Fantasy football

We round up the key Fantasy Premier League (FPL) talking points from Wednesday's Gameweek 29 fixtures in our Scout Notes summary.

It has to be said that no player has overachieved more than Kulusevski over the last four Gameweeks in terms of ‘ expected goal involvement (xGI)’, so his rate of returns will very likely slow over a more sustained period. We had to readjust it, to be honest, in early January. We have to agree on defence first because otherwise you are like any team, you win or you lose, you win or you lose. They will sleep, eat well, but thank you so much to the Premier League for putting the fixtures like this, it’s very, very helpful. Dejan Kulusevski‘s (£6.2m) assist in Tottenham Hotspur’s 2-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion, belatedly awarded by FPL Towers after a technical glitch, took his total to 42 points since his first Premier League start in Gameweek 26. They’ll also be facing a side with even less of a turnaround time, as West Ham United are in Europa League action on Thursday night. Today we win 2-0 but we had games we won 1-0 and we wouldn’t have won these games if we are not defensively spot on.” – Jurgen Klopp on the importance of clean sheets A neck-and-neck title race could be welcome news for Fantasy managers in the run-in, particularly when Liverpool and City get their last Double Gameweeks of the campaign. Spurs at least have an extra day, taking their recovery period up past the 90-hour mark. Ruben Dias (£6.2m), an immovable presence at the heart of the City defence up until that point, started just four of City’s final seven league matches. Arsenal, in fact, have less than 63 hours between full-time against Liverpool and kick-off at Villa Park on Saturday lunchtime. So, no, he doesn’t start but we have him in the back hand and he can come on, really good.” – Jurgen Klopp ahead of kick-off on Wednesday Ilkay Gundogan (£7.1m), borderline ‘essential’ during the winter months, made the starting XI in just three of his side’s last nine Premier League games.