Fantasy Voetball Gameweek 6: captain picks and buys

Fantasy Voetball Gameweek 6 preview: best buys, captain picks and differentials

Fantasy Voetball Gameweek 6 is a double gameweek for two clubs, and the model has moved again since this preview first went up. Ajax play twice – away at Fortuna Sittard on Saturday, then at home to Willem II on Tuesday 15 September – and Willem II play twice as well, both away, at AZ Alkmaar and then at Ajax. All 18 Eredivisie clubs have at least one fixture in this round, so there is nothing to plan around except the double itself.

The rule that shapes everything: you may field only three players from any one club. So the question is not which Ajax players are good – most of them are. It is which three, and then which non-Ajax picks fill the other eight starting slots. That second half is where the round is won, because the double is visible to everybody.

What has changed since the last update

• Mauro Junior (7.0m, PSV Eindhoven) is now projected zero minutes and 0.0 xP for Gameweek 6. He is the third most-owned player in the game at 36.7%, so this is the most urgent line in the whole preview.
• Tjaronn Chery has slipped from the front rank. He projects 5.0 xP this week and 16.6 on the six-round weighted score, where he was previously the best non-Ajax midfielder on both counts.
• Guus Til (11.9m, PSV Eindhoven) has taken that title instead: 7.1 xP now, and 21.3 weighted, the best of any midfielder in the game outside the Ajax double.
• Predicted lineups are live for the Friday opener, AZ Alkmaar - Willem II. The other nine fixtures are still on projected lineups, so the Ajax rotation over four days remains the biggest single unknown.
• PSV Eindhoven now carry the highest team goal projection of the round at 3.42, ahead of both double-gameweek games.

Gameweek 6 fixture overview

The round opens on Friday 11 September with AZ Alkmaar - Willem II and closes with Ajax's home game against Willem II on the Tuesday. Five team totals reach 2.8 projected goals or more.

The two Ajax opponents explain why the projections run so hot. Across Gameweeks 6 to 9 the model has Willem II conceding the most in the division at 2.43 goals a game, with ADO Den Haag next at 2.30 and Fortuna Sittard third at 2.16. Willem II also carry the weakest attacking projection in the league at 1.08 goals a game. So Ajax face the third-leakiest defence in the division on Saturday and the weakest attack in the division four days later.

At the other end, Ajax (1.19 goals conceded per game) and PSV Eindhoven (1.22) hold the two best defensive projections over the same window, with Feyenoord (1.24), AZ Alkmaar (1.29) and FC Twente (1.35) close behind. Those five clubs are where clean-sheet money belongs for the next month. Every kick-off time is on the Fantasy Voetball schedule, and the underlying odds are on the market probabilities page.

Best goalkeeper picks for Gameweek 6

Marc-Andre ter Stegen (5.6m, Ajax) – 8.6 xP, and nothing else in the position is close; the next-best keeper is on 4.9. Two fixtures, 178 projected minutes, a combined clean-sheet expectation of 0.74 across the pair and 5.49 projected saves. At 1.54 points per million he is the single most efficient slot in the entire round, better than any outfield player. If one of your three Ajax places goes to a goalkeeper, this is the week for it.

Maxime Delanghe (4.5m, Willem II) – 4.9 xP, and the counter-intuitive pick of the round. Willem II will very likely lose both matches; that is the point. Two games against attacks projected for 3.14 and 3.27 goals give him 10.77 projected saves, nearly double the next-highest total in the game, and saves pay in this scoring system. He is the cheapest two-fixture goalkeeper on the board and effectively unowned.

Ronald Koeman (4.5m, Telstar) – only 3.5 xP this week, but the second-best six-round weighted score of any goalkeeper at 13.6, including a 4.8 spike in Gameweek 8 at home to ADO Den Haag. He is also the only goalkeeper in the game the model gives a penalty share, at 0.99 for this round. If you want to buy a keeper once and stop thinking about him, he is the pick rather than Marc-Andre ter Stegen, whose numbers fall back to 4.5 the moment the double ends.

Single-fixture alternatives behind good defences: Jari De Busser (5.0m, AZ Alkmaar) at 4.3 xP behind the round's highest clean-sheet probability, and Lars Unnerstall (5.0m, FC Twente) or Matej Kovar (5.5m, PSV Eindhoven) at 3.9 each.

Best defenders for Gameweek 6

Ajax's back line is the highest-scoring defensive unit available this week, and the cheap ones are the efficient ones.

Anton Gaaei (5.4m, Ajax) – 7.4 xP at 1.37 points per million, the best value defender in the round and the cheapest way into the Ajax double at any position. Two starts, 155 projected minutes, a combined 0.54 clean-sheet expectation and 0.28 pA. His 0.83 starter factor is the caveat: over a Saturday-Tuesday turnaround he is not fully nailed.

Caio Henrique (6.5m, Ajax) – 7.2 xP, and the safer version of the same idea. He carries the most secure minutes of any Ajax defender at a 0.93 starter factor and 163 projected minutes, plus the highest clean-sheet expectation of any defender in the round at 0.66 across the two games. If your third Ajax slot goes to a defender, he is the one to trust.

Youri Baas (6.5m, Ajax) – 7.0 xP, third of the Ajax trio, on 11.8% ownership.

Elijah Dijkstra (5.1m, AZ Alkmaar) – 5.4 xP and the best non-Ajax defender on the board. AZ host Willem II with a 49% clean-sheet chance, the highest single-fixture clean-sheet probability of the round. At 1.06 points per million he is the cheapest good route into it.

Sergino Dest (6.8m, PSV Eindhoven) – 5.3 xP with the best six-round weighted score of any defender in the game at 15.1. PSV host Sparta Rotterdam, then go to FC Twente, then host SC Heerenveen. His trajectory reads 5.3 → 2.9 → 4.7 → 4.3 → 3.3 → 4.1 – a defender you buy for the month rather than the week.

Wouter Goes (5.5m, AZ Alkmaar) – 5.1 xP on 88 projected minutes and the same 49% clean sheet, and Bart van Rooij (6.5m, FC Twente) – 4.9 xP behind a 42% clean-sheet chance and 13.5 weighted, though at 32.8% ownership that is a hold rather than a differential.

Budget defenders worth the fee: Robin Propper (5.0m, FC Twente) at 4.4 xP behind that same Twente clean sheet, and Tobias Storm (4.5m, NEC Nijmegen) at 3.7 xP – the cheapest defender in the game worth starting, away at a Cambuur side projected to concede 2.05 goals a game over the next four rounds, and on only 4.4% ownership. Mateo Chavez (5.4m, AZ Alkmaar) at 4.4 xP and Tsuyoshi Watanabe (6.0m, Feyenoord) at 4.2 xP round out the list.

Best midfielders for Gameweek 6

Steven Berghuis (7.9m, Ajax) – 12.0 xP. The highest projection of any player in any position by nearly a point and a half, at a price that is not even premium, and he is owned by 2.9%. Two fixtures, 139 projected minutes, a combined 0.87 pG and 0.40 pA, and the largest share of Ajax penalties in the model at 1.36 across the two games. His 23.7 weighted score over six rounds is also the highest in the game. If you make one move this Gameweek, make it this one.

Oscar Gloukh (9.3m, Ajax) – 10.6 xP, second on the board. 132 projected minutes across the double, 0.75 pG and the highest creative projection in the side at 0.46 pA, on a 0.93 starter factor. He is 1.4m dearer than Steven Berghuis for 1.4 fewer projected points, so if you take only one Ajax midfielder the order is clear – but as a pair they are the strongest correlated attacking stack in the game this week, and only 5.9% own him.

Julian Brandt (9.5m, Ajax) – 9.3 xP with the most projected minutes of any Ajax attacker at 142. The honest read is that he is the third-best Ajax midfielder at the highest price of the three: good if you already own him, and 21.1% do, but not the one to buy first.

Davy Klaassen (8.5m, Ajax) – 8.0 xP with the most secure minutes of the Ajax attackers at a 0.94 starter factor. A lower ceiling than the two above but the safest floor if the four-day turnaround worries you, and at 3.5% ownership a genuine differential.

Guus Til (11.9m, PSV Eindhoven) – 7.1 xP, and now the best non-Ajax midfielder on either horizon. PSV host Sparta with the highest team goal projection of the round at 3.42, and his 21.3 weighted score is second only to Steven Berghuis. His trajectory barely dips: 7.1 → 4.4 → 6.9 → 5.4 → 4.9 → 6.3. The price is the only argument against him – 0.60 points per million this week is well under half Steven Berghuis's efficiency.

Marko Pjaca (6.5m, FC Twente) – 5.7 xP and 15.7 weighted at 2.41 weighted points per million, one of the best mid-priced midfielders for the medium term. Twente host the second-weakest attacking projection in the league, and he is owned by 1.0%.

Jorthy Mokio (6.0m, Ajax) – 6.3 xP, the budget route into the double at 1.05 points per million. His 0.83 starter factor is the risk; two Ajax fixtures at this price is something nobody else offers, and 1.6% ownership makes him one of the cheapest differentials in the round.

Gaoussou Diarra (5.5m, Feyenoord) – 5.4 xP and the hidden gem of Gameweek 6. He is 0.6% owned, has a 0.74 penalty share, and his 15.7 weighted score beats several players three points more expensive. His 54 projected minutes are the catch – he is not nailed – but behind a Feyenoord side away at PEC Zwolle with a 2.46 goal projection, the fee is trivial against the upside.

Tjaronn Chery (8.1m, NEC Nijmegen) – 5.0 xP away at Cambuur with a 0.82 penalty share, and 16.6 weighted. He has come back to the field since the last update and is no longer the automatic long-term buy he looked; at 36.3% ownership he is now a hold, not a target.

Also worth a look: Jacob Trenskow (8.6m, SC Heerenveen) at 5.6 xP and 17.5 weighted with a 5.7 spike in Gameweek 9, Sondre Ørjasæter (7.0m, FC Twente) at 5.6 xP and 16.9 weighted, Ruben van Bommel (9.3m, PSV Eindhoven) at 6.0 xP, and Weslley Pinto (6.9m, AZ Alkmaar) at 5.2 xP and 16.0 weighted on only 2.4% ownership.

Best forwards for Gameweek 6

Toluwalase Arokodare (8.7m, Ajax) – 9.8 xP, the highest forward projection in the round. 128 projected minutes across the double, 0.85 pG and 0.36 pA. The 0.83 starter factor is the honest warning: Ajax's rotation over four days is real. High ceiling, softer floor than the midfielders, and 21.8% ownership means he is only half a differential.

Wout Weghorst (8.5m, FC Twente) – 7.6 xP, and the best forward on any horizon longer than this one round. He takes 100% of Twente's penalties, carries the highest single-fixture goal projection of any forward at 0.92 pG, and hosts an ADO Den Haag side projected for 0.88 goals in this fixture. His 20.4 weighted score is the best of any forward in the game. If you want one forward you never have to think about again, it is him.

Mexx Meerdink (9.0m, AZ Alkmaar) – 7.0 xP with a 0.93 penalty share, 84 projected minutes and a 0.92 starter factor, hosting the leakiest defensive projection in the division. He is the most-owned forward in the game at 40.8%, so this is a keep rather than a buy, but the underlying case is sound.

Ricardo Pepi (11.6m, PSV Eindhoven) – 6.8 xP with a 0.82 penalty share and 19.0 weighted, the best long-term premium forward after Wout Weghorst. PSV's 3.42 goal projection is the highest team total of the round; the price is the only argument against him.

Devin Haen (5.5m, Willem II) – 5.2 xP, and the best cheap forward differential of the week. Two fixtures, 164 projected minutes – more than any other forward in the round – and a penalty share of 1.00 in both games. Willem II will probably be beaten twice, but a nailed penalty taker playing 164 minutes at this price is a legitimate squad filler at 0.95 points per million, and only 5.2% of managers own him.

Cheaper still: David Garden (5.0m, Excelsior) at 4.3 xP at home to FC Utrecht on 1.6% ownership. For the longer view, Thom van Bergen (7.8m, FC Groningen) takes every Groningen penalty and carries 17.0 weighted with a 5.8 in Gameweek 7, and Koen Kostons (6.9m, PEC Zwolle) is the cheapest genuine long-term forward at 14.9 weighted – 3.4 this week, but 5.3 in each of Gameweeks 8, 9 and 11. Dylan Vente (6.9m, SC Heerenveen) at 4.8 xP is the best mid-priced single-fixture option.

Gameweek 6 captain picks

The captain scores double in Fantasy Voetball, and this week the decision is unusually clean.

Captain Steven Berghuis. Two fixtures against two of the three leakiest defences in the division, one of which also carries its weakest attack, the biggest penalty share in the Ajax side, and a projection nearly a point and a half clear of the next name. At 2.9% ownership, captaining him is a differential in itself.

Oscar Gloukh is the alternative if you own him and not Steven Berghuis – 10.6 xP is still the second-best captain score available, and he has the higher assist projection of the two. Toluwalase Arokodare has the highest ceiling of the Ajax attackers but the weakest minutes guarantee at a 0.83 starter factor. Wout Weghorst is the pick if you have deliberately stayed away from Ajax: one fixture, but he is on every Twente penalty against a side generating 0.88 expected goals, and his 7.6 xP would top the board in most normal Gameweeks.

Captaincy is a plan, not a single choice. Ajax's numbers fall away the moment the double ends – Steven Berghuis drops from 12.0 to 5.3 in Gameweek 7 – while Guus Til (4.4 then 6.9) and Wout Weghorst (5.1 then 5.1) hold up. If you are buying a captain to keep rather than to rent, buy one of those two. Our optimal teams solver re-runs the whole captain question live against current prices.

Who to sell before Gameweek 6

The clearest sells are not bad players. They are expensive or heavily-owned players the model does not expect to play.

Mauro Junior (7.0m, PSV Eindhoven) – the headline. He is owned by 36.7%, the third-highest in the game, and the model gives him no minutes and 0.0 xP for Gameweek 6. His six-round trajectory is 0.0 → 0.6 → 1.5 → 2.5 → 2.2 → 3.1, so even when he comes back he is not a starter-level projection. Anyone holding him is fielding ten men this week.

Marcos Leonardo (11.3m, Ajax) – 3.7 xP with a double gameweek, on a 0.18 starter factor and 60 projected minutes across two matches, and 8.8 weighted. At 11.3m he projects below several 5.0m options even in the best fixture week Ajax will have all season.

Sven Mijnans (10.7m, PSV Eindhoven) – 1.4 xP and 5.6 weighted. PSV host Sparta with a 3.42 goal projection and he still cannot break two points, on 17 projected minutes. Alassane Plea (9.3m, PSV Eindhoven) is projected no minutes and no points at all this week.

Anis Hadj Moussa (11.0m, Feyenoord) – 3.1 xP on a 0.38 starter factor, and 12.0 weighted. Sem Steijn (10.2m, Feyenoord) is worse: 1.6 xP on 23 projected minutes. Two of the five most expensive midfielders in the game, neither of whom the model expects to start.

Kasper Dolberg (8.4m, Ajax) – 4.0 xP across two fixtures on a 0.23 starter factor, and Simon Adingra (8.5m, Ajax) – 0.8 xP across two fixtures. If a double gameweek cannot lift a player past one point, he is not in the plans.

One downgrade rather than a sell: Gjivai Zechiel (8.5m, Feyenoord) is the most-owned player in the game at 46.4% and projects 4.7 xP with 12.6 weighted. Perfectly respectable – but Luciano Valente (8.2m) projects 4.9 for the same club and fixture with 16.1 weighted, and Gaoussou Diarra at 5.5m projects 5.4. The 8.5m version of the Feyenoord midfield is not the one the model likes best.

On the fixture side, FC Utrecht assets are worth downgrading: they travel to Excelsior with a 32%% win probability and a 1.43 goal projection, and their four-round outlook is 1.72 goals conceded per game. Check the confirmed teams on the Fantasy Voetball predicted lineups page before the deadline, because the Ajax rotation over four days is the single biggest source of risk in this round.

Best Suikeroom team for Gameweek 6

Suikeroom gives you unlimited transfers for one Gameweek with no budget restriction, and two are available across the season. The three-per-club cap still applies, which is what shapes this squad – you cannot simply buy the Ajax team. The highest-scoring legal starting eleven for Gameweek 6 lines up 1-3-4-3 and projects 81.2 points before the captain, 93.2 with Steven Berghuis armbanded:

Note what the club cap does to the shape. Ajax's three slots go to Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Steven Berghuis and Oscar Gloukh – the goalkeeper makes the cut ahead of Toluwalase Arokodare because 8.6 xP from a position where the next alternative is 4.9 beats the drop-off in attack. AZ Alkmaar and PSV Eindhoven each take their full three as well, which is why Marko Pjaca at 5.7 gets the last midfield slot ahead of more expensive names. For bench cover, Maxime Delanghe (4.5m) at 4.9 xP is the best second goalkeeper, Bart van Rooij (6.5m) at 4.9 and Tsuyoshi Watanabe (6.0m) at 4.2 complete the defence, and Gaoussou Diarra (5.5m) at 5.4 is the fifth midfielder.

Whether Gameweek 6 is the right moment to play it is a separate question. A one-off double for a single club, capped at three players, is a smaller edge than a wider double round later in the season – and you only get two Suikerooms. Our optimal teams page re-runs this squad live against current projections, so use that for the exact answer rather than this snapshot.

Gameweek 6 summary

Sell Mauro Junior before anything else – more than a third of the game is carrying a player on zero. Own Steven Berghuis and captain him: the best player in the round is owned by fewer than three managers in a hundred. Fill your two other Ajax slots from Oscar Gloukh, Marc-Andre ter Stegen and the cheap defenders, where Anton Gaaei at 5.4m and Caio Henrique at 6.5m project 7.4 and 7.2.

Then spend your attention on the eight slots everybody else forgets: Elijah Dijkstra behind the round's best clean sheet, Wout Weghorst on penalties behind a 42% clean-sheet chance, Guus Til as the premium who still looks right in Gameweek 8, and Maxime Delanghe, Devin Haen and Gaoussou Diarra as cheap fillers nobody is looking at. Full projections for every player are on the Fantasy Voetball player picks page, and you can compare this round with the last one in our Fantasy Voetball Gameweek 5 preview. Every round is archived in the Fantasy Voetball preview hub, and our fantasy strategy guides cover the scoring system and chip planning in more detail.

FAQ

Who should I captain in Fantasy Voetball Gameweek 6?

Steven Berghuis (7.9m, Ajax). He tops the model at 12.0 xP, nearly a point and a half clear of anyone else, because Ajax play twice – away at Fortuna Sittard and then at home to Willem II – and he holds the biggest penalty share in the side at 1.36 across the two games. The captain scores double, so that is 24.0 projected. Oscar Gloukh at 10.6 xP is the alternative if you already own him, and Wout Weghorst at 7.6 xP is the best non-Ajax armband.

Should I sell Mauro Junior before Gameweek 6?

Yes. The model projects him zero minutes and 0.0 xP for Gameweek 6, and he is owned by 36.7% of managers – the third-highest in the game. His six-round trajectory peaks at 3.1, so he is not worth holding through the gap either. Sergino Dest (6.8m) at 5.3 xP is the like-for-like PSV Eindhoven replacement, and Elijah Dijkstra (5.1m, AZ Alkmaar) at 5.4 xP is the cheaper one.

Which Ajax players are best for Gameweek 6?

Steven Berghuis first at 12.0 xP, then it depends on the slot: Oscar Gloukh (9.3m) at 10.6 xP is the highest-ceiling second midfielder, Toluwalase Arokodare (8.7m) at 9.8 xP the top forward projection in the round, and Marc-Andre ter Stegen (5.6m) at 8.6 xP the best goalkeeper in the game this week. You may field only three players from one club, so a goalkeeper-plus-two-midfielders combination is usually the efficient use of those slots. The cheap way in is Anton Gaaei at 5.4m, who projects 7.4.

Which budget defenders are best for Gameweek 6?

Anton Gaaei (5.4m, Ajax) leads on 7.4 xP and 1.37 points per million from two fixtures. Outside the double, Elijah Dijkstra (5.1m, AZ Alkmaar) at 5.4 xP is the standout: AZ host Willem II with the round's highest clean-sheet chance at 49%. Robin Propper (5.0m, FC Twente) at 4.4 xP and Tobias Storm (4.5m, NEC Nijmegen) at 3.7 xP are the cheapest defenders worth starting.

Which Fantasy Voetball differentials should I target in Gameweek 6?

Steven Berghuis at 2.9% ownership is the biggest of them – the top projection in the round is barely owned. Behind him: Maxime Delanghe (4.5m) as a two-fixture goalkeeper with 10.77 projected saves and effectively no ownership, Gaoussou Diarra (5.5m, Feyenoord) at 5.4 xP on 0.6% with a penalty share, Jorthy Mokio (6.0m, Ajax) at 6.3 xP on 1.6%, Marko Pjaca (6.5m, FC Twente) at 5.7 xP on 1.0%, and Devin Haen (5.5m, Willem II) with 164 projected minutes and every Willem II penalty on 5.2%.

This preview was written by TheFantasyTool AI.