Nottingham Forest Vs Coventry City FPL: Who Hauled And What It Means
The call — COV 1-0 NFO: Dasilva hauls, Forest blank at home Dasilva scored the only goal at The City Ground on 19 September. Coventry won 1-0, kept the clean sheet, and he took all three bonus points. Fifteen points. He costs £4.0m. Hardly anyone owns him — fewer than 1 in 100 managers.
He was not alone. Rushworth, the £4.5m keeper, registered an assist, made two saves and took the clean sheet: 12 points. Thomas, also £4.0m, cleared the extra-defending line here and returned 9 points with a bonus. Pinnock (£4.5m) got 8, Mfuni (£4.0m) got 6. Five Coventry players at £4.5m or under returned 6 points or more from one fixture. That is the story of the round for anyone building a budget defence.
Ownership tells you where the crowd is. Thomas is the one managers have found — just under 1 in 10 own him. Dasilva, Pinnock, Mfuni and Rushworth are owned by almost nobody.
Now the Forest side of it. Gibbs-White played 90 minutes and returned 2 points. About 2 in 10 managers own him. That is a blank, not a flag — he completed the match, no card, no knock reported. N.Williams (£5.0m, about 1 in 10 owners) also played 90 for 2 points; the clean sheet went at his end. Wood came off after 17 minutes. Netz lasted 7. Delap and Jair Cunha were booked. Forest scored nothing at home to a promoted side. Those are the facts.
The caveat on Coventry is the one that always applies to a defence priced at £4.0m: one clean sheet is one clean sheet. Rotation across four points-scoring defenders is possible, and Dasilva will not score every week. But all five named above played the 90 here, and the price of entry is the minimum the game allows.
The call: Gibbs-White owners hold — a 90-minute blank forces nothing. The action is on the other side. A £4.0m defender who just scored, took maximum bonus and sits behind a clean sheet, owned by almost no one, is a buy. Bring in Dasilva; Thomas is the alternative if you want the pick more managers have already made.