In his FPL Double Gameweek 37 review, Fantasy Premier League author David Wardale reports on the final double of a late-season explosion of them.

Thursday rounded things off with a huge slice of drama as Everton came from behind to secure their Premier League status, while Burnley drew at Aston Villa and a Leicester star continued his fine form in a 1-1 draw at Chelsea.

Tuesday’s encounter went Liverpool’s way, meaning the league title will go to the wire again this season.

Monday night football involved Newcastle schooling a tired Arsenal.

Spurs and Burnley kicked it off on Saturday with a haul for one Tottenham attacker, but a blank for another.

Blanks were also in attendance at West Ham, who held Man City to a 2-2 draw.

Leicester stuffed Watford to get their double off to a very nice start, while two other teams with extra fixtures, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace, played out a 1-1 draw.

Everton lost an action-packed match with Brentford, with draws at Leeds and Wolves rounding out a decidedly busy Sunday.

You can catch all of our FPL Gameweek 37 tips right here.

FPL Double Gameweek 37 Review – Thursday

Everton 3 Crystal Palace 2

A huge second half-comeback ensured Everton’s Premier League survival as Richarlison (£7.6m) completed a fine personal Double Gameweek 37.

The Toffees looked dead and buried at half-time, trailing to Crystal Palace goals from Jean-Philippe Mateta (£5.3m) and Jordan Ayew (£5.8m).

Assists came from Eberechi Eze (£5.9m) and Wilfried Zaha (£6.9m).

The mood at Goodison Park, already a mix of disbelief and anger, was especially soured by the Ayew goal as the Palace forward had earlier escaped any punishment for what looked like a reckless challenge on Anthony Gordon (£4.7m).

But any sense of injustice was swept away by a stirring response from the home side after the break.

Michael Keane (£4.6m) gave the fans hope when he headed home from a Mason Holgate (£4.2m) assist before Richarlison provided them with belief, his miscued shot finding the back of the net.

And it was pure delirium when a Demarai Gray (£5.4m) free-kick was met by a diving header from Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£7.7m).

You would have got good money on not one, but two Everton strikers bossing the gameweek.

But with bonus due, Richarlison brought in 19 points to perfectly justify his status as the gameweek’s most bought forward, while Calvert-Lewin produced 17.

The only player to top those totals was Leicester’s James Maddison (£6.9m).

Everton will travel to Arsenal on Sunday needing absolutely nothing from the encounter.

That could mean lump on Gunners assets or stick with the likes of Richarlison as they finally get to enjoy a match with the pressure off.

Take your pick.

As for the (few) managers on Palace stars, a home match with Manchester United looks strangely alluring.

Patrick Vieira’s side put up a good show at Goodison before all hell broke loose in the second half and they’ll want to finish the season in the right way in front of their own fans.

The fact that a struggling United will be their opponents should merely add to that desire.

And the 11.6% who own Conor Gallagher (£6.0m) should get a start from their man, seeing as he was benched at Everton.

Chelsea 1 Leicester City 1

James Maddison (£6.9m) finished Leicester’s double with the gameweek’s highest score as the Foxes held on to earn a draw at Chelsea.

The midfielder followed up his 15-pointer at Watford with ten more at Stamford Bridge.

He opened the scoring after six minutes – a strike that helped him secure maximum bonus on the night.

Chelsea hit back just after the half-hour mark when Marcos Alonso (£5.7m) converted a Reece James (£6.4m) cross.

It was a goal to please many a fantasy manager, seeing as both defenders have ownership percentages in the double-figure bracket.

Not that everyone was thrilled by Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel’s selections.

The 21.6%-owned Mason Mount (£7.7m) – the side’s most popular player in FPL – was an unused sub on the night, for instance.

Timo Werner (£8.6m) missed out all together with a hamstring problem.

Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers also rang the changes, with Harvey Barnes (£6.5m) benched and Kasper Schmeichel (£5.0m) restored to the starting XI.

The keeper was a busy boy, especially after the break, and he made six saves in all to deny the increasingly dominant home side.

Both teams have attractive home fixtures to round out their seasons.

Chelsea entertain Watford and Leicester welcome Southampton.

Both matches are dead rubbers, but even so, Maddison’s form – three goals and two assists from his last three starts – makes him a very tempting option still only owned by 15%.

Aston Villa 1 Burnley 1

A series of fine saves by Burnley keeper Nick Pope (£5.3m) helped the Clarets to a point against Aston Villa.

The stopper wasn’t faultless – he probably should have done better when beaten by Emiliano Buendia’s (£6.1m) second-half equaliser – but two or three of his eight saves on the night were stunners.

John McGinn (£5.6m) provided the assist as Villa made it patently clear that they’re not beach-ready just yet, firing in 22 shots and racking up 13 corners against a typically dogged Burnley.

The visitors took the lead, decidedly against the run of play, just before the break when Buendia fouled Maxwel Cornet (£5.8m) in the area and Ashley Barnes (£5.2m) converted the penalty.

That meant the Burnley striker finished the double, thanks to bonus, with a team-leading ten points, with the heroic Pope not so far behind with eight.

Neither tally was particularly impressive for two sets of fixtures, but that’s been Burnley’s way from the doubles this season.

They’ll now entertain Newcastle on Sunday needing a win to guarantee their Premier League survival, regardless of what Leeds do.

None of their players looks overly worthy of investment, however.

The same could be said for Villa assets.

Despite their committed display in this match, they’re off to Manchester City, after all.

FPL Double Gameweek 37 Review – Tuesday

Southampton 1 Liverpool 2

Liverpool won a match of massive Premier League importance, but rather less fantasy relevance.

That was thanks to the cast of characters on show at the St Mary’s Stadium as Reds boss Jurgen Klopp made nine changes to the side that won the FA Cup on Saturday.

The three most popular of the Liverpool players in FPL all missed out, either through injury or, in the case of the 38.1%-owned Trent Alexander-Arnold (£8.4m), rotation.

It was perhaps not wholly surprising that the visitors’ back line was breached, seeing as the only regular starter in there was Joel Matip (£5.2m).

But it still took a deflected (just enough) shot from Nathan Redmond (£5.9m) to beat Alisson (£6.1m) – one of only two attempts on target Southampton managed all game.

The assist came from Nathan Tella (£4.7m).

Liverpool were in charge before that 13th-minute goal and dominated after it, firing in 24 shots to four and having nine corners to the Saints’ one.

And they were level within 15 minutes when Takumi Minamino (£5.1m) smashed home Diogo Jota’s (£8.3m) pass.

That pair were joined up front by Roberto Firmino (£8.7m) as Klopp handed Sadio Mane (£11.8m) the night off and kept Luis Diaz (£8.1m) firmly attached to the bench.

At least that meant some joy for a decent chunk of fantasy managers as Jota is owned by 17.2% of them.

But the lack of a clean sheet meant just the two points for the 11.8% on Konstantinos Tsimikas (£3.7m) – Andy Roberston (£7.3m) was another who watched as an unused sub.

In fact, the only defender from either side to emerge with decent points was Matip, who scored the winner just after the hour-mark.

Maximum bonus went his way as well, so he delivered 11 points for his 8.8% fan base.

That was his second straight 11-pointer thanks to a second straight goal. Having scored just once a season for five years, he’s now scored twice in a week and has three goals and two assists since Gameweek 24.

Over that time frame, he’s amassed 100 points. Only three players – Heung-Min Son (£11.1m), Harry Kane (£12.4m) and Kevin De Bruyne (£12m) – have produced more.

Just to reiterate – Matip costs £5.2m.

And so we go to the final day with Liverpool still in with a sniff of the title, which is good news for those with Reds assets in their squads.

Then again, the injured duo of Mo Salah (£13.2m) and Virgil van Dijk (£6.8m) might not be risked with a Champions League final just six days later.

But the likes of Mane and Diaz could be good shouts for the home match against Wolves, especially as they’re owned by 4.4% and 6.3% respectively.

Southampton, who are away at Leicester, put up a bit of a fight against Liverpool, but they are still doing a decent impression of a beach-ready team and are best avoided on Sunday.

FPL Double Gameweek 37 Review – Monday

Newcastle United 2 Arsenal 0

Newcastle bullied Arsenal out of a Champions League spot – probably – as the Magpies’ stellar home form continued.

Eddie Howe’s side have now won seven of their last eight at St James’ Park and this latest victory was a decidedly clear-cut one.

It might have taken them 55 minutes to take the lead, but Newcastle were the better side from gun to tape.

Their high-tempo high press caused the Gunners problems all match and Arsenal keeper Aaron Ramsdale (£5.1m) was busy throughout, with two excellent later saves making up for a jittery start.

He could do nothing, however, about the opener as Ben White (£4.6m) turned a Joelinton (£5.8m) cross into his own net.

The 12.6%-owned centre-half is Arsenal’s most popular defender in FPL, but those managers who kept faith in him through a three-match injury lay-off were royally kicked in the lower abdomen area by his -2 ‘haul’.

The entire Gunners defence looked off the pace and by the end of a must-win match the increasingly desperate Mikel Arteta had swapped half of them out for attackers.

To no avail.

Newcastle exploited all that extra space on the counter and from one of those, Bruno Guimaraes (£5.0m) scored for a fourth return in six matches.

With maximum bonus due as well, the cut-price midfielder is on for 43 points over that time – only three players (all more expensive) have managed more.

The Magpies have now kept three clean sheets across their last five matches.

It’s Burnley away on Sunday, so a second consecutive shut-out is certainly not beyond the realms of possibility, although Fabian Schar (£4.2m) is unlikely to be involved after going off with a concussion issue just after half-time.

And if you fancy an attacking punt at Turf Moor, the 1.1%-owned Callum Wilson (£7.1m) might not have scored on his first start since Gameweek 19, but he was a lively presence all game, leading the way for shots (three) and chipping in with a key pass as well.

Arsenal’s final match, at home to Everton, could now be entirely meaningless should Spurs, as expected, win at Norwich and take that final Champions League spot.

From a fantasy perspective, that could actually make their popular players – and there are a few of them – worth holding on to as the pressure will effectively be off.

And if Everton avoid relegation with a win against Crystal Palace on Thursday, those Arsenal assets could look even more attractive.

They’ll have to play a far sight better than they did at Newcastle, however.

FPL Double Gameweek 37 Review – Sunday

Everton 2 Brentford 3

A borderline heroic performance from Richarlison (£7.6m) warmed the cockles of many a fantasy heart, but it wasn’t enough to save nine-man Everton from defeat to Brentford.

Double home fixtures against the Bees and then Crystal Palace prompted a surge in bosses waxing lyrical about the Brazilian and his 13% ownership were treated to a goal, assist and maximum bonus.

The striker finished with 12 points – a sixth return in nine matches.

He was joined up top at Goodison Park by Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£7.7m).

The English forward’s first start since Gameweek 32 produced a goal when Richarlison’s miscued shot brushed his chest and ended up in the visitors’ net after ten minutes.

It was a messy, if deserved, lead for the proactive hosts, but the game’s dynamics flipped eight minutes later when Jarrad Branthwaite (£4.0m) was sent off.

Brentford equalised through a Seamus Coleman (£4.9m) own goal – the full-back one of three Toffees to end the match with minus points in FPL.

Yoane Wissa (£5.7m) earned the assist for that before scoring himself, from a Christian Eriksen (£5.6m) corner.

In between those goals came a penalty from Richarlison, but the final word went to Rico Henry (£4.5m), who headed home Christian Norgaard’s (£5.0m) cross.

Everton manager Frank Lampard threw on Salomon Rondon (£6.0m) and went direct, only for the striker to get himself sent off three disastrous minutes later for a lunging challenge.

He and Branthwaite each produced scores of -3. A prescient 223 sold the latter for the gameweek, while a net 608 actually bought the striker for their sins.

Considerably more lumped on Everton keeper Jordan Pickford (£4.8m). He earned just two points – his worst score in four matches.

Thursday’s visit from Palace was, arguably, the better bet for a clean sheet anyway.

That’s because Brentford are ending the season in superb style – they’ve won five and drawn one of their last seven matches.

The Bees are clearly in no mood to spare those with relegation issues.

So a visit from Leeds on the final day should alert us to their points potential, especially as, the 16.4%-owned Ivan Toney (£6.8m) aside, they’re a team full of differentials.

Leeds United 1 Brighton and Hove Albion 1

A late Pascal Struijk (£4.3m) equaliser boosted Leeds’ hopes of survival and denied in-form Brighton a fourth clean sheet in six matches.

The Seagulls have lost just once in eight matches now.

It’s a run that’s passed most fantasy managers by – their only well-backed player in FPL, goalkeeper Robert Sanchez (£4.5m) has lost owners for 11 of the last 13 games.

Their goalscorer at Elland Road, Danny Welbeck (£5.9m), is another neglected case in point.

From Gameweek 34 onwards, only Gabriel Jesus (£8.6m) and Harry Kane (£12.4m) have more points than Welbeck among strikers, and the Spurs man has played a game more.

With a bonus point due from Sunday’s match, the Brighton forward has scored 30 points in that time and yet he’s still found in just 1% of fantasy squads.

Raphinha’s (£6.3m) 11.5% ownership have gained nine points over the same period, although their man was denied by a fine Sanchez save as Leeds strove for an equaliser.

That finally came in the 92^nd minute, with Joe Gelhardt (£4.7m) capping a rare start by providing the assist.

But it was symptomatic of the game as a whole that all three bonus slots were taken by Brighton players and the Leeds asset closest to that trio was keeper Illan Meslier (£4.8m), who made five saves.

Brighton were unchanged – three words not often seen together during Graham Potter’s reign.

Should that happen for a third time on Sunday, when the Seagulls entertain West Ham, we would be wise to have at least considered their key players for our final-day tinkerings.

Wolverhampton Wanderers 1 Norwich City 1

Based on ownership levels of the players involved in this encounter, the short fantasy version of this match report should really entail inserting that Alan Partridge shrug meme here.

But if you insist on a slightly more detailed review…

Conor Coady (£4.8m and 14.2%) aside, the only Wolves player with half-decent ownership is the 8.8%-owned Jose Sa (£5.2m).

He was benched.

The home side’s equaliser came from Rayan Ait Nouri (£4.1m). He’s owned by 1.3%. There was no assist awarded.

Moving on.

Norwich, who have been bobbins all season, command even less fantasy interest.

Their one and only popular player, Teemu Pukki (£6.1m), had the good grace to score and bring in eight points for his 9.9% ownership.

A trip to Spurs on the final day is unlikely to mean he’ll add much more to his 140 points for the campaign, however.

Max Aarons (£4.3m) provided the assist to delight his 79,951 owners. If they played him, that is.

As for the rest of us, time for that Partridge meme again, both for the Aarons sentence and the fixture itself.

Watford 1 Leicester City 5

Leicester began their double with a resounding win at Watford from which three attackers extracted big points.

Interest in those Foxes players was varied.

Jamie Vardy (£10.3m) put on 300,000+ owners, scored twice, earned maximum bonus and walked away with 13 points for the second match running.

James Maddison (£6.9m) increased his ownership by about half that of Vardy, opened the scoring, added two assists and racked up 15 points.

Harvey Barnes (£6.5m) was the runt of the popularity litter, adding around only 60,000 new managers. But he was the alpha scorer, finding the net twice, setting up another goal and producing 16 points.

Youri Tielemans (£6.4m) and substitute Marc Albrighton (£5.2m) were the others to assist on the day for the visitors.

Watford actually contrived to take the lead before folding like an origami convention.

Joao Pedro (£5.4m) did the deed and ended up having more shots (seven) than he scored points (six).

Points, in fact, were a rarity for an entire nest of Hornets.

Their squad managed just 16, so were outscored by a combo of Barnes and Patson Daka (£7.0m), who came on for nine minutes at the end of the mauling.

Not that every popular Foxes asset came away with decent returns.

Two of the four Leicester players with ownership levels above 10%, Kasper Schmeichel (£5.0m) and Daniel Amartey (£4.0m), brought in just one point between them.

The defender was given 33 minutes from the bench, while the keeper’s run of 149 consecutive starts was brought to an end by his boss, Brendan Rodgers, who rested him. Or he was dropped as he seeks a transfer from the King Power.

Take your pick on that one.

All Schmeichel’s 18.4% ownership care about is whether the previously nailed-on starter will be back for Thursday’s trip to Chelsea.

Aston Villa 1 Crystal Palace 1

Two sides with double bubble in Gameweek 37, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace, battled to a 1-1 draw that did little to please most fantasy managers.

Villa’s goal came from Ollie Watkins (£7.5m), a striker shrouded in so much pre-match injury news that he was sold by a net 73,938 bosses despite fixtures against Palace and then Burnley.

Based on all that injury talk, strike partner Danny Ings (£7.7m) put on half a million backers and promptly blanked.

The pair had three shots apiece, but only Watkins managed an attempt on target, which went in.

The assist came from Lucas Digne (£5.0m).

He and fellow full-back Matty Cash (£5.3m) were also bought by decent chunks of the FPL faithful, but their hopes of a clean sheet were wiped out nine minutes from time by substitute Jeffrey Schlupp (£5.4m).

Marc Guehi (£4.5m) provided the assist.

Palace’s main transfer target for their double, Wilfried Zaha (£6.9m), was kept to just two shots and blanked, as did another popular Villa buy, Philippe Coutinho (£7.1m).

The Brazilian signed a permanent contract this week, but that didn’t stop him producing little of fantasy note for a ninth straight game.

West Ham United 2 Manchester City 2

A Jarrod Bowen (£6.8m) double kept Liverpool in the league title hunt as Man City’s well-owned fantasy stars fired blanks at West Ham.

The 11.5%-owned midfielder has had a stellar season – 12 goals, 17 assists, 200+ points – and a superb end to it, with two consecutive double-digit hauls now.

The Hammers were two goals to the good at half time, assists coming from Pablo Fornals (£5.9m) and the tireless Michail Antonio (£7.4m).

But back came City after the break.

Jack Grealish (£7.5m) pulled one back early and a Vladimir Coufal (£4.7m) own goal tied things up by the 70^th minute.

Rodri (£5.5m) and Riyad Mahrez (£8.6m) provided the assists and the latter had the best of chances to win it for City when Gabriel Jesus (£8.6m) was taken down in the box.

But the Algeria international had the spot-kick saved by Lukasz Fabianski (£5.0m) and the Hammers held on, with the odd scare, for a point.

In fact, Antonio had one glorious chance to win it for the home side, but his chip over Ederson (£6.2m) missed the target.

That was probably fair enough, seeing as Fabianski made seven saves to Ederson’s zero.

The result did little for most fantasy managers, however.

Of the seven City players owned by more than 10% of FPL bosses, only two – Kevin De Bruyne (£12.0m) and Bernardo Silva (£7.0m) – scored more than a point.

That pair recorded two whole points each, although the 10.6% on Aymeric Laporte (£6.0m) were probably grateful for the 90-minute one-pointer he produced as he’d looked likely to miss the match entirely.

In standard Pep Guardiola behaviour, the in-form Phil Foden (£7.9m) and Raheem Sterling (£10.5m) spent the day on the bench, and earned nothing at all.

Pep Roulette, much like the title race, looks like going down to the final day.

Tottenham Hotspur 1 Burnley 0

A Harry Kane (£12.4m) penalty won a nervy match for Tottenham against a spirited Burnley.

The first half was essentially Spurs v Clarety Spurs – team that likes to sit deep and counter attack versus please re-read the previous words.

Visiting keeper Nick Pope (£5.3m) kept Burnley in it while all that went on, and it took a soft penalty for the home side to break the deadlock.

Ashley Barnes (£5.2m) was adjudged to have handled the ball in the area. This was true enough, but still harsh.

Not that Kane cared, nor the 100,000+ who’d brought him in for his single match of the gameweek.

The assist went to Davinson Sanchez (£4.2m).

The centre-half also brought in maximum bonus and a clean sheet for 12 points all-in. Not bad at all for such a cheap asset, who also recorded a shut-out in the last match.

Ryan Sessegnon (£4.3m) was another in the bonus shake-up. He’s now produced returns in four of his last last five starts for, again, precious little outlay.

But it wasn’t all good Spurs-based news.

Around half a million managers finally succumbed to the in-form charms of Heung-Min Son (£11.1m), only for the midfielder to blank for the first time in three starts (and only the third time in nine).

Pope was especially to blame for that as one of his six saves was a fine one-hander to deny the South Korean.

Not that his opposite number, Hugo Lloris (£5.4m), was inactive either.

He denied Maxwel Cornet (£5.8m) in a one-on-one before the interval, but could only watch Barnes’ long-range effort hit the post after it.

A major theme of this season’s double gameweeks has been how many have turned out to be traps, with low-rent teams producing low-rent scores in a fantasy version of quantity over quality.

That might well turn out to be the case yet again where Burnley players are concerned.

At least those who were tempted by Wout Weghorst (£6.3m) got their disappointment in early as he was benched and produced just a point from 12 minutes of being tall towards the end.

But there’s always someone worse off, and this time it was anyone who held on to Dejan Kulusevski (£6.3m).

He got stung by three bs: benched, booked, blanked.

The likes of him and Son will hope for a lot more from a final-day trip to Norwich.

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