There is a quick turnaround between gameweeks in Fantasy Premier League and Gameweek 19 start very soon. The Boxing Day fixtures didn’t deliver crazy high scores, but we did see plenty of clean sheets and minimal rotation. Let’s see what GW19 has in store for us!
Let’s prepare for that with our FPL GW19 Tips with the best picks, fixtures, transfer targets, odds, captain picks, and team selection.
1. Fantasy Premier League Gameweek 19 Tips
- If you still have your first wildcard, this is the last opportunity to activate it.
- Crystal Palace and Fulham have an interesting run of fixtures, their players could be solid budget enablers
- Similarly, City’s fixtures are improving, their players could do well in that run but do not overly expose your team to their players. If you think they will do well, you could pick just one of their players, Gvardiol, Foden or Haaland.
2. FPL Gameweek 19 Transfer Tips and Key Players to pick
Key players to pick
- Salah – the best player in the game
- Palmer – much easier to facilitate him after Saka injury
- Gabriel/Saliba/Raya – have at least one Arsenal defensive player
- TAA/VVD/Alison
- Cunha/Isak/Wood – all are very close, all are talismans for their teams, it is a roll dice
Transfer targets
- Morgan Rogers – fixtures are improving for Villa
- Munoz/Eze/Sarr – Crystal Palace with appealing fixture run up to GW31
- Pickford – mainly for those on Wildcard, Everton will have a double gameweek soon
- Gvardiol/Foden/Haaland – one City players, for those who believe that they will improve
3. Fixtures to target in FPL GW19
In which fixtures we could expect a lot of fantasy points? These are the fixtures to target in Gameweek 19 according to bookies odds.
- Leicester vs. Man. City: The Citizens 72 % to win, 49 % to score 2.5+ goal
- West Ham vs. Liverpool: The Reds 71 % to win, 47 % to score 2.5+ goal
- Ipswich vs. Chelsea: Chelsea 69 % to win, 44 % to score 2.5+ goals
- Brentford vs. Arsenal: Arsenal 67 % to win, 39 % to score 2.5+ goals
- Crystal Palace vs. Southampton: Palace 60 % to win, 31 % to score 2.5+ goals
Find 2.5+ goals odds for all teams in our article: Premier League Over 2.5 Goals Odds.
4. Best captain pick in GW19
According to our captaincy index, Salah is the best captain in FPL Gameweek 19 with a captaincy index score of 2.21
Haaland (captaincy index score 1.6) is the number 2 captaincy pick and Son (1.6) is number 3.
If you are looking for a differential captain, consider Foden.
5. What bookies odds say about Gameweek 19
As usual, we converted bookies odds into probabilities using our Odds to probability calculator, to assess the potential of gameweek 19.
Clean sheet odds for GW19
Arsenal (39 %) is the most likely team to keep a clean sheet in GW19. Bookies also favor Crystal Palace (38 %) and Liverpool and Chelsea (37 %) to potentially keep a clean sheet in GW19
In the last season (2023/24), we were used to a rate of 4.13 clean sheets per gameweek. (A big decline in comparison to 2022/23 season when we saw 5.45 clean sheets per gameweek!)
Expected clean sheets
Due to correction in the number of clean sheets: Everton, Nottingham
Everton overperformed their defensive expectations the most of all teams. They should have kept 2.98 clean sheets instead of 7 according to our expected clean sheets table.
Due to an improvement in the number of clean sheets: Manchester City, Aston Villa
City underperformed their defensive expectations the most from all teams. They should have kept 6.46 clean sheets instead of 3 according to our expected clean sheets table.
You can see the expected clean sheets table and clean sheet odds for all Premier League teams here.
Goalscoring odds for GW19
Haaland leads any time goalscoring odds for GW19: Premier League Goalsocring Odds.
6. FPL GW19 Team selection
Now let’s look at our FPL team selection for Gameweek 19 and beyond. An inspiration for those on GW19 Wildcard. Salah is our captain.
7. Fantasy Premier League Tips
Find more tips, strategies and picks for Fantasy Premier League in these articles:
- Beginner? Read our guide: How to play Fantasy Premier League
- Confused about the rules? Read the Official rules of the game or check our FAQs
- Want to beat your mini-league rivals? This article is for you: 7 Key Tips for Fantasy Premier League Success
- Interested in improving your decision-making process when picking players to your fantasy team? Check out Books that will help you to improve your FPL skills
We hope our FPL GW19 tips with the best picks, fixtures, transfer targets, odds, captain picks, and team selection helped you to gather some useful information before the Gameweek 19 deadline.
Good luck in FPL GW19!
