+0.88goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.137% of Nottingham Forest’s build-up value
league 0.27
Nikola Milenkovic ranks 217th of 397 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 11.6m on average, with 81% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 5% of Nottingham Forest’s attacking involvement, the 10th largest share in the squad.
75% chance. Knee injury - 75% chance of playing. Weigh the rates below against the chance he features at all. Club status as of 17 Oct 2026.
Against their position
123 defenders
Shooting
per 90
Goals
0.1494th
Non-penalty goals
0.1494th
xG
0.1295th
Non-penalty xG
0.1295th
Shots
0.7880th
npxG per shot
0.1695th
Shot distance
11.6m68th
Set-piece share
81%59th
Goals against xG
+0.486th
2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2024/25.
Creating
per 90
Assists
0.0571st
Expected assists
0.0339th
Key passes
0.2433rd
npxG + xA
0.1580th
xG chain
0.167th
xG build-up
0.134th
Assists against xA
+1.092nd
On the ball
per 90
6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2024/25.
Defending
per 90
7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2024/25.
Discipline
per 90
Yellow cards
4season count
Red cards
0season count
3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2024/25.
Ranked against 123 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.
This week
Gameweek 7
Next fixture
Gameweek 7
vsArsenal
Sun 18 Oct, 15:30 UTC
Arsenal concede 9.6 shots a match and are 0.95× the league norm against defenders. A difficult one.
Projected shots
0.66
0.78 per 90 × 0.84
Projected on target
0.15
0.22 per 90 × 0.71
Season rate times what this opponent concedes, over a full ninety minutes. Check availability.
Shots
37 appearances
Over 0.519 of 3751%± 8
Over 1.58 of 3722%± 7
Over 2.52 of 375%± 4
Over 3.50 of 370%± 0
The band is one standard error, the tick the estimate. Blanks count as misses, 18 of 37.
Nikola Milenkovic, 2024/25, final 35m. A further 3% of their shots came from outside this window.
left
2%
Centre
89%
right
9%
share of their shooting xG
Chance profile
quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.158
Shots per 90
0.78
Key passes per 90
0.24
Average shot distance
11.6m
From set pieces
81%
How the chances arrive
Crosses
6%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
0%
Headed
37%
Club role
Nottingham Forest
What they are for
When it mattered4 of 5 goals came with the game level or Nottingham Forest behind.
On the pitch97% of available minutes.
What would actually have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker is not the same as losing a proportional slice of Nikola Milenkovic’soutput.
Chances received
who supplies them
Chris Wood1.2 xG2 shots, 1g
Elliot Anderson1.0 xG5 shots, 1g
Anthony Elanga0.9 xG7 shots, 1g
Morgan Gibbs-White0.7 xG4 shots, 1g
Ola Aina0.1 xG2 shots, 0g
Chances created
who they supply
Chris Wood0.4 xG1 shot, 1g
Anthony Elanga0.2 xG2 shots, 1g
Jota Silva0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
Ryan Yates0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
Elliot Anderson0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
Season record
2024/25
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passes
Nikola Milenkovic carries 6.6%of Nottingham Forest’s build-up value.
Build-up per 900.133
4% of defenders
Possession value per 900.161
7% of defenders
Ranked against 123 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
37 appearances, oldest first
over 1.5
at Southampton3 shots 0 on target
v Fulham1 shot 0 on target
at Leicester1 shot 0 on target
v West Ham2 shots 1 on target
v Newcastle1 shot 0 on target
at Arsenal1 shot 0 on target
v Ipswich1 shot 0 on target
at Man City2 shots 0 on target
1g
at Man Utd2 shots 1 on target
1g
v Villa2 shots 1 on target
at Brentford1 shot 1 on target
v Spurs1 shot 0 on target
at Wolves1 shot 0 on target
at Bournemouth3 shots 1 on target
1g
at Newcastle2 shots 1 on target
1g
at Ipswich1 shot 1 on target
v Man Utd1 shot 0 on target
1g
at West Ham2 shots 1 on target
v Chelsea1 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.
