St. Pauli 2–1 VfB Stuttgart
- Saliakas 35'
- Sinani 55' (pen.)
- Leweling 90'
7 February 2026
The match in data
St. Pauli beat VfB Stuttgart 2–1 on 7 February 2026, on matchday 21 of the 2025-26 Bundesliga.
Player of the match: Finn Jeltsch (VfB Stuttgart), rated 75, thanks above all to 10 final-third passes and 103 passes. Jeltsch produced 1.4 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For St. Pauli, the highest-rated player was James Sands, with 49.
Finn Jeltsch
VfB Stuttgart · 90'
Produced 1.37× and cost 0.28× their position's average
- 10 final-third passes 1.6×
- 103 passes 2.1×
- 7 recoveries 1.8×
- 6 misplaced passes 0.8×
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Irvine | Midfielder | 90 | 49 |
| James Sands | Midfielder | 90 | 49 |
| Arkadiusz Pyrka | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Karol Mets | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Adam Dzwigala | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| T. Ando | Defender | 90 | 43 |
| Manolis Saliakas | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Mathias Rasmussen | Midfielder | 90 | 38 |
| Martijn Kaars | Forward | 90 | 32 |
| Danel Sinani | Midfielder | 90 | 27 |
| Nikola Vasilj | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Lars Ritzka | Defender | 1 | no rating |
| Taichi Hara | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finn Jeltsch ★ | Defender | 90 | 75 |
| Ermedin Demirovic | Forward | 85 | 72 |
| Maximilian Mittelstädt | Defender | 90 | 71 |
| Atakan Karazor | Midfielder | 85 | 69 |
| Jamie Leweling | Forward | 44 | 69 |
| Bilal El Khannouss | Midfielder | 46 | 63 |
| Angelo Stiller | Midfielder | 90 | 61 |
| Ramon Hendriks | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Deniz Undav | Forward | 90 | 50 |
| Chris Führich | Forward | 69 | 50 |
| Lorenz Assignon | Defender | 21 | 41 |
| Josha Vagnoman | Defender | 69 | 36 |
| Badredine Bouanani | Forward | 21 | 20 |
| Alexander Nübel | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Chema Andrés | Midfielder | 5 | no rating |
| Jeremy Arévalo | Forward | 5 | 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.