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Crystal Palace · 2025/26

Will Hughes

npxG per 90
0.07
0 non-penalty goals
xA per 90
0.11
0 assists · 21 key passes
Finishing
-1.1
vs league conversion rate
Build-up per 90
0.31
1567 minutes · 31 games

Will Hughes ranks 198th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 19.4m on average. They carry 3% of Crystal Palace’s attacking output, the 12th largest share in the squad.

This week

Next fixture

Gameweek 2

vs Manchester City

Fri 28 Aug, 19:00 UTC

Manchester City concede 9.8 shots a match and are 0.88× the league norm against midfielders. A difficult one.

Projected shots
0.81

0.98 per 90 × 0.83

Projected on target
0.00

0.00 per 90 × 0.81

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

31 appearances
  • Over 0.532%± 8
  • Over 1.510%± 5
  • Over 2.56%± 4
  • Over 3.56%± 4

Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 21 of 31 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.

Shots on target

31 appearances
  • Over 0.50%± 0
  • Over 1.50%± 0
  • Over 2.50%± 0

Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 21 of 31 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

17 shots
Every shotBy zone
Opponent goalLeftRight
GoalNo goalMark area is the chance’s expected goals

Will Hughes, 2025/26 · 17 shots in the final 35m, 0 scored. Shape carries the outcome rather than colour, so it reads in print and to anyone who cannot separate the hues.

left
58%
Centre
32%
right
10%

share of their shooting xG

Chance quality

xG per shot, distance, how they arrive
xG per shot
0.075
Shots per 90
0.98
Key passes per 90
1.21
Average shot distance
19.4m
From set pieces
3%

How their chances arrive

Crosses
0%
Through balls
39%
Own dribble
1%
Headed
0%

What they are for

Roles

penalties, set pieces, crossing, partnerships
  • Corners and set piecesSupplies 9% of Crystal Palace’s dead-ball danger, from 9 deliveries that became shots.
  • On the pitch46% of the minutes available to them.

Partnerships

  • Feeds Jefferson Lerma2 shots, 0.69 xG
  • Feeds Yeremi Pino5 shots, 0.31 xG
  • Feeds Chris Richards3 shots, 0.23 xG
  • Fed by Yeremi Pino5 shots, 0.80 xG

A share of the attack says how much runs through Will Hughes. 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
  1. Yeremi Pino0.8 xG5 shots · 0g
  2. Tyrick Mitchell0.1 xG2 shots · 0g
  3. Daniel Muñoz0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
  4. Adam Wharton0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
  5. Brennan Johnson0.0 xG1 shot · 0g

Chances created

who they supply
  1. Jefferson Lerma0.7 xG2 shots · 0g
  2. Yeremi Pino0.3 xG5 shots · 0g
  3. Chris Richards0.2 xG3 shots · 0g
  4. Jørgen Strand Larsen0.2 xG2 shots · 0g
  5. Maxence Lacroix0.2 xG2 shots · 0g

Season record

Involvement in build-up

excludes their own shots and final passes

Will Hughes carries 5.9% of Crystal Palace’s build-up value.

  • Build-up per 900.309
    68% of midfielders
  • Possession value per 900.405
    52% of midfielders

Ranked against 142 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. 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 · 2025/26

They account for 5.3% of their club’s recorded defensive work.

  • Tackles1.62
    48% of MID
  • Blocks, clearances, interceptions3.12
    80% of MID
  • Recoveries3.81
    31% of MID
  • Defensive contribution8.54
    56% of MID

Rates from 1,560 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
  • at Manchester United
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Burnley
    1 shot0 OT
  • at Nottingham Forest
    4 shots0 OT
  • vs Aston Villa
    1 shot0 OT
  • at Newcastle United
    4 shots0 OT
  • vs Fulham
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Tottenham
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Manchester City
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Sunderland
    1 shot0 OT
  • vs Nottingham Forest
    2 shots0 OT

Solid marks are on target, faded ones off. 21 further appearances produced no shot and are not listed, but are counted in the rates above.

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