Can you risk no Haaland? FPL tips & team of the week

The large Fantasy Premier League determination to make this week surrounds Sunday's blockbuster betwixt Manchester City and Arsenal.

If vanished 0-0 past play and location was only 1 extremity successful nan 2 convention games betwixt nan title rivals.

In an optimal line-up, would you commencement immoderate attacking players from this match-up, moreover extremity monster Erling Haaland?

The reply is nary (although if you person Haaland successful your squad don't do thing daft for illustration benching him!).

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

The worst people of nan play truthful acold pinch 52 points - present is simply a reminder of nan gameweek 4 team of nan week.

The positives: A 13-point haul for some Haaland and Jean-Philippe Mateta up front, returns for Bruno Fernandes and Lucas Digne and a fortunate Lewis Dunk cleanable expanse disconnected nan bench.

The bad bits: one- and two-pointers galore and Forest's amazingly tight defence keeping Mohamed Salah quiet arsenic captain. Should person fixed Forest's underlying information much kudos.

It each led to a gameweek rank of astir 4.7 million.

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Emi Martinez, Aston Villa, keeper, £5m - location to Wolves

Clean sheets person been truthful difficult to foretell this season.

Gameweek 4 saw six of them from nan 10 games, which intends we've had 18 successful 40 games - aliases cleanable sheets for 18 teams from a imaginable 80!

There's nary standout keeper this week but Martinez has been a big-game performer successful nan past and derby games tin beryllium tight affairs.

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

The Japanese full-back has been flying down nan correct flank successful head Russell Martin's progressive style of play wherever he likes to overload areas of nan pitch.

Sugawara has put successful 16 crosses, double immoderate of his protect team-mates and 2nd connected nan squad to Will Smallbone.

He's created 3 of Southampton's 5 large chances and besides scored astatine Brentford.

Ipswich person been extremity awkward truthful far, pinch conscionable 2 successful their 4 games and, should Saints move immoderate awesome periods of play into a 90-minute performance, Sugawara has chances of a return astatine some ends of nan pitch.

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

I whitethorn sound for illustration a surgery grounds by now but nan attacking returns are connected nan sky for nan astir costly defender successful nan game.

Alexander-Arnold was adjacent to different cleanable expanse past week earlier Nottingham Forest's smash-and-grab occurrence astatine Anfield and it's astonishing he has not sewage an assistance yet.

The right-back's expected assists (xA) stat is an unthinkable 1.87 from 4 games. For context, that is an assistance higher than immoderate different defender successful nan crippled isolated from Villa left-back Digne (0.94). Tottenham's Pedro Porro and Sugawara are adjacent pinch conscionable 0.67.

Josko Gvardiol, Manchester City, defender, £6m - location to Arsenal

Defences are apt to beryllium connected apical erstwhile City big Arsenal connected Sunday and you'd expect nan Gunners to group up for illustration they did past season, to sorb City unit and deed connected nan break.

Rodri should return to City's line-up which should mean Gvardiol playing a much progressive position down nan near for illustration he did astatine nan back-end of past season.

He'll spot plentifulness of nan ball, we cognize he has a extremity aliases assistance successful him and, if City do support a cleanable sheet, nan Croatian will beryllium a beardown contender for prize points.

Jarrod Bowen, West Ham, midfielder, £7.5m - location to Chelsea

Bowen has been 1 of nan astir accordant FPL assets successful this value scope complete nan past 3 seasons and he has started 2024-25 successful akin vein, pinch 3 returns successful 4 games.

A spot for illustration Spurs' Son Heung-min, you person to disregard nan information a small pinch Bowen. Last play he outperformed his expected extremity engagement (xGI) by astir 8 goals, returning successful 24 of 38 games.

Same communicative this play but what points towards a beardown chance of different return this week is Chelsea's protect data.

The Blues kept their first cleanable expanse of nan play astatine Bournemouth past clip out, but you wonderment how. They conceded 19 shots and their expected goals conceded (xGC) was 1.67. Take distant Evanilson's missed punishment (0.79) and that's still astir a extremity they should person fto in.

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

Salah had his first blank of nan play past week but is still nan champion skipper prime this week, pinch Haaland facing Arsenal's stiff defence.

The Egyptian guardant is successful nan apical 5 for midfielders for shots truthful acold this play (13) and has had a league-leading 8 of them connected target.

Bournemouth - unlucky not to get a consequence against Chelsea past week - are apt to person a spell astatine Liverpool, leaving plentifulness of chances for Salah to activity his magic.

Cole Palmer, Chelsea, midfielder, £10.6m - distant to West Ham

Palmer's stats against Bournemouth were shocking! No shots, 1 cardinal walk and an xGI of zero.

So I'm expecting a bounceback crippled present and for head Enzo Maresca to tweak thing truthful that his talisman is much involved.

Palmer is decidedly a stronger prime astatine location but nan Hammers person conceded 5 successful 2 location games, truthful play past season's apical points scorer pinch confidence.

Kaoru Mitoma, Brighton, midfielder, £6.7m - location to Nottingham Forest

With 2 early returns, Mitoma has had a decent commencement to nan play and is connected his measurement to being Brighton's talisman again.

But he's besides underperforming his underlying information and truthful are his team. Against Ipswich past clip retired they had 21 shots, 10 successful nan box, six connected target and an xG of 1.82. The result - 0-0.

These things hap but nan goals and returns will travel for Mitoma.

Jamie Vardy, Leicester City, forward, £5.7m - location to Everton

Don't interest astir statistic pinch Vardy. He's scored 2 goals from his 3 shots this play and that's him successful a nutshell.

While nan 37-year-old is fit, he's a awesome fund choice. Ignore Arsenal distant adjacent week and Leicester person a benignant tally of games coming up.

Oh, and this week's opponents Everton person conceded 13 goals successful 4 games!

Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Everton, forward, £5.9m - distant astatine Leicester City

DCL is different striker successful nan aforesaid bracket arsenic Vardy. Great if he tin enactment fresh and pinch an enticing fixture tally coming up.

The Everton man has 18 FPL points successful his past 2 games and if you watched nan Villa crippled you'll cognize that should person been much - he missed a aureate chance pinch a one-on-one successful nan 2nd half.

Leicester are yet to support a cleanable expanse this play and this crippled smacks of goals for some teams.

Ollie Watkins, Aston Villa, forward, £8.9m - location to Wolves

Two weeks agone I told you to instrumentality pinch Watkins, who was performing good without nan FPL points to lucifer his XG data.

Well if you kept nan religion you were rewarded past week pinch 2 goals and a double-digit haul against Everton.

Wolves are struggling astatine nan backmost and person fto successful 11 goals already which gives Watkins a awesome chance to return again.

Lukasz Fabianski, West Ham, keeper, £4m - location to Chelsea

Insert immoderate £4m keeper here!

Adama Traore, Fulham, midfielder, £5.1m - location to Newcastle

The flying winger is simply a awesome first sub if immoderate of nan guardant statement don't start.

I don't deliberation anyone is convinced by Newcastle defensively. They've conceded 3 truthful acold but their xGC is simply a whopping 6.1 this season!

Lewis Dunk, Brighton, defender, £4.5m - location to Nottingham Forest

Coming disconnected nan backmost of a cleanable expanse and ever presents nan chance of an attacking return from corners (and nan occasional free-kick).

Lamare Bogarde, Aston Villa, defender, £4m - location to Wolves

The Dutch youngster could look arsenic a celebrated fund prime if he keeps his spot successful nan Villa team.

Total squad cost: £98.1m

Leif Davis, Ipswich Town, defender, £4.5m

With nan deficiency of cleanable sheets this season, is it clip to spell all-in connected defenders pinch nan champion chance of an attacking return?

If so, Davis is simply a beardown option. He had 18 Championship assists past play and 1 already successful this campaign.

Ipswich won't support galore cleanable sheets but I'm eyeing Saints distant this week, positive Everton and Leicester astatine location earlier gameweek 10 arsenic games wherever you'd commencement Davis pinch confidence.

Brentford - Spurs (a), West Ham (h), Wolves (h)

Thomas Frank's broadside proved past week that they tin beryllium a fistful successful reliable distant games truthful Spurs this week should beryllium nary logic to chair your Brentford assets.

And past nan fixture database looks really bully each nan measurement to week 13.

Midfielder Bryan Mbeumo (£7.1m) is simply a favourite of this file and 1 of nan champion worth players this season, but you could besides see a protect action pinch Mark Flekken successful nets (£4.5m) aliases centre-backs Ethan Pinnock and Nathan Collins (both £4.5m) presenting large extremity threats from set-pieces.

And support an oculus connected defender Sepp van den Berg astatine £4m who could nail down a starting spot.

Chris Sutton told america this week he's going to commencement a petition to effort and get Haaland banned from FPL because he says he's making nan crippled boring and predictable.

If you ain him though, for illustration Statman Dave and I sensibly do, nan mobility is do you skipper him successful nan large 1 against Arsenal connected Sunday?

Last play nan miserly Arsenal defence unopen him retired successful some Premier League games and I deliberation it could good beryllium different low-scoring matter this clip around, which is why I brought Salah into my squad past week fresh to return nan armband for Liverpool's location crippled against Bournemouth.

It's besides why I will commencement Gabriel and conscionable hedge my bets connected events astatine Etihad Stadium.

The Fantasy 606 listeners' squad moved up of america each successful gameweek four, they've sewage Haaland but not Salah truthful this week's head has decided to skipper Diogo Jota while utilizing their 1 free transportation to move Brentford's Bryan Mbeumo successful for Savinho.

And if you're 1 of those managers who's reasoning astir utilizing their wildcard successful gameweek six past it mightiness beryllium an thought to rotation a transportation this week building up an other free transportation erstwhile it comes to gameweek seven.

Remember if you want to person a spell astatine managing nan listeners' squad past nonstop america an email connected fantasy606@bbc.co.uk