{"id":4750,"date":"2025-12-18T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:40:09","slug":"fpl-gameweek-17-tips-hugo-ekitike-marcus-tavernier-and-bruno-fernandes-make-team-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"FPL gameweek 17 tips: Hugo Ekitike, Marcus Tavernier and Bruno Fernandes make team of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Phil Foden, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-city\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester City<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">, \u00a38.8m &#8211; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">West Ham<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> (h)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Foden is averaging 13.75 points per game over his past four matches and has made himself a must-have player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a> at home is almost as good as it gets &#8211; they are winless in their past five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The only downside to picking Foden is the risk of a random Pep Roulette benching but you just have to take that on the chin if it happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Antoine Semenyo, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bournemouth<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">, \u00a37.5m &#8211; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Burnley<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> (h)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Burnley<\/a> have conceded at least twice in every away game this season &#8211; a total of 23 goals in eight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Semenyo is back in the goals after two and half months following his strike at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Manchester United<\/a> and is clearly his team&#8217;s talisman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He might still be a sell, long-term, if you still own him but this week is a great match-up for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Marcus Tavernier, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bournemouth<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">, \u00a35.5m &#8211; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Burnley<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> (h)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tavernier was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a>&#8216;s star man in their eight-goal thriller against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Manchester United<\/a> on Monday, but his potential has been shown by his underlying data for a while.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Semenyo is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a>&#8216;s star performer but Tavernier is not far behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has created more chances (22) than any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/afc-bournemouth\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Bournemouth<\/a> midfielder and has the second-most shots, xG, goals and big chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At \u00a35.5m, he&#8217;s a great budget option to rival the likes of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Granit Xhaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Bruno Fernandes, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-united\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Manchester United<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">, \u00a39.3m &#8211; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Aston Villa<\/b><\/a><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> (a)<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fernandes tops nearly every creative stat for midfielders and is essential until further notice, even in a tricky fixture like Villa away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simple as that!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cvgr8jpv12ro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Foden, Manchester City, \u00a3&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}