"Half the FPL season is in the bag and we're coming off one of the worst weeks of the season, with hardly any highly owned assets returning. Don't panic though, FPL has given us a fresh set of chips to attack 2026 with. So take a look at our team of the week for a bit of inspiration, to give you a flying start to the second half of the campaign."
"Bart Verbruggen, Brighton, keeper, 4.5m - Burnley (h) Brighton don't keep a host of clean sheets - four in 19 games - but a home match against Burnley is as good a chance as any. Verbruggen makes a lot of saves too - he has at least one save point in six of his past eight games - and his 11-pointer against Sunderland shows the upside if you do get a clean sheet out of him."
"Gabriel, Arsenal, 6.4m - Bournemouth (a) He's back and has already gone up in price, so FPL managers will be jumping on the Gabriel bandwagon again. Clean sheets, huge goal threat, 16 bonus points so far. He's an easy pick if you have the money. Malick Thiaw, Newcastle, 5m - Crystal Palace (h) Palace's team xG was the fourth best among all teams until flying wing-back Daniel Munoz got injured."
Half the FPL season is complete and managers endured a poor gameweek with only 28 points from the top-returning assets. New chips provide opportunities for attacking the 2026 run-in and for reloading squads. The team of the week is built to a 100m budget using current FPL prices to simulate a Free Hit. Bart Verbruggen is a budget keeper with save points and clean-sheet upside. Gabriel offers clean-sheet potential, goal threat and bonus points. Malick Thiaw is Newcastle's most reliable defender, with two goals and defensive-contribution points in multiple starts.
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