Starting at the back this time, we’ll go with whipping boy Johnstone whose main virtue is he is cheap. Really cheap, so much cheaper than even the other cheap keepers. He’s likely to get battered but he can be good for save points. I generally do not pick a keeper facing my own attackers but when you are only expecting save points, this is ok.

This frees up money for defenders with more attacking threat which in my opinion is good points per £ play.

In goes Alexander-Arnold, another premium who brings obvious clean sheet and goal involvement potential. And Coleman has looked dangerous recently too following the switch to 3-5-2. He compares favourably to Digne in his underlying stats and he is .7m cheaper which is important as we are really penny pinching here.

Vestergaard goes in as a pair with Ward-Prowse. Nobody looks more vulnerable to set pieces than Fulham in recent games, so Ward-Prowse plus a CB with goal threat from headers could combine really well. And Fulham are struggling to score giving Vestergaard clean sheet potential too. Value. 

Villa vs Crystal Palace I see instinctively as a free scoring game, nobody has anything to play for and both are middle of the pack for attacking and defensive strength. And if you check the betting odds for over 2.5 goals the bookies are expecting goals too.

So we go for Benteke at Palace, who is in great form and I think kindly priced. He’s yet to fully shake off a tarnished reputation. But if these goal threat numbers were Kane or Lukaku or Lewandowski we’d all be falling overselves to be impressed. The Fanteam algorithm doesn’t like him much either yet and that makes him value in my eyes.

And we pick up Traoré from Villa who again is kindly priced. He only has 1 goal and 0 assists in the last 6. But that feels unfortunate, he’s getting regular chances. 

We then go for Brighton which is a risk because it goes against my instinct of backing West Ham who are the team with something to play for. But we have to go for value somewhere and West Ham players were too expensive to fit in. So I’m targetting West Ham who actually have a leaky defence giving away plenty of chances. 

Welbeck and Trossard could be differentials – both of whom are getting better chances than recent form might suggest. 

Then for my two biggest hitters I’m running with the Golden Boot race story here between Kane and Salah. Both are form players against poor sides and might just get that little edge from team mates trying that little bit harder to find them. Boring. Obvious. But they provide good captaincy options and I’ll be going for Salah(C). 

There is a notable absence of Everton attackers which could punish me. But Calvert-Lewin was just too expensive, more so than Kane. DCL is arguably in better form but my thinking with Kane is that historically he has been more explosive. When Kane pops off, he can really pop off and add assists too. Where as DCL rarely scores more than 1. 

I just didn’t see much value in the way the game is pricing Everton this week, except for Coleman who might cover any Everton goal with an assist. Hopefully.