Aston VillavsMan City
4difficulty for AVL4difficulty for MCI

Best pick of the match

Top projected return

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

6.3 pts

Price

£15.5m

Owned

67.8%

Fixture

4/5

xG
0.74
xA
0.02
DefCon
2%
Last season
2 pts

Best by position, across both squads

One name per position, whichever club they play for.

Best Goalkeeper

Donnarumma

MCI · Goalkeeper · Away

Projected

3.1 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

8.4%

Fixture

4/5

Best Defender

Guéhi

MCI · Defender · Away

Projected

4.2 pts

Price

£6.0m

Owned

19.6%

Fixture

4/5

Best Midfielder

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£7.5m

Owned

10.7%

Fixture

4/5

Best Forward

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

6.3 pts

Price

£15.5m

Owned

67.8%

Fixture

4/5

Head to head

AVLMCI

3.2
Attacking threat
4.5

Mean projected points of the five best midfielders and forwards

23%
Defensive contribution
33%

Mean DefCon chance across the five most active defenders and midfielders

4.1
Best single return
6.3

Highest projected points in the squad for this fixture

100%
Squad fitness
100%

Share of the likely eleven with no availability flag

FPL projection from our fixture model — the same numbers player cards use, scored in public. Goals by the two sides are treated as independent. That flatters both-to-score in open games and understates it in sieges.Two Poissons: each club's expected goals conceded per 90, stretched by FPL's own fixture difficulty, then every 0-6 scoreline added up.

These are probabilities from our model, not a confirmation and not a betting tip. Football is noisy. We will be wrong. We score ourselves in public.

A full coupon can list 200+ lines for one match. Most of those are the same few questions repeated with extra knobs. We only answer the questions our data can support: result, clean sheets, who scores, who assists, and how many goals the game is likely to contain.

Result projection

AVL 32% · draw 24% · MCI 43%

Every scoreline in the 0-6 grid, summed into home / draw / away.

Match climate

Medium

2.9 expected goals in total

  • 0–121%
  • 2–345%
  • 4+34%

Both teams' expected goals added together, then split into 0-1, 2-3, and 4+ total goals.

Clean sheets

  • AVL20%
  • MCI26%

Matches the goalkeepers' cards by construction.

Teams to score

Club≥1Exactly 12+Likely
AVL74%35%39%two or more
MCI80%32%47%two or more

Both to score: 59%

AVL · anytime attacking return

  • Watkins · probable42%goal 24% · assist 24%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals24%21%3%none
    Assists24%21%3%none
  • Garnacho · rotation risk42%goal 24% · assist 24%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals24%21%3%none
    Assists24%21%3%none
  • Bailey · rotation risk34%goal 19% · assist 19%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals19%17%2%none
    Assists19%17%2%none

MCI · anytime attacking return

  • Haaland · likely starter60%goal 59% · assist 2%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals59%37%22%none
    Assists2%2%0%none
  • Cherki · rotation risk51%goal 0% · assist 51%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals0%0%0%none
    Assists51%35%16%none
  • Foden · probable36%goal 10% · assist 29%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals10%9%1%none
    Assists29%24%5%none

Top 3 from each squad

Ranked by projected points for this fixture, so the same player can rate differently in a different week.

Aston Villa

Pick 1

Watkins

AVL · Forward · Home

Projected

4.1 pts

Price

£7.9m

Owned

7.5%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 2

Buendía

AVL · Midfielder · Home

Projected

3.3 pts

Price

£6.0m

Owned

1.2%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 3

Garnacho

AVL · Midfielder · Home

Projected

3.1 pts

Price

£6.0m

Owned

0.5%

Fixture

4/5

Man City

Pick 1

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

6.3 pts

Price

£15.5m

Owned

67.8%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 2

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£7.5m

Owned

10.7%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 3

Semenyo

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

4.5 pts

Price

£8.5m

Owned

24%

Fixture

4/5

Also in Gameweek 8

Projections are ours, from deterministic code over public FPL data, and are re-derived against this specific fixture's difficulty - the same player will rate differently in an easier week. Not a guarantee. FPList is not affiliated with the Premier League or Fantasy Premier League.