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Is Riyad Mahrez a viable cut-price FPL route into the Man City attack?

Averaging 10.50 points per start and providing better value for money (based on points per million spent) than all other Manchester City assets bar Kevin De Bruyne (£10.0m), Riyad Mahrez (£8.5m) is hovering on the Fantasy Premier League radar at present.

With De Bruyne nursing a groin injury and a doubt for the visit of Wolves on Sunday, the demand for Mahrez’s services may well step up a notch as we approach the weekend.

Currently, the Algerian is the fifth-most-bought FPL midfielder of Gameweek 8.

Successive double-digit hauls against Watford and Everton have increased interest, although he is still very much in differential territory when it comes to FPL ownership (4.1% at the time of writing).

Is he worth considering as a Fantasy option, then, in the weeks ahead?

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Lessons Learned from Gameweek 7

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  1. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Three season tap in merchant G
    Firmino A

  2. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Liverpool rout.

    1. Demí
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Fans singing are you tottenham in disguise

  3. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Liverpool absolutely solid.

    1. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Jinxed

  4. Poseidon.
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Salah now a million times better than Mane as his last goal is now the more recent

    1. Cpt Crunch Scott talent
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Can’t argue with that

    2. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Wrong account, Irbox.

      1. Poseidon.
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        I don’t think I’ve ever been so offended in all my life

        1. Rainer
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          😆

  5. Je suis le chat
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    England is spoiled with great defenders I'd have guessed were from elsewhere; Lundstram, Tomori, AWB. Kind of ironic the striker King isn't English!

    1. The Ejiptian King
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Almost bit.

    2. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Tomori is Canadian by birth and undeclared at the international level

  6. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Im like 5 minutes late but Lille equalised, no cs for Chelski tonight!

  7. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Salah essential?

    1. Je suis le chat
      • 10 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Sir Bobby essential at this rate.

    2. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Nobody essential but risky going no Salah.

      1. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
        • 9 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        This

    3. Demí
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      "You're only essential until the next goalscorer who proceeds your goal." - Gandhi, 1930.

  8. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Anyone who has Matip go Gomez.

    Easy swap.

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Anyone who has Matip, be gentle.

      1. FOO FIGHTER
        • 4 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Gomez still a good replacement.

        1. Konstaapeli
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Wooooosh!

        2. Pumpkinhead *non-expert*
          • 9 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          It Matip out for long?

  9. DaisyDaisyDaisyDaisy
    • 10 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Mane delaying cross for Bobby rather than an open Mo

  10. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    3 subs at HT + Adrian out for the 2nd half, Jurgen. Rest the rest.

  11. Ógie
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Whang

  12. Epic Fail
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Time to sell TAA/Robertson. Can't even keep a cleanie.

    1. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Hell no.

  13. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    OMG Hwang

    1. Maddi Son
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Matip would've stopped Whang

      1. Demí
        • 13 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Think he's been better than van dijk this season

    2. TheDragon
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Massive Hwang

  14. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Hwang sent Virgil back to Southampton.

    1. tucaoneo
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Drank too much champagne at award ceremonies.

  15. Ostrich Baby
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    This the wildcard team we all need?

    Roberto McGovern

    Otamendi Tomori Chambers Lundstram Rico

    Mahrez Mane Mount Yarmolenko Saka

    Aubameyang Aguero Firmino

    1. TheDragon
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      If you owned a boat it would be called Punty McPunt face

    2. Poseidon.
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Wow. No

    3. Salah’s Sonnet
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Why would it be?

    4. Ostrich Baby
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Alright lads - 5 big hitters, Mount and Yarmolenko on form, City, Chelsea and Arsenal defence with a West Ham 'keeper. Not that mad, right?

      1. The Ejiptian King
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        None of those defences are actually any good though and the keeper is apparently awful.

        1. Ostrich Baby
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Arsenal I'll give you (although reckon with Tierney, Bellerin and Chambers in they'll be solider) - but Man City's is solid and Chelsea improving (or play Lundstram instead).

          1. The Ejiptian King
            • 5 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            I don't think city have looked solid at all without Laporte.

            1. Ostrich Baby
              • 12 Years
              4 years, 5 months ago

              Wolves, Palace, Villa, Southampton up next for them. Don't see them conceding much there?

              1. The Ejiptian King
                • 5 Years
                4 years, 5 months ago

                Maybe but even Watford had a few good chances against them while getting hammered.

      2. Salah’s Sonnet
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Who’s the 4th and 5th big hitter?

        1. Ostrich Baby
          • 12 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          Aguero, Auba, Mane, Firmino and Mahrez. Mahrez been playing far better than Sterling in recent weeks - and with Pep roulette, seems to have as good a chance of starting.

      3. villa_til_i_die
        • 12 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Arsenal defence...mmm

    5. Peter Ouch
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      You need 4 arsenal players

  16. Top Lad Dakes.
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Dammit pool

  17. FOO FIGHTER
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Bloody hell and just like that. Cleanie gone.

    1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      This is what I was explaining about Adrian earlier

      Allison stops that every day imo, thunderbasterd or not

      Even VVD has started to look shaky (Napoli!) with Adrian behind him

  18. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
    • 14 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    As soon as Allison gets back TAA & Robbo go from being Wingers to being Wingers who also get regular CS points

    1. Maddamotha
      • 7 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Nothing to do with the keeper when VVD is laying on his arse inside the box.

      1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
        • 14 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Adrian’s hesitance permeates the defence generally, he’s nowhere near as commanding or organised as Becker - no coincidence VVD hasn’t looked as invincible since Allison’s injury

        1. Maddamotha
          • 7 Years
          4 years, 5 months ago

          I am ecstatically delighted and disproportionately flabbergasted with enormous gratification and appreciation for the dispensation of such a tendering and mesmerizing information in which the prestidigitation of the concurrent and subsequent matter is thoroughly demonstrated through the innuances alluding to literal and metaphorical context. It is highly imperative to note that, such is the significance of the aforementioned distortion in any shape or form will result in catastrophic ramifications to which will be the outcome of epic proportions.

          1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
            • 14 Years
            4 years, 5 months ago

            Polly want a cracker?

            1. Rawsoncmd
              • 4 Years
              4 years, 5 months ago

              I think I should get of her first. Maybe even some water, to out out the blowtorch.

              1. Rawsoncmd
                • 4 Years
                4 years, 5 months ago

                Put*

              2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
                • 14 Years
                4 years, 5 months ago

                She did say her back hurts

                1. Rawsoncmd
                  • 4 Years
                  4 years, 5 months ago

                  I wonder if it would help to clip her dirty wings?

                  1. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
                    • 14 Years
                    4 years, 5 months ago

                    They just don’t write em like that anymore 😉

                    1. Rawsoncmd
                      • 4 Years
                      4 years, 5 months ago

                      😀 grunge rock dinosaurs unite.

    2. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      This

  19. Fred54
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    That's NumberHwang.

    1. TAT
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Beat me to it.

    2. Maximus Bonimus Pointimus
      • 14 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      AubamaHwang schwinging his big whang all over the shop

  20. andres
    • 12 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    So with KDB potentially out I will need to do a transfer.. what would you recommend?

    Pope
    TAA Pieters Lund
    KDB Sterling Mount Cantwell
    Kun Tammy Pukki

    Ceballos!!!, Kelly, Soy 1FT, 2.9M

    1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
      • 13 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Hwang on for this week

  21. FPL Forward Thinker
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Something very Hwang with Liverpool defensively.

  22. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Goal-hwanger

    1. Ógie
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      😆

  23. Maddamotha
    • 7 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Abort double Pool defence. Absolutely rubbish at the back.

  24. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    seriously, hwang?

  25. Yoshioka
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    VVD finally shown up for the complete fraud that he is.

    1. Rinseboy
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Hwang out to dry there

    2. CRO KLOPP
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Bring back Lovren

    3. villa_til_i_die
      • 12 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

    4. Peter Ouch
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Chess is your sport

      1. Poseidon.
        • 5 Years
        4 years, 5 months ago

        Sure it’s not fishing?

    5. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Sour grapes.

  26. TheDragon
    • 5 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Gutted we didn’t get

    Matip vs Hwang

    Would’ve been epic

    1. Fred54
      • 9 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Good job Mike Gash was deemed unfit for Salzburg.

  27. The Train Driver
    • 8 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    All my players on fire, blanks imcoming weekend...

  28. have you seen cyan
    • 4 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    Alonso with a pretty garbage FK in the danger zone

  29. Maddi Son
    • 6 Years
    4 years, 5 months ago

    If Alisson was in goal, Salzburg still would've scored that. Not sure why the keeper always gets the blame when Liverpool concede.

    1. TAT
      • 6 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Good point.

    2. MTPockets
        4 years, 5 months ago

        indeed

    3. FOO FIGHTER
      • 4 Years
      4 years, 5 months ago

      Oh look, CHE cleanie gone.

      At least Pool defence is the most likely to provide attacking returns 🙂