Brighton & Hove Albion 2–1 Liverpool
- Welbeck 14'
- Welbeck 56'
- Kerkez 30'
21 March 2026
The match in data
Brighton & Hove Albion beat Liverpool 2–1 on 21 March 2026, on matchday 31 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Danny Welbeck (Brighton & Hove Albion), rated 80, thanks above all to 1.11 xG and 2 goals. Welbeck produced 2.2 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was the highest rating of the matchday.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Liverpool, the highest-rated player was Florian Wirtz, with 63.
Danny Welbeck scored twice.
Danny Welbeck
Brighton & Hove Albion · 83'
Produced 2.24× and cost 0.28× their position's average
- 1.11 xG 4.0×
- 2 goals 4.0×
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 1 shot off target 0.8×
- 5 misplaced passes 1.0×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danny Welbeck ★ | Forward | 83 | 80 |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 90 | 71 |
| James Milner | Midfielder | 76 | 64 |
| Jan Paul van Hecke | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Yankuba Minteh | Forward | 76 | 57 |
| Diego Gómez | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Jack Hinshelwood | Midfielder | 83 | 50 |
| Ferdi Kadıoğlu | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Mats Wieffer | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Pascal Groß | Midfielder | 90 | 34 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Carlos Baleba | Midfielder | 14 | no rating |
| Kaoru Mitoma | Forward | 14 | no rating |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 7 | no rating |
| Yasin Ayari | Midfielder | 7 | no rating |
| Joël Veltman | Defender | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florian Wirtz | Midfielder | 90 | 63 |
| Jeremie Frimpong | Defender | 63 | 58 |
| Dominik Szoboszlai | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Virgil van Dijk | Defender | 90 | 52 |
| Ibrahima Konaté | Defender | 77 | 51 |
| Curtis Jones | Midfielder | 82 | 49 |
| Rio Ngumoha | Forward | 27 | 49 |
| Ryan Gravenberch | Midfielder | 90 | 43 |
| Cody Gakpo | Forward | 90 | 42 |
| Alexis Mac Allister | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Milos Kerkez | Defender | 76 | 34 |
| Giorgi Mamardashvili | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Andrew Robertson | Defender | 14 | no rating |
| Federico Chiesa | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Hugo Ekitiké | Forward | 8 | 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.