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FPL Gameweek 10 review: Delap sinks City and Barry was the captain of the week

Gameweek 10 is complete and confirmed by the game. The overall average was 55 points, with a top score of 139. Now comes a two-week international break: the Gameweek 11 deadline is Saturday 21 November at 11:00 UK time.

The short version

  • Barry (Everton, £5.7m) scored 16 points: two goals, an assist and maximum bonus. He was second in our captain picks, behind Haaland.
  • Haaland, our number one captain and the most captained player in the game, returned 2 points. Manchester City lost 3-1 at Nottingham Forest, their third league defeat in a row.
  • Delap scored twice against City. In August, when he moved to Forest, our model rated him 58. Today he is on 82 with a Buy verdict.
  • Our Recommended Squad scored 61 points, six above the average.
  • Arsenal beat Hull 1-0 and are on 27 points. Brighton are second after a 2-0 win over Brentford, above City.

Gameweek 10 results

Match Score Goals
Everton v Coventry 3-1 Barry 2, Dewsbury-Hall; Gboho
Leeds v Tottenham 1-0 Okafor 79′
Arsenal v Hull 1-0 Ødegaard 72′
Fulham v Newcastle 1-1 Muniz; J. Murphy
Nottingham Forest v Manchester City 3-1 Jair Cunha, Delap 2; Cherki
Brighton v Brentford 2-0 Diego Gómez, Groß (pen)
Crystal Palace v Liverpool 1-3 Nketiah (pen); Mac Allister, Wirtz, Isak
Ipswich v Bournemouth 1-2 Clarke (pen); Evanilson, L. Davis own goal
Sunderland v Chelsea 1-0 Le Fée (pen)
Manchester United v Aston Villa 4-4 Bruno (pen), Tielemans, Zirkzee, Dorgu; Alysson, N. Jackson, McGinn (pen), Goretzka

The wildest game of the round came on Sunday at Old Trafford. United twice trailed by two goals and levelled at 4-4 in stoppage time. At Brighton, Igor Thiago (8.2% owned) was sent off for violent conduct and is suspended in the game until 5 December.

Top scorers of the gameweek

Player Price Owned Points
Alysson (AVL) £4.9m 0.2% 16
Barry (EVE) £5.7m 10.6% 16
Wirtz (LIV) £7.2m 5.5% 13
Delap (NFO) £5.3m 1.6% 13
Vušković (BHA) £5.3m 9.2% 12
Ødegaard (ARS) £6.7m 16.5% 11
N. Jackson (AVL) £7.1m 30.9% 11
Dorgu (MUN) £5.7m 0.3% 11
Le Fée (SUN) £5.7m 2.7% 11

Cheap players won again: everyone on this list costs under £7.5m, and four of them are owned by fewer than 3% of managers. Dorgu scored 11 points in 24 minutes.

How our picks did

Captain. On Thursday our top five captain picks were Haaland, Barry, Tavernier, Mbeumo and Bruno Fernandes. They scored 2, 16, 3, 2 and 10 points. Barry was the best captain of the whole gameweek and sat second in our list. To be fair, though, our number one has now returned 1 or 2 points for the fourth gameweek in a row (Semenyo, Rogers, Haaland twice). Most managers made the same call, so nobody lost ground on their rivals, but it is a signal we are taking into account.

The Recommended Squad scored 61 points against an average of 55. Vušković (12), Nicolas Jackson (11) and Evanilson (9) did most of the work. The weak spot was the Chelsea pair: Rogers and Palmer managed 2 points each in the 1-0 defeat at Sunderland.

Friday’s warnings:

  • Konsa: we advised keeping him if you had a playing defender on the bench. He played 90 minutes and scored 8 points.
  • Bobby Thomas did not play a minute. Anyone with a playing substitute lost nothing.
  • Calvert-Lewin played the full game for 2 points. The winner came from Okafor, whom his manager had called a major doubt the day before. He came on for 13 minutes.
  • We got Leif Davis wrong, suggested as a cheaper replacement for Konsa: an own goal and -1 point.

The crowd and our model. Calafiori, sold by 80,000 managers before the Hull game, earned 6 points for a clean sheet. Bruno Fernandes, sold by 132,000, scored 10. We were wrong about Cherki: we wrote that the crowd had a point in selling him after the Leipzig game, and he played 90 minutes and scored (9 points).

The model after the ratings update

After Gameweek 10, four players carry a Strong Buy verdict: Nicolas Jackson (92, the highest rating in the game), Van Hecke (90), McGinn (90) and Rudoni (90, £4.9m, 1.2% owned). Haaland has dropped to 84, but he is first again in our captain picks for Gameweek 11: City host Fulham, a difficulty-2 fixture. Next come Barry, Tavernier, Groß and Le Fée. The full list is in our AI rankings.

Before Gameweek 11

  • Deadline: Saturday 21 November, 11:00 UK time. The first match is Manchester City v Fulham at 12:30.
  • New flags during the break: Gvardiol (22.9% owned, 75%) and Guéhi (14.2%, 75%). Both played only 45 minutes at Forest. Plus van Dijk (14.9%, 75%) and Belloumi (9.7%, 75%). 270,000 managers have already sold Gvardiol.
  • João Pedro is still out, yet 32% of managers own him.
  • 58 price changes since the Gameweek 10 deadline, 15 of them rises. Most bought: Nicolas Jackson, Barry, Evanilson.
  • Players return from international duty in the final days before the deadline, so flags can still change. The best time to check your team is Thursday or Friday, using our Injury Centre.

Our league

Our league averaged 59 points in Gameweek 10, against 55 across the whole game. That is ten gameweeks in a row above the global average. Pogoń Bydło lead with 739 points. The full analysis is in a separate piece: Our FPL league after Gameweek 10. You can join all season, league code: 3ix1cw.

Written with the help of AI, based on data from the official Fantasy Premier League game and our rating engine on 11 November 2026, and match results (ESPN). Edited and checked by our editorial team.