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Richards or Alderete: Who To Buy? | FPL Comparison

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GW2 data · compared 1× this week · last compared 5 hours ago

Defender

Richards

Crystal Palace, CRY

Defender

Alderete

Sunderland, SUN

🏆 Richards wins 4 of 10 of data comparisons

5.0M

Cost

5.0M

Total Points

3.0

Points Per Game

1.0

0.8%

Selected By

0.5%

Goals Scored

Assists

Clean Sheets

Minutes Played

0.0

ICT Index

0.0

3.0

Form

1.0

💰 Richards is the value pick - 0.6 pts per £m (Richards 0.6 vs Alderete 0.2)

🎯 Alderete is your differential (0.5% owned) - Richards is the template pick at 0.8%

Fixtures

Crystal Palace

MCI 4 (H) - 2026-08-28
FUL 3 (A) - 2026-09-05
IPS 2 (H) - 2026-09-12
LEE 3 (A) - 2026-09-19
NFO 3 (H) - 2026-10-11

Sunderland

FUL 2 (H) - 2026-08-30
BRE 3 (A) - 2026-09-05
ARS 4 (H) - 2026-09-12
MCI 5 (A) - 2026-09-19
BHA 2 (H) - 2026-10-10

📅 Richards has the easier run over the next 5 (avg difficulty 3.0 vs 3.2)

FPL Advisor Recommendation

Richards

40.2

Alderete

23.3

High Confidence

Recommendation: Transfer in Richards

Key Factors:

Better current form (3.0 vs 1.0)
Better value for money
More secure playing time
More favorable upcoming fixtures

Richards (Crystal Palace, £5.0m, 3 points) is the better FPL pick over Alderete (Sunderland, £5.0m, 1 points) as of Gameweek 2, and Richards also has the easier next five fixtures (3.0 vs 3.2 average difficulty).