FPL Scout: Gameweek 22 hints, tips and advice

Brentford have teamed up with Fantasy Football Scout to help bring you hints, tips and advice during the 2025/26 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) season.

Scout will be using their expertise to provide info, advice and Gameweek tips which may prove useful in ensuring you sit on top of your mini-leagues.

Best of the Bees

A fourth Premier League victory from five – a 3-0 home win against Sunderland - has Brentford all the way up in fifth place.

Kevin Schade (£7.1m) racked up three shots and created four others, including a 20th-minute through ball that Igor Thiago (£7.1m) flashed wide. But it didn’t take much longer for the latter to open the scoring, racing onto Vitaly Janelt’s (£4.9m) pass to round the goalkeeper and calmly finish.

Sunderland started the second half brightly and won themselves a penalty near the hour mark. However, Enzo Le Fée’s (£4.9m) shot was saved by Caoimhín Kelleher (£4.5m). The Irish stopper has now saved three penalties, two more than any other goalkeeper has managed this season.

Soon after, a nice break saw Schade hit the crossbar, but the attack wasn’t over. He nodded Mathias Jensen’s (£4.9m) subsequent cross onto Thiago’s own head to double the lead.

The Bees’ third goal came from Yehor Yarmoliuk (£5.0m), however Brentford were potentially unlucky not to score more with both Mikkel Damsgaard (£5.8m) and Reiss Nelson (£4.8m) hitting the woodwork.

The Spotlight

Bees duo Kelleher and Nathan Collins (£5.0m) were their positions’ top-scoring players in Gameweek 21.

The latter was credited with setting up Yarmoliuk because the corner hit him last, meaning that over the last five matches, he’s accumulated one goal, two assists, three clean sheets and three rewards for defensive contributions.

No defender beats this period’s 44 points, with the closest being team-mate Keane Lewis-Potter (£4.9m).

In fact, Collins is FPL’s best defender from Gameweek 11 onwards. And while tough upcoming fixtures put Brentford against Chelsea, Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Arsenal in the next five rounds, he’s capable of producing points in other ways.

Throughout the whole campaign, he’s the number four defender when it comes to headed attempts (11) and defensive contributions (216).

Best of the Rest

Overall, Gameweek 21’s highest points tally belonged to Newcastle United’s Harvey Barnes (£6.1m), whose brace included a dramatic winner in the 12th minute of stoppage-time. It’s the latest winner since Opta records began in the 2006/07 season, and he then netted twice more on FA Cup third round weekend.

In the same match, Leeds United’s Brenden Aaronson (£5.4m) scored twice and registered 14 points. That’s now three goals and two assists in his last five.

Joining Kelleher and Collins on 13 points was Benjamin Šeško (£7.2m), much to the frustration of Matheus Cunha’s (£8.2m) FPL owners.

In Demand

Thiago was sold by almost 2.6 million owners between the deadlines of Gameweeks 16 and 20, yet this latest spurt of goals saw him bought 765,000 times before Gameweek 21, and he’s leading the way this time with over 420,000 new managers.

By early January, he’s already become the Premier League’s best-ever Brazilian for goals in a season, overtaking the previous 15 of Cunha, Roberto Firmino and Gabriel Martinelli (£6.8m).

The next two most bought are also from Brazil. Bruno Guimarães (£7.2m) scored for a third consecutive time in Gameweek 21, and Arsenal defender Gabriel Magalhães (£6.7m) was a stoppage-time header away from doing the same.

Popular sales include Phil Foden (£8.7m), Hugo Ekitike (£8.9m) and new Manchester City signing Antoine Semenyo (£7.6m).

Captaincy

Although Erling Haaland’s (£15.1m) run of three blanks is over, he could still only bring in six points during Gameweek 21.

However, Saturday’s trip to Manchester United has a lot of potential. He’s scored eight times in six league meetings against them, including two back in September.

If fit, Ekitike could be a nice alternative at home to Burnley, but there’s also Bruno Guimarães against last-placed Wolverhampton Wanderers.