Cristiano Ronaldo
The information of Liverpool vs Leeds’ postponement leaves a number of managers within the lurch. Most of us have at the very least three gamers who won’t be enjoying on Boxing Day, with captaincy favorite Mohamed Salah one among them. The place can we flip with our most dependable points-scorer abruptly worn out?
It requires a little bit of restructuring and possibly a -4 hit however transferring to Ronaldo, who travels to Newcastle, is probably not a nasty concept. Although Salah might return shortly towards Leicester and Chelsea, the Africa Cup of Nations is quick approaching and Manchester United’s fixtures are robust, with an anticipated double gameweek on the horizon.
Son Heung-min
A extra simple transfer is Salah to Son. Many managers might do it with their weekly free switch and there may be good cause to again the Tottenham winger, who scored towards Liverpool final outing and has an attractive run of fixtures arising and a probable double in gameweek 22.
Crystal Palace’s defensive numbers are nonetheless among the many extra spectacular this season however are stronger at residence than away and have faltered barely of late, whereas Tottenham’s assault is regularly choosing up below Antonio Conte. After the go to from Patrick Vieira’s aspect, Spurs face back-to-back journeys to Southampton and Watford.
Bukayo Saka
After three consecutive spectacular wins, Arsenal belongings are all the fashion this week, with heavy funding within the band of younger, thrilling attacking gamers at Mikel Arteta’s disposal. Gabriel Martinelli was a late call-up to our picks final time round and duly delivered, whereas Emile Smith Rowe retains on scoring even instead.
If we needed to decide one for this weekend’s journey to Norwich although, it could nonetheless be Saka. He has a greater likelihood of beginning long-term than Martinelli and he has extra spectacular underlying numbers than Smith Rowe. Actually, these numbers have regularly ticked up after a sluggish begin to the season, with a median of 0.6 non-penalty xG+xA over the past six video games.
Kieran Tierney
Whereas Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Emile Smith Rowe are all widespread picks this week, one factor to look out for is an uncommon break up arising in Arsenal’s fixtures, the place their schedule is lots higher from a defensive perspective than an attacking one.
With that in thoughts, 4.8m-rated Tierney presents a barely extra adventurous route into Arsenal’s backline than both goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale or the cheaper Ben White. The priority with Tierney, as ever, is harm and whether or not he could be trusted to begin video games throughout a good schedule, however at a low possession of 6.4%, he could also be well worth the danger.
Armando Broja
With all these heavy hitters to swap round and squad restructuring to do, it may be helpful to depart cash within the financial institution for flexibility. However on the similar time, we’d like a deep squad with a view to deal with the postponements and rotation. It’s troublesome to search out gamers within the low cost however dependable candy spot.
Broja is likely one of the higher finances choices. He carries a rotation danger himself and might get substituted early however, with Che Adams and Adam Armstrong nonetheless making their means again from harm, the 5.1m-priced Southampton striker ought to get sufficient minutes going ahead to earn factors, whereas liberating up funds to spend elsewhere.
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