Nottingham Forest · 2025/26
Neco Williams
Neco Williams ranks 206th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 22.3m on average, with 27% of their danger coming from set pieces. They carry 8% of Nottingham Forest’s attacking output, the 6th largest share in the squad.
This week
Next fixture
Gameweek 2away to Liverpool
Sat 29 Aug, 11:30 UTC
Liverpool concede 11.5 shots a match and are 1.01× the league norm against defenders. Roughly an average matchup.
- Projected shots
- 1.24
- Projected on target
- 0.52
1.29 per 90 × 0.96
0.53 per 90 × 0.98
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
37 appearances- Over 0.565%± 8
- Over 1.530%± 8
- Over 2.516%± 6
- Over 3.55%± 4
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 13 of 37 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Shots on target
37 appearances- Over 0.535%± 8
- Over 1.514%± 6
- Over 2.53%± 3
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 13 of 37 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
46 shotsNeco Williams, 2025/26 · final 35m.
- left
- 57%
- Centre
- 30%
- right
- 13%
share of their shooting xG
Chance quality
xG per shot, distance, how they arrive- xG per shot
- 0.041
- Shots per 90
- 1.29
- Key passes per 90
- 1.01
- Average shot distance
- 22.3m
- From set pieces
- 27%
How their chances arrive
- Crosses
- 42%
- Through balls
- 0%
- Own dribble
- 6%
- Headed
- 13%
What they are for
Roles
penalties, set pieces, crossing, partnerships- Open-play crosses9 crosses from open play became shots, worth 1.62 xG.
- Corners and set piecesSupplies 14% of Nottingham Forest’s dead-ball danger, from 10 deliveries that became shots.
- On the pitch94% of the minutes available to them.
Partnerships
- Feeds Igor Jesus7 shots, 1.14 xG
- Feeds Taiwo Awoniyi2 shots, 0.73 xG
- Feeds Callum Hudson-Odoi4 shots, 0.52 xG
- Feeds Nicolò Savona1 shot, 0.44 xG
A share of the attack says how much runs through Neco Williams. 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- Oleksandr Zinchenko0.3 xG1 shot · 0g
- Elliot Anderson0.2 xG4 shots · 0g
- Callum Hudson-Odoi0.2 xG8 shots · 1g
- Morgan Gibbs-White0.1 xG5 shots · 0g
- Omari Hutchinson0.1 xG3 shots · 0g
Chances created
who they supply- Igor Jesus1.1 xG7 shots · 1g
- Taiwo Awoniyi0.7 xG2 shots · 1g
- Callum Hudson-Odoi0.5 xG4 shots · 0g
- Nicolò Savona0.4 xG1 shot · 1g
- Elliot Anderson0.4 xG2 shots · 0g
Season record
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passesNeco Williams carries 10.0% of Nottingham Forest’s build-up value.
- Build-up per 900.25354% of defenders
- Possession value per 900.34068% of defenders
Ranked against 119 defenders 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 10.1% of their club’s recorded defensive work.
- Tackles2.7089% of DEF
- Blocks, clearances, interceptions4.2421% of DEF
- Recoveries4.6182% of DEF
- Defensive contribution6.9437% of DEF
Rates from 3,203 minutes, ranked against 113 defenders 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 shots1 OTvs Bournemouth
- 1 shot0 OTvs Newcastle United
- 1 shot0 OTat Sunderland
- 2 shots0 OTvs Burnley
- 4 shots3 OTvs Aston Villa1g
- 2 shots2 OTat Tottenham
- 2 shots0 OTvs Fulham
- 1 shot0 OTvs Liverpool
- 7 shots2 OTvs Wolverhampton Wanderers
- 2 shots1 OTat West Ham
Solid marks are on target, faded ones off. 13 further appearances produced no shot and are not listed, but are counted in the rates above.