We’re into the business end of the Fantasy Premier League season and a Friday night clash between Newcastle and Wolves means an early deadline for FPL managers.
Many of the season’s top performers, including the likes of Mo Salah, Joao Cancelo and Trent Alexander-Arnold, feature against one another in Sunday’s huge title race meeting between Liverpool and Manchester City.
That means managers may be looking elsewhere for their captaincy options this week, with in-form Tottenham pair Harry Kane and Heung-min Son sure to be popular choices.
Here are the players we think you ought to be considering for you side...
Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal) | £5.1m
The Gunners’ recent defensive frailties are a concern, with the absences of Kieran Tierney at left-back and Thomas Partey at the base of midfield expected to be keenly felt in the coming weeks. However, Brighton have scored just once in their last seven games.
Matt Doherty (Tottenham) | £4.9m
Doherty’s remarkable resurgence under Antonio Conte continued last week with a 14-point haul against Newcastle and with pretty favourable fixtures coming up he’s a budget defensive option with plenty of upside.
Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace) | £4.5m
Similar could be said of Guehi, who has three successive clean sheets in an impressive Palace backline and is a major threat at set-pieces, as Everton found out in the FA Cup. They have one of the kindest runs between now and the end of the season, too.
Fabian Schar (Newcastle) | £4.3m
Cheaper still is the Newcastle defender who got himself on the scoresheet while on set-piece duty against Tottenham last week. The Toon have three successive home fixtures coming up, including two in double game week 33.
Kai Havertz (Chelsea) | £7.9m
Chelsea’s dip in form has put us off including defensive options like Reece James and Antonio Rudiger in this list but Havertz makes the cut as he continues to threaten as an out-of-position forward.
Rotation is a slight concern, given the trip to Madrid in midweek, but any more dropped league points could see Thomas Tuchel’s side dragged into the race for Champions League qualification.
Heung-min Son (Tottenham) | £11.0m
The South Korean has racked up 27 points across the last two gameweeks and there would look to be the potential for more double-digit hauls across Spurs’ next four fixtures before those crunch meetings with Liverpool and Arsenal in May.
Kevin de Bruyne (Man City) | £11.7m
The only player involved in Sunday’s huge title clash is the Belgian, who has been back to his very best in recent weeks and has a habit of delivering in these big games. He also remains a strong differential option, too.
James Maddison (Leicester) | £6.9m
Few teams have as enticing a fixture list between now and the end of the season as Leicester and while Crystal Palace are in good form as they visit the King Power this weekend, Newcastle and Everton are next up in double gameweek 33.
Harry Kane (Tottenham) | £12.5m
That Kane’s sensational performance against Newcastle last weekend ended in only a four-point haul will have been a source of immense frustration for FPL bosses, but that was his lowest return since a blank in gameweek 26 and there’s no reason to get rid of him now.
