Players/Liverpool/Defender

Virgil van Dijk

VirgilDEFLiverpool35 years oldat the club since 2018

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Next: Bournemouth away, Sun 20 Sept, 14:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 16.8% of managers (1,811,238). Transfers this gameweek: -13606.

Top 10k: 4.3% · Top 100k: 4.7% GW4 estimates

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Price: £6.5m; unchanged this season
Points: 17; 4.2 per game
Form: 4.2; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 360; 4 starts
xGI: 0.32; 0.08 per 90
Bonus: 0; 70 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
644.25
Clean sheets per 90
740.50
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
651.33
xGI per 90
450.08
Defensive contributions per 90
698.8
Bonus per 90
330.00
Threat per 90
636.5
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, 17 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	CS	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	NEW A	D 2-2	90	2	0	8	0.25	0.01	0.26	1.58	6.5
2	NFO H	D 2-2	90	1	0	5	0.00	0.03	0.03	2.30	6.5
3	IPS A	W 2-0	90	6	1	32	0.00	0.02	0.02	0.75	6.5
4	FUL H	D 0-0	90	8	1	25	0.00	0.01	0.01	0.70	6.5
Season			360	17	2	70	0.25	0.07	0.32	5.33

Where the points came from

17 points

Appearances40%+8
Clean sheets40%+8
Defensive contributions20%+4
Goals conceded-2
Cards-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

Virgil 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

NEW A

NFO H

IPS A

FUL H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 4 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 4.3; points per gameweek
Raw: 4.3; +0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.98x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1NEW A · attack 5th2 ×0.86 2.0
GW2NFO H · attack 14th1 ×1.03 1.0
GW3IPS A · attack 7th6 ×1.03 6.1
GW4FUL H · attack 15th8 ×1.01 8.1

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

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: 0.02

Away2 games

Points: 8
Per game: 4.0
xGI per game: 0.14

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.25	-0.25
Assists	0	0.07	-0.07
Goal involvements	0	0.32	-0.32
Goals conceded	4	5.33	-1.33

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	3.1	2	-1.1
2	3.1	1	-2.1
3	1.5	6	+4.5

Average miss 2.57 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 0.43. 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	175	4.61	3420	6	1	10	5.2	10	6.0 to 6.1
2024/25	143	3.86	3330	3	1	14	3.2	8	6.0 to 6.7
2023/24	117	3.31	3177	2	2	9	3.9	8	6.0 to 6.6
2022/23	127	4.03	2835	3	1	11	3.6	13	6.5 to 6.6
2021/22	183	5.38	3060	3	3	21	0.0	13	6.5 to 6.8
2020/21	15	3.65	370	1	0	1	0.0	1	6.5 to 6.2
2019/20	178	4.68	3420	5	2	15	0.0	14	6.5 to 6.5
2018/19	208	5.53	3384	4	4	20	0.0	22	6.0 to 6.7
2017/18	78	3.12	2253	0	0	8	0.0	5	5.5 to 5.7
2016/17	75	3.64	1852	1	0	7	0.0	14	5.5 to 5.6
2015/16	130	3.82	3060	3	0	10	0.0	16	5.5 to 5.6

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Fixtures ahead

GW5
Bournemouth A
Sun 20 Sept, 14:00 · attack 10th of 20
3
GW6
Man City H
Sun 11 Oct, 16:30 · attack 3rd of 20
4
GW7
Brentford A
Sat 17 Oct, 15:00 · attack 6th of 20
3
GW8
Brighton H
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · attack 1st of 20
2
GW9
Arsenal H
Sun 1 Nov, 16:30 · attack 4th of 20
4
GW10
Crystal Palace A
Sat 7 Nov, 15:00 · attack 11th of 20
3
GW11
Man Utd H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW12
Everton A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 12th 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 premium17th of 215 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 4.2; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.6; best cheap defenders
PAR: -0.4; over the replacement
Per £m: -0.22; 2.0m above the floor

+0.2 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	4.3%	4.3%
Top 100k	4.7%	4.7%

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

15K

29K out

Ownership, 7 days

-0.5

percentage points

Towards a change

41%

falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Szoboszlai, Isak, Gakpo
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Szoboszlai, Gakpo, Wirtz
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Szoboszlai, Wirtz

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