Brentford 0–1 Manchester City
- Haaland 9'
5 October 2025
The match in data
A 1–0 win for Manchester City against Brentford on 5 October 2025, on matchday 7 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Tijjani Reijnders (Manchester City), rated 71, thanks above all to 68 passes and 4 completed dribbles. Reijnders produced 1.1 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Brentford, the highest-rated player was Mathias Jensen, with 55.
Tijjani Reijnders
Manchester City · 76'
Produced 1.08× and cost 0.39× their position's average
- 68 passes 1.8×
- 4 completed dribbles 4.0×
- 5 final-third passes 1.1×
- 4 misplaced passes 0.7×
- 0.18 xG not converted 4.0×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathias Jensen | Midfielder | 22 | 55 |
| Jordan Henderson | Midfielder | 74 | 54 |
| Dango Ouattara | Forward | 22 | 53 |
| Kevin Schade | Forward | 90 | 49 |
| Kristoffer Ajer | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Sepp van den Berg | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Mikkel Damsgaard | Midfielder | 68 | 46 |
| Igor Thiago | Forward | 68 | 42 |
| Nathan Collins | Defender | 90 | 39 |
| Yegor Yarmolyuk | Midfielder | 73 | 33 |
| Michael Kayode | Defender | 90 | 29 |
| Aaron Hickey | Defender | 90 | 23 |
| Caoimhín Kelleher | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Frank Onyeka | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| Vitaly Janelt | Midfielder | 16 | no rating |
| Fábio Carvalho | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erling Haaland | Forward | 90 | 74 |
| Rodri | Midfielder | 22 | 73 |
| Tijjani Reijnders ★ | Midfielder | 76 | 71 |
| Josko Gvardiol | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Phil Foden | Midfielder | 90 | 60 |
| Oscar Bobb | Forward | 76 | 60 |
| Rúben Dias | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| Matheus Nunes | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Savinho | Forward | 90 | 48 |
| Nico González | Midfielder | 68 | 46 |
| Nico O'Reilly | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Gianluigi Donnarumma | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Bernardo Silva | Midfielder | 14 | no rating |
| Jérémy Doku | Forward | 14 | 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.