defensive contribution (DC) points<\/a> in Fantasy last season.\u00a0<\/p>\nGabriel picked up 22 DC points, just eight less than the COMBINED 30 of Arsenal\u2019s other defenders.<\/p>\n
Impressively, his all-round output meant the Brazilian blanked in only six of his 30 starts in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n
His total of 209 points was the third-most of all time, just behind the record of 213 points set by Andrew Robertson for Liverpool in 2018\/19.<\/p>\n
Best ever seasons by defenders in FPL<\/p>\n
Player
\nPoints
\nClub
\nSeason<\/p>\n
Andrew Robertson
\n213
\nLIV
\n2018\/19<\/p>\n
Trent Alexander-Arnold
\n210
\nLIV
\n2019\/20<\/p>\n
Gabriel
\n209
\nARS
\n2025\/26<\/p>\n
Virgil van Dijk
\n208
\nLIV
\n2018\/19<\/p>\n
Trent Alexander-Arnold
\n208
\nLIV
\n2021\/22<\/p>\n
Joao Cancelo
\n201
\nMCI
\n2021\/22<\/p>\n
Scroll across to see the full table on mobile\u00a0<\/p>\n
Consistent both home and away<\/p>\n
Gabriel\u2019s price reveal comes after Erling Haaland and Bruno Fernandes were announced as costing \u00a315.5m and \u00a312.0m earlier on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
If you want to own all three players in your opening squad, the combined cost will be a hefty \u00a335.5m. That\u2019s over a third of your \u00a3100.0m budget, with 12 of your 15 players still to pick.<\/p>\n
In the case of Haaland and Fernandes, those huge costs are mainly down to their ability to deliver big hauls, which makes them popular captain picks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
They produced 10 and 12 double-figure returns respectively last season, more than any other players, whereas Gabriel managed only six.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although the Arsenal star can\u2019t compare with the duo as a captaincy option, his relentless consistency both home and away puts him on a par with Haaland and Fernandes.<\/p>\n
All three were among the four top-scoring players in both home and away matches in 2025\/26.<\/p>\n
Watch: Gabriel’s best bits from 25\/26<\/p>\n
As the table below highlights, Gabriel had the least disparity of the three when it came to match location. He averaged 7.0 points per home start and 6.8 points per away start, a difference of just 0.2.<\/p>\n
The output of Haaland and Fernandes, by contrast, dropped 0.8 and 1.1 points per start (pps) respectively when playing an away match.<\/p>\n
2025\/26 comparison<\/p>\n
\u00a0
\nGabriel
\nHaaland
\nFernandes<\/p>\n
Home pts
\n106
\n120
\n124<\/p>\n
Home pps
\n7.0
\n7.4
\n7.3<\/p>\n
Away pts
\n103
\n119
\n111<\/p>\n
Away pps
\n6.8
\n6.6
\n6.2<\/p>\n
Pts = Points, PPS = Points per start. Scroll across to see the full table on mobile<\/p>\n
If you accept that you aren\u2019t going to be captaining him, Gabriel\u2019s home\/away output makes him an ideal \u201cset and forget\u201d pick to play in every Gameweek of the season.<\/p>\n
A home match against promoted Coventry City in Gameweek 1 only enhances Gabriel\u2019s appeal for your opening squad, while Arsenal also face two of last season\u2019s promoted clubs – Sunderland and Leeds United – over the first six Gameweeks of 2026\/27.<\/p>\n
Arsenal’s first six matches<\/p>\n
GW
\nOpp.
\nFDR*<\/p>\n
1
\nCoventry (H)
\n2<\/p>\n
2
\nAston Villa (A)
\n4<\/p>\n
3
\nChelsea (H)
\n3<\/p>\n
4
\nSunderland (A)
\n3<\/p>\n
5
\nBrighton (A)
\n4<\/p>\n
6
\nLeeds (H)
\n2<\/p>\n
*FDR = Fixture Difficulty Ratings<\/a>. 1=easiest possible fixture, 5=hardest possible fixture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal centre-back rises \u00a32.0m after his best-ever season in 2025\/26, when he produced 209 points Gabriel has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105,4277],"class_list":["post-554420","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\/554420","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=554420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}