Players/Sunderland/Midfielder

Malick Fofana

MIDSunderland21 years oldat the club since 2026

Available

Next: Brighton at home, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 0.0% of managers. Transfers this gameweek: +32.

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

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Price: £5.5m; unchanged this season
Points: 3; 1.0 per game
Form: 1.0; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 60; 0 starts
xGI: 0.40; 0.60 per 90
Bonus: 0; 11 BPS
xMins next: 25; 10% to start, 27% for 60+
xPoints next: 1.0; 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
604.50
xGI per 90
910.60
xG per 90
980.58
xA per 90
70.02
Defensive contributions per 90
84.5
Creativity per 90
23.2
Threat per 90
10066.0
Bonus per 90
280.00
Start rate
00%

Percentile among 96 midfielders 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, 3 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
3	BRE A	D 1-1	16	1	3	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.5
4	ARS H	L 0-2	14	1	2	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.5
5	MCI A	L 3-5	30	1	6	0.39	0.01	0.40	5.5
Season			60	3	11	0.39	0.01	0.40

Where the points came from

3 points

Appearances100%+3

The categories add up to FPL's total of 3.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Bench

xMins: 25; one fixture
Starts: 10%; 82 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 27%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 88%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW3

GW4

GW5

Fofana started 0 of the last 3 gameweeks (30, 14, 16 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (11%) with the xPoints model's (42%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

1.0

season 1.0, 0.0

Returns

0 of 3 games with 5+

Hauls

0 with 10+

Blanks

100%

3 with 2 or fewer

Last five

BRE A

ARS H

MCI A

Fixture-adjusted form, last 3 gameweeksFaced strong opponents

Adjusted: 1.0; points per gameweek
Raw: 1.0; 0.0 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.11x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW3BRE A · defence 5th1 ×1.12 1.0
GW4ARS H · defence 3rd1 ×1.36 1.0
GW5MCI A · defence 8th1 ×0.86 1.0

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

0 of 5

0% start rate

Minutes per start

0 full games

60+ minutes

of team games

From the bench

2 unused

Home1 game

Points: 1
Per game: 1.0
xGI per game: 0.00

Away2 games

Points: 2
Per game: 1.0
xGI per game: 0.20

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Expected	Difference
Goals	0.39	-0.39
Assists	0.01	-0.01
Goal involvements	0.40	-0.40

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
3	2.0	1	-1.0
4	2.0	1	-1.0
5	1.0	1	0.0

Average miss 0.67 points over 3 graded gameweeks, over-projected on average by 0.67. 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

No previous Premier League seasons on record for this player.

Your team

Checking your squad.

Fixtures ahead

GW6
Brighton H
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · defence 7th of 20
3
GW7
Bournemouth A
Sun 18 Oct, 14:00 · defence 11th of 20
3
GW8
Leeds H
Sun 25 Oct, 16:30 · defence 1st of 20
3
GW9
Coventry City A
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · defence 16th of 20
2
GW10
Chelsea H
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · defence 20th of 20
4
GW11
Aston Villa A
Sat 21 Nov, 15:00 · defence 15th of 20
3
GW12
Spurs H
Sun 29 Nov, 14:05 · defence 12th of 20
2
GW13
Liverpool A
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · defence 4th of 20
4

Average difficulty over the next five: 3. 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 play127th of 298 midfielders by PAR

Per gameweek: 0.9; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.5; best cheap midfielders
PAR: -3.6; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

-2.3 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 2 Sept: blue is price, grey is ownership, dots are the days the price moved.

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

341

309 out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

12%

falling

Tonight

12%

FPL's projection, falling

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Diarra, E.Le Fée
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: E.Le Fée, Xhaka, Hume
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: N.Angulo, Xhaka, E.Le Fée

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£5.0m16 pts
FWDIsidor
£5.5m15 pts
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£4.9m14 pts

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From the analytics feed

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