FPL 2025/26 team previews: Crystal Palace – Best players, DC magnets + more

Price Change Predictions

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

Risers

Fallers

Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Woltemade	NEW	7.4m	110.2%	Very Likely
Van Hecke	BHA	4.4m	97.2%	Likely
Lammens	MUN	5.0m	99.8%	Likely
Casemiro	MUN	5.5m	95.0%	Maybe
J.Timber	ARS	6.4m	86.4%	Maybe
Raya	ARS	5.9m	74.0%	Unlikely
Guéhi	CRY	5.1m	66.7%	Unlikely
Truffert	BOU	4.5m	89.7%	Unlikely
Roefs	SUN	4.7m	84.5%	Unlikely
Cullen	BUR	5.0m	85.0%	Unlikely
Mitchell	CRY	5.0m	83.4%	Unlikely
Tavernier	BOU	5.5m	86.5%	Unlikely
Petrović	BOU	4.5m	81.8%	Unlikely
Szoboszlai	LIV	6.6m	84.5%	Unlikely
J.Palhinha	TOT	5.5m	78.7%	Unlikely
Matheus N.	MCI	5.3m	75.2%	Unlikely
Rogers	AVL	6.9m	79.3%	Unlikely
Neto	CHE	7.2m	56.3%	Unlikely
Dúbravka	BUR	4.0m	71.5%	Unlikely
Gvardiol	MCI	5.8m	68.3%	Unlikely
De Ligt	MUN	5.0m	75.1%	Unlikely
Amad	MUN	6.3m	65.5%	Unlikely
Saka	ARS	10.1m	59.9%	Unlikely
Sánchez	CHE	4.8m	62.6%	Unlikely
King	FUL	4.5m	62.8%	Unlikely
Foden	MCI	8.3m	42.6%	Unlikely
O.Dango	BRE	6.0m	55.4%	Unlikely
Ballard	SUN	4.6m	55.2%	Unlikely
Schade	BRE	7.0m	55.4%	Unlikely
Lacroix	CRY	5.1m	44.9%	Unlikely
Donnarumma	MCI	5.7m	54.8%	Unlikely
Chalobah	CHE	5.2m	47.6%	Unlikely
Sessegnon	FUL	5.4m	48.2%	Unlikely
Burn	NEW	5.1m	32.7%	Unlikely
Gusto	CHE	4.9m	46.1%	Unlikely
Barnes	NEW	6.4m	34.5%	Unlikely
Livramento	NEW	4.9m	36.5%	Unlikely
Kroupi.Jr	BOU	4.6m	44.2%	Unlikely
Anderson	NFO	5.4m	41.1%	Unlikely
Verbruggen	BHA	4.4m	35.2%	Unlikely

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Player	Team	Price	Progress	Tonight
Mbeumo	MUN	8.6m	85.7%	Likely
Caicedo	CHE	5.9m	104.4%	Very Likely
Rodney	CRY	4.5m	99.7%	Likely
Strand Larsen	WOL	6.3m	93.1%	Likely
Vicario	TOT	5.0m	95.4%	Maybe
Tel	TOT	6.3m	93.4%	Maybe
Coppola	BHA	4.3m	95.1%	Maybe
Pinnock	BRE	4.3m	95.8%	Maybe
Lewis	MCI	4.8m	91.0%	Maybe
Dixon	EVE	3.9m	94.3%	Unlikely
J.Araujo	BOU	3.9m	92.9%	Unlikely
Okafor	LEE	5.5m	94.3%	Unlikely
Maguire	MUN	4.4m	91.0%	Unlikely
Kerkez	LIV	5.7m	89.3%	Unlikely
Welch	EVE	3.9m	91.7%	Unlikely
Mainoo	MUN	4.7m	90.2%	Unlikely
Ortega Moreno	MCI	4.8m	89.8%	Unlikely
Travers	EVE	4.4m	90.7%	Unlikely
Boateng	BUR	4.8m	89.3%	Unlikely
Kelleher	BRE	4.5m	88.8%	Unlikely
Darlow	LEE	4.0m	86.0%	Unlikely
Georginio	BHA	5.7m	76.4%	Unlikely
Mac Allister	LIV	6.3m	83.2%	Unlikely
Arrizabalaga	ARS	4.2m	83.4%	Unlikely
M.Bizot	AVL	4.3m	86.2%	Unlikely
Cox	BRE	4.0m	83.7%	Unlikely
Abbott	NFO	3.9m	85.2%	Unlikely
McGill	BHA	4.0m	82.8%	Unlikely
Knight	BHA	4.5m	83.1%	Unlikely
Colwill	CHE	4.8m	83.0%	Unlikely
Baleba	BHA	4.7m	81.5%	Unlikely
Young	AVL	4.4m	79.8%	Unlikely
Sonne	BUR	3.9m	80.7%	Unlikely
Neave	NEW	4.4m	82.0%	Unlikely
Akinmboni	BOU	3.9m	80.5%	Unlikely
Gannon-Doak	BOU	4.9m	79.9%	Unlikely
Alcaraz	EVE	5.2m	82.0%	Unlikely
Matete	SUN	4.4m	80.9%	Unlikely
Christie	BOU	5.0m	78.0%	Unlikely
Gruev	LEE	4.8m	79.9%	Unlikely

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	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Raya Martin	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	Alisson	LIV	C, Vs
No Change	Donnarumma	MCI	C, Vs, Sus
Up	Ramsdale	NEW	C
No Change	Sels	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	Dubravka	BUR	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 3:14pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	van Dijk	LIV	B, Vs
No Change	Muñoz	CRY	A, Sus
No Change	Jurriën Timber	ARS	C, Vs
No Change	O’Reilly	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	de Ligt	MUN	C, Vs
Up	Thiaw	NEW	A
No Change	Andersen	FUL	A
No Change	Milenkovic	NFO	C, Vs
No Change	van Hecke	BHA	B, £
No Change	Mukiele	SUN	C, £

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:34pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Saka	ARS	A, Vs
No Change	Bruno Fernandes	MUN	A, Vs
No Change	Foden	MCI	A, Vs
No Change	Semenyo	BOU	C
Up	Gakpo	LIV	A, Vs
No Change	Minteh	BHA	A
Up	Anderson	NFO	A, Vs, £
No Change	Fernández	CHE	B
Up	Bruno Guimarães	NEW	B

Last updated: 2 Dec, 2025 2:44pm

	Player	Club	Factors
No Change	Haaland	MCI	B, Vs
No Change	Mateta	CRY	B
No Change	Thiago	BRE	A
No Change	Welbeck	BHA	B
No Change	Woltemade	NEW	B

Will European involvement make Crystal Palace players less attractive in Fantasy Premier League (FPL) next season?

That’s one of the imponderables we consider as we continue with our 2025/26 team previews.

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REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL

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FORM SINCE LAST DECEMBER

A strong end to 2023/24 brought six wins and four clean sheets in seven matches but their start to 2024/25 was strangely bad. Stuck in the relegation zone due to three points from eight, Palace only won once before Gameweek 14.

FPL 2025/26 team previews: Crystal Palace – Best players, predicted line-up + more 3

Above: A 10-game rolling average of Palace’s expected goals (xG, green) compared to expected goals conceded (xGC, purple)

Yet results dramatically improved. Between then and Gameweek 28, the Eagles won nine of 15, as only Liverpool accumulated more points than their 30. Clean sheets increased, while no team had a better non-penalty expected goals (NPxG) improvement (+7.01) when comparing their first 19 and second 19 outings.

It all climaxed with a famous FA Cup final victory over Manchester City, securing the club’s first-ever trophy.

SET-PIECE THREAT

A big chunk of this success was because of dead-ball situations. No Premier League side had more of them end in a shot (173), as they delivered 17 goals – joint-top with Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, though Palace pipped both for set-piece expected goals (xG, 17.02).

FPL 2025/26 team previews: Crystal Palace – Best players, predicted line-up + more 4

Just Everton ended with a higher proportion of goals from these.

Individually, Eberechi Eze (£7.5m) was top of the pile for set-play shots (36) and teammate Maxence Lacroix (£5.0m) ranked joint-second (27) thanks to his 20 headers.

REASONS TO BE FEARFUL

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Boxwoods

3 months, 29 days ago

Is Kluivert hurt or potentially on the move? Haven't been able to find any real news about him. And don't think I've seen him any any teams on here.

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Skonto Rigga
3 months, 29 days ago
Injured but expected back soon, from what I've seen
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1. Boxwoods
  3 months, 29 days ago
  Cheers
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I Member

Is P.M.Sarr completely nailed for Spurs? They have quite a few midfielders.

PartyTime
3 months, 29 days ago
The first xi today vs Bayern is probably Spurs xi to start the season.
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Bluetiger1

Dear Fellow FPL Managers,

Hope everyone had a great summer.

I've been away couple of weeks come back &
everything gone live.

Any hints ideas to help/assist as I try to navigate catchup on the
new extra chips.

1. GW 1 - thoughts if Bench Boost a good option?
2. Must have 4 / 5 players as core.

Thanks in-advance

Bluetiger1
3 months, 29 days ago
Thoughts on first draft

Kelleher/Dubravka
Virgil/Curcurella/Konsa/Aina/VDV
Palmer/Salah/Wirtz/Rejinders/PM Sarr/
Gykores/Guiu/Bowen
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PartyTime

The way Spurs sat deep at Allianz today got me laughing the whole 90 minutes. Humble Frank not trying an experimental approach.

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