Here’s our FPL gameweek 9 defenders article where we give our Defender and Goalkeeper player rankings GW9. There’s a table of information and commentary on key teams.
FPL gameweek 9 defenders – player rankings for Defenders and Goalkeepers
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Important note before reading!
I am now moving to 20/21 stats only
The Schedule
You can also see my defenders attacking ranking to GW8 in this article
The teams are ranked by defensive strength only for gameweeks 1-8.
You can access the google spreadsheet here
Possible transfer targets for GW9
Here I’m trying to find transfer targets by finding a balance between a good next fixture, fixtures generally, defensive form in 20/21
Chelsea
Chilwell still seems to be a bit of an injury risk but is top of my defender attacking rankings schedule. Newcastle are a great entry point although the fixtures are a bit mixed. GK £5.1m Mendy is a reasonable option too.
Man City
After Spurs it’s a great run of fixtures. Cancelo is the attacking option but is subject to rotation I would have though more than the safer option £5.5m Dias
C Palace
The defence is definitely questionable although they do at least have a defensive mindset. The next 3 fixtures though in Burnley, Newcastle and WBA are worth a punt for attacking option Van Aanholt. He didn’t make the minutes threshold for my attacking defenders option but his 197 minutes stats are excellent in quality and volume. £4.5m Cahill is the no attacking option.
Southampton
Walker Peters or the slightly more expensive £4.7m Vestergaard are the options here. McCarthy is also an option
Aston Villa
Purely for fixtures either Targett or £4.7m Konsa. GK Martinez is also an option as they seem to concede a decent amount of shots for him to get save points from.
A fixture ease schedule for defensive players
Here’s a graphic where the teams are ranked by the ease of the attacking teams they face over the next 6 gameweeks.
The clean sheet schedule
My schedule tries to focus on the stats that will lead to clean sheets rather than clean sheets themselves but I thought it would be worth while getting the clean sheet schedule from the premier league site
Goalkeeper save %
Here’s another schedule which shows you a goalkeeper save %. It’s not a ranking in itself as you can see there’s no correlation between % and clean sheets but does give you some idea of GKs who are good shot stoppers. It’s from the free stats site fbref.com
Other posts
Ben Wooton and Rob Cosgroves wildcards
Sergio’s Wildcard plus Andrew P and Kev’s teams
Early thoughts on the FFGeek team
Updated wildcards from Andrew W and Rob Reid
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