GW8 saw the start of Chelsea’s much anticipated fixture swing. However, winning comfortably midweek in the champions league has come at a huge cost with the injuries to Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner.  This could be a time to load at the back with Chelsea players as this is where a lot of their points could be accumulated in the coming weeks.  Ben Chilwell (5.7m) has been in flying form in recent weeks and he will certainly look to continue that against a struggling Norwich side. Reece James (5.5m) is another good addition to the squad for the forthcoming weeks as he will get look to take some of the responsibility on the attacking front. Kai Havertz (8.1m) is the other obvious candidate as without Lukaku and Werner Tuchel might look to play a False 9 meaning Havertz will find himself much further forward at most stages of the game.

The Big Game of the weekend is the age-old clash between Manchester united and Liverpool. The two teams are coming into this game on very different paths with Liverpool seemingly back to their best and Ole under lots of scrutiny in recent weeks. The First player I want to look at is Marcus Rashford (9.4m). If he is fit and able to start the game i think he can cause Alexander Arnold huge problems defensively as we seen a few years ago. 479,582 was the total number of people that jumped off the Ronaldo bandwagon, but just as we seen midweek, he is a man for the big occasion and lives for big moments, so will the 18,899 that brought him in this week reap the rewards. My pick this week must come from the Liverpool side however and it is Sadio mane (11.9m) he has been flying this year netting 5 times, only to be outdone in this Liverpool side by arguably the best player in world football at the minute Mo Salah. 

The Gunners kick off this GW at home to Aston villa in a game which is extremely hard to call. Both sides are separated by a single point but who will make the telling difference. Bukayo Saka’s injury means that Nicholas pepe will have to step up to the plate and in my opinion, I think he will just do that. We have seen some bits of brilliance from him since coming to the league, but he has not displayed it on a consistent basis. This could be a game where he could really cement a place in this arsenal side.