SunderlandvsChelsea
4difficulty for SUN3difficulty for CHE

Best pick of the match

Top projected return

Palmer

CHE · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.0 pts

Price

£9.7m

Owned

27%

Fixture

3/5

xG
1.31
xA
0.79
DefCon
7%
This season
28 pts

Best by position, across both squads

One name per position, whichever club they play for.

Best Goalkeeper

Roefs

SUN · Goalkeeper · Home

Projected

2.2 pts

Price

£4.9m

Owned

2.6%

Fixture

4/5

Best Defender

Mukiele

SUN · Defender · Home

Projected

3.0 pts

Price

£5.4m

Owned

1.9%

Fixture

4/5

Best Midfielder

Palmer

CHE · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.0 pts

Price

£9.7m

Owned

27%

Fixture

3/5

Best Forward

João Pedro

CHE · Forward · Away

Projected

4.4 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

68.5%

Fixture

3/5

Doubtful · 75% chance

Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing

Head to head

SUNCHE

2.3
Attacking threat
4.0

Mean projected points of the five best midfielders and forwards

52%
Defensive contribution
42%

Mean DefCon chance across the five most active defenders and midfielders

3.3
Best single return
5.0

Highest projected points in the squad for this fixture

100%
Squad fitness
91%

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

SUN 40% · draw 23% · CHE 37%

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

Match climate

High

3.2 expected goals in total

  • 0–117%
  • 2–343%
  • 4+40%

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

Clean sheets

  • SUN21%
  • CHE19%

Matches the goalkeepers' cards by construction.

Teams to score

Club≥1Exactly 12+Likely
SUN81%32%49%two or more
CHE79%33%47%two or more

Both to score: 64%

SUN · anytime attacking return

  • E.Le Fée · probable53%goal 42% · assist 19%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals42%31%10%none
    Assists19%17%2%none
  • Xhaka · probable24%goal 2% · assist 23%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals2%2%0%none
    Assists23%20%3%none
  • Mukiele · probable23%goal 22% · assist 2%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals22%19%3%none
    Assists2%2%0%none

CHE · anytime attacking return

  • João Pedro · probable45%goal 42% · assist 5%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals42%32%11%none
    Assists5%5%0%none
  • Rogers · likely starter44%goal 29% · assist 21%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals29%24%5%none
    Assists21%19%2%none
  • Welbeck · probable41%goal 0% · assist 41%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals0%0%0%none
    Assists41%31%10%none

Top 3 from each squad

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

Sunderland

Pick 1

Xhaka

SUN · Midfielder · Home

Projected

3.3 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

3.8%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 2

Mukiele

SUN · Defender · Home

Projected

3.0 pts

Price

£5.4m

Owned

1.9%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 3

E.Le Fée

SUN · Midfielder · Home

Projected

2.6 pts

Price

£5.7m

Owned

3.5%

Fixture

4/5

Chelsea

Pick 1

Palmer

CHE · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.0 pts

Price

£9.7m

Owned

27%

Fixture

3/5

Pick 2

Rogers

CHE · Midfielder · Away

Projected

4.7 pts

Price

£7.7m

Owned

40%

Fixture

3/5

Pick 3

João Pedro

CHE · Forward · Away

Projected

4.4 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

68.5%

Fixture

3/5

Doubtful · 75% chance

Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing

Also in Gameweek 10

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.