Matheus N.
Man City · DEF · £5.9m
World Cup Portugal 4 mins
1513.4, up 2.9 after 5 defensive actions against Liverpool (A)
Z-Score: DEF points per game are compared against a 3.14 average , spread 1.49. Measured against this season's regulars (94 of them), pulled toward the same measurement over 2025-26 (42 players).
Upcoming fixtures
2026/27 gameweek by gameweek
- GW6 Liverpool, away 6 pts 1513.4 Elo +2.9 rating change 5 defensive actions 21 BPS
- GW5 Sunderland, home 1 pts 1510.5 Elo -4.2 rating change 9 defensive actions
- GW4 Man Utd, away 9 pts 1514.6 Elo +5.2 rating change 1 bonus point11 defensive actions 34 BPS
- GW3 No appearance recorded
- GW2 No appearance recorded
- GW1 Bournemouth, home 1 pts 1509.4 Elo -4.2 rating change 1 defensive action 4 BPS
Season stats
Ownership
Percentage of FPL squads that have picked Matheus N. 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 3.37 games, so most of this rating is still the starting assumption every player begins from, with about 25 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
Matheus N. played 4 minutes for Portugal, 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.