On October 5, Sorare announced five English Championship clubs joined the platform: Burnley, Coventry City, Millwall, Norwich City and Watford. The five represent a significant bit of history, a number of top-end second tier talent, and a wide spread of current fortunes. In this series of four articles we’ll be examining the top two options for each club at each Sorare position, together with a couple of additional names (U23s, age 24, and others that catch my eye).
Per Sorare: EFL Championship clubs are eligible for our All Star tournaments and the brand new Second Division competitions starting GW 312. In addition, all second division player cards will be eligible to enter the global competitions. Championship players were previously eligible to play in Challenger Europe competitions when it opened. Those players will no longer be eligible in Challenger Europe and will only be eligible in the Second Division Europe competitions.
In today’s article we’re covering the top Defenders at each club. We started with Burnley last time, today we’re going bottom up alphabetically
Hassane Kamara, age 28 | Watford
There isn’t a second choice for best Hornets’ defender. Kamara is priced a bit high for a Threshold defender and is on the fringes of have the elite scoring upside to make a regular impact in GAS lineups, but his points are consistent and he’s doing the things he needs to secure All Around Score points.
Kamara, an Ivory Coast international, doesn’t get a lot of opportunities for mid-week/international break points, but could turn up occasionally. His 1/100 sold for 0.193 Ξ, while his recent Limited prices suggest a regular Rare price of 0.120 Ξ. If you can grab him at or below 0.100 Ξ, all of a sudden he becomes a very viable Global All Star asset.
Watford are currently 12th in the table and a lot of their woes are linked to the defense. Having allowed 17 goals, there is only one team (Reading, 18) which has allowed more. Now I know I said Daniel Bachmann was a good pick as a goalkeeper and I stand by that - he has four clean sheets! - but that doesn’t carry over to the defenders at all. There’s a big difference between picking up +10 vs a 60 Decisive for the CS, but when you have the other stats the CS is a nice cherry on top.