Man CityvsBrighton
3difficulty for MCI5difficulty for BHA

Best pick of the match

Top projected return

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Home

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 · Home

Projected

3.1 pts

Price

£5.5m

Owned

7.6%

Fixture

3/5

Best Defender

Gvardiol

MCI · Defender · Home

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£5.7m

Owned

26.9%

Fixture

3/5

Best Midfielder

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Home

Projected

5.5 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

28.4%

Fixture

3/5

Best Forward

Haaland

MCI · Forward · Home

Projected

7.4 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.9%

Fixture

3/5

Head to head

MCIBHA

4.9
Attacking threat
3.9

Mean projected points of the five best midfielders and forwards

31%
Defensive contribution
33%

Mean DefCon chance across the five most active defenders and midfielders

7.4
Best single return
5.5

Highest projected points in the squad for this fixture

91%
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 56% · draw 20% · BHA 23%

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

Match climate

High

3.8 expected goals in total

  • 0–111%
  • 2–337%
  • 4+52%

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

Clean sheets

  • MCI23%
  • BHA10%

Matches the goalkeepers' cards by construction.

Teams to score

Club≥1Exactly 12+Likely
MCI90%23%67%two or more
BHA77%34%43%two or more

Both to score: 69%

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

BHA · anytime attacking return

  • Yalcouyé · probable47%goal 38% · assist 14%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals38%30%9%none
    Assists14%13%1%none
  • Groß · likely starter41%goal 30% · assist 16%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals30%25%5%none
    Assists16%15%1%none
  • De Cuyper · probable36%goal 27% · assist 13%
    ≥112+Likely
    Goals27%23%4%none
    Assists13%12%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

7.4 pts

Price

£15.6m

Owned

73.9%

Fixture

3/5

Pick 2

Cherki

MCI · Midfielder · Home

Projected

5.5 pts

Price

£7.8m

Owned

28.4%

Fixture

3/5

Pick 3

Gvardiol

MCI · Defender · Home

Projected

5.1 pts

Price

£5.7m

Owned

26.9%

Fixture

3/5

Brighton

Pick 1

Groß

BHA · Midfielder · Away

Projected

5.5 pts

Price

£5.9m

Owned

29.4%

Fixture

5/5

Pick 2

De Cuyper

BHA · Defender · Away

Projected

4.3 pts

Price

£5.0m

Owned

27.9%

Fixture

5/5

Pick 3

Kostoulas

BHA · Forward · Away

Projected

4.0 pts

Price

£5.6m

Owned

4.4%

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.