Swap Salah for Haaland? The FPL talking point

Erling Haaland or Mohamed Salah? FPL managers’ main topic of conversation this week is, as is so frequently the case, choosing between the two superstars.

Salah’s first four league games saw him score two goals and one assist, while Haaland’s at Manchester City have five goals and no assists.

Should you sell Salah to make him a part of your team if the underlying numbers side with Haaland as well?

Haaland has five goals in comparison, and his overall stats are just as impressive. Nine of his 19 attempts were significant chances. and a non-penalty xG of 5.74, which is more than 18 times Salah’s.

Salah averaged almost twice as many FPL points in gameweeks one to four last year, but this time around he has 25 to Haaland’s 37.

The impact of the new-look Liverpool attack on Salah’s numbers is still to be seen.

However, he needs his team to score even more goals than they did last year, and early indications suggest that the Liverpool attack will need to take some time to form.

A high-price midfielder is superior to a high-price forward in this situation. That pattern runs through fantasy football consistently. I’m going to carry on the solid ship like I did last season.

Gianni Buttice: This week, Haaland faces his most difficult Premier League game. Arsenal have faced some difficult competition in their fifth game, and their only goal so far this season was a world-class free kick from world champion Dominik Szoboszlai. This game is the result of their hands-down best defense in the league, and if Haaland was ever going to be kept quiet, that would be it.