FPL notes: Silva’s Assistant Manager gains + Cherries share returns

We’ve got notes from two more of Saturday’s matches to bring you now in our latest Gameweek 25 post-mortem.

Three of this season’s surprise packages, Bournemouth, Fulham and Nottingham Forest are covered in this article.

It was a second successive 2-1 win for Fulham on Saturday – and a second successive 18-point haul for Marco Silva (£1.1m).

The Fulham boss replicated Gameweek 24’s manager win table bonus and is the only Premier League boss to have two of those to his name since FPL started keeping tabs on Assistant Manager scores in late January.

It continues an ongoing trend for Fulham, who seem to raise their game facing the big guns.

Just looking at December alone, Silva would have picked up manager bonus points for the win at Chelsea and draws with Liverpool and Arsenal.

Fulham are now up to eighth in the table, so there aren’t too many more opponents left for Silva to giant-kill.

Any devil-may-care FPL managers with the Assistant Manager chip still intact could, if desired, back Silva in Gameweeks 30 + 31 before switching to a ‘doubler’ in Gameweek 32. Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner (£0.8m) may well be eligible for table bonus in both of the Eagles’ fixtures then.

You’re going against the laws of probability chasing most upsets, of course, but Silva does seem to get a tune out of his troops when facing the elite.

DESERVED WIN FOR FULHAM
Make no mistake about it, Fulham fully merited this latest victory. The same was true at Newcastle United a fortnight ago.

The Cottagers had more shots in the box (20) than any other team on Saturday. Opta had their xG (2.24) as the division’s highest, too, with StatsBomb recording it at a still-dominant 1.78.

No Premier League player had more shots (seven) than Raul Jimenez (£5.6m) on Saturday. No one created more chances (six) than Sasa Lukic (£4.8m), either. Just to ram home the same point, Mats Sels made more saves (eight) than any other top-flight ‘keeper.