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FPL Gameweek 1: Saturday’s goals, assists, bonus + ‘DefCon’ points

16 August 2025 260 comments
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Fantasy Premier League (FPL) is well and truly back – and so with it comes all the associated agony and occasional ecstasy.

At the end of Saturday’s Gameweek 1 action, our Scoreboard rounds up all the action.

Included in this article are the day’s leading teams and players for shots, chances created and expected goals (xG). This is official Opta data taken from our Members Area.

And, new for 2025/26, we’ll also round up Saturday’s defensive contribution (DC/DefCon) points, too.

These stats are available for our subscribers immediately after full-time in every Premier League game.

GAMEWEEK 1: SATURDAY’S GOALS, ASSISTS AND PROJECTED BONUS POINTS

FPL Gameweek 1: Saturday’s goals, assists, bonus + 'DefCon' points 7

GAMEWEEK 1: SATURDAY’S PLAYER AND TEAM STATS

DEFENDERS WHO QUALIFIED FOR DEFENSIVE CONTRIBUTION POINTS
MIDFIELDERS WHO QUALIFIED FOR DEFENSIVE CONTRIBUTION POINTS
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TEAMS – GOAL ATTEMPTS

MORE STATS IN OUR MATCH CENTRE

Click on the result of each match for comprehensive player and team data:

HomeScoreAway
Wolverhampton Wanderers0 – 4Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur3 – 0 Burnley
Sunderland3 – 0West Ham United
Brighton and Hove Albion1 – 1Fulham
Aston Villa0 – 0Newcastle United
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  1. EDEN THE MAN
    • 9 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Mitoma > Kudus, knee jerk before price rise?

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    1. White Pony
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Ahead of City away?

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      1. EDEN THE MAN
        • 9 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        Yep

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      2. Fat Frank
        • 8 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        They play well at City, check the scores there last 3 seasons

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    2. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Feels like going for last week’s points vs. next weeks
      MCI (A) completely different to BUR (H)
      Also the cursed early KO
      I am interested in Kudus but feels like a low upside move this week vs others

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      1. EDEN THE MAN
        • 9 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        Fair, appreciate the insight.

        You reckon ditching Wirtz would be greater upside?

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        1. Full Kit Wonkas
          • 5 Years
          3 months, 20 days ago

          Also remember to keep 0.5 in the bank to start next time, transfers > maxing out budget

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  2. BobbyDoesNotLook
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Old news but. Reijnders 1+1 and such a great performance. 0 baps. This must be the most ridiculous 0 bap performance given he had 1+1 and nobody got more returns.

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    1. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Yellow cards are killers in FPL

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      1. g40steve
        • 7 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        That was a silly one as well

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  3. Fat Frank
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Did anyone else start with Salah and Haaland? Only went ahead with it because of enabling triple spurs defense and Reijnders.
    Feel very lucky Watkins blanked though.

    Just Palmer, Joao Pedro and Sels left

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    1. _Freddo
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 16 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Not as such, went Salah, Palmer and Saka (with a 9m forward)

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      1. Fat Frank
        • 8 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        With Saka you’re so well setup for next week!

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        1. _Freddo
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          • 16 Years
          3 months, 21 days ago

          That was my thinking tbh, went Saka & Gyokeres mainly for next week, it’s easier to do on the Bb as I had extra players for better GW1 fixs.

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    2. faux_C
      • 13 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      I went with both through laziness as I'm fining it hard to care about the game this year.

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      1. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
        • 9 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        And here you are, still.

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      2. Fat Frank
        • 8 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        It does make it easier in a way as it eliminates the options you have elsewhere!

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    3. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
      • 9 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      In your first team?

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      1. Fat Frank
        • 8 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        Only one team this year yay! My mate who usually gives up and hands me his hasn’t played this year

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    4. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 7 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      I started with Salah & Haaland.
      Same as I did last season.
      Also had room for Watkins & Palmer .

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    5. PascalCygan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 8 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      I’ve gone for the threemium as well. Hoping defcon for cheaper midfielders and defenders will come through. Reijnders a gift too.

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  4. boc610
    • 13 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    eze has gone to spurs, not in palace squad for tomorrow

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  5. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
    • 9 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Thoughts on this WC? Loaded on City, Chelsea, Pool

    Sels Dubravka
    Cucu RAN Porro Dorgu Rodon
    Palmer Gakpo Semenyo Reijnders King
    Haaland Ekitike Pedro

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    1. Regi Blinker
      • 7 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      After one game is silly

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      1. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
        • 9 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        I'm sticking to the plan, WC after BB

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        1. Regi Blinker
          • 7 Years
          3 months, 20 days ago

          Fair enough. It's a very good team.

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  6. ball c
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Not one to knee jerk but feel like playing the game differently this year.. it’s all about the fun!

    So would you do a -4 for:
    A) Wirtz & Watkins to Saka & Evanilson? Or
    B) Just Watkins to Gyokores?

    I have Rogers and feel I’ve over loaded on Villa fwds.

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    1. thom830g
      • 8 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Wait and have a look at Gyo tomorrow and maybe make that move

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  7. Brosstan
    • 11 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    So many good midfield options and strikers are crap. Bowen and Watkins overpriced and still in everyone's team because the alternatives are non existent.

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    1. boc610
      • 13 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      i see 1 gameweek-itis already in full effect. 90 mins of football and theyre all useless.

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      1. Brosstan
        • 11 Years
        3 months, 21 days ago

        Just my initial thoughts after tinkering with gw1 team and tinkering with wc again now. I begrudging went Bowen for gw1 even though 8m for a whu forward felt a waste of funds. Just so few options these days with how teams set up with attacking mids often the most dangerous players but strikers still carry a silly premium on prize and you need 3 of them in your team

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  8. thom830g
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    A)Rush to do Malen-> Reijnders
    B) hold and see if anything is urgent later into next week

    Team for gw2
    Sanchez
    Virgil-murillo-Dorgu
    Salah-palmer-georginio-bruno-malen
    Watkins-j pedro
    (Dub-Esteve-guiu-VVD)

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  9. shirtless
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Don't panic there's someone in one of my league's on 5 points 🙂

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  10. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Does Marty Cash have any competition?

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    1. ☈☾
      • 8 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Matty*

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  11. Mother Farke
    • 1 Year
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Here's where I stand:

    Sels
    Porro Cucurella De Cuyper
    Rogers Wirtz Semenyo Palmer Reijnders
    Ekitike Haaland

    Dubravka Gudmundsson Guiu Konsa

    1.0m ITB

    - Konsa's RC has forced me to put Porro in v City away. Porro scored in the same fixture last season, but 9 times out of 10 playing a defender v City isn't a good idea. Probability suggests he'll concede.

    - I want to keep Konsa because I still think he's great value, albeit boring. His fixtures are good defensively after his suspension, even CRY without Eze appeals now.

    - Porro out for someone like Munoz/Gabriel?
    - Gudmundsson to Esteve/Reinildo? In hindsight, I made an error picking Gudmundsson to start with.

    Warm regards.

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    1. Kiwivillan
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 11 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      You don't sell Porro because 1 bad fixture. Don't you want him the following week?

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      1. Mother Farke
        • 1 Year
        3 months, 21 days ago

        I thought he was going to be on most set pieces, but Kudus generally got the lion's share so to speak. I don't really rate his fixtures defensively, and even Burnley caused problems today. The next CS i forsee is Wolves in GW6.

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  12. _Freddo
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 16 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    How did Porro do for attacking stats today? Were they impressive?

    Is he worth the extra 1m based on them?

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    1. Brosstan
      • 11 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Regardless of stats I'd say he passed the eye test for an attacking defender. Got in some promising positions.

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    2. Mother Farke
      • 1 Year
      3 months, 21 days ago

      He wasn't on most set pieces like a few anticipated. That said, he was a threat relatively speaking. Fixtures aren't good defensively now Burnley are out of the way. I'd rather have the extra 1.0m if I'm honest...

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    3. Make FPL Casual Again
      • 7 Years
      3 months, 21 days ago

      Looks overrated...not sure if he's taking set pieces as thought, not justifying 5.5m imo

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  13. ☈☾
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 21 days ago

    Tosin injured

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    1. IN SANE IN DE BRUYNE
      • 9 Years
      3 months, 20 days ago

      Scotty B injured

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  14. Fat Frank
    • 8 Years
    3 months, 20 days ago

    After seeing Sunderland’s goals, I don’t think it will be long until Areola is back….first header especially he crawled across his line to try and save it 😆

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    1. Utopsis
      • 5 Years
      3 months, 20 days ago

      Yeah that was funny to watch lol. 3rd goal should've done better too

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  15. Make FPL Casual Again
    • 7 Years
    3 months, 20 days ago

    Why do I have 2 west ham players in my starting 11 and what to do about it?

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    1. Fat Frank
      • 8 Years
      3 months, 20 days ago

      Tough game away at somewhere like Sunderland where it was their first game back in the prem for years. Partly why I avoided Bowen, they have a better GW2 fixture

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    2. The FPL Units
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 15 Years
      3 months, 20 days ago

      Hope

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