Newcastle United 3–1 Brighton & Hove Albion
- Osula 12'
- Burn 24'
- Barnes 90+5'
- Hinshelwood 61'
2 May 2026
The match in data
Newcastle United beat Brighton & Hove Albion 3–1 on 2 May 2026, on matchday 35 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Jacob Murphy (Newcastle United), rated 80, thanks above all to 1 big chance created and 3 key passes. Murphy produced 1.2 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.1 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Brighton & Hove Albion, the highest-rated player was Kaoru Mitoma, with 55.
Jacob Murphy
Newcastle United · 68'
Produced 1.21× and cost 0.08× their position's average
- 1 big chance created 4.0×
- 3 key passes 3.3×
- 1 completed dribble 1.1×
- 1 time dribbled past 2.2×
- 1 duel lost 0.2×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Murphy ★ | Forward | 68 | 80 |
| Sven Botman | Defender | 90 | 72 |
| Sandro Tonali | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| William Osula | Forward | 68 | 64 |
| Harvey Barnes | Forward | 22 | 64 |
| Malick Thiaw | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Lewis Hall | Defender | 22 | 55 |
| Dan Burn | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Bruno Guimarães | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| Lewis Miley | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Joe Willock | Midfielder | 68 | 36 |
| Yoane Wissa | Forward | 22 | 36 |
| Joelinton | Midfielder | 90 | 33 |
| Nick Pope | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Jacob Ramsey | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kaoru Mitoma | Forward | 90 | 55 |
| Jan Paul van Hecke | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Danny Welbeck | Forward | 80 | 51 |
| Olivier Boscagli | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Carlos Baleba | Midfielder | 80 | 46 |
| Ferdi Kadıoğlu | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Yankuba Minteh | Forward | 90 | 43 |
| Jack Hinshelwood | Midfielder | 88 | 43 |
| Joël Veltman | Defender | 63 | 43 |
| Pascal Groß | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Bart Verbruggen | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Mats Wieffer | Defender | 18 | no rating |
| Charalampos Kostoulas | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Georginio Rutter | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Maxim De Cuyper | Defender | 9 | no rating |
| Lewis Dunk | Defender | 2 | 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.