Newcastle 3 Aston Villa 0 – Interesting independent ratings on Newcastle United players

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·26 dicembre 2024

Newcastle 3 Aston Villa 0 – Interesting independent ratings on Newcastle United players

It ended Newcastle 3 Aston Villa 0.

It took less than 90 seconds for Newcastle United to stun Villa.

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All three midfielders involved in the build up and an outstanding Anthony Gordon finish.

Aston Villa luck to only lose by three goals and Newcastle well on their way to victory before the deserved red card for Duran.

Looking at the individuals in black and white, interesting to get an independent perspective on how this played out.

‘Whoscored ratings use data from every single Premier League match, over 200 raw statistics included in the automated calculation of a player’s rating, weighted according to their influence within the game.

Every event of importance is taken into account, with a positive or negative effect on ratings weighted in relation to its area on the pitch and its outcome.’

Now whoscored have published their independent player ratings for this Newcastle 3 Aston Villa 0 match:

(The Whoscored system can only show a maximum of four subs on their display at any one time, Will Osula was rated 6.1)

As you can see, ten players who started the match received a rating of 7.0 or more.

Zero surprise, all of them playing for Newcastle United.

What I don’t agree with, in these automated ratings, is that Trippier was somehow rated only 696. I think it was a day when everybody in black and white was really on it.

Joelinton (8.5) rated man of the match.

Then Alexander Isak (8.3) and Anthony Gordon (7.9) next highest.

To be honest, I thought Sandro Tonali was the best player on the pitch and yet the automated ratings only giving him 7.3.

Newcastle 3 Aston Villa 0 – Thursday 26 December 3pm

Newcastle United:

Gordon 2, Isak 59, Joelinton 90+1

Villa:

Duran red card 32

(In brackets the half-time stats)

Possession was Newcastle 63% (62%) Villa 37% (38%)

Total shots were Newcastle 22 (9) Villa 4 (3)

Shots on target were Newcastle 8 (4) Villa 1 (1)