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Best of the Bees

On a low-scoring Premier League weekend, Monday night’s 2-2 draw against Wolverhampton Wanderers delivered some excitement to those watching.

Dango Ouattara (£6.0m) was the match’s joint-top FPL scorer. He created two big chances at Gtech Community Stadium. Mikkel Damsgaard (£5.6m) was on the end of the first, before the Burkinabé assisted Igor Thiago’s (£7.3m) tap-in by selflessly squaring the ball.

It was a great way for Thiago to celebrate his first call-up to the Brazil national squad, and things could have been even better had a couple of promising attempts hit the net.

Brentford were unlucky not to register all three points at the end of the match when substitute Reiss Nelson’s (£4.8m) effort went agonisingly wide.

The Spotlight

Joining Dango on eight points was Michael Kayode (£4.5m), as the right-back put Brentford one up with his first goal for the club - a glancing header from Keane Lewis-Potter’s (£4.8m) inswinging cross.

He was very close to adding a couple of defensive contribution (DefCon) points, too.

Although shots are rare from the 21-year-old, he is this season’s fourth-best defender for creating chances (28) and often causes chaos via long throws. One in the first half ended with Thiago hitting the woodwork.

In fact, no team beats Brentford for chances deriving from throw-ins (53), and Kayode is the league-leading individual when it comes to total amount (308), getting them into the box (130) and successfully reaching a penalty area team-mate (29).

Best of the Rest

Overall, this low-scoring weekend brought just 10 goals across the first eight encounters, including three matches without any.

A couple of extremely low-owned players topped the charts on 12 points, after Ross Barkley (£4.8m) and Konstantinos Mavropanos (£4.4m) both netted past Manchester sides.

Behind them were a selection of 11-pointers that - unsurprisingly - included defenders like William Saliba (£6.1m), Lewis Dunk (£4.5m), Adrien Truffert (£4.6m) and Jaydee Canvot (£4.5m).

Each had the exact combination of a clean sheet, a DefCon reward and the maximum of three bonus points.

In Demand

Looking ahead, Blank Gameweek 31 is here, where Arsenal and Wolves won’t take part. It’s likely the same for Manchester City and Crystal Palace, although there’s a slight chance that their meeting still happens in the long gap before Gameweek 32, depending on midweek European results.

Erling Haaland (£14.5m), Antoine Semenyo (£8.3m), Marc Guéhi (£5.2m) and Declan Rice (£7.4m) are therefore being sold by many, as FPL managers either activate a Free Hit chip or scramble their way towards a full starting 11.

As of now, Anthony Gordon (£7.3m) and Bruno Fernandes (£10.1m) are the week’s most-bought players. Both reached double-digits in Gameweek 30, the Portuguese playmaker achieving this for his sixth consecutive home match.

Captaincy

The probable, but not yet confirmed, absence of Man City in Blank Gameweek 31 removes the often-instinctive captaining of Erling Haaland, sometimes made out of fear.

Last weekend also gave a reminder that Liverpool pair Mohamed Salah (£14.0m) and Hugo Ekitike (£9.2m) occasionally begin on the Reds’ bench.

Taking all this into account, perhaps handing the armband to Fernandes will be the answer.

Otherwise, maybe this is the moment for managers to go truly maverick by choosing to get double points from someone like Harry Wilson (£6.0m) against Burnley, or Gordon at home to Sunderland.