FPL Gameweek 5 Results: Saturday's Top Scores And Talking Points

GW5 Friday round-up: Coventry win at Forest, Brighton beat Arsenal 3-0

Coventry won 1-0 at The City Ground on 19 September. Dasilva scored, played 90 minutes, took all three bonus and returned 15 points. His side kept a clean sheet. That made him the pick of the day at the back and, in hindsight, the captain of the round.

Coventry's returns did not stop there. Rushworth kept the clean sheet in goal, added an assist and three bonus for 12 points. Thomas banked nine from the same shut-out. One away win produced three double-figure-adjacent scores from one defence. Managers who hold Coventry defenders start them. Managers who don't should note the pattern — this defence is paying out.

Brighton beat Arsenal 3-0 at the American Express Stadium. Groß scored, assisted, played 90 and took three bonus: 14 points. Kostoulas scored and assisted in 75 minutes for 10. Brighton kept the clean sheet. Groß's return came with a full shift — he is playing the minutes and taking the set-piece involvement the numbers show. Arsenal defenders blanked and conceded three. Anyone who captained an Arsenal asset took the hit.

Aston Villa won 3-2 at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Manzambi scored, assisted and left after 71 minutes with 13 points. Buendía scored, played 90 and took three bonus for 12. Two Villa midfielders returned in the same match. Spurs conceded three at home; their defensive picks sit under review.

Newcastle beat Hull City 2-1 at St James' Park. Hall scored from defence for 12 points despite the goal conceded. Willock scored in 86 minutes for 10. Hall's attacking return is his second string — a defender who scores does not need the clean sheet to pay.

Everton beat Ipswich Town 1-0 at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. Tarkowski played 90, assisted, took three bonus and kept the clean sheet: 14 points. That is a return built on all three defender income streams at once.

The calls. Dasilva and the Coventry defence: start them, and managers short on funds at the back should move for the cheapest route into that unit. Tarkowski: start, every week he is fit — 90 minutes, clean sheet, bonus is his profile. Hall: start; he returns without the shut-out. Groß: start, and he enters the captaincy conversation off goal-plus-assist-plus-bonus at home. Arsenal and Spurs defenders: bench until the concessions stop. The facts on 19 September point one way — the value on this slate was in defenders who attack, and Dasilva is the name to act on.