Sporting Braga 1–0 Nottingham Forest
- Yates 54' (o.g.)
- Anderson 90+4'
22 January 2026
The match in data
Sporting Braga beat Nottingham Forest 1–0 on 22 January 2026, in the 2025-26 Europa League (League Stage 7).
Player of the match: Gustaf Lagerbielke (Sporting Braga), rated 73, thanks above all to 7 final-third passes and 72 passes. Lagerbielke produced 1.2 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Nottingham Forest, the highest-rated player was Callum Hudson-Odoi, with 69.
Morgan Gibbs-White missed a penalty at 53'.
Elliot Anderson was sent off at 90+4'.
Gustaf Lagerbielke
Sporting Braga · 90'
Produced 1.23× and cost 0.27× their position's average
- 7 final-third passes 1.2×
- 72 passes 1.5×
- 7 duels won 1.5×
- 7 misplaced passes 1.0×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustaf Lagerbielke ★ | Defender | 90 | 73 |
| Bright Arrey-Mbi | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| João Moutinho | Midfielder | 28 | 56 |
| Vítor Carvalho | Midfielder | 44 | 55 |
| Sikou Niakaté | Defender | 46 | 51 |
| Gabri Martínez | Forward | 86 | 47 |
| Gorby | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| Ricardo Horta | Forward | 75 | 46 |
| Diego Rodrigues | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Víctor Gómez | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Fran Navarro | Forward | 62 | 39 |
| Florian Grillitsch | Midfielder | 62 | 27 |
| Pau Víctor | Forward | 28 | 27 |
| Lukas Hornicek | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Mario Dorgeles | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Leonardo Lelo | Defender | 4 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callum Hudson-Odoi | Forward | 22 | 69 |
| James McAtee | Midfielder | 68 | 68 |
| Douglas Luiz | Midfielder | 68 | 57 |
| Elliot Anderson | Midfielder | 22 | 55 |
| Ryan Yates | Midfielder | 83 | 45 |
| Morato | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Morgan Gibbs-White | Midfielder | 90 | 43 |
| Nikola Milenković | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Dan Ndoye | Forward | 90 | 38 |
| Dilane Bakwa | Forward | 75 | 38 |
| Nicolò Savona | Defender | 90 | 35 |
| Ola Aina | Defender | 69 | 32 |
| Neco Williams | Defender | 21 | 28 |
| Matz Sels | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Nicolás Domínguez | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Ibrahim Sangaré | Midfielder | 7 | 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.