GW4 Player Performance Review: Bogle Leads FPL, Gross’s Hat-Trick of Involvements, Chelsea’s Habit

Gameweek 4 didn’t produce a single standout haul so much as a set of systems clicking into place at once. A promoted side’s wing-back is FPL’s leading scorer through four matches, Brighton put five past Coventry with one midfielder directly involved in three of them, and Chelsea’s front three keep finding the net even when the defence behind them can’t stop conceding. Here’s what the underlying numbers say about which of it repeats.

A big score tells you what happened. Shots, big chances and xG tell you whether it’s likely to happen again.

Jayden Bogle: FPL’s Leading Scorer, and It Isn’t a Fluke

Bogle’s back-to-back double-digit hauls have made him the highest-scoring player in the game through four gameweeks, a remarkable line for a £4.5m right back. This week’s return came from clean-sheet points, bonus, and a direct hand in the play for Calvert-Lewin’s opener rather than a goal of his own, but the underlying pattern is real: he had more penalty-box touches and shots against Newcastle than in his previous three matches combined. Daniel Farke has built a system that sends him forward on repeat, and a settled, unrotated Leeds side means that role isn’t going anywhere.

Pascal Gross: Brighton’s Set-Piece Puppet Master

A goal and two assists against Coventry is the kind of afternoon that looks like a one-off until the underlying role is examined. Gross has been Brighton’s primary corner and free-kick delivery all season, and Coventry’s static, deep defending gave him space to pick out runners repeatedly rather than just once. The concern for repeatability is the opponent: few teams will defend as passively as a winless Coventry side did. Still, the delivery quality itself is a season-long trait, not a one-match spike.

Chelsea’s Goal-Every-Game Habit

Chelsea have now opened the scoring in all four of their league matches this season, the first time they’ve managed that since 2021-22, and Joao Pedro’s equaliser against Hull kept him tied for the league lead in combined goals and assists. Morgan Rogers matched a mark last hit by Eden Hazard, scoring or assisting in each of Chelsea’s first four league games. The catch is well known by now: the same match saw Chelsea concede twice at home to a promoted side, extending a run in which they’ve shipped goals in every single match this season. The attack is one of the most reliable sources of returns in the division. The defence behind it is not, and that split matters more for captaincy than for who to own.

Ownership Shift Ahead of Gameweek 5

Price changes over the past week point to where the market is moving. Morgan Gibbs-White, Pascal Gross, Joao Pedro, Morgan Rogers and James Tarkowski have all risen on the back of sustained transfers in, while Cristhian Mosquera and a cluster of Manchester United and Brighton fringe assets have fallen as owners cut squad players they can no longer justify carrying. The clearest signal: nobody is fading Chelsea’s front three or Leeds’ settled XI despite the defensive question marks either side of the pitch, which tells you where the market currently thinks the safest returns are.

One big score is a headline. Two or three in a row, backed by the shot and chance numbers, is a trend worth building a squad around.