolexy
racibo	@racibo	v	Roboski	@Gentleshaid
HappyBoys FC	@Happyboy1	v	The Beast	@iamchuks
legaliza	@legalizabrazil	v	RHYDA1	@rhyda1
Testing FC	@sperosamuel15	v	valchiz fc	@valchiz
Yahuzah	@yahuzah	v	Diistroyers	@diikaan
Smiley Team	@carita-feliz	v	Beyond Horizon	@beyondhorizonmm
adedayoolumide	@adedayoolumide	v	Praiz Empire	@praizking

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Good luck in your head to head fixtures this week!

Comments

[tengolotodo]

Oh shoot the game week is today! Thanks for the reminder

[talesfrmthecrypt]

Yeah they sneak up on you with these midweek rounds and I don't know about you but I lose track of what day is anyway around these bank holiday weekends

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[sperosamuel15]

I don't know for others but I'm never ever going to let Nicholas Jackson inside my team... He plays football that's so so annoying.

I used my wildcard 😢, hopefully it pays off

[talesfrmthecrypt]

lol. Fair enough.

I had him in my team at the start of the season and he was shit. The only he did consistently was get booked!

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[blockchainfpl]

And after tonight's game, he'll have accumulated enough yellows for a 2 match ban.

[talesfrmthecrypt]

That'll help his expected goals vs goals record though

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