Highlighted in last week\u2019s article<\/a> for his huge potential to regularly gain defensive contributions (DefCon) points, new signing Mamadou Sangar\u00e9 (\u00a35.5m) not only delivered that on his debut but also assisted twice.<\/p>\nThe 24-year-old\u2019s swift one-two with Dango Ouattara (\u00a36.5m) led to a cutback for Keane Lewis-Potter\u2019s (\u00a35.5m) opener.<\/p>\n
Vitaly Janelt (\u00a35.0m) pounced on a rebound to double the lead after Mathias Jensen\u2019s (\u00a35.5m) initial shot. Janelt, like Sangar\u00e9 and Kristoffer Ajer (\u00a34.5m), also reached FPL\u2019s DefCon threshold.<\/p>\n
Then, early in the second half, Anton\u00edn Kinsk\u00fd (\u00a34.5m) could only parry Sangar\u00e9\u2019s effort into the path of Michael Kayode (\u00a34.5m), who converted from close range.<\/p>\n
So, when Igor Thiago (\u00a38.0m) uncharacteristically saw his penalty hit the post, there were no consequences for the result. It merely disappointed 1.5 million Fantasy owners.<\/p>\n
The Spotlight<\/p>\n
Just one short of Sangar\u00e9’s 14-point haul was Kayode. While fellow defenders Ajer and Nathan Collins (\u00a35.5m) had chances to add a goal to their clean sheet, Kayode put himself in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n
It was a dominant evening for the Bees. Their 13 set-piece attempts alone exceeded the total shot count recorded by half of the Premier League\u2019s teams in Gameweek 1. They also outshot Spurs 20-4 for efforts inside the penalty area; four of the latter came from Kayode.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, he was last season\u2019s leading defender for take-ons (107) and successful long throws into the box (38).<\/p>\n
Best of the Rest<\/p>\n
Gameweek 1\u2019s biggest scorers were Brighton duo Maxim De Cuyper (\u00a34.5m) and Jack Hinshelwood (\u00a36.0m), on 17 and 16 points. The Seagulls were 4-0 up against Aston Villa by half-time, as FPL defender De Cuyper starred on the left wing.<\/p>\n
At that stage on Saturday, play-off winners Hull City found themselves two-up at home to Manchester United, thanks to centre-backs Semi Ajayi (\u00a34.0m) and Nobel Mendy (\u00a34.0m).<\/p>\n
The Tigers held on to that score, meaning that highly selected Bruno Fernandes (\u00a312.0m) and Bryan Mbeumo (\u00a38.0m) blanked, as did Manchester City pair Erling Haaland (\u00a315.5m) and Antoine Semenyo (\u00a38.5m).<\/p>\n
Instead, Marc Gu\u00e9hi (\u00a36.0m) and Jo\u0161ko Gvardiol (\u00a35.5m) rescued the Cityzens against Bournemouth. <\/p>\n
In Demand<\/p>\n
Not on the scoresheet, left-back Riccardo Calafiori (\u00a35.5m) assisted 2026\/27\u2019s opening goal on Friday night, making him one of the most bought individuals ahead of Friday\u2019s 6.30pm BST deadline.<\/p>\n
Arsenal\u2019s second was soon set up by Christos Tzolis (\u00a36.5m), someone responsible for seven pre-season assists, after doing it 23 times during his final Club Brugge campaign. Also popular is team-mate Martin \u00d8degaard (\u00a36.5m), who made it 3-0.<\/p>\n
Then, on Monday, Chelsea\u2019s Cole Palmer (\u00a39.5m) and Jo\u00e3o Pedro (\u00a37.5m) registered double-digit tallies.<\/p>\n
Sangar\u00e9 and De Cuyper join these on many watchlists.<\/p>\n
Captaincy<\/p>\n
Despite upsetting their owners at the weekend, expect most Gameweek 2 armbands to remain on either Haaland or Fernandes – last season\u2019s best two FPL players.<\/p>\n
While this was the first time that Haaland failed to score on a City opening day, upcoming opponents Crystal Palace are experiencing a difficult summer.<\/p>\n
As for Fernandes, he still found a way to have three chances and set up three more in Hull. Next up, a home meeting with another promoted side, Ipswich Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford has teamed up with Fantasy Football Scout to help bring you hints, tips and advice throughout the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-596632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596632","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=596632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}