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Everton FPL: Who To Own, Captain And Avoid
The call — Everton: buy the back door, not the front Everton's numbers this season split cleanly down the middle: the seventh-meanest defence in the league bolted onto the fourth-bluntest attack. You don't need a long article after that. The value here is at one end of the pitch, and it's not the end with the goals in it.
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The fixtures back that up. Hull away, Coventry at home — two promoted sides in the next six — plus Chelsea and Brentford, and our model calls the run genuinely kind for clean sheets. The same list looks miserable for goals, which is why nobody in blue is worth buying for attacking returns. Barry has the penalties and Garner takes everything else dead-ball, which sounds tempting until you remember the team he's crossing for is one of the league's least dangerous. Garner also has the softest grip on his shirt of the lot — four starts, not five. Pass.
So it's the defenders, and our model puts Tarkowski top of the whole Everton pile — £6.1m, roughly 27 points over the next six, usually good for 4-5 a week with the odd goal-threat bonus on top, and only about 1 in 7 managers own him. If that's too rich, the same clean sheets come cheaper: Branthwaite at £5.5m with practically nobody on him, Pickford at £5.5m, and Mykolenko at £4.6m — the classic enabler price, starting every week, held by barely anyone. A defender who plays 90 minutes behind the seventh-best defence for £4.6m is exactly the sort of pick that pays for a premium somewhere else in your squad.
The honest caveat: none of these is stamped guaranteed. They've all started five from five, but "has started" and "will start" aren't the same sentence, and the run includes Arsenal and Newcastle away, where the clean sheet dies early. This is a floor buy, not a haul buy — nobody here goes massive.
The call: buy into Everton's defence, not their attack. Tarkowski if the budget stretches, Mykolenko if it doesn't, and leave Barry and the midfielders on the shelf until the goals actually show up.