Everton Vs Ipswich Town FPL: Who Hauled And What It Means
The call — Everton 1 Ipswich 0 — GW5, 19 September James Tarkowski put in 14 points at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. An assist, a clean sheet, the full defensive-contribution return and all three bonus. He costs £6.1m. About 1 in 7 managers own him. That is the return they wanted.
The clean sheet paid five Everton players. Maitland-Niles took 8 points with two bonus at £4.5m — around 1 in 100 own him. Pickford made four saves for 8 points at £5.5m, owned by just under 1 in 10. Branthwaite also scored 8, driven by his defensive work across 90 minutes, at £5.5m with about 1 in 40 owning him. Barry scored the goal and finished with 6 points at £5.6m, owned by roughly 1 in 12.
The line for the next deadline: Everton's back four all played 90 minutes and all cleared the defensive-contribution bar or came close. Tarkowski, Branthwaite and Mykolenko each banked those points. That is a defence collecting from two sources — clean sheets and defensive work — and it did both here.
Ipswich took nothing. Fatawu was sent off after 66 minutes and finished on -1. He is owned by about 1 in 500 and will now serve a ban. His owners have no decision to make — he comes out. Diop, at £4.0m and owned by about 1 in 8, returned 4 points without the clean sheet. He held his defensive-contribution return, which is the case for keeping him as a bench body and nothing more.
No heavily-owned player blanked. Dibling lasted 24 minutes for Everton; George got 11. Neither carries ownership worth acting on.
The call: Tarkowski owners hold. Managers short of a £4.5m defender have a case for Maitland-Niles on this evidence — 90 minutes, bonus, clean sheet, 1 in 100 own him. Fatawu is a sell. Tarkowski starts.