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Aston Villa FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Aston Villa: The Avoid Column Has a New Headline Act Our model ranks Villa's attack 20th in the league right now. Also their defence. Twentieth. Both ends. That's not a rough patch, that's a full-house of bad, and the fixture computer hasn't done them any favours either: Brighton away, Arsenal at Villa Park, Hull away, Forest at home, Spurs away…
What has not being with FFIQ cost you this season?
One squad, picked before a ball was kicked and run for six gameweeks on three transfers — no hits taken. Scored on FPL’s own results.
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The one Villa problem most managers actually have is Matty Cash. Nearly 1 in 10 squads still carry him at £4.5m, presumably out of habit, and our model has him down for roughly 3-4 points across the *next six gameweeks combined*. That's not a bench option, that's furniture. If he's in your squad, he's a straightforward sell — a £4.5m defender from almost any other club clears that bar without breaking sweat.
If you absolutely must own a Villa player — and I'd gently ask why — the model prefers the midfielders. McGinn at £5.5m and Buendía at £6.0m top the list, but "top" here means around 14 points each over six weeks. That's a couple of points a game. Neither is going to hurt you badly, neither is going to win you anything, and hardly anyone owns either (about 3 in 100 for McGinn, barely 1 in 100 for Buendía) — which tells you the market has already worked this out. Maatsen at £4.5m projects better than Cash from the same price bracket, which is faint praise given the clean-sheet outlook, and young Hemmings at £4.5m is a bench-filler conversation, nothing more.
The honest other side: six games is six games, Villa have Forest and Brentford at home in there, and cheap midfielders who start every week have a way of nicking the odd assist. Fine. But when both ends of the pitch rank dead last in our prediction, you don't go hunting for the silver lining. You spend your money where the goals and clean sheets actually live.
The call: sell Cash now, don't buy in anywhere else, and come back in October if the fixtures — and the football — improve. Until then, Villa are a watch-from-a-distance team.