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            <p>Fantasy Football Hub's AI selects the best Free Hit team for Gameweek 9 of the 2025/26 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season - how many of its picks make your squad?</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 relevant 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>
<p>Simplicity and speed are among Fantasy Football Hub's core values, so many of our articles this season will come with a quick 'Hub AI' summary for those who want the answer - fast.</p>
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<li>🚀Hub AI's Free Hit team had another strong gameweek last week, outscoring the FPL average by 15 points</li>
<li>🗓️Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle among the teams to target this week</li>
<li>💪An unusually high three defenders appear in the top 10 for predicted points</li>
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<h2>How did the AI team perform in Gameweek 8?</h2>
<p><strong>Gameweek 8 points: </strong>71<strong>   </strong></p>
<p><strong>Gameweek 8 FPL average: </strong>56</p>
<p><strong>Hub AI season-long average: </strong>62</p>
<p><strong>Season-long FPL average:</strong> 52.3</p>
<p>An all-star forward line of <strong>Erling Haaland </strong>and <strong>Jean-Philippe Mateta</strong>, plus a <strong>Gabriel </strong>haul, carried the AI team this week to a score significantly above the FPL average.</p>
<p>It meant that even a no-show from <strong>Josko Gvardiol </strong>and the two back-up bench options did not matter - and the AI Free Hit teams extended their lead over the season-long FPL average.</p>
<div id="attachment_75204" style="width: 819px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-75204" class="size-full wp-image-75204" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/GW8-Free-Hit-AI.jpg" alt="AI Free Hit team for Gameweek 8" width="809" height="759" /></p>
<p id="caption-attachment-75204" class="wp-caption-text">AI Free Hit team for Gameweek 8</p>
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<h2>FPL Gameweek 9 fixtures</h2>
<p>Wolves and Chelsea top the Hub's <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fixture-ticker">fixture ticker</a> this week with home games against newly promoted clubs Burnley and Sunderland.</p>
<p>Fantasy interest will mainly be in Chelsea players of the two, with Wolves in the relegation zone.</p>
<p>Leeds and Newcastle have the next best fixtures. West Ham travel to Elland Road after losing 0-2 at home to Brentford on Monday - encouraging for those holding Leeds players and seeking to Bench Boost this weekend.</p>
<p>Bournemouth, Arsenal and Manchester United complete the green-rated teams atop the ticker.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-75353" class="wp-caption-text">The top of the Hub fixture ticker for Gameweek 9</p>
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<h2>FPL Gameweek 9 predicted points</h2>
<p>Haaland tops the <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/predictions">predicted points</a> chart again with a clear lead over <strong>Mohamed Salah </strong>and the rest of the chasing pack.</p>
<p><strong>Bruno Fernandes </strong>looks to be a genuine alternative captaincy candidate alongside <strong>Bukayo Saka</strong>, with the duo closely matched.</p>
<p><strong>Gabriel </strong>is a rare defensive inclusion in the top five. He's managed a goal and assist in the league and matched that tally in the Champions League on Tuesday.</p>
<p><strong>Marc Cucurella </strong>and <strong>Reece James </strong>are the other defenders in the top 10, indicating that clean sheets for certain teams could be the thing to chase in Gameweek 9.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-75354" class="wp-caption-text">Gameweek 9 predicted points</p>
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<h2>Is a FPL Gameweek 9 Free Hit a good idea?</h2>
<p>The Free Hit is not expected to be widely used in Gameweek 9 but as ever, <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fpl-chip-strategy-guide">chip strategy</a> is highly team dependent.</p>
<p>Crystal Palace, Manchester City and Liverpool are towards the bottom of the ticker and Haaland aside, there is an argument for managers loaded up on these teams to jump off them for a week.</p>
<p>Chelsea, Arsenal, United and Newcastle are among the teams to target from a fixtures perspective.</p>
<p>Bournemouth's opponents Nottingham Forest are hard to gauge after the hiring of <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/sean-dyche-to-nottingham-forest-fpl-tips">Sean Dyche</a> as manager but most already own their main target <strong>Antoine Semenyo</strong>.</p>
<p>Gameweek 11 could be the next popular Free Hit window, with Liverpool and Manchester City playing each other.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-73561" class="wp-caption-text">FPL chip strategy</p>
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<h2>Best FPL Gameweek 9 Free Hit team</h2>
<p>A 4-4-2 formation underlines the presence of defenders in the AI predicted points.</p>
<p>In-form Haaland is preferred to Salah, with funds spread throughout the squad given the Egyptian's projection is close to cheaper options.</p>
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