Gameweek 2 Best Free Hit Team

The new Fantasy Premier League continues into it’s second week so in this article we build the Gameweek 2 best free hit team. We use the fantastic PlanFPL website and its brilliant FPL planner tool to build our Free Hit.

Our Gameweek 2 best Free Hit Team can be extremely useful to FPL managers. The Free Hit is one of several chips provided by the game. It allows managers to change their entire squad for one Gameweek only until our original team returns in the following Gameweek.

Fixtures

Below we can see the Fantasy Football Scout Fixture Ticker for Gameweek 2. The teams at the top have the easiest fixtures and the teams at the bottom have the toughest fixtures.

Who has the best fixtures?

Manchester City, Nottingham Forest, Fulham, Tottenham and Southampton sit amongst the top five teams with the easiest fixtures.

Who has the worst fixtures?

Ipswich, Brentford, Aston Villa, Arsenal and Everton all rank amongst the bottom five teams with the toughest fixtures.

Gameweek 2 Best Free Hit

Goalkeepers

Nottingham Forest have a great fixture this week against newly promoted side Southampton. The Saints failed to pick up any points against a 10-man Newcastle in Gameweek 1 which suggests that Mat Sels (£4.5m) could have clean sheet potential.

West Ham’ Lukasz Fabianski (£4m) enables vital funds elsewhere within the side.

Defenders

Pedro Porro (£5.5m) is one of three starting defenders who play at home this week. The Tottenham full-back faces an Everton side who scored the second least goals last season and who failed to score in Gameweek 1. Porro also scored two goals in pre-season after scoring two in his last three league games last season.

Another defender with plenty of attacking threat is Trent-Alexander Arnold (£7m) who faces Brentford in the game ahead. Alexander-Arnold created more big chances than any other defender last campaign and has solid clean sheet potential too this week.

Completing the attacking trio in defence is Josko Gvardiol (£6m). Manchester City picked up a clean sheet in their first game of the season against Chelsea and could add to that this week against newly promoted Ipswich.

On the bench and enabling funds elsewhere is Southampton’ Taylor-Harwood Bellis (£4m) and Leicester’s Wout Faes (£4m), both of whom are very unlikely to feature for us.

Midfielders

Manchester City’s 2+ goal per game average continued into Gameweek 1 and they have a chance to maintain that this week against Ipswich. One of several ways to benefit from that could be via 23/24 player of the season Phil Foden (£9.5m) who played 45 minutes against Chelsea in Gameweek 1.

Liverpool dominated multiple attacking statistics last season so maintaining investment in them could be key. Diogo Jota (£7.5m) appears to have done enough to sustain his starting position after netting in the first round.

Nottingham Forest have several danger men in their frontline but none are have more routes to points than talisman and set piece taker Morgan Gibbs-White (£6.5m). The Saints appear to be one of the teams to target from a defensive perspective after a concerning display in Gameweek 1.

Tottenham also have a good fixture as they clash with Everton at home. The Toffees kept the joint most clean sheets last season but shipped three goals to Brighton in the first round. With that in mind we could look to the nicely priced Brennan Johnson (£6.5m) who featured heavily for Tottenham in pre-season.

First on the bench is Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5m) who will feature only if one of the other attackers in the starting XI do not.

Forwards

Erling Haaland (£15m) continued his pre-season form after scoring against Chelsea in the first round. The Norwegian is also the standout captaincy option this week against Ipswich.

Newcastle failed to show their full offensive potential due to a red card in Gameweek 1. However, they have another good opportunity this week against Bournemouth. Their most effective attacker remains to be Alexander Isak (£8.5m). Isak bagged 21 goals last season, takes penalties and picked up an assist in his first match of the new season.

Fulham also have a lovely fixture this week. The Cottagers come up against newly promoted side Leicester which could be a good opportunity for their attackers. Spearheading the Fulham frontline is Rodrigo Muniz (£6m).