Tottenham Hotspur 1–0 Villarreal
- Júnior 4' (o.g.)
16 September 2025
The match in data
Tottenham Hotspur beat Villarreal 1–0 on 16 September 2025, in the 2025-26 Champions League (League Stage 1).
Player of the match: Micky van de Ven (Tottenham Hotspur), rated 62, thanks above all to 11 recoveries and 69 passes. van de Ven produced 1.0 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
For Villarreal, the highest-rated player was Pape Gueye, with 58.
Micky van de Ven
Tottenham Hotspur · 90'
Produced 1.01× and cost 0.37× their position's average
- 11 recoveries 2.9×
- 69 passes 1.5×
- 3 tackles 1.7×
- 3 duels lost 0.8×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Destiny Udogie | Defender | 21 | 74 |
| Micky van de Ven ★ | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Mohammed Kudus | Forward | 90 | 48 |
| Djed Spence | Defender | 69 | 47 |
| Guglielmo Vicario | Goalkeeper | 90 | 46 |
| Pedro Porro | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Rodrigo Bentancur | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| Pape Matar Sarr | Midfielder | 69 | 41 |
| João Palhinha | Midfielder | 21 | 37 |
| Cristian Romero | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Richarlison | Forward | 77 | 35 |
| Xavi Simons | Midfielder | 77 | 35 |
| Lucas Bergvall | Midfielder | 90 | 28 |
| Brennan Johnson | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Randal Kolo Muani | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Kevin Danso | Defender | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pape Gueye | Midfielder | 78 | 58 |
| Luiz Júnior | Goalkeeper | 90 | 51 |
| Santiago Mouriño | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Juan Foyth | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Nicolas Pépé | Forward | 90 | 39 |
| Santi Comesaña | Midfielder | 78 | 38 |
| Ayoze Pérez | Forward | 75 | 37 |
| Georges Mikautadze | Forward | 90 | 34 |
| Sergi Cardona | Defender | 75 | 28 |
| Renato Veiga | Defender | 90 | 26 |
| Tajon Buchanan | Forward | 82 | 25 |
| Alfonso Pedraza | Defender | 15 | no rating |
| Ilias Akhomach | Forward | 15 | no rating |
| Dani Parejo | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Thomas Partey | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Alberto Moleiro | Forward | 8 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Villarreal player won the most duels?
Santiago Mouriño, with 9 duels won. Next: Pape Gueye 6, Ayoze Pérez 6.
Despite a 1–0 defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, Santiago Mouriño anchored Villarreal's resistance by winning 9 duels. Pape Gueye and Ayoze Pérez trailed with 6 each.
Which Tottenham Hotspur player won the most aerial duels?
Rodrigo Bentancur, with 5 aerial duels won. Next: Richarlison 3, Djed Spence 2.
Rodrigo Bentancur was Tottenham Hotspur's main aerial asset, winning 5 duels in the 1–0 win over Villarreal. Richarlison recorded 3 and Djed Spence 2.
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.
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