Players/Brentford/Defender

Nathan Collins

DEFBrentford25 years oldat the club since 2023

InjuredCalf injury - Unknown return date5 Sept

Next: Aston Villa away, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.9% of managers (99,111). Transfers this gameweek: -9611.

Top 10k: 0.0% · Top 100k: 0.7% GW5 estimates

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Price: £5.4m; -0.1m since season start
Points: 10; 3.3 per game
Form: 0.3; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 196; 3 starts
xGI: 0.56; 0.25 per 90
Bonus: 0; 39 BPS
xMins next: 0; 0% to start, 0% for 60+
xPoints next: 0.0; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

FPL updated 5 Sept

InjuredFPL updated 5 Sept

Calf injury - Unknown return date

5 SeptInjured
Calf injury - Unknown return date
5 SeptDowngraded
Calf injury - 25% chance of playing
5 SeptDoubt
Calf injury - 75% chance of playing

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
654.59
Clean sheets per 90
720.46
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
890.98
xGI per 90
890.25
Defensive contributions per 90
597.8
Bonus per 90
290.00
Threat per 90
9823.4
Start rate
960%

Percentile among 85 defenders 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

3 appearances, 10 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	CS	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	TOT H	W 3-0	90	6	1	21	0.34	0.04	0.38	0.57	5.5
2	LEE A	D 1-1	90	3	0	14	0.17	0.01	0.18	1.46	5.5
3	SUN H	D 1-1	16	1	0	4	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.10	5.5
4	BOU A	D 2-2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.5
5	CHE H	W 3-0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.4
Season			196	10	1	39	0.51	0.05	0.56	2.13

Where the points came from

10 points

Appearances45%+5
Clean sheets36%+4
Defensive contributions18%+2
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 10.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Out

xMins: 0; one fixture
Starts: 0%; 67 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 0%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 0%; FPL says 0% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Collins started 3 of the last 5 gameweeks (0, 0, 16 minutes most recently). FPL puts his chance of playing at 0%. The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (0%) with the xPoints model's (0%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

2.0

season 3.3, -1.3

Returns

33%

1 of 3 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

33%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

TOT H

LEE A

SUN H

BOU A

CHE H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 1.9; points per gameweek
Raw: 2.0; -0.1 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.98x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1TOT H · attack 19th6 ×0.81 5.2
GW2LEE A · attack 11th3 ×1.02 3.0
GW3SUN H · attack 10th1 ×1.16 1.0
GW4BOU A · attack 14th0 ×0.94 0.0
GW5CHE H · attack 4th0 ×0.98 0.0

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

3 of 5

60% start rate

Minutes per start

2 full games

60+ minutes

40%

of team games

From the bench

2 unused

Home2 games

Points: 7
Per game: 3.5
xGI per game: 0.19

Away1 game

Points: 3
Per game: 3.0
xGI per game: 0.18

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	0	0.51	-0.51
Assists	0	0.05	-0.05
Goal involvements	0	0.56	-0.56
Goals conceded	1	2.13	-1.13

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	2.5	6	+3.5
2	2.5	3	+0.5
3	4.5	1	-3.5
4	0.0	0	0.0
5	0.0	0	0.0

Average miss 2.5 points over 3 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 0.17. 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	129	3.91	2971	1	2	9	4.0	7	5.0 to 4.9
2024/25	127	3.34	3420	2	7	8	4.0	11	4.5 to 4.6
2023/24	84	2.85	2649	1	1	7	2.5	8	4.5 to 4.5
2022/23	49	2.44	1811	0	0	4	0.4	6	4.5 to 4.2
2021/22	55	2.96	1670	2	0	5	0.0	1	4.5 to 4.3

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Fixtures ahead

GW6
Aston Villa A
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · attack 18th of 20
3
GW7
Liverpool H
Sat 17 Oct, 15:00 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW8
Hull City A
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · attack 13th of 20
2
GW9
Nott'm Forest H
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · attack 17th of 20
3
GW10
Brighton A
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · attack 1st of 20
4
GW11
Everton H
Mon 23 Nov, 20:00 · attack 12th of 20
3
GW12
Man Utd A
Sat 28 Nov, 15:00 · attack 7th of 20
4
GW13
Arsenal H
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · attack 6th of 20
4

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 play173rd of 217 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 0.0; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.3; best cheap defenders
PAR: -4.3; over the replacement
Per £m: -4.80; 0.9m above the floor

-3.5 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	0.7%	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 (1 so far).

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

124

10K out

Ownership, 7 days

-0.1

percentage points

Towards a change

31%

falling

Tonight

31%

FPL's projection, falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Thiago, Schade, Jensen
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Jensen, Damsgaard, Janelt
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Lewis-Potter, Jensen, Damsgaard

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