✍️ Welcome to the Fantasy Football Scout Bulletin - everything you need to know the day before the GW32 FPL deadline!

➡️ After dominating the thoughts of FPL managers for several weeks, Double Gameweek 32 is finally upon us, where Newcastle and Crystal Palace feature twice.

The average top 100k team currently has 4.551 of their players, with highly-picked Magpies assets including Alexander Isak and Monday night heroes Jacob Murphy and Tino Livramento. Palace offer last week’s scorers Jean-Philippe Mateta and Daniel Munoz. Their boss Oliver Glasner could be a great Assistant Manager option – just don’t pick the suspended Marc Guehi.

✍️ Read the rest of the ‘Scout Report’ further down this email…

🚨 If you’re tinkering with your GW32 team, check out FPL Gameweek 32 tips: Best players, predicted line-ups, team news + more

🚨 Double Gameweek 33 confirmed for four teams: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, Manchester City.

🧢 Best windows to use the Triple Captain chip. In this article, we look at the possible options for those Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers with the Triple Captain chip still intact.

🃏 FPL Gameweek 32 Wildcard: Three drafts to consider. Those Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers still with a Wildcard to use will be seriously considering deploying it ahead of Gameweek 32. In this article, we will assess the advantages of activating it now, then provide a few draft ideas.

🚑 FPL Gameweek 32 team news: Wood latest + Thursday’s live injury updates

❓ The Scout Squad: Our top picks for FPL Gameweek 32. The Scout Squad panel have unsurprisingly gone big on ‘doublers’ Crystal Palace and Newcastle United in Gameweek 32 – but there’s plenty of debate elsewhere with shifting priorities, midweek distractions and rotation influencing some Premier League clubs’ teamsheets.

After dominating the thoughts of FPL managers for several weeks, Double Gameweek 32 is finally upon us, where Newcastle and Crystal Palace feature twice.

The average top 100k team currently has 4.551 of their players, with highly-picked Magpies assets including Alexander Isak and Monday night heroes Jacob Murphy and Tino Livramento. Palace offer last week’s scorers Jean-Philippe Mateta and Daniel Munoz. Their boss Oliver Glasner could be a great Assistant Manager option – just don’t pick the suspended Marc Guehi.

These are all part of The Great and the Good’s template, now that each of the 18 has Wildcarded between Gameweeks 29 and 31. Managers choosing a Gameweek 32 Wildcard will probably go for similar names and we’ve offered a few draft suggestions, based on various chip strategies. Though it would block using Triple Captain on Isak’s double.

Some may prefer to Bench Boost now, before activating Triple Captain in Gameweek 33, where Bukayo Saka and Omar Marmoush have two matches. It could even be saved for a possible May double but we won’t know about that until after Gameweek 34’s deadline. 

What’s making it tough for boosters is the climate of rotations. Last weekend, we saw Cole Palmer and Joao Pedro benched, while Saka was an Arsenal substitute and Aston Villa mixed things up again. Pro Pundit Zophar has tried guessing how these two Champions League sides will line up on Saturday, where their matches are sandwiched between huge quarter-finals. 

Villa’s first leg had Ollie Watkins on the bench, so he’s a unanimous Scout Squad pick. Such uncertainty is why Lateriser advises those without a Free Hit to avoid Arsenal and Villa completely, focusing on Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Brighton instead.

As well as regular weekly coverage of the Fantasy EFL game, we’ve checked out round one of the latest FFS Members Cup, where all four former champions safely progressed.

There’s still time for Spot the Differential and Captain Sensible to come before Saturday morning’s deadline, plus the latest opinions of FPL General.

As always, check out the FPL Gameweek 32 page to quickly access all recent articles and the standard press conference updates from managers. Visit our Members Area for comparison tools and an in-depth collection of Opta and StatsBomb data.

Over on our YouTube channel, alongside the regular Scoutcast and Burning Questions episodes is FPL General’s team reveal.