João Pedro Loureiro da Costa
Next: Sunderland away, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003
2026/27 season. Owned by 0.0% of managers. Transfers this gameweek: +36.
- Price
- £4.5m
- unchanged this season
- Points
- 4
- 0.8 per game
- Form
- 1.0
- points per game, last 30 days
- Minutes
- 68
- 0 starts
- xGI
- 0.42
- 0.56 per 90
- Bonus
- 0
- 18 BPS
- xMins next
- 18
- 8% to start, 19% for 60+
- xPoints next
- 1.0
- FPL's official expected points, GW6
Availability
no news
No news. Fit and available.
No availability changes recorded this season.
Profile against other defenders
per 90 minutes, this season
- Points per 90785.29
- Clean sheets per 90130.00
- xGC per 90 (lower is better)701.35
- xGI per 901000.56
- Defensive contributions per 90749.3
- Bonus per 90290.00
- Threat per 909823.8
- Start rate00%
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
5 appearances, 4 points
Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.
Where the points came from
4 points
- Appearances100%+5
- Cards-1
The categories add up to FPL's total of 4.
Form, minutes and splits
- xMins
- 18
- one fixture
- Starts
- 8%
- 88 minutes when he does
- Plays 60+
- 19%
- the xPoints threshold
- Appears
- 90%
- fit, as far as FPL knows
Costinha started 0 of the last 5 gameweeks (14, 6, 12 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (10%) with the xPoints model's (27%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.
Last five
- Adjusted
- 0.8
- points per gameweek
- Raw
- 0.8
- 0.0 adjusted against raw
- Opponents
- 0.93x
- their attack, 1.00 is average
- GW1AVL H · attack 18th1 ×0.78 1.0
- GW2CHE A · attack 4th0 ×0.98 0.0
- GW3LEE H · attack 11th1 ×1.02 1.0
- GW4COV A · attack 20th1 ×0.80 1.0
- GW5ARS H · attack 6th1 ×1.06 1.0
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.
- Points
- 3
- Per game
- 1.0
- xGI per game
- 0.14
- Points
- 1
- Per game
- 0.5
- xGI per game
- 0.00
Expected against actual
| Stat | Actual | Expected | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goals | 0 | 0.12 | -0.12 |
| Assists | 0 | 0.30 | -0.30 |
| Goal involvements | 0 | 0.42 | -0.42 |
| Goals conceded | 0 | 1.02 | -1.02 |
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): 1.0 expected points, FPL's official expected points, GW6.
| GW | Projected | Actual | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.7 | 1 | -0.7 |
| 2 | 1.7 | 0 | -1.7 |
| 3 | 0.5 | 1 | +0.5 |
| 4 | 0.7 | 1 | +0.3 |
| 5 | 0.8 | 1 | +0.2 |
Average miss 0.68 points over 5 graded gameweeks, over-projected on average by 0.28. How the feed is graded.
Similar players
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Previous seasons
No previous Premier League seasons on record for this player.
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