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 65, 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.
Jan Plug
Excelsior · 90'
Produced 1.57× and cost 0.59× their position's average
- 15 final-third passes 2.4×
- 82 passes 1.6×
- 4 aerials won 2.6×
- 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.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Plug ★ | Defender | 90 | 65 |
| Casper Widell | Defender | 90 | 63 |
| Ágúst Orri Thorsteinsson | Forward | 80 | 60 |
| Simon Janssen | Defender | 20 | 60 |
| Aymen Sliti | Forward | 90 | 58 |
| Eric da Silva Moreira | Defender | 70 | 48 |
| Lennard Hartjes | Midfielder | 85 | 47 |
| Valentin Sulzbacher | Midfielder | 20 | 44 |
| Rick Meissen | Defender | 90 | 37 |
| Stijn van Gassel | Goalkeeper | 90 | 37 |
| Irakli Yegoian | Midfielder | 90 | 34 |
| Mario Domínguez | Forward | 20 | 32 |
| Kasey Bos | Defender | 70 | 30 |
| David Garden | Forward | 70 | 28 |
| Alireza Jahanbakhsh | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Guilliano Cairo | Midfielder | 5 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matisse Didden | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Marius Broholm | Forward | 28 | 61 |
| Dani de Wit | Midfielder | 90 | 58 |
| Davy van den Berg | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Ángel Alarcón | Forward | 62 | 52 |
| Adrian Blake | Forward | 62 | 51 |
| Artem Stepanov | Forward | 62 | 50 |
| Siebe Horemans | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Yoann Cathline | Forward | 28 | 45 |
| Nikolas Panagiotou | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Vasilios Barkas | Goalkeeper | 90 | 41 |
| Arthur Zagré | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Niklas Vesterlund | Defender | 81 | 26 |
| 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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