Do not rebuild your team after one weekend. Keep players who started in the expected role and focus transfers on clear problems.

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What to do

  • Hold players who started, played most of the match and kept their usual role.
  • Watch surprise scorers for another match before buying them.
  • Act quickly only on an injury, benching, deeper position or lost set-piece duty.

Hold players who kept their minutes

A start and 90 minutes are good reasons to stay calm after a blank.

Haaland (FWD – Man City) and Bruno Fernandes (MID – Man Utd) both blanked in Gameweek 1, but both played the full match. Check whether they still had chances and kept their usual role before selling.

Haaland2 ptsB. Fernandes2 pts

Do not buy a surprise haul straight away

Jack Hinshelwood (MID – Brighton)’s 16 points make him worth checking, not an automatic transfer.

Watch his next start. Buy only if he keeps an attacking position, gets into the box and plays enough minutes.

Hinshelwood16 pts

Keep players whose job has not changed

Saka (MID – Arsenal) started, scored and played the role owners expected. If you own him, hold.

Use early transfers to fix a benching, deeper position, lost set pieces, injury or new competition. Do not sell a good pick only because somebody else scored more.

Saka9 pts

Make a changed and unchanged list

Under changed, write down benchings, new positions, lost set pieces, injuries and early substitutions. Under unchanged, put one-off goals, missed chances and bonus points.

Make transfers for a real change. Give one-off scores another match unless you have a forced move.

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