Florian Wirtz, Liverpool, \u00a38.4m – Burnley (a)<\/p>\n
Wirtz hasn’t lived up to the FPL hype yet but underlying data says he has been unfortunate not to return.<\/p>\n
His xG and xA are higher than any other Liverpool midfielder, at 0.37 and 0.44, and only Cody Gakpo has taken more shots.<\/p>\n
Add to that tough fixtures against Newcastle and Arsenal, and you can see why he hasn’t come flying out of the blocks.<\/p>\n
But if you trust the data, then a return is coming and Burnley is the perfect opportunity. The Clarets have conceded a league high number of shots, shots in the box and their expected goals conceded (xGC) is a whopping 6.63.<\/p>\n
Mohamed Salah (captain), Liverpool, \u00a314.5m – Burnley (a)<\/p>\n
For reasons stated above, Salah is also in the team this week as captain. <\/p>\n
I’ve got long-term concerns about whether he will be worth the investment, with the arrival of Alexander Isak and a slow-ish start to the season.<\/p>\n
We’ll discuss Liverpool attacking assets in Friday’s Talking Point article but for now Salah v leaky Burnley is an easy pick.<\/p>\n
Jack Grealish, Everton, \u00a36.7m – Aston Villa (h)<\/p>\n
Grealish has been on fire since arriving at Everton with his 21 points (four assists) in the past two games bettered only by Chelsea’s Enzo Fernandez (22).<\/p>\n
It’s a very short sample size but underlying data suggests Grealish is going to be a valuble FPL asset this season.<\/p>\n
While two assists per game is not sustainable, he’s a bargain price, has created 2.5 big chances per game, had a shot in the box per game and missed out by one point on defensive contribution bonus in each of his starts.<\/p>\n
And Everton have the third-worst xGC this season, suggesting David Moyes’ side might be involved in more open games – which will suit Grealish.<\/p>\n
Anthony Elanga, Newcastle, \u00a37m – Wolves (h)<\/p>\n
You’ve got to target Wolves this week if you can, with Gary O’Neil’s team having conceded eight goals so far.<\/p>\n
They have allowed 34% of their chances down the right flank, which is why Elanga makes this team.<\/p>\n
While Newcastle’s wingers could rotate flanks, Elanga played mostly on the right against Liverpool and was dangerous. He could haul against Wolves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florian Wirtz, Liverpool, \u00a38.4m – Burnley (a) Wirtz hasn’t lived up to the FPL hype yet but underlying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-135699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}