+1.99goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.145% of Tottenham’s build-up value
league 0.24
João Palhinha ranks 214th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 16.9m on average, with 64% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 5% of Tottenham’s attacking involvement, the 7th largest share in the squad.
Against their position
142 midfielders
Shooting
per 90
Goals
0.2188th
Non-penalty goals
0.2190th
xG
0.1476th
Non-penalty xG
0.1476th
Shots
1.3667th
npxG per shot
0.1067th
Shot distance
16.9m78th
Set-piece share
64%91st
Goals against xG
+1.692nd
2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Creating
per 90
Assists
0.0841st
Expected assists
0.037th
Key passes
0.334th
npxG + xA
0.1738th
xG chain
0.205th
xG build-up
0.1412th
Assists against xA
+1.289th
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
8season 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
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
33 appearances
Over 0.518 of 3355%± 9
Over 1.510 of 3330%± 8
Over 2.53 of 339%± 5
Over 3.51 of 333%± 3
The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 15 of 33.
GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals
João Palhinha, 2025/26, 33 shots in the final 35m, 5 scored.
left
5%
Centre
50%
right
45%
share of their shooting xG
Chance profile
quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.103
Shots per 90
1.36
Key passes per 90
0.33
Average shot distance
16.9m
From set pieces
64%
How the chances arrive
Crosses
0%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
31%
Headed
4%
Club role
Tottenham
What they are for
When it mattered4 of 5 goals came with the game level or Tottenham behind.
On the pitch64% of available minutes.
What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of João Palhinha’soutput.
Chances received
who supplies them
Richarlison0.7 xG2 shots, 1g
Mathys Tel0.6 xG4 shots, 0g
Mohammed Kudus0.1 xG2 shots, 0g
Xavi Simons0.1 xG2 shots, 0g
Micky van de Ven0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
Chances created
who they supply
Rodrigo Bentancur0.4 xG1 shot, 1g
Mohammed Kudus0.1 xG2 shots, 0g
Kevin Danso0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
Pape Sarr0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
Iyenoma Destiny Udogie0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
Season record
2025/26
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passes
João Palhinha carries 4.8%of Tottenham’s build-up value.
Build-up per 900.136
11% of midfielders
Possession value per 900.197
5% 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
33 appearances, oldest first
over 1.5
1g
at Man City1 shot 1 on target
at West Ham3 shots 0 on target
1g
v Wolves2 shots 1 on target
at Leeds2 shots 0 on target
v Villa2 shots 1 on target
v Man Utd1 shot 1 on target
v Liverpool2 shots 0 on target
v Sunderland2 shots 0 on target
1g
at Bournemouth2 shots 1 on target
v Man City1 shot 0 on target
at Man Utd1 shot 0 on target
at Fulham3 shots 0 on target
v Palace1 shot 0 on target
v Brighton1 shot 1 on target
1g
at Wolves1 shot 1 on target
at Villa1 shot 1 on target
v Leeds2 shots 0 on target
1g
v Everton5 shots 1 on target
15 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 15 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.
