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FPL Challenge: Players costing £9.0m and over get DOUBLE points

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FPL expert Alex Dakers on which premium stars he is backing to score BIG this weekend

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The theme of this week's Fantasy Challenge is "Big Spender". In this Gameweek, all players priced at £9.0m or more will score DOUBLE points. There is a £100m budget for your 11-a-side team. When deciding which players to invest in, it is important to look at how they rank in the key stats, as well as the fixtures.

Pick your Fantasy Challenge team NOW!

Here, FPL expert Alex Dakers identifies some of the best remaining Fantasy Challenge picks for Gameweek 15.

Monday

20:00 GMT Fantasy Challenge deadline
West Ham v Wolves

West Ham had 31 shots in their midweek defeat at Leicester, the most shots by a losing Premier League away team since 2010. Four of those shots, as well as five key passes, came from Jarrod Bowen (£7.4m).

The Englishman - who has his share of set-pieces with corners and indirect free-kicks - may have more luck against Wolves, who have conceded the second-most set-piece attempts in the league away from home this season, while the Hammers have scored three goals from set-pieces in the last six Gameweeks alone.

This Gameweek 15 curtain-closer could well turn out to be a goalfest, given West Ham and Wolves have each conceded eight goals in their last two matches.

Matheus Cunha (£7.1m) has now blanked in consecutive matches for the first time since Gameweeks 3-4. No other forward has outperformed their xG or Expected Goal Involvement figure by more than the versatile Brazilian, who is outscoring those numbers by three and four returns, respectively, across the season.

The pendulum of form has instead swung the way of Jorgen Strand Larsen (£5.6m) most recently, with the Norwegian forward scoring twice in the last two Gameweeks, firing off more shots than Cunha (five to four) and enjoying more big chances (four to zero) than his more expensive team-mate

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