Who are the best under-the-radar players to add to your Fantasy Premier League team for Gameweek 27 of 2025-26? We assess the Opta data to reveal our top picks.
After a weekend off for the fourth round of the FA Cup, we’re back with our Fantasy Premier League tips. With just 12 more matchdays to go in 2025-26, every transfer becomes ever more important.
We’ve crunched the Opta data to identify five players you must consider bringing into your FPL team, despite them currently being picked by fewer than 10% of FPL managers.
GK – Alisson | 5.4m | 5.8% Ownership
Liverpool’s previous meeting with Nottingham Forest came at the lowest point of their difficult campaign. It was their second successive 3-0 Premier League defeat, and was then followed by a 4-1 loss to PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League.
Arne Slot has tightened up his team considerably since, though, basically because he had no other choice. Across the last 14 Premier League gameweeks, only Arsenal and Manchester City (both 14) have conceded fewer goals than Liverpool (15). Slot will be pleased to know that bottom-placed Wolves (11) are the only team to score fewer than Nottingham Forest (12) in that period.
Forest welcome Liverpool to the City Ground on Sunday with their fourth manager of the season sitting in the dugout. It won’t be easy for Vitor Pereira to improve the attack of the second-lowest scoring side in the division.
Forest are unlikely to punish Liverpool’s set-play weakness either, as they have the lowest set-piece xG in the Premier League (6.06).
Those factors make Alisson a pretty attractive choice.
The Brazilian has not been at his best recently. He conceded a late penalty in defeat to City, but responded with clean sheets against Sunderland and Brighton (in the FA Cup). He’ll fancy his chances of another shutout at the City Ground.
Liverpool then face two of the current bottom three in West Ham and Wolves. Their defence has a real opportunity to string together clean sheets and strengthen their push for Champions League qualification.
DEF – Harry Maguire | 4.3m | 1.7% Ownership
Another team that should be targeting shutouts over the next couple of matchdays are Manchester United. They travel to Everton on Monday before hosting Crystal Palace next weekend. This makes Michael Carrick’s side the only team in the Premier League whose next two opponents both average no more than 1.1 goals per league game this season.
There isn’t a single United defender who is in 5% of FPL teams, never mind 10%, so they are all fair game here. There are four from whom we should make our selection, though. That’s because, since abandoning Ruben Amorim’s back three, Carrick has picked the same defensive quartet in every league game.
Diogo Dalot, Harry Maguire, Lisandro Martínez and Luke Shaw are the men in question. They have conceded exactly one goal per game across their five league matches together, a record that should improve against the limited attacks they are about to face.
Dalot leads the way for FPL points in the Carrick era (21), ahead of Maguire (19). The Portuguese international also tops the United defenders chart for the whole campaign.
However, only five defenders with over eight starts at any club average more points-per-start than Maguire (5.3).
The Englishman is an asset in opposition penalty boxes too. That could prove especially valuable next weekend against a Palace side that are second worst for set-piece xG conceded and joint-third for goals allowed in such situations.
MID – Rayan Cherki | 6.5m | 8.9% Ownership
If you sort a table of midfielders who are currently in under 10% of FPL teams by their points-per-start averages, the two names at the top are Rayan and Cherki. The first Rayan has only made two league starts for Bournemouth, while the other Rayan has made 12 for Manchester City.
Rayan Cherki has been in excellent form. He has scored in three of his previous four starts in league and Europe. He also found the net as a substitute in the Carabao Cup at Newcastle shortly before that run.
City face the Magpies again this weekend. The teams have already met three times this season, have been drawn together in the next round of the FA Cup, and could yet meet in the Champions League. Given Newcastle have just one away win in the league against teams that start the weekend above 16th, Pep Guardiola’s side will probably collect three points.
Leeds, Nottingham Forest and West Ham follow, extending City’s favourable fixture run.
Among City’s players with more than 25 minutes in the league (apologies to Divine Mukasa), Cherki is top for expected assists in open play per 90 minutes, with 0.41.
Only Jérémy Doku (2.65) averages more open-play chances created than the former Lyon man (1.76) too. Cherki (7) is second only to Bruno Fernandes (12) for assists this season, and could continue narrowing that gap against weaker defences.
MID – Dominik Szoboszlai | 6.7m | 5.9% Ownership
It is impossible to keep Dominik Szoboszlai out of the headlines. A look back at his last eight Liverpool appearances makes abundantly clear why.
Szoboszlai has scored five goals and collected two assists in those games. He also gave away a goal with a comical mistake against Barnsley, missed a penalty against Burnley, and was sent off against Manchester City.
His quietest match in this run was the Reds’ 4-1 win over Newcastle, yet he was still Liverpool’s joint-top chance creator and had a shot on target despite playing at right-back that night.
His momentum may well continue. Liverpool’s next three opponents are all in the bottom four, and no other club faces more than one of Nottingham Forest, West Ham and Wolves during that spell.
Szoboszlai is Liverpool’s joint-leading chance creator in the Premier League this season (with 44), while only Hugo Ekitiké (57) and Cody Gakpo (55) have had more shots (49). Against weak opposition, the Hungarian can keep his name in the headlines for a few more weeks yet.
FWD – Ollie Watkins | 8.6m | 9.0% Ownership
Having scored 50 Premier League goals across the last three seasons, grabbing at least 15 in each campaign, Ollie Watkins’ tally of eight in 2025-26 looks rather underwhelming. He has only scored 1.15 fewer than expected goals suggests he should have, though, implying a lack of chances has hampered him rather than his own finishing.
Despite this, Watkins has something very important still going in his favour. His xG per shot is high, showing he has been getting decent opportunities to score, just not as many as he would like.
The Aston Villa forward has had 51 non-penalty shots in the 2025-26 Premier League, making him one of 17 players to have brought up at least their half century of attempts. Of these, only Erling Haaland (goal-scoring cyborg, 0.19) and Jean-Philippe Mateta (injured, 0.19) have a better xG per shot than Watkins (0.18).
Villa should be able to create chances for him in their next two matches. Unai Emery’s men host Leeds United this weekend before travelling the short distance to Molineux to take on Wolves. Leeds are conceding over two goals per game on the road while Wolves have the worst home defence in the division.
With the quality of chance Watkins receives, he could easily get his goal total into double figures within the next two matchdays.
*FPL player values and ownership data accurate as of 19 February 2026
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