+0.04goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.3711% of Brighton’s build-up value
league 0.24
Jan Paul van Hecke ranks 263rd of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 17.5m on average, with 84% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 3% of Brighton’s attacking involvement, the 13th largest share in the squad.
Against their position
119 defenders
Shooting
per 90
Goals
0.0881st
Non-penalty goals
0.0881st
xG
0.0984th
Non-penalty xG
0.0984th
Shots
0.6465th
npxG per shot
0.1584th
Shot distance
17.5m35th
Set-piece share
84%57th
Goals against xG
-0.443rd
2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Creating
per 90
Assists
0.0874th
Expected assists
0.0342nd
Key passes
0.3447th
npxG + xA
0.1263rd
xG chain
0.4079th
xG build-up
0.3784th
Assists against xA
+2.097th
On the ball
per 90
6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Defending
per 90
Recoveries
3.1727th
Defensive contribution
8.8972nd
7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Discipline
per 90
Yellow cards
9season count
Red cards
0season count
3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Ranked against 119 defenders 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. Recoveries and defensive contribution come from the FPL feed and are ranked in its own positions.
This week
Gameweek 7
Next fixture
Gameweek 7
vsCoventry
Mon 19 Oct, 19:00 UTC
No shot record for Coventry in this season, so no opponent adjustment is possible. Newly promoted sides have no Premier League history to measure.
Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.
Shots
36 appearances
Over 0.518 of 3650%± 8
Over 1.55 of 3614%± 6
Over 2.51 of 363%± 3
Over 3.50 of 360%± 0
The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 18 of 36.
Jan Paul van Hecke, 2025/26, final 35m. A further 8% of their shots came from outside this window.
left
4%
Centre
85%
right
11%
share of their shooting xG
Chance profile
quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.146
Shots per 90
0.64
Key passes per 90
0.34
Average shot distance
17.5m
From set pieces
84%
How the chances arrive
Crosses
13%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
0%
Headed
13%
Club role
Brighton
What they are for
When it mattered3 of 3 goals came with the game level or Brighton behind.
On the pitch94% of available minutes.
What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Jan Paul van Hecke’soutput.
Chances received
who supplies them
Mats Wieffer0.8 xG1 shot, 1g
Ferdi Kadioglu0.6 xG2 shots, 0g
Pascal Groß0.3 xG5 shots, 0g
Jack Hinshelwood0.2 xG2 shots, 1g
Lewis Dunk0.2 xG3 shots, 0g
Chances created
who they supply
Georginio Rutter0.4 xG2 shots, 2g
Jack Hinshelwood0.3 xG4 shots, 0g
Danny Welbeck0.1 xG2 shots, 0g
Charalampos Kostoulas0.1 xG1 shot, 1g
Yasin Ayari0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
Season record
2025/26
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passes
Jan Paul van Hecke carries 10.7%of Brighton’s build-up value.
Build-up per 900.370
84% of defenders
Possession value per 900.395
78% of defenders
Ranked against 119 defenders 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
36 appearances, oldest first
over 1.5
at Everton1 shot 0 on target
v Man City1 shot 1 on target
v Spurs1 shot 0 on target
at Chelsea1 shot 0 on target
1g
at Wolves1 shot 1 on target
v Leeds1 shot 1 on target
at Palace2 shots 1 on target
2g
v Villa3 shots 2 on target
v West Ham2 shots 0 on target
v Burnley2 shots 1 on target
at Man City1 shot 0 on target
v Bournemouth1 shot 0 on target
at Fulham1 shot 0 on target
at Sunderland1 shot 0 on target
v Liverpool1 shot 0 on target
at Spurs1 shot 0 on target
v Chelsea2 shots 1 on target
at Leeds1 shot 0 on target
18 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 18 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.
