Here’s our fantasy premier league defender tips GW4 article where we give our defender and GK player rankings for gameweek 4. There’s a comprehensive table of stats and player suggestions to help you make a transfer choice.
fantasy premier league defender tips GW4 – player rankings for Defs and Gks
There’s player suggestions at the end if you want to skip all the stats preamble.
Stats definitions:
I’ve firstly ordered the teams by what I think is their defensive strength based on primarily last season’s stats with some tweaking for transfers and this season so far.
The stats after that are their:
fixture ease ranking so you can see who has the best fixtures to the end of the season. The first figure is GW4-9, the 2nd GW4-6. See our fixture ease article
best cheap secure gametime option and an attacking option so you can compare price.
GK price in as a comparison.
bookies odds for a clean sheet for GW4. The lower the better obviously.
xG OR, H and A. This is the xG conceded rank for the 17/18 season. The first is overall rank, the 2nd is Home and the 3rd is Away.
Gameweek 4 Fixtures
The Schedule
Here’s the schedule in it’s normal format from last season . It maybe difficult to make out especially on a phone so if you’d rather have access to the original google spreadsheet click on the link. It should be set up so anyone can view but not alter. So just copy and paste it into your own spreadsheet if you want to mess about with
Player prices are as of Thursday 30 August 2018.
Player suggestions
Here we are looking for players ideally with a good GW4 fixture, in a strong defence with a good ongoing fixtures:
Manchester City – Benjamin Mendy is the obvious defender to own here
Liverpool – another strong defence. Robertson is the more expensive attacking option. Alexander Arnold also offers attacking threat from RB and also has some set pieces including some direct free kicks
Chelsea – Go for the cheap option of Luiz or the attacking option of Alonso.
Spurs – Trippier is a great attacking option although the FB’s will be rotated. Choose Vertonghen if you want more gametime security.
Everton – their defence has yet to prove themselves and only Coleman seems to have longevity at the moment. He isn’t cheap though at £5.4m. Home to Huddersfield and good fixtures it’s just whether you believe in the defence.
The best rotation pair starting now is probably Crystal Palace (Wan Bissaka) and Wolves (Doherty). See our original rotation pairs article. I would also say that those 2 probably have the best short term home games if that’s all you’re looking for
If you’re looking for player suggestions or general articles see the following:
Top 1k finisher in 17/18 in FPL, Sky and TFF and 15k in Sun Andrew Ferguson
Bandwagons and sinking ships GW4
Joseph Crilleys GW4 Wildcard team
Early thoughts on the FFGeek team
Following 10 top FPL managers teams
Stephen Troops teams in FPL, TFF and Sun DT
The fixture ease schedule for players with good fixtures ahead
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