Salah takes all the highlights yesterday and rightly so, he looked electric at times and took all of his goals excellently (albeit 2 from the spot). It’s not often a player has 2 penalties in a game and could be a case of Leeds’ new signings not yet understanding Bielsa’s style..

fully, which is understandable, and a bit of misfortune. Of course the intrigue with Salah comes also with his penalties so it’s not coincidence, however, of course this is unsustainable so let’s look into this.

Salah’s xG vs Leeds was a tasty 1.94, however, taking away his penalties and his NPxG was 0.42 - not so good. We could also remove the shot that was going wide for the penalty, but that that is obviously not fair on Salah’s numbers and distinguishes the whole essence of xG.

In comparison to Aubameyang, with an intriguing away fixture to Fulham finished the game with a measly 0.28 - wow! Take away Salah’s penalties, and his shot for the pen, but they’d still have roughly the same xG. And guess what Salah also beats Auba on xA by 0.17 (0.23 to 0.06).

The silver lining for Aubameyang owners is the next fixture, West Ham (H). A team that allowed Callum Wilson an xGI of 1.09 and Jeff Hendrick to get a goal and assist on his debut. The Diangana sale has really flipped the club on it’s head. Even Antonio couldn’t do anything in...

yesterday’s game, and the man has been involved with everything post lockdown (besides clearly home to Newcastle)

Salah, however, faces a tricky trip to Chelsea (a) and may come up against Chilwell on his debut. If this is too earlier, any of Azpili, Alonso or Emerson will play.

It may seem the obvious decision for an Auba and no Salah team, but if a strong haul against Leeds sways you then maybe it wasn’t best to go without him in the first place.

The real ones STICK and CAPTAIN Auba, or with 3m ITB, Salah in for son. (Not really, go for Fernandes)

(If Salah hauls and Auba doesn’t, I am no way liable)

Stats from Understat so don’t blame me

To compliment this thread, I have created a poll for whether I should triple captain Aubameyang. 200 is far too many on recollection so that will be 50 instead. https://twitter.com/fpl_auba14/status/1305244731140722695