Players/Brighton/Forward

Charalampos Kostoulas

FWDBrighton19 years oldat the club since 2025

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Next: Sunderland away, Sat 10 Oct, 15:003

2026/27 season. Owned by 4.3% of managers (473,529). Transfers this gameweek: +304952.

Top 10k: 0.3% · Top 100k: 0.0% GW5 estimates

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Price: £5.6m; +0.1m since season start
Points: 28; 5.6 per game
Form: 7.3; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 353; 4 starts
xGI: 1.41; 0.36 per 90
Bonus: 3; 105 BPS
xMins next: 70; 84% to start, 84% for 60+
xPoints next: 7.3; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

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Available

No news. Fit and available.

No availability changes recorded this season.

Profile against other forwards

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
797.14
xGI per 90
260.36
xG per 90
380.34
xA per 90
190.02
Threat per 90
6932.4
Bonus per 90
740.76
Start rate
3380%

Percentile among 21 forwards with at least 225 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

5 appearances, 28 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	G	A	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	Price
1	AVL H	W 4-0	26	1	0	0	0	-1	0.18	0.00	0.18	5.5
2	CHE A	L 3-4	79	5	0	1	0	17	0.17	0.02	0.19	5.5
3	LEE H	D 1-1	90	2	0	0	0	9	0.43	0.02	0.45	5.5
4	COV A	W 5-0	83	10	1	1	1	40	0.39	0.01	0.40	5.5
5	ARS H	W 3-0	75	10	1	1	2	40	0.18	0.01	0.19	5.5
Season			353	28	2	3	3	105	1.35	0.06	1.41

Where the points came from

28 points

Appearances31%+9
Goals28%+8
Assists31%+9
Bonus10%+3
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 28.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Likely starter

xMins: 70; one fixture
Starts: 84%; 81 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 84%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 93%; fit, as far as FPL knows

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Kostoulas started 4 of the last 5 gameweeks (75, 83, 90 minutes most recently). The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (83%) with the xPoints model's (85%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

5.6

season 5.6, 0.0

Returns

60%

3 of 5 games with 5+

Hauls

40%

2 with 10+

Blanks

40%

2 with 2 or fewer

Last five

AVL H

CHE A

LEE H

COV A

ARS H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 6.0; points per gameweek
Raw: 5.6; +0.4 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 1.05x; their defence, 1.00 is average

GW1AVL H · defence 15th1 ×0.91 1.0
GW2CHE A · defence 20th5 ×0.93 4.8
GW3LEE H · defence 1st2 ×1.11 2.0
GW4COV A · defence 16th10 ×0.94 9.5
GW5ARS H · defence 3rd10 ×1.36 12.9

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

4 of 5

80% start rate

Minutes per start

1 full games

60+ minutes

80%

of team games

From the bench

0 unused

Home3 games

Points: 13
Per game: 4.3
xGI per game: 0.27

Away2 games

Points: 15
Per game: 7.5
xGI per game: 0.30

Rotation: regular

Expected against actual

Running hotAnalytics feed: overperforming

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	2	1.35	+0.65
Assists	3	0.06	+2.94
Goal involvements	5	1.41	+3.59

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.8	1	-0.8
2	1.8	5	+3.2
3	3.0	2	-1.0
4	2.7	10	+7.3
5	4.5	10	+5.5

Average miss 3.56 points over 5 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 2.84. 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
2025/26	35	8.97	351	2	1	2.7	3	5.0 to 4.8

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Fixtures ahead

GW6
Sunderland A
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · defence 16th of 20
3
GW7
Crystal Palace H
Sun 18 Oct, 14:00 · defence 19th of 20
2
GW8
Liverpool A
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · defence 4th of 20
4
GW9
Man City A
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · defence 8th of 20
5
GW10
Brentford H
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · defence 5th of 20
3
GW11
Hull City A
Sun 22 Nov, 14:00 · defence 6th of 20
2
GW12
Newcastle H
Sun 29 Nov, 14:05 · defence 14th of 20
3
GW13
Bournemouth A
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · defence 11th of 20
3

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

Budget option3rd of 79 forwards by PAR

Per gameweek: 5.7; projected, next 5
Replacement: 3.3; best cheap forwards
PAR: +2.4; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

+2.5 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	0.3%	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 (1 so far).

This gameweek

+0.1m

price so far

Transfers in

325K

20K out

Ownership, 7 days

+0.4

percentage points

Towards a change

23%

rising

Tonight

23%

FPL's projection, rising

Ownership velocity: rising, tier differential.

Tonight's likely price changes

Set pieces

Penaltiesnot a taker
Club order: Groß, David, O'Riley
Corners and indirect free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Groß, De Cuyper, F.Kadıoğlu
Direct free kicksnot a taker
Club order: Groß, Ayari, Dunk

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From the analytics feed

Differential: ultra differential, score 67
Why: Hot form. Gaining momentum. Very low owned.
xG trend: overperforming
Trend: rising
Form trajectory: decelerating fast
Bonus: average bps

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