Who are the best under-the-radar players to add to your Fantasy Premier League team for Gameweek 28 of 2025-26? We assess the Opta data to reveal our top picks.
It’s a big week in Fantasy Premier League. This weekend’s fixtures are immediately followed by a full slate of games in midweek. There are six lucky clubs who have both of those matches at home – so should you add their players to your team?
We’ve crunched the Opta data to identify five players you must consider bringing into your team, despite them currently being picked by fewer than 10% of FPL managers.
GK – Gianluigi Donnarumma | 5.6m | 9.1% Ownership
Manchester City may be able to pile pressure on Arsenal in the next three Premier League gameweeks before they clash in the Carabao Cup final. In Leeds, Nottingham Forest and West Ham, they face three teams who are all currently in the bottom six of the league table.
The Gunners host Chelsea this weekend, then travel to Brighton before welcoming Everton to the Emirates Stadium. They could easily win all three but there’s no doubt which team has the easier run.
This is certainly true on the defensive side of the game. City’s next three opponents are collectively averaging just 1.16 goals-per-game in 2025-26. Only Liverpool (1.07) and Brentford (1.10) have a better upcoming next three games in that regard. Given Pep Guardiola’s side already have the second-best goals against record in the division, it’s surprising Gianluigi Donnarumma isn’t in over 10% of Fantasy Premier League teams already.
It’s good news for us that he isn’t. The only goalkeeper with a better points per start in FPL a (with more than seven starts) is Emiliano Martínez. He only leads Donnarumma by 4.1 to 4.0 too, so with City’s run of relatively toothless opponents, their number one may soon lead his Aston Villa counterpart.
DEF – Ibrahima Konaté | 5.4m | 3.6% Ownership
If you were to apply the same points-per-start logic to defenders, you’d be snapping up Reece James or Daniel Muñoz as both have a 5.6 average this season. However, Chelsea are at Arsenal and Aston Villa for the next two matchdays. ‘Snapping’ up James would likely injure him for those tough games, anyway.
Crystal Palace are also away for the next two, at Manchester United and Tottenham, plus they are a club in crisis.
One club that was in disarray earlier this season but has since steadied the ship is Liverpool.
Part of this is down to the vastly improved form of Ibrahima Konaté. No team has conceded fewer Premier League goals than Liverpool in the period since they lost consecutive matches by three goals in November.
Virgil van Dijk has earned the most FPL points of any defender in that time, though his central defensive colleague is only nine behind having played one fewer match.
Konaté should collect points with the Reds at home to West Ham on Saturday then at Wolves in midweek. They return to Molineux on the FA Cup after that but then host struggling Tottenham Hotspur. Konaté good form should continue.
MID – Dango Ouattara | 5.9m | 1.6% Ownership
Sometimes when making FPL transfers, a match-up works out perfectly for a certain club. The team for whom this could be the case twice in the next seven days is Brentford.
The Bees have been electric on the counter this season, scoring nine goals from Opta-defined fast breaks. One more and they’ll have the joint-second best total since at least 2009-10, with Liverpool’s 14 last season leading the way for that period.
Keith Andrews takes his men to Burnley this weekend. The Clarets have conceded five counter attack goals in 2025-26, second only to Sunderland (six). One of them occurred when they lost 3-1 at the Gtech Community Stadium in the reverse fixture. It was scored by Dango Ouattara.
His 5.3 FPL points-per-start rate cannot be bettered by any midfielder who costs as little while also making more than three starts in 2025-26. Ouattara can blow a little hot and cold, having had four appearances with 11+ FPL points and six with no more than one, but he should do well against Burnley. It’s Ouattara time, baby.
MID – James Garner | 5.2m | 3.8% Ownership
One of the difficulties with Fantasy Premier League can be in predicting which players will make their club’s starting XI. When it comes to James Garner at Everton you have no such concerns.
He has started every Premier League match so far this season, with only three outfield players accumulating more minutes. You can guess who those are if you’d like.
Garner’s perfect attendance record has enabled him to accumulate the 13th most FPL points of any midfielder in the game. All 12 above him cost more than he does, plus nine of them play for one of the established big six clubs or high-flying Aston Villa. If you need a man from a lesser team because your team is too stacked with talent from those sides, Garner’s here for you.
Just don’t keep him in your team for too long. Everton face Newcastle at St James’ Park and Burnley at home in their next two matches. Those games are followed by clashes with Arsenal and Chelsea, so Garner’s time is realistically now or never.
Oh, and the players with more minutes than him this season? Nikola Milenković, James Tarkowksi and Van Dijk. Award yourself maximum points if you got all three.
FWD – Raúl Jiménez | 6.1m | 2.1% Ownership
Fulham are your best bet if you want to take advantage of having two home matches in the next two gameweeks. You can look further ahead for Marco Silva’s side too, as their next four opponents are all in the bottom five.
First up are Tottenham and West Ham for London derbies at Craven Cottage. Fulham then travel to Nottingham Forest before hosting Burnley. This period could go a long way towards determining if they can get involved in the battle for European qualification.
They will need Raúl Jiménez to take advantage of this run of porous defences. The Mexican scored twice at Sunderland last weekend so should be in confident mood.
Jiménez potentially has some spare expected goals to cash in too. He sits seventh in the Premier League xG standings with 9.5 but he has scored eight times so may be due another goal or two.
As per the theme of this column this week, the Fulham striker has the fifth best points-per-start average among forwards with at least as many starts. Jiménez can deliver against the struggling sides to fire the Cottagers up the table.
*FPL player values and ownership data accurate as of 26 February 2026
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