Robertson: FPL Mainstay

Andy Robertson’s Fantasy Premier League case was never built on one monster month; it was built on eight seasons of defenders’ points arriving in small, repeatable chunks. The official game has him on 1,177 career Fantasy Premier League points since joining Liverpool in 2017/18, with 69 attacking returns and 98 clean sheets. (fantasy.premierleague.com) (premierleague.com) That profile is rare because defenders in Fantasy Premier League score from two jobs at once. The official rules give defenders four points for a clean sheet, three points for an assist, and six points for a goal, so a left-back who crosses like a midfielder can stack routes to points in one match. (fantasy.premierleague.com) (premierleague.com) Robertson became the model for that role under Liverpool because he played in a team that defended like a top side and attacked through its full-backs. His official Premier League record now shows 327 appearances, 11 goals, and 60 assists, which is an unusually high assist total for a defender. (premierleague.com) The season that locked in his Fantasy reputation was 2018/19. Premier League Fantasy coverage recorded Robertson on 194 points that year, and his 11 assists matched the highest single-season assist total by a defender in Premier League history at the time. (premierleague.com) That mattered because Fantasy managers usually have to choose between safety and upside in defense. A center-back might offer clean sheets but almost no attacking threat, while a riskier wing-back might create chances but play in a weaker defense; Robertson gave managers both in one slot for years. (fantasy.premierleague.com) (premierleague.com) Liverpool’s clean-sheet volume did a lot of the heavy lifting. Those 98 clean sheets in Robertson’s Fantasy record mean he has banked the equivalent of hundreds of points from team defending alone before bonus points, assists, or goals are even counted. (fantasy.premierleague.com 1) (fantasy.premierleague.com 2) His attacking numbers explain why he stayed useful even when Liverpool’s fixtures looked awkward on paper. Sixty official Premier League assists from left-back means one accurate cross or cutback can turn a two-point appearance into a return, which is exactly the kind of steady edge Fantasy managers chase over a 38-match season. (premierleague.com) (fantasy.premierleague.com) The game has changed around him, too. Premier League Fantasy introduced new assist rules for 2025/26 and said those rules would have created 41 extra Fantasy assists if they had been used the previous season, which shows how much the scoring system keeps trying to reward final-ball involvement from players like attacking full-backs. (premierleague.com 1) (premierleague.com 2) That is why Robertson keeps getting described as a “set-and-forget” type of defender in Fantasy circles. He was not built on streaky hat tricks or one hot month; he was built on years of six-point clean sheets, three-point assists, and the kind of weekly floor that lets managers spend their transfers chasing chaos somewhere else. (fantasy.premierleague.com 1) (fantasy.premierleague.com 2)