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 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.

So far, more than 781,000 FPL managers have that chip active for Double Gameweek 24. 

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.

Should Liverpool overcome a 1-0 deficit in their EFL Cup semi-final second leg against Tottenham Hotspur, they will ALSO have a Double Gameweek 25, facing Wolves at home on Sunday 16 February before visiting Aston Villa three days later.

There's also a case for considering Everton manager David Moyes (£0.5m) for his own DGW24, with the Toffees at home to Leicester City prior to hosting Liverpool. The Scot has outscored Slot by 28 points to 20 over the last two Gameweeks. 

More than 664,000 Fantasy managers have activated the Assistant Manager chip already.

How might Salah score as Triple Captain?

In his eighth season at Liverpool, Salah is enjoying his best start ever to a campaign in Fantasy. His 19 goals and 13 assists have helped him to 222 points, giving him a 55-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 across those two matches if they had formed a Double Gameweek. 

Further analysis shows that, ahead of DGW24, Salah had produced a Triple Captain score of 60+ points in no fewer than 12 of his two-match rolling hauls this season, with tallies of 93 and 90 points in particular showcasing the Egyptian's enormous ceiling for points.

Remember, if you activated your Triple Captain chip earlier this week and now want to delay using it until a possible DGW25 for Liverpool, you can cancel it.

How might Slot score as Assistant Manager?

Slot, meanwhile, is the top-scoring manager in Fantasy. He has 183 points ahead of DGW24, 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 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. 

For example, 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 19 four-match runs that this method can be applied to, he has totalled 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, Salah has blanked in each of his last two away matches, but it's on the road where he's been at his very best this season. Indeed, all four of Salah's top hauls have been recorded in away fixtures.

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 would have got 39 Triple-Captain points or fewer in just FIVE of his 20 two-match rolling scores. 

Moyes, meanwhile, has shown he could outperform Slot - and the Everton boss may well be the better pick of the pair for DGW24 if you don't have the Triple Captain chip remaining. 

Salah v Slot comparison

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

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