Defoe Escapes The Knife

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Ekitiké	LIV	8.9m	88.1%	Likely
James	CHE	5.6m	95.5%	Maybe
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	94.6%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	94.5%	Unlikely
Woltemade	NEW	7.3m	86.5%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	82.7%	Unlikely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	81.7%	Unlikely
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	77.1%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.5m	76.6%	Unlikely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	76.9%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	74.1%	Unlikely
Stach	LEE	4.8m	67.9%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	70.1%	Unlikely
Gravenberch	LIV	5.6m	63.5%	Unlikely
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	59.5%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	67.7%	Unlikely
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.8m	60.8%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	64.1%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	65.5%	Unlikely
Gordon	NEW	7.3m	57.4%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	65.8%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	58.1%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	56.2%	Unlikely
Watkins	AVL	8.5m	59.2%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	54.7%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	50.3%	Unlikely
Raya	ARS	6.0m	53.2%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	51.6%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	44.4%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	46.9%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	48.1%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	42.2%	Unlikely
Flemming	BUR	5.3m	45.2%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	43.5%	Unlikely
Kamara	AVL	4.9m	43.0%	Unlikely
Evanilson	BOU	7.0m	45.0%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.9m	43.0%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	40.8%	Unlikely
Cash	AVL	4.9m	42.9%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	5.9m	33.6%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mamardashvili	LIV	4.3m	101.2%	Very Likely
Nallo	LIV	3.8m	100.8%	Very Likely
Strand Larsen	WOL	6.2m	100.8%	Very Likely
Vicario	TOT	4.9m	100.8%	Very Likely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	100.0%	Very Likely
Isidor	SUN	5.5m	97.3%	Likely
Piroe	LEE	5.0m	100.4%	Very Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.3m	99.3%	Likely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	100.1%	Very Likely
Coleman	EVE	4.3m	100.1%	Very Likely
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	100.3%	Very Likely
March	BHA	5.8m	100.3%	Very Likely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	99.7%	Likely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	100.2%	Very Likely
Balcombe	BRE	4.0m	100.2%	Very Likely
Kulusevski	TOT	6.4m	100.2%	Very Likely
Tchaouna	BUR	4.9m	95.7%	Maybe
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	99.7%	Maybe
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	95.4%	Maybe
Muñoz	CRY	5.9m	95.9%	Maybe
Thiago	BRE	7.1m	90.8%	Maybe
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	97.7%	Maybe
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	97.1%	Maybe
James	LEE	5.3m	94.8%	Maybe
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	94.9%	Unlikely
Udogie	TOT	4.4m	93.8%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	93.1%	Unlikely
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	93.1%	Unlikely
Webster	BHA	4.4m	92.7%	Unlikely
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	92.6%	Unlikely
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	91.2%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	90.0%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	90.9%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	90.1%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.2m	85.1%	Unlikely
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	88.6%	Unlikely
Hannibal	BUR	4.8m	87.9%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	87.5%	Unlikely
Odobert	TOT	5.3m	85.7%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C
No Change	Alisson	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	B, Vs, Sus
No Change	Kelleher	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:40am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Andersen	FUL	C
No Change	Marc Guehi	CRY	A
No Change	van den Berg	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Thiaw	NEW	B
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	B
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	A
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:42am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
No Change	Szoboszlai	LIV	B, Vs, Inj, Sus
No Change	Minteh	BHA	C
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Sus
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs
No Change	Anderson	NFO	B, £

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:49am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Thiago	BRE	B, Vs, Inj
Up	Ekitiké	LIV	A, Vs
Up	Bowen	WHU	A
Down	Mateta	CRY	C
Down	Woltemade	NEW	B, Rest

Last updated: 20 Dec, 2025 12:51am

Good news for Pompey and fantasy managers – Jermain Defoe will avoid surgery on his troublesome calf and will not be sidelined until the New Year – indeed, there’s an outside chance he could line up against Blackburn this weekend….

Defoe picked up the calf injury whilst on international duty with England but had been troubled with cramps and discomfort for several weeks. However, surgery is not required and it sounds as though he could be back in action very soon. Portsmouth’s Head physio, Gary Sadler, broke the news today…

“Jermain went for tests in London but his injury doesn’t appear to be as bad as we thought it was…We’ll put him on a programme and constantly monitor him but there’s a chance that he could be able to play at the weekend”, remarked the sponge man.

“There’s a minimum risk of him picking up a further injury, so if he feels capable of playing then we don’t see it being a problem.”

That’s a major boost for Defoe owners and a likely frustration for the 52,000 FPL managers who have already transferred the striker out of their squads this gameweek. Defoe is due a price drop in that game by tomorrow as a result.

There’s every chance that Defoe will miss Sunday’s game of course, but if fit, he has the fixtures (BLA, wba, NEW, bol, WHM) over the coming weeks to contribute some decent returns. If he does start against Rovers and looks over his troubles – he could well be worth risking going into the Christmas period, particularly if your rivals have already shipped him out.

The Pompey physio also offered news on the rest of the queue in the Fratton Park treatment room. Diarra is another who will avoid surgery on an ankle injury – he is due to return in “a few weeks time” according to today’s report.

Sol Campbell is nursing a sore toe but sounds as though he’ll be in the mix for a return against Rovers. Kranjcar has stepped up his training having picked up an ankle injury. According to Sadler, “there’s a chance that he could rejoin training at the end of the week.”

A doubt for the weekend then but Kranjcar is another that needs monitoring over this “blue period” of fixtures for Portsmouth.

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