Arsenal 5–0 Leeds United
- Timber 34'
- Saka 45+1'
- Gyökeres 48'
- Timber 56'
- Gyökeres 90+5' (pen.)
23 August 2025
The match in data
Arsenal got the better of Leeds United, 5–0, on 23 August 2025, on matchday 2 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: William Saliba (Arsenal), rated 71, thanks above all to 123 passes and 6 final-third passes. Saliba produced 1.1 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
For Leeds United, the highest-rated player was Anton Stach, with 68.
Jurriën Timber scored twice.
Viktor Gyökeres scored twice.
William Saliba
Arsenal · 90'
Produced 1.05× and cost 0.26× their position's average
- 123 passes 2.6×
- 6 final-third passes 1.1×
- 4 recoveries 1.1×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cristhian Mosquera | Defender | 26 | 78 |
| Declan Rice | Midfielder | 90 | 73 |
| Myles Lewis-Skelly | Midfielder | 26 | 73 |
| William Saliba ★ | Defender | 90 | 71 |
| Bukayo Saka | Forward | 53 | 66 |
| Gabriel Magalhães | Defender | 90 | 65 |
| Viktor Gyökeres | Forward | 90 | 64 |
| Martin Ødegaard | Midfielder | 38 | 64 |
| Martín Zubimendi | Midfielder | 90 | 62 |
| Noni Madueke | Forward | 64 | 57 |
| Riccardo Calafiori | Defender | 64 | 49 |
| Jurriën Timber | Defender | 64 | 48 |
| Leandro Trossard | Forward | 37 | 40 |
| Ethan Nwaneri | Midfielder | 52 | 32 |
| Max Dowman | Midfielder | 26 | 29 |
| David Raya | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anton Stach | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Joël Piroe | Forward | 58 | 54 |
| Lukas Nmecha | Forward | 32 | 54 |
| Pascal Struijk | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Joe Rodon | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Ilia Gruev | Midfielder | 90 | 45 |
| Wilfried Gnonto | Forward | 66 | 42 |
| Daniel James | Forward | 66 | 40 |
| Brenden Aaronson | Midfielder | 24 | 39 |
| Jayden Bogle | Defender | 83 | 36 |
| Noah Okafor | Forward | 24 | 32 |
| Gabriel Gudmundsson | Defender | 90 | 24 |
| Ao Tanaka | Midfielder | 58 | 22 |
| Sean Longstaff | Midfielder | 32 | 19 |
| Lucas Perri | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Sam Byram | Defender | 7 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.