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Fantasy: Week 9 positional rankings ahead of busy weekend of matches

Fantasy - Carlos Vela - LAFC


Reid, Mike and Blayne are joined by Phil Luetchford to talk about his recent trip to England and the upcoming MLS Fantasy round. They start things out touching on some of the most important fantasy moments from Round 8 and Mike is sure to get a few digs in on the Red Bulls. After that, they answer a few Reddit questions about modifications to the price change system and preference for Autoroo and Transfer players. They wrap everything up with a game by game preview of Round 9 and a THUNDERDOME bestrewn Mike and Phil over the NYCFC-FC Dallas match.



Week 9 of MLS Fantasy features several games with big fantasy point potential. Letā€™s take a closer look at which players to target in this weekā€™s positional rankings.


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Goalkeepers


Brad Guzan has three clean sheets over the last four weeks and now heā€™s back home facing a Montreal attack (Saturday, 1 pm ET | TVAS ā€” Full TV & streaming info) that has scored one goal over their last two road games.

Rank
Player
Team
Opponent
Price
1 
Brad Guzan
ATL
vs. MTL
$7.2
2 
Andre Blake
PHI
vs. DC
$6.9
3
Sean Johnson
NYC
vs. DAL
$7.7
4 
Alex Bono
TOR
vs. CHI
$5.8
5 
Zack Steffen
CLB
vs. SJ
$5.8
6
Tyler Miller
LAFC
vs. SEA
$6.8
7
Stefan Marinovic
VAN
vs. RSL
$7.2
8
Matt Turner
NE
vs. SKC
$7.2
9 
David Bingham
LA
vs. ATL
$6.4
10
Tim Melia
SKC
at NE
$6.3

Defenders

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Kansas City's Graham Zusi could easily be a difference maker on both ends of the field this week. | USA Today Sports Images


Graham Zusi continues to deliver the fantasy points, with an assist and 16 points in Week 8. His 65 points are good for third-best overall, and while heā€™s on the road this week against New England Saturday (7:30 pm ET | Full TV & streaming info), he still has arguably the biggest upside of any defender in fantasy given his involvement in the attack.

Rank
Player
Team
Opponent
Price
1
Graham Zusi
SKC
at NE
$9.0
2
Leandro Gonzalez Pirez
ATL
vs. MTL
$4.8
3
Alexander Callens
NYC
vs. DAL
$7.5
4
Laurent Ciman
LAFC
vs. SEA
$8.3
5
Ronald Matarrita
NYC
vs. DAL
$4.7
6
Jonathan Mensah
CLB
vs. SJ
$7.6
7
Greg Garza
ATL
vs. MTL
$6.5
8
Milton Valenzuela
CLB
vs. SJ
$6.7
9
Michael Parkhurst 
ATL
vs. MTL
$6.8
10
Kendall Waston
VAN
vs. RSL
$4.0
11
Maxime Chanot
NYC
vs. DAL 
$7.7
12
Gregory van der Wiel
TOR
vs. CHI
$5.1
13
Harrison Afful
CLB
vs. SJ
$5.8
14
Anton Tinnerholm
NYC
vs. DAL
$7.5
15
Keegan Rosenberry
PHI
vs. DC
$6.9
16
Auro
TOR
vs. CHI
$4.0
17
Tommy Smith
COL
vs. ORL
$7.1
18
Steven Beitashour
LAFC
vs. SEA
$8.0
19
Edgar Castillo
COL
vs. ORL
$7.2
20
Brek Shea
VAN
vs. RSL
$5.3

Midfielders


Miguel Almiron has a combined 44 points over the last three game weeks and is pretty much a lock-and-load. Heā€™s been phenomenal and with Ezequiel Barco integrating himself into the attack we have two elite fantasy options out of the Atlanta midfield this week.

Rank
Player
Team
Opponent
Price
1
Miguel Almiron
ATL
vs. MTL
$12.8
2
Nicolas Lodeiro
SEA
at LAFC
$12.5
3
Federico Higuain
CLB
vs. SJ
$9.8
4
Ezequiel Barco
ATL
vs. MTL
$8.5
5
Romain Alessandrini
LA
vs. RBNY
$9.7
6
Maxi Moralez
NYC
vs. DAL
$12.2
7
Johnny Russell 
SKC
at NE
$9.3
8
Benny Feilhaber
LAFC
vs. SEA
$10.0
9
Ignacio Piatti
MTL
at ATL
$11.7
10
Diego Fagundez
NE
vs. SKC
$9.7
11
Sacha Kljestan
ORL
at COL
$11.2
12
David Accam
PHI
vs. DC
$7.3
13
Joao Plata
RSL
at VAN
$10.9
14
Albert Rusnak
RSL
at VAN
$9.5
15
Kaku
RBNY
at LA
$8.8
16
Pedro Santos
CLB
vs. SJ
$7.9
17
Borek Dockal
PHI
vs. DC
$6.5
18
Julian Gressel
ATL
vs. MTL
$9.2
19
Teal Bunbury
NE
vs. SKC
$7.2
20
Alphonso Davies
VAN
vs. RSL
$6.6
21
Jack Price
COL
vs. PHI
$8.4
22
Jesus Medina
NYC
vs. DAL
$8.4
23
Cristian Roldan
SEA
at LAFC
$8.8
24
Magnus Eriksson
SJ
at CLB
$10.4
25
Tomas Martinez
HOU
at MIN
$8.4
26
Wilfried Zahibo
NE
vs. SKC
$9.2
27
Luciano Acosta
DC
at PHI
$8.0
28
Alexander Ring
NYC
vs. DAL
$9.6
29
Fafa Picault
PHI
vs. DC
$6.6
30
Yohan Croizet
SKC
at NE
$5.7

Forwards

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ATLUTD's Josef Martinez could have a big day against a struggling Impact defense | USA Today Sports Images


Carlos Vela leads all forwards with 61 fantasy points and it would be no surprise to see him score the first goal in Banc of California Stadium history as LAFC christen their new digs against Seattle on Sunday (9 pm ET | FS1 ā€” Full TV & streaming info).

Rank
Player
Team
Opponent
Price
1
Carlos Vela
LAFC
vs. SEA
$12.5
2
Josef Martinez
ATL
vs. MTL
$11.0
3
Sebastian Giovinco
TOR
vs. CHI
$9.5
4
Carlos Quintero
MIN
vs. HOU
$10.0
5
David Villa
NYC
vs. DAL
$10.6
6
Alberth Elis 
HOU
at MIN
$11.3
7
Diego Rossi
LAFC
vs. SEA
$12.2
8
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
LA
vs. RBNY
$9.5
9
Bradley Wright-Phillips
RBNY
at LA
$10.4
10
Nemanja Nikolic
CHI
at TOR
$9.9
11
Gyasi Zardes
CLB
vs. SJ
$8.4
12
Cristian Penilla
NE
vs. SKC
$9.8
13
CJ Sapong
PHI
vs. DC
$8.4
14
Marco Ureña
LAFC
vs. SEA
$9.2
15
Dominique Badji
COL
vs. ORL
$9.6
16
Dom Dwyer
ORL
at COL
$11.0
17
Christian Ramirez
MIN
vs. HOU
$6.0
18
Ola Kamara
LA
vs. RBNY
$7.3
19
Mauro Manotas
HOU
at MIN
$9.5
20
Anthony Blondell
VAN
vs. RSL
$5.0