Community Team Reveal Gameweek 9 – Bakchod FPL

Each Gameweek brings an FPL community team reveal. As a result, that person gives insight into their transfers, captaincy and future plans.

Ahead of Gameweek 9, it’s the turn of Bakchod FPL to tell us what is happening to their team.

Hi Bakchod and thanks for the team reveal. So how is your season going?

Currently, I am ranked 1.2m overall. There’s been a few successes:

Starting with Ollie Watkins and Sven Botman
I quickly moved out my Man United midfielders. Marcus Rashford was gone after Gameweek 2 and Bruno Fernandes left after Gameweek 4 (whilst getting his 12-pointer)
Already had three Man City attackers by Gameweek 6, Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez and Erling Haaland
I was also onto Pedro Porro by Gameweek 3

Unfortunately, a few misses as well:

No Mohamed Salah
Beginning with Gabriel over William Saliba
Andre Onana is still my primary goalkeeper
I jumped late onto Bryan Mbeumo and Raheem Sterling. Although keeping the faith to get Sterling’s 16-pointer in Gameweek 8 can hopefully be repeated by Mbeumo at the weekend

What does your team look like before transfers?

I will be wildcarding next week, so am looking at Gameweek 9 as an experimental one to dead-end my team.

In my quest for punts, there are six stand-out fixtures. The ones of Man United, Brentford, Wolves, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Newcastle.

Spurs and Man City have good games too but I am already stacked up on them.

So what are your transfer plans for Gameweek 9?

From the first two, the only player being considered was Bruno Fernandes – his non-penalty expected goal involvement per 90 (NPxGI/90) is 0.65. But overall, Man United haven’t been very convincing and my front line of Haaland, Alvarez and Watkins needs neither Rasmus Hojlund nor Mbeumo’s team-mate Yoane Wissa.

Meanwhile, one of the players I will be purchasing is Wolves’ Pedro Neto. Opponents Bournemouth have conceded the second-most shots on target (51) and his NPxGI/90 is 0.52, with six assists better than all but Watkins. Neto is one of just seven players to have 20+ key passes so far and is the fourth-most bought midfielder heading into Gameweek 9.

When looking at Nottingham Forest v Luton, I still prefer Neto to Morgan Gibbs-White and his NPxGI/90 of 0.38.

And then there’s Liverpool. Of course, I would love to get Salah in. But I’ll just cross my fingers and hope he blanks this time, before having a red carpet laid out to welcome him in the Wildcard.

Given my strong forward trio, Darwin Nunez isn’t under consideration but I do want some Liverpool coverage.

	Mins played	NPxGI/90
Mohamed Salah	683	0.91
Luis Diaz	544	0.51
Cody Gakpo	320	0.58
Darwin Nunez	313	1.08
Diogo Jota	287	0.56

Although he’s their most-nailed attacking starter after Salah, Luis Diaz has the lowest NPxGI/90 of the five albeit from a much higher number of minutes.

Therefore it comes down to Neto and Diaz. Bournemouth have let in 18 so far with 18.75 expected goals conceded (xGC), whilst Everton have allowed 12 from 10.20. Combining this better fixture with having a bigger individual involvement in goals (77% compared to 12%), I’m going with Neto.

And the final fixture is where my other transfer is appearing – Kieran Trippier. He has a good chance of clean sheeting versus Crystal Palace and hopefully he can add another assist.