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Published 16:38 17 Aug 2018 BST
Updated 16:55 17 Aug 2018 BST
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2. Bench your Huddersfield and Brighton players
You might have selected Anthony Knockeart, Pascal Groß, or even Aaron Mooy. They're all good players in their own right, likely to pop up with the odd goal or assist. They're also cheap, and allow you to splash more money on the glamorous players from bigger teams. But this weekend, you'd be better off keeping players from both Brighton and Huddersfield on the bench. Manchester United are likely to beat Brighton comfortably on Sunday, and Manchester City will almost certainly put a few past Huddersfield.
3. Transfer in Raheem Sterling
Sterling scored 18 league goals last season and racked up 15 assists while he was at it. Man City's system allows him plenty of goalscoring opportunities, thus boosting his fantasy points tally. But only 3.4% of FPL players have selected the England international. He scored City's first goal of the season last weekend and looks raring to go. Get one over on your competitors by bringing in the 23-year-old before others do.
4. Don't captain Mohamed Salah
This might look like stupid advice come Tuesday morning, but I'm going to stick my neck on the line and tell you not to captain Salah, given the tough test that awaits Liverpool at Selhurst Park. Crystal Palace showed their defensive resilience last week as they contained Fulham before sucker-punching them on the break. They'll be looking to do exactly the same against Liverpool and have a strong, settled defence of Patrick van Aanholt, Mamadou Sakho, James Tomkins and Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
Palace have not lost a game in which Tomkins and Sakho have played together yet. While that stat may no longer be true next week, it demonstrates the task that Salah and Co. will face on Monday night.
5. Bring in Joe Gomez
It looks like Gomez will be Jürgen Klopp's first pick to partner Virgil Van Dijk in central defence this season, or at least for the time being. A well-rounded defender in an attacking team for only £5m, when only 0.6% of players have selected him? It would be rude not to.England fans face being kicked out of stadium for chants during World Cup
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