{"id":67542,"date":"2025-08-14T23:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67542\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T23:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T23:27:12","slug":"fpl-gameweek-1-scout-picks-four-double-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/67542\/","title":{"rendered":"FPL Gameweek 1 Scout Picks: Four double-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Fantasy Premier League (FPL) 2025\/26 getting underway tomorrow, it\u2019s time to finalise our Gameweek 1 Scout Picks.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, our Scout Picks selection is influenced by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasyfootballscout.co.uk\/2025\/08\/13\/the-scout-squad-our-top-picks-for-fpl-gameweek-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scout Squad submissions<\/a> made by Neale (Editor), Tom (Deputy Editor), Sam (General Manager) and Marc (Staff Writer).<\/p>\n<p>There are certain restrictions for our picks, however:<\/p>\n<p>An \u00a383.0m budget for our starting XIAn overall squad limit of \u00a3100.0mNo more than three players per teamGAMEWEEK 1 SCOUT PICKS<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-220.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144205 webpexpress-processed\"  \/>GOALKEEPER<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/t-1024x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105425\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:400px;height:250px\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Robert Sanchez (\u00a35.0m) gets the nod in goal after being chosen by two of our Scout Squad pundits. The FIFA Club World Cup champions, Chelsea, are set to face Crystal Palace on Sunday afternoon. Oliver Glasner\u2019s troops have plenty of firepower, but the Blues enjoyed the third-best home record in the Premier League last season, conceding just 18 goals. The Club World Cup was a clear mark of progression, too, with Paris-Saint Germain among four clubs shut out.<\/p>\n<p>With Marc Guehi (\u00a34.5m) and Eberechi Eze (\u00a37.5m) both linked with moves away from Selhurst Park this week, we\u2019re hoping Palace are sufficiently disrupted to allow Sanchez to bag us a clean sheet as well as save points.<\/p>\n<p>DEFENDERS<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"510\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/fpl-notes-why-porro-was-benched-in-form-chelsea-martin-sacked-1024x510.jpg\" alt=\"FPL notes: Why Porro was benched, in-form Chelsea, Martin sacked\" class=\"wp-image-129643\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:400px;height:250px\"  \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\" 1\" class=\"wp-image-74091 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1069\" height=\"512\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-125286 webpexpress-processed\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ffs-banner.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\" 1\" class=\"wp-image-74091 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250804-WA0005-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143262 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:700px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Fantasy Premier League (FPL) 2025\/26 getting underway tomorrow, it\u2019s time to finalise our Gameweek 1 Scout Picks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35393,35394,35395,35396,35397,35398,59,35399,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-67542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-best-defender","9":"tag-best-forward","10":"tag-best-fpl-players","11":"tag-best-goalkeeper","12":"tag-best-midfielder","13":"tag-gameweek-1-best-players","14":"tag-gb","15":"tag-scout-picks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}