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Brighton

Mats Wieffer

Defender26 yrs
Injured
Non-penalty xG per 90
0.092 non-penalty goals from 18 shots
Expected assists per 90
0.133 assists, 19 key passes
Finishing
+0.30goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.397% of Brighton’s build-up value

Mats Wieffer ranks 170th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 15.3m on average. They carry 4% of Brighton’s attacking involvement, the 11th largest share in the squad.

Injured. Knee injury - Unknown return date. The rates below describe what he did, not what he is about to do. Club status as of 17 Oct 2026.

Against their position

119 defenders

Shooting

per 90
Goals
0.09
Non-penalty goals
0.09
xG
0.09
Non-penalty xG
0.09
Shots
0.84
npxG per shot
0.11
Shot distance
15.3m
Set-piece share
15%
Goals against xG
+0.1

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

Creating

per 90
Assists
0.14
Expected assists
0.13
Key passes
0.89
npxG + xA
0.22
xG chain
0.48
xG build-up
0.39
Assists against xA
+0.1

On the ball

per 90

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

Defending

per 90
Recoveries
4.83
Defensive contribution
12.74

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 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

vs Crystal Palace

Sun 18 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Crystal Palace concede 11.7 shots a match and are 1.09× the league norm against defenders. Roughly an average matchup.

Projected shots
0.85

0.84 per 90 × 1.01

Projected on target
0.29

0.28 per 90 × 1.02

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

Shots

26 appearances
  • Over 0.513 of 2650%± 10
  • Over 1.55 of 2619%± 8
  • Over 2.50 of 260%± 0
  • Over 3.50 of 260%± 0

The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 13 of 26.

Shooting profile

18 shots

Where they shoot

18 shots
Every shotBy zone
11% of shots, 2 shots6% of shots, 1 shot6% of shots, 1 shot6% of shots, 1 shot6% of shots, 1 shot6% of shots, 1 shot22% of shots, 4 shots6% of shots, 1 shot6% of shots, 1 shot6% of shots, 1 shot11% of shots, 2 shots11% of shots, 2 shots11%22%11%11%Opponent goalLeftRight
Share of shots<1%1–2%2–4%4–6%6%+

Mats Wieffer, 2025/26, final 35m.

left
0%
Centre
78%
right
22%

share of their shooting xG

Chance profile

quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.107
Shots per 90
0.84
Key passes per 90
0.89
Average shot distance
15.3m
From set pieces
15%

How the chances arrive

Crosses
42%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
0%
Headed
18%

Club role

Brighton

What they are for

  • Corners and set piecesSupplies 11% of Brighton’s dead-ball danger, from 2 deliveries that became shots.
  • On the pitch56% of available minutes.

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

Chances received

who supplies them
  1. Maxim De Cuyper0.6 xG2 shots, 0g
  2. Yankuba Minteh0.4 xG4 shots, 0g
  3. Pascal Groß0.2 xG2 shots, 1g
  4. Yasin Ayari0.2 xG3 shots, 1g
  5. Ferdi Kadioglu0.1 xG1 shot, 0g

Chances created

who they supply
  1. Jan Paul van Hecke0.8 xG1 shot, 1g
  2. Diego Gómez0.6 xG4 shots, 0g
  3. Danny Welbeck0.6 xG1 shot, 1g
  4. Maxim De Cuyper0.5 xG1 shot, 1g
  5. Yasin Ayari0.1 xG3 shots, 0g

Season record

2025/26

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Mats Wieffer carries 6.7% of Brighton’s build-up value.

  • Build-up per 900.387
    86% of defenders
  • Possession value per 900.482
    89% 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

26 appearances, oldest first

v Fulham1 shot
1 on target

at Wolves2 shots
0 on target

v Newcastle1 shot
0 on target

v Brentford1 shot
1 on target

at Forest2 shots
0 on target

v West Ham2 shots
0 on target

at Liverpool1 shot
0 on target

at Arsenal1 shot
0 on target

v Forest1 shot
1 on target

v Arsenal1 shot
1 on target

at Sunderland1 shot
0 on target

v Liverpool2 shots
0 on target

2g

at Burnley2 shots
2 on target

13 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 13 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.