🚨 GW5 FPL Preview

This preview will cover the following:

📌 GW4 stats summary

📌 Isak, Eze & Gvardiol - keep or sell?

📌 To buy Salah or not?

📌 Muniz/Wissa replacements

📌 Captaincy

📌 My team selection

GW3 STATS SUMMARY

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Team xG

2.71 - Man United

2.57 - Crystal Palace

2.17 - Aston Villa

1.85 - Man City

1.82 - Brighton

Brighton in the top 5 for the second week in a row.

Shots conceded

21 - West Ham

21 - Ipswich

20 - Leicester

20 - Southampton

19 - Chelsea

West Ham have conceded the most shots two weeks in a row.

Player xG

1.50 - Mateta

1.34 - Watkins

1.09 - Zirkzee

1.00 - Haaland

0.89 - Evanilson

Mateta and Evanilson slightly skewed by the penalties.

Watkins back amongst the xG.

Player xA

0.72 - McNeil

0.68 - Digne

0.66 - Smith Rowe

0.60 - Mac Allister

0.56 - De Bruyne

McNeil tops the xA charts for the second week in a row.

Shots

6 - Haaland, Watkins, Nketiah

5 - Saka, Andreas, Fernandes

4 - Baleba, Rogers, Mateta, Welbeck, Rashford, Johnson, Cunha, Adama

Nketiah could be a good budget forward option going forward.

Shots on target

4 - Haaland, Watkins

3 - Rashford, Rogers

Rogers teasing owners again, returns will come.

ISAK - KEEP OR SELL?

This obviously depends if he’s fit or not.

We heard that the eye injury that caused him to go off last weekend is no longer an issue, but he now has a fresh toe injury.

If he’s fit then keep him for one more week.

If he’s out then he’s a sell and the best replacements in most cases are Watkins, Solanke and DCL, depending on how much money you want to spend.

EZE - KEEP OR SELL?

We saw Eze blank against Leicester in GW4 where Mateta took Crystal Palace’s penalty.

Glasner has said that they have 2 penalty takers so it’s not the case that Eze won’t ever take a penalty while Mateta is on the pitch.

However, I struggle to see Mateta not taking the next one given he scored this one and has a great penalty record.

I would still keep Eze though, I think he provides more than enough value at his price.

GVARDIOL - KEEP OR SELL?

We all thought that with Aké out injured, Gvardiol would be nailed in the LCB/LB role for City, but he was benched in GW4.

Rico Lewis played LB with Walker RB but it didn’t really work and Pep made the change to bring Gvardiol on at half time.

Gvardiol was back to his attacking wing back role of last season when he came on (as expected when he plays with Walker the other side).

For me, he’s a definitely keep as we could see this role more often now and the fixtures are great from GW7 onwards.

TO BUY SALAH OR NOT?

If you don’t own Salah and you are wondering whether or not to buy him this week, I think it depends when you plan to wildcard.

If you have already used your wildcard and you don’t have Salah then I think you just go without him for now.

If you are planning to use your wildcard in GW6 and can get to him with 1 or 2 free transfers this week then I would do that.

If you are not planning to wildcard in GW6 and it takes more than 1 free transfer to get him then I would go without him and hope he doesn’t do too much damage.

WISSA/MUNIZ REPLACEMENTS

Short term/one week punts 👇

🦊 Vardy

🍬 DCL

🔵 Welbeck

Longer term options 👇

🦅 Nketiah

🐺 Strand Larsen

🍬 DCL

CAPTAINCY

These 3 players are top of my captaincy model for this week 👇

🥇 Salah

🥈 Son

🥉 Palmer

Haaland is in 4th, just 0.01 projected points behind Palmer.

If you want to see the rest of the top 10 players from my model this week then check out my YouTube video.

TEAM SELECTION

This is how I’m currently set up for this week with 3FTs and £1.5m ITB.

My move(s) depend on whether Isak is out or not.

If he’s fine, I will roll.

I discuss my future plans in more detail in my Team Selection YouTube video.

If you have any specific questions on anything in this preview or anything related to your team then drop me a message on Instagram or Twitter @BradMayorFPL.

Best of luck!

Brad