Phil Foden & Joao Pedro spearhead Team of the Week – one Dream Team boss now £100 richer!

DREAM TEAM managers only have to get their strategy bang on once throughout the season to top up their bank balance.

We give away £100 every Gameweek to the gaffer who earns the most points and Gameweek 19’s champion, Joseph Lattimore, earned himself some beer money after notching 194 points!

Let’s take a closer look at how he achieved such an impressive score…

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The first thing to note is that Joseph topped the weekly leaderboard despite the fact he only had ten active players.

Everton’s FA Cup third round match-up with Crystal Palace was part of Gameweek 18 because of a scheduling quirk, meaning Jordan Pickford (£3m) didn’t have any fixtures this past Gameweek – he didn’t feature against the Eagles anyway.

That minor blip was more than offset by a mightily effective use of the Park the Booster, which doubled the 64 points achieved by his five defenders to 128!

Pedro Porro (£3.5m) was the star of the show after his superb all-round performance in an otherwise flat fixture between Tottenham and Burnley.

The Spanish right-back scored a screamer to ensure his side progressed to the fourth round of the cup.

Not only that, he earned five bonus points and contributed to Spurs’ clean sheet to finish with a 20-point haul – the second-best return by a defender from a single fixture this season.

Porro was Spurs’ cup heroReuters

The ever-reliable Trent Alexander-Arnold (£5.8m) played his part with a nine-point haul against Arsenal and would have surely added to his total had he not missed Liverpool’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Fulham through injury.

Joseph is just one of many, many Dream Team bosses who will need to find a replacement for the game’s best defender before tonight’s Gameweek 20 deadline.

Prior to Gameweek 19, we tipped Chelsea assets for a prosperous effort because of their favourable fixtures against Preston and Middlesbrough.

As it happens, the Blues lost 1-0 to Boro in midweek but their 4-0 victory in the FA Cup ensured healthy returns all round nonetheless – Malo Gusto (£2.2m) was the pick of the defenders with 14 points.

In midfield, Joseph targeted West Ham’s meeting with Bristol City and things got off to a great start when Jarrod Bowen (£5.5m) scored early on.

However, the Hammers made heavy work of things after that and ended up drawing with little assistance from James Ward-Prowse (£4.1m), who has gone off the boil lately in Dream Team terms.

Bowen’s helpful 14-point return was soured by the image of him limping down the tunnel at the end of the game and it’s now thought he’ll miss two or three weeks.

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Phil Foden (£5.1m) has been utterly brilliant this season and he continued to put pressure on Bukayo Saka (£6.1m) at the top of the Dream Team midfield rankings with a brace against a Huddersfield side low on confidence.

Manchester City’s homegrown hero is statistically the most in-form player in the game having racked up 38 points across his last three outings and he’s now just nine points behind Arsenal’s No7.

Martin Odegaard (£4.7m) could only muster four points against Liverpool as the Gunners once again failed to convert their chances.

Last but by no means least, an inspired captaincy choice by Joseph in the form of Joao Pedro (£3.6m).

The Brighton forward has punched well above his weight since his return to Dream Team, thanks predominately to a stream of converted penalties.

But it doesn’t matter how they come, the fact is the Brazilian forward has amassed 169 points with 15 of them coming via a brace against Stoke last time out.

Only Erling Haaland (£7.9m) and Mohamed Salah (£6.7m) have scored more goals in all competitions this season!

Superb work, Joseph, enjoy your winnings!