Hat-trick hero Omar Marmoush puts Dream Team managers on notice but tricky fixtures loom large

ANY Dream Team managers unfamiliar with Omar Marmoush (£4.4m) present recognize wherefore Manchester City forked retired conscionable shy of £60million for his services successful January.

The Egypt planetary scored a sensational hat-trick successful the abstraction of 14 minutes against Newcastle connected Saturday arsenic Pep Guardiola’s broadside recorded 1 of their astir awesome wins of the season.

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Marmoush exhibited a scope of finishes successful a destructive first-half blitz against in-form opposition.

The Magpies had won 12 of their past 14 games successful each competitions anterior to their 4-0 decision astatine the Etihad.

The ex-Frankfurt guardant was substituted midway done the 2nd fractional but the harm had already been done by that signifier arsenic the earned 26 points successful 1 fell swoop.

Marmoush’s hat-trick is intelligibly the header but it shouldn’t spell unnoticed that helium besides notched 3 bonus points for his efforts successful different aspects of the game.

For overmuch of the campaign, Man City person been overly reliant connected Erling Haaland (£8.1m) to people the goals and truthful fans volition beryllium thrilled that 1 of their caller recruits has proven himself susceptible of objective finishes.

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As is often the case, a sizeable chunk of Dream Team bosses person been enamoured by a hat-trick hero.

The deadline is inactive a fewer days distant but Marmoush is by acold and distant the astir fashionable enlistee up of Gameweek 25 astatine this signifier aft a tidal question of transfers implicit the weekend.

Man City volition beryllium successful enactment again earlier the deadline arsenic they’re owed to look Real Madrid successful the 2nd limb of their Champions League play-off connected Wednesday night.

Needless to say, if Marmoush picks up an wounded successful the Spanish superior past galore gaffers volition beryllium reversing their transfers and switching to Plan B.

More broadly, the effect successful Madrid volition interaction the viability of each Man City players going guardant arsenic they volition beryllium without European fixtures for the remainder of the play if they are incapable to overturn their 3-2 nonaccomplishment from the archetypal leg.

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Double Gameweek 25 volition diagnostic 20 fixtures successful full with each Premier League broadside acceptable to play twice.

This opens up each mode of options for Dream Team managers.

Marmoush’s hat-trick makes him an appealing differential arsenic helium presently features successful conscionable 3.5% of teams but City’s treble header is acold from favourable.

The defending champions invited Liverpool to the Etihad adjacent Sunday earlier a travel to Tottenham the pursuing Wednesday.

Ange Postecoglou’s broadside person underwhelmed this play and triumph implicit Manchester United has lone lifted them up to 12th successful the array but Spurs person agelong been a bogey squad for Guardiola.

James Maddison inspired his broadside to a 4-0 triumph successful Manchester backmost successful November.

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All things considered, Liverpool and Spurs represents a pugnacious situation for City successful Gameweek 25.

It’s not inconceivable that Marmoush volition supply plentiful returns but gaffers who instrumentality a fixture-first attack volition beryllium reluctant to enlistee the 26-year-old astatine this constituent successful time.

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