Two weeks in, it might be time to figure out your FPL strategy – have no fear, your expert Fantasy Premier League tips are here!
This season, we have teamed up with Fantasy Football Scout to help bring you hints, tips and advice during the 2026/27 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season.
Scout will be using their expertise to provide advice and gameweek tips which should prove useful in ensuring you win your mini-leagues.
Remember that the Gameweek 3 deadline falls TONIGHT (Friday, 4th September) at 18:30 BST – so hurry to adjust your team with our advice below!
Yéremy Pino (£5.5m) returned to the Palace starting XI against Manchester City following his World Cup win with Spain in Gameweek 2. He immediately had a big impact.
The Spainard’s fantastic free kick led to Palace’s opening goal of the Premier League season. This is a good example of why set-piece takers are good investments in FPL. When players have set-piece responsibilities it increases their potential routes to FPL points as they are more likely to be involved in the goals from dead ball situations.
Eddie Nketiah (£5.5m), Tyrick Mitchell (£4.5m), Daichi Kamada (£5.0m) and Anan Khalaili (£5.0m) all also had good opportunities to get on the score sheet in Gameweek 2.
Nketiah and Mitchell both had two attempts on goal which was team-leading. The latter also created two chances for his Palace teammates which was also joint-top across the Palace team with Pino and Adam Wharton (£5.5m).
Khalaili also registered 14 defensive contributions in the game against Man City, meaning that in his first start for the Eagles he returned the additional two Defensive Contribution points for exceeding the 12 needed by a midfielder.
Mitchell has been one of Palace’s key creative players over the opening two weeks of the season. The defender has created three chances, which only Wharton can better in the Palace squad, averaging a chance created every 60 minutes.
He has also supplied five crosses and had two attempts on goal, of which one was classified as a big chance.
Experienced FPL managers will already know that Mitchell is a good investment for their FPL teams. Of the current Palace squad, he was the Eagles' top FPL points scorer last season with 135 points.
He created 29 chances, had 19 attempts on goal and registered 12 clean sheets, as well as 12 Defensive Contribution points.
Bruno Fernandes (£12.0m) was the top-scoring FPL player in Gameweek 2. The Manchester United midfielder scored three goals and registered 23 FPL points. 1.7 million managers captained the midfielder with a further 34,000 handing him the Triple Captain armband.
Brighton’s Pascal Gross (£5.5m) and Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White (£7.9m) both registered 13-points in Gameweek 2. Gross scored, registered an assist and returned all three bonus points in Brighton’s defeat to Cheslea, meanwhile Gibbs-White did the same in Forest’s draw with Liverpool.
Palace face Fulham in Gameweek 3. Fulham’s top scoring FPL player is Timothy Castagne (£4.5m).
The defender was substituted before the clean sheet was lost in Gameweek 2 meaning that he still registered the four clean sheet points.
Managers are given four FPL Chips to use in the opening half of the season.
The Wildcard allows managers to change as many members of their squad as they want without costing any additional points.
The Free Hit allows managers to change their full squad for a single gameweek. At the end of the Free Hit week the managers original squad will return.
The Bench Boost means that the scores that players register on a manager’s bench will be counted into their total for the gameweek that the chip is active.
The final chip is the Triple Captain. When this chip is active the managers captain score will be doubled rather than tripled.
Gameweek 3 could be a good week for managers to deploy a chip. Managers who have had a poor start to the season, could play their Wildcard, especially now the transfer window has closed so we have knowledge of the full Premier League squads.
The Triple Captain could also be a good option for Gameweek 3 with Erling Haaland (£15.5m) at home to Coventry City.
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