Match Centre: Newcastle United vs Brighton & Hove Albion
Player of the match Bart Verbruggen 8.9
GolVolt rating 7.2GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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7 → 5
Brighton & Hove Albion climb 2 places in the table. Newcastle United stay in place 8.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Keeper Verbruggen: 6 saves, plenty of chances.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 86′.Some excitement, but no big twists. Drama: 3.8 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Keeper Verbruggen: 6 saves, Welbeck scored the winner, Verbruggen: rated 8.9.Someone played a match to remember. Heroes: 9.7 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% A lot was at stake before kick-off. Stakes: 6.8 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% Plenty of chances. Quality of play: 8.8 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 7.2more watchable than 72% of Premier League matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
1 goal4 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 10' Dan Burnyellow card
- 35' Goal: Danny Welbeckassist: Rutter0:1
- 37' Lewis Hallyellow card
- 45' Yasin Ayariyellow card
- Half-time · 0:1
- 60' SubstitutionMitoma for Ferguson
- 65' 2 substitutionsBarnes for MurphyWillock for Tonali
- 71' SubstitutionWieffer for Baleba
- 71' Jack Hinshelwoodyellow card
- 72' SubstitutionEstupiñán for Rutter
- 81' Substitutionvan Hecke for Welbeck
- 82' SubstitutionEnciso for Ayari
- 85' 2 substitutionsAlmirón for GuimarãesLongstaff for Gordon
- 90+2' SubstitutionOsula for Hall
- Full-time · 0:1
Match stats
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Newcastle United
Brighton & Hove Albion
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Newcastle United
- 19 Odysseas Vlachodimos GK —
- 17 Emil Krafth DEF —
- 25 Lloyd Kelly DEF —
- 11 Harvey Barnes MID on
- 24 Miguel Almirón MID on
- 28 Joe Willock MID on
- 36 Sean Longstaff MID on
- 67 Lewis Miley MID —
- 18 William Osula ATT on
Brighton & Hove Albion
- 23 Jason Steele GK —
- 2 Tariq Lamptey DEF —
- 29 Jan Paul van Hecke DEF on
- 30 Pervis Estupiñán DEF on
- 8 Brajan Gruda MID —
- 10 Julio Enciso MID on
- 15 Jakub Moder MID —
- 22 Kaoru Mitoma MID on
- 27 Mats Wieffer MID on
Match sheet
- Stadium
- St. James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Brighton & Hove Albion Bart Verbruggen
- 2. place · Newcastle United Fabian Schär
- 3. place · Newcastle United Bruno Guimarães
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