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Gray can punish Saints to offer FPL value

By The Scout 13 Jan 2017
Burnley v Sunderland, 311216, Andre Gray cele

Burnley striker has the home form to deliver points against visiting Southampton, reckons The Scout

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A visit from Southampton gives Burnley's Andre Gray (£6.2m) the chance to maintain a string of impressive home performances.

The forward has served up four goals, an assist and five bonus points over his previous three appearances at Turf Moor, yet is owned by a mere 4.7% of Fantasy Premier League managers.

With one goal and one assist in the opening 14 rounds of fixtures, Gray's recent renaissance has earned him over 37,000 transfers this Gameweek.

Andre Gray per match averages

  GW1-14 GW15-20
Goal attempts  1.6 2.0
Penalty area attempts 1.0 1.7
Goal attempts on target 0.4 1.2
FPL points 2.75 5.5


Assessed against his early-season displays, the underlying statistics signal a clear progression over the last six Gameweeks, as the table above shows.

A total of 33 FPL points during that period brings an average of 5.5, a considerable step up from his 2.75 points average before.

Compared with other FPL forwards from Gameweek 15 onwards, Gray’s four goals is on a par with Everton’s Romelu Lukaku (£9.5m) and bettered only by the five of Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic (£11.6m).

The striker is also ranked third for shots on target (seven), behind Ibrahimovic and Lukaku, with 11 and eight respectively.

Having started five successive Premier League matches, a confident Gray could be set to profit against a Southampton defence who have conceded ten goals in the last four Gameweeks.

The upcoming schedule suggests there is further reason for optimism for Sean Dyche's side.

According to the Fixture Difficulty Rankings, matches against Leicester City, Watford and Hull City score no more than two, handing Gray the prospect of continued returns to offer FPL managers a new cut-price option in attack.

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