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FPL Penalty And Set-Piece Takers 2026/27: The Full List

FPL Penalty And Set-Piece Takers 2026/27: The Full List

This is the version of FPL Penalty And Set-Piece Takers 2026/27: The Full List from 4 October 2026, kept for the record. The picks and the numbers have moved since. The current version →

The call — One man takes Brighton's penalties, their free kicks and their corners. Same man. Pascal Groß, £5.9m. That's the whole set-piece sheet in one line. Every dead ball at the American Express Stadium goes through him. In FPL terms that's a midfielder priced like a bench-filler with a monopoly on his club's cheapest route to points. Our model has him down…

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The rest of the sheet, quickly. Saka is on penalties, free kicks and corners at Arsenal, with Gyökeres second in the queue for pens. Fernandes owns everything at United, as ever. Szoboszlai takes the lot at Liverpool — pens, free kicks, corners — at £6.9m, which is quietly useful. Gibbs-White runs Forest's dead balls at £8.0m with only about 1.5 in 10 owning him. Haaland keeps City's pens, obviously, but at £15.6m and 7 in 10 owned, that's not a call, that's the template.

The caveats. A chunk of first-choice takers are currently crocked, so don't chase them: Palmer (muscular, 75% to play per Chelsea's update), Mateta (hamstring, back around 11 Oct), Kroupi Jr (foot, early November), plus Wright, Osula and Diarra with no return date. Duties can shuffle while they're out. Nothing has been formally flagged as changed yet.

The contrarian in me wants Saka — about 1 in 10 own him, projected near 30 over six, and he's first or second on every Arsenal set piece. He's the ledger entry I'll be pointing at later. But the numbers say the sheet has one standout and it isn't close: three roles, one body, £5.9m.

Buy Groß. Saka if you've already got him covered. I'm on record.

Set-piece takers by club
ClubPenaltiesFree kicksCorners
ARSSaka, GyökeresRice, SakaRice, Saka
AVLBuendía, N.JacksonBuendíaMcGinn, Buendía
BHAGroß, DavidGroß, AyariGroß, De Cuyper
BOUKroupi.Jr, KluivertTavernier, KluivertTavernier, Scott
BREThiago, SchadeLewis-Potter, JensenJensen, Damsgaard
CHEPalmer, EstêvãoJames, PalmerJames, Neto
COVWright, TorpRudoni, TorpGrimes, Torp
CRYMateta, SarrYeremy, DevennyYeremy, Wharton
EVEBarry, GarnerGarnerGarner, Dewsbury-Hall
FULGonzalo, RobinsonIwobiIwobi, Bobb
HULMcBurnieGiles, BelloumiSlater, Belloumi
IPSClarke, EmersonnNúñez, DavisLukić, Fatawu
LEECalvert-Lewin, NmechaStach, WilsonStach, Wilson
LIVSzoboszlai, IsakSzoboszlai, WirtzSzoboszlai, Wirtz
MCIHaaland, SemenyoCherki, FodenCherki, Foden
MUNB.Fernandes, MbeumoB.Fernandes, MbeumoB.Fernandes, Mbeumo
NEWOsula, WissaHall, SchärHall, Elanga
NFOGibbs-White, WoodGibbs-White, MurilloMcAtee, N.Williams
SUNDiarra, E.Le FéeN.Angulo, XhakaE.Le Fée, Xhaka
TOTSolanke, MarmoushPedro Porro, XaviPedro Porro, Sávio
Takers worth owning
PlayerClubPriceOwn %Proj (next 6)
GroßBHA5.929.250.4
HaalandMCI15.673.948.8
SakaARS9.513.829.2
B.FernandesMUN11.938.527.9
Gibbs-WhiteNFO8.015.724.3
SzoboszlaiLIV6.932.721.4
Players in this pieceGroßHaalandSakaB.Fernandes