Fantasy football tips: Double gameweeks present big opportunity

With 14 fixtures in gameweek 26 and eight teams doubling up it's a real opportunity to rack up a big score.

As always getting the right balance between the template team and the differential picks is going to be crucial if you're going to get the better of your mini-league rivals, but refreshingly there are different ways to go about it this week.

Probably the most popular of those will be to triple captain Mohamed Salah for Liverpool's home games against Norwich and Leeds.

Yes there is an obvious fear of him potentially getting a rest at some point over those two games with the League Cup final against Chelsea coming four days after the Leeds fixture but as we know Salah won't necessarily need the full 180 minutes to do the damage against a couple of the Premier League's leakier defences.

If that's too obvious a move for you then don't forget you can still captain Salah while maybe using another one of your chips.

That way you would only miss out on a third of his points compared to those who decide to triple captain him but you could still make ground via a different route while saving the triple captain chip for another day.

Taking my team as an example I could make three transfers at a cost of four points this week, captain Salah and play the Bench Boost chip to use all 15 players in my squad.

That would give me 8 double gameweek players in Aaron Ramsdale, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Andy Robertson, Conor Coady, Salah, Max Cornet, Emmanuel Dennis and whoever I decide to bring in for Demarai Gray — I'm currently thinking about Wilfried Zaha or Jack Harrison for that slot.

I would also have Joao Cancelo and Phil Foden with a home fixture against Tottenham, Jarrod Bowen and Michail Antonio at home to Newcastle, Brighton