Manchester City 1–1 Brighton & Hove Albion
- Haaland 41' (pen.)
- Mitoma 60'
7 January 2026
The match in data
Manchester City and Brighton & Hove Albion finished level at 1–1 on 7 January 2026, on matchday 21 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Max Alleyne (Manchester City), rated 75, thanks above all to 4 interceptions and 9 duels won. Alleyne produced 1.8 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.5 times the cost.
For Brighton & Hove Albion, the highest-rated player was Kaoru Mitoma, with 72.
Max Alleyne
Manchester City · 90'
Produced 1.84× and cost 0.46× their position's average
- 4 interceptions 3.7×
- 9 duels won 1.9×
- 83 passes 1.7×
- 6 misplaced passes 0.9×
- 1 failed dribble 2.5×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max Alleyne ★ | Defender | 90 | 75 |
| Nathan Aké | Defender | 73 | 73 |
| Abdukodir Khusanov | Defender | 90 | 72 |
| Nico González | Midfielder | 64 | 70 |
| Jérémy Doku | Forward | 90 | 54 |
| Phil Foden | Midfielder | 73 | 51 |
| Erling Haaland | Forward | 90 | 48 |
| Rodri | Midfielder | 26 | 44 |
| Tijjani Reijnders | Midfielder | 90 | 43 |
| Bernardo Silva | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Matheus Nunes | Defender | 73 | 36 |
| Gianluigi Donnarumma | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Nico O'Reilly | Defender | 17 | no rating |
| Rayan Cherki | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| Rico Lewis | Defender | 17 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaoru Mitoma | Forward | 83 | 72 |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 77 | 55 |
| Maxim De Cuyper | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Diego Gómez | Midfielder | 77 | 49 |
| Jack Hinshelwood | Midfielder | 90 | 48 |
| Yasin Ayari | Midfielder | 83 | 44 |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Pascal Groß | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Jan Paul van Hecke | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Ferdi Kadıoğlu | Defender | 90 | 25 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Brajan Gruda | Midfielder | 13 | no rating |
| Danny Welbeck | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| James Milner | Midfielder | 7 | no rating |
| Tom Watson | Forward | 7 | 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.