Gameweek 12 Best Free Hit Team

The new Fantasy Premier League continues this week, so in this article we build the Gameweek 12 best free hit team. We use the fantastic PlanFPL website and its brilliant FPL planner tool to build our Free Hit.

Our Gameweek 12 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.

Note: This article will be updated closer to the deadline.

Fixtures

Below we can see the Fantasy Football Scout Fixture Ticker for Gameweek 12. The teams at the top have the easiest fixtures and the teams at the bottom have the toughest fixtures.

Who has the best fixtures?

Liverpool, Fulham, Manchester United, Everton and Aston Villa all rank amongst the top five teams with the easiest fixtures.

Who has the worst fixtures?

Nottingham Forest, Tottenham, Southampton, Leicester, and Crystal Palace all rank amongst the bottom five teams with the toughest fixtures.

Gameweek 12 Best Free Hit

Using the PLANFPL website and its fantastic tools we present to you the Gameweek 12 best free hit team.

Goalkeepers

Goalkeepers continue to disappoint so spending as little as possible between the sticks could be ideal. Although short of clean sheets Brentford’s Mark Flekken (£4.5m) has managed two four-point returns in his last four matches due to saves. Everton have failed to score in any of their last two games, so Flekken could have multiple routes to points this week.

Defenders

After returning to full fitness and resting during the international break, Reece James (£4.9m) could be raring to go. The Chelsea captain takes set pieces, and offers attacking threat from open play. He faces a Leicester side who have sustained poor attacking data thus far.

Aston Villa play at home this week, which is a venue they tend to be much better at. Full-back Lucas Digne (£4.7m) goes into the next game off the back of creating two assists in his latest match for France. Prior to the game Digne had already registered three assists in all competitions this season, which displays his creativity.

Arsenal will be hoping to get back to winning ways this week, but also recapture their excellent defensive form from last season. Injuries at the back could indicate that Jurrien Timber (£5.5m) should start. This would make him the cheapest route into the Arsenal backline.

Filling up the bench and unlikely to feature is Newcastle’s Lewis Hall (£4.4m) and Cameron Burgess (£3.9m).

Midfielders

Bruno Fernandes (£8.4m) appears to be finding his feet this season. The Manchester United penalty taker produced two double-digit hauls in his previous two matches. He faces the worst side in the league for big chances conceded next up, Ipswich.

Monitoring Cole Palmer’s (£10.9m) fitness will be key ahead of his game against newly promoted Leicester. With seven goals and five assists already this season, the Chelsea penalty taker is the second highest scorer in FPL this season so far.

Another player flagged, but likely to start is Bryan Mbeumo (£7.9m). Brentford’s talisman and penalty taker faces an inconsistent Everton next up. Mbeumo could make it 10 returns in 12 matches this week, which would extend his excellent form this season.

Facing the worst side in the league this week, it could be dangerous to go without penalty taker Mohamed Salah (£12.9m). Seven double-digit hauls this season already, makes the Liverpool talisman the most explosive fantasy asset in the game so far.

Fulham have a fantastic home fixture against a Wolves side who have been one of the worst defences in the league so far. One of the best ways to take advantage of that is with Emile Smith Rowe (£5.9m). Smith Rowe produced a goal and an assist in his last three games.

Forwards

Aston Villa’s home match against Crystal Palace appears too good to ignore from an attacking perspective. For that reason, it could be hugely rewarding to back striker Ollie Watkins (£9m) who has managed five goals and two assists this season.

Another striker who could do really well this week is Alexander Isak (£8.5m). Isak has scored in each of his last three league matches and also goes into his next match against a poor West Ham defence, off the back of bagging a goal and an assist in his latest game for country.

Sitting first on the bench is Strand Larsen (£5.6m). Wolves may be inconsistent in terms of results but they have scored in every match since Gameweek 1. Larsen is a cheap and effective route into a frontline who faces Fulham next up.