NEC Nijmegen 5–0 Excelsior
- Proper 14'
- Ogawa 52'
- Ogawa 59'
- Linssen 67'
- Chery 82' (pen.)
9 August 2025
The match in data
A 5–0 win for NEC Nijmegen against Excelsior on 9 August 2025, on matchday 1 of the 2025-26 Eredivisie.
Player of the match: Koki Ogawa (NEC Nijmegen), rated 79, thanks above all to 2 goals and 3 shots on target. Ogawa produced 1.8 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Excelsior, the highest-rated player was Stan Henderikx, with 66.
Koki Ogawa scored twice.
Koki Ogawa
NEC Nijmegen · 77'
Produced 1.79× and cost 0.23× their position's average
- 2 goals 4.0×
- 3 shots on target 3.7×
- 0.66 xG 2.7×
- 1 ball lost 0.8×
- 5 duels lost 0.9×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koki Ogawa ★ | Forward | 77 | 79 |
| Bryan Linssen | Forward | 71 | 67 |
| Kodai Sano | Midfielder | 90 | 65 |
| Philippe Sandler | Defender | 77 | 52 |
| Tjaronn Chery | Midfielder | 83 | 51 |
| Brayann Pereira | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Calvin Verdonk | Defender | 90 | 43 |
| Başar Önal | Midfielder | 71 | 37 |
| Dirk Proper | Midfielder | 90 | 34 |
| Sami Ouaissa | Midfielder | 90 | 31 |
| Gonzalo Crettaz | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Rober González | Forward | 19 | no rating |
| Virgil Misidjan | Midfielder | 19 | no rating |
| Sam de Laat | Midfielder | 13 | no rating |
| Youssef El Kachati | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Vito van Crooij | Midfielder | 7 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stan Henderikx | Defender | 90 | 66 |
| Stijn Middendorp | Midfielder | 71 | 55 |
| Ilias Bronkhorst | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Mike van Duinen | Forward | 71 | 46 |
| Noah Naujoks | Midfielder | 71 | 43 |
| Do-young Yoon | Forward | 32 | 43 |
| Casper Widell | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Adam Carlén | Midfielder | 90 | 38 |
| Derensili Sanches Fernandes | Forward | 58 | 37 |
| Arthur Zagré | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Gyan de Regt | Forward | 90 | 33 |
| Tijmen Holla | Goalkeeper | 60 | no rating |
| Stijn van Gassel | Goalkeeper | 30 | no rating |
| Jerolldino Bergraaf | Forward | 19 | no rating |
| Rick Meissen | Defender | 19 | no rating |
| Zach Booth | Midfielder | 19 | 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.