Defenders £ 5.0 million best for FPL 2025/26

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Following our view of the budget option (generally unattractive) £ 4.0 million, let’s continue to analyze the defenders of the Premier Fantasy (FPL) league by choosing the best that costs exactly £ 5.0 million.

In the position guide for our position, we will analyze the main players who struggle to make the manager opening team.

SUMMARY

£ 5.0 million can be seen an awkward price point. This is a traffic jam between a large premium beater and a large number of teammates of the £ 4.5 million teams expected by managers will provide better scores.

Even so, last season saw two big success begins with this price. Daniel Munoz (£ 5.5 million) and Marc Cucurella (£ 6.0 million) ranks fifth and seventh among all FPL defenders, with a total of 142 and 133 points.

Tyrick Mitchell (£ 5.0 million) does it well but is overshadowed by the equivalent of Crystal Palace. There are no defenders who get more touches of the penalty area (112), shots on target (14) or expected goals (XG, 4,93) than Munoz, but Cucurella defeated him when he came to goals (five).

Three of the last seven home matches of Chelsea men are transporting 15 points.

At another place, Ibrahima Konate (£ 5.5 million) is part of the back line of the first choice of champions, while recently revealed James Tarkowski (£ 5.5 million) will be the biggest recipient of the defensive contribution point (DC) if they exist. Nothing exceeds the action of 10.8 DC per match.

This time, we currently have 29 players marked at a price of £ 5.0 million.

Let’s look at the best options first before collecting the rest.

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Vitalii Mykolenko + Jake O’Brien

For £ 0.5 million less than Tarkowski, you can get one of these Everton teammates. Not that close to 44 additional points of hypothetical; Instead, they will receive 14 and six of them.

In justice to O’Brien, he just really entered the commotion as soon as David Moyes took over, finding time to score two goals in 17 begins.

As for MyKolenko’s left back, he won eight, eight and nine points in the last three matches of the season.

Whatever you like, it seems wise to buy a kind of toffee, because only three teams conceded less goals (44) and they can face Leeds United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Ham United for the first half of Gameweks.

Ola Aina + Noco Williams

Likewise, the ideal FPL troops will have a manager Nikola Milenkovic (£ 5.5 million) and Murillo (£ 5.5 million). Serbia pocketed five goals, while the Brazilian DC magnet was near Tarkowski with 10.5 actions per match.

This will end when the defenders with the highest scores have a new point method play a role, because Nottingham Forest holds 13 pieces of clean and conceding the most evil great opportunities (72). It brought them to the surprising threshold of the Champions League qualifiers.

Even if the Nuno Esirito Santo team experienced a slight setback, the prospects to fight Brentford, West Ham, Burnley and Sunderland in the first six matches were unbearable.

In addition, Aina is actually the leader of the League position to Gameweek 23, a little fading in the following months.

On the opposite side, it took a few moments for Williams to start consistently. However, from Gameweek 16 and so on, he collected the second most shot (26) and the fifth most points (89) of all defenders.

Given a tat

Levi Colwill

Breaking Forest Hearts on the last day is Colwill, whose winner brought Chelsea to the fourth place. This is something that they have built during a successful post-season trip in America and, if Blues start well, they can be a serious threat this season.

Besides, none of their six openings are considered difficult in our season.

England International Colwill is the most frequent starter of the 2024/25 Defense Chelsea, although there is fierce competition throughout the squad, which can get worse if Jorrel Hato Arrived from Ajax.

Trevoh Chalobah (£ 5.0 million) and Malo likes (£ 5.0 million) identical to the price but, at this point, it is far more guaranteed to be the time of the game than Colwill.

Maxence Lacroix

While Mitchell mentioned above remains for £ 5.0 million, he now has competition from the same price Borna Sosa (£ 5.0 million). So maybe Lacroix is a person to be pursued.

Under the last radar, he ended up as an XG that lacks achievement from all defenders (-2.46). The arrival of Wolfsburg was number three positions for shots to (20) and, of all outfielder, the second best in the playing play set (27).

Clean Palace sheet appears when the season continues, because Lacroix averages 9.9 DC action per match. He will collect 34 more points.

Indeed, the initial equipment of Eagles is mixed. But finding a good rotation partner can make the French people an interesting long -term choice.

Nathan Collins

When combining the reshuffle of key players and promotions at risk Keith Andrews into the role of his first senior management, it is difficult to completely backward Brentford now. This is regardless of a strong schedule that ranks second in our fixture ticker to Gameweek 6.

However, the most selected goalkeeper was their new signing Keelher Keelher (£ 4.5 million). As for more than half a million, you get a new central defender of two goals and seven assists, the sixth best defender for great opportunities (six).

Collins is a single outside player who plays every minute from 2024/25, override the threat of rotation.

Plus, 6FT 4in talent brings a number of DC points. Extra 32 will place it in the final calculation of 159, the fifth best.

Teammate Keane Lewis-Potter (£ 5.0 million) is one that might be beaten for now but remains on the surveillance list. With Rico Henry (£ 4.5 million) and Aaron Hickey (£ 4.0 million) Back fit, there are many competitions at the left back. Lewis-Potter is indeed a ‘outside position’ feature on the left wing on Friday, so it is a situation that must be monitored.

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The less desired

Meanwhile, many other £ 5.0 million options are Arsenal’s reserves or assets, Liverpool, Manchester City and Newcastle United.

Oleksandr Zinchenko (£ 5.0 million) almost certainly will not begin for the Gunners. Conor Bradley (£ 5.0 million), Kostas Tsimikas (£ 5.0 million) and Joe Gomez (£ 5.0 million), in that sequence in the possibility of starting, not guaranteed sustainable game time. Rico Lewis (£ 5.0 million), Vitor Reis (£ 5.0 million) and Nico O’REILLY (£ 5.0 million), especially at Manchester City.

Tino Livramento (£ 5.0 million) or And Burn (£ 5.0 million) is a potential target after Magpies equipment has improved, but they have Champions League football to be faced. Burn is the top defender Newcastle for DC Points (22) last season. Livramento should nodded Kieran Trippier (£ 5.0 million), though Sven BotmanReturning to fitness (£ 5.0 million) made some doubts about burns. Avoid at this time and re -judge later.

At another place, Illia Zabarnyi (£ 5.0 million) and Cristian Romero (£ 5.0 million) Tentatively associated with the movement of going. The latter is more likely to stay, but Tottenham Hotspur’s teammate Destiny Udogie (£ 4.5 million) and Micky van de Ven (£ 4.5 million) is cheaper.

Across the London, Fulham’s summer calm issued a disappointing vibration. Does not mean the defender is approaching Antone Robinson(£ 5.0 million) 10 assists last season. Whispered calmly but he was also a leading wing -back for DC Points (22) in 2024/25.

One very much needs to be considered from Gameweek 10:

Finally, the defenders of Manchester United – and their £ 5.0 million trio Is Mazrouui, Lisandro Martinez And Matthijs de Ligt – Will not be on the shopping list with Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea in the first five gameweeks. With Martinez still working back from injury and Heaven Ayden (£ 4.0 million), Luke Shaw (£ 4.5 million), Leny Yoro (£ 4.5 million) and Harry Maguire (£ 4.5 million) Alternative from the other two, there is no guarantee for several minutes.