What do you call a player who has scored a goal in the eighth consecutive match of a Premier League season? Alexander Isak.
Fifteen goals and five assists within gameweek 21. Wait, this has been done while missing out on two games. Phenomenal? Incredible? Adjectives fail to describe his genius.
Despite battling with a hamstring niggle, Isak started the game against Wolves and ran riot through the pack. Two goals and an assist — culminating in a massive 16-pt haul.
Salah, who blanked against Forest, can’t feel safe anymore with his golden boot aspirations. As they say, “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.”
With Isak, it’s very risky when it comes to FPL. You doubt him, he leaves you dead. People who subbed him out or didn’t bring him in due to the injury scare, were punished badly.
The same applies to the ones who didn’t trust him with the armband. Isak was one of the top choices for captain in GW21 along with Salah. However, the Egypt international was the most-captained player in this gameweek.
But as it happens in FPL, the template doesn’t always work. You can go by the rulebook. Feel free to stick to it. However, it will come with a ceiling and would lack an edge, which you are desperately in need of to topple your mini-league opponents.
This is what exactly happened. Salah, who is now probably a part of every single template, blanked. Leaving his owners in dust.
It hurts even more when we look at Isak’s numbers from gameweek 21, as he emerged as the highest-scoring player in the midweek fixtures. I had Isak in my team. I was tempted to make him captain once but the news around his injury made me a bit scared. Now, there’s regret, the ultimate price one pays for playing FPL!
Isak will be pitted against Bournemouth, bottom-placed Southampton, and Fulham in the next three. Therefore, embrace yourself to see more stat padding from the Swedish talisman.
