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Even if you’re left cursing a disastrous score in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) this weekend, winning a cool £10,000 will be a nice tonic come Sunday evening.
This is all thanks to the free-to-play weekly Fantasy5 game, where there are various other prizes on offer beyond the whopping jackpot.
And best of all, it won’t cost you a penny to be in with a chance of landing the huge cash windfall or any of the prizes, which this month includes an iPad.
You can even set up a mini-league and compete with colleagues, friends and family – something we’ve done this week.
On Thursday, Fantasy Football Scout unveiled a nine-week battle that pits ten staff members and Pro Pundit experts against each other. To determine who truly has the best eye for a Fantasy player, the FFS Challenge mini-league will take place between Gameweeks 12 and 20.
A small prize is up for grabs but, more importantly, so are bragging rights. Below the ‘how to’, you can see which players the Scout crew have selected for Gameweek 12.
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HOW DOES FANTASY 5 WORK?
Fantasy5 is free to play and it follows the exact same scoring system as FPL, just without the bonus points.
It’s as simple as this: pick a player from each of the five Gameweek 12 matches below and, if they all exceed their ‘points targets’ (a par score set by Fantasy5 for each asset), you’ll be in the money:
- Watford vs Manchester United
- Wolves vs West Ham United
- Liverpool vs Arsenal
- Manchester City vs Everton
- Tottenham Hotspur vs Leeds United
Anyone who manages to pick five successful outperformers will be in the money, with a £10,000 prize up for grabs!
Even if you don’t succeed in getting all five right, Fantasy5’s leaderboard allows you to win prizes beyond the £10k jackpot – as seen in the image above.
Competition is limited to one entry per person per round. Full terms and conditions are here.
The deadline for this week’s entries is at 15:00 GMT on Saturday November 20.
SCOUT’S PICKS FOR GAMEWEEK 12 OF FANTASY5
The most-selected players for each match are:
- Watford v Man Utd: Ronaldo (6), Fernandes (4)
- Wolves v West Ham: Antonio (3), Bowen, Fornals, Jimenez (2)
- Liverpool v Arsenal: Tsimikas (4), Smith-Rowe, van Dijk (2)
- Man City v Everton: Cancelo (3), Foden, Bernardo (2)
- Spurs v Leeds: Son, Kane, Emerson (3)
Cristiano Ronaldo is chosen most often by the ten, as he travels to Vicarage Road to face a Watford side that is still without a clean sheet. The others have sided with Bruno Fernandes.
The other four games have a wider spread, although Spurs and Man City are heavily backed to overcome Leeds and Everton respectively.
Kostas Tsimikas has been selected four times, under the assumption that Andrew Robertson’s hamstring tear will rule him out of the Saturday evening encounter with Arsenal.
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2 years, 11 months agoHad a look at the last few games for Arsenal and Everton and feel no closer to deciding whether to take a chance on Cancelo or Foden over Salah with captaincy or not.
In favour of Salah:
- Arsenal clearly prefer to have the ball on the right when attacking. Saka of course is a handful for defenders to deal with so they like having him on the ball a lot but Tomiyasu looks very solid and tracks back well and covers a lot of ground.
- On the other side, whether it's Tierney or Tavares playing they concede a lot of chances, particularly if Tavares is playing. When the opposition is a team that likes to have the ball he seems to tuck in beside the CB a lot, leaving the RB with space to put in crosses and the RW to cut in or move into the box more easily. The Arsenal LB tends to break forward to make runs into space in the box when Arsenal attack on the right leaving gaps in behind if the opposition get the chance to break
- Salah is Salah and already has an excerpt record against Arsenal
In favour of Cancelo/Foden:
- Everton give up a ridiculous amount of space and therefore chances on both flanks. Spurs might not have had a shot on target against them but Reguilon and Emerson got into some very forward spaces, looking at the chances I can't believe neither managed to get a return.
- Everton are really weak at defending setpieces. They've conceded 3 in their last 4 from corners (which Foden often takes) and all of them should have been avoided.
- They're pretty poor at defending crosses in general, the space wingbacks and wingers get to cross doesn't help I'm sure. (Yerry Mina being back may help with this, although not sure he'll start after being out for a while)
- The gap between the defenders and midfield tends to be fairly big when defending against teams that have willing and fluid central runners. Against Wolves Jimenez, Hwang and Trincao slipped into these gaps countless times causing them issues again and again