Chelsea and Manchester City drew 4-4 in a thrilling end to FPL Gameweek 12, with the Premier League now pausing for the international break.
It was a better week for FPL managers after the horrendously low-scoring Gameweek 11, with this week&#8217;s average score of 64 more than double last week&#8217;s tally.
Here&#8217;s the story of Gameweek 12, including key talking points and <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a>.

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<h2>FPL Gameweek 12 captaincy: Haaland and Salah reward backers</h2>
The 42% of FPL managers in the top 250,000 looked to have won by selecting Mohamed Salah (£13.0m) as their captain.
The Liverpool star scored twice as the Reds beat Brentford at Anfield, picking up 16 points in the process.
But Erling Haaland (£14.0m) backers had cause for celebration a few hours later, as he also scored twice against Chelsea.
Haaland added an assist, and with three bonus points he matched Salah&#8217;s 16 pointer. He could have had another too, with a strike well saved by Robert Sanchez (£4.6m).
The duo were the top-scoring players of the week &#8211;  a rare occasion where the majority of fantasy managers will have put the armband on the best possible option.
Ollie Watkins (£8.4m) was way behind them in third place, however he did contribute a goal for Aston Villa against Fulham.
The striker has the highest non-penalty expected goals (xG) total of the week though &#8211; 1.91 &#8211; having somehow failed to score a header from a couple of yards out.
Bukayo Saka (£8.6m) would almost certainly have been more popular had he not been a fitness concern ahead of Arsenal&#8217;s 3-1 win over Burnley. He assisted a goal for five points and played 80 minutes.
Son Heung-min (£9.7m) blanked as Spurs saw their 1-0 lead disappear in the latter stages of their game against Wolves. His team conceded two injury time goals to lose 2-1, with the South Korean having just one shot on goal.
<div id="attachment_59584" style="width: 910px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59584" class="size-full wp-image-59584" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GW12-captaincy-top-250k.jpg" alt="FPL captaincy picks of the game's top 250,000 managers, with Salah and Haaland leading the way" width="900" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GW12-captaincy-top-250k.jpg 900w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GW12-captaincy-top-250k-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GW12-captaincy-top-250k-768x624.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/GW12-captaincy-top-250k-610x495.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px" />Captaincy picks among the top 250,000</div>
<h2>FPL Gameweek 12: Match Centre</h2>
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<h2>FPL Gameweek 12: Palmer penalty a thrilling finish to Chelsea game</h2>
Chelsea v City was the final fixture of Gameweek 12 &#8211; and it was certainly a case of saving the best until last.
City took the lead through a penalty from Haaland, who won the spot-kick himself. A header from Thiago Silva (£5.0m) put Chelsea on level terms before Raheem Sterling (£6.9m) tapped in against his former club.
Manuel Akanji (£4.9m) grabbed his second goal in two games before Nicolas Jackson (£6.8m) scored his fourth in a week to put Chelsea back in front.
Rodri (£5.6m) was credited with an 86th minute deflected effort to make it 3-3, although there was some doubt whether it should have been recorded as a Silva own-goal.
But the drama wasn&#8217;t over there, as Armando Broja (£4.9m) was brought down in the box in stoppage time. Up stepped Cole Palmer (£5.1m) to convert his fourth penalty of the season.
<div id="attachment_59585" style="width: 907px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59585" class="size-full wp-image-59585" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Cole-Palmer-stats.jpg" alt="" width="897" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Cole-Palmer-stats.jpg 897w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Cole-Palmer-stats-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Cole-Palmer-stats-768x626.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Cole-Palmer-stats-610x497.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px" />Cole Palmer&#8217;s <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a></div>
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Reece James (£5.3m) had a good game, racking up an assist and seeing a free-kick tipped over by Ederson (£5.5m). He was replaced by Malo Gusto (£4.2m) in the 64th minute, who missed a big chance.
Top FPL transfer target Jeremy Doku (£6.7m) had a quiet evening from a <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a> perspective, registering just one shot on target.
He was replaced by Jack Grealish (£7.2m) just before the hour mark, reminding owners of the perils of owning the explosive Belgian.
Chelsea are beginning to find their feet under Mauricio Pochettino after a slow start to the season. Their players could well be in high demand around Gameweek 17, when they host Sheffield United.
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<h2>FPL Gameweek 12: Tsimikas punishes sellers and benchers</h2>
There was much debate over Konstantinos Tsimikas (£4.6m) in the run up to Gameweek 12.
The Greek left-back was highly tipped for a benching after his error led to a Toulouse goal in the Europa League.
But there was no word before deadline of an injury issue for likely replacement Joe Gomez (£4.5m), which gave Tsimikas a clear run to start against Brentford. Ibrahima Konate (£4.9m) also missed out through injury.
Tsimikas punished sellers and those who benched him, assisting two goals and keeping a clean sheet for 15 FPL points.
His low expected assists (xA) of 0.33 was unlikely to make those who went without him feel any better.
Salah was the other standout player of the game from a fantasy perspective.
But Bryan Mbeumo (£6.8m) missed a big chance and Darwin Nunez (£7.5m) had two goals disallowed for offside, leaving him with a solitary assist.
<div id="attachment_59586" style="width: 907px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59586" class="size-full wp-image-59586" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tsimikas-stats.jpg" alt="Konstantinos Tsimikas's stats" width="897" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tsimikas-stats.jpg 897w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tsimikas-stats-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tsimikas-stats-768x626.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Tsimikas-stats-610x497.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px" />Konstantinos Tsimikas&#8217;s <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a></div>
<h2>FPL Gameweek 12: Super Solanke sinks Newcastle as injury issues mount up</h2>
Bournemouth recovered from their 6-1 defeat to Manchester City in Gameweek 11 by defeating Newcastle 2-0.
Dominic Solanke (£6.4m) scored his fifth and sixth league goals of the season and there are signs that the Cherries are starting to click under Andoni Iraola.
Newcastle&#8217;s squad on the other hand is paper-thin, with a number of key players missing.
Callum Wilson (£7.9m) failed to recover from a hamstring injury in time, while Eddie Howe handed midfielder Lewis Miley (£4.5m) his first Premier League start. Bruno Guimaraes (£5.8m) was suspended after picking up five yellow cards.
Valentino Livramento (£4.3m) was benched, with Howe preferring to field Lewis Hall (£4.3m) at left-back over Kieran Trippier (£7.0m).  Hall was taken off at half-time though, with Livramento coming on.
The injury crisis for the Magpies has deepened, with Miguel Almiron (£6.3m) forced off with a hamstring problem.
There are also concerns for Fabian Schar (£5.2m) and Sean Longstaff (£4.9m), who both received treatment during the game. Howe said after the game that it was &#8216;unclear&#8217; how they were. He said:
<blockquote>&#8220;There were possibly a couple of players in an ideal world that we would have taken off today but we couldn&#8217;t and we weren&#8217;t in a position to do that, which is a sign of how stretched we are.&#8221;</blockquote>
<div id="attachment_59587" style="width: 907px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-59587" class="size-full wp-image-59587" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Solanke-GW12.jpg" alt="" width="897" height="731" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Solanke-GW12.jpg 897w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Solanke-GW12-300x244.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Solanke-GW12-768x626.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Solanke-GW12-610x497.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 897px) 100vw, 897px" />Dominic Solanke&#8217;s Gameweek 12 <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a></div>
<h2>FPL Gameweek 12: Eze on target as Olise returns</h2>
Eberechi Eze (£6.1m) made his return from injury in Gameweek 11, assisting a goal after coming off the bench.
He was among the goals again in Gameweek 12, scoring a penalty against Everton which he won himself.
The Crystal Palace talisman was a thorn in Everton&#8217;s side, with his dribbling skills causing problems.
He was booked for diving after going down in the box, although Roy Hodgson defended his man after the match and some pundits felt there was enough contact to warrant a second spot-kick.
The game also marked the return of Michael Olise (£5.8m) for Palace. The return of both him and Eze should provide a huge boost to Palace&#8217;s attacking potential.
That could be good news for Odsonne Edouard (£5.5m), who scored his first goal since FPL Gameweek 5.
Despite the positives for Palace, they came away from the Everton game with a defeat, losing 3-2. Vitalii Mykolenko (£4.4m) scored his second goal in two games, giving the Toffees the lead in the first minute.
Abdoulaye Doucoure (£5.5m) notched his fourth of the season before Idrissa Gueye (£4.8m) scored the winner.
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<h2>Key FPL Gameweek 12 stats</h2>
Here are the gameweek&#8217;s player and team leaders in full.
<h3>Opta stats leaders for FPL Gameweek 11: Players</h3>
<ul>
<li>Shots &#8211; Odsonne Edouard &#8211; 6</li>
<li>Shots on target &#8211; Raul Jimenez, Tomas Soucek, Darwin Nunez and Erling Haaland &#8211; 2</li>
<li>Shots in the box &#8211; Odsonne Edouard &#8211; 5</li>
<li>Big chances &#8211; Erling Haaland &#8211; 4</li>
<li>Goals &#8211; Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah and Dominic Solanke &#8211; 2</li>
<li>xG &#8211; Erling Haaland &#8211; 2.03</li>
<li>Non-penalty xG (NpxG) &#8211; Ollie Watkins &#8211; 1.91</li>
<li>Key passes &#8211; James Ward-Prowse &#8211; 5</li>
<li>Big chances created &#8211; James Ward-Prowse, Bukayo Saka and Bernardo Silva &#8211; 2</li>
<li>Assists &#8211; James Ward-Prowse, Konstantinos Tsimikas and Conor Gallagher &#8211; 2</li>
<li>Expected assists (xA) &#8211; Pedro Porro &#8211; 0.62</li>
<li>FPL points &#8211; Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah &#8211; 16</li>
<li>Expected points (xPts) &#8211; Erling Haaland &#8211; 12.09</li>
</ul>
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<h3 class="mceTemp">Opta stats leaders for FPL Gameweek 12: Teams</h3>
<ul>
<li>Most shots &#8211; Bournemouth &#8211; 19</li>
<li>Highest xG &#8211; Aston Villa &#8211; 3.1</li>
<li>Highest xGC &#8211; Fulham &#8211; 3.1</li>
<li>Lowest xG &#8211; Burnley &#8211; 0.35</li>
<li>Lowest xGC &#8211; Arsenal &#8211; 0.3</li>
<li>Most FPL points &#8211; Liverpool &#8211; 81</li>
</ul>
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