Everton 0–1 Arsenal
- Gyökeres 27' (pen.)
20 December 2025
The match in data
Arsenal beat Everton 1–0 on 20 December 2025, on matchday 17 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: James Garner (Everton), rated 68, thanks above all to 7 final-third passes and 3 completed dribbles. Garner produced 1.0 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.5 times the cost.
It is their 3rd time as player of the match this season.
For Arsenal, the highest-rated player was Declan Rice, with 66.
James Garner
Everton · 90'
Produced 1.04× and cost 0.45× their position's average
- 7 final-third passes 1.3×
- 3 completed dribbles 4.0×
- 8 recoveries 1.8×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
- 1 failed dribble 1.2×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| James Garner ★ | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Michael Keane | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| James Tarkowski | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| Jake O'Brien | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Jack Grealish | Forward | 90 | 55 |
| Thierno Barry | Forward | 66 | 48 |
| Tim Iroegbunam | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| Dwight McNeil | Forward | 75 | 44 |
| Vitaliy Mykolenko | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Carlos Alcaraz | Midfielder | 76 | 33 |
| Beto | Forward | 24 | 22 |
| Jordan Pickford | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Tyler Dibling | Forward | 15 | no rating |
| Merlin Röhl | Midfielder | 14 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Declan Rice | Midfielder | 90 | 66 |
| Piero Hincapié | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| Martín Zubimendi | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Martin Ødegaard | Midfielder | 88 | 56 |
| Bukayo Saka | Forward | 90 | 46 |
| Jurriën Timber | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| William Saliba | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Leandro Trossard | Forward | 80 | 36 |
| Gabriel Jesus | Forward | 25 | 33 |
| Riccardo Calafiori | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Viktor Gyökeres | Forward | 65 | 24 |
| David Raya | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Gabriel Martinelli | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Mikel Merino | Midfielder | 2 | 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.