Team Previews: Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.

Penalties: Gross, Murray, Hemed, Locadia

Free Kicks: Gross, Knockaert, March, Stephens

Direct Free Kicks: Gross, Knockaert, Suttner, March, Stephens, Bruno, Kayal

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This is only my third preview and I am already mentioning possible relegation for the second time. If BHA cannot step up their away performance (only 11 points on the road and only 10 goals scored) it might be there last Premier League season for now. They were never really in trouble last season but in the end they were only 4 points away from the relegation zone.

Goalkeeper:

Mathew Ryan, 4.5 Mil.

I am wondering how much time of his life he has wasted on telling people "That's Mathew, one t only". 

Anyway, he was the 5th best Goalkeeper on Fanteam(165 points) and FPL(145 points) last year with 10 CS and 123 Saves which is the 2nd highest amount of saves right after Fabianski. 

Defenders:

4.5 Mil

Dunk, Duffy and Bong, also Bruno and newly acquired Balogun and Bernado

4.0 Mil

Suttner and Schelotto

 Dunk and Duffy actually had a decent amount of SOGs, 27/24 but only managed to score 1 Goal from that.  You might throw in one of them when they play at home in a decent match-up.

We yet have to monitor the new players. Bernardo seems to be more of a midfielder so if they play him as a winger and he has decent production, then his price is suddenly good value with his assist/scoring upside on top of the CS possibilities.

Midfielders

 Gross, 7.0 Mil

He carried the team with 7 Goals and 8 Assists and I assume that this wont change much. He is the Nr. 1 Set Pieces taker and dictates the pace of this team.

Alireza Jahanbakhsh, 7.0 Mil

The club actually invested €19 Million into this player. I saw him first during the World Cup, playing for his country Iran. He came from Alkmaar (Netherlands) and scored 34 Goals in 85 games for them. He scored 2 hat trick's last season and finished with 21 Goals and 12 Assists. Most likely we will see him on the wing. I am careful with new players in my initial team so better not jump on him before his role has been defined and we have a better idea of how good/bad BHA is going to be this year.

Here and there Izquierdo, 6.0 Mil, Knockaert, 5.5 Mil, Stephens, 5.0 Mil, and March, 4.5 Mil, had a good game but none of them really look attractive to me, fantasy wise.

Forwards

Murray, 6.5 Mil

Old but gold? I don't think so!

He turns 35 soon and I have seen anvils moving faster. That being said, he is still a pure forward and will score...eventually. But he is nothing else than a punt in a good match-up. Half of his Goals last year came in away games on counter attacks...I guess experience beats speed? 

Locadia, 5.5

He only played 6 games last season and scored 1 Goal. Before that he played 127 games for Eindhoven and scored 45 Goals for them. While he played in every underage national team for the Netherlands, he did not make it into the senior national team as of now. I want to see more of him before I put him in one of my lines.

Andone, 5.5 Mil

I already followed this guy a bit when he was still playing at Deportivo La Coruna. Nothing impressive but that is what you get for 6 Million nowadays.  Marco van Basten's price was 600k Pound when he left Ajax for Milan, times have changed I guess. :) 

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