Newcastle United 2–0 Nottingham Forest
- Guimarães 58'
- Woltemade 84' (pen.)
5 October 2025
The match in data
Newcastle United beat Nottingham Forest 2–0 on 5 October 2025, on matchday 7 of the 2025-26 Premier League.
Player of the match: Malick Thiaw (Newcastle United), rated 73, thanks above all to 7 final-third passes and 3 interceptions. Thiaw produced 1.5 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Nottingham Forest, the highest-rated player was Morato, with 65.
Malick Thiaw
Newcastle United · 90'
Produced 1.51× and cost 0.36× their position's average
- 7 final-third passes 1.3×
- 3 interceptions 2.8×
- 7 recoveries 1.9×
- 3 duels lost 0.8×
- 4 misplaced passes 0.6×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malick Thiaw ★ | Defender | 90 | 73 |
| Sandro Tonali | Midfielder | 90 | 60 |
| Jacob Murphy | Forward | 20 | 60 |
| Sven Botman | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| Harvey Barnes | Forward | 20 | 58 |
| Bruno Guimarães | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Joelinton | Midfielder | 90 | 52 |
| Nick Woltemade | Forward | 90 | 42 |
| Anthony Elanga | Forward | 70 | 40 |
| Anthony Gordon | Forward | 70 | 39 |
| Dan Burn | Defender | 90 | 33 |
| Kieran Trippier | Defender | 90 | 32 |
| Nick Pope | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Lewis Miley | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| William Osula | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morato | Defender | 77 | 65 |
| Dan Ndoye | Forward | 65 | 62 |
| Igor Jesus | Forward | 26 | 60 |
| Elliot Anderson | Midfielder | 90 | 59 |
| Jair Cunha | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Callum Hudson-Odoi | Forward | 26 | 50 |
| Nikola Milenković | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Chris Wood | Forward | 64 | 43 |
| Neco Williams | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Morgan Gibbs-White | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Ryan Yates | Midfielder | 64 | 38 |
| Nicolò Savona | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Omari Hutchinson | Midfielder | 25 | 21 |
| Matz Sels | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Dilane Bakwa | Forward | 13 | 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.