Players/Man City/Midfielder

Phil Foden

MIDMan City26 years oldat the club since 2016

SuspendedSuspended until 17 Oct13 Sept

Next: Sunderland at home, Sun 20 Sept, 14:002

2026/27 season. Owned by 3.3% of managers (355,779). Transfers this gameweek: -68567.

Top 10k: 2.3% · Top 100k: 1.3% GW4 estimates

Compare

Price: £7.0m; unchanged this season
Points: 9; 2.2 per game
Form: 2.2; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 217; 3 starts
xGI: 2.49; 1.03 per 90
Bonus: 1; 52 BPS
xMins next: 0; 0% to start, 0% for 60+
xPoints next: 0.0; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

FPL updated 13 Sept

SuspendedExpected back 17 OctFPL updated 13 Sept

Suspended until 17 Oct

13 SeptSuspended
Suspended until 17 Oct

Profile against other midfielders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
503.73
xGI per 90
1001.03
xG per 90
980.67
xA per 90
960.36
Defensive contributions per 90
215.8
Creativity per 90
9945.7
Threat per 90
6916.2
Bonus per 90
730.41
Start rate
61100%

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

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 9 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	A	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
1	BOU H	W 2-1	81	1	0	0	15	0.12	0.40	0.52	7.0
2	CRY A	W 4-1	90	9	2	1	38	0.87	0.45	1.32	7.0
3	COV H	W 1-0	24	1	0	0	3	0.62	0.01	0.63	7.0
4	MUN A	W 1-0	22	-2	0	0	-4	0.00	0.02	0.02	7.0
Season			217	9	2	1	52	1.61	0.88	2.49

Where the points came from

9 points

Appearances46%+6
Assists46%+6
Bonus8%+1
Cards-4

The categories add up to FPL's total of 9.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Out

xMins: 0; one fixture
Starts: 0%; 85 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 0%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 0%; FPL says 0% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

Foden started 2 of the last 3 gameweeks (24, 90, 81 minutes most recently). FPL puts his chance of playing at 0%. Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

2.3

season 2.3, 0.0

Returns

25%

1 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

75%

3 with 2 or fewer

Last five

BOU H

CRY A

COV H

-2

MUN A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 1.9; points per gameweek
Raw: 2.3; -0.3 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.98x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1BOU H · defence 14th1 ×1.08 0.9
GW2CRY A · defence 20th9 ×0.86 8.0
GW3COV H · defence 19th1 ×0.90 1.0
GW4MUN A · defence 13th-2 ×1.09 -2.3

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

3 of 4

75% start rate

Minutes per start

1 full games

60+ minutes

50%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home2 games

Points: 2
Per game: 1.0
xGI per game: 0.57

Away2 games

Points: 7
Per game: 3.5
xGI per game: 0.67

Expected against actual

On trackAnalytics feed: expected

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	1.61	-1.61
Assists	2	0.88	+1.12
Goal involvements	2	2.49	-0.49

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	2.5	1	-1.5
2	2.5	9	+6.5
3	5.0	1	-4.0

Average miss 4 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 0.33. 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	131	5.67	2078	7	5	10.8	13	8.0 to 8.0
2024/25	105	5.34	1771	7	3	10.5	10	9.5 to 9.1
2023/24	230	7.24	2860	19	8	17.1	31	7.5 to 8.5
2022/23	142	6.98	1832	11	7	10.5	15	8.0 to 8.0
2021/22	137	5.80	2125	9	6	0.0	11	8.0 to 7.9
2020/21	135	7.56	1607	9	8	0.0	17	6.5 to 6.1
2019/20	69	6.99	888	5	2	0.0	4	5.5 to 5.5
2018/19	25	6.86	328	1	0	0.0	3	5.0 to 4.5
2017/18	8	16.00	45	0	1	0.0	0	5.0 to 4.7

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Sunderland H
Sun 20 Sept, 14:00 · defence 9th of 20
2
GW6
Liverpool A
Sun 11 Oct, 16:30 · defence 6th of 20
4
GW7
Ipswich Town H
Sat 17 Oct, 15:00 · defence 18th of 20
2
GW8
Aston Villa A
Sat 24 Oct, 12:30 · defence 16th of 20
4
GW9
Brighton H
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · defence 11th of 20
2
GW10
Nott'm Forest A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · defence 8th of 20
3
GW11
Fulham H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 15th of 20
2
GW12
Arsenal A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · defence 1st of 20
5

Average difficulty over the next five: 2.8. 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 play99th of 294 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 1.6; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.1; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -2.5; over the replacement
Per £m: -1.69; 1.5m above the floor

-3.0 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	2.3%	1.0%
Top 100k	1.3%	0.7%

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

70K out

Ownership, 7 days

-1.7

percentage points

Towards a change

42%

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Haaland, Semenyo, Doku
Corners and indirect free kicks2nd choice
Club order: Cherki, Foden, Anderson
Direct free kicks2nd choice
Club order: Cherki, Foden

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