Skonto Rigga

Newcastle upon Tyne

Editor at Fantasy Football Scout

Editor of @FFScout. Press conference watcher, team news compiler.

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FPL 2024/25 champion talks to FFScout

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

Interview ShareLovro Budišin last weekend became the 23rd overall winner of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) – and the first Croat to finish first. The seemingly inevitable was confirmed on the final day of 2024/25 as Lovro, who had been leading the chasing pack from Gameweek 31 onwards, held on to top spot and ended up 23 points ahead of his nearest challenger, Jack Brennan.
FPL 2024/25 lessons: Can defenders bounce back from a poor season?

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

The 2024/25 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season is done – but not quite dusted. In a series of post-Gameweek 38 articles, we’re looking back at some of the main takeaways from the campaign just gone. This time: another unremarkable year, in general, for FPL defenders. READ MORE: FPL 2024/25 lessons: Why was there a drop in penalties? Josko Gvardiol (£6.5m) leapfrogged Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.2m) to reach the summit of the defenders’ points table on the final day.
The winners of our 'Predict Gameweek 38' competition

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

Community ShareAhead of Gameweek 38, we asked you to predict the outcomes of five final-day events. These ranged from total goals scored to the three clubs securing the remaining UEFA Champions League qualification spots. A year-long Premium Membership was up for grabs, as well as two monthly subscriptions. We had over 600 entries, with no one guessing all five outcomes correctly. There were, however, three entrants who managed to nail four out of the five answers.
FPL Team of the Season: The final run-off vote

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

Don’t worry, we won’t milk this for much longer…We’ve got just one final poll to present to you before our Fantasy Premier League (FPL) Team of the Season is complete. In past years, we have canvassed your votes in each position – as we have been doing over the last week – and then decided on the formation ourselves. This has, for example, resulted in us making subjective calls between a fifth midfielder and a third forward.
FPL notes: Why Welbeck + Calafiori missed out, 20-goal Mbeumo

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

The takeaways from Gameweek 38 of Fantasy Premier League (FPL) will no doubt be long forgotten by the time 2025/26 gets underway.
FPL Gameweek 38 round-up: Goals, assists, bonus points + stats

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

Scoreboard ShareThe Scoreboard has all the attacking returns, bonus points and key stats from Sunday’s Gameweek 38 fixtures. Those statistics include the day’s top teams and players for shots, chances created and expected goal involvement (xGI). This is official Opta data from our Premium Members Area, which is available for our subscribers soon after full-time in every Premier League game. Meanwhile, the attacking returns and bonus points are from LiveFPL.
Saka + KDB benched, Isak starts, no Welbeck

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

It’s the final day of the Premier League season, with all 10 Premier League fixtures kicking off at the same time (4pm BST):Full team news to come…Bournemouth XI: Arrizabalaga, Smith, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Kerkez, Adams, Brooks, Tavernier, Kluivert, Semenyo, Evanilson. Subs: Dennis, Huijsen, Soler, Araujo, Hill, Scott, Winterburn, Jebbison, Silcott-Duberry. Leicester City XI: Stolarczyk, Justin, Coady, Faes, Kristiansen, Skipp, Soumaré, McAteer, Ayew, Thomas, Daka.
Predict Gameweek 38 and win FFScout Membership!

1 week ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

Half the Premier League may not have ‘something to play for’ on the final day but you, dear reader, can bag yourself a Premium Membership out of it. We’ve put together a Gameweek 38 prediction competition, asking you to anticipate the outcome of five final-day events – from total goals scored on Sunday to the number of attacking returns Mohamed Salah (£13.6m) gets. All you have to do is guess the answers via this form here (also embedded below).
FPL Gameweek 38 team news: Saturday’s injury updates

2 weeks ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

There is team news from two more Premier League managers to bring you ahead of Gameweek 38. Rubem Amorim and Ange Postecoglou faced the media on Saturday, with the headline updates from their press conferences below. For the injury news from the other 18 top-flight clubs, check out this article. Son Heung-min (foot) and Cristian Romero (toe) will miss Gameweek 38, while Yves Bissouma (knock) is “50/50”.
Predicted lineups + match previews for FPL Gameweek 38

2 weeks ago | fantasyfootballscout.co.uk | Skonto Rigga

Every Gameweek, in our much-visited team news tab, we predict the lineups of all the Premier League clubs with a fixture. More recently, we’ve incorporated those predicted XIs into match previews. Below, you’ll find short articles and lineups on all 10 fixtures taking place in Gameweek 38. As well as our predicted line-ups, there are form guides and each team’s leading performers for expected goal involvement (xGI) over the last six Gameweeks: