{"id":740701,"date":"2026-08-17T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740701\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T10:12:09","slug":"fpl-2026-27-eight-players-who-could-help-you-win-this-year-including-wirtz-calvert-lewin-joao-pedro-and-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/740701\/","title":{"rendered":"FPL 2026-27 Eight players who could help you win this year, including Wirtz, Calvert-Lewin, Joao Pedro and Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joao Pedro, Chelsea<\/a>, striker, \u00a37.5m<\/p>\n

The Brazilian is a key pick for our fantasy forward lines, following an impressive debut season for Chelsea<\/a>, where he racked up 15 goals and nine assists.<\/p>\n

He finished the season as the fourth highest-scoring forward in the game, having had 63 shots in the box and 26 big chances on goal.<\/p>\n

Having had the summer off, he’s well-placed to replicate this output under new boss Xabi Alonso, with Chelsea<\/a> also having the freedom of no European football to contend with.<\/p>\n

He comes in \u00a32m cheaper than Cole Palmer, and as the clear focal point in the Chelsea<\/a> attack. The only concern is that summer signing Danny Welbeck could compete with him for minutes.<\/p>\n

Neco Williams, Nottingham Forest<\/a>, defender, \u00a35m<\/p>\n

The Wales right-back is an intriguing defensive selection for fantasy managers going into this campaign, with a potential change in formation giving him a huge advantage.<\/p>\n

We expect to see some defensive solidarity under new manager Oliver Glasner, with this Nottingham Forest<\/a> side keeping 13 clean sheets in the 2024-25 campaign.<\/p>\n

Williams ranked third for fantasy points among Forest players last season, with five goal involvements, leading the way for shots (46) among defenders.<\/p>\n

He has the potential to play more advanced this campaign if Glasner adopts his favoured wing-back system, with Daniel Munoz producing eight goal involvements on the left for Palace last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joao Pedro, Chelsea, striker, \u00a37.5m The Brazilian is a key pick for our fantasy forward lines, following an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-740701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}