Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s Chelsea side presented us with some useful fantasy options last season, and 2022/23 is looking no different.
We take a look at the Blues&#8217; best FPL assets for the coming season.
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<h2>How Chelsea performed in the 2021/22 Premier League season:</h2>
With the £100m signing of Romelu Lukaku amongst others, Chelsea were tipped to challenge Manchester City and Liverpool for the title last season.
In the end, that never transpired, with Lukaku&#8217;s failure to settle in and a lack of attacking cohesion culminating in a pretty disappointing league season at Stamford Bridge.
They did however reach two domestic cup finals, and secure a Champions League place, so the season wasn&#8217;t a total disaster.
Chelsea were definitely the third strongest defence in the league last year, ranking third for clean sheets (16) goals conceded (0.87 per game) and <a href="https://www.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/opta">expected goals against</a> (xGA) with just 1.0 per game.
The departures of Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen will hurt the Blues defensively, however.
Chelsea will look to offset these losses through their incomings, with Kalidou Koulibaly (£5.5m) already signed, and Jules Kounde on Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s radar.
In addition, Raheem Sterling (£10.0m) could be a brand new source of goals, with Lukaku on his way out and likely heading back to Inter Milan.
Read on for the top 3 Chelsea players for your FPL team.
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<h2>The best Chelsea FPL players: Raheem Sterling (£10.0m)</h2>
Raheem Sterling has completed his switch from Manchester City to Chelsea, in a deal worth around £50m.
The England man has been an FPL mammoth in seasons gone by, and Tuchel will be hoping Sterling can showcase the goalscoring form he showed a few years ago.
In the three seasons from 2017 to 2020, Sterling scored 18, 17, and 20 goals respectively, surpassing the 200 FPL point mark on all three occasions.
If that wasn&#8217;t enough, he also picked up 38 assists during this period.
That&#8217;s not to say Sterling&#8217;s recent FPL form hasn&#8217;t been good &#8211; he actually had the second highest <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/a-simple-guide-to-opta-stats-for-fpl/">expected goals (xG)</a> per start of all midfielders last season, with 0.54.
The issue for him at Manchester City has been his game time, which isn&#8217;t a huge surprise given the calibre of players Pep Guardiola has at his disposal.
Sterling should be nailed to start at Chelsea; he’s a perfect fit on the wing, with Kai Havertz (£8.0m) slotting in at false-nine and doing the dirty work, allowing Sterling to run in behind and get amongst the goals and assists.
On that basis, I would expect Sterling to be Chelsea&#8217;s top scorer this season, which bodes extremely well for our FPL teams.
The elephant in the room is, of course, his £10m price tag.
It&#8217;s a lot to spend on any player, but particularly one moving to a new club, without the promise of penalties to fall back on.
However, I don&#8217;t think any of us would be surprised to see Sterling stick a hat-trick past Everton in Gameweek 1, which would see his lowly ownership of 7% skyrocket.
If you want to go against the grain, Sterling is one of the most explosive picks in the game, and the ultimate differential.
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<h2>The best Chelsea FPL players: Ben Chilwell (£6.0m)</h2>
Prior to his injury back in November, Ben Chilwell was in the form of his life.
The former Leicester man notched three goals and an assist in just seven appearances, with clean sheets and bonus points to boot.
He comfortably topped the defender charts for expected goals (xG), shots in the box, and shots on target &#8211; which is pretty impressive considering the calibre of the competition, including the likes of <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/who-are-the-best-fpl-premium-defenders/">Alexander-Arnold and Cancelo</a>.
Of course, the sample size is small given that he only played seven games, so these figures must be taken with a pinch of salt &#8211; but nonetheless, it&#8217;s incredibly impressive, and makes a mockery of his £6.0m price tag.
The point of contention is his fitness, which was called further into question following his absence during Chelsea&#8217;s pre-season defeat to Arsenal.
This is not helped by the fact that Chelsea have a ready-made (if not slightly past his best) replacement in Marcos Alonso (£5.5m).
Despite this, you would still assume that Chilwell will be preferred to the Spaniard by some distance when fit.
Defensively, Chelsea have a mixed start to the season, particularly from a defensive point of view, with early standout <a href="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/fantasy-premier-league-fixture-list-for-2022-23-season-revealed/">fixtures</a> coming against Everton, Leeds, Southampton and Fulham, offset by tougher fixtures against Spurs and Leicester.
The Blues have looked rocky at the back in pre-season, perhaps affected by the departures of Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen.
Realistically though, Chelsea are still a top half defence, with a world class goalkeeper in <a href="https://fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/who-are-the-best-fpl-mid-priced-goalkeepers-gameweek-1/">Edouard Mendy (£5.0m)</a>, and regardless, you are buying Chilwell primarily for attacking purposes.
However, if he&#8217;s not looking match fit by the time Chelsea face Udinese on Friday, there&#8217;s someone else you should consider&#8230;
<div id="attachment_47593" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47593" class="wp-image-47593 size-full" src="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1409384433.jpg" alt="Ben Chilwell. Picture by Getty Images" width="1024" height="777" srcset="https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1409384433.jpg 1024w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1409384433-300x228.jpg 300w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1409384433-768x583.jpg 768w, https://cms.fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1409384433-610x463.jpg 610w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />Ben Chilwell. Picture by Getty Images</div>
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<h2>The best Chelsea FPL players: Reece James (£6.0m)</h2>
England man Reece James is undeniably a huge attacking threat, from both open play and set pieces.
He scored five goals last season, picking up 9 assists, despite playing less than 2,000 minutes.
In fact, no defender scored more goals than James in the Premier League, in spite of his limited game time.
In addition to this incredible goal threat, the Chelsea man also had the best assists per 90 rate of all defenders in the league last season!
He has even been taking direct free kicks for Chelsea, demonstrating the quality of strike he possesses as a defender.
If he can get a full season at right wing-back under his belt, you wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see him rival Trent Alexander-Arnold (£7.5m) for points.
That&#8217;s a very big if, however.
James&#8217; fitness has been called into question plenty of times, and for good reason &#8211; he suffered through five separate injuries last season.
There&#8217;s also the risk of Thomas Tuchel playing James deeper, on the right-hand side of a back three, which would certainly nullify his attacking threat to some extent.
However, with Kalidou Koulibaly (£5.5m) already signed, and Jules Kounde on Tuchel&#8217;s radar, alongside Thiago Silva (£5.5m) and Trevoh Chalobah (£5.0m) you&#8217;d hope the Blues can just about cope without James needing to drop back into defence &#8211; at least in the early weeks of the season.
The introduction of <a href="https://fantasyfootballhub.co.uk/three-big-things-that-will-change-fpl-in-2022-23/">5 substitutions</a> is also likely to impact James negatively, however. He is notoriously prone to an early sub, often before the 60 minute mark &#8211; potentially missing out on clean sheets.
Overall however, I think James&#8217; upside is worth the risk. Injuries are always a possibility, but that&#8217;s why we have transfers. At £6.0m, you can easily pivot to a Manchester City defender such as Aymeric Laporte (£6.0m) or Ruben Dias (£6.0m) if things go pear-shaped.
Despite his fitness struggles, Reece James is still a player who can hit 15-20 points in any given week, and for that reason, he feels like a gamble worth taking at £6.0m.
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