In this article, we will look at the best goalkeepers to pick for your Fantasy Champions League team in MD14.
This article is part of the series: UCL Fantasy Quarterfinals 2nd Leg: Tips, Best Pick, Captain and Team Selection
We will explore goalkeepers at each price option: budget enablers, midpriced picks and premium options.
Budget Goalkeepers to consider (4m – 4.5m)
Urbig (3.9m, Bayern) – 3/10
- the cheapest starting goalkeeper
- you cannot argue about the value, but Neuer is back in light training, so Urbig might be just a short term pick
Szczesny (4m, Barcelona) – 9.5/10
- Barcelona highly ikely to go through
- Barcelona among top teams for clean sheet odds in QF
Mid Priced Goalkeepers to consider (5m)
Sommer (5.5m, Inter) – 5/10
- good at save points, which he demonstrated in the 1st leg – he got 4 points despite no clean sheet
- Inter very well organized defensively in UCL this season, but tough fixture against Bayern
Premium Goalkeepers to consider (5.5m – 6m)
Donnaruma (5.8m, PSG) – 8.5/10
- high clean sheet odds against Aston Villa
Raya (5.6m, Arsenal) – 5.5/10
- Arsenal likely to go through
- Arsenal plays on a different day and is on the other side of the bracket than Barcelona (if Szczesny is your other goalkeeper)
Courtois (5.7m, Real Madrid) – 2/10
- top for saves this season
- but Real unlikely to go trough to the semifinals
Tips for picking the best goalkeepers for your UCL Fantasy team
With goalkeepers, you always want a keeper that has a very high chance of a clean sheet.
But what is crucial, it is to have two playing goalkeepers – one that plays on Tuesday and one that plays on Wednesday.
That way, if your Tuesday’s goalkeeper did not score enough points (we use 4 points as our threshold) you can replace him with a goalkeeper that is yet to play on Wednesday.
This will help you maximize the UCL Fantasy points gained from your goalkeepers. Also, when considering a goalkeeper for your UCL Fantasy team, you always have to take a look at fixtures and asses whether a certain keeper has the potential for a clean sheet. Does he have a tough or easy fixture?
You can use our Champions League Clean Sheets Odds to find teams, who are most likely to keep a clean sheet in the next round of Champions League.
And do not forget to consider goalkeepers who are good at saves or penalty saves. You can find which goalkeepers made the most saves in the previous season in our article: Goalkepeers with the most saves in UCL Fantasy.
Now let’s look at goalkeepers at each price option: budget enablers, midpriced picks and premium options.
Here is our watchlist. (Go to the top).
