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 63, thanks above all to 91 passes and 7 duels won. van Hecke produced 1.1 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Burnley, the highest-rated player was Loum Tchaouna, with 56.
Jan Paul van Hecke
Brighton & Hove Albion · 90'
Produced 1.05× and cost 0.36× their position's average
- 91 passes 1.9×
- 7 duels won 1.5×
- 4 aerials won 2.0×
- 0.16 xG not converted 3.5×
- 4 misplaced passes 0.6×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferdi Kadıoğlu | Defender | 90 | 63 |
| Jan Paul van Hecke ★ | Defender | 90 | 63 |
| Yasin Ayari | Midfielder | 90 | 53 |
| Kaoru Mitoma | Forward | 70 | 49 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | 48 |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Charalampos Kostoulas | Forward | 71 | 43 |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 71 | 43 |
| Joël Veltman | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Maxim De Cuyper | Defender | 20 | 37 |
| Brajan Gruda | Midfielder | 87 | 34 |
| Diego Gómez | Midfielder | 80 | 20 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loum Tchaouna | Forward | 26 | 56 |
| Jaidon Anthony | Forward | 81 | 54 |
| Florentino | Midfielder | 90 | 51 |
| Josh Laurent | Midfielder | 90 | 47 |
| Oliver Sonne | Defender | 35 | 45 |
| Jacob Bruun Larsen | Forward | 55 | 43 |
| Bashir Humphreys | Defender | 90 | 35 |
| Armando Broja | Forward | 64 | 35 |
| Marcus Edwards | Forward | 35 | 34 |
| Martin Dúbravka | Goalkeeper | 90 | 32 |
| Kyle Walker | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Lucas Pires | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Hjalmar Ekdal | Defender | 90 | 29 |
| Lesley Ugochukwu | Midfielder | 55 | 29 |
| Jaydon Banel | Forward | 9 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Burnley player won the most aerial duels?
Armando Broja, with 4 aerial duels won. Next: Bashir Humphreys 2, Hjalmar Ekdal 2.
In Burnley's 2–0 defeat to Brighton, Broja was the primary aerial target with 4 duels won. Humphreys and Ekdal finished behind with 2 each.
Which Brighton & Hove Albion player won the most duels?
Charalampos Kostoulas, with 10 duels won. Next: Jan Paul van Hecke 7, Brajan Gruda 6.
Kostoulas set the tone in Brighton's 2–0 win over Burnley by winning 10 duels. Van Hecke followed with 7, while Gruda recorded 6.
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.
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