Players/Nott'm Forest/Defender

Neco Williams

N.WilliamsDEFNott'm Forest25 years oldat the club since 2022

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Next: Coventry City at home, Sat 19 Sept, 17:302

2026/27 season. Owned by 8.4% of managers (905,788). Transfers this gameweek: +14782.

Top 10k: 10.7% · Top 100k: 12.3% GW4 estimates

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Price: £5.0m; unchanged this season
Points: 17; 4.2 per game
Form: 4.2; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 360; 4 starts
xGI: 0.72; 0.18 per 90
Bonus: 1; 66 BPS
xMins next: 81; 90% to start, 88% for 60+
xPoints next: 4.2; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

no news

Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
624.25
Clean sheets per 90
400.25
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
841.02
xGI per 90
760.18
Defensive contributions per 90
486.8
Bonus per 90
670.25
Threat per 90
454.0
Start rate
60100%

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

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 17 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	A	CS	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	LEE H	L 0-1	90	2	0	0	0	13	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.47	5.0
2	LIV A	D 2-2	90	6	1	0	0	16	0.12	0.15	0.27	1.75	5.0
3	TOT H	D 0-0	90	7	0	1	1	28	0.00	0.07	0.07	1.06	5.0
4	AVL A	W 2-1	90	2	0	0	0	9	0.20	0.16	0.36	0.82	5.0
Season			360	17	1	1	1	66	0.32	0.40	0.72	4.10

Where the points came from

17 points

Appearances44%+8
Assists17%+3
Clean sheets22%+4
Bonus6%+1
Defensive contributions11%+2
Goals conceded-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 17.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Nailed

xMins: 81; one fixture
Starts: 90%; 90 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 88%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 94%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

N.Williams started 3 of the last 3 gameweeks (90, 90, 90 minutes most recently). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

4.3

season 4.3, 0.0

Returns

50%

2 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

50%

2 with 2 or fewer

Last five

LEE H

LIV A

TOT H

AVL A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 4.0; points per gameweek
Raw: 4.3; -0.2 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.91x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1LEE H · attack 16th2 ×1.01 2.0
GW2LIV A · attack 9th6 ×1.06 6.2
GW3TOT H · attack 20th7 ×0.79 6.0
GW4AVL A · attack 18th2 ×0.79 2.0

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

4 of 4

100% start rate

Minutes per start

4 full games

60+ minutes

100%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home2 games

Points: 9
Per game: 4.5
xGI per game: 0.05

Away2 games

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

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.32	-0.32
Assists	1	0.40	+0.60
Goal involvements	1	0.72	+0.28
Goals conceded	4	4.10	-0.10

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	2.2	2	-0.2
2	2.2	6	+3.8
3	4.0	7	+3.0

Average miss 2.33 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 2.20. 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	128	3.60	3203	2	3	9	6.0	15	5.0 to 4.8
2024/25	109	3.79	2588	1	3	10	3.8	8	4.5 to 4.5
2023/24	39	2.15	1630	0	1	1	2.3	2	4.5 to 4.3
2022/23	54	2.60	1872	1	1	4	2.5	1	4.0 to 3.8
2021/22	4	51.43	7	0	1	0	0.0	0	4.0 to 3.8
2020/21	11	4.01	247	0	0	1	0.0	0	4.0 to 3.8
2019/20	14	5.53	228	0	0	1	0.0	3	4.0 to 4.0

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Coventry City H
Sat 19 Sept, 17:30 · attack 19th of 20
2
GW6
Crystal Palace A
Sun 11 Oct, 14:00 · attack 11th of 20
3
GW7
Arsenal H
Sun 18 Oct, 16:30 · attack 4th of 20
4
GW8
Ipswich Town A
Fri 23 Oct, 20:00 · attack 7th of 20
2
GW9
Brentford A
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · attack 6th of 20
3
GW10
Man City H
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · attack 3rd of 20
4
GW11
Bournemouth A
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 10th of 20
3
GW12
Chelsea H
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 2nd of 20
4

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 worth the premium29th of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 3.5; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.7; best cheap defenders
PAR: -1.2; over the replacement
Per £m: -2.34; 0.5m above the floor

+0.4 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	10.7%	5.0%
Top 100k	12.3%	8.3%

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

31K

16K out

Ownership, 7 days

+0.1

percentage points

Towards a change

11%

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Gibbs-White, Wood, Delap
Corners and indirect free kicks2nd choice
Club order: McAtee, N.Williams, Schlager
Direct free kicks3rd choice
Club order: Gibbs-White, Murillo, N.Williams

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