Captain Palmer over Salah or Haaland - FPL tips & team of the week

Some big, BIG scores were flying astir past week, pinch highly-owned assets specified arsenic Cole Palmer (17 points), Erling Haaland (17) and Anthony Gordon (10) returning.

Fantasy Premier League's 2 most-expensive players - Haaland and Mohamed Salah - are nan 2 highest constituent scorers already. You could person had either subordinate arsenic skipper for some of nan first weeks and beryllium happy.

In gameweek three, however, I'd beryllium slapping nan armband connected personification different.

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.

You tin refresh your representation of gameweek two's squad of nan week here.

It scored an awesome 86 points pinch Haaland arsenic skipper and a spot of luck pinch Micky van der Ven's nine-pointer disconnected nan bench.

That was capable for a gameweek rank of conscionable nether 1.4million, pinch nan mean people this week 69.

Mark Flekken, Brentford, keeper, £4.5m - location v Southampton

Saints person yet to people connected their return to nan Premier League and they are facing a prevention monster successful Flekken.

The Dutchman has made 12 saves this season, accumulating 4 other imagination points, truthful he isn't conscionable reliant connected cleanable sheets.

This game, however, seems for illustration a bully chance of keeping one.

Levi Colwill, Chelsea, defender, £4.5m - location v Crystal Palace

Palace are still a tricky squad to fig out. Do you publication much into their first 2 games of this play - 2 defeats - aliases nan six wins retired of 7 to extremity past season?

They only person 1 extremity this play - an ain extremity - truthful Colwill is simply a coagulated action astatine nan bosom a defence that should keep a fewer cleanable sheets this season.

Nikola Milenkovic, Nottingham Forest, defender, £4.5m - location v Wolves

The 6ft 5ins centre-back kept a cleanable expanse connected his Forest debut astatine Southampton and had an expected goals (xG) of 0.98 - mostly owed to a sitter he missed astatine nan backmost post.

But pinch his height, nan Serbia defender will beryllium a threat from set-pieces and faces a Wolves broadside that was conscionable thrashed 6-2 by Chelsea.

Jurrien Timber, Arsenal, defender, £5.5m - location v Brighton

The Dutchman is nan cheapest measurement into nan champion defence successful nan game.

He's apt to get different commencement aft impressing successful nan triumph astatine Villa and, moreover though Brighton person besides caught nan oculus successful their first 2 games, Arsenal astatine location is simply a reliable cleanable expanse to stake against.

Leandro Trossard, Arsenal, midfielder, £6.9m - location v Brighton

After his game-changing extremity successful nan triumph astatine Villa, it is difficult to spot really Mikel Arteta leaves Trossard retired of nan Arsenal squad against Brighton.

The Belgium midfielder is up against Gabriel Martinelli for a spot successful nan commencement line-up and past play he was acold much effective.

Trossard scored 5.28 points per commencement successful 23-24 compared to Martinelli's 3.71.

Cole Palmer, Chelsea, midfielder, £10.5m (captain) - location v Crystal Palace

Alright truthful you mightiness opportunity this is simply a spot of a knee-jerk move, fixed Palmer is coming disconnected nan backmost of a extremity and 3 assists against Wolves, but nan Engand midfielder's FPL threat is nary secret.

Given this season's value rise, you can't blasted FPL managers who person adopted a wait-and-see attack pinch Palmer, particularly pinch Chelsea facing Manchester City successful their first game.

But this Palace crippled is nan commencement of a awesome tally for Chelsea and Palmer was a monster astatine location past season, scoring 16 goals astatine a complaint of 1 each 76 minutes.

Mohamed Salah, Liverpool, midfielder, £12.5m - distant v Manchester United

It has been achy going without Salah nan first 2 weeks, watching nan Egyptian people 24 points.

The mobility is not Salah's worth arsenic an FPL asset, but nan costs of squeezing some he and Haaland into your squad and nan effect connected nan remainder of nan side.

Salah has 14 goals successful 15 games against United, which is excessively difficult to disregard truthful he is successful this week's broadside alternatively of Bukayo Saka and a amended defence. Fingers crossed!

Bryan Mbuemo, Brentford, midfielder, £7m - location v Southampton

One of my pre-season players to watch and nan Cameroon guardant delivered connected nan opening time pinch a extremity and 2 prize points v Palace.

He's down arsenic a midfielder but, for illustration Salah, he plays arsenic a wide guardant and is simply a awesome extremity threat cutting successful from nan correct flank.

If Brentford head Thomas Frank continues to omit Ivan Toney, past Mbuemo will beryllium connected penalties too. You tin consciousness a double-digit haul.

Sammie Szmodics, Ipswich, midfielder, £6m - location v Fulham

This prime is much of an eye-test prime than backed up by immoderate stats.

Ipswich person nan lowest xG successful nan Premier League truthful far, but they've had THE toughest commencement - location to Liverpool and distant astatine Manchester City.

So I'm ignoring that and going disconnected nan first 45 minutes against Liverpool erstwhile Ipswich played immoderate awesome shot and could easy person scored.

They will person a spell astatine Fulham, pinch nan Portman Road crowd down them, and Szmodics is their champion extremity threat having deed 27 successful nan Championship past season.

Erling Haaland, Manchester City, forward, £15.1m - distant v West Ham No captain's armband for Haaland this week but it's difficult to time off a striker successful his shape retired of nan side.

The clip will travel this play erstwhile it's worthy taking a punt against Haaland - conscionable not yet.

Chris Wood, Nottingham Forest, forward, £6.1m - location v Wolves Wood could beryllium sitting present pinch 2 aliases 3 goals already, alternatively of conscionable one.

At Southampton past Saturday he had 3 shots successful nan container and 2 large chances yet came distant pinch conscionable a constituent aft getting booked.

Wood has different bully opportunity against a Wolves squad that has shipped 8 goals successful 2 games.

Hakon Valdimarsson, Brentford, keeper, £4m - location v Southampton Flekken's back-up.

Kosta Nedeljkovic, Aston Villa, defender, £4m - distant v Leicester City Matty Cash's wounded has fixed nan highly-rated 18 twelvemonth aged Serb right-back a chance and he could go an FPL steal.

Wout Faes, Leicester City, defender, £4m - location v Aston Villa Can't opportunity nary to a inexpensive goal-scoring defender connected nan bench.

Daniel Jebbison, Bournemouth, forward, £4.5m - distant v Everton Until a £4.5m striker emerges, Jebbison is nan champion of nan bunch arsenic a 3rd sub.

Total squad cost: £99.6m (As of Wednesday 28 August)

Morgan Rogers, midfielder, Aston Villa, £5m

The 22-year-old attacking midfielder was a darling of nan FPL organization successful pre-season - particularly those looking for fund gems successful bid to fresh Salah and Haaland successful their teams.

Rogers hasn't produced points yet but boy was he awesome successful nan location conclusion by Arsenal.

You can't spot Unai Emery dropping him and Villa look Leicester, Everton, Wolves and Ipswich successful their adjacent four.

Points are coming.

Brighton - Arsenal (a), Ipswich (h), Forest (h)

If you don't request to make a transportation this week past it is worthy rolling truthful you tin target Brighton's awesome matches successful gameweeks 4 and five.

The Seagulls person 5 goals successful their first 2 games, pinch Kaoru Mitoma looking for illustration an FPL prima again aft injury.