FC Utrecht 1–2 Nottingham Forest
- van der Hoorn 73'
- Kalimuendo 52'
- Jesus 88'
11 December 2025
The match in data
Nottingham Forest beat FC Utrecht 2–1 on 11 December 2025, in the 2025-26 Europa League (League Stage 6).
Player of the match: Souffian El Karouani (FC Utrecht), rated 76, thanks above all to 6 tackles and 8 duels won. El Karouani produced 1.3 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
For Nottingham Forest, the highest-rated player was Douglas Luiz, with 71.
Souffian El Karouani
FC Utrecht · 90'
Produced 1.34× and cost 0.26× their position's average
- 6 tackles 3.4×
- 8 duels won 1.7×
- 5 recoveries 1.3×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Souffian El Karouani ★ | Defender | 90 | 76 |
| Mike Eerdhuijzen | Defender | 80 | 76 |
| Mike van der Hoorn | Defender | 27 | 75 |
| Matisse Didden | Defender | 63 | 66 |
| Alonzo Engwanda | Midfielder | 90 | 64 |
| Gjivai Zechiël | Midfielder | 90 | 60 |
| Siebe Horemans | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Dani de Wit | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Sébastien Haller | Forward | 90 | 50 |
| Miguel Rodríguez | Forward | 90 | 45 |
| Yoann Cathline | Forward | 80 | 42 |
| Vasilios Barkas | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Adrian Blake | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Nick Viergever | Defender | 10 | no rating |
| Miliano Jonathans | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Douglas Luiz | Midfielder | 46 | 71 |
| Callum Hudson-Odoi | Forward | 90 | 69 |
| Oleksandr Zinchenko | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Arnaud Kalimuendo | Forward | 87 | 59 |
| Nicolás Domínguez | Midfielder | 78 | 57 |
| Elliot Anderson | Midfielder | 44 | 50 |
| Ibrahim Sangaré | Midfielder | 44 | 50 |
| Nikola Milenković | Defender | 21 | 48 |
| Murillo | Defender | 69 | 46 |
| Morato | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Zach Abbott | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Dan Ndoye | Forward | 90 | 32 |
| James McAtee | Midfielder | 46 | 22 |
| John Victor | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Morgan Gibbs-White | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Igor Jesus | Forward | 3 | 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.