Crystal Palace · 2025/26
Will Hughes
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 2vs 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
- Projected on target
- 0.00
0.98 per 90 × 0.83
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 shotsWill Hughes, 2025/26 · final 35m.
- 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- Yeremi Pino0.8 xG5 shots · 0g
- Tyrick Mitchell0.1 xG2 shots · 0g
- Daniel Muñoz0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
- Adam Wharton0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
- Brennan Johnson0.0 xG1 shot · 0g
Chances created
who they supply- Jefferson Lerma0.7 xG2 shots · 0g
- Yeremi Pino0.3 xG5 shots · 0g
- Chris Richards0.2 xG3 shots · 0g
- Jørgen Strand Larsen0.2 xG2 shots · 0g
- Maxence Lacroix0.2 xG2 shots · 0g
Season record
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passesWill Hughes carries 5.9% of Crystal Palace’s build-up value.
- Build-up per 900.30968% of midfielders
- Possession value per 900.40552% 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 · 2025/26They account for 5.3% of their club’s recorded defensive work.
- Tackles1.6248% of MID
- Blocks, clearances, interceptions3.1280% of MID
- Recoveries3.8131% of MID
- Defensive contribution8.5456% 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- 1 shot0 OTat Manchester United
- 1 shot0 OTvs Burnley
- 4 shots0 OTat Nottingham Forest
- 1 shot0 OTvs Aston Villa
- 4 shots0 OTat Newcastle United
- 1 shot0 OTvs Fulham
- 1 shot0 OTvs Tottenham
- 1 shot0 OTvs Manchester City
- 1 shot0 OTvs Sunderland
- 2 shots0 OTvs Nottingham Forest
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.