Skip to content
Touchline

Search

Jump to a club, a player, or a section

Will Hughes

Midfielder31 yrs
Non-penalty xG per 90
0.010 non-penalty goals from 8 shots
Expected assists per 90
0.081 assists, 21 key passes
Finishing
-0.29goals above what the league converts the same chances into
Build-up per 90
0.256% of Crystal Palace’s build-up value

Will Hughes ranks 288th of 402 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 19.0m on average, with 45% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 4% of Crystal Palace’s attacking involvement, the 13th largest share in the squad.

Against their position

128 midfielders

Shooting

per 90
Goals
0.00
Non-penalty goals
0.00
xG
0.01
Non-penalty xG
0.01
Shots
0.37
npxG per shot
–not ranked
Shot distance
–not ranked
Set-piece share
–not ranked
Goals against xG
-0.3

2 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Creating

per 90
Assists
0.05
Expected assists
0.08
Key passes
0.98
npxG + xA
0.09
xG chain
0.27
xG build-up
0.25
Assists against xA
-0.7

On the ball

per 90

6 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Defending

per 90

7 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Discipline

per 90
Yellow cards
6season count
Red cards
0season count

3 figures here come from match-event data, which is not recorded for 2023/24.

Ranked against 128 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

away to Brighton

Sun 18 Oct, 13:00 UTC

Brighton concede 12.4 shots a match and are 0.89× the league norm against midfielders. A difficult one.

Projected shots
0.33

0.37 per 90 × 0.89

Projected on target
0.13

0.14 per 90 × 0.91

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

Shots

30 appearances
  • Over 0.57 of 3023%± 8
  • 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, 23 of 30.

Shooting profile

8 shots

Where they shoot

8 shots
13% of shots, 1 shot25% of shots, 2 shots13% of shots, 1 shot13% of shots, 1 shot13% of shots, 1 shot13% of shots, 1 shot13% of shots, 1 shot13%25%13%13%13%13%13%Opponent goalLeftRight
Share of shots<1%1–2%2–4%4–6%6%+

Will Hughes, 2023/24, final 35m.

left
31%
Centre
34%
right
35%

share of their shooting xG

Chance profile

quality, volume and route
xG per shot
0.038
Shots per 90
0.37
Key passes per 90
0.98
Average shot distance
19.0m
From set pieces
45%

How the chances arrive

Crosses
0%
Through balls
0%
Own dribble
28%
Headed
0%

Club role

Crystal Palace

What they are for

  • Corners and set piecesSupplies 6% of Crystal Palace’s dead-ball danger, from 10 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 Will Hughes’output.

Chances received

who supplies them
  1. Jean-Philippe Mateta0.1 xG1 shot, 0g
  2. Eberechi Eze0.1 xG2 shots, 0g
  3. Odsonne Edouard0.0 xG1 shot, 0g

Chances created

who they supply
  1. Jean-Philippe Mateta0.6 xG3 shots, 1g
  2. Joachim Andersen0.3 xG3 shots, 0g
  3. Eberechi Eze0.3 xG5 shots, 0g
  4. Jefferson Lerma0.2 xG3 shots, 0g
  5. Marc Guehi0.1 xG1 shot, 0g

Season record

2023/24

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Will Hughes carries 5.7% of Crystal Palace’s build-up value.

  • Build-up per 900.249
    37% of midfielders
  • Possession value per 900.268
    17% of midfielders

Ranked against 128 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

v Fulham1 shot
1 on target

at Man Utd1 shot
1 on target

v Spurs1 shot
0 on target

at Arsenal1 shot
0 on target

v Newcastle1 shot
0 on target

at Fulham2 shots
0 on target

v Man Utd1 shot
1 on target

23 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 23 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.