Brighton & Hove Albion 2–1 Manchester City
- Milner 67' (pen.)
- Gruda 89'
- Haaland 34'
31 August 2025
The match in data
A 2–1 win for Brighton & Hove Albion against Manchester City on 31 August 2025, on matchday 3 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Brighton & Hove Albion came from behind: they were trailing 0–1 at 34'.
Player of the match: Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton & Hove Albion), rated 60, thanks above all to 1 big chance created and 3 key passes. Mitoma produced 1.3 times as much as a forward typically does, at 1.0 times the cost.
For Manchester City, the highest-rated player was Matheus Nunes, with 66.
Kaoru Mitoma
Brighton & Hove Albion · 90'
Produced 1.30× and cost 0.99× their position's average
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 3 key passes 2.5×
- 1 shot on target 1.3×
- 0.13 xG not converted 2.0×
- 1 shot off target 0.7×
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 | 61 | 63 |
| Kaoru Mitoma ★ | Forward | 90 | 60 |
| Jack Hinshelwood | Midfielder | 61 | 55 |
| James Milner | Midfielder | 30 | 55 |
| Diego Gómez | Midfielder | 61 | 49 |
| Yankuba Minteh | Forward | 90 | 48 |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 29 | 46 |
| Joël Veltman | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Carlos Baleba | Midfielder | 60 | 41 |
| Jan Paul van Hecke | Defender | 90 | 39 |
| Yasin Ayari | Midfielder | 29 | 38 |
| Maxim De Cuyper | Defender | 90 | 37 |
| Brajan Gruda | Midfielder | 29 | 30 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Diego Coppola | Defender | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matheus Nunes | Defender | 85 | 66 |
| Rodri | Midfielder | 90 | 59 |
| Omar Marmoush | Forward | 72 | 58 |
| Erling Haaland | Forward | 90 | 57 |
| John Stones | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Tijjani Reijnders | Midfielder | 90 | 50 |
| Oscar Bobb | Forward | 90 | 47 |
| Bernardo Silva | Midfielder | 72 | 38 |
| Abdukodir Khusanov | Defender | 85 | 34 |
| Rayan Aït-Nouri | Defender | 90 | 26 |
| James Trafford | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Jérémy Doku | Forward | 18 | no rating |
| Nico O'Reilly | Defender | 18 | no rating |
| Rico Lewis | Defender | 5 | no rating |
| Rúben Dias | Defender | 5 | 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.