Players/Coventry City/Midfielder

Tatsuhiro Sakamoto

MIDCoventry City29 years oldat the club since 2023

Available

Next: Nott'm Forest away, Sat 19 Sept, 17:303

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.1% of managers (10,783). Transfers this gameweek: -350.

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

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Price: £4.9m; -0.1m since season start
Points: 1; 1.0 per game
Form: 0.2; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 31; 0 starts
xGI: 0.04; 0.12 per 90
Bonus: 0; 8 BPS
xMins next: 16; 10% to start, 10% for 60+
xPoints next: 0.2; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

no news

Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other midfielders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
282.90
xGI per 90
270.12
xG per 90
420.06
xA per 90
340.06
Defensive contributions per 90
8411.6
Creativity per 90
6017.1
Threat per 90
7920.3
Bonus per 90
330.00
Start rate
00%

Percentile among 109 midfielders with at least 135 minutes this season. 100 is the best. This player is below that minutes threshold, so his own numbers rest on a small sample.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

1 appearance, 1 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
1	ARS A	L 0-3	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.0
2	HUL H	L 0-1	31	1	8	0.02	0.02	0.04	5.0
3	MCI A	L 0-1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.9
4	BHA H	L 0-5	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.9
Season			31	1	8	0.02	0.02	0.04

Where the points came from

1 points

Appearances100%+1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 1.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Bench

xMins: 16; one fixture
Starts: 10%; 82 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 10%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 40%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

Sakamoto started 0 of the last 3 gameweeks (0, 31, 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

0.3

season 1.0, -0.8

Returns

0 of 1 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

100%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

ARS A

HUL H

MCI A

BHA H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 0.3; points per gameweek
Raw: 0.3; 0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.08x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1ARS A · defence 1st0 ×1.39 0.0
GW2HUL H · defence 2nd1 ×1.02 1.0
GW3MCI A · defence 3rd0 ×0.97 0.0
GW4BHA H · defence 11th0 ×0.93 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

0 of 4

0% start rate

Minutes per start

0 full games

60+ minutes

of team games

From the bench

3 unused

Home1 game

Points: 1
Per game: 1.0
xGI per game: 0.04

Away0 games

Points: 0
Per game: 0.0
xGI per game: 0.00

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Expected	Difference
Goals	0.02	-0.02
Assists	0.02	-0.02
Goal involvements	0.04	-0.04

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.5	0	-1.5
2	1.5	1	-0.5
3	0.5	0	-0.5

Average miss 0.5 points over 1 graded gameweek, over-projected on average by 0.50. 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

No previous Premier League seasons on record for this player.

Your team

Checking your squad.

Fixtures ahead

GW5
Nott'm Forest A
Sat 19 Sept, 17:30 · defence 8th of 20
3
GW6
Newcastle H
Mon 12 Oct, 20:00 · defence 12th of 20
2
GW7
Spurs A
Mon 19 Oct, 20:00 · defence 10th of 20
3
GW8
Fulham H
Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 · defence 15th of 20
2
GW9
Sunderland H
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · defence 9th of 20
2
GW10
Everton A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · defence 5th of 20
3
GW11
Crystal Palace H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 20th of 20
3
GW12
Leeds A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · defence 4th of 20
3

Average difficulty over the next five: 2.4. 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 play163rd of 294 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 0.4; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.1; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -3.8; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

-2.2 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	0.0%	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 (1 so far).

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

391 out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

82%

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Wright, Torp, Grimes
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Grimes, Torp, Tchaouna
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Rudoni, Torp

Also at Coventry City

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MIDGrimes
£4.9m8 pts
MIDOnyeka
£4.9m6 pts
MIDYirenkyi
£4.9m6 pts
DEFPinnock
£4.5m6 pts

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From the analytics feed

The analytics feed has no extra tags for this player yet. Most of its tables start after Gameweek 3.

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