Who are the best under-the-radar players to add to your Fantasy Premier League team for Gameweek 33 of 2025-26? We assess the Opta data to reveal our top picks.
This week could go a long way towards determining how your Fantasy Premier League campaign pays off. Bournemouth, Brighton, Burnley, Chelsea, Leeds and Manchester City all play twice this gameweek, so their players could earn points galore. Just don’t leave them hanging around for Gameweek 34.
We’ve crunched the Opta data to identify five players from those teams that you absolutely have to consider owning on your Wildcard, even though they are currently being picked by fewer than 10% of FPL managers.
GK – Djordje Petrovic | 4.6m | 5.8% Ownership
Bournemouth are having a crazy season. At one point they had a stretch of 11 league games without a win. Only three teams have had longer such runs, all of whom are unsurprisingly in the relegation zone.
Yet the Cherries are now 12 unbeaten since they ended their winless streak by beating Tottenham. It’s the longest current such sequence and will be at worst the second longest by any team at the end of 2025-26. Not since Liverpool in 2002-03 has a team hit double figures in the Premier League for both games unbeaten and matches without a win.
longest unbeaten streaks - Premier League 2025-26
Andoni Iraola’s (soon to be former) side have built their good form upon a solid defence. Bournemouth are just one goal conceded off having had the joint-best defence over the previous 12 matchdays. What appears a modest record of four clean sheets in this spell for Djordje Petrovic is the joint-most by a goalkeeper in less than 10% of FPL teams.
He will be kept busy at St James’ Park on Saturday. But no shot-stopper that is eligible here has made as many saves or kept out more non-penalty Opta-defined big chances across the last 12 gameweeks. Petrovic can frustrate a Newcastle team that have lost four of their previous five home league games.
Low-scoring Leeds then visit the Vitality Stadium on Wednesday. A pair of Petrovic clean sheets is not out of the question.
DEF – Jayden Bogle | 4.4m | 0.6% Ownership
As if Leeds United’s win at Old Trafford against rivals Manchester United on Monday wasn’t sweet enough, it has almost ensured they will be playing Premier League football next season. Opta’s predicted table rates their chances of relegation at just 1.7% at the time of writing.
Whatever doubt remains could be swept away this weekend, as the Whites host Wolves at Elland Road. They then travel to Bournemouth, meaning they face two of the worst six teams for goals conceded in quick succession.
Granted, Leeds are in that group too, so selecting one of their defenders is a little risky. But their backline has been strong of late, with only two teams conceding fewer than the seven goals they’ve allowed across the previous eight gameweeks.
Defender Jayden Bogle started seven of those matches, playing the entire second half in the other. As a wing-back when Daniel Farke opts for a back three (as he has done in the last three matches), the 25-year-old offers significant threat going forward too.
Bogle has created four big chances across the last six matchdays, at least double as many as any other defender. With 2.58 expected assists in open play, only Brenden Aaronson (3.04) has more for Leeds this season.
As he has only collected one Opta assist (though he got a fantasy one last time out), Bogle may be able to catch up with his underlying performance this week.
DEF – Matheus Nunes | 5.3m | 3.1% Ownership
It’s interesting that it feels like Manchester City have been reeling in Arsenal, as they haven’t really. Across their last 10 matches, the Citizens have only earned one point more than the Gunners. The ominous feeling that Arsenal fans are experiencing will be multiplied tenfold if City win on Sunday, though.
The season to date suggests there’s a good chance that they will. Pep Guardiola’s side have only conceded six goals in their eight matches against the rest of the current top six. That’s the fewest in a mini-league of these teams, plus they are the joint-top scorers in it with 13 goals.
Arsenal will try to make the game as uneventful as possible. Their record suggests they are unlikely to score many goals even if they go all out (which they won’t). The Gunners haven’t scored more than once in any of their away matches against the teams that start the weekend in the top nine in the Premier League.
City are then away to Burnley, the second lowest home scoring team in the division, in midweek. This should therefore be a productive gameweek for their lucky charm, Matheus Nunes.
The only one of City’s previous 19 league games that he did not start was the only one they lost (the Manchester derby). Nunes is the top FPL points scoring defender that isn’t already in 10% of teams, and eighth best overall.
Matheus Nunes FPL
He scored and assisted in the reverse fixture with Burnley and has big game pedigree through his assists home and away against Liverpool this term. Nunes won’t be the player Arsenal fear most but given his unbeaten record, perhaps he should be.
MID – Yankuba Minteh | 5.5m | 2.7% Ownership
Brighton are on a nice run of form in games in which you’d expect them to do well. They have won five of their previous seven league matches, with the exceptions being defeats against Aston Villa and Arsenal, and there’s no shame in being beaten by teams in the top four.
The Seagulls have had more joy from the next tier this season, with four wins from five against the sides currently between fifth and seventh. This includes Chelsea, who they face on Tuesday. But first comes a trip to Tottenham to face their former boss, Roberto De Zerbi. It’s a De Zerbi derby, folks.
Spurs have the joint-second worst defensive record in home games this season, and fourth poorest overall. That is unlikely to improve markedly with Cristian Romero now ruled out for the rest of the season.
With no Brighton midfielder or forward in 10% of FPL teams, they’re all fair game here. Danny Welbeck is the top points scorer, with 108, but the veteran is unlikely to start two games in four days. Next in line is Yankuba Minteh (98), who looks a good selection.
He is the Seagulls’ top man for chances created (38) and expected assists (4.16) this season. Minteh ranks eighth in the Premier League for both metrics per 90 among players with at least 1,900 minutes in 2025-26. Most notably, only Dango Ouattara (1.34) has accrued more xA over the last three matchdays than the Brighton midfielder (1.30). Minteh is in form.
Yankuba Minteh Brighton Chances Created
As Chelsea haven’t kept a clean sheet in the league since their first match under Liam Rosenior, this should be a good week for Brighton’s attacking players.
FWD – Evanilson | 6.7m | 2.6% Ownership
We’ve already covered the up-and-down nature of Bournemouth’s campaign but here’s another weird fact about it for you. They have scored as many goals in their 12-game unbeaten run (17) as in the 12 matches that preceded it, only one of which was won.
Their form would be even stronger had they recently beaten Brentford and Burnley in matches that ended goalless. As they had 1.92 and 2.55 expected goals respectively in those matches, the Cherries really should have scored.
Part of this rests with Evanilson. This was especially so at Turf Moor, where he had six shots without scoring. The Brazilian also did this earlier in the season against West Ham. He joins Eberechi Eze and Dominik Szoboszlai as the only men to achieve this unwanted feat on multiple occasions in 2025-26.
The Cherries’ striker should get opportunities to correct his form against Newcastle and Leeds. Bournemouth have scored at least twice in each of their previous three matches at St James’ Park. They bagged nine in their last three meetings with the Whites too.
With 8.21 non-penalty xG this season, Evanilson ranks eighth in the Premier League. But he’s only scored six goals, so the time has arrived to put those missing 2.21 expected goals into the back of the net.
Evanilson xG 2025-26 Premier League
*FPL player values and ownership data accurate as of 16 April 2026
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