Players/Chelsea/Defender

Marco Palestra

DEFChelsea21 years oldat the club since 2026

InjuredThigh injury - Expected back 18 Sep24 Aug

Next: Brentford away, Fri 18 Sept, 20:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.8% of managers (86,266). Transfers this gameweek: -9310.

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

Compare

Price: £5.3m; -0.2m since season start
Points: 0; 0.0 per game
Form: 0.0; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 0; 0 starts
xGI: 0.00; 0.00 per 90
Bonus: 0; 0 BPS
xMins next: 0; 0% to start, 0% for 60+
xPoints next: 0.0; FPL's official expected points, GW5

Availability

FPL updated 24 Aug

InjuredExpected back 18 SeptFPL updated 24 Aug

Thigh injury - Expected back 18 Sep

24 AugNews updated
Thigh injury - Expected back 18 Sep
24 AugInjured
Unspecified injury - Expected back 18 Sep
24 AugDoubt
Unspecified injury - 75% chance of playing

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
00.00
Clean sheets per 90
180.00
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
1000.00
xGI per 90
10.00
Defensive contributions per 90
00.0
Bonus per 90
330.00
Threat per 90
30.0
Start rate
00%

Percentile among 98 defenders 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

0 appearances, 0 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Price
1	FUL A	W 3-2	5.5
2	BHA H	W 4-3	5.5
3	ARS A	L 1-2	5.4
4	HUL H	D 2-2	5.4
Season

Where the points came from

0 points

No points yet this season.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 5Out

xMins: 0; one fixture
Starts: 0%; 88 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 0%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 0%; FPL says 0% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

Palestra started 0 of the last 3 gameweeks (0, 0, 0 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.

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.00	0.00
Assists	0	0.00	0.00
Goal involvements	0	0.00	0.00
Goals conceded	0	0.00	0.00

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	Difference
1	2.5	-2.5
2	1.9	-1.9
3	0.0	0.0

Average miss points over 0 graded gameweeks. 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
Brentford A
Fri 18 Sept, 20:00 · attack 6th of 20
3
GW6
Bournemouth H
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · attack 10th of 20
3
GW7
Everton A
Sat 17 Oct, 12:30 · attack 12th of 20
3
GW8
Spurs H
Sat 24 Oct, 17:30 · attack 20th of 20
3
GW9
Man Utd H
Sat 31 Oct, 12:30 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW10
Sunderland A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · attack 17th of 20
3
GW11
Leeds H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 16th of 20
2
GW12
Nott'm Forest A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 14th 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 expected to play179th of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 0.0; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.7; best cheap defenders
PAR: -4.7; over the replacement
Per £m: -5.81; 0.8m above the floor

-3.1 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%	0.0%

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

9K out

Ownership, 7 days

-0.3

percentage points

Towards a change

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Palmer, Estêvão
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: James, Neto, Rogers
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: James, Palmer, Neto

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