Who are the players to add to your Fantasy Premier League team for Gameweek 19 of 2025-26? We assess the Opta data to reveal our top under-the-radar picks.
The halfway point of 2025-26 is here. How is your Fantasy Premier League team performing? You may be top of your mini-league with your mates, but it doesn’t hurt to get a few tips to push up the overall leaderboard.
We’ve crunched the Opta data to identify five players you should consider owning on your FPL Wildcard, despite them currently being picked by fewer than 10% of FPL managers. As you’ll see from some of our selections, it’s time to hit the post-Christmas sales for a bargain.
GK – Bart Verbruggen | 4.4m | 5.5% Ownership
Fantasy Premier League is about being a manager. Who to buy, which players to put in your team or on the bench, who to captain and so on. It’s also slightly about being a sporting director, though. There’s a budget and you have no choice but to stick to it.
If you need to free up a little money for your transfer war chest, Brighton goalkeeper Bart Verbruggen is worth considering. Ten players in his position have earned more points this season but they also cost more than the Seagulls’ shot stopper. There are only two men anywhere on the pitch who have contributed more for a maximum of £4.4m.
Verbruggen should also pick up more points in the next gameweek or two. Brighton are at West Ham on Tuesday, facing the fourth-lowest home scoring side in the Premier League (10 goals). The Seagulls have only conceded once across their previous three visits to the London Stadium, too.
They then host Burnley who, while scoring more on the road than at home, are not on a great run. If you buy Verbruggen then you should both pick up some FPL points and keep your fictitious chairman happy by saving a few pennies.
DEF – Diogo Dalot | 4.5m | 3.3% Ownership
It was cold over Christmas, but did hell freeze over? It must have done, because Ruben Amorim picked a Manchester United line-up with a back four against Newcastle on Boxing Day.
In truth, Amorim didn’t have too much choice given the players absent from United’s squad. While they were outshot 13 to three in the second half, the Red Devils stood firm to collect a 1-0 win. Our goalkeeper selection in Gameweek 18, Senne Lammens, earned a clean sheet in the process. Cheers, Ruben.
With winless Wolves visiting Old Trafford on Tuesday night, it makes sense to expect United to keep another shutout. We can apply our Verbruggen logic in the defence too.
Only two defenders have more FPL points than Diogo Dalot while costing less than his £4.5m price tag. He also has the joint-most fantasy assists of any player in his position (5), regardless of FPL cost. That is no bad thing when playing the worst team in the top flight at home.
Should Amorim revert to his usual 3-4-3 formation, Dalot will likely be pushed forward as a wing-back. This would give him chances to create while also having a good shout of getting another clean sheet. With relegation-threatened Leeds and Burnley to follow, albeit on the road, this could be a productive period for United and their Portuguese defender.
DEF – Maxim De Cuyper | 4.3m | 2.4% Ownership
A combination of our reasonings for Verbruggen and Dalot can be used to justify choosing Brighton defender Maxim De Cuyper for this matchweek.
Like both players, the Belgian is a cheap addition to your FPL squad. If you want a defender who costs a maximum of £4.3m with at least 10 appearances, you’ll only find six with a better points-per-start average and only three with more points in total.
De Cuyper obviously has the same favourable-looking opponents coming up as teammate Verbruggen. As with Dalot, there’s a decent chance he features further forward than in the backline too. After starting the first four league games of 2025-26 at left-back, the 25-year-old has made more starts in attacking midfield in the last month or so.
His creative efforts have not been rewarded either. Only Yankuba Minteh has produced more expected assists for Brighton this season, with De Cuyper’s 1.97 xA yet to be rewarded with an assist for a goal. That leads the division among players who have not recorded at least one assist, so his first is surely coming soon.
MID – Jacob Murphy | 6.0m | 0.8% Ownership
Newcastle winger Jacob Murphy is another player whose creative talents have not received the goal contributions they have deserved this term.
While he does have a Premier League assist in 2025-26, unlike De Cuyper, the Opta data suggests he could have expected to have had 2.24 by now. That’s more than any of his teammates despite not playing much more than half of the possible minutes this season.
Murphy is in red hot form creatively too, even if the assists haven’t followed. He played four key passes across the Magpies’ matches with Chelsea and Manchester United, with each one classified as a big chance by Opta. This means it was reasonable to expect the player taking the shot to score, yet they failed to every time.
That is very unlikely to continue. Murphy has created eight big chances since his last Premier League assist, suggesting another goal set up by him should be along soon. He may be able to profit from what looks like a winnable run of fixtures for Newcastle.
They are at Burnley on Tuesday before hosting Crystal Palace and then Leeds. With a trip to Wolves rounding off the next four gamedays for the Magpies, there should be chances galore for Murphy and co.
FWD – Dominic Calvert-Lewin | 5.8m | 8.8% Ownership
Our final choice is up against two of the Premier League’s best in the next two matchweeks. There is method in this apparent madness though.
In Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Leeds have a forward in red-hot form. He has scored in his last six league games, bagging seven goals in total – his best ever run in the Premier League. Only Erling Haaland and Hugo Ekitiké are averaging more points-per-start in the position this season, which is decent company to keep.
One of Calvert-Lewin’s recent goals came from the penalty spot against Liverpool, and they head to Anfield to face the champions again on New Year’s Day. As Wolves gave the Reds some trouble on Saturday, it’s reasonable to assume Daniel Farke’s men will too.
This is particularly true as a Leeds strength aligns with a Liverpool weakness. The Whites lead the Premier League for set-piece goals (12) and set-piece expected goals (9.23) in 2025-26 while no club has conceded more than the Reds (also 12). Indeed, a stoppage time Ao Tanaka strike from a corner earned Leeds a point against Liverpool at Elland Road earlier this month.
Calvert-Lewin will then face Manchester United at Elland Road. The atmosphere will be fierce for a derby, with Leeds facing one of the worst away defences in the division. While Calvert-Lewin’s potent run will end eventually, there’s reason to believe he can keep riding the goal train a little longer yet.
*FPL player values and ownership data accurate as of 29 December 2025
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