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The two highest scorers in the league

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skoeiboy

4–3 · 652 pts

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benditlikebergvall

5–2 · 658 pts

Nobody has scored more than benditlikebergvall this season, and skoeiboy is one of two managers within seven points of him. The table does not say so: one is 5-2 and sharing the lead, the other is 4-3 and a win back. They get there differently. The leader has finished in the top four in five of seven weeks and has just posted the high score of the gameweek. skoeiboy posted the biggest score of opening day and the second-biggest of GW7, and in the five weeks between, four scores in the sixties and seventies. One of them is a metronome; the other is a slot machine that has been paying out lately. Haaland against Palmer is the headline act, but the game will be decided by whichever side's defenders turn up.

Featured Match

Five-and-two meets five-and-two

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willmoran

5–2 · 651 pts

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brendog2814

5–2 · 607 pts

Two of the four managers sharing the lead, and a case study in how little a record tells you. willmoran has not had a bad week yet: never outside the top ten, top six in each of the last six, and one of the three best scoring sides in the league, carried by Groß and a Brighton defence that keeps producing. brendog2814 won his first four and has lost two of the last three, though a half-point escape in GW7 kept him level at the top. His opponents have scored less against him than anyone else's, by a distance. Rogers has carried him; the rest of the lineup has not been pulling its weight for a month. Same record, very different seasons, and only one of them keeps a share of first.