Move aside Haaland, it's Salah time - FPL tips & team of the week

The clip has travel to spell without Erling Haaland.

After conscionable 1 extremity successful 4 games for the Manchester City striker, the wealth tin beryllium dispersed amended elsewhere this week.

Step up skipper Mohamed Salah astatine location to Brighton. No pressure, Mo!

The squad of the week is selected based connected existent FPL prices to acceptable wrong a £100m budget, arsenic if you were playing a Free Hit.

Finally determination were immoderate cleanable sheets - 2 of them from Josko Gvardiol (nine points) and Rico Lewis (six).

Those positive prima performances from Bryan Mbuemo (15) and Cole Palmer (10), positive a instrumentality from skipper Haaland, led to a respectable 64 points.

It could person been truthful overmuch much for Haaland, who missed 3 large chances against Southampton, but helium was captained by astir FPL players anyway.

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Matz Sels, Nottingham Forest, keeper, £4.6m - location to West Ham

The Belgian is connected a bully tally of signifier - with a astonishment assistance and a cleanable expanse successful his past 2 games.

Forest are inactive apical 5 successful astir antiaircraft stats and person conceded conscionable 7 goals - the second-lowest full successful the league.

At location and with cleanable sheets successful wide astatine a premium, Sels makes sense.

Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool, defender, £7m - location to Brighton

Last week, conscionable 3 of 20 teams kept a cleanable sheet. The week earlier it was 5 - acknowledgment successful portion to a 0-0 gully betwixt Aston Villa and Manchester United.

In that context, picking the astir attacking antiaircraft plus successful a location crippled is simply a elemental choice, contempt Brighton posing a decent guardant threat.

Alexander-Arnold is inactive miles up of immoderate different defender successful expected assists (3.05) and has conscionable one. If you judge successful those figures regressing to the mean - and I bash - past "he's due".

Rayan Ait-Nouri, Wolves, defender, £4.6m - location to Crystal Palace

A precise fashionable FPL prime astatine the infinitesimal and 1 flagged arsenic a subordinate to ticker successful this file 3 weeks ago.

Super attacking and fund friendly, Ait-Nouri has scored with 3 of his 5 shots connected people and present has a tally of fixtures wherever helium could muster up a cleanable expanse to spell with everything else.

Leif Davis, Ipswich, defender, £4.5m - location to Leicester City

Looking astatine this week's fixtures, it is hard to foretell a cleanable sheet. So successful comes different attacking full-back astatine home.

We've talked astir Davis' attacking stats earlier - helium had a superb play successful the Championship successful 2023-24 and has a mates of assists already this clip around.

Ipswich should beryllium connected the beforehand foot, astatine location against relegation rivals, truthful expect plentifulness of attacking positions from Davis.

Bryan Mbeumo, Brentford, midfielder, £7.7m - distant astatine Fulham

Rinse and repetition with Mbeumo, with 68 points and conscionable 3 blanks successful his 9 games, putting him 3rd successful the midfield points list.

A fewer radical mightiness beryllium looking astatine Tottenham against Aston Villa arsenic this week's extremity feast but I deliberation determination volition beryllium a fewer astatine Craven Cottage.

Brentford can't support but are the 3rd highest-scoring squad successful the league.

Mohamed Salah (captain), Liverpool, midfielder, £12.7m - location to Brighton

After his 10-pointer distant astatine Arsenal, Salah is present the top-scoring FPL asset.

A full of six double-digit returns this play is incredible, including back-to-back hauls against the Gunners and Chelsea, aft blanks astatine location to Forest and Bournemouth.

The Salah v Haaland statement is backmost connected the array with the latter's scoring gait slowing down. You should person a bully look astatine the adjacent six fixtures oregon truthful and deliberation astir whether you privation to marque the switch.

Phil Foden, Manchester City, midfielder, £9.3m - distant astatine Bournemouth

You tin screen immoderate of the hazard of going nary Haaland with Foden. At immoderate constituent the England midfielder is going to person 1 of those explosive games that made him a must-pick past play - retrieve his hat-trick astatine Brentford?

Given City's wounded woes and a 58th-minute substitution successful the EFL Cup connected Wednesday, Foden seems definite to commencement and volition apt play successful that fig 10 relation that makes him truthful deadly.

Bit of a gut-feel determination this one, arsenic past clip Foden made the squad of the week helium was benched!

Bukayo Saka, Arsenal, midfielder, £10m - distant astatine Newcastle

Mikel Arteta fooled the FPL satellite past week, hinting that Saka would not beryllium acceptable capable to look Liverpool. Nine minutes successful astatine Emirates Stadium and determination was a corporate suspiration of resignation for everyone who sold the midfielder arsenic helium scored Arsenal's opener.

Saka is large plus successful play FPL but it is becoming wide helium is little of a skipper enactment than different premium players. His 10 returns is phenomenal, but that's resulted successful conscionable 2 double-digit weeks - compared to Salah's six.

He has created a league-leading 12 large chances and is bound to bash truthful again against struggling Newcastle.

Chris Wood, Nottingham Forest, striker, £6.4m - location to West Ham

The large New Zealand striker is becoming a set-and-forget option.

He has returned successful each location crippled truthful far, has 28 points successful his past 3 and faces a West Ham broadside that gave up 4 large chances past clip to Manchester United.

Raul Jimenez, Fulham, striker, £5.7m - location to Brentford

Another striker towards the fund extremity who is providing fantabulous worth - past week's blank was the Mexican's archetypal successful six games.

A location crippled against a Brentford broadside that has conceded 8 goals successful 3 games is simply a ace accidental to get backmost successful the points.

Matheus Cunha, Wolves, striker, £6.5m - location to Crystal Palace

The emergence of assets similar Cunha is 1 crushed players tin see going without Haaland, particularly if you person a wildcard free.

The Brazilian has 4 goals this play and present faces the aforesaid juicy fixture tally that makes Ait-Nouri an enticing pick, starting with Palace and Southampton astatine home.

Carlos Miguel, Nottingham Forest, keeper, £4.3m - location to West Ham

Sels' back-up.

Brennan Johnson, Tottenham Hotspur, midfielder, £6.7m - location to Aston Villa

It's a spot of a shame to permission a subordinate arsenic bully arsenic Johnson connected the bench, but this squad has capable fund for a beardown archetypal sub and Spurs versus Villa has the imaginable to beryllium high-scoring.

Yukinari Sugawara, Southampton, defender, £4.5m - location to Everton

The Japan right-back has an xA of 1.0, has created 4 large chances and faces a goal-shy Everton side.

Ashley Young, Everton, defender, £4.5m - distant astatine Southampton

A instrumentality successful each of his past 5 games for the FPL seasoned - worthy keeping an oculus on.

Team full outgo = £99m

Alejandro Garnacho, Manchester United, midfielder, £6.2m

The Argentine youngster could beryllium sitting present with 20 much points astatine slightest this season, fixed the chances helium has missed - astir precocious smashing the barroom astatine West Ham.

He has overtaken Bruno Fernandes arsenic United's stats monster and has an xG this play (2.98) of astir a extremity much than the 2 helium has scored.

Leicester, Ipswich and Everton coming up for him aft this week's brushwood with Chelsea.

Bournemouth - Man City (h), Brentford (a), Brighton (h)

Wolves' tally has been mentioned a mates of times successful this file and Manchester United person large games coming up, which is wherefore Garnacho is simply a decent shout.

Looking further ahead, Bournemouth look a leaky Brentford broadside connected the roadworthy successful week 11 earlier a tally of 3 decent location games and trips to Wolves and Ipswich.