FPL_Salah Fantasy Premier League Tips For Gameweek 8 Pinpoint Fernandes and Two Others

Abdul Rehman (FPL Salah) has teamed up with SportsCasting to provide you with some low-owned picks for Gameweek 8 and beyond. Every week FPL Salah will be providing you with insight and advice to gear you up – continuing with his Fantasy Premier League tips for Gameweek 8.

This is his 18th season playing FPL, and he’s finished in the top 1,000 four times, with 14 finishes in the top 50,000. While he also writes weekly FPL articles for The Athletic and Fantasy Football Hub.

This week, FPL Salah will be presenting his top three Fantasy Premier League tips for differentials ahead of Gameweek 8 which can help you shoot up the ranks.

FPL Salah’s Top Three Differential Picks For Gameweek 8

See below the three Premier League differential picks that FPL Salah says you should have on your Gameweek 8 radars.

Fantasy Premier League Tips: Bruno Fernandes (£8.2m)
Manchester United – 6.8% owned
Fixture: Brentford (H)

This pick may raise a few eyebrows seeing as he only has one assist in his first seven league games and Manchester United have been really poor.

However his football stats and past performances tell us that the attacking returns will come sooner rather than later. He has registered an xG of 1.9 and an xA of 1.4 and has a good fixture this week for attacking purposes.

Manchester United haven’t been great at all this season but Brentford have been leaky – they have conceded 13 goals (fourth-most) with an xGC of 12.5 (fourth-worst) Bruno is nailed to start, will play 90 minutes in the majority of games, is the first choice penalty taker and on some set-pieces.

He has so many avenue to points and looking at his past seasons I think his output will only increase.

The Portuguese has 46 goals and 39 assists in his previous four seasons, so we know he is a proven FPL asset. Bruno is at 32% to score at any time, and he can also act as a great differential now at under 7 percent ownership.

He is not only good for this week but if you look at Man United’s Premier League fixtures over the next six, they look fantastic.

Erik Ten Hag’s side play Brentford (H), West Ham (A), Chelsea (H), Leicester (H), Ipswich (A) and Everton (H).

Fantasy Premier League Tips: Raúl Jiménez (£5.6m)
Fulham – 5.7% owned
Fixture: Aston Villa (H)

Raul Jimenez has been in a rich vein of form lately and rates another of the solid Fantasy Premier league tips for Gameweek 8.

Since ousting teammate Rodrigo Muniz from the starting XI in gameweek four he has three goals and one assist.

The Mexican seems to have cemented his place in the first team and he is looking as sharp as ever.

His underlying numbers have been good also with an xG of 2.2 and an xA of 0.9 in only four starts.

Fulham have also played well so far and seem to be a solid mid table team. They sit eighth in the league and with Marco Silva at the helm they will do well over the season.

They play Aston Villa this week who have only kept one clean sheet in the league and Fulham are at home this week too.

The Cottagers have plum fixtures over the next five also. After they play Villa, they come up against Everton (A), Brentford (H), Crystal Palace (A) and Wolves (H).

Jimenez should do well over this run.

Fantasy Premier League Tips: Tyler Dibling (£4.6m)
Southampton – 3.1% owned
Fixture: Leicester City (H)

The praise and popularity for Tyler Dibbling has been growing by the week and it’s easy to see why.

The 18-year-old has been playing phenomenally and his minutes have been improving also.

His first goal came in his second start of the season against Ipswich in Gameweek 5 where he registered 11 FPL points. He has been playing as one of the most advanced players in the side since his introduction into the first team.

It’s an extra bonus that he’s classified as a midfielder in FPL as he gets an extra point for a goal compared to forwards and one more point for his side keeping a clean sheet.

At only £4.6m he is making his mark as the best fifth midfielder in the game and his fixtures coming up also give the opportunity for plenty of points too.

Southampton play fellow promotion rivals Leicester City at home which is one of the best fixtures of the season for the Saints. The Foxes have conceded the fifth most goals (12) and also have the second worst xGC (14.5) in the league.

This will definitely be a game which Russel Martin’s side will think they can win and we should see goals in this one. Dibling won’t get many better games to add to his attacking returns and Southampton also play Everton (H) and Wolves (A) in the next three.

The young prodigy, who is the final of the Gameweek 8 Fantasy Premier league tips this week, should only be bought in as a fifth midfielder though and it would be wise to ensure you have another attacker who can cover him for his tougher fixtures.