Malick Thiaw — FPL stats
Newcastle · defender · £4.9m · owned by 4.7% of managers
What Thiaw's numbers actually say
He scored 4 goals from chances worth about 4.8 last season — near enough what the chances were worth, so there is nothing here waiting to correct in either direction.
33 starts in 38 gameweeks, and 32 of his 35 appearances lasted an hour or more. 2,963 minutes last season. Minutes are the first thing a projection is built on, and his are not in question.
5 clean sheets last season from 35 appearances, with his team expected to concede about 1.49 a game while he was on the pitch. A defender's week is mostly clean sheet or no clean sheet, which is why two defenders on the same average can feel completely different to own.
He hit the defensive-contribution mark in 12 of his 33 starts — 36% of the time. That is the newest way of scoring in FPL, worth two points, and it is the reason cheap centre-backs who tackle and block are now worth owning.
10 points over the final six gameweeks — 1.7 a week against 3.3 across the whole season. Worth knowing before you price him off his season total.
Against the other defenders
Ranked among the defenders with enough football behind them to compare fairly — the same 900-minute bar that decides who gets a page here.
Gameweek by gameweek
126 points across 38 gameweeks: 3 scores of ten or more, 3 weeks with a goal or an assist, and 21 weeks of two points or fewer. His best was 17 points at home to CRY in gameweek 20.
One bar per gameweek. Green is a ten-plus haul, purple is a six-plus return, grey is a quiet week.
| GW | Opponent | Mins | Pts | G | A | xG | xA | CS | Conc | Bonus | BPS | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AVL (A) | 0 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | £5.0m |
| 2 | LIV (H) | 9 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | -1 | £5.0m |
| 3 | LEE (A) | 0 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | £5.0m |
| 4 | WOL (H) | 0 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | £5.0m |
| 5 | BOU (A) | 83 | 7 | · | · | · | 0.02 | 1 | · | · | 22 | £4.9m |
| 6 | ARS (H) | 90 | 3 | · | · | 0.07 | · | · | 2 | · | 7 | £4.9m |
| 7 | NFO (H) | 90 | 8 | · | · | 0.58 | 0.01 | 1 | · | 2 | 32 | £4.9m |
| 8 | BHA (A) | 90 | 1 | · | · | 0.05 | 0.01 | · | 2 | · | 6 | £4.9m |
| 9 | FUL (H) | 90 | 2 | · | · | 0.04 | 0.24 | · | 1 | · | 14 | £4.9m |
| 10 | WHU (A) | 90 | 1 | · | · | · | 0.04 | · | 3 | · | 5 | £4.9m |
| 11 | BRE (A) | 90 | 3 | · | · | 0.04 | 0.01 | · | 3 | · | 4 | £4.9m |
| 12 | MCI (H) | 90 | 4 | · | · | · | · | · | 1 | · | 10 | £4.9m |
| 13 | EVE (A) | 90 | 16 | 2 | · | 0.39 | 0.01 | · | 1 | 2 | 40 | £4.9m |
| 14 | TOT (H) | 90 | 1 | · | · | 0.05 | 0.01 | · | 2 | · | 7 | £4.9m |
| 15 | BUR (H) | 90 | 2 | · | · | · | 0.01 | · | 1 | · | 14 | £5.0m |
| 16 | SUN (A) | 90 | 3 | · | · | · | 0.03 | · | 1 | · | 13 | £5.0m |
| 17 | CHE (H) | 90 | 1 | · | · | · | · | · | 2 | · | 9 | £5.0m |
| 18 | MUN (A) | 90 | 2 | · | · | 0.03 | 0.02 | · | 1 | · | 16 | £5.0m |
| 19 | BUR (A) | 90 | 4 | · | · | 0.20 | 0.01 | · | 1 | · | 14 | £5.0m |
| 20 | CRY (H) | 90 | 17 | 1 | · | 0.46 | 0.01 | 1 | · | 3 | 50 | £5.0m |
| 21 | LEE (H) | 45 | -1 | · | · | · | · | · | 2 | · | -12 | £5.1m |
| 22 | WOL (A) | 90 | 9 | · | · | · | 0.01 | 1 | · | 3 | 30 | £5.1m |
| 23 | AVL (H) | 90 | 1 | · | · | · | 0.02 | · | 2 | · | 8 | £5.1m |
| 24 | LIV (A) | 90 | 0 | · | · | 0.06 | 0.01 | · | 4 | · | -5 | £5.1m |
| 25 | BRE (H) | 90 | 1 | · | · | 0.19 | 0.07 | · | 3 | · | 3 | £5.1m |
| 26 | TOT (A) | 90 | 11 | 1 | · | 0.49 | 0.19 | · | 1 | 1 | 31 | £5.1m |
| 27 | MCI (A) | 90 | 3 | · | · | 0.01 | · | · | 2 | · | 15 | £5.0m |
| 28 | EVE (H) | 90 | 1 | · | · | 0.33 | 0.13 | · | 3 | · | 2 | £5.0m |
| 29 | MUN (H) | 90 | 4 | · | · | 0.59 | 0.01 | · | 1 | · | 5 | £5.0m |
| 30 | CHE (A) | 90 | 9 | · | · | 0.16 | 0.01 | 1 | · | 1 | 25 | £5.0m |
| 31 | SUN (H) | 36 | 0 | · | · | · | · | · | 2 | · | · | £5.1m |
| 32 | CRY (A) | 90 | 2 | · | · | · | 0.02 | · | 2 | · | 7 | £5.1m |
| 33 | BOU (H) | 90 | 1 | · | · | 0.24 | 0.01 | · | 2 | · | 11 | £5.1m |
| 34 | ARS (A) | 90 | 2 | · | · | · | 0.02 | · | 1 | · | 11 | £5.1m |
| 35 | BHA (H) | 90 | 2 | · | · | 0.82 | · | · | 1 | · | 9 | £5.0m |
| 36 | NFO (A) | 90 | 2 | · | · | · | 0.01 | · | 1 | · | 10 | £4.9m |
| 37 | WHU (H) | 90 | 2 | · | · | · | 0.01 | · | 1 | · | 14 | £4.9m |
| 38 | FUL (A) | 90 | 1 | · | · | · | 0.01 | · | 2 | · | 10 | £4.9m |
Home and away
A real gap — he was worth about 1.7 points a game more away. Worth a thought when his run of fixtures is lopsided, but nineteen games either way is still a small sample.
The fixtures ahead
Coloured by official FPL fixture difficulty — green is kind, red is not. The full grid for every club is on fixture difficulty.
What Bawler projects
The projection prices every way a defender scores — appearing, goals, assists, clean sheets, saves, defensive contribution, bonus and cards — from his minutes and his underlying numbers. Before the season starts it is fixture-neutral: what he would be worth in an average gameweek, not against a particular opponent. How the model performed across a full season, gameweek by gameweek, is published on predicted points.
Price
He started 2025/26 at £5.0m, peaked at £5.1m and finished at £4.9m — a move of −0.1m. FPL prices follow transfers in and out, so this is a record of what the game as a whole made of him. Tonight's risers and fallers are on price changes.
Also at Newcastle
Every figure on this page is computed from the Official FPL API's per-gameweek histories for Thiaw — the same rows the game scores — and the totals are checked against FPL's own published season aggregates on every build. Expected goals, expected assists and expected goals conceded are FPL's published values. The full sortable database is on player stats.
FPL is a free fantasy game — this is points analytics, not betting advice.
Updated 13 August 2026, 15:45 UK · Source: Official FPL API