Players/Man City/Defender

Joško Gvardiol

DEFMan City24 years oldat the club since 2023

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

2026/27 season. Owned by 22.1% of managers (2,382,641). Transfers this gameweek: +165232.

Top 10k: 34.3% · Top 100k: 35.3% GW4 estimates

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Price: £5.7m; +0.2m since season start
Points: 33; 8.2 per game
Form: 8.2; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 344; 4 starts
xGI: 0.33; 0.09 per 90
Bonus: 6; 113 BPS
xMins next: 78; 90% to start, 88% for 60+
xPoints next: 8.2; 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
978.63
Clean sheets per 90
800.52
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
880.96
xGI per 90
500.09
Defensive contributions per 90
406.3
Bonus per 90
991.57
Threat per 90
666.8
Start rate
60100%

Percentile among 97 defenders with at least 135 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 33 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	G	A	CS	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	BOU H	W 2-1	90	9	1	0	0	1	28	0.19	0.05	0.24	0.65	5.5
2	CRY A	W 4-1	74	5	0	1	0	0	18	0.00	0.04	0.04	0.66	5.5
3	COV H	W 1-0	90	8	0	0	1	2	31	0.01	0.02	0.03	1.37	5.6
4	MUN A	W 1-0	90	11	0	1	1	3	36	0.02	0.00	0.02	1.00	5.6
Season			344	33	1	2	2	6	113	0.22	0.11	0.33	3.68

Where the points came from

33 points

Appearances24%+8
Goals18%+6
Assists18%+6
Clean sheets24%+8
Bonus18%+6
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 33.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Nailed

xMins: 78; one fixture
Starts: 90%; 85 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 88%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 94%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

Gvardiol started 3 of the last 3 gameweeks (90, 74, 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

8.3

season 8.3, 0.0

Returns

100%

4 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

25%

1 with 10+

Blanks

0 with 2 or fewer

Last five

BOU H

CRY A

COV H

MUN A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 8.5; points per gameweek
Raw: 8.3; +0.2 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.00x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1BOU H · attack 10th9 ×1.00 9.0
GW2CRY A · attack 11th5 ×0.92 4.8
GW3COV H · attack 19th8 ×0.85 7.1
GW4MUN A · attack 8th11 ×1.23 13.1

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

3 full games

60+ minutes

100%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home2 games

Points: 17
Per game: 8.5
xGI per game: 0.14

Away2 games

Points: 16
Per game: 8.0
xGI per game: 0.03

Expected against actual

Running hot

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	1	0.22	+0.78
Assists	2	0.11	+1.89
Goal involvements	3	0.33	+2.67
Goals conceded	2	3.68	-1.68

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	2.5	9	+6.5
2	2.5	5	+2.5
3	7.0	8	+1.0

Average miss 3.33 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 3.33. 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	CS	xGI	Bonus	Price
2025/26	79	5.19	1370	2	2	6	3.0	5	6.0 to 5.8
2024/25	153	4.20	3278	5	0	13	7.5	15	6.0 to 6.5
2023/24	123	4.76	2327	4	2	9	5.2	12	5.0 to 5.2

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Fixtures ahead

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

Worth the premium3rd of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 6.3; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.6; best cheap defenders
PAR: +1.6; over the replacement
Per £m: 1.35; 1.2m above the floor

+2.7 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	34.3%	25.3%
Top 100k	35.3%	26.0%

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 (2 so far).

This gameweek

+0.1m

price so far

Transfers in

180K

15K out

Ownership, 7 days

+2.3

percentage points

Towards a change

rising

Ownership velocity: accelerating up, tier popular.

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

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

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