What you need to know for Gameweek 2
The key news and data
The deadline for Gameweek 2 is just hours away and with that in mind we wanted to give you a round-up of the news that matters and the key data from Impect to help you in Fantasy Premier League.
The deadline for transfers and changes to your team is 6.15pm UK time today
Here are some key news stories that matter:
-Reece James is injured. Story here. Could Malo Gusto be a bargain replacement at £4m?
-Kevin De Bruyne is out for four months. Story here
-Michael Olise is staying at Crystal Palace and has rejected Chelsea. Story here
-Liverpool have signed a defensive midfielder - Wataru Endo from Stuttgart - and Chelsea have completed deals worth more than £165 million for Moises Caicedo and Romeo Lavia. More here
-Full-back Lewis Hall has joined Newcastle. Will he displace Dan Burn at left-back? He is a more attacking option and costs just £4.5m in FPL. Story here
These are the fixtures for Gameweek 2:
These are the most transferred-in players in FPL this week so far:
And these are the transfers-out:
Now for the key data for Impect, our data partner.
These were the top-5 and bottom-5 teams for xG in Gameweek 1. As a reminder, xG measures the quality of chances that a team creates by attributing a score to each chance based on the likelihood of it being a goal. For example, if the chance was certain to be a goal then it would get an xG score of 1. However, xG does not take into account the quality of the player with the chance or the goalkeeper they are facing. It just looks at the location of the chance and the number of players around the ball.
Top-5
Brighton - 4.35
Newcastle - 3.25
Everton - 2.9
Chelsea - 2.52
Crystal Palace - 2.52
Bottom-5
Burnley - 0.66
Sheffield United - 0.77
Nottingham Forest - 1.11
Tottenham - 1.36
Arsenal - 1.4
Moving on to the players, these are the top-10 for Offensive Impect, which measures the attacking effectiveness of a player for their team:
Callum Wilson - 100
Erling Haaland - 96.8
Rodri - 95.4
Alexander Isak - 95
Moussa Diaby - 94.7
Pervis Estupinan - 94.3
Sandro Tonali - 94
Luis Diaz - 93.6
Carlton Morris - 93.2
James Maddison - 92.2
And these are the leaders for post-shot xG. Post-shot xG measures the quality of a chance after the shot has been taken, so it also takes into account the quality of the shot:
Dominic Solanke - 1.52
Neal Maupay - 1.43
Declan Rice - 1.35
Joao Pedro - 1.26
Rodri - 1.21
Sandro Tonali - 1.21
Erling Haaland - 1.14
Odsonne Edouard - 1.11
Carlton Morris - 1
Axel Disasi - 0.97
Next, these are the top-10 players for bypassed defenders, which measures how many opposition defenders a player takes out of the game with their passing or dribbling. It is a way to track a player’s attacking impact in a game:
Pervis Estupinan - 20
Raheem Sterling - 15
Amadou Onana - 15
Casemiro - 15
Pascal Gross - 13
Alex Iwobi - 13
Moussa Diaby - 13
James Maddison - 12
Ryan Giles - 12
Rodri - 11
Kaoru Mitoma - 11
Sandro Tonali -11
Reece James - 11
Lastly, these are the top-10 defenders for Offensive Impect, which shows the defenders who are getting involved in attacks and is therefore really useful for FPL:
Pervis Estupinan - 100
Axel Disasi - 98.6
Sven Botman - 97.3
Raphael Varane - 95.9
Emerson Royal - 94.5
Ben Chilwell - 93.2
Rico Henry - 91.8
Craig Dawson - 90.4
Aaron Wan-Bissaka - 89
William Saliba - 87.7
Thanks for reading and good luck in Gameweek 2
Graham
