AZ Alkmaar 4–1 SC Heerenveen
- Meerdink 3'
- Meerdink 21'
- Meerdink 45'
- Penetra 66'
- Nicolaescu 74'
22 May 2025
The match in data
AZ Alkmaar got the better of SC Heerenveen, 4–1, on 22 May 2025, on matchday conference league play-offs - semi-finals of the 2024-25 Eredivisie.
Player of the match: Mexx Meerdink (AZ Alkmaar), rated 75, thanks above all to 1.13 xG and 3 shots on target. Meerdink produced 2.0 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It was the highest rating of the matchday.
It was also their best match of the season.
For SC Heerenveen, the highest-rated player was Luuk Brouwers, with 73.
Mexx Meerdink scored a hat-trick.
Mexx Meerdink
AZ Alkmaar · 61'
Produced 2.01× and cost 0.44× their position's average
- 1.13 xG 4.0×
- 3 shots on target 4.0×
- 3 goals 4.0×
- 1 shot off target 1.1×
- 5 misplaced passes 1.2×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexx Meerdink ★ | Forward | 61 | 75 |
| Ibrahim Sadiq | Forward | 29 | 71 |
| Wouter Goes | Defender | 46 | 70 |
| Peer Koopmeiners | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Denso Kasius | Defender | 29 | 53 |
| Ruben van Bommel | Forward | 79 | 52 |
| Ernest Poku | Forward | 90 | 47 |
| David Møller Wolfe | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Maxim Dekker | Defender | 44 | 46 |
| Alexandre Penetra | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Seiya Maikuma | Defender | 61 | 42 |
| Kees Smit | Midfielder | 72 | 41 |
| Sven Mijnans | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Rome Jayden Owusu-Oduro | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Jordy Clasie | Midfielder | 18 | no rating |
| Troy Parrott | Forward | 11 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luuk Brouwers | Midfielder | 90 | 73 |
| Hussein Ali | Defender | 21 | 67 |
| Ion Nicolaescu | Forward | 21 | 62 |
| Mats Köhlert | Defender | 77 | 61 |
| Dimitris Rallis | Forward | 21 | 46 |
| Oliver Braude | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Nikolai Hopland | Defender | 69 | 44 |
| Jacob Trenskow | Forward | 69 | 42 |
| Marcus Linday | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Milos Lukovic | Forward | 69 | 36 |
| Hristiyan Petrov | Defender | 90 | 34 |
| Eser Gürbüz | Midfielder | 90 | 30 |
| Levi Smans | Midfielder | 90 | 26 |
| Mickey van der Hart | Goalkeeper | 83 | no rating |
| Robin Bouw | Defender | 13 | no rating |
| Bernt Klaverboer | Goalkeeper | 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.