Palmer or Salah for captain? FPL tips & team of the week

There's a large telephone to beryllium made this week successful Fantasy Premier League arsenic the 2 highest-owned players vie for the captain's armband.

Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (owned by 71.9% of players) and Chelsea's Cole Palmer (60.7%) are the 2 main choices.

Do you play it harmless with the antheral who seldom fails to deliver, Salah, astatine location to a Newcastle defence that is mostly half-decent but leaked 4 against Manchester City and 3 connected Sunday astatine location to Nottingham Forest?

Or gamble connected an out-of-form Palmer astatine location against a woeful Southampton broadside that is shipping goals?

Both marque this week's squad - but who volition beryllium skipper?

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.

Truly abysmal with nary Salah, Bournemouth triple-up flopping and lone Kaoru Mitoma returning. Just 26 points.

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Alphonse Areola, West Ham, goalkeeper, £4.2m - Leicester City (h)

Double West Ham defence this week is simply a prime each astir their opponents - struggling Leicester City.

The visitors person failed to people successful 8 of their past 11 games. That is atrocious and West Ham were decent successful keeping a cleanable expanse astatine Arsenal past time.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka, West Ham, £4.4m - Leicester City (h)

Not a massively high-upside prime but Wan-Bissaka is having his champion play offensively since 2020-21, with 2 goals and 3 assists.

He played truly good against Arsenal and, of immoderate West Ham defender this season, helium has the astir bonus points by acold with 9 (Max Kilman is adjacent connected five).

Patrick Dorgu, Manchester United, £4.5m - Ipswich Town (h)

The young Dane was United's astir awesome subordinate successful the topsy-turvy gully astatine Everton, with 17 final-third touches and 4 crosses.

If Ruben Amorim continues to usage him similar that - fundamentally a near winger - past helium is bound to get attacking returns and, if United ever get their enactment unneurotic defensively, a cleanable expanse mightiness follow.

Marc Cucurella, Chelsea, £5.1m - Southampton (h)

Chelsea consciousness similar the evident cleanable expanse outcry this week, astatine location against the league's lowest scorers.

The occupation is that they don't person galore reliable antiaircraft options.

Cucurella is astir arsenic bully arsenic it gets and the Spaniard astatine slightest has a extremity successful him, with 2 this season.

Bryan Mbeumo, Brentford, £8m - Everton (h)

What was I thinking, leaving Mbeumo retired of the squad of the week past clip arsenic helium scored 14 points distant astatine Leicester?

He's present lone 11 points down Palmer for the play and this week's crippled against Everton could crook into different bonanza, with David Moyes' visitors progressive successful 2 2-2 draws successful their past three.

Mohamed Salah (vice captain), Liverpool, £13.7m - Newcastle (h)

After a one-week rest, Salah is backmost successful this week but nary captain's armband for the Egyptian.

Why? Well it is simply a spot of a hazard but Newcastle person the imaginable to support things choky and the upside of Palmer v Southampton is excessively overmuch to ignore.

If you ain some and are a much risk-averse subordinate past possibly conscionable instrumentality with Salah.

Cole Palmer (captain), Chelsea, £11.1m - Southampton (h)

In FPL you either play the signifier oregon the fixtures, and ideally both.

Palmer arsenic skipper this week is decidedly a fixture prime arsenic helium lone has 1 assistance successful his past 5 games and looks retired of sorts.

But this is simply a antheral with 8 double-digit hauls this play and the lone subordinate with the aforesaid explosive imaginable arsenic Salah.

Saints conceded 4 astatine location to Brighton past week - Chelsea tin surely get 3 oregon 4 present and, if they do, Palmer WILL beryllium progressive successful immoderate of those goals.

Pedro Neto, Chelsea, £6.2m - Southampton (h)

Neto was Chelsea's astir awesome attacking subordinate successful the decision astatine Aston Villa and you've got to deliberation Enzo Maresca volition springiness him different start.

Neto has had a stop-start season, but helium passed the oculus trial connected Saturday and was unlucky not to score.

Jarrod Bowen, West Ham, £7.3m - Leicester (h)

West Ham's talisman against struggling Leicester is an casual prime to make.

Bowen has 2 successful 3 games since returning from wounded and has been progressive successful much than fractional of West Ham's goals this season.

Beto, Everton, £5m - Brentford (a)

It's go intolerable to disregard the Guinea-Bissau striker's signifier - 35 points successful 4 games is unthinkable - and his terms makes him a large enabler if you privation to battalion your squad with premium assets.

He scored erstwhile successful the gully against Manchester United but it could easy person been three.

A travel to Brentford - the worst antiaircraft grounds extracurricular the bottommost 5 - is thing to fear.

Matheus Cunha, Wolves, £6.9m - Fulham (h)

Cunha could beryllium FPL golden implicit the adjacent fewer gameweeks, having scored successful his past 3 games.

After this one, the Brazilian faces Everton, Southampton, West Ham and Ipswich.

Even consequent games against Tottenham, Manchester United and Leicester could beryllium productive for him.

At £6.9m, with 13 goals already, Cunha is an implicit bargain.

Dean Henderson, Crystal Palace, goalkeeper, £4.5m - Aston Villa (h)

Daniel Munoz, Crystal Palace, defender, £4.9m - Aston Villa (h)

Joao Pedro, Brighton, striker, £5.4m - Bournemouth (h)

Rayan Ait-Nouri, Wolves, defender, £4.7m - Fulham (h)

Team full cost: £95.9m

Chido Obi, Manchester United, striker, £4.5m

United's strikers person been woeful this play - Rasmus Hojlund has 2 league goals and Joshua Zirkzee has three.

It would not beryllium a daze if Ruben Amorim gave 17-year-old Obi - who has 2 substitute appearances truthful acold - his accidental successful the team.

The erstwhile Arsenal youngster has a hatful of youth-level goals and would beryllium an implicit bargain arsenic a starter.

Wolves - Fulham (h), Everton (h), Southampton (a)

As mentioned with Cunha, Wolves person a large tally of games coming up.

All winnable matches, and a squad afloat of fund assets makes them worthy a look.