fantasy premier league clean sheet tips GW20

Here’s our fantasy premier league clean sheet tips GW20 article.  Here we rank the clean sheet prospects for each team in GW20 by comparing each teams defence in gameweek 20 compared to the attacking rank of the opponent.  Both attack and defence ranking use a mixture of actual and underlying stats.  We also give you one of the bookies odds for clean sheets and rank them in order to give you another view.  I hope you find it interesting and useful in deciding the lineup for your team.

fantasy premier league clean sheet tips GW20

Firstly here are the fixtures:

We go through each team by the clean sheet rank I’ve given them.  We calculated that in a very basic way.  We’ve compared the rank of the teams defence vs the rank of the opponents attack.  As I said it’s a bit basic and it doesn’t differentiate between home and away or recent circumstances.  Thats why we’ve put the clean sheet odds for GW20 of one bookie as another point of reference. We’ve also given you the rank of those odds for each of the teams.  The clean sheet odds are the amount won for £1 invested.  The odds are of when I wrote the article.  Hope thats clear.  In ranking the bookies, if the odds are the same for 2 or more teams, I’ve followed my ranking.  As I’ve used stats over the season sometimes recent circumstances wont be factored in.  Thats why it’s worth looking at the bookies odds and especially the outliers as another view and looking at the narrative under the heading “general points on teams”.  There’s also a lot of form information in my article “the best defences and defenders”

FFGeek Clean sheet Ranking for GW20

1. Man Utd (Ist ranked defence vs Swansea 18th ranked attack)
2. Arsenal (2nd ranked defence vs Newcastle 16th ranked attack)
3. Stoke (7th ranked defence vs WBA 19th ranked attack)
4. C Palace (3rd ranked defence vs Chelsea 8th ranked attack)
5. Southampton (10th ranked defence vs Norwich 15th ranked attack)
6. Man City (8th ranked defence vs Watford 11th ranked attack)
7. Leicester (12th ranked defence vs Bournemouth 14th ranked attack)
8. Swansea (11th ranked defence vs Man Utd 13th ranked attack)
9. Liverpool (6th ranked defence vs West Ham 7th ranked attack)
10. Chelsea (9th ranked defence vs C Palace 10th ranked attack)
11. Sunderland (20th ranked defence vs A Villa 20th ranked attack)
12. WBA (13th ranked defence vs Stoke 12th ranked attack)
13. Spurs (5th ranked defence vs Everton 4th ranked attack)
14. A Villa (19th ranked defence vs Sunderland 17th ranked attack)
15. Watford (4th ranked defence vs Man City 1st ranked attack)
16. West Ham (14th ranked defence vs Liverpool 9th ranked attack)
17. Everton (15th ranked defence vs Spurs 5th ranked attack)
18. Norwich (17th ranked defence vs Southampton 6th ranked attack)
19. Newcastle (16th ranked defence vs Arsenal 2nd ranked attack)
20. Bournemouth  (18th ranked defence vs Leicester 3rd ranked attack)

One Bookies odds ranked for clean sheets GW20

1. Man Utd  – Clean sheet odds £1.85
2. Arsenal  – Clean sheet odds £1.85
3. Chelsea  – Clean sheet odds £2.37
4. Liverpool – Clean sheet odds £2.50
5. Man City – Clean sheet odds £2.60
6. Stoke  – Clean sheet odds £2.70
7. Leicester – Clean sheet odds £2.70
8. Sunderland – Cleansheet odds £2.70
9. WBA  – Clean sheet odds £2.75
10. Southampton – Clean sheet odds £2.90
11. A Villa  – Clean sheet odds £3.00
12. C Palace – Clean sheet odds £3.60
13. Spurs – Clean sheet odds £3.60
14. Norwich – Clean sheet odds £3.60
15. Everton – Clean sheet odds £3.75
16. West Ham – Clean sheet odds £4.00
17. Bournemouth – Clean sheet odds £4.50
18. Swansea – Clean sheet odds £5.00
19. Watford  – Clean sheet odds £5.50
20. Newcastle – Clean sheet odds £9.00

Comment

FFGeek vs the bookies

I’m scoring myself v the bookies by ranking the clean sheets actually acheived vs the rank of the prediction. The combined rank being the lowest wins. This week it was an incredible week for clean sheets with 10 to   C Palace,  Swansea, Norwich, WBA, Arsenal, Man Utd, Chelsea, Leicester, Man City and Liverpool.   My rank of the clean sheets were in that order (3,15,11,6,2,5,8,19,17.1).  The bookies were (4,14.7,5,1,9,11,19,10,2).  My total was 87 the bookies 82.  So the bookies won narrowly this week.  The running total has the bookies winning at 157 vs 167

Looking at how the outliers from the bookies odds where my rank and theirs were different by more than 5 ranks  There were 4

The bookies favoured Everton home to Stoke and Man City away to Leicester more than I did.  I won one of those the bookies the other.

I favoured Newcastle away at WBA and Stoke at Everton more than the bookies did.  I wasn’t sure about Stoke at Everton but took Newcastle at WBA and lost that one.

This week

2 games with odds under £2.00.   Down to 10 places is £2.90 which is better than normal.

Looking at the outliers from the bookies odds where my rank and theirs is different by more than 5 ranks  There are 3

I favour Palace over Chelsea more than the bookies and Swansea over Man Utd more than the bookies.  I’ll take both of those on

The bookies favour Chelsea over Palace more than me.  I’ll take that on.

General points on teams

ManUtd continue to have defensive injuries and a loss of defensive form although that was arrested somewhat by the clean sheet vs  Chelsea.

Man City kept their first clean sheet without Vincent Kompany.  He’s injured his calf again and not expected to play for 3-4 weeks.

Newcastle will hope to have GK Rob Elliot back for the Arsenal game.  The mind boggles over what could happen if young Darlow is in goal again

Skrtel remains injured for Liverpool but it’s 2 clean sheets in 2 without him

Expect Rotation from the Arsenal defence but Koscielny should play which will strengthen it

Jagielka not expected to be back for Everton which won’t help but Baines should play after Galloway was burned time and time again by Shaqiri last week.

O’Shea and Coates doubts for Sunderland.  Kaboul out.  I know at least 2 sound like they will strengthen the Sunderland defence but probably not going to be the case sadly.

Delaney still a doubt for Palace although the Swansea clean sheet was without him.

Reid out and Cresswell a doubt for West Ham

Soares out for Southampton although probably more of an attacking rather than defensive loss.

Olsson doubtful for WBA which could prevent the back 3 successful against Newcastle.

Just a reminder as you can see from the odds that it’s very difficult to predict clean sheets and often there are only 5 or so clean sheets out of 20 teams playing so it’s not a silver bullet.

Good luck with your selections
Follow us on twitter @fantasyfoot20 or facebook at www.facebook.com/fantasyfootballgeek

This website is free. If you find it useful please support us via the donate button on the site

fantasy premier league league code: 68300-19117
Sky Sports Fantasy Football: PIN: 8124402
Sun Dream Team: FANTASYFOOTBALLGEEK PIN: 8360910
Telegraph Fantasy Football: FantasyFootballGeek PIN 8000919
Fox Sports Fantasy Premier league: 8631-1261
Fox Sports Fantasy A League: League code 4277-867

fantasy premier league clean sheet tips GW18