FPL Gameweek 23 round-up: Saturday’s goals, assists, bonus points + stats

After the conclusion of the day’s Gameweek 23 fixtures, our Scoreboard rounds up all the attacking returns, bonus points and key stats.

Included in this article are Saturday’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 and could be revised.

SATURDAY IN BRIEF

It was a red-letter day for the most transferred-in players of Gameweek 23.

The most-bought defender, midfielder and forward all delivered, with Justin Kluivert (£5.6m) and Cody Gakpo (£7.5m) banking double-digit hauls and Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.3m) – who assisted one of Gakpo’s two goals – narrowly missing out on joining them thanks to a late Ipswich Town consolation.

The same three players are unsurprisingly near the summit of most-bought players of Gameweek 24, too.

Gakpo’s 16-point return is his biggest-ever FPL score and will ensure a surge in ownership and price ahead of Liverpool’s ‘double’.

It wasn’t the biggest score of Saturday, however. For the second Gameweek running, a Bournemouth midfielder – this time the ‘out of position’ Dango Ouattara (£5.0m) – hit a hat-trick. A thumping 5-0 win for the Cherries, in which Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo (£5.6m) also got on the scoresheet, was made all the more remarkable given that it came against a normally watertight Nottingham Forest.

Well-owned forwards Alexander Isak (£9.5m) and Erling Haaland (£14.7m) both hit double-digit returns in comeback wins for Newcastle United and Manchester City. Haaland’s teammate Phil Foden (£9.3m) is now FPL’s ‘form’ player (points per match over the last 30 days), having netted for the fourth straight Gameweek.

There was belated clean-sheet joy for Arsenal defenders, too, with William Saliba (£6.2m) making a swift return from injury to claim maximum bonus and shut-out points in a 1-0 away win at Molineux. Both sides finished with 10 men.

That was the scoreline at the Amex, too, with the Everton renaissance continuing under David Moyes. With Dominic Calvert-Lewin (£5.4m) off injured, fellow budget forward Illiman Ndiaye (£5.4m) stepped up from the spot.

Anyone backing Moyes with the Assistant Manager chip in Gameweek 24 will hope for more of the same:

GAMEWEEK 23: SATURDAY’S GOALS, ASSISTS AND PROJECTED BONUS POINTS

GAMEWEEK 23: SATURDAY’S PLAYER AND TEAM STATS

GOAL ATTEMPTS – TEAMS

EXPECTED GOALS (XG) – TEAMS

GOAL ATTEMPTS (TOT) – PLAYERS

MORE STATS IN OUR MATCH CENTRE

Click on the result of each game below to see the full player and team data:

CHECK YOUR LIVE FPL RANK

If you haven’t seen it already, the beta version of our new Premium Members Area gives you a customised dashboard detailing your latest points and where you rank in the world.

You can find it via this link and you only have to type in your FPL ID number (so no password/email) to see the visuals.