Brighton & Hove Albion 2–0 Burnley
- Rutter 29'
- Ayari 47'
3 January 2026
The match in data
Brighton & Hove Albion got the better of Burnley, 2–0, on 3 January 2026, on matchday 20 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Jan Paul van Hecke (Brighton & Hove Albion), rated 76, thanks above all to 91 passes and 7 duels won. van Hecke produced 1.0 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.1 times the cost.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Burnley, the highest-rated player was Jaidon Anthony, with 57.
Jan Paul van Hecke
Brighton & Hove Albion · 90'
Produced 1.04× and cost 0.15× their position's average
- 91 passes 1.9×
- 7 duels won 1.5×
- 4 aerials won 2.0×
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Paul van Hecke ★ | Defender | 90 | 76 |
| Ferdi Kadıoğlu | Defender | 90 | 67 |
| Kaoru Mitoma | Forward | 70 | 58 |
| Maxim De Cuyper | Defender | 20 | 58 |
| Yasin Ayari | Midfielder | 90 | 52 |
| Charalampos Kostoulas | Forward | 71 | 50 |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 71 | 50 |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 90 | 48 |
| Joël Veltman | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Brajan Gruda | Midfielder | 87 | 36 |
| Diego Gómez | Midfielder | 80 | 22 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Danny Welbeck | Forward | 19 | no rating |
| Pascal Groß | Midfielder | 19 | no rating |
| James Milner | Midfielder | 10 | no rating |
| Tom Watson | Forward | 3 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaidon Anthony | Forward | 81 | 57 |
| Oliver Sonne | Defender | 35 | 57 |
| Florentino | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Loum Tchaouna | Forward | 26 | 56 |
| Josh Laurent | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Jacob Bruun Larsen | Forward | 55 | 52 |
| Armando Broja | Forward | 64 | 48 |
| Marcus Edwards | Forward | 35 | 39 |
| Bashir Humphreys | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Kyle Walker | Defender | 90 | 33 |
| Lesley Ugochukwu | Midfielder | 55 | 32 |
| Hjalmar Ekdal | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Lucas Pires | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Martin Dúbravka | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Jaydon Banel | Forward | 9 | 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.