{"id":79350,"date":"2025-08-20T04:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79350\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:51:14","slug":"who-were-the-cheapest-starting-players-in-fpl-gameweek-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/79350\/","title":{"rendered":"Who were the cheapest starting players in FPL Gameweek 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Fantasy Premier League (FPL) squads will contain at least one budget enabler.<\/p>\n<p>Here we look through the cheapest starting players in FPL Gameweek 1, as well as those making an appearance off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be going through all four Fantasy positions: goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/win-at-fpl-deadline-day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144262 webpexpress-processed\"  \/>GOALKEEPERS<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screen-Shot-2025-08-19-at-15.25.50-1024x170.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144673 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Following his summer move to Burnley, Martin Dubravka\u00a0(\u00a34.0m) was a popular choice for FPL managers as a reserve goalkeeper. Indeed, with a 34.6% ownership, the Slovak is the most popular keeper in the game.<\/p>\n<p>In Gameweek 1, Dubravka played the full 90 minutes for the Clarets against Tottenham Hotspur but did little wrong in the 3-0 reverse. He saved 50% of the six shots he faced and half of the two big chances with which he was confronted.<\/p>\n<p>DEFENDERS \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\" 1\" class=\"wp-image-74091 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1069\" height=\"512\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-125286 webpexpress-processed\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ffs-banner.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"898\" height=\"94\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image-3.png\" alt=\" 1\" class=\"wp-image-74091 webpexpress-processed\"  \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/FFScoutEditorial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250804-WA0005-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-143262 webpexpress-processed\" style=\"width:700px\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most Fantasy Premier League (FPL) squads will contain at least one budget enabler. Here we look through the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[40432,40433,40434,40435,218,4033,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-79350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-best-budget-players","9":"tag-best-budget-starters","10":"tag-best-cheap-players","11":"tag-cheap-starters","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-fpl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79350","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=79350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}