Which Top 3 Arsenal Players to Select v Wolverhampton? FPL Team of the Week
The major call in this Fantasy Premier League team of the week is to opt for zero City players - indeed, even Erling Haaland!
The budget is needed to go all-in on Gunners assets as they face at home among the most struggling teams in English top-flight recent memory.
Yes, Manchester City smashed in 5 times on their last away trip, but now they take on Crystal Palace, who have the second-best defensive record in the league for goals conceded and fourth-strongest in terms of xGC.
And Arsenal home to Wolverhampton is the type of fixture you must exploit - the top side in the league against one lacking of form, quality and self-belief.
This squad of the week is picked based on current valuations to fit within a £100m budget, as if you were playing a Free Hit.
How did Last Week's Team Do?
No captain return but high hauls from Fernandes (eighteen), Ruben Dias (14), Foden (12) and Tarkowski (nine), plus a lucky sixteen-point Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall bench appearance produced a massive eighty-three points total. Boom!
Fantasy Premier League Squad of the Week for Gameweek 16
Defensive Picks
Roefs, the Black Cats, goalkeeper, £4.7m - Newcastle (h)
This long-awaited derby in the Premier League since 2016 is set to be loud, passionate, feisty - and it could be one of those tight matches that is all drama but little goalmouth action.
Which would make Roefs, ranked third in the goalkeeper scoring charts, a good option.
Ben White, the Gunners, £5.2m - Wolves (h)
An Arsenal defender is a must this week. Wolves have just one goal scored on the road this season and a single goal in their past six fixtures.
Ben White is a great attacking option when he gets his chance. He started the last two at right-back, had a fourteen-point haul against Brentford and tops the charts in that period among Arsenal defensive players with 2 big chances created, 2 shots in the box and an xGI of 0.7.
Cucurella, Chelsea, £6.2m - the Toffees (home)
The Toffees are unpredictable so this pick is focused more on the Blues'defence and Cucurella potential.
Chelsea have the fourth-best defensive record while Cucurella has generated more opportunities (19) than any defender in the league.
And he hasn't scored yet, after scoring five goals last season.
Diogo Dalot, Manchester United, £4.4m - the Cherries (home)
You can't have great hopes for a United shutout - they have one this entire campaign - but Bournemouthgoals have dried up in the past two matches.
More importantly, Dalot has been getting in some incredibly advanced roles as left wing-back in the last 3 games.
In those matches he's taken 4 shots, 2 big chances, one goal and one assist. He missed a great chance at Wolverhampton on Monday as well.
Midfield Picks
Saka (C), Arsenal, £10.2m - Wolverhampton (h)
This fixture against Wolverhampton is too juicy to ignore and that renders Saka, Arsenalbest offensive asset a must-have.
Little statistical analysis required to support this pick. United had twenty-seven shots at Wolverhampton on Monday, netted four and could have had double that.
Arsenal will be licking their lips.
Declan Rice, the Gunners, £7.1m - Wolves (h)
One point behind Bruno Fernandes in the FPL midfielder standings, Rice is incredibly consistent for Arsenal.
More attacking this season, he's created more opportunities than any other Arsenal teammate (twenty-seven) and has five assists to his name.
He's also the most reliable for minutes as Mikel Arteta could see this fixture as a chance to rotate his squad.
Bruno Fernandes, Manchester United, £9m - the Cherries (h)
Fernandes may have replaced Antoine Semenyo as the essential FPL midfielder.
Match-up proof, consistently a candidate for defensive bonus points and with several ways to points.
Cole Palmer, the Blues, £10.3m - the Toffees (home)
This week's differential pick, Palmer has his first ninety minutes under his belt after a lengthy injury and we are aware what an explosive fantasy player he is capable of being.
You sense that, as soon as he has a single strong performance, fantasy coaches will be rushing to bring him in.
He missed ChelseaChampions League defeat at Atalanta, but that was the club easing him back carefully so he should be well-rested for the Toffees.
Dango Ouattara, Brentford, £6m - Leeds (h)
Leeds United enter this match off the back of two strong home results against Chelsea and the Reds, but on the road they have conceded three times for every one they've scored.
This is probably the winger's last fixture before heading to the Africa Cup of Nations.
He has been superb for the Bees this season, and has five attacking returns in his last 3 home matches.
Forwards
Igor Thiago, Brentford, £6.9m - Leeds United (home)
It's been a frustrating last few weeks for Thiago FPL managers, with just 3 points in two games.
However, he's the second-highest goal scorer in the league and has seven goals in 7 home games. He is the top striker choice for this round and, with a kind run of games, you can set and forget up until the January window at least.
Hugo Ekitike, the Reds, £8.4m - Brighton & Hove Albion (home)
Surely the manager keeps faith with the promising Frenchman, after his brace haul at Leeds.
He performed well at the start of the campaign and you wonder what he would have done had Alexander Isak not arrived and challenged him for playing time at centre-forward.
The Bench
- Dubravka, the Clarets, £4m - the Cottagers ({h|home