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RichardsDEF

Chris Richards · Crystal Palace · 26 years

Price
£5.0
Owned
0.8%
55th
Pts
128
83rd
Pts/£m
25.6
86th
Min %
83%
76th

Shot map

Every shot located, from 2025-26. Own goals are excluded — Understat files them against the defender at his own goal line, which would put 41 dots at the wrong end of the pitch.

Missed Shot · 0.04 xG · 11 m · Head · Set PieceBlocked Shot · 0.08 xG · 5 m · Head · From CornerBlocked Shot · 0.05 xG · 8 m · Head · From CornerBlocked Shot · 0.02 xG · 17 m · Right Foot · Open PlayMissed Shot · 0.04 xG · 10 m · Head · From CornerBlocked Shot · 0.05 xG · 8 m · Head · From CornerBlocked Shot · 0.14 xG · 7 m · Left Foot · From CornerMissed Shot · 0.06 xG · 7 m · Head · From CornerBlocked Shot · 0.05 xG · 14 m · Right Foot · Set PieceMissed Shot · 0.47 xG · 5 m · Head · From CornerBlocked Shot · 0.14 xG · 4 m · Head · From CornerMissed Shot · 0.03 xG · 13 m · Head · Set PieceSaved Shot · 0.09 xG · 7 m · Head · Set PieceMissed Shot · 0.09 xG · 4 m · Head · From CornerGoal · 0.43 xG · 3 m · Head · From Corner
Shots15
Goals1
Total xG1.78
xG per shot0.119
Inside the box100%
Mean distance8.2 m

Circle area is xG. Filled means it went in. Hover a shot for the detail — the goal is along the top edge.

Rates

Per 90 minutes over 2025-26. The bar under each figure is where it ranks among DEFs with a reliable Premier League sample — the raw rate on its own says very little, and the comparison is within position because a centre-back's xGI against forwards is meaningless.

Strongest on clean sheets (90th percentile among 111 DEFs) and defensive contribution (84th). Weakest on shot volume (37th).

Pts/90
4.08
56th
xGI/90
0.127
63rd
xG/90
0.077
73rd
xA/90
0.050
53rd
BPS/90
14.4
47th
DC/90
9.9
84th
xGC/90
1.31
61st
CS
11
90th
Sh/90
0.48
37th
Box/90
0.48
62nd
Big/90
0.06
60th
npxG/90
0.057
56th
Head xG/90
0.050
76th
xGB/90
0.24
39th
G−xG
-1.4

Next six

Coloured by the half of the fixture that matters for a DEF: the clean sheet.

GW1eve22% clean sheet · 30% to win
GW2MCI23% clean sheet · 21% to win
GW3ful22% clean sheet · 29% to win
GW4IPS37% clean sheet · 67% to win
GW5lee23% clean sheet · 31% to win
GW6NFO29% clean sheet · 41% to win

Career

Read from FPL's own history rather than the current-season aggregate: the two disagree for loan and transfer cases, and history is the one that is right. Expected stats are zero before 2022-23 because Opta data does not go back further.

SeasonMinsPtsPts/90GAxGxACSBonus
2025-262,8251284.08102.421.56115
2024-251,921683.19111.330.6072
2023-242,091622.67110.600.1744
2022-23443132.64000.710.0510

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