One of the most interesting periods of the ongoing Fantasy Premier League season is upon and that is not just because we are nearing the end of the 2024-2025 campaign. It’s also because we have got a Double Gameweek 32 up next, followed by an even larger Double Gameweek 33, followed by a large Blank Gameweek 34, followed by likely Double Gameweeks in both 35 and 36. That’s right, so we hope you have saved up your chips.
The doubling teams and their fixtures in Double Gameweek 32:
| TEAM | DGW32 FIXTURE 1 | DGW32 FIXTURE 2 |
| Crystal Palace | Manchester City (away) | Newcastle United (away) |
| Newcastle United | Manchester Utd (home) | Crystal Palace (home) |
As you can see, on paper, Newcastle’s Double is considerably better than Palace’s. As a matter of fact, Newcastle’s Double Gameweek 32 is excellent, while Palace’s Double Gameweek 32 could hardly be more difficult. That’s why we also recommend keeping the single gameweek teams with a favourable fixture in mind when planning your transfers and possibly the deployment of a chip. These include Brighton’s home game against leaky Leicester City, Aston Villa’s visit to Southampton, Chelsea’s home game against Ipswich Town and Liverpool’s visit to West Ham United. After their impressive 3-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League, we would also include Arsenal at home versus Brentford, though managers should be prepared for some rotation by Gunners manager Mikel Arteta.
Don’t forget, the deadline for gameweek 32 is set at 11h00 (UK time) on Saturday, April12th, 2025. The free to play FPL or pay to play season/weekend/daily games like FanTeam are ideal ways of following the Premier League action.
Most transferred in/transferred out players (as per April 10th, 2025)
| TRANSFERS OUT | TRANSFERS IN | POSSIBLE REASONS | |
| GK | Alisson (LIV), Pickford (EVE), Henderson (CRY) | Raya (ARS), Pope (NEW), Sels (NFO) | DGW32, Alisson injury doubt, |
| DEF | Aina (NFO), Gabriel (ARS), Guehi (CRY) | Muñoz (CRY), Livramento (NEW), Milenkovic (NFO) | DGW32, all transferred-out defenders injured or suspended, |
| MID | Kluivert (BOU), Mbeumo (BRE), Elanga (NFO) | Murphy (NEW), Rogers (AST), Eze (CRY) | DGW32, Kluivert + Elanga injury doubts |
| FOR | Wood (NFO), Wissa (BRE), Haaland (MCI) | Mateta (CRY), Marmoush (MCI), Isak (NEW) | DGW32, Haaland injured, Wood injury doubt |
Premium pick
With Liverpool facing West Ham United, who have already conceded 22 goals in 15 away games this season, and with Mo Salah on the verge of signing a brand-new 2-year contract at Anfield, choosing the Egyptian superstar as your premium fantasy pick for Gameweek 32 makes all the sense in the world. Considering the fact that it’s a Double Gameweek though, in which Newcastle have a nice pair of fixtures. Therefore, we are exceptionally lowering the minimum price threshold for our premium fantasy pick category a little bit, as this allows us to include Alexander Isak (£9.5m) here. The Sweden international already has 20 goals and 5 assists to his name (from 27 league starts), and he is up against Manchester United and Crystal Palace next, both at home. With a current total of 179 FPL points, Isak is having the best Premier League season in his career. If he can keep up his average of 66 FPL points per game for DGW32, the Newcastle striker (who is on penalties) should net you a double-digit haul.
Non-premium pick
“We can be real about it, 12 points with eight games to play… It’s a very big difference, too much. We have to focus game to game and on presenting ourselves in the best possible way. That is the main target now”. That’s what Leicester manager Ruud van Nistelrooy answered when asked about his side’s current situation in the relegation zone. Obviously, that’s not what you want to hear as a Fox, in whatever capacity, but it does perhaps represent a healthy dose of realism. Because Leicester City have simply not been good enough this season, a fact confirmed by their current 17 points from 31 league games. Over that run, they also conceded 70 goals (only Southampton have conceded more, 74) while finding the net themselves just 22 times. Taking all of this into account and adding the fact that Brighton still has all to play for in terms of European football, our non-premium fantasy pick for Gameweek 32 is Kaoru Mitoma (£6.5m). The Japanese winger, who has 7 goals and 4 assists to this name in the ongoing PL campaign, is one of side’s stars and despite not finding an attacking return in the last five league games, we feel like he could be a shrewd pick here. Mitoma has all the makings of a true nightmare for Leicester wing-back on the right side, James Justin.
The budget enabler
A price tag of just £5.1m, excellent form and a Double Gameweek that looks tasty, on paper at least. Jacob Murphy (£5.1m) is bringing together all of these positives for Double Gameweek 32, when Newcastle are facing Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Saint James’ Park. At his current price, the Newcastle attacker has offered great value so far this season and we expect him to continue doing so until the end of the season. He has already scored an impressive 7 goals and provided 9 assists in 23 league starts, and 2 of those goals were scored against Leicester City at the King Power Stadium last weekend. Murphy is actually the second-highest-scoring player on the entire Magpie roster, well behind only Alexander Isak. He is averaging 5.3 FPL points per game so far and if he can keep that up over the upcoming Double Gameweek, he will deliver around 10 FPL points. Not bad at all for a true budget enabler, especially if you are opting for a Wildcard or a Free Hit in DGW32, for example.
The differential
After a season with a goal, 10 assists and 111 FPL, which followed a season with 1 goals, 9 assists and 198 FPL points, Kieran Trippier’s (£5.6m) current campaign can be considered underwhelming. Injury troubles and strong competition for starting spot at right-back from Lewis Hall, resulted in just nine league starts so far. With the latter out with injury for the foreseeable future though, Trippier has now returned to the Newcastle starting lineup and the return has gone pretty smoothly. The former England international replaced Hall in the starting eleven back in GW28 and the Magpies have won all three of their league games since then. Over that run, Trips did not record an attacking return, but he did collect 16 FPL points, courtesy of two clean sheets. In other words, Newcastle’s are in good form both defensively and offensively, and with home games against Man United and Crystal Palace up next in Double Gameweek 32, our differential sense is tingling here. Bar exceptional circumstances, Trippier will start both of those games and we all know how that can turn out when he has finds a bit of extra form. Especially when he has some set-piece duties in his locker as well. The Magpie defender is not cheap at £5.6m, but his ownership of just 4.4% makes us think he could be a fantastic differential fantasy pick for Double Gameweek 32.
The (vice-)captaincy
Considering Newcastle’s Double Gameweek 32, we didn’t really feel like we had any other choice apart from Alexander Isak for the armband. The forward is simply marvellous this season and we can absolutely see him add a few notches to his 2024-2025 Premier League belt over the coming days.
As far as we are concerned, the perfect alternative for Isak is, of course, Mohamed Salah, despite Liverpool’s single gameweek fixture (at home against West Ham). Other interesting alternatives for the captaincy include Ollie Watkins for Aston Villa’s visit to Saint Mary’s and Cole Palmer for Chelsea’s home game against Ipswich Town.
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