This fantasy premier league GW26 player rankings article is intended to help you set your defensive lineup or choose a defender for a transfer. We outline the best value and attacking defenders. There’s a table to help you make the choice for your transfer which includes their defensive strength ranking as well as their fixture ease rank and the bookies clean sheet odds for their GW26 fixture. We also make some key comments on players and give the GW26 fixture list. We also remind you again of the GW26 and GW28 blank situation
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE GW26 PLAYER RANKINGS – BEST DEFENCES AND DEFENDERS
As I said, just remember the GW26 and GW28 situation
BACKGROUND
GW26
The following fixtures have been removed and will need to be rescheduled:
Southampton v Arsenal
Man City v Man Utd
GW28
GW28 is FA Cup quarter final week. Games involving teams in the quarters will be postponed leading to a much reduced fixture list. In fact only 4 confirmed at the moment
Definitely staying in GW28 as both teams out of FA Cup
Bournemouth v West Ham
Everton v West Brom
Hull v Swansea
Liverpool v Burnley
Subject to a replay
Man City v Stoke (Man City v Huddersfield replay is 28 Feb) – Stoke are out of the FA Cup. Man City need to lose the replay for the fixture to stand
Should be removed from the gameweek as teams have progressed to the quarters
Middlesbrough v Sunderland – Middlesborough are through to the quarters
Chelsea v Watford – Chelsea are through to the quarters
Southampton v Man Utd – Man Utd beat Blackburn and are through to the quarters
Crystal Palace v Spurs – Spurs beat Fulham and are through to the quarters
Arsenal v Leicester – Arsenal beat Sutton and are through to the quarters
THE BEST VALUE AND ATTACKING DEFENDERS
So here’s the table. Effectively I’ve ranked the defences taking into account their defensive stats strength. Added to the table is the rank of easiness of the upcoming next 4 fixtures. Use this link to see the full article on fixture ease. I’ve then given you the best value defender and the best attacking defender. Values are as of Monday. If you’re interested in what the top 10 FPL managers I follow have as defenders use this link. It encapsulates the whole season’s stats which is why it’s worth reading the comments sections below the schedule.
BEST TRANSFERS
Looking at the optimum combination of strong defence at an appropriate value, good fixtures and good odds then the best transfers for this gameweek are:
Alonso Chelsea £6.7m
Lovren Liverpool £4.9m (if fit)
Coleman Everton £5.9m
Brunt WBA £5.1m
SOME FORM COMMENTS
A few interesting form comments
Southampton, Man City and WBA have posed some recent good defensive stats despite some indifferent results over the season
Sunderland, Leicester and Bournemouth post very bad stats consistent with performances
CHEAPIE WATCH
Man City – Stones at £4.7m is fantastic value. He’s now started the last 3 although the Champions League could again cause rotation problems. There’s also the continual 1-5 minutes he comes on at the end when on the bench.
Southampton – The acquisition of Caceres could put £4.0m Stephens gametime
West Ham – Makeshift RB Kouyate started again at RB instead of £4.2m Byram.
Arsenal – £4.7m LB Gibbs started again for Arsenal and Monreal started against Sutton. Blanks don’t help but worth monitoring post GW28
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