Man CityvsBrighton
2difficulty for MCI5difficulty for BHA

Best pick of the match

Top projected return

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Home

Projected

7.8 pts

Price

£15.5m

Owned

71.1%

Fixture

2/5

xG
2.46
xA
0.50
DefCon
2%
Last season
24 pts

Best by position, across both squads

One name per position, whichever club they play for.

Best Goalkeeper

Donnarumma

MCI · Goalkeeper · Home

Projected

3.5 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

7.9%

Fixture

2/5

Best Defender

Guéhi

MCI · Defender · Home

Projected

4.9 pts

Price

£6.0m

Owned

18.7%

Fixture

2/5

Best Midfielder

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Home

Projected

6.2 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

30.7%

Fixture

2/5

Best Forward

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Home

Projected

7.8 pts

Price

£15.5m

Owned

71.1%

Fixture

2/5

Head to head

MCIBHA

5.6
Attacking threat
2.8

Mean projected points of the five best midfielders and forwards

34%
Defensive contribution
33%

Mean DefCon chance across the five most active defenders and midfielders

7.8
Best single return
3.2

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

MCI 53% · draw 24% · BHA 23%

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

Match climate

Medium

2.7 expected goals in total

  • 0–125%
  • 2–347%
  • 4+29%

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

Clean sheets

  • MCI36%
  • BHA18%

Matches the goalkeepers' cards by construction.

Teams to score

Club≥1Exactly 12+Likely
MCI82%31%50%two or more
BHA64%37%27%exactly one

Both to score: 52%

MCI · anytime attacking return

  • Haaland · likely starter55%goal 49% · assist 13%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals49%34%14%none
    Assists13%12%1%none
  • Cherki · probable45%goal 16% · assist 34%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals16%15%1%none
    Assists34%28%7%none
  • Enzo · likely starter39%goal 21% · assist 23%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals21%19%2%none
    Assists23%20%3%none

BHA · anytime attacking return

  • De Cuyper · probable30%goal 25% · assist 7%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals25%21%3%none
    Assists7%7%0%none
  • Gomez · probable30%goal 16% · assist 17%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals16%14%1%none
    Assists17%15%2%none
  • Groß · probable27%goal 19% · assist 10%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals19%17%2%none
    Assists10%9%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.

Man City

Pick 1

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Home

Projected

7.8 pts

Price

£15.5m

Owned

71.1%

Fixture

2/5

Pick 2

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Home

Projected

6.2 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

30.7%

Fixture

2/5

Pick 3

Semenyo

MCI · Midfielder · Home

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£8.4m

Owned

19%

Fixture

2/5

Brighton

Pick 1

De Cuyper

BHA · Defender · Away

Projected

3.2 pts

Price

£4.7m

Owned

18%

Fixture

5/5

Pick 2

Groß

BHA · Midfielder · Away

Projected

3.2 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

16.1%

Fixture

5/5

Pick 3

Kostoulas

BHA · Forward · Away

Projected

3.0 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

0.5%

Fixture

5/5

Also in Gameweek 9

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.