FPL Gameweek 2 Results: Friday's Top Scores And Talking Points
The call — Palace 1-4 City: Cherki takes the day Rayan Cherki scored twice at Selhurst Park on 28 August, collected all three bonus points and came off after 81 minutes. Fourteen points. No player scored more on the day. Erling Haaland matched him goal for goal — two in 90 minutes, three bonus, 13 points. The captaincy sums: Cherki with the armband…
Phil Foden supplied two of the four goals. Two assists, one bonus, nine points across 90 minutes. Semenyo, in City's midfield, added an assist of his own over the full match. Josko Gvardiol claimed the other — five points from 74 minutes at the back.
No City clean sheet. Yeremy set up Palace's goal, his five points the home side's best return. Rúben Dias and Khusanov played 88-plus minutes each for two points apiece. Kamada and Wharton completed 90 minutes in Palace's midfield and blanked. Two points each.
What it means for your team. Haaland played every minute and scored twice. He stays, and if he wore your armband, that decision paid. Foden created two goals and stays in any side that owns him. Cherki is the transfer question of the day: he started, he scored twice, he took maximum bonus. That is the record. He goes on your shortlist for Gameweek 3, and if you own him already, he starts. The caveat is the one the minutes give you — he came off on 81, so his place in the XI is confirmed only game by game.
The other side of the fixture is simpler. Palace conceded four at home. Kamada and Wharton returned two points each from full matches. If you own Palace midfielders, bench them where the option exists.
The calls: hold Haaland, hold Foden, start Cherki if you have him, and sit your Palace assets.