At the ripe age of 33 and with his current Liverpool contract set to expire in less than four months, Mohamed Salah(£13.7m) is turning the clock back. His stock in FPL shot up as expected, with a double date waiting in the corner. But both of them were away fixtures and appeared tricky in the first place.
Everton have revived its fortunes since the emotional reunion with David Moyes and are likely to avoid the drop. On the other hand, Iraola’s Bournemouth approached the match while being fresh from the 5-0 thumping of Nottingham Forest.
However, the Egyptian wizard made them look like cakewalks. Scored a brace against Bournemouth and a goal along with an assist in the final Merseyside Derby at Goodison Park. In total, 29pts from double gameweek 24 — 16 from the first and 13 from the other. Those who handed over him the triple captain armband, must be taking some time off on a cruise in Ibiza.
There are still 14 matches to go so far as Liverpool’s 2024/25 PL campaign is concerned and with another match-deciding spectacle against Everton, Salah completed 250pts in the current fantasy league season. This is the fourth time in the history of the Fantasy Premier League that the Egypt international has managed to achieve this feat. 2017/18, 2018/19, and 2021/22 were the other instances.
Meanwhile, Salah also edged past Andy Cole’s 1993/94 tally of 21 to register the new record of most number of away goal involvements in a single PL season with 23 so far. I expect him to take this number to well past 35, by the time the ongoing season calls it a day.
There’s clearly no stopping Salah. He has not been part of the template this year; rather, the template was built around him. With an astonishing xGI(Expected Goal Involvement) of 1.01 per 90’, I am predicting him to be the target of countless triple captain chips once again in double gameweek 25.
By the way, Villa’s Morgan Rogers is an alternative pick to Salah for the triple captain choice in DGW25.
