Marcos Alonso (£7.1m) has been on a rollercoaster ride through the Fantasy community this season.
“Overpriced” as an orthodox left-back one minute and then “essential” the next, the fact stands that the Spanish defender is currently the leading scorer in Fantasy Premier League across all positions, having accumulated more points than Mohamed Salah (£13.0m), Raheem Sterling (£11.2m), Harry Kane (£12.4m) and Sergio Aguero (£11.4m) – all of whom we have discussed previously in this mini-series.
Yet still there remain murmurings about his diminished goal threat and more conservative role in Maurizio Sarri’s back four.
With that in mind, we have taken this opportunity to scrutinise Alonso’s key underlying statistics and analyse how the figures from this campaign are matching up to his stand-out FPL season of 2016/17.
That season saw Alonso find the net on six occasions and register five assists, with 15 sets of clean sheet points and 11 bonus helping the Chelsea left-back to an overall score of 177; Alonso has almost reached half of that total in just 12 Gameweeks of this campaign.
Alonso already has as many assists to his name (seven) as any FPL defender managed in the whole of 2017/18 and the same number that he himself has managed in the last two seasons combined.
An ever-present in the Premier League this season, Alonso has registered clean sheets in half of the 12 top-flight fixtures in which he has started for the Blues.
Rest and rotation is a risk over the busy Christmas period, as it is for most players, but Sarri came to England with a reputation for fielding a settled side and that is certainly panning out this season: seven of Chelsea’s first-choice starting XI (including all of Chelsea’s back four) have started every Premier League match and only fitness concerns have likely prevented Eden Hazard (£11.3m) from doing the same.
Members can read on to find out how Alonso’s attacking key performance indicators contrast to his “breakthrough” FPL season of 2016/17.
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5 years, 5 months agoDid Mendy -> Dunk with a plan to get Sterling next gameweek, but i'm getting second thoughts.
Getting Sterling involves the following transfers:
Mendy -> Dunk (already done)
Barkley -> Kenedy
Arnautovic -> Jimenez
Sigurdsson -> Sterling
So essentially i'm downgrading two great fantasy assets in Sigurdsson and Arnautovic. I'm also going with a very cheap defender (he will however be rotated with Bennett and Wan Bissaka, with Alonso and Robertson playing every gameweek).
What's your thoughts?