Best FPL defenders this week

Compare defenders by rank, price, form, next-gameweek xPts and availability.

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Balance clean-sheet potential with attacking returns, minutes and price. The ranking includes recent output and fixtures; xPts estimates only the next gameweek. Data refreshes twice daily. Read the methodology.

For GW6, Lewis Hall, Joško Gvardiol, and Leif Davis lead the available defender rankings.

Lewis Hall has 1 clean sheets and 2 goal contributions this season. The model forecasts 6.6 xPts for GW6.

Newcastle next visit Coventry City in GW6. The fixture and player estimates can change after the next data refresh.

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Player	Club	Price	Form	xPts	Score
Hall	NEW · DEF	£5.3m	6.5	6.6	98 · 18.9% owned
Gvardiol	MCI · DEF	£5.7m	7.5	5.3	96 · 27.0% owned
Davis	IPS · DEF	£4.0m	8.0	6.0	95 · 7.3% owned
Van Hecke	TOT · DEF	£4.9m	7.0	4.9	92 · 6.1% owned
Dasilva	COV · DEF	£4.0m	7.5	4.8	92 · 0.8% owned
De Cuyper	BHA · DEF	£5.0m	8.5	7.5	90 · 29.3% owned
Bogle	LEE · DEF	£4.6m	10.0	6.2	90 · 7.8% owned
Guéhi	MCI · DEF	£6.0m	5.0	5.0	88 · 18.0% owned
Thomas	COV · DEF	£4.0m	4.5	5.0	85 · 8.6% owned
Vuskovic	BHA · DEF	£5.0m	7.0	5.6	83 · 4.0% owned
Calafiori	ARS · DEF	£5.9m	3.5	4.4	82 · 50.9% owned
Tarkowski	EVE · DEF	£6.2m	11.0	7.0	82 · 17.7% owned
Muharemović	LEE · DEF	£5.0m	6.5	4.8	80 · 4.4% owned
Branthwaite	EVE · DEF	£5.5m	7.0	5.0	79 · 2.6% owned
Castagne	FUL · DEF	£4.5m	3.5	4.2	78 · 1.1% owned
Gabriel	ARS · DEF	£8.0m	5.0	4.7	78 · 22.7% owned
Khalaili	CRY · DEF	£5.0m	6.5	5.0	77 · 0.3% owned
Schuster	BRE · DEF	£4.5m	8.5	4.5	77 · 0.5% owned
Murillo	NFO · DEF	£5.5m	5.0	5.2	76 · 2.2% owned
Justin	LEE · DEF	£4.5m	5.0	4.9	76 · 1.4% owned
Mitchell	CRY · DEF	£4.5m	4.0	4.5	75 · 6.1% owned
Virgil	LIV · DEF	£6.5m	8.0	4.4	74 · 16.1% owned
Kayode	BRE · DEF	£4.6m	3.5	3.6	73 · 7.6% owned
Robertson	TOT · DEF	£4.4m	5.5	3.8	72 · 2.5% owned
Maitland-Niles	EVE · DEF	£4.5m	7.0	3.4	70 · 1.5% owned