Players/Newcastle/Midfielder

Joe Willock

MIDNewcastle27 years oldat the club since 2021

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Next: Hull City at home, Sat 19 Sept, 15:002

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.5% of managers (53,906). Transfers this gameweek: +123.

Top 10k: 0.7% · Top 100k: 0.0% GW4 estimates

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Price: £5.0m; unchanged this season
Points: 11; 3.7 per game
Form: 2.8; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 166; 2 starts
xGI: 0.72; 0.39 per 90
Bonus: 0; 34 BPS
xMins next: 54; 70% to start, 69% for 60+
xPoints next: 2.8; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

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Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other midfielders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
835.96
xGI per 90
770.39
xG per 90
800.28
xA per 90
550.11
Defensive contributions per 90
64.3
Creativity per 90
3611.1
Threat per 90
6615.2
Bonus per 90
320.00
Start rate
1267%

Percentile among 108 midfielders with at least 135 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

3 appearances, 11 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	G	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
1	LIV H	D 2-2	34	6	1	28	0.09	0.17	0.26	5.0
2	TOT A	W 2-0	70	3	0	0	0.07	0.02	0.09	5.0
3	BOU H	D 2-2	62	2	0	6	0.36	0.01	0.37	5.0
4	LEE A	L 0-2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.0
Season			166	11	1	34	0.52	0.20	0.72

Where the points came from

11 points

Appearances45%+5
Goals45%+5
Clean sheets9%+1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 11.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Likely starter

xMins: 54; one fixture
Starts: 70%; 70 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 69%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 90%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

Willock started 2 of the last 3 gameweeks (62, 70, 34 minutes most recently). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

2.8

season 3.7, -0.9

Returns

33%

1 of 3 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

33%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

LIV H

TOT A

BOU H

LEE A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 2.8; points per gameweek
Raw: 2.8; +0.1 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.03x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1LIV H · defence 6th6 ×1.08 6.4
GW2TOT A · defence 10th3 ×0.97 3.0
GW3BOU H · defence 14th2 ×1.08 2.0
GW4LEE A · defence 4th0 ×1.01 0.0

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

Starts

2 of 4

50% start rate

Minutes per start

0 full games

60+ minutes

50%

of team games

From the bench

1 unused

Home2 games

Points: 8
Per game: 4.0
xGI per game: 0.32

Away1 game

Points: 3
Per game: 3.0
xGI per game: 0.09

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	1	0.52	+0.48
Assists	0	0.20	-0.20
Goal involvements	1	0.72	+0.28

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): 2.8 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW5.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.5	6	+4.5
2	1.5	3	+1.5
3	4.5	2	-2.5

Average miss 2.83 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 1.17. 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	xGI	Bonus	Price
2025/26	38	3.52	972	0	2	2.3	0	5.0 to 5.0
2024/25	46	3.89	1065	0	2	2.6	0	5.0 to 4.7
2023/24	18	3.90	415	1	0	1.5	0	5.5 to 5.3
2022/23	123	4.33	2556	3	7	11.6	11	5.0 to 4.7
2021/22	79	3.49	2037	2	3	0.0	3	6.0 to 5.3
2020/21	79	5.88	1210	8	0	0.0	5	5.0 to 4.9
2019/20	41	4.40	838	1	1	0.0	0	5.0 to 4.7
2018/19	4	5.71	63	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.5
2017/18	3	3.33	81	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.5

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Hull City H
Sat 19 Sept, 15:00 · defence 2nd of 20
2
GW6
Coventry City A
Mon 12 Oct, 20:00 · defence 19th of 20
2
GW7
Aston Villa H
Sat 17 Oct, 17:30 · defence 16th of 20
3
GW8
Crystal Palace A
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · defence 20th of 20
3
GW9
Everton H
Mon 2 Nov, 20:00 · defence 5th of 20
3
GW10
Fulham A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · defence 15th of 20
3
GW11
Arsenal H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 1st of 20
4
GW12
Brighton A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · defence 11th of 20
3

Average difficulty over the next five: 2.6. 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 play65th of 294 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 2.5; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.1; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -1.6; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

-0.2 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	0.7%	0.0%
Top 100k	0.0%	0.0%

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

2K out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

11%

rising

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Osula, Wissa
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Hall, Elanga, Barnes
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Hall, Schär, Dedić

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£6.2m18 pts
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£5.2m18 pts
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£6.2m14 pts
DEFDedić
£4.5m13 pts
DEFBotman
£5.0m11 pts

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