Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2–0 Sparta Praha
- Wirtz 32'
- Tella 64'
29 January 2025
The match in data
A 2–0 win for Bayer 04 Leverkusen against Sparta Praha on 29 January 2025, in the 2024-25 Champions League (League Stage 8).
Player of the match: Jonathan Tah (Bayer 04 Leverkusen), rated 82, thanks above all to 15 final-third passes and 88 passes. Tah produced 1.4 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.1 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Sparta Praha, the highest-rated player was Qazim Laci, with 74.
Jonathan Tah
Bayer 04 Leverkusen · 90'
Produced 1.43× and cost 0.15× their position's average
- 15 final-third passes 3.0×
- 88 passes 1.8×
- 5 recoveries 1.5×
- 4 misplaced passes 0.6×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jonathan Tah ★ | Defender | 90 | 82 |
| Edmond Tapsoba | Defender | 90 | 77 |
| Nordi Mukiele | Defender | 90 | 72 |
| Nathan Tella | Forward | 83 | 66 |
| Exequiel Palacios | Midfielder | 83 | 64 |
| Granit Xhaka | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Florian Wirtz | Midfielder | 89 | 44 |
| Alejandro Grimaldo | Defender | 90 | 39 |
| Patrik Schick | Forward | 89 | 35 |
| Jeremie Frimpong | Defender | 88 | 30 |
| Matej Kovar | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Aleix García | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Robert Andrich | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Arthur | Defender | 2 | no rating |
| Artem Stepanov | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Jonas Hofmann | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qazim Laci | Midfielder | 85 | 74 |
| Kaan Kairinen | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Lukas Sadilek | Midfielder | 90 | 62 |
| Martin Vitík | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Asger Sörensen | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| Adam Sevinsky | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Jaroslav Zelený | Midfielder | 89 | 48 |
| Victor Olatunji | Forward | 67 | 46 |
| Tomáš Wiesner | Midfielder | 85 | 43 |
| Lukas Haraslin | Midfielder | 23 | 35 |
| Veljko Birmancevic | Forward | 89 | 30 |
| Peter Vindahl | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Krystof Danek | Midfielder | 10 | no rating |
| Martin Suchomel | Defender | 10 | no rating |
| Ermal Krasniqi | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Lukas Penxa | Defender | 1 | 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.