Big Numbers

FPL Gameweek 36 preview: Key player and team stats

It’s a Double Gameweek 36 special of Big Numbers as we look at the key player and team statistics ahead of Fantasy Premier League (FPL).

These are a cherry-picked selection of Opta stats from our Premium Members’ Area, with the focus on the dozen clubs who play twice in the upcoming Gameweek.

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+9.20 expected goals prevented (xGP) by Jose Sa (£5.3m) in 2021/22, by a country mile the highest figure among Premier League goalkeepers. David de Gea (£5.1m) and Ederson (£6.1m) are next best on +1.70. The figure suggests that Wolverhampton Wanderers’ healthy clean sheet count has arrived more by luck than judgment, or rather the heroics of Sa between the sticks. As we discuss further down this article, those ‘xG’ figures do occasionally catch up with Wolves.

0.63 big chances created per 90 minutes by Trent Alexander-Arnold (£8.4m) in 2021/22, the best rate of any player with significant game-time – regardless of position – in the Premier League. Only two assists have arrived for the right-back since Gameweek 23 but the rate of big chance creation has stayed pretty constant at 0.60 in that time, so the statistics would suggest he’s been a tad unfortunate. Andrew Robertson (£7.3m) has outscored his teammate by 94 FPL points to 60 over this period but again, the expected goal involvement (xGI) figures imply that Alexander-Arnold has still been the more threatening:

19 starts made by Joel Matip (£5.2m) since his last Premier League benching. The Cameroonian stopper was absent in Gameweeks 21 and 28 but was ill on both occasions, so he last was among the substitutes all the way back in November. The centre-half’s breathers have instead been coming in the UEFA Champions League and FA Cup, and true to form, Jurgen Klopp again named Matip as a substitute in the midweek win in Villarreal.

14 shots in the box attempted by Marcos Alonso (£5.7m) over his last six appearances – that’s one more than Mohamed Salah (£13.3m) has registered over the same period. Alonso’s total of 15 chances created in his last half-dozen outings is also inferior to just two Premier League players, regardless of position. It’ll be rotation risk around the FA Cup final, rather than the eye-popping underlying stats, which will be the main downside to Alonso and other Chelsea assets in Gameweek 36.

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  1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Idiot on the pitch

    1. Steve McCroskey
      • 10 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I'm not Grealish's biggest fan but calling him an idiot is harsh

    2. Eh, just one more thing ...
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      If these knobs want attention … into the stocks in the town square the next day and bring your rotten fruit.

  2. Paqueta Rice
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    5-3 up on 90 minutes and you blow it… City have been ahead by 2 goals 4 times in this tie over the two legs

    1. El Presidente
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      But this one is terrible, the game is dead at 90'

  3. Konstaapeli
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Cut's deep of they lose this

  4. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Pen madrid

    1. Eh, just one more thing ...
      • 12 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      The drama … would just be added to with a miss

  5. Eh, just one more thing ...
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Penalty madrid

  6. Paqueta Rice
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Penalty Madrid!

  7. Paqueta Rice
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Panenka time

  8. COLLIN QUANER
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    HAHAHAHHAA

  9. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Diass

  10. nerd_is_the_werd
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Would be City's worst defeat of all time if they don't progress imo.
    Worse than Lyon, Monaco and Chelsea...

  11. Supersonic Marv'
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Penzema?

  12. Rainer
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    KARIMMMMM

  13. Paqueta Rice
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    What has happened 😆

  14. Warby84
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Get in!!

  15. Big boy Bowen
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    OMG they’re gonna bottle it

  16. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Benzema. What a player.

  17. Paqueta Rice
    • 3 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    That challenge from Dias was so stupid

  18. El Presidente
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Pep should be fired after the match. Unacceptable.

    1. JBG
      • 5 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I agree

    2. Nate(U)dog(ie)
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Why? City were managing the game perfectly, Madrid didn't have a shot on target until nearly the 90th min

    3. BUZZBOMB
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Fired or shot, El Presidente...?

    4. redsallstars
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      City bottle jobs again. Pep has blown it taking KDB off at 0-0

    5. Nanoelektronicar
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      I don't know if he should, but certainly debatable. He surpassed the Mancini in Pellegrini, he won the titles emphatically, but, on the other hand, he hasn't landed the big one.

  19. Piggs Boson
    • 12 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    City did a PSG.

    Madrid are hard to finish off...

  20. nerd_is_the_werd
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    KARRIIIMMMMMMMM BBEEENNNNNNNNNN---GOOOLLLAZZZOOOO------ZZZEEMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

    1. Steve The Spud
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Location: Doncaster, UK

  21. Arteta
    • 8 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    What a legendary tie.

    1. RogDog_jimmy
      • 3 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      both games have been remarkable.

  22. Duke Silver ☑
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Sterling imminent.

  23. Steve The Spud
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Nooooo

    Poor city 🙁

    1. Rainer
      • 7 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      My heart bleeds for them.

  24. Nomar
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Capping Benzema looked like a terrible decision 15 minutes ago.

  25. MIGHTY JOE
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 4 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Dias clearly not interested in playing a CL final

  26. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
    • 13 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    City relying on Grealish

    In other words city are out

  27. Konstaapeli
    • 7 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Unbeliveable Jeff!

  28. Mr. O'Connell
    • 11 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Is anyone actually surprised? Biggest bottle jobs going. City could play PSG in the final and neither of them would win it.

    1. BUZZBOMB
      • 9 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Hehe

    2. redsallstars
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 4 Years
      1 year, 10 months ago

      Pep has blown it again for sure. Taking KDB off madness

  29. Wild Card this!
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    Now they lose CL and PL lol Pep

  30. how now brown cow
    • 9 Years
    1 year, 10 months ago

    This kind of thing doesn't happen to liverpool, does it?