Brighton · 2025/26
Kaoru Mitoma
Kaoru Mitoma ranks 65th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 15.7m on average. They carry 9% of Brighton’s attacking output, the 4th largest share in the squad.
This week
Next fixture
Gameweek 2away to Chelsea
Sun 30 Aug, 13:00 UTC
Chelsea concede 10.9 shots a match and are 1.07× the league norm against forwards. Roughly an average matchup.
- Projected shots
- 1.62
- Projected on target
- 0.68
1.67 per 90 × 0.97
0.68 per 90 × 1.00
Season rate multiplied by what this opponent concedes relative to the league. It assumes a full ninety minutes and takes no account of rotation, so check availability before reading anything into it.
Shots
25 appearances- Over 0.580%± 8
- Over 1.536%± 10
- Over 2.512%± 6
- Over 3.50%± 0
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 5 of 25 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Shots on target
25 appearances- Over 0.544%± 10
- Over 1.58%± 5
- Over 2.50%± 0
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 5 of 25 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Where the shots come from
Where they shoot
32 shotsKaoru Mitoma, 2025/26 · final 35m.
- left
- 86%
- Centre
- 4%
- right
- 11%
share of their shooting xG
Chance quality
xG per shot, distance, how they arrive- xG per shot
- 0.150
- Shots per 90
- 1.67
- Key passes per 90
- 1.57
- Average shot distance
- 15.7m
- From set pieces
- 2%
How their chances arrive
- Crosses
- 12%
- Through balls
- 24%
- Own dribble
- 6%
- Headed
- 5%
What they are for
Roles
penalties, set pieces, crossing, partnerships- When it mattered3 of 3 goals came with the game level or Brighton behind.
- On the pitch50% of the minutes available to them.
Partnerships
- Feeds Diego Gómez2 shots, 0.78 xG
- Feeds Danny Welbeck3 shots, 0.68 xG
- Fed by Danny Welbeck3 shots, 0.80 xG
- Fed by Georginio Rutter4 shots, 0.66 xG
A share of the attack says how much runs through Kaoru Mitoma. These say what would have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker or the corner deliverer is not the same as losing a proportional slice of output, and a partnership cuts both ways: the supplier being absent damages the finisher’s numbers too.
Who they play with
Chances received
who supplies them- Danny Welbeck0.8 xG3 shots · 0g
- Georginio Rutter0.7 xG4 shots · 0g
- Pascal Groß0.5 xG5 shots · 1g
- Maxim De Cuyper0.5 xG1 shot · 0g
- Jack Hinshelwood0.5 xG2 shots · 0g
Chances created
who they supply- Diego Gómez0.8 xG2 shots · 0g
- Danny Welbeck0.7 xG3 shots · 0g
- Brajan Gruda0.4 xG2 shots · 1g
- Ferdi Kadioglu0.4 xG8 shots · 0g
- Jack Hinshelwood0.4 xG3 shots · 0g
Season record
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passesKaoru Mitoma carries 3.7% of Brighton’s build-up value.
- Build-up per 900.24175% of forwards
- Possession value per 900.59063% of forwards
Ranked against 109 forwards 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. It is a possession-value measure rather than a passing one: it cannot tell a forty-yard carry from two sideways balls, because no pass or carry record exists in this data.
Tackles, blocks and recoveries
per 90 · 2025/26They account for 4.5% of their club’s recorded defensive work.
- Tackles0.9513% of MID
- Blocks, clearances, interceptions1.4228% of MID
- Recoveries3.2614% of MID
- Defensive contribution5.6213% of MID
Rates from 1,714 minutes, ranked against 149 midfielders with a comparable sample. The feed publishes season totals rather than a match-by-match record, so there is no hit rate against a line here. That needs the distribution, which no arithmetic on a total can recover. This statistic begins in 2025/26, so there is no earlier season to compare against.
Match log
most recent first- 3 shots0 OTvs Wolverhampton Wanderers
- 1 shot0 OTat Newcastle United
- 3 shots1 OTvs Chelsea
- 2 shots1 OTat Tottenham1g
- 1 shot1 OTvs Liverpool
- 2 shots0 OTvs Arsenal
- 3 shots2 OTvs Nottingham Forest
- 2 shots2 OTat Brentford
- 1 shot0 OTat Aston Villa
- 2 shots0 OTvs Everton
Solid marks are on target, faded ones off. 5 further appearances produced no shot and are not listed, but are counted in the rates above.