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            <p>Fantasy Football Hub's AI selects the best Free Hit team for Gameweek 2 of the 2025/26 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season - how many of its picks make your team?</p>
<p>With an extra Free Hit chip to use in the first half of the season, our weekly look at the AI's preferred Free Hit team, fixtures and predicted points is more important than ever.</p>
<p>This AI team is an early snapshot ahead of the deadline. Hub members can <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/my-team/ai-teams">see the latest squad in realtime</a> - it regularly changes as new information is processed.</p>
<h3>🤖 Hub AI quick summary 🤖</h3>
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<li>🗓️Arsenal and Bournemouth among the teams to target from a fixtures perspective</li>
<li>💰Burnley and Sunderland picks could be useful bench options - they face each other in Gameweek 2</li>
<li>🔮Mohamed Salah, Bukayo Saka and Erling Haaland are all closely matched for predicted points</li>
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<h2>FPL Gameweek 2 fixtures</h2>
<p>Arsenal's home game against Leeds is among the standout fixtures to target in a Gameweek 2 Free Hit.</p>
<p>Leeds beat Everton 1-0 in front of their home crowd in Gameweek 1 but a trip to the Emirates should be a much tougher prospect - and the Gunners will be among the favourites to keep a clean sheet.</p>
<p>No Arsenal player is more than 25% owned and with tough fixtures following, the Gameweek 2 Free Hit offers a great opportunity to hop on and off their players.</p>
<p>Bournemouth scored twice at Liverpool in the opening match of the season and next face a Wolves team who lost 0-4 to Manchester City.</p>
<p>Their attacking players will be popular among managers on a Free Hit but after conceding four goals, their defenders may be less sought after.</p>
<p>Burnley rank top of the ticker for their home match against Sunderland but it was the Black Cats who impressed most in Gameweek 1.</p>
<p>They won 3-0 against West Ham, although their 0.7 expected goals suggested they over-performed.</p>
<p>There are plenty of budget picks from this match-up to fill out a bench - and will result in some FPL managers considering an early Bench Boost instead.</p>
<p>But among the most popular cheap options was <strong>Marc Guiu</strong>, who failed to get any minutes for Sunderland. Guiu owners may therefore keep hold of the chip for a while longer.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-74166" class="wp-caption-text">Gameweek 2 fixtures</p>
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<h2>FPL Gameweek 2 predicted points</h2>
<p><strong>Bukayo Saka </strong>sits alongside <strong>Mohamed Salah </strong>at the top of the predicted points chart this week.</p>
<p>Liverpool and Salah have a testing away fixture against Newcastle. It feels like one free hitters can back against - but Hub AI believes they should strongly consider whether to turn their backs on the Egyptian.</p>
<p><strong>Erling Haaland </strong>is third, just 0.1 predicted points behind the leading duo. City welcome Spurs to the Etihad.</p>
<p>Fourth place goes to <strong>Cole Palmer</strong>, who is just ahead of Bournemouth's <strong>Antoine Semenyo </strong>- with the Cherries' fixture playing a major part in elevating the Ghanaian up the rankings.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-74165 aligncenter" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GW2-predicted-points-top-five.jpg" alt="Gameweek 2 predicted points top five" width="610" height="662" /></p>
<p>Gameweek 2 predicted points top five</p>
<h2>Best FPL Gameweek 2 Free Hit team: Key picks analysed</h2>
<p>Three triple ups in the AI's starting 11 shows a clear strategy to target certain fixtures.</p>
<p>It's a 3-4-3 formation, with the maximum number of picks from Arsenal, Crystal Palace and Bournemouth making up the majority of the team.</p>
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