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<h3><strong>Alphonse Areola (£4.3m)</strong></h3>
<p>Having started every Premier League match for West Ham this season, Areola seems to have solidified his claim to the starting position, and I believe it's now his to lose.</p>
<p>Areola hasn't been delivering the goods in FPL so far, but with none of the other goalkeepers looking like a standout choice, there is little reason to spend the premium given West Ham's fixtures.</p>
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<h3><strong>Daniel Bentley (£3.9m)</strong></h3>
<p>Matt Turner is now expendable having lost his place.</p>
<p>Any £3.9m goalkeeper could be selected here to save the extra funds.</p>
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<h3><strong>William Saliba (£5.2m)</strong></h3>
<p>I love the idea of doubling up on the Arsenal defence.</p>
<p>They have a good run of fixtures for a while, are affordable, and are first for non penalty xG conceded this season.</p>
<p>With not too many other defences standing out and the Arsenal attack underwhelming (11th for non penalty xG) double Arsenal defence may be the way to go.</p>
<p>Saliba is the standout pick in terms of minutes.</p>
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<h3><strong>Gabriel (£4.8m)</strong></h3>
<p>While Gabriel's minutes aren't as assured as someone like Saliba, I still think that he is first choice and likely to play most of Arsenal's upcoming fixtures.</p>
<p>That makes him a good asset to own given his price and Arsenal's upcoming run of fixtures.</p>
<p>Mikel Arteta hinted that Gabriel was rested against Sheffield United in Gameweek 10 purely because he had played a lot of minutes heading into the game, so I don't think he'll be a big problem going forward.</p>
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<h3 class="styles__ElementHeading-ahs9zc-5 haxmIv">Konstantinos Tsimikas<strong> (£4.6m)</strong></h3>
<p>Naturally, I'm not as bullish on Tsimikas as I was last week.</p>
<p>Having said that, just a couple of weeks ago Klopp implied that Tsimikas is his first choice full back, so I'm not sure we can read much into the Luton game alone:</p>
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<p><em>“Thank god it is not only Kostas we have for that [left-back] because for the amount of games we would already be a bit short. We have Joe Gomez who can play the position and we have Luke Chambers and other young boys who show up in training quite frequently. Kostas is definitely the most experienced in the position, so that’s good, but he cannot play all the games from now on, so we need other options and that’s what we have to make sure, that we can use all of them.”</em></p>
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<p>The annoying thing with owning Tsimikas is that he almost inevitably seems to come on for a one pointer whenever he is benched, but I still don't think this warrants selling him ahead of a run of fixtures that reads Fulham, Sheffield United and Crystal Palace from Gameweek 14, where Tsimikas could represent good value.</p>
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<h3><strong>Marc Guehi (£4.6m)</strong></h3>
<p>Crystal Palace are scheduled to play Everton, Luton and Bournemouth in three of the next four gameweeks.</p>
<p>That is pertinent given the fact that Palace have kept four out of four clean sheets every single time they have played against any opponent in the bottom ten in the Premier League this season.</p>
<p>In fact, no team has kept more clean sheets than Crystal Palace this season.</p>
<p>Guehi rotates really well with <strong>Cole Palmer (£5.0m)</strong> too, which makes it easy to get through some of his tougher fixtures.</p>
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<p id="caption-attachment-59254" class="wp-caption-text">Cole Palmer leads the predicted points projections - but his fixtures rotate nicely with Marc Guehi</p>
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<h3><strong>Jamaal Lascelles (£4.0m)</strong></h3>
<p>No team has conceded fewer big chances than Newcastle this season, whether at home or away.</p>
<p>The immediate fixtures for them aren't great, but with rumours that Sven Botman could require knee surgery, there is a good chance that Lascelles is going to be incredible value for money over the next couple of months.</p>
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