Kovačić
Man City · MID · £5.3m
World Cup Croatia 285 mins
1426.5, up 5.9 after an assist and 4 defensive actions against Ipswich Town (H)
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 No appearance recorded
- GW8 No appearance recorded
- GW7 Ipswich Town, home 5 pts 1426.5 Elo +5.9 rating change An assist1 bonus point4 defensive actions 31 BPS
- GW6 No appearance recorded
- GW5 No appearance recorded
- GW4 No appearance recorded
- GW3 No appearance recorded
- GW2 Crystal Palace, away 1 pts 1420.6 Elo -8.1 rating change 9 BPS
- GW1 Bournemouth, home 1 pts 1428.7 Elo -8.5 rating change 2 defensive actions 3 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 Kovačić 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 1.01 games, so most of this rating is still the starting assumption every player begins from, with about 9 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.
2026 World Cup load
Kovačić played 285 minutes for Croatia, short of the 450 minute line, so this rating is held a little less firmly than a player who had the whole summer off.
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.