Captaincy options for Gameweek 27: The case for and against Mohamed Salah

DREAM TEAM managers indispensable retrieve to prime their skipper for Gameweek 27 earlier Saturday’s 11am deadline.

In past week’s captaincy article, we suggested that Bruno Fernandes (£6.4m) was a amended acceptable for the armband than Mohamed Salah (£8.3m) and truthful it proved to be.

Manchester United’s skipper banked 17 points his 2 fixtures successful Gameweek 26 portion Liverpool’s main antheral endured a uncommon off-day against PSG, mustering conscionable 2 points.

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Gaffers who opted to treble Fernandes’ returns alternatively of Salah’s volition person benefited from a important points plaything but does that mean they should stake against the Egyptian superstar again successful Gameweek 27?

Arne Slot’s broadside escaped from Paris with a 1-0 triumph but were comprehensively outplayed by the Ligue 1 champions.

PSG’s left-back Nuno Mendes marshalled Salah precise good and a akin show astatine Anfield this coming Tuesday would apt effect successful different paltry instrumentality from Dream Team’s runaway points leader.

Before that highly-anticipated 2nd leg, Liverpool invited Southampton to Merseyside successful what should beryllium a straightforward task.

Saints are rooted to the bottommost of the Premier League array having conceded the astir goals and Salah (30 goals and 22 assists successful 2024/25) could capable his boots connected Saturday afternoon.

This mismatch is the biggest crushed to skipper the prolific 32-year-old but isn’t determination a hazard Slot volition negociate the workload of his astir important players this weekend?

Salah v Southampton is simply a HUGE mismatch connected paperPA wire

The league leaders astir apt won’t request to beryllium astatine their champion to bushed a squad destined for a instrumentality to the Championship and truthful it wouldn’t beryllium each that astonishing if Salah’s minutes were reduced with a presumption to ensuring he’s successful the champion information imaginable to instrumentality connected PSG.

Even so, it would instrumentality a precise brave Dream Team manager to not skipper the game’s apical performer up of the astir favourable fixture connected connection successful the apical formation this season.

And conscionable due to the fact that Salah was kept quiescent successful Paris, doesn’t mean the aforesaid volition hap connected his location patch.

For those consenting to rotation the dice, Cole Palmer’s (£5.8m) fixtures look mighty inviting.

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Chelsea’s talisman hasn’t been astatine his champion of precocious but back-to-back location games against Leicester and Copenhagen marque up an appealing treble header.

Palmer started successful Denmark connected Thursday nighttime erstwhile the Blues’ registered a 2-1 triumph successful the archetypal limb of their Conference League circular of 16 tie.

Clearly, Enzo Maresca is prepared to marque due usage of his prima subordinate present the contention has reached the knockout stage.

The England planetary has missed retired connected immoderate points precocious but he’s inactive among an elite radical of conscionable 4 players who mean much than 9 points-per-game this campaign.

The Foxes aren’t arsenic atrocious arsenic Southampton but they’re not that overmuch amended – they conceded 12 unanswered goals successful 4 league games successful February.

Palmer volition fancy his chances of ending his mini extremity drought and volition astir apt get much minutes successful midweek.

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The aforementioned Fernandes has provided plentifulness of points precocious but his upcoming treble header of Arsenal and Real Sociedad doesn’t look rather arsenic affable arsenic erstwhile Gameweeks.

Although helium is Dream Team’s 2nd astir in-form subordinate close present and that counts for something.

Son Heung-min (£4.8m) looked a decent extracurricular stake for captaincy successful Gameweek 27 earlier this week but Tottenham’s bitterly underwhelming showing against AZ Alkmaar has each but killed that idea.

The South Korean superstar averages an awesome 6.5 points-per-game this play and Spurs person the luxury of consecutive location games this coming Gameweek (Bournemouth and the instrumentality limb against AZ Alkmaar) but it’s not unthinkable Ange Postecoglou’s broadside volition suffer some games.

In our humble opinion, it comes down to Salah v Palmer.

The fearfulness of missing retired connected Liverpool v Southampton astatine Anfield volition astir apt beryllium the prevailing origin among engaged gaffers.

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