Gameweek 9 Best Free Hit Team

The new Fantasy Premier League continues into it’s eighth week so in this article we build the Gameweek 9 best free hit team. We use the fantastic PlanFPL website and its brilliant FPL planner tool to build our Free Hit.

Our Gameweek 9 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 9. The teams at the top have the easiest fixtures and the teams at the bottom have the toughest fixtures.

Who has the best fixtures?

Man City, Brentford, Brighton, Spurs and Everton all rank amongst the top five teams with the easiest fixtures.

Who has the worst fixtures?

Liverpool, Southampton, Arsenal, Newcastle and Bournemouth all rank amongst the bottom five teams with the toughest fixtures.

Gameweek 9 Best Free Hit

Using the PLANFPL website and its fantastic tools we present to you the Gameweek 9 best Free Hit team.

Goalkeepers

Whilst Manchester United aren’t in the top five on this weeks fixture ticker Andre Onana (£5.0m) looks a decent option against West Ham. The Hammers have struggled this season, losing 4-1 away at Spurs last weekend. They are also now without Mohammed Kudus (£6.3m) who is suspended for three matches for violent conduct.

Jordan Pickford (£4.8m) is the back up goalkeeper. His Everton side may have Jarrod Branthwaite (£4.8m) back for Gameweek 9.

Defenders

Man City’s Josko Gvardiol (£6.0m) has now scored two goals in his last three matches for last seasons Champions. Man City are top of the fixture ticker this week as they prepare to face Southampton at home. Gvardiol has potential for returns at both ends of the pitch in this one.

Pedro Porro (£5.5m) supplied more crosses than any other defender in Gameweek 8 with 12 ; indeed across the game only Savio created more with 13. Spurs face Crystal Palace in Gameweek 9 and even if the clean sheet doesn’t stick Porro offers huge attacking threat, as he sits above every other defender in the league for total attempts on goal. It should also be remembered that Spurs have conceded just eight goals this season, the same as Arsenal who are described as the leagues elite defence.

Nathan Pinnock (£4.5m) completes the back three. Brentford have good potential for a clean sheet this weekend with a fixture against Ipswich at home. However, even if the clean sheet doesn’t stick, Pinnock has now scored in back-to-back gameweeks.

Taking their place on the bench are Wolves’ Rayan Ait-Nouri (£4.4m) and Nottingham Forest’s Ola Aina (£4.5m).

Midfielders

Bryan Mbeumo (£7.5m) has scored six goals in the opening eight matches. He faces an Ipswich side who will be without key defender Jacob Greaves (£4.1m) for the coming weeks.

Spurs have scored more goals than any other Premier League team this season, so doubling up on the Lily Whites attack for their fixture against Crystal Palace makes sense. Brennan Johnson (£6.6m) was unlucky not to make it eight goals in eight matches for club and country in Gameweek 8. The midfielder was third for expected goal (xG) underachievers last weekend. He is doubled-up with Son Heung-Min (£9.8m). The South Korean returned from injury in Gameweek 9 scoring a goal and registering an assist as part of a 12 point haul. Spurs have won all five of their last five Premier League meetings with Palace. Their captain has scored in four of those games.

Dwight McNeil (£5.6m) returned another assist in Gameweek 8. He is now on six attacking returns in his last seven Premier League matches.

Finally Phil Foden (£9.2m) came off the bench for Man City in Gameweek 8 to assist the winning goal. The midfielder surely starts in Gameweek 9, however the bench in this team is strong if the Pep roulette kicks in again.

Forwards

Erling Haaland (£15.4m) has now blanked in the last three gameweeks. However, with Southampton throwing away a two goal lead at home to Leicester last time out they are struggling. Only Wolves have conceded more goals than Southampton’s 18 so far.

Completing the starting XI is Fulham’s Raul Jimenez (£5.7m). The Fulham forward has now returned in all of his last five Premier League matches. The former Wolves man seems to be back to his best and looks worthy of investment in FPL.