Players/Aston Villa/Defender

Matty Cash

DEFAston Villa29 years oldat the club since 2020

75% chance of playingMuscular injury - 75% chance of playing9 Sept

Next: Spurs away, Sat 19 Sept, 12:303

2026/27 season. Owned by 5.5% of managers (593,076). Transfers this gameweek: -56065.

Top 10k: 0.3% · Top 100k: 1.7% GW4 estimates

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Price: £4.5m; unchanged this season
Points: 7; 2.3 per game
Form: 1.8; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 251; 3 starts
xGI: 0.19; 0.06 per 90
Bonus: 0; 23 BPS
xMins next: 57; 68% to start, 66% for 60+
xPoints next: 1.4; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

FPL updated 9 Sept

Doubtful75% chanceFPL updated 9 Sept

Muscular injury - 75% chance of playing

9 SeptDoubt
Muscular injury - 75% chance of playing

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
362.51
Clean sheets per 90
610.36
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
271.80
xGI per 90
330.06
Defensive contributions per 90
195.0
Bonus per 90
330.00
Threat per 90
544.7
Start rate
60100%

Percentile among 98 defenders with at least 135 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

3 appearances, 7 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	CS	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	BHA A	L 0-4	90	-1	0	-8	0.00	0.00	0.00	3.77	4.5
2	ARS H	L 0-1	77	2	0	8	0.15	0.01	0.16	1.04	4.5
3	HUL A	D 0-0	84	6	1	23	0.00	0.03	0.03	0.22	4.5
4	NFO H	L 1-2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.5
Season			251	7	1	23	0.15	0.04	0.19	5.03

Where the points came from

7 points

Appearances60%+6
Clean sheets40%+4
Goals conceded-2
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 7.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Nailed

xMins: 57; one fixture
Starts: 68%; 84 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 66%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 70%; FPL says 75% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

Cash started 3 of the last 3 gameweeks (84, 77, 90 minutes most recently). FPL puts his chance of playing at 75%. Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

1.8

season 2.3, -0.6

Returns

33%

1 of 3 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

67%

2 with 2 or fewer

Last five

-1

BHA A

ARS H

HUL A

NFO H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 1.3; points per gameweek
Raw: 1.8; -0.5 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.07x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1BHA A · attack 1st-1 ×1.35 -2.0
GW2ARS H · attack 4th2 ×1.07 2.0
GW3HUL A · attack 13th6 ×0.81 5.2
GW4NFO H · attack 14th0 ×1.03 0.0

About what it looks: the opponents were close to average. Points above the appearance points are scaled by the opponent's attack (expected goals for per game from the analytics table), shrunk toward the league average early in the season and capped between 0.6 and 1.5.

Starts

3 of 4

75% start rate

Minutes per start

1 full games

60+ minutes

75%

of team games

From the bench

1 unused

Home1 game

Points: 2
Per game: 2.0
xGI per game: 0.16

Away2 games

Points: 5
Per game: 2.5
xGI per game: 0.02

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.15	-0.15
Assists	0	0.04	-0.04
Goal involvements	0	0.19	-0.19
Goals conceded	5	5.03	-0.03

Expected numbers are FPL's own xG, xA and xGC, summed over the gameweeks played. A big positive difference tends to fall back; a big negative one tends to catch up.

xPoints record

frozen at each deadline, graded after

Next gameweek (GW5): 1.4 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW5.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.7	-1	-2.7
2	1.7	2	+0.3
3	0.5	6	+5.5

Average miss 2.83 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 1.03. How the feed is graded.

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Nearest by per-90 profile and price among players in the same position with enough minutes. Not a recommendation, a comparison.

Previous seasons

Season	Pts	Per 90	Min	G	A	CS	xGI	Bonus	Price
2025/26	117	3.49	3016	3	3	8	4.1	7	4.5 to 4.6
2024/25	76	3.31	2069	1	1	7	1.7	2	4.5 to 4.4
2023/24	64	2.69	2138	2	2	3	6.9	4	4.5 to 4.5
2022/23	57	2.82	1817	0	2	4	1.2	3	5.0 to 4.6
2021/22	147	3.92	3377	4	3	13	0.0	11	5.0 to 5.3
2020/21	89	3.38	2373	0	2	11	0.0	8	5.0 to 5.0

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Spurs A
Sat 19 Sept, 12:30 · attack 20th of 20
3
GW6
Brentford H
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · attack 6th of 20
3
GW7
Newcastle A
Sat 17 Oct, 17:30 · attack 5th of 20
3
GW8
Man City H
Sat 24 Oct, 12:30 · attack 3rd of 20
4
GW9
Fulham H
Sat 31 Oct, 20:00 · attack 15th of 20
2
GW10
Man Utd A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW11
Sunderland H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 17th of 20
2
GW12
Ipswich Town A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 7th of 20
2

Average difficulty over the next five: 3. 1 is easiest, 5 hardest, by FPL's rating. The rank is the opponent's attack or defence among the 20 clubs by expected goals this season, 1 being the strongest.

Value over replacement

points above the cheap option

Not expected to play67th of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 2.2; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.7; best cheap defenders
PAR: -2.5; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

-0.9 against players at his price. Replacement is the median of the best playing players at or below the floor price for the position; per million is PAR over the price above that floor. Every player by PAR.

Price and ownership

Ownership by rank

Sample	Selected by	EO
Top 10k	0.3%	0.0%
Top 100k	1.7%	0.3%

GW4 estimates · 300 managers per cohort · Updated 14 Sept, 06:06 UTC

A daily sample spread across 20 rank bands in each cohort, using FPL's Overall standings at collection time (including its tie order). These are estimates, so small percentage differences can be sampling noise. Ownership counts all 15 players in the published GW4 squad, including the bench; transfers since the deadline are private. EO (effective ownership) uses FPL's scoring multipliers: captains count twice, triple captains three times, and only scoring players count. EO is provisional and can change as FPL applies substitutions.

Daily since 9 Aug: blue is price, grey is ownership, dots are the days the price moved.

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

472

57K out

Ownership, 7 days

-1.3

percentage points

Towards a change

86%

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Buendía, N.Jackson
Corners and indirect free kicks1st choice
Club order: Cash, McGinn, Buendía
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Buendía

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