Andy's GW1 Team Selection | FPL 26/27

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Hello, and welcome to another Black Box stream.

You're joined by me, Andy FPL Mode, and with only a few days left before the season starts, we thought it was a good idea to start talking to you about our teams and revealing who we've got.

Obviously, this is with a big caveat that things change, but I, I think I'm probably more locked now than I have been pretty much all preseason.

That's been helped a lot by the Community Shield and what's happened in that as well.

Not loads of changes in my team because of it, but it does give you a few more hints, and obviously with the last round of friendly matches that happened as well, it again gives you a few more tips as to who's gonna be playing, the minutes they're gonna be playing, whether they're gonna be starting at the weekend.

And that's really what you're looking for.

You're looking to make sure that your players you've got in are gonna be getting those minutes in the first couple of weeks.

Based on the team that I'm gonna be showing you today, I am still looking at bench boost two.

I've really debated over preseason whether I should go with bench boost one or bench boost two.

Bench boost one looks a bit more balanced, I would say, but the only thing I don't like about bench boost one is that for me...

I mean, to be fair, bench boost two does it as well.

It's, it's booking in that early wild card, but then most people play wild cards early anyway.

I just prefer bench boost two in terms of [chuckles] sounds strange, but targeting Sunderland and Coventry, which I feel is, is quite a nice differential from what other people are doing.

I also think bench boost one, when you're looking at bench boost one, Brighton are heavily featured in bench boost one, and with all their European commitments, I, I do worry that you're gonna be picking those Brighton players, and you're not guaranteed to be getting them playing in your team.

So I think that's probably the main reason I'm not a massive fan of it.

But I, I am favoring bench boost two, and you'll see that in the team that I bring up.