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Nottingham Forest

Nicolò Savona

Defender23 yrs
Injured
Non-penalty xG per 90
0.112 non-penalty goals from 5 shots
Expected assists per 90
0.050 assists, 6 key passes
Finishing
+0.91goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.132% of Nottingham Forest’s build-up value

Nicolò Savona ranks 225th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 12.0m on average.

Injured. Knee injury - Unknown return date. The rates below describe what he did, not what he is about to do. Club status as of 17 Oct 2026.

Against their position

119 defenders

Shooting

per 90
Goals
0.17
Non-penalty goals
0.17
xG
0.11
Non-penalty xG
0.11
Shots
0.43
npxG per shot
–not ranked
Shot distance
–not ranked
Set-piece share
–not ranked
Goals against xG
+0.8

2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Creating

per 90
Assists
0.00
Expected assists
0.05
Key passes
0.52
npxG + xA
0.16
xG chain
0.26
xG build-up
0.13
Assists against xA
-0.6

On the ball

per 90

6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Defending

per 90
Recoveries
2.37
Defensive contribution
5.00

7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Discipline

per 90
Yellow cards
2season count
Red cards
0season count

3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Ranked against 119 defenders with half a match a round or more, the same comparison the compare page makes. Where less is better, such as being dispossessed, the order is turned round, so a high percentile is always the good end. Recoveries and defensive contribution come from the FPL feed and are ranked in its own positions.

This week

Gameweek 7

Next fixture

Gameweek 7

vs Arsenal

Sun 18 Oct, 15:30 UTC

Arsenal concede 8.3 shots a match and are 0.61× the league norm against defenders. A difficult one.

Projected shots
0.28

0.43 per 90 × 0.64

Projected on target
0.15

0.26 per 90 × 0.57

Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.

Shots

14 appearances
  • Over 0.54 of 1429%± 12
  • Over 1.51 of 147%± 7
  • Over 2.50 of 140%± 0
  • Over 3.50 of 140%± 0

The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 10 of 14.

Shooting profile

5 shots

Where they shoot

5 shots
Every shotBy zone
Opponent goalLeftRight
GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals

Nicolò Savona, 2025/26, 5 shots in the final 35m, 2 scored.

left
0%
Centre
92%
right
8%

share of their shooting xG

Chance profile

quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.247
Shots per 90
0.43
Key passes per 90
0.52
Average shot distance
12.0m
From set pieces
1%

How the chances arrive

Crosses
0%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
0%
Headed
0%

Club role

Nottingham Forest

What they are for

  • On the pitch30% of available minutes.

What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Nicolò Savona’soutput.

Chances received

who supplies them
  1. Neco Williams0.4 xG1 shot, 1g
  2. Omari Hutchinson0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
  3. Elliot Anderson0.0 xG1 shot, 0g

Chances created

who they supply
  1. Ibrahim Sangare0.3 xG1 shot, 0g
  2. Igor Jesus0.1 xG3 shots, 0g
  3. Morgan Gibbs-White0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
  4. Dan Ndoye0.0 xG1 shot, 0g

Season record

2025/26

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Nicolò Savona carries 1.7% of Nottingham Forest’s build-up value.

  • Build-up per 900.134
    11% of defenders
  • Possession value per 900.261
    42% of defenders

Ranked against 119 defenders with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in, with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance rather than the chance.

Match by match

Match log

14 appearances, oldest first
1g

v Man Utd1 shot
1 on target

1g

at Liverpool1 shot
1 on target

v Brighton2 shots
1 on target

v Man City1 shot
0 on target

10 blanksno shot
not placed

Height is shots, solid is on target, and the dashed rule is the 1.5 line. The feed cannot date an appearance with no shot in it, so 10 sits at the end, counted but unplaced.

How to read the ties. Each rate ties back to the league average: solid where the sample is settled, broken where it is still being shrunk toward the league, an open circle where there is no cohort to rank against.