Football/ Ayush Pawar

Premier League · 2025/26 ·

Aston Villa 4 to 3 Sunderland

Match Entertainment Rating
  • Goal Fest
  • Thriller
  • Late Drama
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Why 4.5 stars

  • 7 goals contributed strongly to the entertainment score (24.0 points).
  • 14 shots on target, a high count: 94th percentile of 2025/26 matches (15.1 points).
  • The score stayed within one goal for 57% of the match (9.9 points).
  • A result-changing goal at 90+3′ added 12.5 drama points.

How the rating adds up

83.0 / 100 match score

  • Entertainment
  • Competitiveness
  • Drama

Entertainment

40% weight

Goals and shots on target.

Component score0.98 of 1.00
Points added39.0 of 40
  • Goals7 goals1.00 × 60%24.0 pts
  • Shots on target14 in the match; 94th percentile of 2025/26 matches0.94 × 40%15.1 pts

Competitiveness

35% weight

How close the final score was, and how long the match stayed within one goal.

Component score0.68 of 1.00
Points added23.9 of 35
  • Final margindecided by 1 goal0.80 × 50%14.0 pts
  • Within one goalfor 57% of the 90 minutes (stoppage time not counted)0.57 × 50%9.9 pts

Drama

25% weight

Late result-changing goals, comebacks, equalisers, red cards, penalties and shootouts.

Component score0.80 of 1.00
Points added20.0 of 25
  • Late result-changing goalat 90+3′+0.5012.5 pts
  • Equalisers2 equalisers+0.307.5 pts

A component score runs from 0 to 1. Points added are its share of the 100-point match score (score × weight). The stars come from the match score, using cutoffs fixed on the 2025/26 season.

Goals

  1. 2′Goal · Aston Villa1–0
  2. 9′Goal · Sunderland1–1
  3. 36′Goal · Aston Villa2–1
  4. Half-time · 2–1
  5. 47′Goal · Aston Villa3–1
  6. 86′Goal · Sunderland3–2
  7. 87′Goal · Sunderland3–3
  8. 90+3′Goal · Aston Villa Late Drama4–3
  9. Full time · 4–3

Goals only, from Understat. Minutes can differ by one from broadcast graphics. Red cards are counted in the statistics but not placed here: the league data has no card times.

Match statistics

StatisticAston VillaSunderland
Goals43
Shots on target77
Red cards00
xGUnderstat · context only, not in the rating3.901.56
Penalties awardedboth teams, during play0

Labels

Goal Fest
5 or more goals. Here: 7 goals.
Thriller
4.5 stars or more, margin of 1 or less, 3 or more goals. Here: 4.5 stars, margin of 1, 7 goals.
Late Drama
Result-changing goal at 88' or later (stoppage included) or in extra time; second legs also on the aggregate. Here: goal at 90+3′.

Labels describe the match; they never change its score.

About this rating

  • Complete rating. Every rating input was available for this match.
  • The stars are a data-driven entertainment heuristic built from goals, shots on target, how close the score stayed and match events. They are not a judgement of football quality.
  • xG is shown for context only and is not part of the rating.
  • Data: Understat (goals, xG), football-data.co.uk (shots on target, cards, odds). Club crests are trademarks of their clubs; images via ESPN.
Technical details
Match ID
EPL-2025-us:29098
Source record
understat+football-data · 29098
Rating method
mer-1.0.0
Calibration
cal-2025-v1 (2025/26, frozen)
Input fingerprint
c4dcfdc49893ba3ebf587b7a2b7a270baa7f32880642776ae812a76898a7303b
Revision
1 · rated 2026-10-14