
That's not to say that Mitchell, Kilman and Davis won't be getting game time over the next couple of months.

But Mitchell hasn't played since gameweek six, with Patrick van Aanholt reclaiming the left-back spot for Palace, while Kilman only returned to the Wolves team in gameweek 14 after sitting out the previous three matches.ĭavis, meanwhile, has made two substitute appearances this season for the sum total of 38 minutes and two points. Mitchell and Kilman have been good value picks earlier on this season, playing regularly and enabling us to afford the big-money players in our squads.

I was making this point to my good friend and fellow manager Chris Sutton in the latest episode of the Fantasy 606 podcast with Crystal Palace's Tyrick Mitchell, Wolves' Max Kilman and Aston Villa's Keinan Davis occupying the three spots on his bench recently. It is more likely, however, that you will need your squad players to step in at some stage in the next three gameweeks to play 90 minutes and earn you some points. They would have been cursing last Saturday when they saw Liverpool's teamsheet with Salah named among the substitutes, but then cheering as he came off the bench to rack up 16 points with two goals and an assist in 33 minutes. Now you could get lucky like the 1,291,420 managers who captained Mohamed Salah against Crystal Palace in gameweek 14. So big hitters such as Harry Kane, Bruno Fernandes and Kevin de Bruyne are bound to sit out some of the action. All Premier League teams will play three fixtures in the space of 10 days between 26 December and 4 January in what's already been an energy-sapping season.
