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            <p>Fantasy Football Hub's resident captaincy expert <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisTanFPL">Chris Tan</a> takes a close look at the Gameweek 17 fixtures and the players to target for your Fantasy Premier League (FPL) teams.</p>
<p>Chris's weekly captain pieces last season included his brilliant insight into the fixtures, highlighting teams' zonal weaknesses, clean-sheet odds, sides most likely to score two or more goals and much more.</p>
<p>This in-depth look at the matches ahead, complete with a handy shortlist of players to target, will be available exclusively to Hub members.</p>
<p>Chris's verdict on the best <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/the-best-fpl-captain">Gameweek 17 captaincy options</a> and punts will be available later this week.</p>
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<h2>Chris Tan's fixture analysis: Gameweek 17</h2>
<p>What a strange weekend where two (or three if you’re lucky) players dictated whether it was a green or red arrow.</p>
<p>We all hold a similar core template and need to try to squeeze more out of our squad players to get ahead. So who should we be targeting?</p>
<h2><strong>FPL Gameweek 17 fixtures</strong></h2>
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<p id="caption-attachment-60344" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 17 fixture analysis - fixtures</p>
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<h2><strong>FPL Gameweek 17: Clean sheet and goalscoring odds</strong></h2>
<p>You can see how difficult the fixtures are to predict based on the odds below.</p>
<p>Manchester City, Chelsea, Bournemouth, Liverpool and Arsenal are the most likely to score two or more goals, according to the odds.</p>
<p>They're also the most likely to keep a clean sheet, with the exception of Liverpool.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-60349" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 17 fixture analysis - team odds</p>
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<h2><strong>FPL Gameweek 17: Team attacking stats (sorted by xG per game)</strong></h2>
<p>These stats are for the last six gameweeks:</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-60347" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 17 fixture analysis - team attacking stats (sorted by xG)</p>
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<h2><strong>FPL Gameweek 17: Team defensive stats (sorted by xGC per game)</strong></h2>
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<p id="caption-attachment-60348" class="wp-caption-text">FPL Gameweek 17 fixture analysis - team defensive stats (sorted by xGC)</p>
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<h2><strong>FPL Gameweek 17 fixtures analysed</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Nottingham Forest v Tottenham Hotspur</strong></h3>
<p>Steve Cooper brought back the stacked defence which kept them in the league last season in a bid to save his job. They’ll have their work cut out, as Spurs were in superb form at the weekend.</p>
<p>Spurs won both matches last season- 3-1 and 0-2. Four of the goals were scored by Harry Kane and one was from <strong>Son Heung-min (£9.6m)</strong>.</p>
<p>Forest benefit from an additional day of recovery but four days should be fine for Spurs.</p>
<p><strong>Additional factors to consider</strong></p>
<p>Despite their recent performance, the attacking stats for Spurs are poor. They rank eighth best for xG at home and goals scored.</p>
<p>The recent xGC stats for Forest are average and I think they will be difficult to break down under their new system. Furthermore, they rank sixth best for xGC at home and eighth for number of goals conceded.</p>
<p>Forest don’t concede many shots in the box but they’re weakest from their centre and right. That is what I will refer to as the Son zone.</p>
<p>I expect the deep block but with <strong>Dejan Kulusevski (£7.0m)</strong> pulling the strings from the half-space, they should be able to pick the lock.</p>
<p><strong>Outcome</strong></p>
<p>I don’t think Spurs will destroy Nottingham Forest here unless they get an early goal. I can see this being a cagey draw or a narrow win.</p>
<div id="attachment_60354" style="width: 907px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-60354" class="size-full wp-image-60354" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Son-heatmap-GW1-16.jpg" alt="Son Heung-min could exploit Nottingham Forest's positional weakness" width="897" height="731" /></p>
<p id="caption-attachment-60354" class="wp-caption-text">Son Heung-min could exploit Nottingham Forest's positional weakness</p>
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<h3><strong>Bournemouth v Luton </strong></h3>
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