Aston Villa 4–2 Liverpool
- Rogers 42'
- Watkins 57'
- Watkins 73'
- McGinn 89'
- van Dijk 52'
- van Dijk 90+2'
15 May 2026
The match in data
A 4–2 win for Aston Villa against Liverpool on 15 May 2026, on matchday 37 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa), rated 80, thanks above all to 1.54 xG and 5 shots on target. Watkins produced 2.0 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Liverpool, the highest-rated player was Milos Kerkez, with 72.
Virgil van Dijk scored twice.
Ollie Watkins scored twice.
Ollie Watkins
Aston Villa · 90'
Produced 1.96× and cost 0.25× their position's average
- 1.54 xG 4.0×
- 5 shots on target 4.0×
- 2 goals 4.0×
- 1 shot off target 0.7×
- 3 misplaced passes 0.5×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ollie Watkins ★ | Forward | 90 | 80 |
| Ezri Konsa | Defender | 90 | 71 |
| Morgan Rogers | Midfielder | 90 | 71 |
| John McGinn | Midfielder | 90 | 69 |
| Pau Torres | Defender | 90 | 55 |
| Emiliano Buendía | Forward | 85 | 54 |
| Youri Tielemans | Midfielder | 90 | 50 |
| Victor Lindelöf | Defender | 46 | 49 |
| Ross Barkley | Midfielder | 44 | 44 |
| Lucas Digne | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Matty Cash | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Emiliano Martínez | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Douglas Luiz | Midfielder | 9 | no rating |
| Jadon Sancho | Forward | 9 | no rating |
| Ian Maatsen | Defender | 5 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milos Kerkez | Defender | 90 | 72 |
| Curtis Jones | Midfielder | 90 | 65 |
| Ibrahima Konaté | Defender | 90 | 64 |
| Alexis Mac Allister | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Dominik Szoboszlai | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Ryan Gravenberch | Midfielder | 66 | 51 |
| Federico Chiesa | Forward | 24 | 50 |
| Virgil van Dijk | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Joe Gomez | Defender | 66 | 40 |
| Rio Ngumoha | Forward | 90 | 39 |
| Cody Gakpo | Forward | 74 | 27 |
| Florian Wirtz | Midfielder | 24 | 26 |
| Giorgi Mamardashvili | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Mohamed Salah | Forward | 16 | 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.