Callum Wilson (£6.2m) and Ryan Fraser (£5.6m) have occupied a lot of column inches on this site in recent weeks thanks to their excellent underlying attacking statistics, but the Cherries’ quietly impressive defence will be the sole focus of this article.
With most of their backline available around the £4.5m price bracket in Fantasy Premier League this season, Bournemouth’s defenders are budget-friendly assets that have the potential to rack up a clean sheet or two over the next half-dozen matches at the very least: the Cherries, in fact, sit top of our Season Ticker for the coming six Gameweeks.
Eddie Howe’s backline is not one that is normally associated with solidity, of course, and there is a reason why their defensive assets are available on the cheap.
The Cherries have conceded more than 60 goals in each of their three previous seasons as a Premier League side and kept the joint-lowest number of clean sheets (six) in the top flight in 2017/18.
As we touched on in our Digest feature earlier this week, though, Howe’s troops have been posting some uncharacteristically promising defensive statistics in the first four Gameweeks of this campaign.
This Members’ piece takes a closer look at their key performance indicators (KPIs) at the back and highlights which of Bournemouth’s FPL defenders stand out from a Fantasy perspective.
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