FPL Banger Lifts The Lid On His Gameweek 10 FPL Tips, Including Top Skipper And Four Top Picks

Welcome to a new series for the 2024/25 season, provided by Siva & Sam, the twisted minds behind the weekly FPL Banger Podcast.  After Sam’s successful Palmer captaincy last week, it’s time to cook again as we move into Gameweek 10.

FPL Banger With His Gameweek 10 FPL Tips

Read on as FPL Banger lifts the lid on his Gameweek 10 FPL tips, including who best to have as your captain, plus four other top picks to try and squeeze into your squads.

BEST CAPTAIN

Salah (£12.7m)
Fixture: Brighton (H)

Mo Salah has scored 107 FPL points against Brighton, making them his 2nd favourite FPL opponent after Man United (127 points).

Is this a relevant statistic? Absolute not, but here is something that is relevant – Brighton just played their best team against Liverpool’s reserves in the midweek Carabao Cup tie and still lost 3-2.

That bodes well for Salah, who has added assists and bonus points to his arsenal this season, with 6 goals, 5 assists and 16 bonus points (2 more than 2nd placed Chris Wood and some Norwegian forward).

All of this combined with the fact that the Seagulls are likely to be without their captain Lewis Dunk due to injury means that Salah is an easy pick for the armband this week.

TOP PICKS

Matz Sels (£4.6m)
Fixture: West Ham (H)

Erik Ten Hag’s final act as Man United manager was to gift West Ham a result last week. Dubious penalty aside, Man United should have been well out of sight long before Crysencio Summerville came off the bench to open the scoring on 74 minutes, with an xG of 1.72 to West Ham’s 0.04 at half time.

I do not expect a well-drilled Forest side to make the same mistake. A controlled (boring) performance with a Sels clean sheet and another Chris Wood goal is my prediction. At just 4.6m, expect Sels to be in all of our FPL teams before long.

Ait-Nouri (£4.6m)
Fixture: Crystal Palace (H)

Selecting a defender from a team with zero wins, 2 draws and no clean sheets all season is a pretty bold move but it’s worth noting just how bad Wolves’ fixture run has been so far, playing 8 out of the top 9 teams in the table, with the one exception being Newcastle.

Their upcoming fixtures are much, much better with 7 of their next 8 games against bottom-half opposition. Ait-Nouri has already scored 3 times in this tough run – a couple of clean sheets in the next few weeks and he’ll be the best bargain pick in the game.

Mo Salah (£12.7m)
Fixture: Brighton (H)

Is Salah a lazy pick? Sure, but given that we selected Mo in our article last week when he played Arsenal (and duly returned a 10 pointer), no sense in fixing something that ain’t broke.

Brighton defence has been inconsistent at best this season and with Salah up against new-to-the-league left back Ferdi Kadioglou, Mo should be primed for more returns.

Chris Wood (£6.4m)
Fixture: West Ham (H)

A few weeks ago, when it seemed like everyone was transferring in Dominic Calvert-Lewin, we went for Chris Wood. And the Hobbiton Haaland has fully delivered since then, with 7 goals in 9 games.

Even the loss of creative hub Morgan Gibbs-White has done little to stop the Kiwi Lewandowski, with new signing Eliott Anderson stepping up to fill the void and supply the Auckland Aguero.

Forest’s upcoming fixtures might look hard on the Official FPL FDR ratings, but we’re fully backing Wood to make them look easy, starting with a West Ham team that hasn’t kept a clean sheet since GW2.

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