Xhaka
Sunderland · MID · £5.4m
World Cup Switzerland 645 mins
1461.5, up 0.3 after 16 defensive actions against Coventry City (A)
Z-Score: MID points per game are compared against a 2.98 average , spread 1.19. Measured against this season's regulars (137 of them), pulled toward the same measurement over 2025-26 (48 players).
Upcoming fixtures
2026/27 gameweek by gameweek
- GW9 Coventry City, away 4 pts 1461.5 Elo +0.3 rating change 16 defensive actions 19 BPS
- GW8 Leeds, home 3 pts 1461.2 Elo -0.9 rating change 9 defensive actions 17 BPS
- GW7 Bournemouth, away 2 pts 1462.1 Elo -2.2 rating change 10 defensive actions 18 BPS
- GW6 Brighton, home 2 pts 1464.4 Elo -2.3 rating change 8 defensive actions 12 BPS
- GW5 Man City, away 2 pts 1466.7 Elo -2.4 rating change 8 defensive actions 25 BPS
- GW4 Arsenal, home 1 pts 1469.0 Elo -3.7 rating change A yellow card11 defensive actions 19 BPS
- GW3 Brentford, away 3 pts 1472.7 Elo -1.2 rating change A yellow card15 defensive actions 12 BPS
- GW2 Fulham, home 6 pts 1473.9 Elo +2.8 rating change 3 bonus points7 defensive actions 29 BPS
- GW1 Ipswich Town, away 9 pts 1471.1 Elo +6.2 rating change An assist2 bonus points13 defensive actions 31 BPS
Season stats
Expected stats Expected goals and assists based on the quality of chances. Compares what a player 'should' score vs what they actually score.
Ownership
Percentage of FPL squads that have picked Xhaka right now.
Elo Glicko-style skill rating. It updates match by match and carries across seasons rather than resetting, so it is not a count of points scored.
It is built on 9 games, so most of this rating is still the starting assumption every player begins from, with about 47 per cent of it measured. Expect it to move a long way once matches are played.
FAPR Fixture-Adjusted Performance Rating. Adjusts PPG based on opponent difficulty faced.
PvE Performance vs Expected. Compares actual output to expected goals/assists. Shows if player is over or underperforming.
2026 World Cup load
Xhaka played 645 minutes for Switzerland, past the 450 minute line, so this rating is held the least firmly of any cohort carried into the season.
Every rating carries a second number for how firmly it is held, called the rating deviation. A bigger deviation means the rating is less settled, so it moves further and faster once matches are played. It is not a mark against the player.
None of this is scored into the Elo rating. A World Cup is played against different opposition under different conditions, so counting it as Premier League evidence would make the number harder to defend. What a summer changes is how settled a rating is, not what it says.