§ Premier League · 2025-26 · Matchday 1

Nottingham Forest 3–1 Brentford

  • Wood 5'
  • Ndoye 42'
  • Wood 45+2'
  • Thiago 78' (pen.)

17 August 2025

The match in data

A 3–1 win for Nottingham Forest against Brentford on 17 August 2025, on matchday 1 of the 2025-26 Premier League.

Player of the match: Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest), rated 78, thanks above all to 2 goals and 2 shots on target. Wood produced 1.4 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.

For Brentford, the highest-rated player was Michael Kayode, with 65.

Chris Wood  scored twice.

78
Player of the match

Chris Wood

Nottingham Forest · 79'

Produced 1.35× and cost 0.16× their position's average

Added
  • 2 goals 4.0×
  • 2 shots on target 3.0×
  • 0.35 xG 1.4×
Took away
  • 4 duels lost 0.7×
  • 1 time dribbled past 1.9×

Match ratings

Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.

Nottingham Forest
PlayerPositionMinRating
Chris Wood ★ Forward 79 78
Dan Ndoye Forward 79 64
Callum Hudson-Odoi Forward 90 62
Nikola Milenković Defender 90 57
Elliot Anderson Midfielder 90 56
Morgan Gibbs-White Midfielder 84 56
Murillo Defender 90 53
Ibrahim Sangaré Midfielder 90 46
Ola Aina Defender 90 40
Neco Williams Defender 90 39
Matz Sels Goalkeeper 90 no rating
Igor Jesus Forward 11 no rating
Jota Silva Forward 11 no rating
Ryan Yates Midfielder 6 no rating
Brentford
PlayerPositionMinRating
Michael Kayode Defender 90 65
Antoni Milambo Midfielder 46 64
Nathan Collins Defender 90 61
Mathias Jensen Midfielder 69 61
Sepp van den Berg Defender 90 52
Rico Henry Defender 88 51
Yegor Yarmolyuk Midfielder 90 42
Kevin Schade Forward 44 42
Igor Thiago Forward 90 39
Jordan Henderson Midfielder 21 34
Fábio Carvalho Midfielder 90 32
Keane Lewis-Potter Midfielder 69 28
Frank Onyeka Midfielder 21 23
Caoimhín Kelleher Goalkeeper 90 no rating
Aaron Hickey 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.

See the match in La Lente Line-ups on the pitch, what each player produced and cost, and the match line by line.