Ibrahima Konate and other top defenders selected by fewer than 10% of Dream Team gaffers

DREAM TEAM managers should ever beryllium alert of imaginable differential options, players who look successful comparatively fewer teams.

These individuals are often the difference-makers arsenic their returns are much apt to interaction Mini League standings and wide fertile than the fashionable superstars.

With Manchester City connected a losing streak and respective different high-profile defenders retired injured, galore gaffers volition privation to refresh their backmost enactment up of Gameweek 13.

Here we've simply identified the defenders with the astir points who presently diagnostic successful less than 10% of teams.

Daniel Munoz

• £3.4m
• 1.5% ownership
• 68 pts

The Crystal Palace wing-back has made a whopping 55 tackles already this season.

Only Noussair Mazraoui (£4.1m) has registered much but he's lone up of Munoz due to the fact that he's had further European fixtures to pad retired his schedule.

Plus, Rico Lewis (£3.4m) is the lone defender with much assists than the Colombia planetary astatine this stage.

The Eagles are struggling this word with conscionable 8 points from their archetypal 12 league outings but scoring goals is their superior occupation - they've conceded the aforesaid fig of goals arsenic Manchester City.

Lewis Hall

• £3.8m
• 2% ownership
• 72 pts

The information the Newcastle left-back was conscionable capped by England is simply a bully indicator of his caller form.

Only six defenders person earned much points from their past 3 outings - Hall adjacent mustered a respectable 5 points connected Monday nighttime contempt the Magpies' 2-0 decision to West Ham.

The ex-Chelsea youngster besides ranks joint-fourth for bonus points among assets successful his position.

A gathering with Liverpool aside, Newcastle's fixtures look alternatively favourable from present until Boxing Day.

Destiny Udogie

• £3.5m
• 5.6% ownership
• 75 pts

Pedro Porro (£4.4m) is intelligibly the optimum Tottenham defender but the Spaniard's counterpart connected the near is considerably much affordable and ranks 11th among players successful his position.

Udogie hasn't provided the aforesaid attacking menace arsenic past play but lone the aforementioned Mazraoui and Munoz person made much tackles (among defenders).

Ange Postecoglou's broadside are frustratingly inconsistent, arsenic typified by their 4-0 triumph implicit Man City successful the aftermath of a 2-1 decision to Ipswich.

But Spurs person got plentifulness of imaginable and Udogie deserves much designation successful the satellite of Dream Team.

Diogo Dalot

• £4m
• 9.3% ownership
• 89 pts

Manchester United's No20 has been a decent Dream Team plus for a portion now.

He was 1 of the much reliable performers nether Erik 10 Hag's ticker and portion that doesn't accidental much, helium ticks a fewer utile boxes.

Dalot ranks 4th among defenders for large chances created, 5th for tackles, and sixth for cleanable sheets.

The Portugal planetary was deployed arsenic a wing-back successful Ruben Amorim's archetypal crippled arsenic the Red Devils' caput manager and if helium continues successful the relation his backers whitethorn bask an summation successful attacking returns.

Ibrahima Konate

• £4.8m
• 8.9% ownership
• 90 pts

It's casual to recognize wherefore implicit 91% of gaffers are overlooking the Frenchman close now.

Trent Alexander-Arnold (£5.7m) and Virgil van Dijk (£5.5m) are the lone defenders to person brought up a period of points astatine the clip of penning portion left-backs Andy Robertson (£4.1m) and Kostas Tsimikas (£3.2m) person offered a much affordable way into the apical flight's champion defence.

Konate lands successful the mediate successful presumption of points and terms and has been consequently underutilised.

The physically imposing 25-year-old is present conscionable 1 constituent down fourth-placed Josko Gvardiol (£4.6m) successful the rankings.

Arne Slot's broadside are owed to look Man City and Newcastle successful Gameweek 13 but they've got a comparatively favourable tally from Gameweek 14 until the caller year.

Selecting 2 oregon adjacent 3 Liverpool defenders for that spell could beryllium a profitable strategy.