Matchday 4: Mastantuono's hat-trick is worth 17.5

Serie A matchday 4 is over and fully rated: 10 matches out of 10 tracked, 285 players with a FantaTB fantasy score out of 478 tracked. Our files show 39 goals, 28 assists, 39 goals-conceded penalties, 25 yellow cards and a single red card, for J. Vásquez of Genoa. No own goals. The ratings are calculated by us; in brackets, the role from our player list: P goalkeeper, D defender, C midfielder, A forward.

Top of the list is Franco Mastantuono (Fiorentina, C): three goals in 89 minutes, rating 8.5 and fantasy score 17.5. Behind him E. Zhegrova (Juventus, C) reaches 14.5 with two goals in just 35 minutes, while Diego Moreira (Milan, C, 45 minutes) and L. Coulibaly (Lecce, C, 90 minutes) stop at 14.0, both with a brace. The best forward is M. Thuram (Inter, A): a goal and an assist in 70 minutes, fantasy score 12.0. N. Barella (Inter) and S. Lobotka (Napoli) finish on 11.0, both scoring in 90 minutes.

The bottom of the list is mostly goalkeepers. Josep Martínez (Inter) and D. Thiam (Monza) finish on 2.0 with three goals conceded, G. Vicario (Juventus) on 2.5, again with three goals against. M. Okoye (Udinese) has a rating of 8.0, but five goals conceded bring him down to 3.0; F. Stanković (Venezia) has a rating of 7.5 and a fantasy score of 3.5 with four goals conceded. Among outfield players the worst is L. Colombo (Genoa, A): rating 5.0 and fantasy score 2.0 in 70 minutes, with a penalty recorded as a missed spot kick. M. Amondarain (Bologna, C) finishes on 4.5 with a yellow card in 66 minutes.

Against the season average, calculated over matchdays 1 to 4 including this one, the widest gap belongs to Mastantuono: average 8.62, +8.88 over 4 appearances. Next come Coulibaly (+5.62), Lobotka (+3.62) and Barella (+3.38), all with 4 appearances. Zhegrova and Moreira post +4.25, but with 2 appearances the sample is too small. On the negative side A. Raimondo (Frosinone) scores 5.5 against an average of 9.38 (-3.88), followed by Colombo (-3.00), D. Frattesi (Lazio, -2.88) and P. Dybala (Roma, 6.0 against 8.38).

Among the highest-priced players on our list, Lautaro Martínez (Inter, A, price 34) was tracked with 0 minutes, like J. Butez (Como) and Wesley (Roma). H. Çalhanoğlu (28), R. Orsolini and S. McTominay (27) and K. Yıldız (22) do not appear among the players tracked this matchday. The ratings file does not distinguish injury, suspension and coach's choice, so we do not state a reason here; only for A. Meret (Napoli) does NapoliCalcioNews.it report a return getting closer.

For the next matchday: Mastantuono's and Coulibaly's averages rest on 4 appearances, Zhegrova's and Moreira's on 2, and should be read accordingly. For goalkeepers, rating and fantasy score went in opposite directions this time: goals conceded count, not just saves. And for the big names who sat out, it is worth waiting for the official line-ups before deciding.