St. Pauli 1–2 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
- Wahl 32'
- Tapsoba 25'
- Poku 58'
27 September 2025
The match in data
Bayer 04 Leverkusen beat St. Pauli 2–1 on 27 September 2025, on matchday 5 of the 2025-26 Bundesliga.
Player of the match: Eric Smith (St. Pauli), rated 67, thanks above all to 12 final-third passes and 60 passes. Smith produced 1.0 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
For Bayer 04 Leverkusen, the highest-rated player was Ernest Poku, with 71.
Eric Smith
St. Pauli · 90'
Produced 1.03× and cost 0.32× their position's average
- 12 final-third passes 2.0×
- 60 passes 1.2×
- 5 recoveries 1.3×
- 7 misplaced passes 1.0×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Smith ★ | Defender | 90 | 67 |
| Danel Sinani | Midfielder | 90 | 64 |
| James Sands | Midfielder | 90 | 57 |
| Mathias Pereira Lage | Forward | 81 | 56 |
| Lars Ritzka | Defender | 68 | 56 |
| Adam Dzwigala | Defender | 22 | 56 |
| Hauke Wahl | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Joel Chima Fujita | Midfielder | 80 | 43 |
| Manolis Saliakas | Defender | 87 | 35 |
| Louis Oppie | Defender | 90 | 34 |
| Martijn Kaars | Forward | 22 | 33 |
| Andréas Hountondji | Forward | 68 | 24 |
| Nikola Vasilj | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Connor Metcalfe | Midfielder | 10 | no rating |
| Oladapo Afolayan | Forward | 9 | no rating |
| Abdoulie Ceesay | Forward | 3 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ernest Poku | Forward | 34 | 71 |
| Aleix García | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Edmond Tapsoba | Defender | 90 | 65 |
| Eliesse Ben Seghir | Forward | 56 | 63 |
| Robert Andrich | Midfielder | 46 | 63 |
| Loïc Badé | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Ezequiel Fernández | Midfielder | 44 | 54 |
| Alejandro Grimaldo | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Jarell Quansah | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Patrik Schick | Forward | 89 | 35 |
| Malik Tillman | Midfielder | 75 | 32 |
| Axel Tape | Midfielder | 56 | 24 |
| Lucas Vázquez | Defender | 34 | 14 |
| Mark Flekken | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Jonas Hofmann | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Christian Kofane | Forward | 1 | 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.