Kaoru Mitoma, Brighton, £6.5m – Leicester (h)
Backing a forward player against Leicester pays off almost every week and Mitoma is easily Brighton’s most reliable midfielder.
The most shots, shots in the box, on target, key passes, xG, goals – I could go on.
Newcastle’s Murphy had a haul from the flanks against the Foxes, now it is Mitoma’s turn.
Mohamed Salah, Liverpool, £13.8m – West Ham (h)
It is now three scoreless games in the past four for Salah, but the question is ‘what would you do with the money if you sold him?’.
West Ham at home is a good fixture and Salah can play terribly and still get two returns in any game. So unless you are in a major budget crunch for double gameweek players just hang on to the Egyptian!
Cole Palmer, Chelsea, £10.7m – Ipswich (h)
I don’t blame you if you’ve been scared off by Palmer’s form and last week’s benching, but this fixture is too enticing to ignore him.
Leaving him on the bench against Brentford didn’t exactly work out for manager Enzo Maresca so I’d expect him to play – and Ipswich have conceded more than two goals per game.
In a normal gameweek, Palmer would be a captaincy shout.
Jacob Murphy, Newcastle, £5.1m – Man Utd and Crystal Palace (both h)
Anthony Gordon’s recent injury makes the pick of a Newcastle midfielder for the double gameweek a simple one.
Cheap, guaranteed minutes, on form and the winger has 16 goal involvements (GI) this season, which works out at 0.79 GI per 90 minutes on the pitch.
Eberechi Eze (vice-captain), Crystal Palace, £6.8m – Man City and Newcastle (both a)
Palace’s double is not great but you have to take a punt and picking Eze over Ismaila Sarr (£5.7m) depends on how much you value underlying data – and what you take from it.
Sarr has more FPL points this season and his 17 big chances is bettered by only five midfielders – two of them the pricey Salah and Palmer.
The Eagles forward also has seven goals from an xG of 7.3, while Eze has two from an xG of 6.1 – so the more expensive Palace man is massively underperforming and perhaps ‘due’ a goal.
He’s taken nearly double the shots on goal too, while Sarr’s xG in the past two games is zero.
Ultimately, there’s no correct choice here and budget might dictate who you choose.
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