Who are the best under-the-radar players to add to your Fantasy Premier League team for Gameweek 29 of 2025-26? We assess the Opta data to reveal our top picks.
This column had a productive Saturday in among the chaos of the high-scoring matches. James Garner and Dango Ouattara delivered assists while Gianluigi Donnarumma saved an Opta-defined big chance to collect a clean sheet.
So, who have we got in store for you for the midweek Premier League fixtures?
We’ve crunched the Opta data to identify five players you should consider bringing in, despite them currently being picked by fewer than 10% of FPL managers.
GK – Karl Darlow | 3.9m | 2.4% Ownership
We like to give you selections that future proof your FPL team for more than the upcoming matchday. The gap between gameweeks 29 and 30 could disrupt that idea this week, though. There’s the fifth round of the FA Cup next weekend, then any teams in European competition will have another game before the Premier League resumes.
For instance, as Liverpool face bottom side Wolves this week, Alisson would be a logical pick for your goalkeeper. But the Reds later play Galatasaray in Istanbul just a few days before facing Tottenham in what is usually a very high-scoring fixture. That’s a tricky week, even allowing for the struggles of Spurs.
One team with no such concerns are Leeds. They host Sunderland, the second-lowest scoring away team in the Premier League, on Tuesday. The visitors are averaging just 0.5 goals-per-game on the road.
Facing them should enable Karl Darlow to maintain his good form. He faced five big chances across the last two matches against Aston Villa and Manchester City, saving four of them. The one that beat him was Antoine Semenyo’s goal on Saturday that came from a chance valued at 0.67 xG. Those odds were not on Darlow’s side.
Leeds travel to Selhurst Park for their following league game. It falls in the middle of Crystal Palace’s UEFA Conference League tie with AEK Larnaca, so they will likely be distracted. Darlow has two decent opportunities to improve his clean sheet tally coming up.
DEF – Kenny Tete | 4.5m | 0.3% Ownership
Fulham are on the fringes of the battle for European qualification. The Opta supercomputer’s predicted Premier League table does not suggest they will get there. If Marco Silva’s men are going to prove the supercomputer wrong, it’s time to make their move.
The Whites’ next three league matches are all against teams currently in the bottom four, with two of the games at Craven Cottage. Fulham host West Ham this week, then travel to Nottingham Forest before playing Burnley by the banks of the Thames.
Joachim Andersen would be a good FPL selection. He has amassed 1.31 expected goals without finding the net, with the bulk of his shots (8 out of 12) predictably occurring in set-piece situations.
As the Hammers allowed Liverpool to become just the second team to score three goals from corners in a first half of a Premier League game in history on Saturday, Andersen would fancy his chances of breaking his goal duck for 2025-26 against them.
The problem is that he missed the win over Tottenham through illness. It isn’t clear at the time of writing if he will return to action this week.
If Andersen is unavailable, Kenny Tete is then Fulham’s top defender for FPL points this season. His total of 15 shots is also the most by any of the club’s players in the position. With 1.34 expected assists but none in reality, Tete may be due to set up a goal too.
West Ham, Forest and Burnley all struggle to score. Tete could easily collect points at both ends of the pitch in the next few weeks.
MID – Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall | 5.0m | 3.7% Ownership
Everton have yet to make their new Hill Dickinson Stadium a fortress. The Blues have taken just two points from their previous six league matches there.
Fortunately for David Moyes, the only team with a longer run without a Premier League victory on home turf will be in town on Tuesday. Burnley haven’t been that good on the road either, with their 33 away goals conceded the most in the division.
The Toffees will need Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to perform well if they are to collect their fifth home victory of the campaign. He assisted the winning goal at Newcastle on Saturday so will be feeling good. The former Chelsea man is Everton’s joint-top player for Premier League goal contributions this term, with eight.
Dewsbury-Hall is a good FPL option as he provides a dual threat. He tops the Everton standings for expected assists per 90, with 0.21. His 1.4 chances created per 90 make him the Blues’ most potent available player on this front in Jack Grealish’s absence too.
The 27-year-old has also tallied the fourth-most expected goals for Everton this term (2.4). While Iliman Ndiaye is above him and could be a decent wildcard option, Dewsbury-Hall’s FPL points-per-start average is 0.8 higher.
It’s time to give the Everton faithful reasons to be cheerful, Kiernan.
MID – Omar Marmoush | 8.3m | 2.6% Ownership
Have you ever looked at Opta Analyst’s Premier League Player Stat Predictions? You really should. It shows you which players are likeliest to record various metrics in the next round of fixtures.
Erling Haaland is deemed to have the best chance of scoring in Gameweek 29, with a predicted goal total of 0.77. However, he missed Manchester City’s win at Leeds on Saturday, so may not feature when Nottingham Forest visit the Etihad this week.
The Norwegian will be gutted if he misses the next two matches. City face West Ham following their clash with the Tricky Trees, giving them successive league fixtures against teams in the bottom four.
The good news for Pep Guardiola is that Omar Marmoush is also high in the predicted goal standings, with 0.58. He has 0.16 assists in the prediction table, with his combined total of 0.74 for goal contributions only behind Hugo Ekitiké (0.92) and Mohamed Salah (0.84) among likely starters for any club this matchday.
Marmoush hasn’t had a great league campaign, with just one goal to date. But he has had nine shots with seven in the box across his last two appearances. Only Haaland (0.83) has averaged more xG per 90 than Marmoush (0.36) for City in 2025-26, so the latter can prosper if the former is absent.
FWD – Benjamin Sesko | 7.3m | 4.8% Ownership
Any forward in red-hot form will stop scoring at some point. It doesn’t matter how potent they seem, the law of averages catches up eventually.
Knowing when that will happen is the hard part, but when it comes to Benjamin Sesko, you can’t argue with his current form. In his last three games, he has scored a 96th-minute equaliser at West Ham and winners against Everton and Crystal Palace. The five points he added with those strikes could be huge for Manchester United in the battle for UEFA Champions League qualification.
They should also ensure that Michael Carrick keeps the Slovenian forward in his starting XI for the trip to Newcastle on Wednesday. The Magpies have taken just three points from their last six league matches, and have conceded the joint-third most home goals of any team (23).
It’s easy to envisage Sesko maintaining his current hot streak at St James’ Park. United then host Villa, which could be a tougher task, but their subsequent matches with Bournemouth and Leeds should see them rack up plenty of chances. The spring of Sesko could continue bouncing along for a while yet.
*FPL player values and ownership data accurate as of 2 March 2026
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