ByThomas WoodsBBC Sport Senior Journalist<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland's injury status is the big talking point this week and Manchester City<\/a> boss Pep Guardiola's news conference will be important.<\/p>\n If City are without the Norway striker then that \u00a315m or so is going to burn a hole in FPL managers' pockets.<\/p>\n The three big-money midfielders – Mohamed Salah, Cole Palmer and Bukayo Saka – have all underwhelmed this season, so who would you move the cash to?<\/p>\n Be sure to check out our live Q&A with FPL expert Gianni Buttice at 15:30 GMT on Tuesday as this is sure to be a key topic for him.<\/p>\n The team of the week is selected based on current FPL prices to fit within a \u00a3100m budget, as if you were playing a Free Hit.<\/p>\n An absolute stormer with returns from eight players including captain Bruno Fernandes (26 points), Hugo Ekitike (15) and Harry Wilson (12).<\/p>\n That led to a fantastic 88 points.<\/a><\/p>\n All your FPL stats and Premier League team news in one place<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Gianluigi Donnarumma, Manchester City<\/a>, goalkeeper, \u00a35.6m – Nottingham Forest<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Manchester City<\/a> have three clean sheets in their past four home games and face a Forest side in another difficult period.<\/p>\n With few obvious clean sheets around this week, Donnarumma is worth the price.<\/p>\n Nico O'Reilly, Manchester City<\/a>, \u00a35.1m – Nottingham Forest<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Returning from last week's team is O'Reilly, who is playing out of position as a midfielder and could easily have scored against Leeds<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n He had two big chances and an expected goals (xG) of 0.32 – only Antoine Semenyo bettered that.<\/p>\n Gabriel, Arsenal<\/a>, \u00a37.1m – Brighton<\/a> (a)<\/p>\n Only four players have outscored Gabriel in FPL this season and one of them, Haaland, is potentially injured.<\/p>\n Arsenal<\/a>'s corner prowess<\/a> means Gabriel is pretty much a set-and-forget, although more than 50% of FPL managers still don't own him!<\/p>\n Virgil van Dijk, Liverpool<\/a>, \u00a36.1m – Wolves<\/a> (a)<\/p>\n The Dutchman now has 35 points in his past three games and Liverpool<\/a> are on a roll as they chase a Champions League spot.<\/p>\n A good shout this week, despite Wolves<\/a>' continuous improvement, and an even better long-term pick as Liverpool<\/a> play in blank gameweek 31 and should have at least one double gameweek in the future.<\/p>\n Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United<\/a>, \u00a39.9m – Newcastle<\/a> (a)<\/p>\n Is Fernandes a must-pick for the rest of the season? He's got four double-digit returns in seven games.<\/p>\n His 59 points since returning from injury in week 21 is the most of any player.<\/p>\n Antoine Semenyo (c), Manchester City<\/a>, \u00a38.2m – Nottingham Forest<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n In the same bracket as Fernandes is Semenyo. Keeps starting, keeps scoring.<\/p>\n Every Manchester City<\/a> player carries a slight question mark as they enter a period that also involves Newcastle<\/a> away in the FA Cup, two legs against Real Madrid and the Carabao Cup final against Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n But it's also impossible to second-guess Pep Roulette so start Semenyo with confidence – Fernandes is my vice-captain if he doesn't play.<\/p>\n Harry Wilson, Fulham<\/a>, \u00a36m – West Ham<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Wilson's now the fourth-highest-scoring midfielder and at just \u00a36m still.<\/p>\n He takes on West Ham<\/a> this week, who just conceded five goals at Liverpool<\/a>, and you'll want to eye up Burnley<\/a> at home in gameweek 31 too.<\/p>\n Marcus Tavernier, Bournemouth<\/a>, \u00a35.3m – Brentford<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Another player returning from gameweek 28's team and, at this price, how can you resist?<\/p>\n A team-high four shots last week and a big chance created, Tavernier ended up with bonus points and an assist.<\/p>\n He has a lot of routes to points for a \u00a35.3m midfielder and faces a Brentford<\/a> side that conceded three – and should possibly have been more – at Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Everton<\/a>, \u00a35m – Burnley<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n KDH is the forgotten budget gem after his long injury, but he's got three returns in four games and is always a good shout for defensive contribution points.<\/p>\n This home match against Burnley<\/a> is too good to pass up.<\/p>\n Hugo Ekitike, Liverpool<\/a>, \u00a39m – Wolves<\/a> (a)<\/p>\n Since week 22, no striker has had more shots than Ekitike's 23.<\/p>\n Only Joao Pedro is ahead of him for big chances – 10 to nine – and he has the third-highest xG.<\/p>\n In that time, the Frenchman has had five blanks but it feels like he has left points on the table, and last week's 15-pointer was an example of it all coming right.<\/p>\n Give him another chance away to Wolves<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thierno Barry, Everton<\/a>, \u00a35.7m – Burnley<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Everton<\/a>'s match-winner last week hopefully regains his starting sport for a juicy home fixture against Burnley<\/a>.<\/p>\n You have to target the league's worst defence away from home and Barry is Everton<\/a>'s top scorer.<\/p>\n Jordan Pickford, Everton<\/a>, keeper, \u00a35.6m – Burnley<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Leeds<\/a>, striker, \u00a35.7m – Sunderland<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n James Hill, Bournemouth<\/a>, defender, \u00a34.1m – Brentford<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n Calvin Bassey, Fulham<\/a>, defender, \u00a34.4m – West Ham<\/a> (h)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Team total cost: \u00a392.8m<\/p>\n Get news, insight and fan views on your Premier League team<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n All your football quizzes in one place<\/p>\n <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Premier League index<\/p>\n <\/a><\/li>\n Premier League table<\/p>\n <\/a><\/li>\n Premier League fixtures<\/p>\n <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Captain Semenyo and go big in defence – FPL team of weekImage source, BBC SportByThomas WoodsBBC Sport Senior JournalistPublished55 minutes ago4 CommentsErling Haaland's injury status is the big…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How did last week's team do?<\/h2>\n
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