{"id":82,"date":"2025-04-01T01:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T01:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:45:46","slug":"three-no-haaland-drafts-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/82\/","title":{"rendered":"Three no-Haaland drafts to consider"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago, we published a Wildcard article for Gameweek 30, which included three potential drafts for different Fantasy Premier League (FPL) scenarios.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say quite a bit has changed since then, however, with Erling Haaland<\/strong> (\u00a314.8m) set for a spell out and Chris Wood<\/strong>\u00a0(\u00a37.3m) an ongoing injury concern.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, we\u2019ve decided to rewrite and republish this piece to react to the weekend\u2019s events.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget that you can get your Wildcard team rated via our\u00a0Rate My Team tool\u00a0<\/a>or the\u00a0Plan FPL planner<\/a>!<\/p>\n

PROS + CONS<\/p>\n

Before diving into a few draft ideas, it\u2019s worth taking a moment to look at our article that weighs up the benefits of using an immediate Wildcard compared to waiting until Gameweek 31.<\/p>\n

Gameweek 30 v 31 Wildcard: The pros + cons after Haaland injury<\/a><\/p>\n

For example, after the weekend\u2019s FA Cup quarter-final results, we have a good idea of which teams are set to blank in Gameweek 34<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We might not have final confirmation of where those rearranged fixtures are moved to by the Gameweek 30 deadline, but there\u2019s a decent chance there will be a\u00a0Double Gameweek 33<\/a>\u00a0for Aston Villa, Manchester City, Arsenal and Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n

Still, it may be safer to wait until we know exactly which matches will be moved where.<\/p>\n

GAMEWEEK 30 WILDCARD IDEASGameweek 33 Bench Boost, Gameweek 34 Free Hit<\/strong>\"Gameweek<\/p>\n

This draft includes six players from Newcastle United and Crystal Palace, allowing you to attack Gameweek 32 with the maximum quota of \u2018doublers\u2019.<\/p>\n

With the use of a few free transfers, it also sets up a pretty tasty Gameweek 33 Bench Boost, assuming Villa, Man City, Arsenal and Palace play twice.<\/p>\n

You could choose to transfer out Cole Palmer<\/strong> (\u00a310.8m) \u2013 who we have included in our initial draft on the assumption he is fit \u2013 and Jacob Murphy<\/strong> (\u00a35.0m) ahead of Gameweek 33, for example, replacing them with Bukayo Saka<\/strong> (\u00a310.2m) and an Aston Villa midfielder.<\/p>\n

It\u2019d leave you with a nice combination of \u2018doublers\u2019 and appealing single Gameweek options, such as Alphonse Areola<\/strong> (\u00a34.2m) and Aaron Wan-Bissaka<\/strong> (\u00a34.5m) at home to Southampton, plus Mohamed Salah<\/strong> (\u00a313.7m) and Alexander Isak<\/strong> (\u00a39.3m) against Leicester City and Aston Villa respectively.<\/p>\n

This draft doesn\u2019t need to worry about Blank Gameweek 34, either, with a planned Free Hit occurring then.<\/p>\n

Gameweek 32 Bench Boost, Gameweek 34 Free Hit<\/strong> \u00a0\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks ago, we published a Wildcard article for Gameweek 30, which included three potential drafts for different…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[83,84,85,86,87,88,89,79,16,15,90,91],"class_list":{"0":"post-82","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-best-gameweek-30-team","9":"tag-best-gameweek-30-wildcard","10":"tag-best-wildcard-team","11":"tag-fpl","12":"tag-gameweek-30","13":"tag-gameweek-30-wildcard","14":"tag-gameweek-30-wildcard-tips","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wildcard","19":"tag-wildcard-tips"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}