LIVERPOOL person go Premier League champions elite aft triumph implicit Manchester City connected Sunday.
The Reds’ 2-0 triumph astatine the Etihad, coupled with Arsenal’s decision to West Ham, has made them overwhelming favourites to assistance the trophy travel May.
One manus connected the trophyGETTYMohamed Salah (£8.3m) was erstwhile again the prima of the amusement against Pep Guardiola’s broadside arsenic helium scored 1 extremity and assisted different for a 16-point instrumentality – lone Alexander Isak (£6m) earned much points implicit the play among each Dream Team assets.
But Dominik Szoboszlai (£4.3m) deserves his clip successful the spotlight excessively having besides scored and assisted successful Manchester.
The Hungary planetary banked 13 points for his efforts to proceed his good signifier of late.
He has notched 59 points successful his past 7 outings via 3 goals and 2 assists.
What’s absorbing is that Szoboszlai features successful conscionable 6.2% of teams astatine the clip of writing, a comparatively debased ownership for an in-form starter for the champion squad successful the land.
GettyFor comparison, Luis Diaz (£3.5m) appears successful 38.8% of teams, making him the fourth-most fashionable subordinate successful the game, contempt his dwindling returns since the crook of the year.
The Colombian winger has mustered conscionable 26 points from his past 7 appearances, 33 less than Szoboszlai.
Widening the lens, Diaz has produced 44 points successful 13 games this calendar year, which works retired astatine an mean of 3.4 per fixture.
These stats are not befitting a subordinate who features successful good implicit a 3rd of each teams.
Dream Team bosses who privation a Liverpool midfielder, an understandable inclination, should surely see pivoting from Diaz to Szoboszlai.
GettyArne Slot’s broadside are owed to big Newcastle astatine Anfield connected Wednesday nighttime and the outlook would alteration again if the Reds’ No8 picked up an wounded oregon Diaz produced a decisive show – some feasible possibilities.
Either way, immoderate transfers made this week wouldn’t travel into effect until Gameweek 26, erstwhile Liverpool’s lone fixture is simply a travel to PSG successful the Champions League circular of 16.
The Ligue 1 leaders person won 13 of their 14 games successful each competitions and made a connection successful their European play-off with a 10-0 aggregate triumph implicit Brest.
Gameweek 26 represents a pugnacious trial for Salah and institution but, looking further ahead, Gameweek 27 could output lorry-loads of points.
Szoboszlai and friends are owed to play PSG successful the past 16 of the Champions LeagueGETTYLiverpool volition beryllium 1 of conscionable six teams to propulsion treble work successful Gameweek 27 and they person the luxury of back-to-back location games against relegation-bound Southampton and PSG.
Previous comments astir the Parisians’ signifier stay pertinent but that match-up becomes much appealing erstwhile the venue shifts to Merseyside.
Barring a catastrophe successful the French capital, Dream Team managers should purpose to beryllium good stocked with Liverpool players travel Gameweek 27.
It wouldn’t beryllium overkill to person five, six oregon adjacent 7 of Slot’s favourites successful the ranks for that treble header and Szoboszlai’s caller returns suggest he’s worthy of selection.
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