Which FPL chip should you use in Double Gameweek 24?

The Scout analyses the performances of Mohamed Salah (£13.7m) and Arne Slot (£1.5m) in 2024/25 Fantasy Premier League to help Fantasy managers decide which whether to use the Triple Captain chip or the Assistant Manager chip in Double Gameweek 24.

Fantasy Managers who use the FPL app should check they have the latest version of the app, or download the latest version, to ensure they can use the chip. 

It stands to reason that chips have far greater potential to make an impact in Fantasy when a club has two matches in a Gameweek, forming a Double Gameweek. 

With Premier League leaders Liverpool having a Double Gameweek 24 (DGW24), visiting AFC Bournemouth and Everton, the Triple Captain chip will TREBLE Salah's points from those two matches.

The new Assistant Manager chip, meanwhile, gives you the opportunity to pick a real-life Premier League manager and earn points from their club's results across a three-Gameweek period.

By using it on Slot in DGW24, you would earn points from FOUR matches, also collecting points from Liverpool's encounters with Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester City in Gameweeks 25-26.

While there is also a case for Everton manager David Moyes (£0.5m) for his own DGW24, at home to Leicester City and Liverpool, the Scot is only three matches into his return to the helm and it seems a somewhat unnecessary risk to use the chip on him right now. 

In his eighth season at Liverpool, Salah is enjoying his best start ever to a campaign in Fantasy. His 18 goals and 13 assists have helped him to 214 points, giving him a 49-point advantage over his nearest challenger, Cole Palmer (£11.3m).

An easy way to assess Salah's Triple Captain prospects is to break down each of his Gameweek scores this season.

By combining his points from each two-match rolling period, you then get an idea of what his Triple Captain score would have been if any of them had been a Double Gameweek.

For example, Salah earned 14 points in Gameweek 1, producing a goal and an assist against Ipswich Town. In Gameweek 2, he scored against Brentford to collect a further 10 points, which means he earned 24 points over those two matches.

If you then apply the Triple Captain to that 24-point haul, it means Salah would have returned 72 points if those two matches had formed a Double Gameweek. 

Further analysis shows that, ahead of Gameweek 23, Salah had produced a Triple Captain score of 60+ points in no less than 12 of his two-match rolling hauls, with 93 and 90 points, in particular, showcasing the Egyptian's enormous ceiling for points.

Slot, meanwhile, is the top-scoring manager in Fantasy. He had 173 points ahead of Gameweek 23 - placing him second only to Salah among all assets in the game.

The best way to ascertain his prospects for the Assistant Manager chip in a Double Gameweek is therefore to look at his FOUR-match rolling scores, as you are essentially bringing him in for four matches over Gameweeks 24-26, as opposed to three. 

Slot earned scores of 10, 10, 11 and 0 points across Liverpool's first four contests of 2024/25, which gives him a four-match rolling score of 31 points. 

Certainly, there's no denying the Dutchman's consistency here. Of the 18, four-match runs this can be applied to, he has produced between 26 and 39 points in ALL of them. 

Essentially, you can expect between nine to 13 points per Gameweek over a three-Gameweek period from the Liverpool boss if you play the Assistant Manager chip to profit from an extra match, as you would do using it on Slot between Gameweeks 24-26.

So, which is the best chip to use for DGW24?

Salah's ability to deliver huge hauls makes playing the Triple Captain chip an easy decision if you have yet to use it.

Granted, he has blanked in two of the last three Gameweeks - both away from home - but it's on the road where he's been at his very best this season. Indeed, all four of Salah's best hauls were recorded in away matches.

Slot's appeal as an alternative with the Assistant Manager chip is further undermined by his own low points ceiling.

The Dutchman's best score over a four-match run is a mere 39 points - by contrast, Salah has produced 39 Triple Captain (TC) points or less in just FOUR of his 20, two-match rolling scores. 

Salah v Slot comparison before GW23

*Blank Gameweek 15, when Everton v Liverpool was postponed due to bad weather