Nwaneri, Ouattara & Mitoma join budget brigade - FPL team of the week

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Thomas Woods

BBC Sport Senior Journalist

No Mohamed Salah?

No Cole Palmer oregon Erling Haaland?

No Liverpool, Manchester City oregon Chelsea players?

That's close - we're playing the fixtures this week successful Fantasy Premier League with a budget-friendly bonanza featuring triple Bournemouth and Arsenal.

Will the hazard wage off?

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.

How did past week's squad do?

Ollie Watkins (15) and Jean-Philippe Mateta (7) led a top-heavy squad to a tidy 95 points, with the accustomed haul from the unstoppable skipper Salah (40).

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Keeper and defence

Gabriel and William Saliba of ArsenalImage source, Getty Images

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Best centre-back duo successful Europe? Gabriel, left, and William Saliba are up determination and person 8 cleanable sheets this season

Jordan Pickford, Everton, goalkeeper, £5.1m - Manchester United (h)

United person scored conscionable doubly successful their past 4 league games portion Everton are flying nether David Moyes.

While they whitethorn not beryllium razor choky astatine the back, they inactive person 2 cleanable sheets successful their past 4 and location vantage here.

Pickford racks up prevention points excessively and adjacent has an assistance successful him.

Gabriel, Arsenal, £6.3m - West Ham (h)

I could spell connected each week astir Gabriel's extremity menace but you prime defenders firstly for their accidental of a cleanable expanse and Arsenal are successful a beardown presumption this week.

The Hammers person scored conscionable 2 successful their past 4 games, picking up 1 point.

Arsenal person 2 cleanable sheets successful their past 3 matches. Basic FPL maths makes Gabriel a beardown prime this week.

William Saliba, Arsenal, £6.2m - West Ham (h)

With statistic connected their side, wherefore not propulsion successful different Arsenal defender? This week's squad has plentifulness of budget.

Saliba offers small extremity menace - 0.08 expected goals (xG) per 90 minutes - but is dependable, guaranteed to commencement and really has much bonus points than Gabriel this season!

Antonee Robinson, Fulham, £5.1m - Crystal Palace (h)

There aren't galore evident cleanable expanse shouts this week truthful I've gone for the antheral with much Premier League assists than immoderate subordinate but Salah and Bukayo Saka.

Daniel Munoz volition beryllium flying down Palace's close flank - meaning Robinson volition person his hands afloat defensively, but besides plentifulness of chances to counter-attack.

Midfield

Bournemouth's deadly trio - Dango Ouattara, Antoine Semenyo and Justin KluivertImage source, Getty Images

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(From left) Bournemouth's deadly trio - Dango Ouattara, Antoine Semenyo and Justin Kluivert

Dango Ouattara (captain, £5.1m), Antoine Semenyo (£5.7m) & Justin Kluivert (£6m), each Bournemouth - Wolves (h)

Last week's squad of the week ended up with this trio successful it, aft Cody Gakpo's wounded brought Ouattara disconnected the bench, and each subordinate returned.

An attacking triple-up tin beryllium risky, particularly with a squad similar Bournemouth who aren't 1 of the accepted powerhouses, but the Cherries are connected occurrence astatine the moment.

Exclude the decision by Liverpool, successful which they were unlucky to concede a punishment and to not score, and they are averaging 4 goals per crippled successful their past three.

Only Salah (48) has much FPL points successful the past 4 weeks than Kluivert (42) and Ouattara (34) portion Semenyo has had much shots connected people successful that clip than immoderate different player.

In a favourable location match-up against Wolves, you tin expect astatine slightest 2 goals and engagement from each of this attacking trio.

I'm making 1 of them skipper excessively - truthful wherefore not Ouattara, who is playing retired of presumption and scored a hat-trick 2 location games ago?

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Hot Tubs, a Sutton Death showdown, & Palmer out?

Ethan Nwaneri, Arsenal, £4.6m - West Ham (h)

With truthful galore attackers injured, Arsenal request idiosyncratic to measurement up and Nwaneri could beryllium that player.

He's going to beryllium immoderate subordinate and successful FPL helium is becoming an breathtaking plus too.

Nwaneri is astir apt a guaranteed commencement astatine the moment, lone costs £4.6m and is averaging 9.44 points per 90 minutes connected the pitch.

Imagine what helium volition bash with regular playing time.

Kaoru Mitoma, Brighton, £6.3m - Southampton (a)

That superb extremity past week against Chelsea means Mitoma has 3 double-digit returns successful his past 5 games.

Despite a alteration of manager, Southampton are inactive the plum necktie for absorption teams successful FPL.

Home and distant makes small quality and they person conceded astatine slightest 3 goals successful 5 of their past six league games.

Strikers

Liam Delap, Ipswich Town striker dives connected  the transportation   successful  celebrationImage source, Getty Images

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Liam Delap has 10 goals successful his archetypal play arsenic a Premier League starter

Liam Delap, Ipswich, £5.6m - Tottenham (h)

Visiting Spurs person back-to-back cleanable sheets but the statistic archer different communicative with an expected goals conceded (xGC) of 3.83 successful the games against Brentford and Manchester United, and 29 shots allowed.

So Delap tin beryllium palmy present and people for the 3rd successive game.

He's Ipswich's talisman - apt to mop up bonus if helium scores - is connected penalties, and had a extremity and assistance successful the reverse fixture.

Ollie Watkins (vice captain), Aston Villa, £8.9m - Chelsea (h)

Not a large week for attacking options, with Liverpool travelling to Manchester City and Alexander Isak facing Nottingham Forest's often pugnacious defence.

Watkins volition fancy a spell astatine this Chelsea defence though, which has conceded 7 goals successful the past 3 games.

The Villa striker besides has a big of caller attacking players - Donyell Malen, Marcus Rashford, Marco Asensio - to provender him and it volition beryllium absorbing to spot however Villa make successful the last 3rd of the season.

Subs bench

Bart Verbruggen, Brighton, keeper, £4.5m - Southampton (a)

Raul Jimenez, Fulham, striker, £5.6m - Crystal Palace (h)

Josko Gvardiol, Manchester City, defender, £5.9m - Liverpool (h)

Nathan Collins, Brentford, defender, £4.5m - Leicester City (a)

Total squad cost: £85.4m

Player to watch

Beto, Everton striker, celebrates with his team-matesImage source, Getty Images

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Beto, left, has 5 goals successful 4 starts successful the league for Everton this season

Beto, Everton, forward, £4.9m

With 4 goals successful 3 gameweeks, it whitethorn consciousness excessively precocious to leap connected the Beto train, but helium has travel retired of obscurity to pb Everton's line.

He has nary contention up beforehand and is simply a beauteous fund terms if you are looking astatine restructuring your squad successful the coming gameweeks to get idiosyncratic specified arsenic Haaland backmost in.

Team to target

Manchester City - Liverpool (h), Spurs (a), Nottingham Forest (a)

City's adjacent 3 aren't super-enticing, but you mightiness privation to commencement readying up for the blank gameweek successful 29 erstwhile Liverpool don't play and Pep Guardiola's broadside person Brighton astatine home.

They play Leicester astatine location the week aft too, truthful picking players specified arsenic Omar Marmoush (£7.1m) oregon Haaland (£14.7m) tin wage dividends.

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