Robin Roefs, Sunderland, \u00a34.7m, keeper – Everton (h)<\/p>\n
You can’t ignore Sunderland’s fine start to the season, particularly their defence.<\/p>\n
Roefs is the top-scoring keeper already – thanks to four clean sheets and a penalty save – and faces an Everton side that has scored just three times in their past six games.<\/p>\n
Nordi Mukiele, Sunderland, \u00a34.1m – Everton (h)<\/p>\n
If you’re backing Sunderland’s defence, why not go all in with the double-up. <\/p>\n
I picked Omar Alderete over Mukiele for their trip to Chelsea and it was the latter who ended up with 17-point return.<\/p>\n
There’s very little to separate the two in terms of expected goals (xG) and expected assists (xA). Both great budget choices, but Alderete is an injury doubt this week.<\/p>\n
Gabriel, \u00a36.5m, and Jurrien Timber, \u00a36.1m, both Arsenal – Burnley (a)<\/p>\n
How can you avoid having at least one of this pair in your team at the moment?<\/p>\n
Burnley have found their scoring boots, with five goals in two games, but this is Arsenal’s defence.<\/p>\n
They last conceded in any competition on 28 September, a run of six successive clean sheets.<\/p>\n
Daniel Munoz, Crystal Palace, \u00a35.7m – Brentford (h)<\/p>\n
Forget defensive contribution points, Munoz is the man to turn to if you want attacking returns from your defenders.<\/p>\n
The Colombian has four already (one goal, three assists) and it’s partly due to his position on the pitch – he’s effectively a right winger at times.<\/p>\n
Munoz has had 10 shots in the box in nine games – that is huge for a defender.<\/p>\n
Brentford have scored in all but one game, so a clean sheet isn’t obvious for Palace here, but that would just be a bonus for Munoz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Roefs, Sunderland, \u00a34.7m, keeper – Everton (h) You can’t ignore Sunderland’s fine start to the season, particularly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-250888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}