Xhaka
Sunderland · MID · £5.5m
World Cup Switzerland 645 mins
1473.9, up 2.8 after 7 defensive actions against Fulham (H)
Z-Score: MID points per game are compared against a 2.59 average , spread 0.86. Measured against 2025-26, 48 players, because too few players have cleared the minutes bar this season.
Upcoming fixtures
2026/27 gameweek by gameweek
- 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 2 games, so most of this rating is still the starting assumption every player begins from, with about 17 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
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.