Fantasy Football team of the week

Spanish veterans Fernando Llorente and Alvaro Negredo star in the latest Sky Sports Fantasy __football team of the week after bagging braces over the weekend.

Fernando Llorente: Helped Swansea beat Crystal Palace 5-4
Fernando Llorente: Helped Swansea beat Crystal Palace 5-4

The pair are joined by Sergio Aguero in an attack boasting six goals and 52 points, while Alexis Sanchez, who also struck twice, misses out on the XI due to his third booking in four games.

Aguero is in fact the only player in the top scoring line-up selected by more than four per cent of managers, with Gylfi Sigurdsson the second most popular pick of the 11 with a place in 3.76 per cent of sides.

Here's a look at the top-scoring team in full...

Lee Grant (£5.3m) - 9 points

With a place in 0.27 per cent of sides, Stoke's stand-in stopper is among the least popular players in Sky Sports Fantasy Football. The other 99.73 per cent might want to consider his services however, with just five goals conceded in his eight starts resulting in a higher points total than Manchester City's £7.8m-priced Claudio Bravo.

Joel Matip (£8.2m) - 10 points

While Liverpool have struggled to break down backlines over the last couple of weeks, they may well have answered the most important question regarding their title credentials in recording back-to-back clean sheets. Summer signing Matip has settled in impressively and even reached the second tier of passing bonus points to reach double figures on Saturday.

Dejan Lovren (£8.6m) - 9 points

Matip's partner also completed over 70 passes but did pick up a yellow card in the 2-0 win over Sunderland, while two goals see him sit fifth in the overall defender rankings.

Michael Dawson (£6.2m) - 12 points

Dawson makes his debut in the Sky Sports Fantasy Football TOTW after salvaging a point for Hull against West Brom. The former Tottenham man is, however, yet to be involved in a clean sheet this season.

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Gylfi Sigurdsson (£9.4m) - 11 points

Fantasy managers with defenders involved in Swansea v Crystal Palace endured a long afternoon, with nine goals shared in a Liberty Stadium thriller. The Swans eventually prevailed 5-4 with Sigurdsson scoring their first and setting up another, leaving him with four goals and four assists this season.

Leroy Fer (£7.6m) - 16 points

Sigurdsson's team-mate racked up even more points after bundling in a brace during the unlikely classic, taking his tally to five goals for the season in the process.

Wilfried Zaha (£8.2m) - 11 points

Zaha was another of the key benefactors as he scored one and set up another, doubling his disappointing goal tally in the process.

Victor Moses (£7.9m) - 13 points

Sky Sports Fantasy Football bosses may be put off by Moses' deeper role in Antonio Conte's system, especially given his midfield classification means no clean sheet bonus points, but a second goal and a second Sky Sports Man-of-the-Match award means he still boasts a respectable tally of 56 points.

Sergio Aguero (£13m) - 18 points

After disappointing 35 per cent of managers by firing blanks last weekend, the game's most expensive player made amends with a brace in Manchester City's 2-1 comeback win at Burnley. He is, however, still 24 points behind top scorer Philippe Coutinho, although that gap looks set to be reduced further as Liverpool wait on his ankle injury news.

Alvaro Negredo (£10.3m) - 16 points

The Spaniard may have done little in front of goal between the opening two weekends and the most recent one, but he is still the 10th highest-scoring striker thanks to three goals and two assists from those three games, netting a brace for Middlesbrough at Leicester on Saturday.

Fernando Llorente (£9.1m) - 18 points

His compatriot has been no more consistent, although injury troubles can be cited. The 31-year-old had a solitary goal and assist from his eight starts before ripping up the form book to bag a brace from the bench against Crystal Palace.

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