Watford's 2025/2026 squad, ranked by minutes played. Compare goals, assists, xG, xA and expected goal involvement across the squad.
What the squad numbers say
Imrân Louza leads the squad for expected goal involvement, with 15.75: 7.55 expected goals and 8.20 expected assists. The top scorer is Luca Kjerrumgaard, with 10 goals from 7.29 expected goals. The same player carries the widest gap between goals and expected goals in the squad: 10 goals against 7.29 expected goals, +2.71 above them.
Expected goals
Expected assists
Expected goal involvement
Taken over players with at least 180 minutes and 2.00 expected goals, so the gap is measured against chances actually taken rather than against one afternoon of them.
The squad
| Player | POS | APP | MIN | SH | G | xG | G−xG | CONV | npxG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imrân Louza | Midfielder | 42 | 3587 | 85 | 7 | 7.55 | −0.55 | 8% | 5.89 |
| Egil Selvik | Goalkeeper | 40 | 3555 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 |
| Marc Bola | Defender | 37 | 2905 | 35 | 2 | 1.89 | +0.11 | 6% | 1.84 |
| Matthew Pollock | Defender | 35 | 2902 | 16 | 1 | 1.74 | −0.74 | 6% | 1.78 |
| Luca Kjerrumgaard | Forward | 43 | 2869 | 69 | 10 | 7.29 | +2.71 | 14% | 7.72 |
| Jeremy Ngakia | Defender | 33 | 2610 | 25 | 3 | 1.86 | +1.14 | 12% | 1.81 |
| James Abankwah | Defender | 31 | 2602 | 10 | 1 | 0.44 | +0.56 | 10% | 0.48 |
| Edo Kayembe | Midfielder | 37 | 2504 | 56 | 4 | 4.11 | −0.11 | 7% | 3.20 |
| Kévin Keben Biakolo | Defender | 29 | 2120 | 7 | 0 | 0.50 | −0.50 | 0% | 0.68 |
| Nestory Irankunda | Forward | 40 | 2042 | 68 | 4 | 5.29 | −1.29 | 6% | 4.95 |
| Hector Kyprianou | Midfielder | 25 | 1927 | 6 | 0 | 0.55 | −0.55 | 0% | 0.57 |
| Giorgi Chakvetadze | Midfielder | 29 | 1797 | 21 | 0 | 1.52 | −1.52 | 0% | 1.05 |
| Mamadou Doumbia | Forward | 33 | 1684 | 44 | 4 | 3.37 | +0.63 | 9% | 3.64 |
| Othmane Maamma | Forward | 25 | 1638 | 44 | 4 | 3.52 | +0.48 | 9% | 3.50 |
| Nampalys Mendy | Midfielder | 25 | 1533 | 5 | 0 | 0.18 | −0.18 | 0% | 0.21 |
| Max Alleyne | Defender | 16 | 1273 | 5 | 0 | 0.27 | −0.27 | 0% | 0.29 |
| Tom Ince | Midfielder | 27 | 1047 | 36 | 4 | 4.10 | −0.10 | 11% | 3.12 |
| Saba Goglichidze | Defender | 12 | 922 | 6 | 0 | 0.79 | −0.79 | 0% | 0.69 |
| Jeremy Petris | Defender | 17 | 898 | 1 | 0 | 0.14 | −0.14 | 0% | 0.16 |
| Kwadwo Baah | Forward | 27 | 852 | 22 | 1 | 0.92 | +0.08 | 5% | 0.96 |
| Moussa Sissoko | Midfielder | 20 | 779 | 3 | 0 | 0.38 | −0.38 | 0% | 0.40 |
| Vivaldo | Forward | 26 | 754 | 27 | 4 | 3.38 | +0.62 | 15% | 3.47 |
| Stephen Mfuni | Defender | 8 | 672 | 6 | 0 | 0.73 | −0.73 | 0% | 0.71 |
| Nathan Baxter | Goalkeeper | 7 | 585 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 |
| Rocco Vata | Forward | 12 | 534 | 24 | 2 | 3.40 | −1.40 | 8% | 3.34 |
| Edoardo Bove | Midfielder | 11 | 298 | 3 | 1 | 1.03 | −0.03 | 33% | 1.02 |
| Pierre Ekwah | Midfielder | 7 | 280 | 4 | 0 | 0.10 | −0.10 | 0% | 0.10 |
| Caleb Wiley | Defender | 5 | 221 | 3 | 0 | 0.44 | −0.44 | 0% | 0.48 |
| Formose Mendy | Defender | 6 | 191 | 2 | 0 | 0.05 | −0.05 | 0% | 0.05 |
| Amin Nabizada | Forward | 3 | 92 | 4 | 0 | 0.15 | −0.15 | 0% | 0.16 |
| Jack Grieves | Forward | 3 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 |
| Ryan Andrews | Defender | 3 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — |
| Jonathan Lawson | Forward | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 |
| James Morris | Defender | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 |
| Tom Dele-Bashiru | Midfielder | 1 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0.06 | −0.06 | 0% | 0.06 |
| Pierre Dwomoh | Midfielder | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — |
| Albert Eames | Defender | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Alfie Marriott | Goalkeeper | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Amar Sanghrajka | Midfielder | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Joshua Mullins | Defender | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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Rates per ninety minutes are shown for a player with at least 270 minutes behind him — the control above moves that floor, and it moves nothing else. Minutes share is a player's minutes against the 46 matches this club has played in this competition, at ninety minutes each. Expected goals, non-penalty expected goals and expected assists are summed from this competition's per-match feed, so a player it holds no figures for carries a dash rather than a nought.
Where these figures come from, and what they leave out
- Data source
- Where the per-match feed covers Championship, every figure on a row — appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists, shots, and the expected goals, expected assists and non-penalty expected goals beside them — is summed from it over the matches he played for this club. Where it does not, the counts are the provider's season line. Championship only — no figure here adds two competitions together.
- Calculated by xgEdge
- xGI, the per-90 rates, goals minus expected goals, xGI share and minutes share are worked out here from those figures. Nothing on this page is a model's output.
- Missing data
- A dash means a figure was not measured; a nought means it was measured and came to nothing. Per-90 figures are hidden below the minimum-minutes setting, which opens at 270 and never removes a row.