Mohamed Salah (captain), Liverpool, midfielder, £12.8m – home of Aston Villa
Why change a winning formula? Salah has scored in his last three, scoring in this game last season, Villa has just sent four to Spurs and has one less day’s rest than Liverpool after a trip to Belgium in the Champions League.
Easy captain’s pick this week.
Alejandro Garnacho, Manchester United, midfielder, £6.3m – home of Leicester City
Garnacho was a player to watch last week and is directly in the team for matchday 11.
The reasons behind your selection?
Only Salah has made more shots on goal.
Only Salah has had more important opportunities.
The best players tend to outperform their xG (Salah, for example, has seven goals against an xG of 5.63), but Garnacho is the other way around.
He has two goals with an xG of 3.39. There is only one player with a higher xG than that who does not have at least four goals…
Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United, midfielder, £8.2m – home of Leicester City
Yes, that midfielder is Fernandes and he is one goal ahead for an xG of 3.74, and that was a penalty last week against Chelsea.
Fernandes was fantastic against Leicester in the EFL Cup (Steve Cooper made some changes) as United scored five. He finished with two goals, it could have been more.
With the impetus of a new manager on the way, United will surely have to end this streak of few goals and what better opportunity than at home against a Leicester side that has conceded just under two goals per game.
