{"id":523294,"date":"2026-07-03T12:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/523294\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:34:08","slug":"fpl-rotation-pairings-brentford-and-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/523294\/","title":{"rendered":"FPL rotation pairings: Brentford and Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scout picks out clubs and players who can be paired together effectively in opening squads for 2026\/27 Fantasy Premier League<\/a> and give FPL managers a great run of early fixtures.<\/p>\n

Brentford and Leeds\u00a0<\/p>\n

Owning a defender from both Brentford<\/a> and Leeds United<\/a> can help you immediately profit from a great run of home matches over the first five Gameweeks.<\/p>\n

By rotating them (starting one and benching the other) according to whoever has the home fixture, you would face only TWO clubs who finished in the top 11 last season.<\/p>\n

That occurs in Gameweek 2, when Leeds host Brentford themselves, and in Gameweek 3, when Brentford face Sunderland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This run is also reflected by the Fixture Difficulty Ratings<\/a> (FDR), with all of those fixtures scoring no more than three.<\/p>\n

Brentford and Leeds rotation, GW1-5<\/p>\n

GW
\nClub
\nOpp.
\nFDR*<\/p>\n

1
\nBrentford
\nSpurs (H)
\n3<\/p>\n

2
\nLeeds
\nBrentford (H)
\n3<\/p>\n

3
\nBrentford
\nSunderland (H)
\n2<\/p>\n

4
\nLeeds
\nNewcastle (H)
\n3<\/p>\n

5
\nLeeds
\nCrystal Palace (H)
\n3<\/p>\n

*1 = easiest possible fixture, 5 = hardest possible fixture<\/p>\n

Who will be the best budget defenders?<\/p>\n

As one of three promoted clubs last season, Leeds defied expectation by avoiding relegation thanks to their solid defensive displays at Elland Road.<\/p>\n

Daniel Farke’s side kept six clean sheets in home matches in 2025\/26 – a total bettered by only four clubs – but managed a mere two clean sheets in away matches.<\/p>\n

While Jaka Bijol seems very unlikely to remain under \u00a35.0m after a fine breakout campaign where he averaged 4.6 points per start, fellow centre-back Joe Rodon\u00a0could easily remain under \u00a35.0m.<\/p>\n

The Wales international averaged 3.3pps by contrast in his 33 starts, producing 18 defensive contributions (DC).<\/p>\n

Wing-back Jayden Bogle delivered a respectable one goal and five assists but picked up a mere four DC points all season.<\/p>\n

Brentford, meanwhile, kept five clean sheets both at home and away, with Caoimhin Kelleher finishing as the second top-scoring goalkeeper in Fantasy on 143 points.<\/p>\n

Kelleher started last season at just \u00a34.5m and, along with centre-back Nathan Collins, could rise to at least \u00a35.0m this time around.<\/p>\n

Centre-back Sepp van den Berg and full-back Michael Kayode may well remain in the budget bracket, though, and offer contrasting routes to returns.<\/p>\n

Van den Berg collected 26 DC points in 30 starts and, despite failing to score, had 22 shots in the box – more than any other Brentford defender.<\/p>\n

Kayode’s 34 chances created ranked second for the Bees, although he did only collect six DC points all season.<\/p>\n

Next: Coventry and Nottingham Forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scout picks out clubs and players who can be paired together effectively in opening squads for 2026\/27…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-523294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}