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Haaland
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Ajer
Thomas
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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	B
No Change	Pickford	EVE	B
No Change	Kinsky	TOT	B, Vs
No Change	Hornícek	NEW	C, Vs
Up	Tzolakis	HUL	A
No Change	Verbruggen	BHA	B
No Change	Martinez	CHE	C

Last updated: 10 Oct, 2026 1:47am

	Player	Club	Factors
Up	Calafiori	ARS	B
Down	Konsa Ngoyo	ARS	C, Inj
No Change	Gvardiol	MCI	A
Up	Lewis Hall	NEW	A, Vs
No Change	Tarkowski	EVE	A
No Change	De Cuyper	BHA	B, OoP
No Change	Muharemovic	LEE	B, VsX
No Change	Williams	NFO	B, Inj
No Change	Lacroix	CHE	C
Up	Affengruber	FUL	A, Vs
No Change	Khalaili	CRY	B
Up	Thomas	COV	B, Vs

Last updated: 10 Oct, 2026 2:19am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A
No Change	Palmer	CHE	B, Inj
No Change	Rogers	CHE	B
No Change	Saka	ARS	B, Vs
No Change	Gibbs-White	NFO	A
Up	Tavernier	BOU	B
No Change	Groß	BHA	A
No Change	Mbeumo	MUN	B
No Change	Semenyo	MCI	A, Inj
No Change	Dewsbury-Hall	EVE	C
No Change	Barnes	NEW	A, Vs
No Change	King	FUL	B, Vs
Up	Schade	BRE	A
Down	Szoboszlai	LIV	C, VsX
No Change	Le Fée	SUN	B

Last updated: 10 Oct, 2026 2:11am

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	A
No Change	João Pedro	CHE	A, Inj
No Change	Wissa	NEW	C, Vs
No Change	Isak	LIV	A, Inj
No Change	Thiago	BRE	C
Up	Gonzalo García	FUL	C, Vs
Up	Barry	EVE	C
Down	Calvert-Lewin	LEE	B, VsX
Down	McBurnie	HUL	C

Last updated: 10 Oct, 2026 2:15am

Date	Player	Team	Price
20/10	Endo	LIV	4.8m
20/10	Gyökeres	ARS	7.0m
20/10	Hudson-Odoi	NFO	5.7m
20/10	Hughes	CRY	4.3m
20/10	Jacquet	LIV	5.1m
20/10	Muniz	FUL	5.3m
20/10	Nmecha	LEE	5.3m
20/10	Ruggeri	AVL	4.4m
19/10	Alcaraz	EVE	4.8m
19/10	De Cuyper	BHA	5.3m
19/10	Doku	MCI	7.5m
19/10	Grimes	COV	4.8m
19/10	Groß	BHA	6.2m
19/10	Onyeka	COV	4.8m
19/10	Rogers	CHE	8.0m
19/10	Stroud	HUL	4.9m
19/10	Welbeck	CHE	5.8m
19/10	Wieffer	BHA	4.8m
18/10	Braithwaite	MCI	3.9m
18/10	Gibbs-White	NFO	7.9m
18/10	J.Cuenca	FUL	4.4m
18/10	João Pedro	CHE	7.9m
18/10	Keane	EVE	4.7m
18/10	Nketiah	CRY	5.4m
18/10	Norton-Cuffy	HUL	3.9m
18/10	Samba	MCI	4.4m
18/10	Tavernier	BOU	6.2m
18/10	Virgil	LIV	6.4m
18/10	Wissa	NEW	6.1m
18/10	Wood	NFO	5.7m
18/10	Zubimendi	ARS	5.2m
17/10	Aina	NFO	4.3m
17/10	Bentancur	TOT	5.4m
17/10	Calafiori	ARS	6.0m
17/10	Cherki	MCI	8.0m
17/10	Diop	IPS	3.9m
17/10	Khusanov	MCI	5.3m
17/10	Manzambi	AVL	6.0m
17/10	Robinson	FUL	4.4m
17/10	Tel	TOT	5.6m
17/10	Touré	NEW	5.7m
16/10	Alysson	AVL	4.9m
16/10	B.Fernandes	MUN	11.8m
16/10	Damsgaard	BRE	5.3m
16/10	De Cuyper	BHA	5.2m
16/10	Delap	NFO	5.5m
16/10	Elanga	NEW	6.0m
16/10	Evanilson	BOU	6.1m
16/10	Frimpong	LIV	5.2m
16/10	Groß	BHA	6.1m
16/10	Haaland	MCI	15.7m
16/10	Jair Cunha	NFO	4.4m
16/10	John	NFO	4.4m
16/10	Kroupi.Jr	BOU	7.3m
16/10	Latibeaudiere	COV	3.9m
16/10	M.Sangaré	BRE	5.5m
16/10	Maddison	TOT	6.2m
16/10	Mbeumo	MUN	7.8m
16/10	Mosquera	ARS	5.2m
16/10	Núñez	IPS	4.8m
16/10	O.Richards	NFO	3.9m
16/10	Steur	NEW	4.8m
16/10	Szoboszlai	LIV	6.8m
16/10	Targett	HUL	3.9m
16/10	Tielemans	MUN	5.7m
16/10	Valdimarsson	BRE	4.4m
16/10	Wirtz	LIV	7.2m
16/10	Wissa	NEW	6.2m
15/10	Šeško	MUN	6.9m
15/10	Igor Jesus	NFO	5.7m
15/10	Tzolis	ARS	6.2m
14/10	Dasilva	BRE	4.8m
14/10	Mazraoui	MUN	4.3m
14/10	Muñoz	NFO	5.3m
14/10	Pedro Porro	TOT	5.3m
14/10	Senesi	TOT	5.7m
13/10	Amenda	COV	3.9m
13/10	Cherki	MCI	7.9m
13/10	Kusi-Asare	FUL	4.4m
13/10	Lewis	MCI	4.3m

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The Numbers Game – Team Stats Analysis – Defending

9 September 2012 1603 comments

Paul

Yesterday, we rolled out the first in a two-part series of Members articles focussing on team stats over the first three Gameweeks so far. Having assessed the performances from an attacking perspective, we turn our attentions to the men at the back, analysing a variety of key performance statistics from a defensive point of view:

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Daniel_tsl

14 years, 1 month ago
Which two should i hav in my next gw?

Baines
Rafael
Riise
Ben-Arfa
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1. Paolo Di Laernu - low rep r…
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  All of them if you have them
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Harry Ball Bag™⚽⚽…

14 years, 1 month ago
Best combo?

A sTaylor / gallas
B rafeal / cuellar
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1. Billy Gilmore
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  B.
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gunnerboy

14 years, 1 month ago
Must I bring in Santi or Hazard this week?
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1. Harry Ball Bag™⚽⚽…
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Hazard this week
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2. Bubbles
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Only if you want to.
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3. Willis.
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Hazard.
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4. Scroobius Mac
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Na.
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Ninjaa

14 years, 1 month ago
Revised wc team, taken the advice from 10 mins ago,

Jussi begovic

McAuly jenkinson s.taylor cuellar distin

Hazard michu cazorla yaya guthrie

Rvp tevez graham
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DonTheSpecialOne

14 years, 1 month ago
Gents, would you drop El Nino for Van P, if you had to do it for a hit?
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1. Willis.
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  NO.
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2. RoysCallerAnne
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  For free, yes. For a hit, no. Maybe use your FT this GW to free up funds.
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  1. DonTheSpecialOne
    
    14 years, 1 month ago
    Cheers, both!
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Castiel

14 years, 1 month ago
Is ash cole likely to play this weekend?
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1. Willis.
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  I hope so.
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  1. FPL Daniel
    
    14 years, 1 month ago
    I bloody hope so 2
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PanTanti

14 years, 1 month ago
Morning all!!!

Any love for my ucl draft?

Malafeev quim
Jallet gibbs vidal porto maicon uchida
Pirlo hazard robben rubenmicael shirokov
Messi ibra mandzukic

Apart from jallet who ill see if he still starts any major problems?
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1. roscola
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  I don't play UCL but ... is there really a keeper called 'quim'? 😯
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2. Kostja
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Jallet will be benched for Wiel
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RoysCallerAnne

14 years, 1 month ago
Morning lads. Apologies to non WCers. I have Jenkinson and he's risen 0.2 and will probably rise again on Friday.
If Arsenal get a CS (very possible) Vs SOT, we can probably expect another rise for Jenkinson before Arsenal's two tough fixtures.
So, my question is ; bank the 0.1 profit now or hopefully bank 0.2 next week plus hopefully get his clean sheet (but waste a valuable transfer)?
Thanks.
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1. Christina.
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Post this on the new page. Under the new post.
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  1. RoysCallerAnne
    
    14 years, 1 month ago
    Damn! Thanks for the heads-up!
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2. Van The Man
  
  14 years, 1 month ago
  Arsenal won't keep a CS! They play Southampton!
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Benster

14 years, 1 month ago
Been playing this game since 2006 but the idea of having team 'cover' is new to me.

If Arsenal were playing well I'd want to have Cazorla AND Podolski in my team but the popular advice on here would be to swap out Pod as I already have Arsenal attacking cover. Advice seems to be to go for Barbatov in place of Pod for example but I'm looking at it and thinking Pod will score more goals than Berba....will he not?
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everycloud

14 years, 1 month ago
Ciarin Clark a good swap for Fabio? Anyone have any idea if he will retain his places in the coming weeks?
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timski8000

14 years, 1 month ago
Probably been mentioned but Stoke have kept a clean sheet against Arsenal!

Please can this be updated?!
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Futureways

14 years, 1 month ago
Gorkss is Reading's vice captain, a goal threat at corners, and comes at 3.9 only because of Reading's blank gameweeks. Why isn't he on everyones bargain-list?
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justinlippy

14 years, 1 month ago
As a WBA fan - Popov won't challenge Ridgewell for his spot... While Goran has experience, he is new to the country and there's nothing to suggest a swap between the two at all.

bit.ly/OCtUDA
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justinlippy

14 years, 1 month ago
As a WBA fan – Popov won’t challenge Ridgewell for his spot… While Goran has experience, he is new to the country and there’s nothing to suggest a swap between the two at all.

http://www.bit.ly/OCtUDA
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