Gameweek 6 produced 36 goals in ten matches, and the biggest FPL score of the weekend went to a 4.9m Chelsea midfielder. Jordan Henderson scored twice, set up another and took maximum bonus for 18 points. Brighton’s Maxim De Cuyper and Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon took 15 each. The most-captained player in the game scored six. The armband market delivered one big haul, two blanks and a clear verdict on the three most popular alternatives to Haaland. Here is what the underlying picture says about which of it repeats.
A haul tells you who was good on Saturday. The week after tells you whether it was the player or the afternoon.
GW6 TOP FPL SCORES
Jordan Henderson (CHE): 18 points, two goals, an assist and maximum bonus in the 5-1 win over Bournemouth
Maxim De Cuyper (BHA): 15 points, a goal, a clean sheet and maximum bonus at Sunderland
Ryan Sessegnon (FUL): 15 points in a 2-1 defeat at Ipswich
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (EVE): 13 points, a goal, an assist and maximum bonus in the 2-2 draw at Hull
Joao Pedro (CHE): 12 points, two goals against Bournemouth, 24 with the armband
Jordan Henderson: Eighteen Points, Mostly the Afternoon
Henderson’s 18 points at 4.9m was the largest return of the gameweek, and it came in a match where Chelsea scored five. That is the honest reading. A midfielder scoring twice and assisting once is as much a story about Chelsea’s attack on the day as it is about him, and the repeatable part is the attack around him. Pedro, Rogers and Palmer, the trio the community calls JP Morgan, have 119 points between them this season, and Pedro and Palmer were both fit enough to start after fitness doubts. A single big score at 4.9m is useful. It is not yet a reason to rebuild around him.
Maxim De Cuyper: A Defender Who Scores Like a Midfielder
De Cuyper’s 15 at Sunderland was his third double-digit return of the season and made him the top-scoring player in the game. At 5.1m, up 0.6m since the season began, he is a defender whose points come as much from goals as from clean sheets, and the combination is rare. Brighton lead the league for goals scored and clean sheets, which keeps both routes open. It also explains why Vuskovic, the more conventional clean-sheet centre back, has been outscored by a team-mate the market initially trusted less. The risk is the same one that applies to any attacking full back: his returns depend on Brighton staying expansive, and rotation talk in the week is a reason to check the teamsheet.
The Captain Verdict
The five most-captained players returned 6 (Haaland, captained by about 4.8 million managers), 1 (Fernandes, 1.12 million), 12 (Pedro, 1.06 million), 2 (Saka, about 536,000) and 8 (Palmer, about 405,000). Pedro’s 12 became 24 for the million who picked him, the best return of the group, and he has now scored in each of his last three starts against Bournemouth for 32 points in total. He did it after missing Gameweek 5 and international duty with injury, which is why the market had sold him. Haaland’s six, on one shot on target, was the safe result at its most ordinary, and he and Pedro are now level at 45 points at the top of the forward standings.
Everton’s Pair: Dewsbury-Hall and Barry
Dewsbury-Hall’s 13 points were his first FPL return since Gameweek 1, and the performance behind them was real: he scored, assisted, created two big chances and was rated among the weekend’s best players. Thierno Barry scored in the same match and leads the league with 13 big chances. That is the encouraging half of the story. The less encouraging half is that he has three goals to show for them. Everton are unbeaten, and the attack has produced eight goals in six matches. Neither player has a fixture run that helps for long, as the Fixture Analysis column explains.
Ownership Shift Ahead of Gameweek 7
Price and transfer movements show where managers are going. More than 220,000 have sold Bruno Fernandes since the Gameweek 6 deadline, and Isak and Gakpo have been sold in large numbers on injury news. Pedro’s price has risen to 7.8m after his third double-digit haul, and Cherki was next in line to rise. Brentford’s Vitaly Janelt, heavily sold before Gameweek 6, returned to the starting XI, scored a double-digit haul and is now the second most-transferred-in player with more than 256,000 new owners. The pattern is familiar: the market corrects quickly, usually just after the points have been banked.
What Repeats, What Doesn’t
Likely to repeat: Pedro’s goal threat and minutes, De Cuyper’s two routes to points, Chelsea’s attack as a whole
Watch closely: Henderson’s 18, a single afternoon, and Sessegnon’s 15 in a defeat
Differential to track: Thierno Barry, 13 big chances, three goals, and the likelihood that the finishing catches up with the chances
One big score is a headline. A second one, backed by the chances behind it, is a trend worth building a squad around.
Leave a Reply