Antoine Semenyo, Bournemouth, \u00a38.1m – Nottingham Forest (h)<\/p>\n
Like Arsenal defence and Erling Haaland, Semenyo is essential at the moment.<\/p>\n
For some reason he wasn’t given a second assist at Crystal Palace last week, which would probably have given him some bonus points too.<\/p>\n
This match-up against Forest, a team in turmoil who have conceded 15 times in eight games, is not one where you’d want to go against Semenyo.<\/p>\n
Justin Kluivert, Bournemouth, \u00a37m – Nottingham Forest (h)<\/p>\n
Every team needs a punt or two and Kluivert is one.<\/p>\n
The Dutchman started his first game of the season last week and you’d expect him to be a first-choice player moving forward.<\/p>\n
I’m backing his form from last season here, where he was FPL gold with 12 goals and six assists – as well as the juicy match-up<\/p>\n
He should still be Bournemouth’s penalty taker too.<\/p>\n
Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United, \u00a38.9m – Brighton (h)<\/p>\n
It’s interesting to see that Fernandes has dropped in price and it’s probably because FPL managers lost faith when he missed his second penalty of the season at Brentford.<\/p>\n
But Fernandes doesn’t normally miss those and, had he scored both, he’d be the clear second-highest midfield points scorer this season behind Semenyo.<\/p>\n
Ifs and buts, of course, but every weekend he has so many paths to points.<\/p>\n
Fernandes has made 22 key passes – five more than any other player – has taken 18 shots, four big chances and missed out on defcon twice by just a point.<\/p>\n
Cody Gakpo, Liverpool, \u00a37.5m – Brentford (a)<\/p>\n
With Mohamed Salah underperforming, Gakpo is much cheaper and just as effective as a route into the Liverpool attack.<\/p>\n
He could have had a hat-trick on Sunday against Manchester United and, if you are a fan of underlying data like me, look at these stats.<\/p>\n
Gakpo is top or joint-top among Liverpool players for:<\/p>\n
Shots (21)<\/p>\n
Shots in the box (15)<\/p>\n
Goals (3)<\/p>\n
xG (2.86)<\/p>\n
Assists (2)<\/p>\n
Key passes (17)<\/p>\n
Expected assists (1.43)<\/p>\n
At some point Liverpool will click, and Gakpo is likely to play a part when they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo, Bournemouth, \u00a38.1m – Nottingham Forest (h) Like Arsenal defence and Erling Haaland, Semenyo is essential at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-234665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}