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            <p><em><a href="https://twitter.com/FPLMatthew">FPL Matthew</a> is arguably the best FPL manager in the world with three top 500 finishes and a further six top 10k finishes. Every week Matthew writes his FPL Team Reveal article detailing his team, captain and plans for the coming Gameweek exclusively for <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/">Fantasy Football Hub</a> members. </em></p>
<h2>Gameweek 1 Review</h2>
<p>A so-so first week for me with <strong>53 points</strong> - I got the captain and vice captain the wrong way round, a recurring theme last season, but at least I did have <strong>Mohamed Salah</strong> - I saw a lot of teams that didn't, and <strong>Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang</strong> did at least score. Not much to write home about apart from those two although I could easily have got a couple of other goals...those are the breaks! This pretty average return gave me a Gameweek 1 rank of <strong>2.3m</strong> - hopefully I can improve on this as we go forward. You can see my points below.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-25138" class="wp-caption-text">Matthew's Gameweek 1 Points</p>
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<h2><strong>Gameweek 2 Preview</strong></h2>
<p>Firstly, let's look at the fixtures over the next few weeks from the <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fixture-ticker/">Hub's Fixture Ticker</a>. This takes us up to the next international break, which is probably a good period to look at.</p>
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<p>We can see that Everton (who I have no players from) have a particularly nice little run of fixtures - and they looked surprisingly good at Tottenham, with their revamped midfield. Perhaps that is a team to look at? On the other side of the coin, West Ham have a tough run, although I knew this when I got <strong>Tomáš Souček (£5.0m)</strong>, who looks the sort of Fellaini-esque player that could pop up with a goal against anyone.</p>
<p>I don't normally go heavy on stats as I tend to look at these behind the scenes, but I thought I'd just have a look at a couple of key attacking stats from the first gameweek, using a custom table from the Hub's <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/">Opta Stats tool</a> - and remembering that four teams (including the two Manchester teams) didn't take part.</p>
<p>First, penalty box touches - a good indicator of attacking involvement:</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-25147" class="wp-caption-text">Gameweek 1 Penalty Box Touches</p>
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<p>The main point to note here is that <strong>Mo Salah</strong> is way out in front, in that somewhat chaotic game against newly promoted Leeds United. Any thoughts I had of sacrificing him after one game have quickly evaporated.</p>
<p>Now, onto 'shots in the box' - I quite like to combine these first two stats to get a good rough idea of goalscoring threat.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-25148" class="wp-caption-text">Gameweek 1 Shots in the Box</p>
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<p>Again, Salah dominates - not only is he heavily involved at the business end of the pitch, he is also hungry for goals! <strong>Richarlison (£8.0m)</strong> also features prominently in both tables, it's just a shame that as an £8.0m forward he's quite difficult to justify. <strong>Harvey Barnes (£7.0m)</strong>, a player I did consider pre-season, also shows up well, and could become an intriguing option at £7.0m.</p>
<p>Finally - expected attacking points (xAtt) which combines expected goals and assists applied to FPL's scoring system to give an approximation of how many attacking points each player <em>should have</em> got. Its always important to bear in mind that penalties skew these numbers upwards as a penalty with have an xG rating of near to 1 but, on the other hand, penalty goals count the same as any other, and judging by events so far, penalties could be quite a big factor this year.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-25149" class="wp-caption-text">Gameweek 1 Expected Attacking Points</p>
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<p>We can clearly see the impact of penalties in the expected points of Salah and <strong>Jamie Vardy (£10.0m)</strong> at the top there. Just out of interest I thought I'd also look at non-penalty expected goals:</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-25150" class="wp-caption-text">Gameweek 1 Non-Penalty Expected Goals</p>
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<p>Suddenly, Salah drops out of the picture and <strong>Raúl Jiménez (£8.5m)</strong> jumps to the fore, as well as his defensive teammate <strong>Romain Saïss (£5.0m)</strong> who could have got an incredible haul (even bigger than he already did!)</p>
<h2>Most Wanted List</h2>
<p>For any new members, this is where I identify the players who I am currently most considering bringing into my team as well as highlighting who, if anyone, may be able to make way for them. This helps me to formulate a rough mental shortlist of potential moves. I update this list each week, and I'm sure that so early in the season the changes will be quite regular.</p>
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