<p><b>The Best Aston Villa FPL players </b>surprised many <strong>Fantasy Premier League</strong> managers last season. Players like <strong>Emiliano Martinez (£5.5m)</strong> and <strong>Ollie Watkins (£7.5m)</strong> were near-essential, but can they and the rest of the <strong>Aston Villa</strong> side continue their form into the <strong>2021/22 season</strong>?</p>
<p>Here we examine three <b>Aston Villa </b>players who could prove to be amongst the <strong>best mid-priced FPL options</strong> this season.</p>
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<h2>The Best Aston Villa FPL Players 2021/22 | Aston Villa in Brief</h2>
<p>Aston Villa&#8217;s flirtation with a top six spot last season represented a dramatic shift away from their 19/20 fortunes. <strong>Dean Smith</strong>&#8216;s men were relegation favourites, but instead went on to finish <strong>11th with 55 points</strong>.</p>
<p>Their performances were characterised by <strong>resilient defending</strong> and enough <strong>attacking flair</strong> to hurt even the most stubborn back-lines. Last season they scored just three goals less than <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/premier-league-fantasy-football-chelsea-best-player-tips/"><strong>Chelsea</strong></a>.</p>
<p>Their signing of <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/the-best-norwich-fpl-players/"><strong>Norwich&#8217;</strong></a>s <strong>Emiliano Buendia (£6.5m) </strong>is being read by many as a move to pre-empt <strong>Jack Grealish&#8217;s (£8.0m)</strong> rumoured departure.</p>
<p>Whether their talismanic playmaker leaves or not, Villa fans don&#8217;t seem concerned about their <strong>2021/22 prospects</strong>. In Buendia they have an exciting talent who deserves to play for one of the <strong>Premier League</strong>&#8216;s stronger sides.</p>
<p>This article could probably be filled with far more options, but here I choose just three of <strong>the best Aston Villa FPL players for the 2021/22 season</strong>.</p>
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<h2>The Best Aston Villa FPL Players | Anwar El Ghazi (MID &#8211; £6.0m)</h2>
<p>I could&#8217;ve easily written about <strong>Bertrand Traoré (£6.0m)</strong> here, who registered <strong>seven goals</strong> and <strong>seven assists</strong> last season.</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s another Villa midfielder less owned than Traoré and, in my view, a <strong>better FPL pick</strong>. According to the Hub&#8217;s <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fpl-player-comparision-tool/"><strong>FPL player comparison tool</strong></a>, <strong>Anwar</strong> <strong>El Ghazi</strong> had the <strong>best FPL points per 90 minutes (6.20)</strong> at Villa last season.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a pretty phenomenal total.</p>
<p>In <strong>1604 minutes</strong>, El Ghazi scored <strong>10 goals. </strong>His 100% record from the spot last season contributed four of those goals.</p>
<p>The astute amongst you might be wondering why someone given just 1604 minutes would make a worthy consideration for the <strong>2021/22 season</strong>. Well, <strong>El Ghazi started Villa&#8217;s final seven games</strong>, scoring four in the process. He started alongside Grealish in the final two games too.</p>
<p>This all bodes well for El Ghazi&#8217;s 2021/22 campaign. Having asserted himself as a first-team mainstay, could El Ghazi prove to be one of Villa&#8217;s <strong>FPL</strong> shining lights next season? He&#8217;s certainly got the ability and the <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/htw-fpl-part4-2/"><strong>underlying stats</strong></a> to do so.</p>
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<h2>The Best Aston Villa FPL Players | Matt Targett (DEF &#8211; £5.0m)</h2>
<p>Now that the excellent <strong>Emiliano Martinez</strong> is <strong>£5.5m</strong>, some <strong>FPL</strong> <strong>managers </strong>are looking for an alternative route into a Villa defence that only conceded two goals more than <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/premier-league-fantasy-football-manchester-united-best-player-picks/"><strong>Manchester United</strong></a> last season.</p>
<p>In this regard, <strong>Matt Targett</strong> is quickly becoming&#8230;well&#8230;a big target. (Apologies.)</p>
<p>Of all of the <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/who-are-the-best-fpl-mid-priced-defenders/"><strong>£5.0m defenders</strong></a> in the game, Targett scored the most points in the 20/21 campaign. His <strong>four assists</strong> and <strong>16 clean sheets</strong> were enough to tally <strong>138 FPL points</strong>, a total that no other Villa defender could top.</p>
<p>According to our <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/"><strong>OPTA stats tool</strong></a>, he had an <strong>expected points of 161.7</strong>.</p>
<p>Villa&#8217;s opening three fixtures (<a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/the-best-watford-fpl-players/"><strong>Watford</strong></a>, <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/the-best-newcastle-fpl-players/"><strong>Newcastle</strong></a> and <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/the-best-brentford-fpl-players/"><strong>Brentford</strong></a>) are among the best of any team, making Targett a great pre-<a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fpl-chip-strategy-2021-22-bigmanbakar/"><strong>Wildcard</strong></a> pick for those thinking of deploying it earlier in the season.</p>
<p>He also benefits from a great fixture run between <strong>Gameweek 8</strong> to <strong>Gameweek 13</strong>, meaning he could be a viable rotation option for <strong>FPL managers</strong> with more money invested in their defence.</p>
<p>With Martinez <strong>39% owned</strong> at the time of writing, the shrewd FPL manager may want to accommodate for a run of early clean sheets from Villa. In <strong>Targett</strong>, we have a nailed on, <strong>attacking full-back</strong> who promises to do exactly that, and then some.</p>
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<h2>The Best Aston Villa FPL Players | Ollie Watkins (FOR &#8211; £7.5m)</h2>
<p>I can&#8217;t write an article about <strong>the best Aston Villa FPL players</strong> and not include the only Villa player I currently have in my FPL squad. <strong>Ollie Watkins</strong>, a saviour for me last season, deserves a starting berth in <strong>Gameweek 1</strong>.</p>
<p>His <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fixture-ticker/"><strong>great attacking fixtures</strong></a> aside, it should go without saying that Watkins is the <strong>highest scoring £7.5m or less FPL forward</strong> in the game.</p>
<p>Last season&#8217;s tally of <strong>168 points, </strong>comprised of <strong>14 goals</strong> and <strong>nine assists</strong>, was remarkably impressive for a debut <strong>Premier League</strong> season.</p>
<p>An export from <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/the-best-brentford-fpl-players/"><strong>Brentford</strong></a>, Watkins doesn&#8217;t look like the sort of player who&#8217;s going to be a one-season wonder either. The talented <strong>25-year-old</strong> hasn&#8217;t had a single-figured goal-tally since the 2015/16 season: where he scored <strong>eight goals in 20 games</strong> for Exeter.</p>
<p>He has some great underlying <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a> to back it up too. Watkins had the <strong>sixth-best xG last season (16.28)</strong> and, based on our <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/"><strong>OPTA stats tool</strong></a><strong>, </strong>should&#8217;ve scored <strong>193 points</strong>.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s as nailed as any <strong>forward in FPL</strong>, and with a rich history of goalscoring, a wealth of strong <strong>underlying <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta/" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c="1" title="FPL Stats by OPTA - Player and Team Stats">stats</a></strong> and an affordable price-tag, it&#8217;s of no surprise that he&#8217;s currently the <strong>second-most selected forward</strong> in the game.</p>
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<h2><strong>Do you Agree?</strong></h2>
<p>What are your thoughts? <strong>Comment on this article</strong> and let me know whether I&#8217;ve missed anyone. I&#8217;d love to hear who else from Aston Villa deserves to be on this list!</p>
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