Players/Coventry City/Midfielder

Matt Grimes

MIDCoventry City31 years oldat the club since 2025

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Next: Newcastle at home, Mon 12 Oct, 20:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.1% of managers (11,017). Transfers this gameweek: -714.

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

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Price: £4.9m; -0.1m since season start
Points: 11; 2.2 per game
Form: 2.3; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 443; 5 starts
xGI: 0.25; 0.05 per 90
Bonus: 0; 62 BPS
xMins next: 81; 92% to start, 89% for 60+
xPoints next: 2.3; FPL's official expected points, GW6

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
62.23
xGI per 90
70.05
xG per 90
130.02
xA per 90
120.03
Defensive contributions per 90
557.7
Creativity per 90
99.8
Threat per 90
61.2
Bonus per 90
280.00
Start rate
74100%

Percentile among 96 midfielders with at least 225 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

5 appearances, 11 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	90	2	14	0.00	0.01	0.01	5.0
2	HUL H	L 0-1	90	2	14	0.01	0.04	0.05	5.0
3	MCI A	L 0-1	90	2	8	0.04	0.00	0.04	5.0
4	BHA H	L 0-5	83	2	9	0.05	0.02	0.07	5.0
5	NFO A	W 1-0	90	3	17	0.02	0.06	0.08	4.9
Season			443	11	62	0.12	0.13	0.25

Where the points came from

11 points

Appearances91%+10
Clean sheets9%+1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 11.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Nailed

xMins: 81; one fixture
Starts: 92%; 87 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 89%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 95%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Grimes started 5 of the last 5 gameweeks (90, 83, 90 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (91%) with the xPoints model's (87%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

2.2

season 2.2, 0.0

Returns

0 of 5 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

80%

4 with 2 or fewer

Last five

ARS A

HUL H

MCI A

BHA H

NFO A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 2.3; points per gameweek
Raw: 2.2; +0.1 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.08x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1ARS A · defence 3rd2 ×1.36 2.0
GW2HUL H · defence 6th2 ×1.03 2.0
GW3MCI A · defence 8th2 ×0.86 2.0
GW4BHA H · defence 7th2 ×0.94 2.0
GW5NFO A · defence 9th3 ×1.23 3.2

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

5 of 5

100% start rate

Minutes per start

4 full games

60+ minutes

100%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home2 games

Points: 4
Per game: 2.0
xGI per game: 0.06

Away3 games

Points: 7
Per game: 2.3
xGI per game: 0.04

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Expected	Difference
Goals	0.12	-0.12
Assists	0.13	-0.13
Goal involvements	0.25	-0.25

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): 2.3 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW6.

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.5	2	+0.5
2	1.5	2	+0.5
3	2.0	2	0.0
4	2.0	2	0.0
5	2.0	3	+1.0

Average miss 0.4 points over 5 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 0.40. 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	xGI	Bonus	Price
2015/16	3	3.00	90	0	0	0.0	0	4.5 to 4.2
2014/15	3	6.14	44	0	0	0.0	0	5.0 to 4.9

Your team

Checking your squad.

Fixtures ahead

GW6
Newcastle H
Mon 12 Oct, 20:00 · defence 14th of 20
3
GW7
Spurs A
Mon 19 Oct, 20:00 · defence 12th of 20
3
GW8
Fulham H
Sat 24 Oct, 15:00 · defence 13th of 20
2
GW9
Sunderland H
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · defence 16th of 20
3
GW10
Everton A
Fri 6 Nov, 20:00 · defence 2nd of 20
3
GW11
Crystal Palace H
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 19th of 20
2
GW12
Leeds A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · defence 1st of 20
3
GW13
Ipswich Town H
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · defence 18th of 20
2

Average difficulty over the next five: 2.8. 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

Budget option69th of 298 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 2.5; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.5; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -2.0; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

-0.4 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 4 Oct, 06:14 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 (1 so far).

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

195

909 out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

31%

falling

Tonight

31%

FPL's projection, falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penalties3rd choice
Club order: Wright, Torp, Grimes
Corners and indirect free kicks1st choice
Club order: Grimes, Torp, Tchaouna
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Rudoni, Torp

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