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Brighton

Brajan Gruda

Midfielder
Non-penalty xG per 90
0.221 non-penalty goals from 16 shots
Expected assists per 90
0.151 assists, 16 key passes
Finishing
-0.56goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.362% of Brighton’s build-up value

Brajan Gruda ranks 89th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 22.7m on average. They carry 3% of Brighton’s attacking involvement, the 12th largest share in the squad.

Against their position

142 midfielders

Shooting

per 90
Goals
0.13
Non-penalty goals
0.13
xG
0.22
Non-penalty xG
0.22
Shots
2.01
npxG per shot
0.11
Shot distance
22.7m
Set-piece share
5%
Goals against xG
-0.8

2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Creating

per 90
Assists
0.13
Expected assists
0.15
Key passes
2.01
npxG + xA
0.38
xG chain
0.69
xG build-up
0.36
Assists against xA
-0.2

On the ball

per 90

6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Defending

per 90

7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Discipline

per 90
Yellow cards
2season count
Red cards
0season count

3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.

Ranked against 142 midfielders with half a match a round or more, the same comparison the compare page makes. Where less is better, such as being dispossessed, the order is turned round, so a high percentile is always the good end.

This week

Gameweek 7

Next fixture

Gameweek 7

vs Crystal Palace

Sun 18 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Crystal Palace concede 11.7 shots a match and are 0.89× the league norm against midfielders. A difficult one.

Projected shots
1.84

2.01 per 90 × 0.91

Projected on target
0.77

0.75 per 90 × 1.02

Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.

Shots

18 appearances
  • Over 0.511 of 1861%± 11
  • Over 1.53 of 1817%± 9
  • Over 2.52 of 1811%± 7
  • Over 3.50 of 180%± 0

The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 7 of 18.

Shooting profile

16 shots

Where they shoot

16 shots
Every shotBy zone
Opponent goalLeftRight
GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals

Brajan Gruda, 2025/26, 15 shots in the final 35m, 1 scored.

left
39%
Centre
5%
right
56%

share of their shooting xG

Chance profile

quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.111
Shots per 90
2.01
Key passes per 90
2.01
Average shot distance
22.7m
From set pieces
5%

How the chances arrive

Crosses
0%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
61%
Headed
0%

Club role

Brighton

What they are for

  • On the pitch21% of available minutes.

What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Brajan Gruda’soutput.

Chances received

who supplies them
  1. Kaoru Mitoma0.4 xG2 shots, 1g
  2. Diego Gómez0.4 xG2 shots, 0g
  3. Yankuba Minteh0.1 xG3 shots, 0g
  4. Joël Veltman0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
  5. Yasin Ayari0.0 xG1 shot, 0g

Chances created

who they supply
  1. Danny Welbeck0.6 xG1 shot, 1g
  2. Yasin Ayari0.2 xG5 shots, 0g
  3. Kaoru Mitoma0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
  4. Georginio Rutter0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
  5. Yankuba Minteh0.0 xG1 shot, 0g

Season record

2025/26

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Brajan Gruda carries 2.3% of Brighton’s build-up value.

  • Build-up per 900.358
    82% of midfielders
  • Possession value per 900.689
    92% of midfielders

Ranked against 142 midfielders with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in, with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance rather than the chance.

Match by match

Match log

18 appearances, oldest first

v Fulham1 shot
0 on target

at Everton1 shot
0 on target

1g

v Man City3 shots
2 on target

v Spurs1 shot
0 on target

at Wolves3 shots
1 on target

v Villa1 shot
1 on target

v West Ham1 shot
0 on target

at Liverpool1 shot
0 on target

v Sunderland2 shots
1 on target

v Burnley1 shot
0 on target

v Bournemouth1 shot
1 on target

7 blanksno shot
not placed

Height is shots, solid is on target, and the dashed rule is the 1.5 line. The feed cannot date an appearance with no shot in it, so 7 sits at the end, counted but unplaced.

How to read the ties. Each rate ties back to the league average: solid where the sample is settled, broken where it is still being shrunk toward the league, an open circle where there is no cohort to rank against.