With the final international break of 2020/21 out of the way it is time to assess injury and quarantine updates as the Premier League season enters its final stretch.
Game week 30 includes some mouth-watering fixtures to get managers going again after a blank GW29 averaged 29 points from only four fixtures. Ahead of the deadline at 11:00 GMT on Saturday, Football Castle has a selection of this week’s hottest Fantasy Premier League picks.
Goalkeepers
Emiliano Martínez(£5.4m)
The highest-scoring goalkeeper this season faces relegation-threatened Fulham who are timid going forward despite being defensively resolute. Martinez will be keen to face the low-scoring Cottagers.
Édouard Mendy(£5.2m)
Chelsea have West Brom, Crystal Palace and Brighton in successive game weeks, offering the Senegalese shot-stopper a continued run of form which reads six straight clean sheets in all competitions as the 29-year-old has registered 14 shutouts this season.
Antonio Rüdiger(£4.7m)
The German has started nine of Thomas Tuchel’s 10 games since his compatriot took over at Chelsea. While Rudiger has registered 47 points in that time and enters a run of fixtures with heavy clean sheets potential.
Marcos Alonso(£5.7m) offers a triple-up on the Chelsea defence due to his inaction over the international break, whereas Ben Chilwell started two games for England.
The Spaniard is an aerial asset at the back while a dangerous prospect in the West Brom box where Sam Allardyce is set to set up deep. Alonso’s stretching of the game from wing-back and expert arrival in the box can prove the difference for his team. Chelsea are 3.78 to win by a two-goal margin.
Luke Shaw(£5.2m)
The Man United left-back is in red hot form with 35 points in his last four games and faces Brighton after his confidence-boosting outings for England. United’s four straight clean sheets also bodes well for Shaw against a rather toothless Seagulls team.
Midfielders
Raphinha (£5.7m)
The Brazilian has shown his potency with six goals and six assists so far in a very attack-minded team, therefore remains a key differential asset. Raphinha is a sure starter in Marcelo Bielsa’s side and comes up against one of the league’s worst defences in Sheffield.
Jesse Lingard (£6.2m)
The 28-year-old has attacking returns in six of his seven games for West Ham since February including three double-digit hauls. Lingard is in the form of his life and duly the most transferred-in player ahead of GW30 against Wolves, after his worldie goal and assist against Arsenal.
Strikers
Patrick Bamford (£6.7m)
The striker’s goal and assist against Fulham took him to 14 goals and nine assists in 29 games. Bamford will lead the line when they host Sheffield and is a healthy captaincy pick for GW 30.
Che Adams(£5.8m)
The Southampton man has scored in each of his last three games. With Danny Ings out injured he has filled in and will surely start this fixture having also scored a wonderful goal for Scotland in midweek.
Captaincy picks
Harry Kane(£11.6m)
Tottenham have scored 12 goals in the last five league games (second in the league) and play a really wobbling Newcastle.
Kane has the most goal involvements in the league (17 goals and 13 assists) from only 27 games, and is bang in form with four goals and two assists in his last five GWs. Kane is 3.95 to open the scoring.
Bruno Fernandes(£11.5m)
This season’s top points-scorer has three goals and three assists in his last four home games at Old Trafford ahead of Brighton’s visit. Fernandes scored 12 points against the Seagulls in the fixture earlier this season and is well-placed at 2.36 to score anytime.
