§ Eredivisie · 2026-27 · Matchday 6

Excelsior 1–2 FC Utrecht

  • Sliti 77'
  • Stepanov 36'
  • de Wit 90+2'

13 September 2026

The match in data

FC Utrecht beat Excelsior 2–1 on 13 September 2026, on matchday 6 of the 2026-27 Eredivisie.

Player of the match: Jan Plug (Excelsior), rated 64, thanks above all to 15 final-third passes and 82 passes. Plug produced 1.6 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.

For FC Utrecht, the highest-rated player was Matisse Didden, with 62.

64
Player of the match

Jan Plug

Excelsior · 90'

Produced 1.56× and cost 0.60× their position's average

Added
  • 15 final-third passes 2.3×
  • 82 passes 1.6×
  • 3 interceptions 2.6×
Took away
  • 1 time dribbled past 1.7×
  • 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.

Excelsior
PlayerPositionMinRating
Jan Plug ★ Defender 90 64
Casper Widell Defender 90 60
Aymen Sliti Forward 90 58
Simon Janssen Defender 20 58
Ágúst Orri Thorsteinsson Forward 80 49
Eric da Silva Moreira Defender 70 47
Lennard Hartjes Midfielder 85 46
Valentin Sulzbacher Midfielder 20 42
Rick Meissen Defender 90 36
Irakli Yegoian Midfielder 90 34
Stijn van Gassel Goalkeeper 90 34
Mario Domínguez Forward 20 34
David Garden Forward 70 29
Kasey Bos Defender 70 29
Alireza Jahanbakhsh Forward 10 no rating
Guilliano Cairo Midfielder 5 no rating
FC Utrecht
PlayerPositionMinRating
Matisse Didden Defender 90 62
Marius Broholm Forward 28 61
Dani de Wit Midfielder 90 58
Davy van den Berg Midfielder 90 53
Artem Stepanov Forward 62 52
Ángel Alarcón Forward 62 51
Adrian Blake Forward 62 50
Siebe Horemans Defender 90 44
Nikolas Panagiotou Defender 90 43
Yoann Cathline Forward 28 43
Vasilios Barkas Goalkeeper 90 39
Arthur Zagré Defender 90 30
Niklas Vesterlund Defender 81 25
Sem van Duijn Forward 28 22
Joris van Overeem Midfielder 9 no rating
Jakov Medic Defender 1 no rating

Did you know?

La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.

Which Excelsior player won the most duels?

Casper Widell, with 8 duels won. Next: Rick Meissen 6, Jan Plug 6.

In Excelsior's 1–2 defeat against FC Utrecht, Casper Widell won a team-high 8 duels. Rick Meissen and Jan Plug followed behind with 6 each.

Which FC Utrecht player recovered the most balls?

Matisse Didden, with 9 recoveries. Next: Davy van den Berg 6, Ángel Alarcón 5.

FC Utrecht's 1–2 away victory leaned on Didden's work off the ball, tallying 9 recoveries. Didden led the team ahead of Van den Berg (6) and Alarcón (5) to secure the points.

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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Excelsior 1–2 FC Utrecht, Eredivisie 2026-27. Player of the match: Jan Plug, 64
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Data: Sportmonks. Metrics, ratings and text: La Lente by Sir Balone, edited by Juan Carlos Vasquez.