GW4 Cap🔑: Haaland vs Salah; Best Wildcard & Free Hit Team
⏰ Deadline: Saturday, 13th September, 13:00 EAT
📑 Table of Contents
- 🩺 Injury Updates & News
- 🔁 Keep – Buy – Sell – Avoid
- 🎯 Low-Owned Differentials
- 👑 GW4 Captaincy Rankings
- 🃏Best Wildcard Team
- 🎲 Best Free Hit Team
- 📝 My GW4 Team
Injury Updates & News
Arne Slot on Alexander Isak: “We have to build him up gradually”.
Cole Palmer has “one more session” to “see if he’s okay” - Maresca on Friday.
Ismaila Sarr’s injury is not as bad as first thought, but he’ll miss Gameweek 4.
Yoanne Wissa and Omar Marmoush are ruled out of Gameweek 4 with knee injuries.
- 🤕 Cole Palmer — Maresca: “Cole took part in the session yesterday for the first time, not the entire session. We have one more session this afternoon, and we are going to try with him to see if he's okay, otherwise, he will be out tomorrow.”
🔁 Keep – Buy – Sell – Avoid
- ✅ KEEP
- Ollie Watkins (£8.9m, Aston Villa) — One of the most transferred-out players this week, so let’s focus on him. His next four fixtures are: Everton (A), Sunderland (A), Fulham (H), Burnley (H). There’s a chance he’s the highest scoring forward across these four games.
- Florian Wirtz (£8.4m) — With Liverpool having more possession in the upcoming games, I expect Wirtz to do really well given his high-volume chance creation and ability to get into good positions.
- Hugo Ekitike (£8.7m) — Starting while Isak isn’t fully fit.
- 🛒 BUY
- Viktor Gyökeres (£9.0m) — Pens + great fixtures from GW7. Huge ownership likely soon.
- Jack Grealish (£6.7m, Everton) — Looks reborn under Moyes, leading the Premier League for assists.
- ❌ SELL
- Cole Palmer (£10.4m) — Fitness risk; most likely to miss entirely.
- ⛔ AVOID
- Alexander Isak (£10.4m) — Not match fit. Better later, not now.
🎯 Low-Owned Differentials
💎 Maxence Lacroix (CRY, £5.0m) — 2.4%
⚡ Jorgen Strand Larsen (WOL, £6.4m) — 3.0%
🛡️ Trevoh Chalobah (CHE, £5.1m) — 6.7%
🔥 Evanilson (BOU, £7.0m) — 2.3%
🎩 Morgan Gibbs-White (NFO, £7.5m) — 5.6%
⚙️ Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (EVE, £5.0m) — 4.4%
⚽ Jean-Philippe Mateta (CRY, £7.5m) — 9.4%
👑 Captaincy Rankings: Haaland vs Salah
The decision to pick Erling Haaland (£14.1m) over Mohamed Salah (£14.5m) is down to their difference in underlying numbers; and their fixtures.
If you don’t own Salah, you probably own Erling Haaland, who proved over the international break that he still knows where the goal is.
Haaland warmed up for this weekend’s Manchester derby by scoring SIX goals over the international break. Haaland ranks top among all players for shots, shots in the box and big chances, highlighting his huge goal threat against a Manchester United side who conceded twice at home to Burnley.
However, It’s Mohamed Salah; away at Burnley. If you own him and you’re not captaining him in a game like this, you need to ask yourself why you own him at all.
⚖️ Verdict: Haaland = safe. Salah = explosive.
🃏 Best Wildcard Team
🎲 Best Free Hit Team (GW4)
📝 My GW4 Team
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