I sold Haaland only for him to score a hatrick against Palace and I think one more hatrick, then I gave in, sold Toney and got Haaland in for him only for Toney to score a hatrick against Leeds 😢
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0:50 I also fondly remember that GW, being my most successful FH ever. Contrary to Jack, I brought in Cash and Coutinho, who registered 52 pts, and finally finished on 141 pts.
I recall during the start of the 20/21 season..... many had Son at home to Everton (lost 0-1) and then sold him ahead of Southampton away (scored 4 goals in a 5-2 win) then bought him back against Newcastle at home (off injured after 45 mins, no returns and no updates from Jose on his progress all week) and sold again ahead of Man United away (6-1 win and 2 goals)! I did the first half of that trend.....
Thank you so much, Oscar, I feel so much better about all my crappy 50/50 outcomes this season, especially regarding the Dennis captainers (during the double gameweek, not this season obviously); I remember a few people in our mini league captaining Dennis but I think I went for Josh King and he did okay, so I got a huge chuckle out of that one in particular Edit: clarity
My biggest disaster was the bench boost that I selected for the week that those hooligans stormed old trafford and made them postpone that game. My tripleup on Liverpool ended up in wiping out my bench, while my bench goalie didn't play so I got exactly zero points for my chip! And to make it worse, I didn't realize that the next week was a double gameweek (wasn't following Oscar's show back then) and would have gotten around 25 points for my bench.
That Dennis captaincy touched my heart, I thought I was alone😂. I used my wildcard that week and brought Dennis and king for the double. Needless to say, It was not a good couple of gameweeks 😂😂
Haha Havertz blanked that gameweek where they scored7. Might as well mention us, Salah captainers vs Bournemouth when they put 9 past them and salah got no returns.
A couple that stick out. Both are in your video 😂 The first one was the Havertz/Salah disaster. Never trusted Havertz since. The other was the Mane triple captain. Will never forget either of them. But the KDB captaincy for his 4 goals last season against Wolves helped me get over them 😅
Good way of looking at it, good decision making can have bad outcomes. There’s not always a lesson, there’s just bad luck sometimes. Applies to life too!
My whole season last year was a complete disaster , constant postpoments due to covid and bad weather hit my team like you would not believe , everything went wrong I remember captaining aubamyang he went on to miss a wide open goal then missed a penalty & to top it off got booked aswell 😂 , oh and then my team got hacked losing years of history & I had to make a new one . But Trust that’s just the tip of the iceberg so much more went wrong last season it was actually comical .
Fairly recent but I still can't get over captaining salah in liverpool's 9-0 win over Bournemouth. Worst of all was watching him miss 2 fairly easy chances and both haaland and trent scoring 17 points each. Tough day in the office.
I was one of those who captained Nunez in GW2 so I got a -4 and to make matters even worse my Vice Captain was Jesus, who scored a 19pointer against bottom of the league Leicester 🥰 YOU JUST LOVE TO SEE IT
I took a -4 to remove Gakpo for the Man United game as I didn’t think he would start and my bench was looking a bit ropey, brought in Tete from Leicester who scored 2 points whilst Gakpo returned a double digit score, I think this decision cost me around 16 points I also triple captained Mane in that double game week where he scored 3 points 🤣
What a trail of tears. Dennis, check! Actually, the Havertz captaincy vs Norwich over Salah vs Man United--broke my season. I thought I was so clever on that one. Although this week captaining Toney instead of Saka doesn't feel too great.
I have a really vague memory of bringing in two players for a team in red (either Southampton or Sheffield Utd) because they were doing so well, and it’s so annoying I can’t remember specifically what happened, all I know is that between both players, there was a red card for one, and a penalty miss for the other, all within around 20 minutes of football. I uninstalled and I don’t think I’ve returned to it since then
2020-21 season Sterling had triple gw, I triple captained him to get only 6 points. Got injured in first game(1pt), didn't play second game and came in last game at the end of the game (1pt).
@@FPLFocalhaha yeah, I’m now up to the Dennis part and captained him (not triple). And as a Norwich fan at the Watford game, we didn’t even realise he got sent-off until about 10 or so minutes later when someone checked SkySports and saw then we were all counting the Watford players and realised he was off haha. Bringing in Michael Keane last season for a hit was my biggest ever disaster as his fixture got postponed last minute and then he scored an own goal and lost to my team Norwich the next gameweek (maybe there was a 1 pointer before it, not sure but yeah he left my team having ended up losing me more points than gained before even considering the points I could’ve had if I had another player).
Recently sold Martinelli to replace him with Saka, just as Martinelli gained form; then transferred out Saka for Martinelli and Saka (who I would have vice-captained) gets 15 points without captaining him at all
I welcome you all to laugh at me It's gameweek 8 of the 21/22 FPL season and I have Mount who blanked, Jota who didn't play and Foden only getting one assist. I decided to sell Mount, Jota and Foden for Son, Gallagher on Bernardo (being the noob I was). In GW9, Mount got a hat trick and an assist for 24 points, Foden got two goals and an assist for 18 points, and Jota got a goal and assist for 11 points. That's 53 points sold for Son, Gallagher and Bernardo who combined for 9 points. The best thing, I took an 8 point hit that week for a net loss of 52 points. And that 52 points ended up costing me my mini-league
Here's a tale of triple captain woes. Two seasons running, I triple captained a Fox. The first time, Vardy missed a pen away to Burnley so I scored a big fat zero. The second time, Barnes decided to get injured so I scored three. I haven't used the chip yet this season, I must still be scarred...
I did the Salah to Barnes transfer on the wildcard, Barnes got 0 points and Salah (who would have been my captain) got 21. Even worse, I'm a united fan haha
I also captained havertz over salah last year and it wasn't the only week salah punished me not captaining him...finished 207th overall...what could have been!
I had Bednarek and Dennis for 2 on the list. Dropped from 8.1k on Saturday night to 20k on Sunday last game week so that cheered me up a bit lol. 21 point swing with one game to go in 24 hours. Brought in Maddison after deciding Saka two single gameweeks wasn't as good a choice. Oh well. Hopefully work my way back in the next few gameweeks with Maddison double and great fixtures ahead. Took a minus 4 to switch Tarkowski to Chillwell for 28 and the Chelsea double in 29. That cost me 7 points too. If I made no transfers last week I would be 7.2k. It is what it is. I have on paper a superb gw 29 bench boost so hoping for no international injuries. Let's have it.
In Gameweek 26, I transferred out Darwin and Gakpo for Toney and Rashford, taking a -4 in the process. Darwin scored 12 and Gakpo scored 14 in a shock 7-0 win over Man United. Toney at least scored 8, But Rashford only 2. Net impact of my transfers was -20.
I had a really big moment of stupid this year where I banked on Leicester's slight run of clean sheets so I benched a lot of my Newcastle players in favour of Leicester assets because I thought Leicester would give Newcastle a bit of trouble. I was so wrong and thankfully I have recovered from this.
I’m a Man Utd fan. Wildcarded a failing Kane and Son out of my team. Spurs beat utd 6-1. Took an 8 point hit to get Kane and Son back. 50-60 point swing
In GW 24, activated my bench boost of Pope, Martinelli, Andreas and Trippier. Little did I know Mahrez was dropped and Mitrovic was injured. So in any case, my subs would have been subbed on regardless. Adding to that, Pope got sent off against Liverpool and got a -3. The bench boost got me a -2 in the end!
First week this year I started lingard over mitro. Mitro got 13 points against Liverpool lingard got 2. Next week I switched them out and mitro got -1 and lingard got 6 😅
What's your worst FPL disaster?
triple captaining dennis 😪
As a fairly new player, not a huge one but C on Dennis last year during his dgw.
selling haaland before the game against united
Triple captained Aubameyang in my 1st season cause I didn't know about dgws, he only got an assist, 15pts from him 😔
I sold Haaland only for him to score a hatrick against Palace and I think one more hatrick, then I gave in, sold Toney and got Haaland in for him only for Toney to score a hatrick against Leeds 😢
There’s something about watching other people make huge mistakes that makes you feel much better about yourself😂
Exactly haha
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"Welcome back... for another video"
Absolutely love hearing this.
Have not seen this kind of content from you for a while. Absolutely amazing! Keep up the good work!
I love doing these, got so many ideas written down. They take longer to do though so I tend to only do them when there's a break 😄
@@FPLFocal - Please, Sir, can we have some more? 😉
0:50 I also fondly remember that GW, being my most successful FH ever. Contrary to Jack, I brought in Cash and Coutinho, who registered 52 pts, and finally finished on 141 pts.
Jan Bednerek was on my bench that game and I was left sweating for 24 hours hoping all my starting defenders played. Thankfully they did.
2020-21 Season Game week 1 I had son game week 2 I sold son ahead of Southampton he scores 4 goals 😭😭💔💔💔 that will always haunt
I did exactly the same 🙃🙃🙃
Why would you sell a player like son before Southampton? Ik Its easy to say when he scored 4 goals but rlly?
Yup did this also. Because he was flagged up as having a 25% chance of playing. Still gutted to this day ha
@@chrisjohnson7513 oh, dang thats so rip🫣
I remembered this. Jose' said he was injured and EPL flagged him orange 😢
Oof that Bednarek week... I had him on the bench but he got subbed in as one of my starting XI didn't play. Fuming.
In 2017 or 2016 there was a gameweek where I transferred out Aguero and he went on to score a quattrick, almost everyone had him as captain.
I recall during the start of the 20/21 season..... many had Son at home to Everton (lost 0-1) and then sold him ahead of Southampton away (scored 4 goals in a 5-2 win) then bought him back against Newcastle at home (off injured after 45 mins, no returns and no updates from Jose on his progress all week) and sold again ahead of Man United away (6-1 win and 2 goals)! I did the first half of that trend.....
Thank you so much, Oscar, I feel so much better about all my crappy 50/50 outcomes this season, especially regarding the Dennis captainers (during the double gameweek, not this season obviously); I remember a few people in our mini league captaining Dennis but I think I went for Josh King and he did okay, so I got a huge chuckle out of that one in particular
Edit: clarity
My biggest disaster was the bench boost that I selected for the week that those hooligans stormed old trafford and made them postpone that game. My tripleup on Liverpool ended up in wiping out my bench, while my bench goalie didn't play so I got exactly zero points for my chip! And to make it worse, I didn't realize that the next week was a double gameweek (wasn't following Oscar's show back then) and would have gotten around 25 points for my bench.
That Dennis captaincy touched my heart, I thought I was alone😂. I used my wildcard that week and brought Dennis and king for the double. Needless to say, It was not a good couple of gameweeks 😂😂
I removed him and never picked him again after my savage triple Captain fail 😂
Please make more of these!!!
I love this kind of video of yours Oscar, thanks for bringing it back
Gotta be done when there's an international break!
@@FPLFocal 😄
5:26 I remember that one,I captained salah for the differential,fpl Twitter was im shambles.
I’m a grinch with my subscription. This earned it. Original and fun. Thank you
Haha thanks and welcome! 🤝
I had to skip the part the second you said GW23 and Emmanuel Dennis. The memory is still raw, man.
Still hurts haha
The one good thing about international breaks.👆🏽
Keep it up Oscar 🙌🏽
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With all the disaster talk, I had Defoe in my team when he scored 5...👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
50 points lost on the bench!!!!! That was raw… I’m gutted whenever someone on my bench gets a CS or scores, let alone a 50 point return… 😱
Haha Havertz blanked that gameweek where they scored7. Might as well mention us, Salah captainers vs Bournemouth when they put 9 past them and salah got no returns.
I also had a disaster once, it was back in 2021...
I started playing FPL
A couple that stick out. Both are in your video 😂 The first one was the Havertz/Salah disaster. Never trusted Havertz since. The other was the Mane triple captain. Will never forget either of them. But the KDB captaincy for his 4 goals last season against Wolves helped me get over them 😅
FPL pain hits different
I feel so much better about some of my bad luck across the years now. I'm trying to learn to not assume bad outcomes were a result of bad decisions
Good way of looking at it, good decision making can have bad outcomes. There’s not always a lesson, there’s just bad luck sometimes. Applies to life too!
@FPLFocal "I read every comment" he really does 🙏
My whole season last year was a complete disaster , constant postpoments due to covid and bad weather hit my team like you would not believe , everything went wrong I remember captaining aubamyang he went on to miss a wide open goal then missed a penalty & to top it off got booked aswell 😂 , oh and then my team got hacked losing years of history & I had to make a new one . But Trust that’s just the tip of the iceberg so much more went wrong last season it was actually comical .
nearly brought in Jesus last season before his watford game when he scored 4. But decided against it just before I went through with the transfer
Captaining Jiménez in last year's GW30, where he got sent off in the 53th minute. That is -2, but having him capped... -4.
Love this type of videos from, really enjoyed this one, would love to see more of them in the future
Thanks, I'll do another if everyone wants more!
Its only the second day of fpl break and we already are feeling the drought with videos like these xD
Fairly recent but I still can't get over captaining salah in liverpool's 9-0 win over Bournemouth. Worst of all was watching him miss 2 fairly easy chances and both haaland and trent scoring 17 points each. Tough day in the office.
Yeah that was unbelievable, about 7 other Liverpool players got returns
Did that same Cancelo captaincy…. Ugh.
I remember doubling Dennis and king in a double and the game was postponed.
I was one of those who captained Nunez in GW2 so I got a -4 and to make matters even worse my Vice Captain was Jesus, who scored a 19pointer against bottom of the league Leicester
🥰 YOU JUST LOVE TO SEE IT
I took a -4 to remove Gakpo for the Man United game as I didn’t think he would start and my bench was looking a bit ropey, brought in Tete from Leicester who scored 2 points whilst Gakpo returned a double digit score, I think this decision cost me around 16 points
I also triple captained Mane in that double game week where he scored 3 points 🤣
Just this season I brought in Darwin for Watkins GW2 which resulted in a red card and a swing of 10+ points 💙
What a trail of tears. Dennis, check! Actually, the Havertz captaincy vs Norwich over Salah vs Man United--broke my season. I thought I was so clever on that one. Although this week captaining Toney instead of Saka doesn't feel too great.
i believe my worst ever gameweek was gameweek 9 last year when i got 11 points with a full squad
for context i had pogba, ronaldo and shaw in my team, it aint as bad as gw 7 this season but i have an excuse for that
Fun video! Glad I havent fallen to any crazy fpl disasters yet. Also the GW16 one with Cancelo and Haaland was actually GW 15
I can relate to Gw26...
Salah/Gakpo dropped for Saka(4)/Mitoma(13) but I benched Mitoma!
Huge swing.
Nice little content during the break. Cheers, mate! Love it! 🙏
Mourinho: THIS IS FPL HERITAGE
I have a really vague memory of bringing in two players for a team in red (either Southampton or Sheffield Utd) because they were doing so well, and it’s so annoying I can’t remember specifically what happened, all I know is that between both players, there was a red card for one, and a penalty miss for the other, all within around 20 minutes of football. I uninstalled and I don’t think I’ve returned to it since then
Love this type content from you Oscar, keep going.
Thanks mate :)
Ahh yes I remember desperately trying to get C from Haaland to Cancelo 20 mins before deadline. Thankfully the crash wouldn't allow it!
Great video, mate! Yeah, I also captained Dennis that double GW 😢
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2020-21 season Sterling had triple gw, I triple captained him to get only 6 points. Got injured in first game(1pt), didn't play second game and came in last game at the end of the game (1pt).
That Chelsea vs Norwich match weakened me too 😂
When Salah and Bruno gave 17 and 20 points haul respectively i scored 110 points in that GW.Went on to score 5 centuries that season
Son is my eternal boogeyman, I think he’s blanked every week I’ve ever had him and hauled the very week I take him out.
I have the same eternal problem with James
I was murdered this week by my mini league competitors due to Saka. I didn't have him, and they made him Captain. This made me feel a little better
When I saw the name of this video, I thought you were doing recap of my FPL miserable career 😂😂😂
In my first season of FPL I didn’t activate wildcard and took a 36pt hit on transfers😭
Oh god yeah I’m a victim of the triple captain Mané one
Same, brutal.
@@FPLFocalhaha yeah, I’m now up to the Dennis part and captained him (not triple). And as a Norwich fan at the Watford game, we didn’t even realise he got sent-off until about 10 or so minutes later when someone checked SkySports and saw then we were all counting the Watford players and realised he was off haha.
Bringing in Michael Keane last season for a hit was my biggest ever disaster as his fixture got postponed last minute and then he scored an own goal and lost to my team Norwich the next gameweek (maybe there was a 1 pointer before it, not sure but yeah he left my team having ended up losing me more points than gained before even considering the points I could’ve had if I had another player).
Oh goodness, I forgot about Lundstram. I benched his 20 pointer too, this video is brutal 😭
GW5 this season I got a 21 pointer even though the team is packed with players who have done well this season.
I had a disaster earlier this year. Seen a tweet about Pep rotating Haaland so I thought I’d be smart and get Toney before city’s home game to Palace…
I took a -36 instead of wildcarding a couple weeks ago
Love neil warnock thumbnail😂
Recently sold Martinelli to replace him with Saka, just as Martinelli gained form; then transferred out Saka for Martinelli and Saka (who I would have vice-captained) gets 15 points without captaining him at all
When ever you feel unlucky or cheated by the fpl gods just remember that Fpl focal's got you covered. This video 🤣😂
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please keep making videos like this
I welcome you all to laugh at me
It's gameweek 8 of the 21/22 FPL season and I have Mount who blanked, Jota who didn't play and Foden only getting one assist. I decided to sell Mount, Jota and Foden for Son, Gallagher on Bernardo (being the noob I was). In GW9, Mount got a hat trick and an assist for 24 points, Foden got two goals and an assist for 18 points, and Jota got a goal and assist for 11 points. That's 53 points sold for Son, Gallagher and Bernardo who combined for 9 points. The best thing, I took an 8 point hit that week for a net loss of 52 points. And that 52 points ended up costing me my mini-league
The havertz salah captain switch was the worst I had. Diabolical luck
Im not sure anyone can complain about missing a Trent haul if they bench him, its inexplicable play.
Here's a tale of triple captain woes. Two seasons running, I triple captained a Fox. The first time, Vardy missed a pen away to Burnley so I scored a big fat zero. The second time, Barnes decided to get injured so I scored three. I haven't used the chip yet this season, I must still be scarred...
And you can bet your bottom dollar it won't be a Fox when it does happen
i didnt get involved in the video focal, i was the person that tc trent in dgw26 instead of salah
couldn't fit them all in unfortunately! had hundreds of replies 😄
I did the Salah to Barnes transfer on the wildcard, Barnes got 0 points and Salah (who would have been my captain) got 21. Even worse, I'm a united fan haha
Yes I did the Dennis TC...
Triple captain Bednarek at Old Trafford. What was that guy thinking?
Oscar - thanks for this video. Too funny - I had the Mane triple captain for 3 points. thansks for opening up old wounds!
Thanks Carl, yeah I had him TC that week too. Unbelievable swing with Salah smashing it 😆
Wait, why does getting your account hacked lose 8 years of ranked history?
I also captained havertz over salah last year and it wasn't the only week salah punished me not captaining him...finished 207th overall...what could have been!
I believe Lundstram's first name is Lord, John's just the nickname 🤣
Lord "John" Lundstram
My mistake 😅
I had Bednarek and Dennis for 2 on the list. Dropped from 8.1k on Saturday night to 20k on Sunday last game week so that cheered me up a bit lol. 21 point swing with one game to go in 24 hours. Brought in Maddison after deciding Saka two single gameweeks wasn't as good a choice. Oh well. Hopefully work my way back in the next few gameweeks with Maddison double and great fixtures ahead. Took a minus 4 to switch Tarkowski to Chillwell for 28 and the Chelsea double in 29. That cost me 7 points too. If I made no transfers last week I would be 7.2k. It is what it is. I have on paper a superb gw 29 bench boost so hoping for no international injuries. Let's have it.
Forgot Dennis (C)….. it’s honourable mention.
For me, as recently as GW25... Martinelli out my team... scores 26, the highest score of anyone this season so far! 🤦♂️
I took -8 the week the Queen died. No points returned😢
I captained salah against bournemoth and then he missed a pen
My GW26 this season - Salah and White out for Saka and Shaw for a -4, a net 31 point swing
I was one of those with trip cap on mane on my second season and i almost quit
Did the same
In Gameweek 26, I transferred out Darwin and Gakpo for Toney and Rashford, taking a -4 in the process. Darwin scored 12 and Gakpo scored 14 in a shock 7-0 win over Man United. Toney at least scored 8, But Rashford only 2. Net impact of my transfers was -20.
I sold Toney this season and got in mitro. Toney got a hattrick and mitro scored 1 goal.
I had a really big moment of stupid this year where I banked on Leicester's slight run of clean sheets so I benched a lot of my Newcastle players in favour of Leicester assets because I thought Leicester would give Newcastle a bit of trouble. I was so wrong and thankfully I have recovered from this.
I’m a Man Utd fan. Wildcarded a failing Kane and Son out of my team. Spurs beat utd 6-1. Took an 8 point hit to get Kane and Son back. 50-60 point swing
As someone who captained cancelo for a -4 I regret clicking on this video 😭
I captained Antonio in a gw and got a red card last season. - 2 points from captain smh
I just signed the most advantageous FPL team I could and every single player on the team hit bad form, your kidding me.
I have 1/3 of the cases mentioned in the video myself 😅
I was one of those that Tripled Mané 😢... also Captained Dennis.
This whole time I thought fpl was about strategies and staying informed.....none of that matters without a little bit of luck
Haha yeah if creators tell you that then they'll become redundant
great content mate
thanks Shariat 👊
In GW 24, activated my bench boost of Pope, Martinelli, Andreas and Trippier. Little did I know Mahrez was dropped and Mitrovic was injured. So in any case, my subs would have been subbed on regardless. Adding to that, Pope got sent off against Liverpool and got a -3. The bench boost got me a -2 in the end!
I had bednarek when this happened
First week this year I started lingard over mitro. Mitro got 13 points against Liverpool lingard got 2. Next week I switched them out and mitro got -1 and lingard got 6 😅
My friend tripled Darwin nunez headbutt
My game week 4 when I triple captained Salah. Liverpool beat bournemouth 9-0 and Salah didn't register a goal or an assist
Mine has to be tripled captaining Salah in their 9-0 against Southampton - Salah did nothing
Bruh Bednarek trip cap has gotta be anti FPL😂
Was gw15 not 16 where cancelo got the red