Jean-Philippe Mateta

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Jean-Philippe Mateta is a forward for Crystal Palace, age 29, £6.5m. The Premier ranks him 97th overall by splitting Sleeper BPL 2025 (#79, 137.2 points) with the consensus of 2 other boards (89.0). Last year's Sleeper line ran 10 spots ahead of the expert/FPL mix. The third list keeps some of that production bump and refuses to throw the other boards out. That is the whole point of not just republishing The Pitch.

The 2025/26 Premier League line is 25 starts and 2210 minutes, 12 goals and 0 assists, 10 tackles and 58 CBI. Official FPL scored it at 114 points (3.6 per match) with 13 bonus. Sleeper's table turned the same counting stats into 137.2. Forwards get 9 a goal and 0 for a clean sheet, so this ranking is almost entirely the 12 finishes and 0 assists - not the defensive crumbs.

Underlying: 14.42 xG, 1.32 xA, 15.74 xGI. He finished -2.4 above expected goals. Set pieces: first-choice penalties for Crystal Palace. Role at Crystal Palace is the 2026/27 question sitting under the 2025/26 number. 25 starts is a starter. Anything under 25 starts is a rotation warning we already priced. Minutes are the skill that survives a finishing regression. The friendliest board is FPL xGI at 9; the coldest is FPL EP Next at 136.

Market: £6.5m, 9 boards on the file. Price is the FPL tax, not the rank. The Premier is who produced and who the boards still believe. FPL's own EP-next is 2.1. ICT 150.8.

Instruction: deep-league starter, shallow-league watchlist. The 2025/26 line got him onto the 400. A role change gets him off it. Watch minutes, not vibes. Nearby on The Premier: Harvey Barnes, Mikkel Damsgaard, William Saliba. Versus The Pitch (Sleeper-only #79), the hybrid moves him down to #97. That move is the third list doing its job.

He is 29, which on this board is neither a dart nor a warning label. Prime-age forwards get ranked on what they just did and whether Crystal Palace still gives them the ball. 2210 minutes says yes. The 2026/27 FPL price (£6.5m) is the app's guess at whether that continues. The Premier is the blend of that guess and the box score.

Strikers live and die on the 9-point goal. 12 of them is why Mateta is on this list at all. Assists (0) are extra. Clean sheets are nothing. That makes the ranking brittle in the nicest way: if the goals continue, he climbs; if Crystal Palace turns into a committee, he falls fast. xG at 14.42 is the early-warning system. Pay the shots, not last year's finishing weather.

How to use the file: The Pitch is the Sleeper-only 400 (he is #79 there). The Premier is the 50/50 with every other board we track. Attack, Midfield, Defence, and Keepers re-rank the same Sleeper table by position. BK Value on this page follows The Premier when you are on the hybrid calculator and The Pitch when you are on the Sleeper calculator. Same curve either way - 12,000 at 1.01.