🤩 EOTK FPL Gameweek 1 Review 🤩: Luis Diaz starting as he means to go on? Forget Haaland... Isak the man to watch?
Who's topping the EOTK League? Which teams and LFC stars are winning ALL the points! Find out all this and more below!
Welcome to Empire’s inaugural Fantasy Premier League review! It looks like our writers have some catching up to do already!
So, let’s quickly explain how this all works. Every single gameweek we’ll be reviewing the live leaderboard (below) and sharing the top ten players in the EOTK League and matching it up against our writers’ efforts!
⬇️Join our league with the code above or by clicking our auto-join link below ⬇️
For those trying out FPL for the first time, GOAL advise players to keep in mind the following ranges when tracking their scores:
“FPL gurus and seasoned managers generally agree that averaging 50-59 points every gameweek is the bare minimum target. A gameweek score between 60-75 points is considered good, and between 76-99 points are excellent. 100 points or more is an outstanding achievement that falls into winner's bracket.
“Using the gameweek's average score as a benchmark is potentially a more effective method since it changes automatically each week and makes it easier to track your progress. By attaining the gameweek's average points throughout the season, you will at least be in the top half by the end of the season.”
You’ll see weekly updates on the Liverpool players bringing in the most points on average, plus the BIG hitters from the other fixtures across the Premier League (watch out for Alexander Isak, Erling Haaland and Raphael Varane this week!).
💭 Two goals for Alexander Isak in Newcastle’s 5-1 demolition job of Aston Villa in their opening Premier League fixture. Just how many goals will the Swede score this season? Go on… have a guess!
We’ll also supply weekly form rankings, so you can get an idea of the players that are beginning to hit form at the right moment, hopefully, before their transfer fees soar through the roof!
* Top 20 footballers (plus where Liverpool’s active players fall in each) within each ranking *
🟣 = Above 15-point average per game
🟢 = 10-15 points average per game
🟡 = 5-9 points average per game
🔴 = below 5-point average per game
⚔️ You vs Empire’s writers ⚔️
🥇 110 points - Six and the City (Ronan McDermott)
🥈 96 points - Akopite4ever YNWA (Abhishek YNWA LFC)
🥉 91 points - Little Monsters (Mandy Luke) [joint with Smoked, MacAttack, and Teun van de Pompe]
✍️ The Writers ✍️
179th - Farrell Keeling
378th - Liam Togher
378th - Peter Kenny Jones
449th - Max Rudd
🔴 How did Liverpool’s players do? 🔴
8 points - Luis Diaz
5 points - Mohamed Salah
3 points - Alisson Becker
2 points - Cody Gakpo, Ibrahima Konate, Andy Robertson, Dominik Szoboszlai, Virgil van Dijk
1 point - Trent Alexander-Arnold, Darwin Nunez, Diogo Jota, Harvey Elliott, Curtis Jones, Alexis Mac Allister, Ben Doak
👏 Best of the rest? 👏
Burnley 0 - 3 Manchester City
13 points - Erling Haaland, Rodri
2 points - Josh Cullen, Lyle Foster, Sander Berge, Zeki Amdouni, James Trafford, Luca Koleosho
Arsenal 2 - 1 Nottingham Forest
10 points - Bukayo Saka
7 points - Taiwo Awoniyi
Bournemouth 1 - 1 West Ham
9 points - Jarrod Bowen
7 points - Dominik Solanke
Brighton 4 - 1 Luton Town
9 points - Solly March
8 points - Carlton Morris
Everton 0 - 1 Fulham
12 points - Bernd Leno
2 points - Abdoulaye Doucoure, James Garner, Idrissa Gueye, Alex Iwobi, Michael Keane, Neal Maupay, Amadou Onana, Nathan Patterson, Jordan Pickford, James Tarkowski, Ashley Young
Sheffield United 0 - 1 Crystal Palace
9 points - Joachim Andersen
4 points - Wes Foderingham
Newcastle 5 - 1 Aston Villa
13 points - Alexander Isak
7 points - Moussa Diaby
Brentford 2 - 2 Tottenham
9 points - Yoane Wissa
9 points - James Maddison
Chelsea
11 points - Axel Disasi
Manchester United 1 - 0 Wolves
14 points - Raphael Varane
3 points - Pablo Sarabia
🌟 TOTW 🌟
⬆️ Gameweek 1 Form Rankings ⬇️
🟣 N/A (yet...)
🟢 Varane, Rodrigo, Haaland, Isak, Leno, Wan-Bissaka, Disasi, Barnes, Saka
🟡 [Luis Diaz, Mo Salah] Wissa, March, Andersen, Onana, Maddison, Bowen, Nketiah, Mitchell, Diop, Diaz, Morris, E. Royal, Diaby, Solanke, Mbeumo, Estupinan, J. Pedro, Chilwell, Edouard, Ream
🔴 [Alisson Becker, Cody Gakpo, Ibrahima Konate, Andy Robertson, Virgil van Dijk, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Dominik Szoboszlai, Darwin Nunez, Diogo Jota, Harvey Elliott, Curtis Jones, Alexis Mac Allister, Ben Doak] Semenyo, Henry, Jensen, Andreas, Brown, Gordon, J. Murphy, Elanga, Foderingham, Dahoud, Milner, C. Doucoure, Eze, Lerma, Schlupp, Lukic, Reed, Wilson, Alisson, Kaminski
👀 Keep an eye on… 👀
xG leaders
🥇 1.35 - Mbuemo/Maupay
🥈 1.30 - J. Pedro
🥉 1.12 - Edouard
xA leaders
🥇 0.94 - Maddison
🥈 0.86 - Estupinan
🥉 0.78 - Wan-Bissaka
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