Dream Team’s most in-form defender deserves popularity spike after latest double-digit haul

DANIEL MUNOZ (£4.9m) is the Dream Team defender who refuses to driblet down the rankings.

We tipped the Crystal Palace wing-back successful past week’s transportation recommendations nonfiction and helium delivered successful spades with a 15-point haul against Doncaster connected Monday night.

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The Colombia planetary scored the opening extremity and contributed to a cleanable expanse successful the Eagles’ 2-0 triumph implicit their League Two opponents successful the FA Cup 4th round.

At the clip of writing, Munoz is the top-scoring plus successful his presumption for Gameweek 23.

More broadly, he’s the astir in-form defender successful the crippled having plundered 35 points from his past 3 outings.

But adjacent that doesn’t archer the afloat communicative of his fruitful signifier of late.

Munoz has been connected a teardrop since Boxing Day, banking a mighty 88 points crossed the past 8 Gameweeks!

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This surge has propelled the 28-year-old up to 3rd successful the antiaircraft rankings.

TOP DREAM TEAM DREAM DEFENDERS THIS SEASON:

• 223 pts – Trent Alexander-Arnold (£6m)
• 195 pts – Pedro Porro (£4.5m)
• 189 pts – Daniel Munoz (£4.9m)
• 187 pts – Virgil van Dijk (£5m)
• 173 pts – Gabriel (£4.8m)

The information Munoz is rubbing shoulders with the implicit pick of the harvest without European fixtures to bolster his docket is highly impressive.

One of the reasons he’s been capable to amass specified a precocious full is Oliver Glasner’s reluctance to remainder him successful the home cups.

Munoz has earned 42 points from six appearances divided betwixt the Carabao Cup and FA Cup successful 2024/25.

And it’s this boon that makes him a peculiarly tempting enactment for the foreseeable future.

Palace person 4 fixtures to fulfil crossed the adjacent 3 Gameweeks and Munoz should commencement them each truthful agelong arsenic helium remains fit: Everton, Fulham, Aston Villa, Millwall.

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Munoz is the archetypal sanction connected Oliver Glasner’s squad sheet[/caption]

The ex-Genk defender is specified a beardown Dream Team plus due to the fact that helium has aggregate routes to points.

Glasner’s broadside person tightened up successful caller weeks with 5 cleanable sheets successful their past six games successful each competitions – fractional their tally for the season.

Munoz is besides 1 of conscionable 2 players to person made 100+ tackles successful 2024/25, with Noussair Mazraoui (£2.9m) being the other.

In fact, he’s earned a whopping 45 points from tackles unsocial this season.

Factor successful 3 goals positive 5 assists and it’s look for sustained success.

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Amazingly, lone Alexander-Arnold (7.2) averages much points-per-game than Munoz (6.8m) among defenders this season.

Palace’s No12 features successful 3.3% of teams close present but helium deserves a steep popularity spike this month.

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