10 Biggest Underachievers In Fantasy Premier League 2019/20
Which players left their Fantasy Premier League managers feeling short-changed in 2019/20?
It happens every season in Fantasy Football – some players just fail to live up to the high expectations we put on them.
We’re not talking about the players who were ruled out by injury or sold to other clubs in circumstances beyond their control, but those players who looked set to be strong Fantasy Premier League assets for us in 2019/20 only to fall off the radar.
Often after one strong campaign a player can see their price increase significantly in Fantasy Football, only for them to revert back to the average player they were before once the new season begins.
Sometimes it is players whose position changes as the season goes on, others find themselves out of form or dropped, and many new signings don’t settle or can’t to live up the hype surrounding them.
So who fits the bill here for the season just gone?
Let us cast our minds back to August 2019, before the pandemic and before a ball had even been kicked in the new Premier League season.
These are players who looked capable of playing a part in our Fantasy Football teams, only to leave us feeling short-changed.
These are 10 underachievers in FPL 2019/20.
10. Marcos Alonso - Chelsea
One of the FPL greats in recent years, Chelsea’s attacking left wing back Marcos Alonso had been among the top scoring Fantasy Football defenders for the past three seasons heading into the 2019/20 campaign.
The Spaniard looked a great option.
He loves to get forward, often providing assists for his teammates or even getting on the scoresheet himself, either from open play or scoring the occasional free kick. And Chelsea are usually solid enough in defence for him to claim clean sheet points too.
In Alonso’s defence, when he played this season he actually fared rather well and had one of the highest points per game averages of any defender.
The problem was that Alonso started out with a premium price of £6.5m, but went long spells without getting in the Chelsea team.
Part of this was down to injuries but manager Frank Lampard also said Alonso’s training performances had not been up to scratch.
This meant César Azpilicueta and Emerson Palmieri were both ahead of Alonso in the pecking order for much of the season.
Alonso did rekindle his form and regain his place when the Premier League restarted after lockdown, but 100 points for the season was an underwhelming return for one of the most exciting defenders in Fantasy Football.