# Manchester City 1–1 Brighton & Hove Albion · Ratings and player of the match · 2025-26 Premier League | Sir Balone > Ratings for every player in Manchester City v Brighton & Hove Albion (1–1), matchday 21, 2025-26 Premier League. Player of the match: Kaoru Mitoma (66). URL: https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/manchester-city-brighton-hove-albion-2026-01-07/ Datos al: 2026-10-15 Fuente de los datos: Sportmonks (https://www.sportmonks.com/). Métricas, notas y textos: La Lente, de Sir Balone, a cargo de Juan Carlos Vasquez (https://sirbalone.com/authors/juan-carlos-vasquez/). § Premier League · 2025-26 · Matchday 21 ## [Manchester City](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/manchester-city-9/2025-26/) 1 – 1 [Brighton & Hove Albion](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/brighton-hove-albion-78/2025-26/) - 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: Kaoru Mitoma (Brighton & Hove Albion), rated 66, thanks above all to 1 goal and 1 big chance created. Mitoma produced 1.6 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.5 times the cost. It was also their best match of the season. For Manchester City, the highest-rated player was Nathan Aké, with 66. 66 Player of the match ### [Kaoru Mitoma](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/kaoru-mitoma-21437534/) Brighton & Hove Albion · 83' Produced **1.65×** and cost **0.48×** their position's average Added - 1 goal 4.0× - 1 big chance created 4.0× - 1 shot on target 1.4× Took away - 1 shot off target, worth 0.12 0.8× - 2 balls lost 1.5× ### 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. **Manchester City** | Player | Position | Min | Rating | |---|---|---|---| | [Nathan Aké](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/nathan-ake-1869/) | Defender | 73 | 66 | | [Abdukodir Khusanov](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/abdukodir-khusanov-37623459/) | Defender | 90 | 65 | | [Nico González](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/nico-gonzalez-23269737/) | Midfielder | 64 | 64 | | [Max Alleyne](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/max-alleyne-37548599/) | Defender | 90 | 63 | | [Jérémy Doku](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/jeremy-doku-23697990/) | Forward | 90 | 52 | | [Phil Foden](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/phil-foden-336133/) | Midfielder | 73 | 47 | | [Erling Haaland](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/erling-haaland-154421/) | Forward | 90 | 42 | | [Gianluigi Donnarumma](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/gianluigi-donnarumma-129771/) | Goalkeeper | 90 | 41 | | [Tijjani Reijnders](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/tijjani-reijnders-3156873/) | Midfielder | 90 | 41 | | [Rodri](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/rodri-186910/) | Midfielder | 26 | 39 | | [Bernardo Silva](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/bernardo-silva-96353/) | Midfielder | 90 | 37 | | [Matheus Nunes](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/matheus-nunes-21781428/) | Defender | 73 | 33 | | [Nico O'Reilly](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/nico-o-reilly-37562487/) | Defender | 17 | no rating | | [Rayan Cherki](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/rayan-cherki-21072805/) | Midfielder | 17 | no rating | | [Rico Lewis](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/rico-lewis-37459073/) | Defender | 17 | no rating | **Brighton & Hove Albion** | Player | Position | Min | Rating | |---|---|---|---| | [Kaoru Mitoma](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/kaoru-mitoma-21437534/) ★ | Forward | 83 | 66 | | [Bart Verbruggen](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/bart-verbruggen-37257596/) | Goalkeeper | 90 | 56 | | [Georginio Rutter](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/georginio-rutter-21782390/) | Forward | 77 | 48 | | [Maxim De Cuyper](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/maxim-de-cuyper-23269659/) | Defender | 90 | 45 | | [Jack Hinshelwood](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/jack-hinshelwood-37561625/) | Midfielder | 90 | 41 | | [Yasin Ayari](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/yasin-ayari-37526157/) | Midfielder | 83 | 41 | | [Diego Gómez](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/diego-gomez-37563876/) | Midfielder | 77 | 41 | | [Lewis Dunk](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/lewis-dunk-2461/) | Defender | 90 | 38 | | [Pascal Groß](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/pascal-gro-31504/) | Midfielder | 90 | 38 | | [Jan Paul van Hecke](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/jan-paul-van-hecke-24818803/) | Defender | 90 | 34 | | [Ferdi Kadıoğlu](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/ferdi-kadoglu-25738/) | Defender | 90 | 25 | | [Brajan Gruda](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/brajan-gruda-37558991/) | Midfielder | 13 | no rating | | [Danny Welbeck](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/danny-welbeck-627/) | Forward | 13 | no rating | | [James Milner](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/james-milner-197/) | Midfielder | 7 | no rating | | Tom Watson | Forward | 7 | no rating | ### Did you know? La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer. **A 2025-26 Premier League match. With these numbers, how did it end?** Manchester City 1–1 Brighton & Hove Albion. The side that created more danger did not win. Manchester City comfortably outshot Brighton & Hove Albion, posting 22 attempts and 2.74 xG to 6 shots and 1.1 xG. The visitors' efficiency neutralized the home side's control in a 1–1 draw. [See the full question →](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/trivia/manchester-city-brighton-hove-albion-2026-01-07/) **Which Brighton & Hove Albion player played the most passes?** Lewis Dunk, with 75 passes. Next: Pascal Groß 43, Maxim De Cuyper 42. In the 1–1 draw with Manchester City, Lewis Dunk anchored Brighton & Hove Albion's build-up with 75 passes. Dunk finished well clear of Pascal Groß on 43 and Maxim De Cuyper on 42. **Which Manchester City player won the most aerial duels?** Erling Haaland, with 6 aerial duels won. Next: Nathan Aké 3, Max Alleyne 3. Erling Haaland led Manchester City in the air during the 1–1 draw with Brighton & Hove Albion, winning 6 aerial duels. Haaland doubled the count of Nathan Aké and Max Alleyne, who won 3 each. ### 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. ### Share this match [See the match in La Lente Line-ups on the pitch, what each player produced and cost, and the match line by line.](https://app.sirbalone.com/#partidos/19427663)