Players/Brighton/Defender

Lewis Dunk

DEFBrighton34 years oldat the club since 2009

75% chance of playingNeck injury - 75% chance of playing22 Sept

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

2026/27 season. Owned by 1.5% of managers (165,190). Transfers this gameweek: -2779.

Top 10k: 1.0% · Top 100k: 0.7% GW5 estimates

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Price: £4.5m; unchanged this season
Points: 22; 5.5 per game
Form: 5.7; points per game, last 30 days
Minutes: 360; 4 starts
xGI: 0.12; 0.03 per 90
Bonus: 1; 79 BPS
xMins next: 45; 49% to start, 44% for 60+
xPoints next: 4.3; FPL's official expected points, GW6

Availability

FPL updated 22 Sept

Doubtful75% chanceFPL updated 22 Sept

Neck injury - 75% chance of playing

22 SeptDoubt
Neck injury - 75% chance of playing

Profile against other defenders

per 90 minutes, this season

Points per 90
835.50
Clean sheets per 90
740.50
xGC per 90 (lower is better)
281.76
xGI per 90
130.03
Defensive contributions per 90
305.8
Bonus per 90
670.25
Threat per 90
172.8
Start rate
3280%

Percentile among 85 defenders with at least 225 minutes this season. 100 is the best.

2026/27 gameweek by gameweek

4 appearances, 22 points

Bars are points, the line is expected goal involvements.

GW	Opponent	Result	Min	Pts	G	CS	Bonus	BPS	xG	xA	xGI	xGC	Price
1	AVL H	W 4-0	90	6	0	1	0	24	0.00	0.04	0.04	0.29	4.5
2	CHE A	L 3-4	90	-1	0	0	0	-4	0.00	0.01	0.01	2.93	4.5
3	LEE H	D 1-1	90	5	0	0	1	20	0.00	0.01	0.01	2.49	4.5
4	COV A	W 5-0	90	12	1	1	0	39	0.03	0.03	0.06	1.33	4.5
5	ARS H	W 3-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	4.5
Season			360	22	1	2	1	79	0.03	0.09	0.12	7.04

Where the points came from

22 points

Appearances32%+8
Goals24%+6
Clean sheets32%+8
Bonus4%+1
Defensive contributions8%+2
Goals conceded-2
Cards-1

The categories add up to FPL's total of 22.

Form, minutes and splits

Expected minutes, Gameweek 6Likely starter

xMins: 45; one fixture
Starts: 49%; 90 minutes when he does
Plays 60+: 44%; the xPoints threshold
Appears: 52%; FPL says 75% fit

GW1

GW2

GW3

GW4

GW5

Dunk started 4 of the last 5 gameweeks (0, 90, 90 minutes most recently). FPL puts his chance of playing at 75%. The chance of sixty minutes blends the site's own estimate (48%) with the xPoints model's (41%). Recent weeks count most; a solid bar is a start, a pale one is minutes from the bench.

Last 5 average

4.4

season 5.5, -1.1

Returns

75%

3 of 4 games with 5+

Hauls

25%

1 with 10+

Blanks

25%

1 with 2 or fewer

Last five

AVL H

-1

CHE A

LEE H

COV A

ARS H

Fixture-adjusted form, last 5 gameweeksFaced average opponents

Adjusted: 3.9; points per gameweek
Raw: 4.4; -0.6 adjusted against raw
Opponents: 0.93x; their attack, 1.00 is average

GW1AVL H · attack 18th6 ×0.78 5.1
GW2CHE A · attack 4th-1 ×0.98 -0.9
GW3LEE H · attack 11th5 ×1.02 5.1
GW4COV A · attack 20th12 ×0.80 10.0
GW5ARS H · attack 6th0 ×1.06 0.0

Softer than it looks: the points came against weak opponents. 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

4 of 5

80% start rate

Minutes per start

4 full games

60+ minutes

80%

of team games

From the bench

1 unused

Home2 games

Points: 11
Per game: 5.5
xGI per game: 0.03

Away2 games

Points: 11
Per game: 5.5
xGI per game: 0.03

Expected against actual

On track

Stat	Actual	Expected	Difference
Goals	1	0.03	+0.97
Assists	0	0.09	-0.09
Goal involvements	1	0.12	+0.88
Goals conceded	5	7.04	-2.04

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

GW	Projected	Actual	Difference
1	1.7	6	+4.3
2	1.7	-1	-2.7
3	2.5	5	+2.5
4	3.3	12	+8.7
5	5.5	0	-5.5

Average miss 4.55 points over 4 graded gameweeks, under-projected on average by 3.20. 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	100	3.17	2837	1	1	7	2.4	5	4.5 to 4.5
2024/25	44	1.90	2081	0	1	4	1.8	0	4.5 to 4.2
2023/24	89	2.79	2869	3	1	5	5.4	11	5.0 to 5.2
2022/23	112	3.11	3240	1	1	12	2.6	7	4.5 to 4.8
2021/22	92	3.22	2573	1	0	10	0.0	7	5.0 to 4.8
2020/21	130	3.99	2932	5	0	11	0.0	17	5.0 to 4.8
2019/20	128	3.57	3230	3	3	9	0.0	17	4.5 to 4.8
2018/19	91	2.60	3151	2	1	7	0.0	6	4.5 to 4.4
2017/18	97	2.55	3420	1	1	10	0.0	7	4.5 to 4.5

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Fixtures ahead

GW6
Sunderland A
Sat 10 Oct, 15:00 · attack 10th of 20
3
GW7
Crystal Palace H
Sun 18 Oct, 14:00 · attack 15th of 20
2
GW8
Liverpool A
Sun 25 Oct, 14:00 · attack 8th of 20
4
GW9
Man City A
Sat 31 Oct, 15:00 · attack 2nd of 20
5
GW10
Brentford H
Sun 8 Nov, 14:00 · attack 3rd of 20
3
GW11
Hull City A
Sun 22 Nov, 14:00 · attack 13th of 20
2
GW12
Newcastle H
Sun 29 Nov, 14:05 · attack 5th of 20
3
GW13
Bournemouth A
Wed 2 Dec, 20:00 · attack 14th 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

Not expected to play24th of 217 defenders by PAR

Per gameweek: 4.3; projected, next 5
Replacement: 4.3; best cheap defenders
PAR: +0.0; over the replacement
Per £m: floor; at or below the floor price

+0.9 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	1.0%	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.

This gameweek

no change

price so far

Transfers in

10K out

Ownership, 7 days

0.0

percentage points

Towards a change

21%

rising

Tonight

21%

FPL's projection, rising

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 kicks3rd choice
Club order: Groß, Ayari, Dunk

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