Here’s our fantasy premier league article where we rank the best defenders and GK’s for GW22. There;s a table of stats plus some narrative and the next 6 fixtures to help you make your decision
Fantasy premier league GW22 – “ones to watch” best defenders/GKs
I’ve tried to balance out attacking potential vs the premium price you pay for that player rather than just going for the attacking player automatically. The attack vs value decision is really a matter of personal choice so in the narrative I talk about both options. I’ve put together a table of stats with a key below it to rank the 10 best defenders. Below that I’ve put some narrative on each player plus their next 6 fixtures. I’ll also try and talk about the GK option.
Rank | Name | value | Last 5 games | Mins per FPL point | Goals/Assts | CS – H/A | fixt ease | top 10 FPL managers own |
1. | Terry | £6.6m | 3 CS | 18.5 mins | 3/0 | 8/2 | 5/18 | 4 |
2. | Bertrand | £5.8m | 3 CS | 17.8 mins | 2/2 | 7/3 | 3/6 | 1 |
3. | Kompany | £6.4m | 1 CS% | 26.3 mins | 0/0 | 3/4 | 16/14 | 0 |
4. | Koscielny | £5.9m | 1 CS% | 18.5 mins | 2/0 | 3/3 | 8/16 | 0 |
5. | Jones | £5.2m | 1 CS% | 24.9 mins | 0/1 | 4/2 | 1/3 | 1 |
6. | Wisdom | £4.5m | 1 CS% | 27.3 mins | 0/1 | 3/4 | 7/8 | 4 |
7. | Cameron | £4.2m | 2 CS% | 43.3 mins | 0/0 | 2/2 | 2/1 | 0 |
8. | Van Aanholt | £4.2m | 2 CS% | 24.8 mins | 0/2 | 2/5 | 9/11 | 2 |
9. | Mee | £4.4m | 0 CS% | mins | 0/1 | 4/2 | 10/2 | 0 |
10. | Kelly | £4.4m | 2 CS% | 38.6 mins | 0/1 | 2/3 | 4/4 | 0 |
Key:
Last 5 games: Clean sheets in the last 5 fixtures
Mins per FPL point: How long it takes a player to earn an FPL point. The lower the better obviously
Goals/Assist; Goals/Assists so far in the season
CS – H/A: The clean sheets so far this season. Home/Away
Fixture ease: The easiness of the next 6/(3) fixtures. Done from an attacking point of view but does give an indication of fixture ease
Top 10 FPL managers own: How many of the 10 top FPL managers I follow have the player in the team
Terry
There’s no doubt Chelsea with Southampton have the best defence in the league. Terry for value over Ivanovic. The GK Courtois is injured but too expensive for a GK anyway.
Next 6 fixtures:
Swansea (A)
Man City (H)
Aston Villa (A)
Everton (H)
Burnley (H)
Leicester (A)
Bertrand
Southampton are an excellent defensive team especially at home. With Alderweireld injured there’s no cheap option. Forster is a reasonable option £5.5 option as a 1 stop GK.
Newcastle (A)
Swansea (H)
QPR (A)
West Ham (H)
Liverpool (H)
West Brom (A)
Kompany
The problem with Kompany out is rotation. However Komapny is so crucial to their defence that he should be relatively safe. However injury is his enfored rotation. Everyone else is rotatable including the GK. 2 tricky fixtures next so now may not be the best time to buy
Arsenal (H)
Chelsea (A)
Hull (H)
Stoke (A)
Newcastle (H)
Liverpool (A)
Koscielny
No cheap option with Debuchy and some doubt over whether Chambers or Bellerin will play RB. Gibbs is good value and should play LB although he is rotatable with Monreal. New GK Ospina is good value at £4.8m if he can hold his spot
Man City (A)
Aston Villa (H)
Spurs (A)
Leicester (H)
Crystal Palace (A)
Everton (H)
Jones
Man Utd have a reasonable home defence record and CB Jones is as good value as anyone. No real attacking premium player or value. De Gea is a little expensive in comparison at £5.8m. Good fixtures
QPR (A)
Leicester (H)
West Ham (A)
Burnley (H)
Swansea (A)
Sunderland (H)
Wisdom
The Pulis effect has started for WBA albeit against a strikerless Hull. Baird having started at LB is a potential £3.9m bargain if he could hold his place. Lescott is probably the best attacking option at £4.9m
Everton (A)
Spurs (H)
Burnley (A)
Swansea (H)
Sunderland (A)
Southampton (H)
Cameron
Another cheapie in a Stoke side that should be doing better given the underlying stats. Cameron is the cheapie option. There’s no real premium attacking option. GK Begovic is more expensive in comparison.
Leicester (A)
QPR (H)
Newcastle (A)
Man City (H)
Aston Villa (A)
Hull (H)
Van Aanholt
A lack of striking options has meant a very defensive approach from Sunderland which has seen a excellent clean sheet return. Whether that will change with Defoe joining remains to be seen. LB Van Aanholt is probably the cheapest and the best attacking option. GK Pantilimon is one of the better cheap GK options
Spurs (A)
Burnley (H)
Swansea (A)
QPR (H)
West Brom (H)
Man Utd (A)
Mee
The Burnley LB is the cheapie choice and Trippier the attacking option although with an injury doubt. GK Heaton is ok value at £4.6m
Crystal Palace (H)
Sunderland (A)
West Brom (H)
Man Utd (A)
Chelsea (A)
Swansea (H)
Kelly
Palace have got some fixtures which give some clean sheet hope. Kelly is the cheap option and Dan at £4.9m the attacking option. GK Speroni is not too bad an option at £4.8m
Burnley (A)
Everton (H)
Leicester (A)
Newcastle (H)
Arsenal (H)
West Ham (A)
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Fantasy premier league GW22
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