+0.46goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.223% of Brighton’s build-up value
league 0.24
Maxim De Cuyper ranks 79th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 21.3m on average, with 36% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 6% of Brighton’s attacking involvement, the 9th largest share in the squad.
Against their position
142 midfielders
Shooting
per 90
Goals
0.1373rd
Non-penalty goals
0.1373rd
xG
0.1164th
Non-penalty xG
0.1164th
Shots
0.8337th
npxG per shot
0.1389th
Shot distance
21.3m27th
Set-piece share
36%71st
Goals against xG
+0.369th
2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Creating
per 90
Assists
0.1986th
Expected assists
0.3097th
Key passes
2.0493rd
npxG + xA
0.4190th
xG chain
0.4458th
xG build-up
0.2233rd
Assists against xA
-1.718th
On the ball
per 90
6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2025/26.
Defending
per 90
Recoveries
4.3677th
Defensive contribution
4.101st
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. Recoveries and defensive contribution come from the FPL feed and are ranked in its own positions.
This week
Gameweek 7
Next fixture
Gameweek 7
vsCrystal 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
0.76
0.83 per 90 × 0.91
Projected on target
0.39
0.38 per 90 × 1.02
Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.
Shots
30 appearances
Over 0.512 of 3040%± 9
Over 1.51 of 303%± 3
Over 2.50 of 300%± 0
Over 3.50 of 300%± 0
The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 18 of 30.
Open-play crosses8 crosses from open play became shots, worth 1.34 xG.
Corners and set piecesSupplies 12% of Brighton’s dead-ball danger, from 15 deliveries that became shots.
On the pitch41% of available minutes.
What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Maxim De Cuyper’soutput.
Chances received
who supplies them
Mats Wieffer0.5 xG1 shot, 1g
Jack Hinshelwood0.2 xG2 shots, 0g
Brajan Gruda0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
Diego Gómez0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
Carlos Baleba0.0 xG1 shot, 0g
Chances created
who they supply
Danny Welbeck1.0 xG4 shots, 1g
Mats Wieffer0.6 xG2 shots, 0g
Kaoru Mitoma0.5 xG1 shot, 0g
Jack Hinshelwood0.5 xG3 shots, 1g
Lewis Dunk0.5 xG4 shots, 1g
Season record
2025/26
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passes
Maxim De Cuyper carries 2.8%of Brighton’s build-up value.
Build-up per 900.223
33% of midfielders
Possession value per 900.436
58% 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
30 appearances, oldest first
over 1.5
1g
at Chelsea1 shot 1 on target
at Wolves1 shot 1 on target
v Newcastle1 shot 1 on target
at Man Utd1 shot 0 on target
1g
at Forest1 shot 1 on target
v Villa1 shot 1 on target
v Sunderland1 shot 0 on target
at West Ham1 shot 0 on target
v Burnley1 shot 0 on target
v Palace2 shots 1 on target
at Leeds1 shot 0 on target
v Man Utd1 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.
