FPL champion: My pick of the players with the best fixtures

FPL GW18 Scout Picks - Final Selection

Pickford

O’Reilly
van Dijk
Keane
Saliba

Saka
Wilson
Wirtz

Thiago
Haaland
Ekitiké

Dubravka
Alderete
Miley
Le Fée

GW19 Chip Poll

Price Change Predictions

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Cunha	MUN	8.0m	122.8%	Very Likely
Rogers	AVL	7.3m	103.8%	Very Likely
Dalot	MUN	4.4m	94.8%	Likely
Ekitiké	LIV	9.0m	95.7%	Likely
James	CHE	5.6m	102.4%	Very Likely
Chalobah	CHE	5.5m	96.7%	Likely
L.Miley	NEW	4.4m	100.2%	Very Likely
Lewis-Potter	BRE	4.8m	98.9%	Likely
Mukiele	SUN	4.2m	98.5%	Maybe
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	92.5%	Unlikely
Cherki	MCI	6.6m	72.8%	Unlikely
Alderete	SUN	4.0m	89.4%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	90.1%	Unlikely
O'Reilly	MCI	5.3m	90.7%	Unlikely
Wirtz	LIV	8.1m	55.2%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.3m	66.4%	Unlikely
Andersen	FUL	4.6m	73.6%	Unlikely
Virgil	LIV	5.9m	76.0%	Unlikely
Rice	ARS	7.2m	54.7%	Unlikely
Tete	FUL	4.5m	69.5%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.8m	67.4%	Unlikely
Semenyo	BOU	7.7m	53.6%	Unlikely
Mount	MUN	5.9m	71.0%	Unlikely
Saliba	ARS	5.9m	60.7%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	63.4%	Unlikely
Keane	EVE	4.7m	44.8%	Unlikely
Van den Berg	BRE	4.5m	58.7%	Unlikely
Pickford	EVE	5.5m	52.8%	Unlikely
Heaven	MUN	3.8m	50.7%	Unlikely
E.Le Fée	SUN	4.9m	55.3%	Unlikely
Calvert-Lewin	LEE	5.8m	48.2%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	58.8%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	54.8%	Unlikely
Trossard	ARS	6.9m	55.2%	Unlikely
Konaté	LIV	5.4m	53.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	51.7%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	6.0m	43.1%	Unlikely
Smith Rowe	FUL	5.6m	48.4%	Unlikely
Igor Jesus	NFO	5.8m	44.1%	Unlikely
Rúben	MCI	5.7m	46.6%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	101.8%	Very Likely
Pedro Porro	TOT	5.3m	101.2%	Very Likely
Nørgaard	ARS	5.2m	100.6%	Very Likely
Udogie	TOT	4.4m	101.0%	Very Likely
Cucurella	CHE	6.2m	99.6%	Likely
James	LEE	5.3m	99.8%	Likely
McAtee	NFO	5.1m	98.5%	Likely
Yoro	MUN	4.3m	95.2%	Maybe
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	97.5%	Maybe
P.M.Sarr	TOT	4.6m	95.4%	Maybe
Welbeck	BHA	6.4m	84.0%	Maybe
Jair Cunha	NFO	4.3m	96.2%	Maybe
Bevan	BOU	3.9m	94.9%	Maybe
Fer López	WOL	5.2m	93.0%	Maybe
Trafford	MCI	4.6m	95.4%	Maybe
Nwaneri	ARS	5.1m	95.5%	Maybe
Mosquera	ARS	5.4m	94.4%	Maybe
L.Guilherme	WHU	4.9m	94.9%	Unlikely
Gibbs-White	NFO	7.3m	94.1%	Unlikely
Barnes	BUR	4.3m	92.4%	Unlikely
Tasker	BHA	3.9m	92.7%	Unlikely
Hannibal	BUR	4.8m	93.7%	Unlikely
Enzo	CHE	6.5m	87.2%	Unlikely
Bruno G.	NEW	7.0m	81.2%	Unlikely
Adams	BOU	5.0m	87.1%	Unlikely
Fitzgerald	MUN	4.4m	91.2%	Unlikely
Robertson	LIV	5.8m	87.7%	Unlikely
Eze	ARS	7.6m	63.1%	Unlikely
Hermansen	WHU	4.3m	87.8%	Unlikely
Johnson	SUN	3.9m	86.3%	Unlikely
Aké	MCI	5.3m	87.1%	Unlikely
Bayindir	MUN	4.8m	87.2%	Unlikely
Broggio	AVL	4.5m	85.9%	Unlikely
Bellegarde	WOL	5.2m	85.8%	Unlikely
Benitez	CRY	4.0m	87.2%	Unlikely
Odobert	TOT	5.3m	85.0%	Unlikely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.6m	81.9%	Unlikely
Seung soo	NEW	4.4m	81.0%	Unlikely
March	BHA	5.8m	80.8%	Unlikely
R.Gomes	WOL	4.4m	81.5%	Unlikely

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FPL Fixture Ticker

Watchlists

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

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:46pm

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

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:50pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
Up	Matheus Cunha	MUN	A
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	A
Up	Wirtz	LIV	B, Vs
Up	Grealish	EVE	B, Vs
No Change	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B, Sus
No Change	Schade	BRE	C, Vs
Down	Minteh	BHA	C
No Change	Anderson	NFO	C, £

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:54pm

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

Last updated: 26 Dec, 2025 1:56pm

Pro Pundits

FPL champion: My pick of the players with the best fixtures

29 November 2023 441 comments

FPLGunz

In the latest article from our team of Hall of Famers and guest contributors, reigning worldwide champion Ali (FPL Gunz) uses our Season Ticker to pick out the best fixtures in both attack and defence.

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A third of the season is behind us and FPL managers are now thinking about strategies for the festive period. The inconsistent displays of several Premier League sides could be a good argument in favour of ease of fixtures in the never-ending battle of fixtures versus form.

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Ze_Austin
2 years, 28 days ago
Oh wow. Sommer's actually benched for Inter 😮
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Randaxus
2 years, 28 days ago
Klopp said that Allison might be back in the middle of next week.
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1. Dirk Diggler
  2 years, 28 days ago
  No, that is not what he said but he is a garbage pick anyway, including his replacement, so who cares.
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  1. Ze_Austin
    2 years, 28 days ago
    Is this garbage pick Alisson, FPL's top-scoring keeper?
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    1. Dirk Diggler
      2 years, 28 days ago
      Correct, that is what I typed. Your point makes absolutely zero difference.
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  2. Randaxus
    2 years, 28 days ago
    "Not tommorow, not on Sunday, the week after he should be ok." he did not define it the week after was Wensday or or Saturday, Wensday is the week after Sunday and he seemed very unsure about when he would be fit, therefore by saying he might be back on Wednesday I am correct.
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    1. Randaxus
      2 years, 28 days ago
      Wednesday*
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Dirk Diggler
2 years, 28 days ago
The fall of Man U has been hilarious. They really are a comedy club nowadays. Completely irrelevant.
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Wobbles
2 years, 28 days ago
As a Man Utd fan, I can't wait for the African Nations Cup. I'll be supporting Cameroon, the longer they stay in the tournament, the better.
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Ze_Austin
2 years, 28 days ago
This match makes me want to get Gordon regardless of Bowen's fitness

Man U is so open
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1. OptimusBlack
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Already have Gordon and want to get Isak too
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AD105
2 years, 28 days ago
A) Roll FT
B) Alvarez > Darwin and downgrade Cash to free up funds (-4)

Areola
Tsimi Gabriel Taylor
Salah Son Mbeumo Diaby
Haaland Watkins Alvarez

Turner Cash Guehi Anderson
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1. Baps Hunter
  2 years, 28 days ago
  B, just ditch both!
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It’s gonna Ben Mee
2 years, 28 days ago
Isak vs this lot. Captain material
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1. Baps Hunter
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Difficult decision between him and Darwin. They conceded two vs Wolves without Neto. Maybe Watkins or Haaland out with a hit to get both.
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  1. Sir Michael Taker
    2 years, 28 days ago
    Did you forget who Haaland has? Ben Davies and Emerson Chicken Royal
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Pumpkinhead - I'm ITK …
2 years, 28 days ago
Gettin

We were all Galatasary weren't we ?
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1. Sir Michael Taker
  2 years, 28 days ago
  suspect it was an awkward game for Leeds fans
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RICICLE
2 years, 28 days ago
So glad to have stripper against that trash
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1. RICICLE
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Stripper lmao’
  
  Trippier*
  
  Strippier! Lol
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  1. Alan The Llama
    2 years, 28 days ago
    Your predictive text just gave you up.
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    1. RICICLE
      2 years, 28 days ago
      My predictive text is so random, not once have I mentioned stripper in anything lol!
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  2. Make FPL Casual Again
    2 years, 28 days ago
    You sound like certain ccs with that "spicy" lingo
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    1. RICICLE
      2 years, 28 days ago
      I’m not sure I get it but I’ll agree haha!
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      1. Make FPL Casual Again
        2 years, 28 days ago
        Spicy lingo slipping into cc content viz "beautiful fixtures", players "showing leg" and "flirting", expressions of lets just say "romantic fondness" for certain players etc etc
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2. _Greg
  2 years, 28 days ago
  how much for the hour eh :mrgreen'
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Qaiss
2 years, 28 days ago
If Man United and Newcastle both go out the CL, surely finishing 5th in the premier league won’t be enough to qualify? Remember hearing a few times 5th would/could qualify
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PartyTime
2 years, 28 days ago
Are there still manchester utd fans out there?
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FPL Blow-In
2 years, 28 days ago
Onana is trash
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1. Baps Hunter
  2 years, 28 days ago
  E Mendy coming in January to strengthen the squad?
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  1. Sir Michael Taker
    2 years, 28 days ago
    As in the Mendy Chelsea had? Yeah pretty sure he's at Afcon too
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    1. Baps Hunter
      2 years, 28 days ago
      Karius then?
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2. Shultan
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Yep as the utd fan said above, Im looking to fwd AFCON or hoping onana has a falling out with ETH
  Only way to stop him playing
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Alan The Llama
2 years, 28 days ago
Can't decide between Mbeumo and Gordon. Feels like one of those picks I'm destined to get wrong whichever way I go.

Mbeumo's on penalties; Gordon looks like someone who rides his moped on the pavement.
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1. Baps Hunter
  2 years, 28 days ago
  I am wondering between Gordon and Darwin. Still Darwin, New has often as many different goalscorers as they have goals.
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2. Baps Hunter
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Isak another possibility
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Shultan
2 years, 28 days ago
That Arsenal line up means Gabriel is getting benched this weekend
Played twice for Brazil & now PL & CL
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1. Baps Hunter
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Good! Now I have to take a hit just in case and bench him 😉
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2. RICICLE
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Nah he should be good still
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3. Snake Juice
  2 years, 28 days ago
  What a wild assumption to make.
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  1. Shultan
    2 years, 28 days ago
    Played 8 games in a row almost all 90 minutes
    Think it's a fair assumption
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OptimusBlack
2 years, 28 days ago
Trippier Archer Watkins >
Pinnock Darwin Isak
For -4 & For Long term
Yaaaay
Nope
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1. RICICLE
  2 years, 28 days ago
  I personally wouldn’t, Darwin is a donkey, much prefer Watkins, and would hate to lose Trippier against United even with Isak there instead. If you feel it though you go for it bud! I’ve taken a -4 already to set up better.
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Bad Kompany
2 years, 28 days ago
Lose Jwp or Martinelli to get mbeumo?
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1. Snake Juice
  2 years, 28 days ago
  JWP of course
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2. Farteta
  2 years, 28 days ago
  JWP probably - only one decent Gameweek in the last 8 weeks.
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Jet5605
2 years, 28 days ago
1 FT and 2.2 ITB. Is the obvious transfer Eze > Gordon? Really want to do Cash > Saliba (and bench Ruben) but not sure it's worth a -4 hit.

Areola
Trippier - Cash - Tsimi
Salah - Eze - Bowen - JWP - Mbuemo
Haaland - Alvarez

Turner - Ruben - Archer - Baldock
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The Mighty Hippo
2 years, 28 days ago
If Bowen is injured for a while, who is the best replacement (to go alongside Salah, Saka, Son, Gordon) ....

a). Sterling
b). Mbuemo
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1. have you seen cyan
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Either tbh, but B will have painful ownership if Sterling doesnt perform. Sterling not really on pens either, but he may take the odd one.
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have you seen cyan
2 years, 28 days ago
I have done zero research into this, but is Soucek going to playing as CF if Bowen is out?
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1. have you seen cyan
  2 years, 28 days ago
  4.9 mill..
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Bishopool
2 years, 28 days ago
Garnacho now legit option in FPL?
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1. Flynny
  2 years, 28 days ago
  I'd like to know this. Gut says probably not
  
  Tough fixtures and will surely be protected by manager
  
  I have 2fts and 3xact cash for adingra and cash to saliba and garnacho. So it's tempting
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2. have you seen cyan
  2 years, 28 days ago
  Nah
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3. KiKiFC
  2 years, 28 days ago
  On the radar but still a rotation risk and needs more involvements. One for the future?
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Farteta
2 years, 28 days ago
Best Transfer here? 1FT, 0.2 itb

a. Diaby & Cash --> Mbuemo + 4.9 Def
b. JWP & Cash --> Watkins & 4.3 Def
c. Save FT
d. Other

Areola - Johnstone
Cash - Trippier - Lascelles - Tsimi - Zinc
Salah - Saka - JWP - Palmer - Diaby
Haaland - Alvarez - Morris
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1. Nitu
  2 years, 28 days ago
  C.
  Why would u want to get rid of Cash and Diaby before Bournemouth match?
  
  Also B is not possible as Watkins is forward and JWP is midfield.
  
  Your team looks good to go for next week.
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  1. have you seen cyan
    2 years, 28 days ago
    is Cash even going to start?
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  2. Farteta
    2 years, 28 days ago
    I meant Mbuemo for B.
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Dirk Diggler
2 years, 28 days ago
Havertz is the worst player I have ever watched, just behind Rashford.
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have you seen cyan
2 years, 28 days ago
Havert G
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Bishopool
2 years, 28 days ago
Well that Sevilla vs PSV was show! How big difference can 30 minutes make.
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Bishopool
2 years, 28 days ago
Hmm. ManU vs Bayern is going to be delight.
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Total Foot 5
2 years, 28 days ago
Salah, at 96% rize fpl, thots he rise today
1 y
2 n
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have you seen cyan
2 years, 28 days ago
Jesus G
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Qaiss
2 years, 28 days ago
3-0 Arsenal
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have you seen cyan
2 years, 28 days ago
Saka G
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el polako
2 years, 28 days ago
Martinelli involved in the celebrations with all 3 goals?
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