Fantasy premier league GW21 review – the best underlying stats from GW21 

Fantasy Premier League, Gameweek analysis

Here’s our fantasy premier league GW21 review where we look for the players and teams with the best underlying stats from GW21. It’s an easy way to check on how one of your FPL team performed

Fantasy premier league GW21 review – the best underlying stats from GW21  





They are just for GW21 and not cumulative. It only includes selected players who started no subs.

The article is in 2 parts. We’ve started with the attacking stats for the players divided by position. Effectively we’ve taken their xG stats and their xA stats and converted them into FPL points and then ranked them. We don’t show the points but that’s how they’re ranked. It’s far more useful than just ranking them by xG and xA separately. I haven’t attempted to rank every player.

There’s shots and key passes so you get a volume perspective as well as a quality perspective.

There’s defender rankings although one off games don’t give a realistic picture. It’s better to look at cumulative stats

The 2nd part is just the ranking of team defensive and attacking performances which is the rank by xG and xG conceded. I’ve also included the GW21 fixtures so you can remind yourself who was playing if needed

The stats are all from the excellent free site understat.com

Best midfielders in GW21

I’ve turned the xG and xA from GW21 only into theoretical FPL points and ranked them

Fantasy premier league GW21 review

Best forwards in GW21

I’ve turned the xG and xA  from GW21 only into theoretical FPL points and ranked them

Fantasy premier league GW21 review

Best attacking defenders in GW21

I’ve turned the xG and xA  from GW21 only into theoretical FPL points and ranked them

Fantasy premier league GW21 review

Best team defences in GW21

I’ve ranked the team defences by the lowest xG conceded.

TeamxG concededShts conceded
Chelsea0.166
Burnley0.629
Everton0.638
Man Utd0.6314
C Palace0.669
Brighton0.6613
West Ham0.7113
Southampton0.8517
Leicester0.8717
Bournemouth0.9911
Spurs1.036
Liverpool1.189
Cardiff1.2913
Man City1.387
Arsenal1.719
Wolves1.8817
Newcastle2.5516
Huddersfield2.6216
Watford2.8725
Fulham4.4316




Best team attack in GW21

I’ve ranked the teams in order of the highest xG

TeamxG AttackShots
Arsenal4.4316
Bournemouth2.8725
Burnley2.6216
Man Utd2.5516
C Palace1.8817
Fulham1.719
Liverpool1.387
Spurs1.2913
Man City1.189
Cardiff1.036
Watford0.9911
Everton0.8717
Chelsea0.8517
Brighton0.7113
Wolves0.669
West Ham0.6613
Newcastle0.6314
Leicester0.638
Huddersfield0.629
Southampton0.166

Notes of interest from the GW21 lineups

I use the excellent site sofascore for lineups and some stat data

£5.3m fwd Calvert Lewin played up front for Everton

Richarlison played AML

£5.3m Leicester defender Pereira played FLW in a front 3

Kolasinac played LWB

£5.4m Mid Iwobi played AMR for Arsenal

Fulham mid Cairney moved back to CM

Cardiffs Paterson played RM instead of CF

Son was Kane’s strike partner

Eriksen played ML instead of AML

Deulofeu was Deeney’s striker partner

£4.6m Watford Mid Sema played AM

£4.4m Burnley Mid McNeil played LM

Gross played CM not CAM or SS for Brighton

Hazard played FLW in a front 3 not CF/false 9

Pogba played CAM

£7.2m forward Rashford played CF over Lukaku

Salah played FLW in a front 3 but changed to CF later in the game

GW21 fixture reminder

Fantasy premier league GW21 review

 

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