Gameweek 34 Newsletter

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The big news ahead of Double Gameweek 34 centres around Manchester United and Chelsea. Both teams will have two fixtures to make amends for disappointing Gameweek 33 results. (Listen, we know it's not much of a Double Gameweek, but it's still better than Burnley and Everton, and for that we should be thankful.)United will visit Arsenal in Saturday's early kick-off before hosting Tuchel's men on Thursday night. Meanwhile, Chelsea will entertain West Ham at Stamford Bridge ahead of their trip up north.It won't shock you to learn that the majority of this week's FPL attention has been focused on the blue team. Despite shipping four goals against Arsenal last week, most top managers still fancy Chelsea to win both of their Gameweek 34 games.Prepare yourself for some cutting-edge insider information: you don't win football games without scoring goals. Mason Mount, Timo Werner and Kai Havertz all have a penchant for doing exactly that, so picking the right combination might make the difference if you're scrapping it out against mini-league rivals.Defensively, Tuchel's preferred set-up remains in doubt. One thing is for certain: Antonio Rudiger has been ruled out for at least the first instalment of their double-header.Elsewhere, Cristiano Ronaldo has been pictured in training following the tragic death of his newborn son, and Erik ten Hag has been officially announced as Ralf Rangnick's successor.Now that you're in the loop, let's take a look at some stats.

Despite Mohamed Salah rediscovering his outrageous FPL form ahead of the Merseyside derby, we're going to stubbornly continue our age-old tradition of always captaining a Double Gameweek player and give Kai Havertz the armband. We haven't taken this decision lightly. The German's recent xG comes out on top when compared to his Chelsea colleagues, but Werner and Mount will definitely be popular captains this week too. Tellingly, both have enjoyed more transfers in this week than Havertz.Still, Havertz has been talismanic for the Blues over the last few months, and that reliability is what has swung it for us.