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            <p style="text-align: left;">Former Sky Sports Fantasy Football champion and three-time top 100 finisher <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCoxFF">Dan Cox</a> is back with his Sky team reveal and Gameweek 31 preview.</p>
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<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Gameweek 31 preview</span></h2>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It’s a four-day gameweek this week as we edge closer to the international break. There’s just this week's and next week's games before the England double header against Brazil and Belgium. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Most teams have just 11 games left, so for those of you with lots of transfers in hand I feel it’s time to start using them. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">There is the case for holding some back but if you have 20 or more and there’s only 11 gameweeks left, that’s around two a week. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The action begins on Saturday. I think the main debate will be who to captain out of <strong>William Saliba (£9.0m)</strong>, <strong>Buyako Saka (£10.4m)</strong> and <strong>Dominic Solanke (£7.8m)</strong>. Arsenal play Brentford at home, while Bournemouth face a very poor Sheffield United side who have conceded 26 goals in their last seven games.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Solanke’s ownership in the top 1,000 rocketed from 13.3% Sunday morning to 75.7% by midweek. That wasn't surprising considering Bournemouth have the rearranged fixture this week against Luton, resulting in them having a double gameweek.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> With 148 points this season and 14 goals, you’d hope he can add to that this week with two good home fixtures.</span></p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62592" class="wp-caption-text">Dominic Solanke</p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Saka saw his ownership go from 49.5% to 91.2% after Arsenal’s battering of Sheffield United on Monday. He racked up two assists despite going off at half-time. That’s now 13 goals and nine assists this season for 183 points. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Saliba is also a captaincy shout, with three clean sheets in his last four games and with tier-two passing bonus almost guaranteed. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">He completed a massive 167 successful passes last week and he should be on for 10 points minimum as captain. He's scored twice this season too, so there's always an outside chance of a goal.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"> Saliba is 94.8% owned, so if you don’t own him and Saka it’s going to be a slide down the leaderboard if they deliver.</span></p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-62412" class="wp-caption-text">Bukayo Saka</p>
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<h3>Sunday fixtures</h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Sunday sees four matches - Aston Villa v Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham v Burnley, Brighton v Nottingham Forest and Liverpool v Manchester City. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Sky managers have a choice between the 'safe' pick of <strong>Erling Haaland (£12.0m)</strong> with his 95.3% ownership against Liverpool, knowing most will also captain him, or <strong>Ollie Watkins (£9.3m)</strong>. You could even argue the case for <strong>Jarrod Bowen (£8.8m) </strong>against Burnley. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">I was saying last week how Watkins only seems to manage a single goal a game - but he went and got two against Luton. Before last weekend, he'd only scored more than one in a league game twice this season, so I stand by that point. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Haaland has 18 goals and seven assists for 184 points but quite how he missed from a yard out last week, I’ll never know. Luckily he scored very late on to save captainers' blushes.</span></p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-61616" class="wp-caption-text">Erling Haaland</p>
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<h3>Monday single</h3>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Monday is Chelsea v Newcastle and I would expect interest in <strong>Cole Palmer (£6.5m)</strong> to rise again. He's 48.5% owned in the top 1,000 but may shoot back up to around 90%. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">He has 133 points from 10 goals and seven assists and has arguably been the pick of the season considering his price. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The gameweek concludes with Bournemouth v Luton and the aforementioned Solanke will be very popular. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Neto (£6.6m)</strong> saw his ownership climb from 2% to 26.7% on Sunday. I made the move myself after <strong>Jose Sa’s</strong> injury on Saturday. I know he isn’t expected to be out this weekend but it just persuaded me to do a late transfer. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Neto duly delivered, with a clean sheet and tier-two saves bonus for 12 points. </span><span class="s1">I let the Hub Sky WhatsApp members know about this via our groups. </span></p>
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<h2>Sky player ownership latest</h2>
<p>As mentioned, Saka and Solanke had a hefty rise in ownership this week.</p>
<p>I expect <strong>Son Heung-min (£9.7m)</strong> and Palmer to rise this weekend. <strong>Declan Rice (£8.1m)</strong> at 10.1% has been such a good pick this season and I’m surprised he’s in so few teams.</p>
<div id="attachment_62581" style="width: 632px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-62581" class="wp-image-62581 size-full" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_8670.jpeg" alt="Sky player ownership" width="622" height="569" /></p>
<p id="caption-attachment-62581" class="wp-caption-text">Sky player ownership</p>
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