FPL Gameweek 5 Results: Sunday's Top Scores And Talking Points
The call — GW5 Saturday: Brobbey scores three in defeat, Semenyo takes the game apart Brian Brobbey scored a hat-trick at the Etihad Stadium and Sunderland still lost 5-3. Ninety minutes, three goals, three bonus. Seventeen points. That was Saturday's top score — matched only by the man on the other side of the same fixture.
Antoine Semenyo returned 17 for Man City: two goals, one assist, two bonus, the full 90. Rayan Cherki added a goal and a bonus point off 84 minutes. Man City conceded three at home. The attack delivered. The defence did not. Managers holding Man City defenders got nothing from an eight-goal game. Managers holding Semenyo got the day's cleanest double-digit haul from a nailed midfielder. If you were choosing between the two ends of that team, the front end won by a distance.
Brobbey's 17 came with a caveat the score makes plain: Sunderland shipped five. His points do not travel with a defence behind them. Anyone who captained him in hindsight looks a genius. Nobody did.
Elsewhere, Liverpool won 1-0 at the Vitality Stadium. Isak scored, went off on 80 minutes, and took all three bonus for eight points. Alisson kept the clean sheet behind him — 90 minutes, two bonus, eight points. A win, a goal, a shutout. That is the full package from one fixture, and both ends of the Liverpool team paid out.
Leeds and Crystal Palace played out 0-0 at Elland Road. Trafford made it count: clean sheet, three bonus, ten points — the best defensive return of the day. Justin took eight with two bonus. Richards and Canvot each banked eight for Palace. Four defensive assets from one goalless game all cleared the six-point mark. That is what a genuine shutout fixture looks like on both sides.
Fulham 1-1 Man Utd. Cunha scored, took all three bonus, and finished on ten. He played 90. No clean sheet for either side, so the returns stopped there.
The calls the day forces. Semenyo produced goals, an assist and bonus from midfield in a Man City shirt — he starts every week you own him, and if you don't, he is the buy this round-up points at. Isak scored, banked bonus and sat behind a clean sheet — he starts. Trafford kept Leeds' sheet and took maximum bonus — start him without a second thought. Brobbey is the note of caution: three goals, five conceded. Hold him if you have him. Do not captain a Sunderland forward against Man City and call it a plan — the armband that paid Saturday was the one nobody wore.