Players/Spurs/Defender

Micky van de Ven

Van de VenDEFSpurs25 years oldat the club since 2023

Available

Next: Aston Villa at home, Sat 19 Sept, 12:303

2026/27 season. Owned by 3.9% of managers (420,466). Transfers this gameweek: +5979.

Top 10k: 0.3% · Top 100k: 0.7% GW4 estimates

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Price: £5.0m; unchanged this season
Points: 15; 5.0 per game
Form: 3.8; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 270; 3 starts
xGI: 0.61; 0.20 per 90
Bonus: 3; 62 BPS
xMins next: 64; 70% to start, 68% for 60+
xPoints next: 3.8; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

FPL updated 21 Aug

AvailableFPL updated 21 Aug

No news. Fit and available.

21 AugDoubt cleared
Doubt cleared, available again.
21 AugUpgraded
Unspecified injury - 50% chance of playing
21 AugInjured
Unspecified injury - Expected back 29 Aug

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
755.00
Clean sheets per 90
890.67
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
900.92
xGI per 90
810.20
Defensive contributions per 90
567.7
Bonus per 90
931.00
Threat per 90
544.7
Start rate
60100%

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

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

3 appearances, 15 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	CS	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	BRE A	L 0-3	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.0
2	NEW H	L 0-2	90	0	0	0	5	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.72	5.0
3	NFO A	D 0-0	90	9	1	3	30	0.57	0.00	0.57	0.92	5.0
4	EVE H	D 0-0	90	6	1	0	27	0.00	0.02	0.02	1.11	5.0
Season			270	15	2	3	62	0.57	0.04	0.61	2.75

Where the points came from

15 points

Appearances35%+6
Clean sheets47%+8
Bonus18%+3
Goals conceded-1
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 15.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Likely starter

xMins: 64; one fixture
Starts: 70%; 90 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 68%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 75%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

Van de Ven started 2 of the last 3 gameweeks (90, 90, 0 minutes most recently). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

3.8

season 5.0, -1.3

Returns

67%

2 of 3 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

33%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

BRE A

NEW H

NFO A

EVE H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 3.8; points per gameweek
Raw: 3.8; +0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.98x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1BRE A · attack 6th0 ×1.11 0.0
GW2NEW H · attack 5th0 ×0.86 0.3
GW3NFO A · attack 14th9 ×1.03 9.2
GW4EVE H · attack 12th6 ×0.91 5.6

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

3 full games

60+ minutes

75%

of team games

From the bench

1 unused

Home2 games

Points: 6
Per game: 3.0
xGI per game: 0.02

Away1 game

Points: 9
Per game: 9.0
xGI per game: 0.57

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.57	-0.57
Assists	0	0.04	-0.04
Goal involvements	0	0.61	-0.61
Goals conceded	2	2.75	-0.75

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	0.0	0	0.0
2	2.2	0	-2.2
3	0.0	9	+9.0

Average miss 5.6 points over 2 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 3.40. 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	116	3.43	3041	4	1	9	3.2	10	4.5 to 4.4
2024/25	32	2.84	1014	0	2	2	1.2	2	4.5 to 4.5
2023/24	81	3.11	2341	3	0	5	0.9	10	4.5 to 4.4

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Aston Villa H
Sat 19 Sept, 12:30 · attack 18th of 20
3
GW6
Man Utd A
Sat 10 Oct, 17:30 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW7
Coventry City H
Mon 19 Oct, 20:00 · attack 19th of 20
2
GW8
Chelsea A
Sat 24 Oct, 17:30 · attack 2nd of 20
4
GW9
Crystal Palace H
Sat 31 Oct, 17:30 · attack 11th of 20
3
GW10
Leeds A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · attack 16th of 20
3
GW11
Ipswich Town H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 7th of 20
2
GW12
Sunderland A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 17th of 20
3

Average difficulty over the next five: 3.2. 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 premium35th of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 3.1; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.6; best cheap defenders
PAR: -1.6; over the replacement
Per £m: -3.16; 0.5m above the floor

+0.0 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	0.3%	0.0%
Top 100k	0.7%	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

13K

7K out

Ownership, 7 days

+0.1

percentage points

Towards a change

12%

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Solanke, Marmoush, Kudus
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Robertson, Fernandes, Pedro Porro
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Pedro Porro, Xavi, Kudus

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