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This preview will cover the following:
📌 GW7 stats summary
📌 Saka - Buy? Sell? Hold?
📌 Palmer - Buy? Sell? Hold?
📌 Wildcard
📌 Captaincy
📌 My team selection
GW7 STATS SUMMARY
Team xG
4.17 - Brentford
3.30 - West Ham
3.05 - Arsenal
2.41 - Fulham
2.26 - Chelsea
Surprising to see Fulham in the top 5 against City.
Brentford battering Wolves who face Haaland next.
Shots conceded
29 - Southampton
23 - Ipswich
22 - Nottingham Forest
20 - Fulham
19 - Wolves
Southampton and Ipswich continue to concede plenty of shots.
Player xG
1.13 - Kudus
1.13 - Welbeck
1.04 - Adama
0.97 - Paqueta
0.95 - Carvalho
Some cheap options with good fixtures coming up in Kudus, Adama and Carvalho.
Player xA
1.04 - Bowen
0.93 - Saka
0.79 - Raul
0.73 - Damsgaard
0.51 - Sinisterra
Saka in the top 2 for the second week in a row.
Bowen a great option with some nice fixtures coming up.
Shots
7 - Saka, Madueke, Havertz
6 - Palmer
5 - Bowen, Kudus, Raul, Cunha
4 - Kovacic, Haaland, Antonio, Joelinton, Lemina
Saka, Palmer and Havertz all at the top for the second week in a row.
Shots on target
4 - Kudus
3 - Bowen
Ipswich defence conceded plenty of chances.
SAKA - BUY? SELL? HOLD?
We’ll start by looking at this from the perspective on those that own Saka.
I wouldn’t go out of your way to sell Saka.
Arsenal’s fixtures aren’t the best for the next 4 with BOU (A), LIV (H), NEW (A) & CHE (A).
Firstly, it’s 3 away fixtures and the home fixture is against Liverpool.
Obviously, this isn’t a great run of fixtures but Arsenal are still one of the best teams in the league so I expect them to score goals.
However, there are teams with better fixtures such as Spurs and City.
Of course, the likes of Son and Foden haven’t performed like Saka has this season but they have the perfect fixtures to change that.
In short, I wouldn’t be buying Saka right now but I think he’s a fine hold and even potentially a sell if you want to bet on others with better fixtures in the short term.
PALMER - BUY? SELL? HOLD?
I hold Palmer in the same category as Saka.
Chelsea also don’t have great fixtures for the next 4 so if you don’t own him, I wouldn’t buy him yet.
I would personally wait until GW12 when Chelsea’s fixtures are fantastic.
However, I wouldn’t sell Palmer if you do own him.
WILDCARD
On wildcard this week, I would target those teams with great short term fixtures such as Brentford, Spurs and City.
I would therefore, have Flekken, Mbeumo, triple City and triple Spurs.
This is roughly what I would go with ⬇️
For those that would want to have Saka and Palmer in place for GW12 onwards, this is roughly what I would go for ⬇️
CAPTAINCY
Haaland is, of course, top of the model this week.
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 my team is set up for this week with two free transfers ⬇️
I discuss my future plans and when I’m thinking of using my wildcard 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