LiverpoolvsMan City
4difficulty for LIV4difficulty for MCI

Best pick of the match

Top projected return

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

6.9 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.6%

Fixture

4/5

xG
4.42
xA
0.53
DefCon
3%
This season
39 pts

Best by position, across both squads

One name per position, whichever club they play for.

Best Goalkeeper

A.Becker

LIV · Goalkeeper · Home

Projected

3.7 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

3.9%

Fixture

4/5

Best Defender

Gvardiol

MCI · Defender · Away

Projected

4.7 pts

Price

£5.7m

Owned

26.5%

Fixture

4/5

Best Midfielder

Gakpo

LIV · Midfielder · Home

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£7.2m

Owned

12.6%

Fixture

4/5

Best Forward

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

6.9 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.6%

Fixture

4/5

Head to head

LIVMCI

4.0
Attacking threat
4.8

Mean projected points of the five best midfielders and forwards

25%
Defensive contribution
31%

Mean DefCon chance across the five most active defenders and midfielders

5.1
Best single return
6.9

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

LIV 45% · draw 24% · MCI 31%

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

Match climate

Medium

3.0 expected goals in total

  • 0–120%
  • 2–345%
  • 4+35%

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

Clean sheets

  • LIV27%
  • MCI19%

Matches the goalkeepers' cards by construction.

Teams to score

Club≥1Exactly 12+Likely
LIV81%32%49%two or more
MCI73%35%38%two or more

Both to score: 59%

LIV · anytime attacking return

  • Isak · likely starter49%goal 48% · assist 1%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals48%34%14%none
    Assists1%1%0%none
  • Gakpo · likely starter42%goal 14% · assist 33%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals14%13%1%none
    Assists33%27%6%none
  • Ngumoha · probable40%goal 32% · assist 12%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals32%26%6%none
    Assists12%11%1%none

MCI · anytime attacking return

  • Haaland · likely starter60%goal 56% · assist 9%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals56%36%20%none
    Assists9%9%0%none
  • Cherki · likely starter41%goal 15% · assist 30%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals15%14%1%none
    Assists30%25%5%none
  • Enzo · probable24%goal 10% · assist 15%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals10%10%1%none
    Assists15%14%1%none

Top 3 from each squad

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

Liverpool

Pick 1

Gakpo

LIV · Midfielder · Home

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£7.2m

Owned

12.6%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 2

Isak

LIV · Forward · Home

Projected

4.9 pts

Price

£9.1m

Owned

22.3%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 3

Araujo

LIV · Defender · Home

Projected

4.1 pts

Price

£5.4m

Owned

3%

Fixture

4/5

Man City

Pick 1

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

6.9 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.6%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 2

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

28.2%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 3

Semenyo

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

4.9 pts

Price

£8.4m

Owned

15.4%

Fixture

4/5

Also in Gameweek 6

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.