Fantasy Premier League Tips: 10 Last Minute Players You Should Consider
Sharpen up your FPL XI ahead of Friday's big kick-off.
Panicking yet? You probably should be. This season's Fantasy Premier League site has been open for several weeks now, and with Arsenal vs. Leicester City kicking the season off on Friday night, you have only a matter of hours to get those all important picks in.
FPL managers around the country will likely spend their Friday lunch breaks scrambling to put a team together ahead of the 6:45pm deadline. Sifting through the game's 480+ players is a daunting task in the first place, but doing it on such short notice is just asking for trouble. Chances are won't have time to think things through, panic, and pick Claudio Bravo as your starting 'keeper - a truly fatal error.
Fortunately, we've sifted through the options so you last-minute managers don't have to.
Anyone can skim the list of players and grab a handful of superstars, but early season success requires a more balanced approach. By all means sign Lukaku and De Bruyne, but finding value in lower price brackets is just as important to Fantasy success.
Here are 10 picks who may have passed under your radar, but should set you off to a flying start this season.
10. Steve Mounie
Club: Huddersfield Town
Cost: £6m
Standing at a towering 6'3", Benin international Steve Mounie looks a safe bet to lead newly promoted Huddersfield Town's line this season. He's the club's record signing at £11.5m, and with 14 goals in 35 Ligue 1 games for Montpellier last season, he comes with a decent track record in a league dominated by Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain.
FPL players may be put-off by Mounie's lack of Premier League experience, but he looks like a decent first week pick-up. Huddersfield's opponents, Crystal Palace, are in the midst of adopting a more expansive system under new coach Frank de Boer, and may be unsettled by The Terriers' brash, in-your-face style, which emphasises a high tempo and full-pitch pressing above all else.
David Wagner's side are going to take it to Palace, and as their first choice striker, Mounie is their most likely points-scorer. He's also nice and cheap at £6m, so even if you don't want to rely on Mounie for the duration of the season, he'd make a good second or third option.