Marc Jobling: Gameweek 28 Team Reveal
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 28, it’s the turn of Marc Jobling to tell us what is happening to his team.
Hi Marc and thanks for the team reveal. How did Gameweeks 26 and 27 go?
Since last time, I’ve had two green arrows and a rise from 447k to 274k, despite getting the Cole Palmer captaincy call wrong. I had no intention of trusting the Chelsea man but, hey, I’m extremely vulnerable to social media masses turning one way.
The big Gameweek 26 boost was mostly caused by the 13 points of Daniel Munoz, while Gameweek 27 had a double Arsenal clean sheet plus the good luck of Morgan Rogers’ goal being my autosub for absent Alexander Isak.
What does your defence look like?
It continues to deliver, I’m very pleased with the backline. All four succeeded in the latest round of action and I like their imminent fixtures too. To the point where I don’t like benching Vitalii Mykolenko versus Wolves. In Gameweek 27, yet again, I sidelined his return.
Meanwhile, what about your midfield and attack?
By using the latest two transfers on Chris Wood and Matheus Cunha, I reached a place where I was happy. But then the Wolves forward got himself another ban for lashing out, so it’s 3-5-2 this week.
I’d like Jarrod Bowen against Newcastle but can’t find a problem with these five. Even Palmer is worth keeping for a bit longer, after I wrote a piece for Scout on his underlying stats and bad luck.
My team is template but I like the idea of following these rises with a safe few weeks, before executing a chip strategy to attack the final stretch.
So what are your transfer plans for Gameweek 28 and beyond?
Stage one of that is to roll this transfer and wait for more information. Although if Isak joins Cunha in being unavailable, I might move forward the Omar Marmoush purchase.
I’ll hopefully enter Blank Gameweek 29 with 10 men – though no Nottingham Forest defender at Ipswich – possibly proceeding with a plan of Wildcard 31, Bench Boost 32 and Free Hit 33.
As so many popular players are already confirmed for Blank Gameweek 34, an instinctive Free Hit usage suddenly feels less needed. Whereas Gameweek 33 has poor Newcastle, Forest and Chelsea fixtures coinciding with West Ham v Southampton and several doubles. I’d go all-in on Man City’s pair.
Obviously that could all change, though.
Finally, what about captaincy?
I’m not making the same mistake as last time. It’s the league’s best player, having the greatest ever FPL season, at home to last-placed Southampton. Mohamed Salah no questions asked.
Good luck and thank you for the team reveal!
