For Fantasy Premier League managers who are planning to use the new Assistant Manager chip immediately in Double Gameweek 24, The Scout delves into the data to help with the choice between Liverpool's Arne Slot (£1.5m) and Everton's David Moyes (£0.5m).
The new Assistant Manager chip allows you to pick a real-life Premier League manager and earn points from their club’s results over a three-Gameweek spell.
With Liverpool and Everton both playing TWICE in Double Gameweek 24 (DGW24), if you use the Assistant Manager chip now on Slot or Moyes, you would profit from FOUR matches over the next three Gameweeks.
Indeed, more than 470,000 Fantasy managers have already activated the chip for DGW24.
Liverpool have three away fixtures over the next three Gameweeks. They visit AFC Bournemouth and Everton in DGW24, then host Wolverhampton Wanderers and visit Manchester City in their two matches afterwards.
Liverpool's next three Gameweeks
| GW | Opponent | FDR* |
| 24 | Bournemouth (A), Everton (A) |
3, 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | Wolves (H) | 2 |
| 26 | Man City (A) | 4 |
*Fixture Difficulty Ratings: 1 = easiest possible fixture, 5 = hardest
Everton are at home on both occasions in DGW24, hosting Leicester City and Liverpool. They then face Crystal Palace and Manchester United in Gameweeks 25 and 26 respectively.
Everton's next three Gameweeks
| GW | Opponent | FDR |
| 24 | Leicester (H), Liverpool (H) | 2, 5 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 | Crystal Palace (A) | 3 |
| 26 | Man Utd (H) | 3 |
How to score points
The chip earns points based on your chosen manager’s club performance. They earn points from a number of metrics, but you CANNOT captain them.
- Team win = 6 points
- Team draws = 3 points
- Goal scored by team = 1 point per goal
- Clean sheet from team = 2 points
- Table bonus: If your chosen manager faces a club ranked at least five places higher in the Premier League table at the start of the Gameweek, you get an EXTRA 10 points for a win, so 16 in total, or an additional five points for a draw, so eight in total.
There are two strategies when playing the Assistant Manager chip over the remainder of the season.
You could pick a manager of a top-five club to rack up the points for victories, goals and clean sheets over a kind run of fixtures.
Alternatively, you could opt for higher risk and higher reward by choosing someone who could collect table-bonus points.
Handily, a breakdown of Slot and Moyes’s output helps to show these contrasting tactics that you could choose when using the Assistant Manager chip.
How have Slot and Moyes performed recently?
Slot is the top-scoring manager in Fantasy, with his total of 183 points being second only to the 222 points of Mohamed Salah (£13.7m) among all assets in Fantasy.
The Dutchman has collected 24 points across the last three Gameweeks.
He earned four points in a 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest. Three came courtesy of the draw, while he earned a further one point for the goal Liverpool scored.
Slot claimed 10 points in a 2-0 triumph over Brentford - six for the win, two for goals scored and two more for the clean sheet.
He matched that total in the Reds' 4-1 win over Ipswich Town last weekend, earning six points for the win and four points for each goal scored.
Slot's last three Gameweeks
| GW21 | GW22 | GW23 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Result | 1-1 v Nott'm Forest | 2-0 v Brentford | 4-1 v Ipswich |
| Win/draw pts | 3 | 6 | 6 |
| Table bonus win/draw pts | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Goal pts | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Clean sheet pts | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 4 | 10 | 10 |
Moyes's greater ceiling for points has helped him to outscore Slot by 28 points to 24 in that spell. And that's despite him earning zero points for his first match back in charge of Everton, a 1-0 loss to Aston Villa in Gameweek 21.
A 3-2 win over Tottenham Hotspur helped Moyes to nine points - six for the win and three for goals scored.
He then delivered a bumper 19-point return in the Toffees' 1-0 victory at Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday. Moyes picked up six points for the win and a further 10 points for the table bonus, in addition to two points for the clean sheet and one point for the goal.
Moyes's last three Gameweeks
| GW21 | GW22 | GW23 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Result | 0-1 v Aston Villa | 3-2 v Spurs | 1-0 v Brighton |
| Win/draw pts | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Table bonus win/draw pts | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Goal pts | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Clean sheet pts | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 0 | 9 | 19 |
Moyes's 19-point haul against Brighton not only bettered the best score of his Everton predecessor Sean Dyche, whose season-high haul was 12 points, it also surpassed Slot's top score of 13 points in a single match this campaign!
The one downside here with Moyes is that if the league table stays the same, he can only earn table-bonus points in ONE of his four matches over the next three Gameweeks, with that game being the home fixture against Liverpool.
So, who's the better pick?
Ultimately, the decision of whether to choose Slot or Moyes for DGW24 comes back to the one that all Fantasy managers will have to answer this season when deciding how to use the Assistant Manager chip: Risk or reward?
Do you want the reliability and consistency of Slot, and do you back him to win his upcoming matches? Or do you think Moyes can maintain his new-manager bounce and spring an upset against Liverpool, in the last ever Merseyside derby to be played at Goodison Park? You decide!
Move to a different manager in GW25?
There is also the option of using your free transfers to change your Assistant Manager and target other clubs who have favourable fixtures in Gameweeks 25 and 26.
Arsenal, for example, face Leicester and West Ham United in that period and could produce wins and plenty of goals in both contests.
Similarly, you’d expect Bournemouth to see off Southampton and Wolves comfortably.
If you wanted to target the table-bonus element, Wolves’ trips to Liverpool and Bournemouth could pay off handsomely, although there is a far higher element of risk attached.
At this stage of the season, though, the idea of using transfers on your manager seems unnecessary.
Any transfers should instead by focused on the upcoming Blank Gameweek 29 (BGW29), where up to four clubs will be without a fixture due to the EFL Cup final.
