Best budget players for FPL Gameweek 9
We pick out the best budget players for FPL Gameweek 9. With the help of the Fantasy Football Scout fixture ticker and underlying stats we provide some of the best cheap players, whether that be goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders or forwards for the round ahead.
Finding some of the best budget players for FPL Gameweek 9 can be extremely useful to managers. Cheap players are vital when it comes to trying to fit in the more expensive options and can even be great standalone assets.
Fixtures
Below we can see the ticker in order of fixture difficulty. The teams at the top have the easiest fixtures and the teams at the bottom have the toughest fixtures.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest could offer bags of value for money this week. They sit at the top of the fixture ticker with a game against Luton. The newly promoted side are yet to convince in the top tier and in fact rank amongst the worst teams for both offensive and defensive data.
Luton are a team to target so managers could look to invest in the Nottingham Forest defence and attack this week. In terms of defence, goalkeeper Matt Turner stands out, especially considering his £4.1m price-tag.
Striker Chris Wood (£4.9m) could be an interesting option up front. Wood is highly likely to lead the attack due to the injury to Taiwo Awoniyi. The standout attacking option could be midfielder Morgan Gibbs-White (£5.8m) who ranks second best amongst his teammates for non-penalty expected goal involvement (2.27) and takes his sides penalties.
Konstantinos Tsimikas
Liverpool are seemingly gaining momentum as they climb their way up the league table. The Reds play at home next up, a venue they are considerably stronger playing in. Everton lay ahead and although improving have still failed to score in half of their games so far this season.
Everton could be shy of goals in the round ahead so investing in the Liverpool defence may a shrewd move. The injury to left-back Andy Robertson has opened up a slot which is likely to be filled by Konstantinos Tsimikas who comes in at a measly £4.4m in the game. The Greek international does have assist potential however and he proved that last season after registering four assists.
The Wolves attack
There were some concerns at the start of the season that Wolves would struggle to score goals. Although they failed to net in their opening game they then went onto score in every single league game since then. Wolves even managed to net twice and beat Manchester City, a team whom maintain some of the best defensive data in the league regularly.
Wolves have huge potential to continue their scoring form in the next round. They come up against Bournemouth who are conceding some of the worst defensive statistics in the division. In fact, amongst all teams they rank amongst the worst three sides in the league for goals conceded (18), shots in the box conceded (104), shots on target conceded (51) and big chances conceded (28).
There are a couple of great routes into the Wolves attack. One of them is Pedro Neto (£5.7m) who has bagged a return in each of his last six matches. Another great pick is fellow midfielder Hwang Hee-chan (£5.4m) who has collected four returns in four of his last five games.
What should we expect from Gameweek 9 in FPL? We go through the head-to-head stats to see which teams have a good chance of winning, keeping a clean sheet, scoring plenty of goals and more right here.
