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Who are the best under-the-radar players to add to your Fantasy Premier League team for Gameweek 34 of 2025-26?We assess the Opta data to reveal our top picks.
There are only seven matches in the Premier League for this matchday. Does that make it easier to make your FPL picks by focusing the mind, or harder as there are fewer options?
We’ve crunched the Opta data to identify five players who could be sneaky plays this week, despite them currently being picked by fewer than 10% of FPL managers.
GK – Robin Roefs | 4.8m | 8.8% Ownership
Is it a good or bad time to select a goalkeeper when he’s just conceded four goals? Let’s find out.
Sunderland shot-stopper Robin Roefs is the man in question. He’s enjoyed a good first season in the Premier League, earning the joint-fourth most FPL points by a goalkeeper despite not starting every match.
He probably wished he hadn’t started at Villa Park last weekend. Sunderland almost snatched a point from the jaws of defeat, only to concede again after they had recovered from 3-1 down to equalise late on.
Roefs should have a better time on Friday night. The Black Cats are at home, where they’ve conceded 12 goals fewer than they have on the road. Only Burnley (16) and Bournemouth (14) have more lopsided defensive records.
Sunderland host a Nottingham Forest side that need the points but also have a UEFA Europa League semi-final with Aston Villa next week. Regardless of how distracted they are by that, only four teams have scored fewer Premier League away goals in 2025-26. Régis Le Bris’ side won the reverse fixture 1-0 too, albeit that was two Forest managers ago.
His team will then travel to already-relegated Wolves. Sunderland’s poor defensive record away from the Stadium of Light should improve there, which is good news for Roefs.
DEF – Konstantinos Mavropanos | 4.4m | 1.9% Ownership
If you have an inkling about who Mikel Arteta will station in his back four this weekend, transfer in an Arsenal defender. Their next two matches are at home against Newcastle and Fulham, the joint-third lowest away scorers in the division. But with a trip to Atlético Madrid in between those matches, Arteta may rotate his defenders a bit on Saturday.
As Tottenham are at Wolves, a case could be made to risk one of their players. The two best options (Micky van de Ven and Pedro Porro) are already in over 10% of teams though.
We’ll take a player from another relegation-threatened team instead. West Ham also have the advantage of being in reasonable form, unlike Spurs. This is partly down to Konstantinos Mavropanos, who scored twice in their previous home game against Wolves and has helped the Hammers to consecutive clean sheets.
The Greek international is also an FPL bargain. His total of 104 points is the fifth most among players who cost a maximum of £4.4m, after Chris Richards (122), Omar Alderete (112), Ferdi Kadioglu (108) and Pascal Struijk (105). Mavropanos averages more points-per-start than any of them (4.5).
West Ham host their former boss David Moyes this weekend. His Everton side average just 1.1 goals per game on the road. They’ve only scored once in their previous three matches at the London Stadium too.
While the Hammers’ next opponents, Brentford, will be at home and have been potent on their own patch, three of their last five league games have been goalless draws. It all bodes well for Mavropanos.
MID – Enzo Le Fée | 4.8m | 1.3% Ownership
Enzo Le Fée has amassed 4.58 expected goals in the 2025-26 Premier League, scoring four times. His passing has been slightly generously rewarded with five goals created from 4.18 expected assists. At a combined nine goal contributions from 8.76 xG and xA, he’s going along nicely at about par.
So far, so what? The interesting aspect of these numbers is that Le Fée is Sunderland’s leading player for both of these underlying metrics. Other players at other clubs will have stronger figures for either the value of their chances or those they have laid on for others. There are 11 ahead of Le Fée for both. But there won’t be many, if any, who top their club standings for xG and also xA.
He’s in red hot form creatively too. Le Fée has created five Opta-defined big chances in the last four gameweeks, the most of any player. He should be able to put this to good use against Nottingham Forest on Friday. They might have won 3-0 at Tottenham in their previous away game but Forest conceded at least twice in their three road matches prior to that.
With Wolves to follow, Le Fée might start seriously exceeding his underlying numbers before we know it.
MID – Matheus Cunha | 8.0m | 9.4% Ownership
Manchester United are predicted by Opta to make the UEFA Champions League with ease this season. They have the second-best record in the Premier League since Michael Carrick took charge, which is quite the turnaround. United were sixth when Ruben Amorim left, 11 points adrift of Aston Villa.
Even though it would take a catastrophe for them to miss the top five now, the Red Devils have some tricky fixtures coming up. They host Brentford on Monday, with the Bees having scored seven goals in winning the previous two meetings. United then host Liverpool, who have a strong recent record at Old Trafford.
Fortunately for Carrick, he has players in form. Bruno Fernandes has the chance to break the Premier League assists record, though as he’s the third most selected player in FPL, he’s off-limits here.
An option for our needs is Matheus Cunha, who has scored in two of the previous four matches. He has tended to do well in tougher games too, with goals against the likes of Arsenal, Chelsea and Aston Villa (home and away) this season.
Another prediction Opta makes is for the statistics that players will record in the next round of matches. You can see them here. Cunha has been forecasted to have 2.87 shots, score 0.31 goals and provide 0.17 assists against Brentford.
He is one of only five players to hit these three benchmarks this weekend, with some of the others unlikely to start. Opta think Cunha will sting the Bees so make sure you take advantage in your FPL team.
FWD – Dominic Solanke | 7.2m | 1.9% Ownership
It would be unfair and unrealistic to claim that the Premier League future of Tottenham Hotspur rests on the shoulders of Dominic Solanke. Equally, the club’s record signing has the ability to dig them out of the relegation mess in which they find themselves.
The first target for the former Bournemouth man is to score this weekend. Tottenham are at Molineux, taking on a team already in the Championship who have the worst home defensive record in the top flight.
Spurs are winless in the sides’ last six meetings, losing four, which is not something many teams will be able to say about facing Wolves these days. That run surely has to end.
Solanke’s last goal came in the 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace. In the four gameweeks since then he has had big chances against Nottingham Forest and Sunderland. The England international also created one from which Xavi Simons struck the woodwork last weekend.
There is no better team to face in this form than Wolves. They have conceded 25 big chances in their last six games, at least five more than any other club in the division. High value opportunities should come Solanke’s way.
Tottenham’s following match, at Villa Park, will be tough. But it comes in the middle of Aston Villa’s UEFA Europa League semi-final with Nottingham Forest, so they’re bound to have an eye on the second leg. It’s time to pay back that transfer fee, Dom.
*FPL player values and ownership data accurate as of 23 April 2026
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