GW 5 Thread 🧵 - Fixture to target - Player recommendation - Player to keep - Tips - Captaincy - Differentials - Wildcard - My team
GW 4 Notes - Teams ✍️ ⚪️ Tottenham - Secured their 3rd win and 3rd clean sheet in the first 4 games. Looks like a very solid team right now. 🔴 Arsenal - Comfortable 3-0 win vs Forest. Only 0.2 xG conceded (0.6 xGC/game in GW 1-4). Can’t go wrong with picking Arsenal players.
GW 4 Notes - Players ✍️ 🍒 Semenyo - 1 goal, 1 assist and 13 FPL pts vs Brighton. Took, and scored, a penalty, which is interesting to note. 🔵 Palmer - Returned from injury and scored within 5 mins of being subbed on. Palmer is back to being worth consideration as a pick.
GW 5 Fixture to target 🎯 🍒 BOU vs: NEW (H) This GW lacks any standout fixtures to target, but I think it’s worth noting that Newcastle only get 2 rest days between their UCL game vs Barcelona and this game vs Bournemouth. Semenyo, Evanilson, Senesi etc could be decent picks.
GW 5 Player Recommendation: In general, I don’t think there are a lot of players worth spending a transfer on this GW. Semenyo could be an exception though, with an appealing fixture in addition to his 5 G/A in 4 games while averaging 0.67 xG/90. Excellent pick going forward.
GW 5 Player to keep: More than 200k FPL managers have already sold Wirtz ahead of GW 5, which makes some sense given his 4 straight blanks. However, the fixture in EVE (H) is fine and I think there are better ways to spend a FT (including rolling) instead of selling Wirtz now.
GW 5 Tips 💡 🔹 Saving a transfer this GW to enable the Salah -> Haaland switch in GW 6 makes a lot of sense. 🔹 Don’t sell Watkins this week. 4 blanks in a row is shockingly bad, but there’s no way that selling him before SUN (A) is a good move.
GW 5 Captaincy: Mohamed Salah - 💰14.5 Fixture: EVE (H) Despite not playing great so far, Salah has recorded 2G + 1A in 4 PL games and continues to be a very reliable captaincy option. He’s the clear standout captain this GW, given that Arsenal and City face each other.
Cole Palmer - 💰10.4 Fixture: MUN (A) Palmer is back. Returned from injury and scored open play goals against both Brentford and Bayern. Man Utd have averaged 1.7 xGC per game so far this season, and it wouldn’t surprise me if Palmer hauls in this fixture. Differential option.
GW 5 Differentials 🎲 1️⃣ Evanilson - 💰7.0 Ownership: 2.7% Fixture: NEW (H) 2️⃣ Harvey Elliott - 💰5.4 Ownership: 0.5% Fixture: SUN (A) 3️⃣ Maxence Lacroix - 💰5.0 Ownership: 4.0% Fixture: WHU (A)
GW 5 Wildcard 🃏 If you’re wildcarding this GW, I would recommend going for a team like this 👇 *Generally, I think GW 6 is a much better time to wildcard.
My GW 5 Team 📊 1 FT, 1.5m ITB Potential moves: 🔄 Rolling the transfer or JSL ➡️ Evanilson/JP
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‘If I went with Chelsea attackers now’ draft
Wildcard active. Time to have some fun.
GW5 is a perfect GW to go for a differential captain ✅ Gakpo Wirtz Joao pedro Palmer Watkins (yes he has been bad) Semenyo
💹 GW5: Market goal projections A look at some of the top projected scorers for this round of PL fixtures, according to inferences from Spreadex markets













