fantasy premier league defender tips GW8 – player rankings for Defs and Gks

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Here’s our fantasy premier league defender tips GW8 article where we give our defender and GK player rankings for gameweek 8. There’s a comprehensive table of stats and player suggestions to help you make a transfer choice.

fantasy premier league defender tips GW8 – 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  their goals and xG conceded.

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 GW8-13, the 2nd GW8-10. 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 GW8. The lower the better obviously.

Prices are as of Wednesday 3 October

Gameweek 8 Fixtures

fantasy premier league defender tips GW8

The Schedule

If you want access to copy and paste the schedule here’s the google spreadsheet link



fantasy premier league defender tips GW8

Player Suggestions

Here’s some suggestions for a transfer this week based on a good fixture, defensive strength and upcoming fixtures



Spurs Trippier £6.2m –  Assuming Trippier plays against Barcelona I guess there could be some risk that Walker Peters starts at RB.  That would leave a gaping hole at set piece time assuming Eriksen is still injured.  Lamela being the only other possible option.

Cardiff (H)
West Ham (A)
Man City (H)
Wolves (A)
Crystal Palace (A)
Chelsea (H)

Chelsea Alonso £6.9m – I was genuinely surprised how well Chelsea defended v Liverpool and Alonso remains a good attacking option.

Southampton (A)
Man Utd (H)
Burnley (A)
Crystal Palace (H)
Everton (H)
Spurs (A)

I also think special mention to the Wolves defence and Doherty.  Whether an away fixture to Palace is a great entry point or not he is great value as an attacking force within a very good defensive unit

Crystal Palace (A)
Watford (H)
Brighton (A)
Spurs (H)
Arsenal (A)
Huddersfield (H)

See also the first contributors teams article the  bandwagons and sinking ships article early ffgeek team thoughts10 top FPL manager analysis article,   fixture ease article,  underlying stats for players up to GW7 and a  review of GW7 in isolation

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