Everton 2–4 Brentford
- Beto 66'
- Barry 90+1'
- Thiago 11'
- Collins 50'
- Thiago 51'
- Thiago 88'
4 January 2026
The match in data
Brentford beat Everton 4–2 on 4 January 2026, on matchday 20 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Jack Grealish (Everton), rated 79, thanks above all to 4 completed dribbles and 1 big chance created. Grealish produced 1.6 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 3rd time as player of the match this season.
For Brentford, the highest-rated player was Igor Thiago, with 67.
Igor Thiago scored a hat-trick.
Jack Grealish
Everton · 90'
Produced 1.59× and cost 0.17× their position's average
- 4 completed dribbles 3.4×
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 4 key passes 3.3×
- 6 misplaced passes 1.1×
- 1 time dribbled past 1.7×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Grealish ★ | Forward | 90 | 79 |
| Thierno Barry | Forward | 90 | 67 |
| James Garner | Midfielder | 90 | 63 |
| Beto | Forward | 44 | 61 |
| Dwight McNeil | Forward | 46 | 60 |
| James Tarkowski | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Jake O'Brien | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Vitaliy Mykolenko | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Tim Iroegbunam | Midfielder | 77 | 39 |
| Michael Keane | Defender | 90 | 32 |
| Merlin Röhl | Midfielder | 44 | 31 |
| Tyler Dibling | Forward | 46 | 21 |
| Jordan Pickford | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Harrison Armstrong | Midfielder | 13 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Igor Thiago | Forward | 90 | 67 |
| Vitaly Janelt | Midfielder | 90 | 64 |
| Nathan Collins | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Kevin Schade | Forward | 64 | 53 |
| Yegor Yarmolyuk | Midfielder | 90 | 51 |
| Mathias Jensen | Midfielder | 64 | 48 |
| Michael Kayode | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Mikkel Damsgaard | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Jordan Henderson | Midfielder | 26 | 39 |
| Kristoffer Ajer | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Keane Lewis-Potter | Midfielder | 26 | 26 |
| Aaron Hickey | Defender | 76 | 22 |
| Caoimhín Kelleher | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Rico Henry | Defender | 14 | no rating |
| Myles Peart-Harris | Midfielder | 1 | 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.