Newcastle 1 Manchester City 1 – Interesting independent ratings on Newcastle United players

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It ended Newcastle 1 Manchester City 1.

An excellent disciplined performance from Eddie Howe’s side as they more than held their own.

Gvardiol opened the scoring on 35 minutes cutting in from Man City’s left side and his shot appearing to take a slight deflection past Nick Pope.

United fully deserving the equaliser when Anthony Gordon was played through by Bruno Guimaraes and then brought down by Ederson.

Gordon getting to his feet and showing great bottle as he coolly sent the keeper the wrong way.

A draw was a fair result but Newcastle United had some really good situations that they failed to take advantage of.

Looking at the individuals in black and white, interesting to get an independent perspective on how this played out.

‘Whoscored ratings use data from every single Premier League match, over 200 raw statistics included in the automated calculation of a player’s rating, weighted according to their influence within the game.

Every event of importance is taken into account, with a positive or negative effect on ratings weighted in relation to its area on the pitch and its outcome.’

Now whoscored have published their independent player ratings for this Newcastle 1 Manchester City 1 match:

Whoscored Newcastle 1 Man City 1

Six players who started the match received a rating higher than 7.0, three for each team.

Pointing towards how even the match was.

Gvardiol (7.7) getting the very highest MOTM rating, then followed by Man City teammates Grealish (7.6) and Gundogan (7.1).

Whilst the three on the Newcastle United side of things were Gordon (7.4), Bruno (7.4) and Joelinton (7.1).

Though to be honest, I find the ratings overall are very much on the skinny side, as it was a pretty good game.

For NUFC, I though Dan Burn (6.7) was superb against Haaland and deserved far higher. Others as well, I have no idea how the automated ratings gave Tonali only 6.3, as he was excellent.

Newcastle 1 Manchester City 1 – Saturday 28 September 12.30pm

(Stats via BBC Sport)

Goals:

Newcastle United:

Gordon 58 pen

Man City:

Gvardiol 35

Possession was Newcastle 38% Man City 62%

Total shots were Newcastle 11 Man City 16

Shots on target were Newcastle 4 Man City 6

Corners were Newcastle 5 Man City 6

Touches in the box Newcastle 25 Man City 39