Welcome to a new series for the 2024/25 season, provided by Siva & Sam, the twisted minds behind the weekly FPL Banger Podcast. After our successful Salah captaincy last week, it’s time to cook again with some Gameweek 11 tips.
FPL Banger Gameweek 11 Tips
Read on as FPL Banger pinpoints their top Gameweek 11 FPL tips, including their best captaincy selection and four top picks that could improve your sides heading into the weekend’s Premier League action.
BEST CAPTAIN
Mohamed Salah (£12.7m) – Fixture: Aston Villa (H)
2 blanks all season for the best FPL asset of all time. Double assists midweek against German champions Bayer Leverkusen. Up against an Aston Villa side that just conceded 4 goals at Spurs, before losing midweek at Club Brugge.
As we always say with captaincy, don’t over think it. The best asset in the best team playing at home against a defence that has kept 1 clean all season. Speaking of, do clean sheets against Ten Hag’s Manchester United even count? In honour of Erik’s reign, I will deny and ignore that game.
TOP PICKS
Andre Onana (£5m) – Fixture: Leicester (H)
Andre Onana is the 2nd highest scoring keeper in FPL. Not sure how that happened? Sure, a penalty save against Cameron Archer in GW4 is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but on their day, Man United are capable of shutting out teams and the next 3 fixtures are as good as it gets. Leicester and Ipswich have struggled for goals all season, and Everton employ Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Enough said.
Ait-Nouri (£4.7m) – Fixture: Southampton (H)
Selecting a defender from a team with 1 win in 20 seems like a bad idea, but we don’t own Ait-Nouri for his clean sheets, we own him for his goals and assists. And while Southampton have improved significantly in the past few weeks, limiting Man City to 1 goal before getting their first win of the season at home against Everton, they still conceded 4.51 xG in these 2 games.
Ait Nouri has a knack of popping up in the right place and his 3 goals in his last 5 games is more than Erling Haaland and Dominic Calvert-Lewin combined. Easy peasy.
Brennan Johnson (£6.7m) – Fixture: Ipswich (H)
I’m going to say it right now : with 4 goals and 1 assist in his last 5 games, Brennan Johnson has basically ended Son Heung-Min as a viable FPL asset. Why pay £3m extra? Johnson plays on the wing, just like Son. Johnson pops up with a goal in every other game, just like Son used to do. Johnson has even played the full 90 minutes in each of his last 4 games.
I’m fully backing Johnson to Leif Davis behind in the dust this weekend.
Jorgen Strand Larsen (£5.6m) – Fixture: Southampton (H)
A tall Norwegian forward who isn’t completely useless in FPL? Well that’s something new.
We’re not talking about Erling Haaland. Instead we’re thinking about his friend, Jorgen Strand Larsen, who arrived in the summer from Celta Vigo in Spain and already looks at home in the Premier League with 3 goals in his last 4 games.
As we’ve covered above Wolves have been exceptionally awful dating back to last season, but one thing that they have been able to do in that time is score goals. And while all the FPL hype might be around Matheus Cunha and his flashy skills, Strand Larsen is the boring guy who plays the furthest forward and gets on the end of all those crosses and set pieces.
At just £5.6m, you can’t go wrong.
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