Mohamed Salah (captain), Liverpool, midfielder, £12.8m – home to Aston Villa
Why change a winning formula? Salah has scored in his past three, he netted in this fixture last season, Villa just shipped four at Spurs and have one day’s less rest than Liverpool after a trip to Belgium in the Champions League.
Simple captain choice this week.
Alejandro Garnacho, Manchester United, midfielder, £6.3m – home to Leicester City
Garnacho was a player to watch last week and is straight into the team for gameweek 11.
The reasons behind his selection?
Only Salah has had more shots on target.
Only Salah has had more big chances.
Top players tend to outscore their xG – Salah for example has seven goals to an xG of 5.63 – but Garnacho is the other way round.
He has two goals from an xG of 3.39. There’s only one player with an xG higher than that who doesn’t have at least four goals…
Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United, midfielder, £8.2m – home to Leicester City
Yes – that midfielder is Fernandes with one goal to show 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 did make a few changes – when United scored five. He finished with two goals, could have been more.
With the boost of a new manager on the way, United surely have to end this low-scoring run and what better chance than at home to a Leicester side who have conceded just under two goals per game.