This fantasy premier league GW29 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 GW29 fixture.
FANTASY PREMIER LEAGUE GW29 PLAYER RANKINGS – DEFENCES AND DEFENDERS
GW29 FIXTURES
Here’s this weeks fixtures for reference
Also read my double gameweek articles for a bit more wider context
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 5 fixtures to the potential DGW34 thats upcoming. 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 Thursday. Use this link if you’re interested in what the top 10 FPL managers I follow have as defenders
You will see I’ve added a new column showing which teams have risen and rank from the last week. This gives you a feel of recent form. However due to the shortened fixture list of last week the rankings have stayed the same
Looking at the optimum combination of strong defence at an appropriate value, good fixtures and good odds then the best transfers for this gameweek in my view are:
Everton – Coleman £6.0m
Spurs – Davies short term £4.7m or Walker £6.4m
COMMENTS AND CHEAPIE WATCH
Man Utd – £4.7m CB Jones is great value for Man Utd. He is a rotation risk with the Europa League still in play and Smalling , Bailly and Rojo all playing CB but doesn’t seem to be a 89th minute coming on as sub risk
Spurs – LWB Davies at £4.7m is outstanding value. Regular starter Rose is supposedly back for GW30 but he has a injury history and that has to be very doubtful
Southampton – £4.0m CB Stephens is outstanding value but I can’t help thinking that new signing Caceres can’t be far off starting. Yoshida at £4.3m looks worth the extra cash
Middlesborough – injuries. changing formations and changes of personnel all make them a hard side to lineup predict apart from Gibson at £4.9m. He though doesn’t look a value or attacking pick. I’ve left them blank for the moment. That’s even more so now with Karanka sacked.
West Ham – £4.2m Byram still doesn’t seem a starter at RB. He was also caught upfield badly for the last Bournemouth goal after coming on as sub.
C Palace – Attacking LB Van Aanholt is out only to GW30 which is why I haven’t included Schlupp as the attacking defender option
Hull – £4.4m CB Maguire is a great attacking option but faces a challenge for his place when Davies and Dawson are back. Davies was on the bench for GW28 so Maguire may have passed that test. Dawson’s return seems more uncertain. Robertson is the same price but far more secure
WBA – £5.1m Brunt was on the bench for WBA at the weekend. Pulis talked about rest rather than him being dropped but I have removed him at the moment.
Watford – I’ve added Kaboul at £4.4m as he seems fairly secure
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