After the lengthy international break, the return of Premier League football – and with it, the return of Fantasy Premier League!
This season, we have teamed up with Fantasy Football Scout to help bring you hints, tips and advice during the 2026/27 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season.
Scout will be using their expertise to provide advice and gameweek tips which should prove useful in ensuring you win your mini-leagues.
Remember that the Gameweek 6 deadline is at 11:00 BST this Saturday (10th October) – so don’t miss out!
Gameweek 5 saw members of the Palace defence enjoy some of the highest FPL scores of the week for defenders.
Chris Richards (£4.9m) and Jaydee Canvot (£4.8m) both earned eight points thanks to a clean sheet and two Defensive Contributions points each, alongside their appearance points for playing more than 60 minutes of the game.
Tyrick Mitchell (£4.5m) added a bonus point to his clean sheet to return seven points for his FPL managers. The defender registered eight defensive contributions, just shy of the 10 needed for a defender to register the two additional points.
In FPL, defensive contribution points are awarded to defenders when they make 10 or more defensive actions (clearances, blocks, interceptions and tackles won) in a single match.
Anan Khalaili (£5.0m) who was the Gameweek 5 spotlight player and goalkeeper Walter Benítez (£4.5m) each scored six points thanks to the Eagles’ first Premier League clean sheet of the season.
Kamada finds himself as the second-highest scoring player in FPL for Palace this term, leading the way for goal involvements in the league with his three assists in five games.
Having played 440 minutes, only Richards has seen more game time amongst his teammates, and FPL managers should take note of what the Japan international could bring to their sides.
Three out of Kamada’s four shots have come inside the box, while he ranks joint-third for touches in the opposition box amongst his Eagles peers.
While a goal may not have come just yet, assists have done, and that positive trend looks set to continue.
Kamada has created six chances in total, with two of those being considered big chances, while he ranks equal-first for his side for successful passes in the final third as well as second for successful passes into the box.
Owned by only 0.5% of managers and at a budget-friendly price, Kamada represents outstanding value and could be the perfect differential.
The highest scoring players in Gameweek 5 overall were Manchester City’s Antoine Semenyo (£8.4m) and Sunderland’s Brian Brobbey (£5.7m) who played each other and both registered 17-points each.
Their sides shared eight goals between them, with the City man scoring two and assisting another, with two bonus points heading his way.
Brobbey meanwhile, scored all three of his side’s goals, and took all the three bonus points as a result. Both are now flagged in the game having had injury concerns over the international break.
Coventry’s Jay Dasilva (£4.0m) was the highest scoring defender of the Gameweek with 15 points. With a goal, a clean sheet and three bonus points he will have delighted the 0.7% of FPL managers who have him in their sides.
With many managers tempted to use their Wildcard ahead of Gameweek 6, lots has been happening in the FPL transfer market.
Pascal Groß (£5.9m) of Brighton & Hove Albion has been transferred in by more than 834,000 managers, while teammate Charalampos Kostoulas (£5.6m) has been added to over 337,000 teams.
Kevin Schade (£6.2m) of Brentford makes up the top three players transferred in this week with in excess of 420,000.
Crystal Palace play Nottingham Forest in Gameweek 6. Morgan Gibbs-White (£8.0m) is their top-scoring player in FPL with 28-points so far.
The Englishman has amassed these by scoring one goal and getting two assists, with six bonus points also to his name this campaign.
With lots of popular FPL players being ‘flagged’ as injured over the international break, there’s never been a better time to keep hold of your transfers until you have the full information to make your decision.
It can be tempting to make early transfers when you see that a player is due to change in price, but this week particularly, we would advise against that unless absolutely certain that player is unavailable for selection.
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