Hot off the press with the fixtures now released, time to take a look at which teams have those supposed “easier” games.
Looking at the fixtures from gameweeks 1-8 I suspect most managers will opt for the “familiar faces”.
Man City and Liverpool look to have a good run of games and i think even the most pessimistic fan would expect 6 victories from those first 8 games.
Liverpool play two of the newly promoted teams in that period, and start with arguably the most eye catching fixture for fantasy football managers with a GW1 fixture against a newly promoted side (Norwich). Expect Salah to be a front runner for captain.
Man City’s start is to welcome ‘the Hammers’ to the Etihad. Maximum returns will also be expected, and last seasons top league scorers will hope to get the ball rolling (no pun intented) once again.
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Tottenham start the season against another of the newly promoted clubs (Villa), and whilst they do play Man City and Arsenal in the first 4 game weeks, I’d expect them to win all 4 home games (GWs 1,3,5 & 7) so a good return should be available from Harry Kane and Co.
Aston Villa are my “wildcard” pick to start the season well. Once they get the Spurs game out of the way they have a home double header of Bournemouth and Everton which are games I’m sure Dean Smith will look to get points on the board from. Jack Grealish may finally live up to the hype.
Something to whet the #FF appetite for you all anyway….
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