Aston VillavsMan City
4difficulty for AVL3difficulty for MCI

Best pick of the match

Top projected return

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

7.4 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.9%

Fixture

3/5

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

Donnarumma

MCI · Goalkeeper · Away

Projected

3.1 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

7.6%

Fixture

3/5

Best Defender

Gvardiol

MCI · Defender · Away

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£5.7m

Owned

26.9%

Fixture

3/5

Best Midfielder

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.5 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

28.4%

Fixture

3/5

Best Forward

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

7.4 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.9%

Fixture

3/5

Head to head

AVLMCI

3.0
Attacking threat
4.9

Mean projected points of the five best midfielders and forwards

29%
Defensive contribution
31%

Mean DefCon chance across the five most active defenders and midfielders

4.5
Best single return
7.4

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

AVL 28% · draw 22% · MCI 50%

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

Match climate

High

3.5 expected goals in total

  • 0–114%
  • 2–340%
  • 4+46%

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

Clean sheets

  • AVL13%
  • MCI23%

Matches the goalkeepers' cards by construction.

Teams to score

Club≥1Exactly 12+Likely
AVL77%34%43%two or more
MCI87%27%60%two or more

Both to score: 66%

AVL · anytime attacking return

  • N.Jackson · probable27%goal 15% · assist 14%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals15%14%1%none
    Assists14%13%1%none
  • Buendía · likely starter21%goal 17% · assist 5%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals17%16%2%none
    Assists5%5%0%none
  • McGinn · likely starter18%goal 14% · assist 5%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals14%13%1%none
    Assists5%5%0%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.

Aston Villa

Pick 1

Manzambi

AVL · Midfielder · Home

Projected

4.5 pts

Price

£5.9m

Owned

0.4%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 2

Buendía

AVL · Midfielder · Home

Projected

3.1 pts

Price

£5.9m

Owned

1%

Fixture

4/5

Pick 3

Suzuki

AVL · Goalkeeper · Home

Projected

2.8 pts

Price

£5.0m

Owned

1.9%

Fixture

4/5

Man City

Pick 1

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Away

Projected

7.4 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.9%

Fixture

3/5

Pick 2

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.5 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

28.4%

Fixture

3/5

Pick 3

Gvardiol

MCI · Defender · Away

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£5.7m

Owned

26.9%

Fixture

3/5

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.