A core of players who featured in GW15’s selection are involved for GW16’s XI, partly as a way to take in to consideration how FPL managers may only have one or two free transfers at their disposal this week, or may not yet be playing their wildcard.

Some of the players featured may also be appealing from GW17 onwards.

Erling Haaland gets the captaincy as the league’s top scorer, Mohamed Salah is vice as he seeks his 200th goal for Liverpool.

Trent comes off the back of 3 matches where he has gotten attacking returns and will look to add another clean sheet to the one in which he picked up against Sheffield United (2-0) in GW15 as he plays low scoring Crystal Palace.

Hwang Hee-chan scored in GW15 and joins Raúl Jiménez, Ollie Watkins and Pedro Porro who carry a potential threat in their home matches in GW16.

Ederson is selected in part due to good fixtures for Manchester City – in coming weeks with matches against mostly against bottom half sides – Manchester City face relatively low scoring Luton Town this week – and the Brazilian is a way in to Manchester City’s defence given how defensive options under Pep Guardiola can be rotated.

Jorrod Bowen is looking to continue his run of scoring in every Premier League away match in which he has played in 2023/24.

Cole Palmer continues to offer value with an xGI (Total) of 6.70 with 8 attacking returns this season and with Chelsea being set for kinder fixtures in their next 6 (not necessarily easy but less difficult statistically speaking) – the former Manchester City attacker carries a direct threat in a side that is currently more attack minded than defensively solid.

Bench options include Martin Dubravka, Antonee Robinson, Charlie Taylor and James McAtee – all seemingly cheap playing options (possibly enablers).