Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1–0 FSV Mainz 05
- Grimaldo 48'
14 January 2025
The match in data
A 1–0 win for Bayer 04 Leverkusen against FSV Mainz 05 on 14 January 2025, on matchday 17 of the 2024-25 Bundesliga.
Player of the match: Exequiel Palacios (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), rated 74, thanks above all to 8 final-third passes and 82 passes. Palacios produced 1.3 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For FSV Mainz 05, the highest-rated player was Stefan Bell, with 65.
Exequiel Palacios
Bayer 04 Leverkusen · 90'
Produced 1.26× and cost 0.36× their position's average
- 8 final-third passes 1.6×
- 82 passes 1.8×
- 8 recoveries 2.0×
- 8 misplaced passes 1.1×
- 0.03 xG not converted 1.2×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exequiel Palacios ★ | Midfielder | 90 | 74 |
| Granit Xhaka | Midfielder | 90 | 69 |
| Aleix García | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Edmond Tapsoba | Defender | 90 | 66 |
| Piero Hincapié | Defender | 90 | 51 |
| Alejandro Grimaldo | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Nathan Tella | Forward | 27 | 46 |
| Florian Wirtz | Midfielder | 88 | 42 |
| Jeremie Frimpong | Defender | 90 | 39 |
| Patrik Schick | Forward | 63 | 37 |
| Nordi Mukiele | Defender | 90 | 30 |
| Matej Kovar | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Martin Terrier | Forward | 2 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stefan Bell | Midfielder | 80 | 65 |
| Kaishu Sano | Midfielder | 90 | 51 |
| Armindo Sieb | Forward | 63 | 51 |
| Hyun-seok Hong | Midfielder | 24 | 50 |
| Jae-sung Lee | Midfielder | 66 | 46 |
| Anthony Caci | Defender | 90 | 43 |
| Nelson Weiper | Forward | 24 | 42 |
| Andreas Hanche-Olsen | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Danny da Costa | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Dominik Kohr | Defender | 90 | 30 |
| Paul Nebel | Midfielder | 90 | 30 |
| Phillipp Mwene | Midfielder | 80 | 25 |
| Robin Zentner | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Maxim Leitsch | Defender | 10 | no rating |
| Silvan Widmer | Defender | 10 | no rating |
| Jonathan Burkardt | Forward | 3 | 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.