Nottingham Forest’s fantastic campaign continued at the weekend as they beat Brighton on penalties to reach the FA Cup semi-finals, and some of their star men could be valuable Fantasy Premier League assets over the next month or so.
Nuno Espirito Santo’s are at home to Manchester United on Tuesday night, the beginning of a run of fairly favourable-looking Premier League fixtures for Forest. They then travel to Champions League qualification rivals Aston Villa, before hosting Everton, travelling to Tottenham and Crystal Palace, then entertaining local rivals Leicester.
Forest do have a weekend off league action between those Spurs and Palace games due to their FA Cup semi against Manchester City, but now could still be an opportune time to add one or two of their key players to your FPL squad…
First up is Nikola Milenkovic, Forest’s formidable centre-back enforcer. The giant Serb is currently owned by just over 10% of FPL managers, but, at just 4.9m, he could be a bargain signing for plenty more bosses.
Milenkovic has chalked up at least five points in five of the last six Gameweeks, totalling 11 against Ipswich in his side’s last Premier League outing, where he opened the scoring in a 4-2 away victory by lashing home from a corner. He had previously leveraged his substantial set-piece threat to score -from the same situation in February’s 4-3 defeat at Newcastle.
In between those two matches, Milenkovic helped Forest to successive clean sheets as they drew 0-0 with Arsenal and beat Manchester City 1-0 to cement third place in the Premier League table. Forest have kept the opposition out in their last three home league fixtures, all of which have seen Milenkovic complete the 90 minutes.
You might also want to think about signing Anthony Elanga, who’s currently owned by an even lower proportion of FPL gaffers – less than 7% coming into Gameweek 30. The Sweden winger bagged a brace in the aforementioned triumph at Ipswich, having recorded a hat-trick of assists in the 7-0 drubbing of Brighton at the City Ground in February.
Available for 5.3m, Elanga could be a frugal acquisition ahead of his meeting with former club Man United, whose clean sheet away to Leicester last time out was their first on the road since January.
The deadline for team changes for Gameweek 30 is 18:15 BST on Tuesday, 1 April.
