FPL Gameweek 9: Sunday’s goals, assists, bonus points + stats

At the end of Sunday’s Gameweek 9 fixtures, our Scoreboard rounds up all the action.

Included in this article are the day’s leading teams and players for shots, chances created and expected goals (xG). This is official Opta data from our Premium Members Area, which is available for our subscribers after full-time in every Premier League game.

Meanwhile, the attacking returns and projected bonus points are from LiveFPL.

A reminder that these are the ‘current’ bonus projections. The Bonus Points System is being revised this season, so there could be further changes over the next 24 hours.

SUNDAY IN BRIEF

How does Palmer fare in tougher FPL fixtures?

Three home wins were followed by a 2-2 in the headline clash between Arsenal and Liverpool. Although Son Heung-min (£9.9m) and Anthony Gordon (£7.2m) were absent, Bukayo Saka (£10.0m) made the Gunners’ line-up and netted early to reward those who resisted a sale. Also on the scoresheet was Mohamed Salah (£12.6m).

However, popular centre-back Gabriel (£6.3m) was forced off with an injury – something to keep an eye on over the coming week.

Meanwhile, Cole Palmer (£10.9m) and Nicolas Jackson (£7.9m) inspired a Chelsea win over Newcastle United, a controversial late Jarrod Bowen (£7.4m) penalty helped West Ham United overcome Manchester United and Crystal Palace have finally chalked up their first win of 2024/25.

The latter brought another blank for both Dominic Solanke (£7.7m) and Brennan Johnson (£6.7m).

GAMEWEEK 9: SUNDAY’S GOALS, ASSISTS AND PROJECTED BONUS POINTS

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GAMEWEEK 9: SUNDAY’S PLAYER AND TEAM STATS

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EXPECTED GOALS (XG) – TEAMS

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2OLEgend
5 months, 9 days ago
Best defender up to 4.7m? Have RAN and Robinson.

A) Digne
B) Aina/Milenkovic/Murillo
C) Keane
D) VdV
E) Any suggestions?

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1. g40steve
  5 months, 9 days ago
  F Young, smashing the points unnoticed
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2. No Kane No Gain
  5 months, 9 days ago
  B but Alex Moreno?! The one defender from Forrest you missed out lol
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GW9 Rough with the Smooth
RedLightning
5 months, 9 days ago
Rough with the Smooth, GW9.

How did your Gameweek go?

You can share your tales of joy and woe here.
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1. Hazz
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Rough:
  - Raul & DCL...
  - Flekken!
  
  Smooth:
  - Held Saka (+ Palmer, Mbuemo)
  - Lewis 1st defender GW since GW5 lol
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2. chocolove
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Rough. From no Haaland to one-week Haaland team.
  Glad finally back to no Haaland again.
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3. fab
  5 months, 9 days ago
  87 points on WC. Very smooth
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4. Warby84
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Awful want to do a -16 haha
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5. Deulofail
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Rough:
  Benched Salah
  TC Haaland was an anticlimax
  
  Smooth:
  70pts, rising from 60k to 45k
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  1. Casual Player
    5 months, 9 days ago
    Love to see the lineup where you're benching Salah
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    1. Deulofail
      5 months, 7 days ago
      That functionality exists if you want to use it!
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6. Casual Player
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Smooth: 3 FTs for +8 pts gain, slight green. One of those was Mbeumo out (admittedly I leave him there and it's 2FTs for +13, but worth getting Palmer IMO). Nobody is essential people. Be brave sometimes.
  
  Rough: I am still roughly 243,000 off my goal of best ever season rank (give or take a few hundred).
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7. Jimmy B
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Rough: pretty much everyone blanked bar Palmer, Mbeumo and Haaland who are effectively owned by everyone.
  
  Smooth: Haaland triple cap was a huge fail which felt like a win despite having the armband on him.
  
  That last bit sums this game up at times. Imagine owning an asset that expensive and hoping a bit that he fails.
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8. mookie
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Smooth - 68 points
  Rough - Hate my Haaland team. Started Fabianski over Henderson(on purpose)
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9. Rasping Drive
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Rough: None worth mentioning
  Smooth: Gvardiol (c), Salah, Saka, Palmer and Mbeumo all came through. 70 pts
  
  Up 2 million places since selling Haaland in GW7. Happy days.
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  1. RedLightning
    5 months, 9 days ago
    I'm down nearly two million places since buying him in GW6. Ouch!
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    1. Rasping Drive
      5 months, 9 days ago
      Ouch indeed. On a positive note it shows how quickly you can climb the ranks with a bit of luck
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      1. RedLightning
        5 months, 9 days ago
        The trouble is that I wasted my wildcard in Gameweek 3 and failed to bring Haaland in then.
        I then used my three free transfers to belatedly bring him in in Gameweek 6, but had to sell Salah and Palmer to do so, after which their fortunes all immediately went into reverse.
        I took a hit last week to replace a number of players who had been benched or injured and to bring in Mbeumo and Palmer, but two of those I sold were Saka and Luis Diaz.
        I now need quite a few more transfers to reinstate Salah in place of Haaland and to rebalance my team, and I don't have any FTs saves up.
        So it's not easy!
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10. SteJ
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Rough - missed the deadline so made no team changes when I was planning to wildcard
  
  Smooth - existing team did well and ended up on 91 points
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11. Mr. O'Connell
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Smooth
  
  Salah (c), Saka, Palmer and a rogue Sels assist my only returns of the week. Decent recovery after going into Sunday on 12 points (I was sure the Sels assist was gonna disappear as well).
  
  Rough
  
  Full house of defence and forward blanks.
  
  Stoppage time pretty costly in general. Lost Konsa and Robinson CSs while the whole game benefited from an extra 8 Mbeumo points.
  
  People have finally realised Haaland isn't worth it - so there goes my edge.
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Hazz
5 months, 9 days ago
2 FT. 2.5m ITB.

Flekken
Porro Lewis Mykolenko
Palmer Saka Mbuemo Rogers
Haaland Raul DCL
Fabianski // Semenyo Gabriel* Greaves*

Quite tempted by Haaland out for Salah, but potentially have the Gabriel issue to contend with too.

Flekken is poo too but not sure where I go other than Pickford, or Sels (hard fixtures soon).

I do think a Spurs attacker is worth it vs. IPS but buying any atm, or after next week feels tricky.

A) Gabriel/Semenyo > RAN/????
B) Gabriel/DCL > RAN/Cunha
C) Gabriel/DCL > RAN/Wissa
D) Semenyo/Haaland > Salah/Cunha
E) Semenyo/Haaland > Salah/Wissa
F) Something else?
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1. g40steve
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Got Mbeumo?
  
  B or D
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  1. Hazz
    5 months, 9 days ago
    Mbuemo certainly is in the team I posted in the comment lol.
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mixology
5 months, 9 days ago
Who would you leave out? (4 FT’s)

Looking to do a slight overhaul

A) wood
B) Gvardiol
C) Cunha
D) Jimenez
E) RAN

Cheers
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1. ignado
  5 months, 9 days ago
  A
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2. Warby84
  5 months, 9 days ago
  D
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Ajax Hamsterdam
5 months, 9 days ago
Time to bring Salah ot keep haaland until they play spurs? Cheers
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1. RICICLE
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Salah in Haaland out is my immediate plan, gonna get nowhere by capping Haaland every week and at his price, just detrimental and boring.
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  1. Ajax Hamsterdam
    5 months, 9 days ago
    When are you doing it?
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    1. RICICLE
      5 months, 9 days ago
      Tonight I think while I have the bottle to do it. At 2.5m I’ve nothing to lose
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  2. Warby84
    5 months, 9 days ago
    I want too, but have DCL/Solanke/Gab, so may have to wait, unless I take a -12
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    1. RICICLE
      5 months, 9 days ago
      I also have DCL Solanke and Gab and I’m just taking maybe a -8, somethings gotta give and I ain’t hanging around for weeks to do it. In isolation the changes could be instant.
      ESR + Haaland + Solanke > Salah + Cunha + Wissa -8
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      1. Warby84
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Ok, I’m tempted by Haaland/DCL/Johnson to Wissa/Cunha/Salah.. I also own ESR
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        RICICLE
        5 months, 9 days ago
        That looks tasty!
        Yes it looks/feels wrong removing Haaland as part of hits, but it takes too long to sort out without taking some sort of good logical risk here and there.
        I miss how I used to play which was attacking, and I’m going back to doing that now at this rank.
        
        DCL “could” be worth being given the SOU game, only on that premise of SOU I may keep, even if he scored 8 I’m still removing asap after SOU.
        
        I’ making the above moves before price changes so it’s just done and no going back, I’m sick of the fear Haaland brings and being a sheep, Haaland’less teams are smashing it!
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        Warby84
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Wood or Wissa? As I’m set on Cunha…
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        RICICLE
        5 months, 9 days ago
        I personally favour Wissa by a huge margin, Brentford are just so attacking, I feel Wood has been extremely fortunate and we’ve missed the boat with him there anyway, plus his fixtures stiffen now.
        Wissa is golden for fixtures now will be the player people move from Wood to.
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        Warby84
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Jackson on your mind or no??
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        RICICLE
        5 months, 9 days ago
        He certainly is! But already have Palmer and the next two in Utd and Arsenal I’m not too sure the double up is the way to go considering Wissa has FUL + BOU and Cunha with CPL + SOU, but GW 12 Jackson is likely gonna come in.
        The beauty of being able to easily switch to these players without Haaland is gonna be liberating.
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        Warby84
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Agree
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        FantasyClub
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Very nice
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      2. FantasyClub
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Like it bro! I’m literally thinking of doing the same moves but I have 2FT so imma make 4 moves for -8
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        RICICLE
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Nice! I’m in favour of it as I’m biased and making some serious moves also, but 4 moves for -8 is all the more alluring to me, go for it.
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        Warby84
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Done -8 tonight!!!
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        RICICLE
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Awesome!! I’m following suit after MOTD haha!
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        RICICLE
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Did that include removing Haaland?
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        Warby84
        5 months, 9 days ago
        Yes
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Orion
5 months, 9 days ago
Robbo, McNeil, Havertz to Mykolenko, Foden, Cunha ? Good transfers, we think?
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1. mixology
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Disappointed with Foden myself. Not sure I’d overhaul my squad for him
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FDMS All Starz
5 months, 9 days ago
Current team:
Would you change anything or just Roll FT? Not sure I wanna keep DCL/TAA

Fabianski
TAA VVD Saliba
Palmer Johnson Mbuemo ESR
Haaland DCL Wissa

Henderson Rogers Robinson Barco
1.8itb, 2FTs
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1. RICICLE
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Dependent on rank, Haaland + ESR > Cunha + Salah
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2. Warby84
  5 months, 9 days ago
  I did DCL to Cunha
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Warby84
5 months, 9 days ago
Play Robinson or do Gab —-> AitN -4?
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1. FantasyClub
  5 months, 9 days ago
  The sensible move is to play Robinson but RAN long term is a good pick.
  However he’s on 4 YC’s.
  I’m in the same position as you contemplating
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  1. Warby84
    5 months, 9 days ago
    I’m thinking Brentford could be a decent hm game for Robbo
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2. mixology
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Fulham are great defensively. Brentford will obviously want a goal fest as they can’t defend. Monday night matchup.
  
  I think Gabriel will be fine personally
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FantasyClub
5 months, 9 days ago
Who goes for Salah?
A) McNeil
B) Semenyo

Note: Highly likely I lose value on Semenyo if I hold him this week as I bought him at 5.6 and he is dropping hard…
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1. Warby84
  5 months, 9 days ago
  A Everton are a miss and a mess…
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2. mixology
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Tough one. I would go with the eye test on that one. Both have good short term fixtures. Haven’t seen either team play much, personally
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  1. FantasyClub
    5 months, 9 days ago
    Yeah it’s tough. You think the value loss on Semenyo swings it?
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JÆKS
5 months, 9 days ago
Everyone is selling Gabriel already, do we even know if he will miss next gw?
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1. mixology
  5 months, 9 days ago
  No, but straw that broke camels back I suppose. I don’t think it’s a serious injury, imo
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2. FantasyClub
  5 months, 9 days ago
  I don’t know how bad but like Jaeks said with the straw…ARS defence has been disappointing and if you got to a player like RAN @4.5 great value
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  1. JÆKS
    5 months, 9 days ago
    They havr been very unlucky imo. Some red cards, conceding goals in games with very low xga... Id keep if fit
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3. Pornchef
  5 months, 9 days ago
  It looks the right time on paper Gabrielle>alt nouri if you don't have him and want some extra funds for future transfers like me
  
  Wolves long run of green fixtures
  Potential injury to Gabrielle+ arsenal not keeping clean sheets
  
  Price swings incoming gab will drop and nouri close to another rise
  
  I'm tempted myself to do the move myself before the price changes if I'm honest
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DMP
5 months, 9 days ago
Any updates on Son?
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DMP
5 months, 9 days ago
Konate or RAN?
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1. momomaimai
  5 months, 9 days ago
  RAN
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JÆKS
5 months, 9 days ago
A Salah goal is basically 8 points, the man always takes home full bonus. Getting hard to ignore...

But so is Saka and Palmer, who are so consistent. And the fun and explosiveness of Son for the next few.

Hard to own them all
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1. Hazz
  5 months, 9 days ago
  To be fair a Haaland goal is typically a 9-pointer too. Only the last match he didn't get bonus after scoring.
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ignado
5 months, 9 days ago
Current team:
Raya
Gvardiol Robinson Lewis
Salah Palmer Johnson Rogers Mbeumo
Haaland DCL

A. Faes -> RAN and bench Robinson Or
B. Robinson & DCL -> RAN & Cunha (-4) 0.0 ITB Or
C. Keep FT

Thanks.
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Vasshin
5 months, 9 days ago
I used WC last week and brought in 3 chelsea players (Palmer, Mandueke, and Jackson) for the Man United game being a United Fan.

Since West Ham were Poor this season I thought this GW United will win it or keep a draw again them and Will get battered by chelsea. And ETH gets sacked

But now they lost against hammers so ETH isn’t sacked till then will try to play defensive against Chelsea and might not get Battered.

Should I do
1. Foden to Saka and Mandueke to 5.7 and below Mid
2. Keep Mandueke and see if ETH gets sacked by him
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SAUCY SALAH
5 months, 9 days ago
Love Salah’s bow and arrow celebration
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Pratik
5 months, 9 days ago
Really confused, would like some help.

Henderson, 4M
Robinson, TAA, Gvardiol, Alt Nouri, 4M
Smith Rowe, Rogers, Mbuemo, Palmer, 4.5M
Havertz, Watkins, Haaland

1 FT, 0.2 in the bank (wildcard as well)

A) Palmer + Havertz -> Cunha/Wood + Salah
B) Haaland + 4.5M -> Cunha/Wood + Salah

I hate both options though.

If I don't WC this week, its going to be GW12. So I'm just optimizing for the next two fixtures.
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1. DagheMunegu
  5 months, 9 days ago
  Watkins to Wissa
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DagheMunegu
5 months, 9 days ago
Guys 1ft 1.6 it would you roll this ?

Flekken
TAA Gabriel Lewis
Salah Rogers Mbeumo Johnson
Haaland Wissa Wood

Mykolenko Semenyo Greaves
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Pratik
5 months, 9 days ago
new post and stuff....
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squ1rrel
5 months, 9 days ago
Anything worth a hit here?

Raya
Gvardiol - Pau - VdV
Saka - Palmer - Mbeumo - Mcneil
Haaland - Wissa - Raul

Fab - Rogers - Robinson - Greaves

2.3 ITB, 0 FT

Defense is in shambles, really want RAN/Lewis, and maybe swap out Raya, but not for a hit, right...?
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MikeS
5 months, 9 days ago
Havertz, Johnson, Gabriel, Konsa to

Salah, wissa, ran, and 3.9 -8?
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