In addition to our usual gameweek preview article and lineup predictions piece in the build-up to gameweek 13 on the 23rd of November, we’re also going to dive a bit deeper into the matches of gameweek 12 from an FPL point of view. Part 1 took a quick look at the matches from Friday and Saturday, which included the bottom clash Norwich vs Watford, top-six challengers Leicester hosting Arsenal, and Frank Lampard’s in-form Chelsea looking to make it six consecutive victories in a row.

This second part of the piece will look at Sunday’s matches, which, of course, includes the top-of-the-table clash between current leaders Liverpool and reigning champions Manchester City, as well as a somewhat resurgent Manchester United hosting Brighton, and Wolves versus new boys Aston Villa at Molineux. If you weren’t watching the football then maybe you were looking at online casino games and, if so, you could check out Top Casino Bonus first.

Goalkeepers

No clean sheets on the second day of gameweek 12, but Brighton’s Mat Ryan (£4.7m) was the clear stand-out goalie among the six who got into action on Sunday. No less than 9 saves brought him 2 save points and the full 3 bonus points for a more than decent total of 7 FPL points. Since his 2 points in gameweek 5, Ryan has not recorded less than 3 points in a game and that only happened once, in gameweek 9 against Aston Villa. That makes it 41 FPL points from the last seven Premier League games, equalling an average of just 6 FPL points per game.

Defenders

The lack of clean sheets on Sunday was naturally also reflected in the scores for defenders. Despite conceding three goals at Old Trafford, Seagulls central defender Lewis Dunk (£4.6m) came away with a nice 6 FPL points, courtesy of his first goal of the season. The only other defender to score more than 2 points on Sunday was Liverpool’s Andy Robertson (£7.0m), whose wonderful assist for Salah’s header helped him record an acceptable 5-point score, especially considering the opposition. It’s now 1 goal and 4 assists for the Scottisch wing-back with a favourable run of fixtures coming up, including three home games (Brighton, Everton, Watford) over the next five gameweeks. On the opposite side, Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.2m) did not record attacking returns this time, but his record is identical (1 goal, 4 assists) and he looks like a popular asset for the weeks to come as well.

Midfielders

The three winning teams all saw one or more midfielders make the difference for them on Sunday. First of all, Liverpool beat Man City 3-1 at home and all goals were scored by players who are labelled as midfielder in the official Premier League fantasy game. Fabinho‘s (£5.5m) opener represented the Brazilian midfielder’s first PL goal of the season and a first FPL haul (9 points). Mo Salah (£12.3m) and Sadio Mané (£12.0m) netted once each as well, good for 8 FPL points and 7 FPL points, respectively. The Egyptian dribbler now has 6 goals and 3 assists, while the Senegalese winger stands at 7 goals and 4 assists so far. Their teammate Jordan Henderson (£5.4m) got 6 points after his assist for Mané’s goal. For City, Bernardo Silva (£7.9m) stood out in FPL terms with 10 points, thanks to a second-half goal and a somewhat surprising three bonus points

The Portuguese midfielder wasn’t the highest-scoring midfielder of the day, though. That honour, and indeed the title of gameweek 12’s highest-scoring midfielder overall, goes to Wolverhampton’s Ruben Neves (£5.3m), who scored a beautiful first-touch strike against Villa and was awarded the three bonus points as well. It was only his second attacking return of the season though, after his goal versus Man United back  in gameweek 2. The assists for the two Wolves goals came from Traoré (£5.2m) and Moutinho (£5.3m), who recorded scores of 5 FPL points and 4 FPL points, respectively. For the former, it was his fourth attacking return of the season (2 goals, 2 assists) and his first return since gameweek 8, while the latter made it his third assist of the season and his second one is as many weeks. For Villa, it was winger Trezeguet (£5.2m) who scored a goal for a second week in a row, helping him to record 8 FPL points for the 1.3% of FPL managers who owned him.

At Old Trafford, the homeside beat Brighton 3-1 and the midfielders were involved a lot here as well. For United, striker Anthony Martial (£7.7m), who is listed as a midfielder in FPL, didn’t find the back of the net, but he did set up two goals, bringing his owners 10 FPL points. That makes it one goal and 3 assists in the three games since he came back from injury. After starting in every Premier League games since gameweek 4, Belgian-Brazilian midfielder Andreas Pereira (£5.0m, 0.5% ownership) finally recorded a first attacking return by scoring against Villa. His goal resulted in a bonus point and a total score of 8 points. The other midfielder on the United roster with a return this weekend was Scott McTominay (£5.1m, 3.7% ownership). After scoring against Norwich in gameweek 10, he provided an assist in gameweek 12 to bring his owners a decent 5 FPL points. The cheap central midfielder now stands on 2 goals and 2 assists this season, and three of those returns have come in the last six gameweeks. The final midfielder to record a noteworthy FPL score (ie. A score above 3 points) was Brighton’s Pascal Gross (£6.4m, 0.7% ownership). The German playmaker was one of the better players for the Seagulls and it was from his corner that Lewis Dunk scored their only goal at Old Trafford. Gross has now provided 2 assists and scored 1 goal over the last four gameweeks, for a total of 18 FPL points.

Forwards

Considering the way in which the midfielders grabbed the FPL spotlight on Sunday, the smaller role for forwards is not a surprise. As a matter of fact, only two forwards scored more than 2 FPL points on the third day of gameweek 12, namely Raul Jimenez and Marcus Rashford. Wolves forward Jimenez (£7.3m) scored against Aston Villa, bringing his owners 9 FPL points and making it 3 goals from his last four Premier League games. He was the third-best performing forward in the official game this weekend, behind Jamie Vardy and Gerard Deulofeu. The Mexican killer has got 3 goals and 2 assists from his last five gameweeks. Manchester United’s Rashford (£8.5m) found the net as well in gameweek 12, against Brighton in his case, and brought the 13.7% of FPL managers who own him 5 points, due to a one-point reduction as a result of a yellow card. It’s now 6 goals and 3 assists in the Premier League since the start of the 2019-20 campaign, and 3 goals and 1 assist from his last four gameweeks. 

With the third international break of the 2019-20 Premier League season upon us after gameweek 12, the build-up to gameweek 13 can be seen as an excellent opportunity to take a good, hard look at your team and find out why your ranking has until now seemed allergic to breaking inside the top one million. You like the way your team looks and your decision-making has been sound this season, but you’re still ranked 3,763,954th in FPL? Well with 7 million people playing the game you’re about half-way, although thankfully my team is riding high in the top 50,000.

In addition to our usual gameweek preview article and lineup predictions piece in the build-up to gameweek 13 on the 23rd of November, we’re also going to dive a bit deeper into the matches of gameweek 12 from an FPL point of view. This piece will take a quick look at the matches from Friday and Saturday, which included the bottom clash Norwich vs Watford, top-six challengers Leicester hosting Arsenal, and Frank Lampard’s in-form Chelsea looking to make it six consecutive victories in a row. Our piece tomorrow will look at Sunday’s matches, which, of course, includes the top-of-the-table clash between current leaders Liverpool and reigning champions Manchester City. You can also find other interesting clashes at https://conquestador.com/

Goalkeepers

Four clean sheets from the first 7 games of gameweek 12 was not a bad return from a defensive point of view. To start with, Watford’s Ben Foster £4.8m) put on another match-winning performance, this time against Norwich at Carrow Road. Besides the Hornets veteran, Chelsea’s Kepa (£5.5m), Burnley’s Pope (£4.7m) and Leicester’s Schmeichel (£5.2m) all kept their nets clean. With 9 FPL points, courtesy of 4 saves and 2 bonus points in addition to the clean sheet, the Burnley shotstopper in particular showed his outstanding value again, averaging almost 4 FPL points per game.

Defenders

Naturally, a decent number of clean sheets also benefits defensive performances in the Premier League’s official game. Chelsea’s Tomori (£4.8) not only kept a clean sheet, but also brought home the full three bonus points for a total score of 9 FPL points after the home game against Palace. The Blues have now kept the ball out of their nets on three occasions, all of them in front of their own crowd, and they have three favourable home fixtures coming up over the next five weeks (West Ham, Aston Villa, Bournemouth). At Turf Moor against West Ham, James Tarkowksi (£5.0m, 1.5% ownership) even did a bit better by adding an assist to his clean sheet and three bonus points (12 FPL points in total). Leicester’s Söyüncü (4.8m) brought the 11.4% of managers who own him a third return in as many gameweeks by keeping a clean sheet against Arsenal and winning 2 bonus points. That’s now 28 FPL points over the last three gameweeks for the Turkish central defender. His teammate in defence Ricardo Pereira (£6.3m) was awarded 1 bonus point in that same game to make it a total of 19 FPL points over the past three gameweeks for him. Finally, Newcastle booked a really important 2-1 victory over Bournemouth at home, in part thanks to a subtle strike by central defender Ciaran Clark (£4.3m, 0.2% ownership), who amazingly enough also scored during the 2-3 away victory against West Ham just a week earlier. He didn’t keep a clean sheet this time either, but his goal and 2 bonus points resulted in 10 FPL points, or 17 FPL points over the last two gameweeks. The other stand-out performer in the Newcastle defence was Andre Yedlin (£4.4m, 0.1% ownership), whose goal strangely enough did not result in bonus points, but he still did end up with 8 FPL points.

Midfielders

As has been the case more often than not over the past weeks, James Maddison (£7.4m) was one of Leicester’s best players against Arsenal. The talented playmaker is at the heart of most attacking intentions at the Foxes and a constant danger to opposing defences. His second-half strike from the edge of the area put the clash with the Gunners beyond all doubt, 2-0, and the resulting 9 FPL points for Maddison are likely to help his current ownership of 19.4% increase further. At exactly the same price, you can also opt for Chelsea’s Christian Pulisic (£7.4m, 11.7% ownership). Captain America seems to have nailed down a spot in Lampard’s starting eleven and is not planning to give it up again any time soon: 5 goals, 5 bonus points and no less than 37 FPL points over just the past three gameweeks. His goal against Palace this weekend saw the Blues midfielder bring home 8 FPL points. In less obvious but still good form is his teammate Willian (£7.1m), who provided an assist in gameweek 12 for 7 FPL points. The Brazilian now has 2 goals and 3 assists in his last six Premier League games, or a goal and 2 assists in his last three. For Everton, who seem to be on the way to a bit more consistency and especially goals of late, Richarlison (£7.9m) is stepping up. His goal against Southampton was his first since his brace versus Wolves all the way back in gameweek 4 and saw him record 10 FPL points. After a single assist in each of the gameweeks 9 and 10, the Brazilian has now provided three attacking returns in the last four rounds, totalling 23 FPL points. His more defensive teammate in midfield Tom Davies (£5.3m) recorded 10 FPL points as well, courtesy of his first goal of the season and three bonus points.

Forwards

Lately, it has been impossible to talk or write about strikers in an FPL context without mentioning Jamie Vardy (£9.5m, 32% ownership). We’ll just put down the stats for his last 6 gameweeks and you make of it what you will: 8 goals, 2 assists, 11 bonus points and a total of 60 FPL points. In gameweek 12, his goal and assist brought his owners 12 FPL points (and 24 points to those managers’ like me that captained him). Somewhat surprisingly, this haul was matched by Watford’s Gerard Deulofeu (£6.1m, 2.1% ownership). The Spaniard will be key for the Hornets if they want to still make something of their season, and he underlined this by scoring a goal and providing an assist during the crucial 0-2 win over Norwich. Deulofeu had a great finish to last season and despite starting this season badly has now shown recently what a class (and fast) player he is. For Chelsea, the inevitable Tammy Abraham (£7.9m) made it three attacking returns in his last three Premier League games by scoring a good opening goal versus Palace. The most-captained player of the weekend recorded 8 FPL points and made it 25 FPL points in total over the last three gameweeks. In the budget category, Southampton’s Danny Ings (£6.0m) scored his fifth goal of the season at home to Everton for 7 FPL points. He has now scored 4 goals and recorded 35 FPl points over that period.

In terms of crazy bargains, you thought you had seen it all with Aaron Wan-Bissaka last season, right? Well, AWB move aside a second, because John Lundstram is here. The Sheffield United box-to-box midfielder is listed as a defender in the official fantasy Premier League game and started the season at the lowest possible price (£4.0m). No less than 958 minutes of Premier League football later, Lundstram is now the fifth-highest scoring player overall, courtesy of 3 goals, 1 assist, 5 clean sheets and 10 bonus points. Oh, and he’s valued at £4.8m now, by the way. His incredible 21-point haul was the stand-out performance by a single player in gameweek 11 and in the season overall, so far.

Apart from Sheffield’s continued impressive re-introduction to the Premier League, last weekend saw Liverpool and Man City struggle but overcome, Arsenal struggle but not overcome, and United struggle but not overcome at all. Norwich kept conceding and Chelsea kept scoring (that’s 10 Premier League games in a row now) and winning (that’s 5 in a row), while Leicester are showing signs of being able to seriously compete for a top-4 spot until the end of the season. In other words, we saw a lot of action in gameweek 11 and the upcoming gameweek looks no less promising. Promising returns are also on offer from 1xbet casino at toripelit.com

Finally, don’t forget that the deadline for gameweek 12 is set at 19h00 (GMT+0) on Friday, November 8^th.^.

How did our picks for the previous gameweek fare?

Premium picks

Let’s start with some stats: 22 Premier League games, 20 goals scored and 163 FPL points won, equalling an average of 7.4 points per game. That’s Leicester’s Jamie Vardy (£9.4m) since the arrival of Brendan Rodgers at the King Power. Like the rest of his teammates, the energetic English striker is in red-hot form of late, having recorded attacking returns in each of three last gameweeks (5 goals and 1 assist and 5 bonus points for 34 FPL points). Two weeks before this current run started, he also scored a brace for a 12-point haul. Sure, a scoring run has to end sometime and Vardy won’t keep scoring every game, but then again, how many people said that about him back in the 2015-16 season? This weekend, the Foxes are hosting an Arsenal in disarray and out of clear shape in a direct confrontation that could shape the top-4 for some time to come. With just five points from five away games and conceding 7 goals in those games, we’re putting our cards on Vardy to increase the misery at the Emirates.

Considering the sheer number of potential match winners that will be entering the pitch at Anfield Road on Saturday, picking a winner in gameweek 12’s clash of clashes is as much a guess as you’re going to get this round. The likes of Mo Salah, Bobby Firmino, Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne, Kun Aguero, Gabriel Jesus and several others have the quality to decide the game with a flash of brilliance, but we feel that it’s going to be Sadio Mané (£12.0m) in the spotlights again. All the form arrows point to him at the moment. The Senegalese powerhouse was decisive against Villa last weekend with a goal and an assist, making it 2 goals and 3 assists for him over the last four gameweeks. As a result, he has brought his owners 31 FPL points over that stretch, which comes down to an average of almost 8 points per game. The fact that only Villa’s Wesley and City’s Jesus can match his 5 big chances over the past four gameweeks shows that Mané’s stats are no fluke. Facing Man City is a hell of a task under any circumstance, but we believe Mané could be the key to a Liverpool victory this weekend.

Non-premium picks

You know by now that sometimes, when we’re really convinced by an FPL asset, we dare to repeat him on our list of picks. Well, this is one of those times, because Wolves striker Raul Jimenez (£7.2m) is back on here. For gameweek 11, we included him as a differential pick and did so with decent success, but his ownership has since then risen to a level (11.9%) that makes it hard to call him a real differential any more. That’s why Jimenez is our first non-premium pick this week. With 4 goals and 2 assists in eleven Premier League games, the Mexican assassin is having a relatively quiet start to the 2019-20 campaign. What’s more important to know though, is that 2 of those goals and both the assists were recorded in the last four gameweeks. Wolves faced a tough set of starting fixtures, but the calendar looks to be turning a bit in their favour now and Raul Jimenez could be one of the big beneficiaries of this. No other player in the game had more shots on target than him (4) in gameweek 11 away to Arsenal and we expect him to get plenty of chances to score again versus Villa at Molineux on Sunday. The Villains have conceded 11 goals in just 5 away games and stopping Jimenez from popping up in dangerous positions will be one of their main worries in the build-up to the game.

Our second non-premium pick is another striker who scored in gameweek 11, Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham (£7.9m). Out of all Premier Legue teams, the Blues are probably the ones who have grown into their new style the most, under manager Frank Lampard. Since the 4-0 drubbing against Man United in gameweek 1, Chelsea have scored at least once in every game, making it a total of 25 goals in 11 games. Nine of those goals have come from academy graduate Abraham, who has turned out to be one of the bargains of the 2019-20 FPL season. His 9 goals, 2 assists and 14 bonus points make him  the highest-scoring Chelsea asset (74 FPL points) and the fourth-highest scoring player in the official game overall. After their absolute rollercoaster of a Champions League mid-week against Ajax, the Blues will have had a bit over three days of rest, so it’s hard to see Lampard not start his star striker against Palace at Stamford Bridge. The Eagles seem on their way to another solid mid-table season, but we don’t see them coming away with much from the Bridge on Saturday, in part thanks to Abraham’s presence and form.

A differential pick or two

We’re sticking with the Blues from London for our first differential pick of the week. Callum Hudson-Odoi (£5.9m) is a punt in terms of whether he will be starting at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, but there is a chance after Mason Mount was injured against Ajax. Manager Lampard was quick to downplay the seriousness of the injury, but the player did seem to be in quite a lot of pain on Tuesday (though he did walk off the pitch himself, with support). Hudson-Odoi had a bit of a breakthrough in the first team between gameweeks 7 and 9, recording 3 assists in just 196 minutes of Premier League football, but he was benched for most of the time since then. Mount is clearly Frank’s first choice on the left wing and CHO usually gets his minutes when the former is substituted off early. That’s also why we feel he’s the prime candidate to replace Mount in the starting lineup when Chelsea face Palace. With an ownership of just 2.5%, Hudson-Odoi can clearly be considered a differential pick and he could be the one to provide that much-needed rankings boost after a few topsy-turvy gameweeks.

Our second differential pick and final pick for gameweek 12 is Manchester United’s Anthony Martial (£7.6m). The French forward marked his eleven to the starting return in gameweek 10 with a goal and 6 FPL points after an absence of five gameweeks. His manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has recently lauded Martial’s qualities as a centre forward and the Frenchman looks set to feature as such under him. This makes Martial essentially a goal-driven, bargain-priced, out-of-position striker in a potential top-6 outfit. True, Man United are all but top-6 material at the moment, but Martial is definitely one of their top talents and one of those players who might be capable of rising above the team’s lack of form. With him back, Marcus Rashford can move back to his favoured inverted role on the left wing, putting in place one of the, in potential, most lethal strike forces in the league. Martial has scored 3 goals in six games so far this season and all of those goals have come in home games. This weekend, Brighton roll up to Old Trafford and their current away stats are not very encouraging: 4 points from 5 games with 4 goals scored and 8 conceded. Conclusion: United are unreliable and Brighton not too good away from home, and taking a punt on Martial (6.5% current ownership) could pay off handsomely.

For further GW12 transfer ideas look at this fiso FPL forum topic.

Looking at the FPL GW Transfers In/out Stats:

Attackers – Managers are mainly selling Pukki (still), Callum Wilson, Aguero & Kane and buying Vardy (ownership now almost 29%), Abraham (ownership now almost 49%), Jimenez (12%) and Rashford (13%).

Midfielders – David Silva (hamstring injury doubt), Son (red card over-turned though), Sterling, Mount (injury doubt), Salah & Cantwell are the biggest sold and the money instead is being used on buying Pulisic, Mane, Maddison & Tielemans.

Defenders – van Dijk, Otamendi, Pieters and then two long-term injured players Boly & Matip are being sold with the proceeds then spent on Lundstram & Leicester’s Soyuncu & Chilwell plus Ake, Robertson & Rico.

Goalkeepers – Ederson’s possible injury means he leads the sales followed by Adrian. Ramsdale, Henderson, Schmeichel & Gazzaniga are the most bought.

The captaincy

With four of the current top six facing each other this weekend, it looks like the focus of the armband is going to be, for a large part least, on lesser-owned and possibly less premium players in gameweek 12. Chelsea come to mind first, as the Blues host Crystal Palace after having scored 25 goals in 10 games so far this season. Do keep in mind though, especially when considering Abraham for the captaincy, that only 7 of those goals were scored in front of their own fans and that Palace are no push-overs. The young Englishman is still one of the better shouts this weekend, but we’re going with Leicester’s Jamie Vardy. The English veteran striker has scored 8 goals in 8 games against the Gunners and we wouldn’t be surprised to see another Vardy Party at the King Power this weekend.

The FISO Forum Captain poll for GW12 puts the armband between Abraham, Vardy and Jimenez.

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Unfortunately for Southampton and anyone with even the most remote sympathy for the Saints, for years to come, gameweek 10 of the 2019-20 Premier League campaign will be remembered as the round in which Leicester came, saw and beat them 0-9 at their own Saint Mary’s. Both in terms of Premier League news and FPL results, this result naturally dominated the rest of the weekend, but there was more. City did the job at home by comfortably beating Villa, though the VAR caused some upsets in the FPL community, Chelsea’s purple patch continued with a 2-4 victory at Turf Moore, courtesy of a Pulisic hat-trick, and Liverpool booked a hard-fought victory over Spurs, thanks to a second-half penalty from Mo Salah.

As far as this weekend is concerned, it’s promising to be another unpredictable, exciting and probably heartbreaking gameweek, with most of the Premier League teams dealing with mid-week League Cup obligations. We’re obviously taking this into account when picking our recommendations for gameweek 11 and when jotting down the starting lineups for the top five in our Lineup Predictions piece tomorrow for this weekend, but we definitely recommend to have a further look as well.

Finally, don’t forget that the deadline for gameweek 11 is set at 11h30 (GMT+0) on Saturday, November 2^{nd.  .}

How did our picks for the previous gameweek fare?

Premium picks

Sometimes in FPL, or maybe many times, you need to stick to your guns and the gun we’re sticking to is Man City’s Raheem Sterling (£12.1m). Football is far from just stats, but the stats for his match-up with Southampton at home are just too enticing to not select him as our first premium pick for gameweek 11. To start with, he’s in good form. The English international scored a goal and took all three bonus points against Villa last weekend. He has taken the most shots in the box out of all players in the league (30), the third-most shots on target (12, behind Salah and McGinn) and only his teammate De Bruyne has created more big chances than him. Furthermore, City won this fixture 6-1 last season, with Sterling scoring two and assisting two, and the Saints have conceded six goals in five away games so far this season. Mid-week, a Sterling-less City beat Southampton 3-1 to reach the League Cup quarter-finals. Finally, the Saints conceded nine against Leicester last weekend, in front of their own crowd albeit after having a man sent-off early on. We think we’ve made our point.

We actually wanted to recommend De Bruyne or Aguero next, but seeing as we tripled up on City assets for our premium picks last weekend, we’ve chosen to diversify a bit. With Liverpool visiting an Aston Villa side that have so far conceded an average of almost 19 shots per game, more than any other side in the league, Mo Salah and Sadio Mané (£11.9m) are as good as any shout for a haul this weekend. Despite Salah owning penalties for the Reds, we’ve gone with the Senegalese powerhouse who won the decisive penalty in last weekend’s clash with Spurs. Liverpool have scored 9 goals in five away games this season and Mané was directly involved in three of them (2 goals, 1 assist). Villa have not fared badly at all in home games until now, taking eight points from five games, but the Reds just seem unable to lose in the Premier League these days. They might not be as free-scoring as their main rivals City, but it’s hard to imagine them not netting at Villa Park and when they do, Sadio Mané will very likely be involved and should play the full 90 minutes whereas Salah’s sore ankle may see him depart before the end again.

Non-premium picks

Picking just one premium asset from Pep Guardiola’s goal machine doesn’t mean that we’re now no longer looking at City assets for gameweek 11. That’s because they don’t only boast some of the best expensive players in the official game, but also one of the best, if not the best, non-premium asset. Playmaker David Silva (£7.7m) announced his coming-summer departure from the blue Manchester club at the start of this season, but he seems determined to make one final, devastating impression on English football this season. His 60 FPL points make him the fifth-highest scoring midfielder in the game, courtesy of 3 goals and 5 assists from eight starts in the Premier League. Only Sterling started more games for City this season and Silva’s current 7.8 FPL points per million is beaten by none in the official game. When starting, the Spaniard has been involved in 36% of all goals scored at home by Pep’s men and he was rested for the mid-week League Cup encounter with Southampton. So, statistically speaking, if you feel City can put at least three goals past the Saints on Saturday, David Silva will be involved in at least one.

After a slow start while Frank Lampard was still figuring out who his starting number nine was going to be, Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham (£7.8m) entered an incredible run of 7 goals in three games between gameweeks 3 and 5. Since then, his direct goal involvement has returned to a less productive, but presumably more sustainable level, with a goal and an assist in his last five games, resulting in 19 FPL points. This might sound a bit disappointing, but don’t forget that his price tag is still below £8.0m. After visiting the league’s current bottom team Watford this weekend, the Blues have three home games in their next four fixtures (Palace, West Ham and Villa). The only away game takes place at Man City’s Etihad stadium in gameweek 13. Abraham only failed to record attacking returns in one away game this season, all the way back in gameweek 1 when he played 65 minutes, and we don’t think the visit to Vicarage Road will end up being the second time. Chelsea have scored no less than 16 goals in five away games so far, while Watford have conceded 8 goals in 5 home games, so expect Abraham to get his chances on Saturday.

A differential pick or two

We know, Leicester booked the biggest away win in all of Premier League history last weekend and we haven’t recommened a Leicester asset yet. That’s not because the likes of Maddison, Vardy and Tielemans are not good shouts, but because they are visiting a remarkably solid Crystal Palace this weekend. Roy Hodgson’s men are just no push-overs, but one thing they struggle at is scoring goals. In five home games so far, the Eagles have netted just four times, which is why we’re adding a touch of Leicester to this week’s selection by recommending left-back Ben Chilwell (£5.5m) as a differential pick (owned by just 8.4% of FPL managers). Don’t expect the Englishman to replicate his 19-point haul from last weekend, but a clean sheet is definitely on the cards and an assist might be as well. He already has 5 to his name, including 2 from last weekend’s demolition of Southampton. He’s a decent shout for this round, has a good run of fixtures coming up, and costs £0.8m less than his more popular colleague at right-back Ricardo Pereira.

Our second differential pick and the final recommendation for gameweek 11 is last season’s Premier League and FPL revelation Raul Jimenez (£7.2m). The Wolves striker has had a definitely slower start to this season, in big part due to Wolves’ lesser form in the early weeks and their Europa League obligations, but he still has 3 goals, 2 assists and 43 FPL points to his name. The Mexican striker did not return anything against Newcastle last weekend, but he scored a goal a week earlier against Southampton and the week before that, he brought his owners 10 points, courtesy of two assists away at City. This weekend, Wolves are visiting an Arsenal who, from the outside, seem a bit troubled. The Gunners conceded 2 goals at home against Palace in gameweek 10, even though the Eagles are one of the least-prolific sides in the league at the moment. Their 10 ‘goals scored’ only stand above Watford, Newcastle, Sheffield and Southampton. Arsenal have conceded 7 goals in five home games so far, and 14 goals overall as Emery looks unable to find a more or less fixed set-up to provide some much-needed solidity in the back. Jimenez and Wolves are a punt for this one, but we believe it could pay off and Wolves do tend to have better results against the better sides.

For further GW11 transfer ideas look at this fiso FPL forum topic.

Looking at the FPL GW Transfers In/out Stats:

Attackers – Managers are mainly selling Pukki, Aguero, Aubameyang & Callum Wilson and buying Vardy (2 price rises already this GW after almost 0.5m purchases), Abraham and Rashford (who started in the Caraboa Cup at Chelsea midweek, scored 2 goals and was subbed with a knock). Aguero sellers have decided to bite the bullet after he again did not start but both Aguero and Jesus started in the Caraboa Cup tie v Southampton on Tuesday so maybe Aguero’s in line for a start at the weekend?

Midfielders – Cantwell, Marhez & Salah are the biggest sold and the money instead is being used on buying Perez, KDB, Tielemans, Pulisic & D Silva.

Defenders – van Dijk (suffered a dead leg), Digne (maybe he’ll bounce back from his late OG?), and then two long-term injured players Boly & Zinchenko along with MC’s Otamendi & Walker & Liverpool’s TAA. So again Man City and Liv make up most of the sold defenders. The money is then being spent on Chilwell, Lundstram (cheap and playing in midfield) & Leicester’s Pereira.

Goalkeepers – Adrian again is most sold followed by Wolves’ Patricio & Everton’s Pickford. A mixture of GKs are coming in: Henderson, Gazzaniga (Spurs), Ederson, Schmeichel and Alisson the most bought.

The captaincy

As far as the captaincy goes for gameweek 11, our eyes are on the two top teams, Liverpool and especially Man City. The former visit Aston Villa, while the latter host a battered Southampton side who already lost to the Cityzens mid-week in the League Cup (3-1). Any of Raheem Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne, Sergio Aguero, Mo Salah and Sadio Mané could haul big this weekend, while the likes of David Silva and Roberto Firmino might very well turn up as well. Based on current form, certainty of starting, and historical performance, we’re putting the armband on Sterling, but any of these picks is as safe as a pick can get in this crazy game.

The FISO Forum GW11 FPL Captain Poll puts the armband between two players: Sterling and KDB.

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