Caoimhin Kelleher, Brentford, keeper, £4.8m – Crystal Palace (h)
Since week 29, Kelleher has returned a clean sheet every other week.
Arsenal aside, there aren’t many strong clean sheet picks this week but this Crystal Palace side is unlikely to be at full strength for the trip to the Gtech Community Stadium.
They will have their minds firmly on their Europa Conference League final and manager Oliver Glasner is likely to continue his rotation and protection of star players.
Gabriel, Arsenal, £7.3m – Burnley (h)
If you’re not picking the best defender in the game at home to a relegated team then something has gone wrong!
Gabriel got 11 points last week including defensive contribution points (defcon) making it just once in the past eight weeks that he has failed to return – and that was away at Manchester City.
Myles Lewis-Skelly, Arsenal, £5m – Burnley (h)
Double Arsenal defence again only this time I’m going with Lewis-Skelly, who might end up playing in midfield for the Gunners.
Burnley at home feels like a stonewall cleansheet for Arsenal and Lewis-Skelly could earn more defcon and pose a bigger attacking threat from a central midfield slot.
James Tarkowski, Everton, £5.7m – Sunderland (h)
Another 15-point return would be nice from Tarkowski, after his haul at Crystal Palace last time.
The fourth-highest scoring defender, he has returned defcon in 20 of 35 games to go with the attacking threat he demonstrated last week.
And Sunderland have scored just once in three games.
Malick Thiaw, Newcastle United, £4.9m – West Ham (h)
Another defcon monster who has been on the verge of a haul several times recently with no luck.
Thiaw’s xG over his past four games is 1.06 with nothing to show for it.
West Ham have only scored in one of their past four games so there are chances for points at both ends for Thiaw.
