FPL Gameweek 1 Tips: Last Minute

There’s plenty of FPL Gameweek 1 Tips from the community as the first deadline of the season draws closer.

Your last minute FPL Gameweek 1 Tips are packed with tweets, articles, videos and podcasts from the Fantasy Football Community.

Squad

First up, panellists from Fantasy Football Scout have shared their squad picks for the FPL Gameweek 1 tips. There’s some great insight here, especially for those planning to treat the opening gameweek as a Free Hit, with a planned early wildcard.

? The Scout Squad returns for 2020/21!

❓ Find out who @DavidMunday815, @FPLCruyff74, @LetsTalk_FPL and @SkontoRigga have picked in their Gameweek 1 squads ahead of Friday's Scout Picks selection:https://t.co/20k2f461Ds #FPL #GW1 #FantasyPL #FPLCommunity
— Fantasy Football Scout (@FFScout) September 10, 2020

Graphic

One of the big dilemmas dominating the conversation this weekend is around the captaincy. There are three premium players who form the front runners and FPL Visuals has done the statistical work to help make those informed decisions.

? CAPTAINCY PICKS #GW1
–#SALAH vs #AUBAMEYANG vs #MANE
Against Promoted Teams (2018-2019)
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Who is your captain so far?
♻️+❤️#fpl #FPLCommunity
Stats from @FFH_HQ. pic.twitter.com/oXXEq6Aj09
— FPL Visuals (@iDesW) September 9, 2020

Defenders

Selecting five defenders for Gameweek 1 has become a real problem, with activity in the transfer window causing confusion on the lineups for our Premier League clubs. The FPL Fan Show run through some of the key options.

THE BEST DEFENDERS FOR GW1! ?

? NEW VIDEO ?

? Trent / Robertson / Doherty
? The 4.5M Defenders!
? Spurs + Wolves Assets
✅ 4M Options
✍️ Our Back 5 Choice

Watch ? https://t.co/rTvKEnpFHA #FPL #FantasyPremierLeague pic.twitter.com/k091rTW4v1
— FPL Fan Show (@FPLFanShow) September 9, 2020

Salah

Mo Salah has divided opinion in the community ahead of the new season, with many managers wondering whether to go with or without the Egyptian. It was the key topic of the FPL Wire podcast this week.

?️New Episode Alert?️

Mo or NoFoMo – The FPL Wire Ep 2 @zophar666 , @BigManBakar & I discuss a lot on this one including wildcards, No Mo, Eve, Lei, New, Kai, Caps & Our Teams.

RTs & Subscribes appreciated 🙂

Thank You @DreamSetGo_Co @FFScout #FPL https://t.co/uPwJNAjDqY
— Lateriser12 (@lateriser12) September 8, 2020

Advice

Approach to the season is equally as important as selecting the best players in FPL. To that end, FPL Tipz has compiled one top piece of advice from a number of high profile content creators in the community, including ourselves.

? Advice from the Community ?

I asked your favourite #FPLCommunity members and content creators what they would give as their 1 piece of advice for a successful FPL season!

They are all shown below, with links to their pages ??

Enjoy, follow all and Retweet #FPL pic.twitter.com/g37WYtK7Tb
— FPLTIPZ (Harry) (@FPLTIPZ) September 9, 2020

Guide

With many headaches coming to the fore with just a few days and hours remaining, there’s a handy Ultimate Guide available over on the Playmaker app courtesy of Neil Murray and his team. It’s well worth checking out ahead of the deadline.

Starting to feel stressed with 4 days left?

Not sure what formation to play let alone which 4.5M defenders to pick?

Chill! @GetPlaymaker has you covered with "The Ultimate Guide to #FPL 20/21" written & curated by @FplKaja with content from YOU! https://t.co/FE7tb3WbEA
— Neil Murray #FPL (@roneildinho) September 8, 2020

Maths

The most insightful piece of content this pre-season has been provided in this lecture from Joshua Bull, the winner of FPL last season. He’s a mathematical researcher and the applications of maths to FPL are incredible.

Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Joshua Bull – Can maths tell us how to win at Fantasy Football? https://t.co/EGMajpAliU
— Oxford Mathematics (@OxUniMaths) September 8, 2020

Strategy

Strategy is going to be bigger than ever this season, partly because of the Blank Gameweek 1 for Manchester City, Aston Villa, Burnley and Manchester United. The Who Got The Assist? podcast look at four ways we can navigate this.

WGTA S4E4: Which early season strategy are we adopting? ?️?
In our final preseason pod, we look through 4 approaches #FPL managers seem to be playing with ahead of GW1 to debate the pros & cons of each ?
Plus Correspondence?& Q+A❓
❤️♻️ appreciated
?⤵️https://t.co/I5spMxYtZs
— Who Got The Assist? (Tom) (@WGTA_FPL) September 8, 2020

Records

FPL Vs is back for the FPL Gameweek 1 tips, crunching the numbers on the historical records of some of our favourite assets for the respective fixtures they have this week. Things look promising for Harry Kane to get another goal against Everton.

#FPL Forwards ? #GW1 #Vardy ? #WBA
?️?️?️?️?️?️?️
⚽⚽⚽⚽#Kane ? #Everton ?
?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️?️
⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽#Ings ? #Palace
?️?️?️?️?️
⚽⚽⚽#Antonio ? #Newcastle
?️?️?️?️
⚽#Jiménez ? #SheffU
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?️ pic.twitter.com/KS7i5DO8Bx
— ???? (@FPL_vs) September 8, 2020

Odds

The bookies odds can be very insightful when it comes to nailing down those selections and captaincy. FPL Salah provides the latest anytime goalscorer odds percentages, and it’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang who leads the way from Mo Salah and Timo Werner.

#GW1 anytime scorer odds %

Aubameyang: 58%
Salah: 55%
Werner: 54%
Mane: 48%
Kane: 47%
Vardy: 46%
Ings: 43%
Lacazette: 42%
Pulisic: 38%
Havertz: 38%
Antonio: 36%
Jimenez: 36%
Firmino: 35%
Son: 33%
Haller: 32%
Ziyech: 32%
Mitrovic: 31%
Alli: 30%
Maupay: 30%
Ayew: 28%
DCL: 27%
— Abdul Rehman (@FPL_Salah) September 8, 2020

Captains

It’s the same names in the frame for FPL Tips when it comes to his top three captaincy picks for the FPL Gameweek 1 tips. He looks at the key data for goals and assists, in an attempt to split this tempting trio ahead of the deadline.

? NEW #FPL VIDEO ?

? Top 3 Captaincy Picks for #GW1

➡️https://t.co/q5CgriJ69F pic.twitter.com/mR0sHuCLjj
— FPLtips (@_FPLtips) September 10, 2020

Injuries

As always, Ben Dinnery brings us the all-important injury news ahead of the deadline and some of the biggest news comes from Chelsea. Christian Pulisic will be available, but on the other hand, new signings Hakim Ziyech and Ben Chilwell won’t make it.

Lampard confirms Ziyech (knee) will not be ready for the trip to the Amex. "We hope it will only be a couple of weeks." Chilwell (heel) is training but Monday comes too soon. Silva will not start training until the weekend, and therefore, he's unlikely to be considered. #CFC
— Ben Dinnery (@BenDinnery) September 10, 2020

Premiums

One thing is for sure, we will be chopping and changing our premium players in the opening weeks of the season. While many have forecasted Gameweek 3 as the time to bring in a Manchester City player, a move for a Manchester United player is tricky. Bakar shares his thoughts.

Salah to Bruno in GW2 might be the play to make. Can't see myself captaining Salah in any of the next 4 fixtures (che ARS avl shu). 3/4 games are away and history suggests that Salah isn't as prolific away from home when playing with Mane. Could allow for better use of funds #FPL
— AbuBakar Siddiq (@BigManBakar) September 7, 2020

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