Brighton & Hove Albion 4–0 Aston Villa
- Lindelöf 8' (o.g.)
- De Cuyper 18'
- Hinshelwood 30'
- Hinshelwood 31'
- Gomes 40'
23 August 2026
The match in data
Brighton & Hove Albion got the better of Aston Villa, 4–0, on 23 August 2026, on matchday 1 of the 2026-27 Premier League.
Player of the match: Pascal Groß (Brighton & Hove Albion), rated 72, thanks above all to 1 big chance created and 4 key passes. Groß produced 1.6 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
For Aston Villa, the highest-rated player was Matty Cash, with 57.
Jack Hinshelwood scored twice.
João Gomes was sent off at 40'.
Pascal Groß
Brighton & Hove Albion · 90'
Produced 1.56× and cost 0.56× their position's average
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 4 key passes 3.6×
- 7 final-third passes 1.3×
- 2 times dribbled past 2.4×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Hinshelwood | Midfielder | 64 | 76 |
| Pascal Groß ★ | Midfielder | 90 | 72 |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 90 | 71 |
| Luka Vuskovic | Defender | 90 | 71 |
| Olivier Boscagli | Defender | 90 | 64 |
| Maxim De Cuyper | Defender | 78 | 60 |
| Diego Gómez | Midfielder | 86 | 54 |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 90 | 49 |
| Yasin Ayari | Midfielder | 64 | 42 |
| Mats Wieffer | Defender | 78 | 41 |
| Costinha | Defender | 26 | 33 |
| Charalampos Kostoulas | Forward | 26 | 27 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Ibrahim Osman | Forward | 12 | no rating |
| Zadok Yohanna | Forward | 12 | no rating |
| Malick Yalcouyé | Midfielder | 4 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matty Cash | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| João Gomes | Midfielder | 40 | 46 |
| George Hemmings | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| Emiliano Buendía | Forward | 86 | 37 |
| John McGinn | Midfielder | 82 | 35 |
| Ross Barkley | Midfielder | 74 | 35 |
| Boubacar Kamara | Midfielder | 90 | 26 |
| Ian Maatsen | Defender | 82 | 24 |
| Pau Torres | Defender | 74 | 24 |
| Victor Lindelöf | Defender | 90 | 20 |
| Marco Bizot | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Lamare Bogarde | Midfielder | 16 | no rating |
| Tyrone Mings | Defender | 16 | no rating |
| Alysson | Forward | 8 | no rating |
| Matteo Ruggeri | Defender | 8 | no rating |
| Alejandro Garnacho | Forward | 4 | 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.