For the last time this season - who are the best players to buy for GW38? We're going to cover all players: the upside ones, the sensible ones, all positions. Let's get into it. 🔥
We'll do a short and sweet goalkeepers segment first, to also help gauge which teams are looking promising for a clean sheet. Some of you might have a perfect 11 and genuinely looking at a keeper transfer, or maybe you're on a GW38 free hit or wildcard.
The stand out fixtures are:
- Bournemouth home to Leicester
- Newcastle home to Everton
- Arsenal away to Southampton
This puts Kepa, Pope, and Raya in the top 3. At this point it's all for one week and the margins in the projections are so tight that you can truly go with your preference. Whatever the outcome, it was that close between them. 0.1 projected points is just noise in data essentially; it's only over longer ranges we really see bigger gaps in how players are projected to perform, and that's worth paying attention to more. That means there are so many fun picks on the cards this week. But yeah, as far as the top 3 keepers here, Pope is the one with the most on the line. Champions League places are going down to the wire. Arsenal have qualified, Bournemouth have a very small chance if other results go in their favour.
Defenders next then and this week Kerkez and Schar are joint top of all defenders! 🛡️ Arsenal are of course favoured for a clean sheet, but we've got Lewis-Skelly potentially LB who is a mid in FPL, Timber or White RB is unclear, Saliba is yellow flagged so it's just Kiwior here. What's the latest on Saliba after being taken off at half time vs Newcastle?
Arteta said, "I think he felt something in his hamstring in the first half, unfortunately, so we had to make the substitution." If you've got him, keep him of course, unless he's ruled out later in the week in the GW38 press conference. It can't have been too serious to make it to half time rather than going down during the game and having to go off then. So Kerkez is joint top, I prefer him to Schar, but both are great. It could be his farewell game as well and they'll have slightly better clean sheet odds you'd imagine. That said, if Everton are without both Tarkowski and Branthwaite in GW38 then that could spell opportunities for Schar and Burn off set pieces. That said, Keane and O'Brien are big lads if they end up the CB pairing. Though O'Brien and Keane haven't won as higher percentage duels as the other two. Branthwaite is not far ahead on 59.2% won, but Tarkowski's 75.6% is crazy high. If Huijsen starts then it'll be his last ever game for Bournemouth, you'd imagine he and Zabarnyi are the CB pairing for the final leg.
Speaking of farewell games, what about Trent? He's one of those that could be such a fun pick if there's a leak he starts, otherwise it just feels far too risky.
Gvardiol is on 3.4 points, so tied with Trent, perfectly fine to play him. Konsa 3.2, Cucurella 3.2 as well, Wan-Bissaka 3.1.