Players/Crystal Palace/Goalkeeper

Walter Benítez

BenitezGKPCrystal Palace33 years oldat the club since 2025

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Next: Nott'm Forest at home, Sun 11 Oct, 14:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.1% of managers (11,013). Transfers this gameweek: +324.

Top 10k: 0.0% · Top 100k: 0.0% GW5 estimates

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Price: £4.5m; unchanged this season
Points: 8; 4.0 per game
Form: 2.7; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 180; 2 starts
xGI: 0.00; 0.00 per 90
Bonus: 0; 29 BPS
xMins next: 51; 56% to start, 62% for 60+
xPoints next: 2.7; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

no news

Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other goalkeepers

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
654.00
Saves per 90
352.50
Clean sheets per 90
750.50
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
451.50
Bonus per 90
300.00
Start rate
040%

Percentile among 20 goalkeepers with at least 225 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

2 appearances, 8 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	CS	BPS	xGC	Price
1	EVE A	L 0-2	0	0	0	0	0.00	4.5
2	MCI H	L 1-4	0	0	0	0	0.00	4.5
3	FUL A	W 3-2	0	0	0	0	0.00	4.5
4	IPS H	L 2-3	90	2	0	3	1.68	4.5
5	LEE A	D 0-0	90	6	1	26	1.31	4.5
Season			180	8	1	29	2.99

Where the points came from

8 points

Appearances44%+4
Clean sheets44%+4
Saves11%+1
Goals conceded-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 8.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Rotation

xMins: 51; one fixture
Starts: 56%; 90 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 62%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 61%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Benitez started 2 of the last 5 gameweeks (90, 90, 0 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (55%) with the xPoints model's (69%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

1.6

season 4.0, -2.4

Returns

50%

1 of 2 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

50%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

EVE A

MCI H

FUL A

IPS H

LEE A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 1.6; points per gameweek
Raw: 1.6; +0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.04x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1EVE A · attack 12th0 ×0.96 0.0
GW2MCI H · attack 2nd0 ×1.22 0.0
GW3FUL A · attack 16th0 ×1.01 0.0
GW4IPS H · attack 9th2 ×1.01 2.0
GW5LEE A · attack 11th6 ×1.02 6.1

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

2 of 5

40% start rate

Minutes per start

2 full games

60+ minutes

40%

of team games

From the bench

3 unused

Home1 game

Points: 2
Per game: 2.0
xGI per game: 0.00

Away1 game

Points: 6
Per game: 6.0
xGI per game: 0.00

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	3	2.99	+0.01

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 (GW6): 2.7 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW6.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.9	0	-1.9
2	1.9	0	-1.9
3	0.0	0	0.0
4	0.0	2	+2.0
5	0.5	6	+5.5

Average miss 3.75 points over 2 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 3.75. 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	7	7.00	90	0	0	1	0.0	0	4.0 to 3.9

Your team

Checking your squad.

Fixtures ahead

GW6
Nott'm Forest H
Sun 11 Oct, 14:00 · attack 17th of 20
3
GW7
Brighton A
Sun 18 Oct, 14:00 · attack 1st of 20
4
GW8
Newcastle H
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · attack 5th of 20
3
GW9
Spurs A
Sat 31 Oct, 17:30 · attack 19th of 20
3
GW10
Liverpool H
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW11
Coventry City A
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · attack 20th of 20
2
GW12
Hull City H
Sun 29 Nov, 14:05 · attack 13th of 20
2
GW13
Chelsea A
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · attack 4th of 20
4

Average difficulty over the next five: 3.4. 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 play17th of 73 goalkeepers by PAR

Per gameweek: 2.4; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.3; best cheap goalkeepers
PAR: -1.9; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

-1.2 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%

GW5 estimates · 300 managers per cohort · Updated 3 Oct, 06:09 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 GW5 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 includes FPL’s finalized 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

716

392 out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

24%

falling

Tonight

24%

FPL's projection, falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Mateta, Sarr, Devenny
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Yeremy, Wharton, Kamada
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Yeremy, Devenny

Also at Crystal Palace

DEFMitchell
£4.5m24 pts
MIDKamada
£5.0m21 pts
DEFKhalaili
£5.0m19 pts
FWDStrand Larsen
£6.0m14 pts
MIDYeremy
£5.5m14 pts
DEFRichards
£4.9m14 pts

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