Fantasy football tips: Kane, Sanchez, Payet, Mahrez and the stars your team needs for the Premier League season

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Russell Cane13 August 2016

With the start of the new season just two days away, now's the time to start making the final tweaks to your fantasy football team, to make it good enough to top the Premier League... (well the office league at least).

After the unpredictability of last season's campaign, the European Championships, the managerial merry-go-round and the big money transfers to consider, picking your starting XI appears a daunting task.

The key to selecting a strong starting squad is to pick reliable, consistent performers as the core backbone to your side, just as real managers do. Basically, avoid gambles.

Why risk picking the new £30 million striker from La Liga who is yet to prove himself in the Premier League when for the same price you can have a player who netted 20 goals in English football's top flight last season?

Daily fantasy football game www.oulala.com has a scoring system is based on 70 different criteria sourced straight from Opta which allows Oulala to identify the top performers based on cold hard stats.

Looking at the top 10 sides in the Premier League last season, from Leicester City down to Chelsea, the players you must be using to form your starting XI backbone have been analysed.

David De Gea or Jack Butland in goal? Eden Hazard or Dimitri Payet as your star midfielder? Harry Kane or Sergio Aguero to lead your attack?

The choice is yours, but scroll through the gallery above for the top choices...

Infographic supplied by daily fantasy football game www.oulala.com​

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