Crystal Palace's impressive 3-1 victory over Nottingham Forest last time out in the Premier League has provided Fantasy Football Scout with plenty of food for thought, ahead of this weekend's clash with Brighton & Hove Albion.
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Yéremy Pino’s (£5.5m) nine-pointer in Gameweek 6 meant he finished as Palace’s top scorer in FPL for the week.
The Spaniard scored a goal and took all three bonus points in the Eagles’ win, narrowly edging out midfield colleagues Daichi Kamada (£5.0m) and Jefferson Lerma (£4.8m) for top spot by just one point.
Kamada, who was the focus of the Gameweek 6 spotlight, scored his first league goal of the season and as a result registered a bonus point.
Lerma’s goal was also his first of the campaign, and formed most of his total of eight points, receiving five points for that action alone.
In his role in the Eagles’ backline, the Colombian also racked up 12 defensive contributions during the match, for which he was awarded two extra Defensive Contribution points.
In FPL, midfielders must accumulate 12 defensive actions (clearances, blocks, interceptions, tackles won and ball recoveries) in a game to earn two Defensive Contribution points. Meanwhile, defenders are awarded defensive contributions points if they hit 10 or more defensive actions (the same metrics but defenders are not rewarded for ball recoveries).
With an assist apiece, Adam Wharton (£5.4m) and Quinten Timber (£5.0m) each picked up seven points in a strong Gameweek for the Palace midfield. The former collected two bonus points, while the latter was awarded two extra points for defensive contributions.
Earning 15 FPL points between Gameweek 4 and 6, Strand Larsen is steadily beginning to climb towards the summit of Palace’s top scorers in the game.
During this period, only Kamada has gained more points, and had more goal involvements than the Norwegian international amongst the Eagles’ squad.
This campaign, Strand Larsen has scored one goal and registered one assist, with the data suggesting that more will follow. In Gameweek 6, he averaged a shot every 27.33 minutes, ranking joint-highest, alongside Lerma, for number of shots in the game and shots in the box with three each.
Across his appearances in the full six gameweeks to date, the 26-year-old has now taken the equal-most shots amongst his teammates with nine, tied with Anan Khalaili (£5.0m), and has found the target with six of those – the best within the Palace side.
Among his colleagues he now ranks third for penalty box touches, while his expected goal involvement (xGI) is the highest of all Eagles’ players at 1.93.
At just 0.7% ownership among FPL managers, Strand Larsen represents serious potential to become a formidable differential.
A Jordan Henderson (£4.9m) brace, an assist and three bonus points saw the Chelsea man register 18-points in Gameweek 6 and emerge as the highest-scoring player of the Gameweek.
His Brazilian teammate, João Pedro (£7.8m), also scored well with 12-points, owing to his two goals and two bonus points.
Elsewhere, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (£6.6m) of Everton racked up 13-points with a goal, an assist and three bonus points against Hull City.
In Gameweek 7, Palace will play arch rivals Brighton & Hove Albion at The Amex.
Maxim De Cuyper (£5.1m) and Pascal Groß (£6.0m) are the leading scorers in FPL for Brighton, with 13 goal involvements between them this campaign.
As Gameweek 6 was a popular time for FPL managers to use their Wildcard chip, those who did so may be looking at a particularly strong bench this time out. If you find yourself in that scenario (and even if you have a strong bench but didn’t Wildcard), it could be time to deploy the Bench Boost chip.
All chips renew for the second half of the season after the Gameweek 19 deadline, so there’s more incentive to play it early in the first half of the season if the fixtures fall nicely for your squad.
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