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Player

Michael Smith

Forward Preston North End → Championship · 2025/2026

Goals

3

from 3.72 xG

Assists

1

from 0.80 xA

xGI

4.52

0.28 per 90

Minutes

1,472

37 appearances

A per-90 figure needs 270 minutes — three full matches — so below that it is left off.

What Michael Smith's numbers say

Michael Smith has 3 goals from 3.72 expected goals, a gap of −0.72 that is in line with expected. He has 0.80 expected assists against 1 assist, roughly as many as the chances he made were worth. Across 1,472 minutes, his 4.52 expected goal involvement comes to 0.28 per 90.

Actual vs expected

Championship · 2025/2026

Finishing

Goals 3
xG 3.72
Goals − xG
−0.72
Shots
29
xG/shot
0.13
Conversion
10.3%

Creativity

Assists 1
xA 0.80
Assists − xA
+0.20
Key passes
11
Big chances created
0

A gap inside 1.50 either way is left uncoloured: over one player's season that is the width of the sample rather than a distance from the chances.

Where he ranks in Championship · 2025/2026

Metric Value Rank
Season totals
Goals 3 #130 of 749
xG 3.72 #127 of 617
xA 0.80 #341 of 749
xGI 4.52 #198 of 617
Shots 29 #175 of 749
Per 90
xG/90 0.23 #102 of 520
xA/90 0.05 #353 of 568
xGI/90 0.28 #164 of 520
Shots/90 1.77 #155 of 568

Per-90 ranks include players with at least 450 minutes. Season totals rank everyone who has appeared.

At Preston North End · 2025/2026

Ranked among the 30 players who have appeared for Preston North End.

  1. #5 xG 3.77
  2. #15 xA 0.80
  3. #8 xGI 4.57
  4. #5 Goals 3

Summed from the per-match feed, as the squad table is. The band's expected goals are this site's own shot-by-shot figure, so the two can differ.

View Preston North End squad stats →

Recent form

Counted over his appearances, not his club's matches · Championship 2025/2026

Goals
0
xG
0.06
Assists
0
xA
0.12
xGI
0.18
xGI/90
—
Shots/90
—

Over his last 5 appearances · 0 started · 52 minutes A per-90 figure needs 270 minutes — three full matches — so below that it is left off.

Chances, match by match

Every match he played · Championship 2025/2026 · xG from this site's shot-by-shot model, as in the band

Over these 37 matches · xG 3.72 · xA 0.80 · xGI 4.52 · Goals 3 · Assists 1

Sat 09/08 · vs Queens Park Rangers, Away, D 1–1 · 75 min · xG 0.04 · xA 0.02 · xGI 0.06 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 16/08 · vs Leicester City, Home, W 2–1 · 90 min · xG 0.33 · xA 0.06 · xGI 0.39 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 23/08 · vs Ipswich Town, Home, W 1–0 · 73 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.11 · xGI 0.11 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 30/08 · vs Portsmouth, Away, L 0–1 · 90 min · xG 0.16 · xA 0.06 · xGI 0.22 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 13/09 · vs Middlesbrough, Home, D 2–2 · 28 min · xG 0.12 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.12 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 20/09 · vs Derby County, Away, W 1–0 · 12 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.07 · xGI 0.07 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 27/09 · vs Bristol City, Home, D 0–0 · 27 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.01 · xGI 0.01 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Tue 30/09 · vs Hull City, Away, D 2–2 · 71 min · xG 0.25 · xA 0.03 · xGI 0.28 · Goals 1 · Assists 0 Sat 04/10 · vs Charlton Athletic, Home, W 2–0 · 9 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 18/10 · vs West Bromwich Albion, Away, L 1–2 · 21 min · xG 0.37 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.37 · Goals 1 · Assists 0 Tue 21/10 · vs Birmingham City, Home, L 0–1 · 90 min · xG 0.23 · xA 0.01 · xGI 0.24 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Fri 24/10 · vs Sheffield United, Home, W 3–2 · 12 min · xG 0.68 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.68 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 01/11 · vs Southampton, Away, W 2–0 · 28 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Wed 05/11 · vs Swansea City, Home, W 2–1 · 22 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 08/11 · vs Millwall, Away, D 1–1 · 90 min · xG 0.38 · xA 0.02 · xGI 0.40 · Goals 1 · Assists 0 Fri 21/11 · vs Blackburn Rovers, Home, L 1–2 · 90 min · xG 0.06 · xA 0.05 · xGI 0.11 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Tue 25/11 · vs Watford, Away, D 1–1 · 9 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 29/11 · vs Sheffield Wednesday, Away, W 3–2 · 45 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 06/12 · vs Wrexham, Home, D 1–1 · 90 min · xG 0.08 · xA 0.06 · xGI 0.14 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Tue 09/12 · vs Coventry City, Home, D 1–1 · 15 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 13/12 · vs Oxford United, Away, W 2–1 · 22 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.01 · xGI 0.01 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 20/12 · vs Norwich City, Home, D 1–1 · 90 min · xG 0.17 · xA 0.04 · xGI 0.21 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Fri 26/12 · vs Stoke City, Away, D 0–0 · 90 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.01 · xGI 0.01 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Mon 29/12 · vs Wrexham, Away, L 1–2 · 26 min · xG 0.17 · xA 0.02 · xGI 0.19 · Goals 0 · Assists 1 Thu 01/01 · vs Sheffield Wednesday, Home, W 3–0 · 62 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.03 · xGI 0.03 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 17/01 · vs Derby County, Home, L 0–1 · 11 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.04 · xGI 0.04 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Tue 20/01 · vs Hull City, Home, L 0–3 · 45 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.01 · xGI 0.01 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 24/01 · vs Middlesbrough, Away, L 0–4 · 14 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 07/02 · vs Portsmouth, Home, W 1–0 · 45 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Tue 24/02 · vs Swansea City, Away, D 1–1 · 18 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 28/02 · vs Millwall, Home, L 0–2 · 1 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 14/03 · vs Norwich City, Away, L 0–2 · 9 min · xG 0.62 · xA 0.02 · xGI 0.64 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Fri 20/03 · vs Stoke City, Home, W 3–1 · 11 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.01 · xGI 0.01 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Fri 03/04 · vs Leicester City, Away, D 2–2 · 10 min · xG 0.06 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.06 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 18/04 · vs West Bromwich Albion, Home, L 0–2 · 18 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.11 · xGI 0.11 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Wed 22/04 · vs Birmingham City, Away, L 1–2 · 12 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0 Sat 25/04 · vs Sheffield United, Away, W 3–2 · 1 min · xG 0.00 · xA 0.00 · xGI 0.00 · Goals 0 · Assists 0

Every match

Every match he played · Championship 2025/2026 · 37 matches
W vs Sheffield United 3–2 25/04/2026 · 1′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh L vs Birmingham City 1–2 22/04/2026 · 12′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh L vs West Bromwich Albion 0–2 18/04/2026 · 18′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.11 xA 0.11 xGI 0 sh D vs Leicester City 2–2 03/04/2026 · 10′ 0 G 0 A 0.06 xG 0.00 xA 0.06 xGI 1 sh W vs Stoke City 3–1 20/03/2026 · 11′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.01 xA 0.01 xGI 0 sh L vs Norwich City 0–2 14/03/2026 · 9′ 0 G 0 A 0.62 xG 0.02 xA 0.64 xGI 1 sh L vs Millwall 0–2 28/02/2026 · 1′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh D vs Swansea City 1–1 24/02/2026 · 18′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh W vs Portsmouth 1–0 07/02/2026 · 45′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh L vs Middlesbrough 0–4 24/01/2026 · 14′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh L vs Hull City 0–3 20/01/2026 · 45′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.01 xA 0.01 xGI 0 sh L vs Derby County 0–1 17/01/2026 · 11′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.04 xA 0.04 xGI 0 sh W vs Sheffield Wednesday 3–0 01/01/2026 · 62′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.03 xA 0.03 xGI 0 sh L vs Wrexham 1–2 29/12/2025 · 26′ 0 G 1 A 0.17 xG 0.02 xA 0.19 xGI 1 sh D vs Stoke City 0–0 26/12/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.01 xA 0.01 xGI 0 sh D vs Norwich City 1–1 20/12/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.17 xG 0.04 xA 0.21 xGI 1 sh W vs Oxford United 2–1 13/12/2025 · 22′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.01 xA 0.01 xGI 0 sh D vs Coventry City 1–1 09/12/2025 · 15′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh D vs Wrexham 1–1 06/12/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.08 xG 0.06 xA 0.14 xGI 2 sh W vs Sheffield Wednesday 3–2 29/11/2025 · 45′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh D vs Watford 1–1 25/11/2025 · 9′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh L vs Blackburn Rovers 1–2 21/11/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.06 xG 0.05 xA 0.11 xGI 2 sh D vs Millwall 1–1 08/11/2025 · 90′ 1 G 0 A 0.38 xG 0.02 xA 0.40 xGI 2 sh W vs Swansea City 2–1 05/11/2025 · 22′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh W vs Southampton 2–0 01/11/2025 · 28′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh W vs Sheffield United 3–2 24/10/2025 · 12′ 0 G 0 A 0.68 xG 0.00 xA 0.68 xGI 1 sh L vs Birmingham City 0–1 21/10/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.23 xG 0.01 xA 0.24 xGI 6 sh L vs West Bromwich Albion 1–2 18/10/2025 · 21′ 1 G 0 A 0.37 xG 0.00 xA 0.37 xGI 1 sh W vs Charlton Athletic 2–0 04/10/2025 · 9′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.00 xA 0.00 xGI 0 sh D vs Hull City 2–2 30/09/2025 · 71′ 1 G 0 A 0.25 xG 0.03 xA 0.28 xGI 2 sh D vs Bristol City 0–0 27/09/2025 · 27′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.01 xA 0.01 xGI 0 sh W vs Derby County 1–0 20/09/2025 · 12′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.07 xA 0.07 xGI 0 sh D vs Middlesbrough 2–2 13/09/2025 · 28′ 0 G 0 A 0.12 xG 0.00 xA 0.12 xGI 1 sh L vs Portsmouth 0–1 30/08/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.16 xG 0.06 xA 0.22 xGI 2 sh W vs Ipswich Town 1–0 23/08/2025 · 73′ 0 G 0 A 0.00 xG 0.11 xA 0.11 xGI 0 sh W vs Leicester City 2–1 16/08/2025 · 90′ 0 G 0 A 0.33 xG 0.06 xA 0.39 xGI 4 sh D vs Queens Park Rangers 1–1 09/08/2025 · 75′ 0 G 0 A 0.04 xG 0.02 xA 0.06 xGI 2 sh
Over these 37 matches 1,472′ 3 G 1 A 3.72 xG 0.80 xA 4.52 xGI 29 sh

Shot map

Shots placed in Championship, 2025/2026

Shots
29
Goals
3
xG
3.72
xG/shot
0.13
10' goal · 20 m · 0.09 xG 10' attempt · 14 m · 0.04 xG 15' goal · 14 m · 0.32 xG 15' attempt · 3 m · 0.09 xG 28' attempt · 10 m · 0.13 xG 37' attempt · 15 m · 0.02 xG 38' attempt · 11 m · 0.04 xG 38' attempt · 10 m · 0.08 xG 52' attempt · 13 m · 0.02 xG 52' attempt · 12 m · 0.02 xG 53' attempt · 11 m · 0.02 xG 57' attempt · 7 m · 0.16 xG 59' attempt · 8 m · 0.17 xG 61' attempt · 36 m · 0.01 xG 63' attempt · 14 m · 0.06 xG 65' attempt · 7 m · 0.10 xG 66' attempt · 7 m · 0.12 xG 66' attempt · 6 m · 0.17 xG 70' attempt · 4 m · 0.08 xG 74' attempt · 13 m · 0.03 xG 76' attempt · 3 m · 0.01 xG 78' goal · 10 m · 0.37 xG 83' attempt · 9 m · 0.07 xG 83' attempt · 13 m · 0.07 xG 83' attempt · 8 m · 0.05 xG 86' attempt · 8 m · 0.68 xG 87' attempt · 21 m · 0.02 xG 89' attempt · 9 m · 0.06 xG 90' attempt · 4 m · 0.62 xG

One dot per shot, placed where it was taken, sized by what the chance was worth. Filled dots are goals. Per-shot data exists for 19 competitions.

Career

Every season

Every season and competition on record — not only the season above.

2025/2026 This page Preston North End Apps37 Goals3 Assists1 xGI4.52

League Championship

Minutes
1,472
xG
3.72
xA
0.80

Expected goals and assists are published for Championship. A dash is a competition that publishes neither, not a season without chances.

Full stats

2025/2026 · Championship

A dash is a figure the provider did not send; a nought is one it measured at nought.

Attacking

Goals
3
xG
3.72
npxG
—
Shots
29
Shots on target
7
Shot accuracy
24.1%
Conversion
10.3%
xG/shot
0.13

Goals, Shots, and Shots on target: summed from the per-match feed, this competition only, current to his last match. xG: summed from this site's shot-by-shot model. Shot accuracy, Conversion, and xG/shot: calculated here from the figures beside them.

Creativity

Assists
1
xA
0.80
Assists − xA
+0.20
Key passes
11
Big chances created
0

Assists, xA, Key passes, and Big chances created: summed from the per-match feed, this competition only, current to his last match. Assists − xA: calculated here from the figures beside them.

Possession

Touches
592

Touches: summed from the per-match feed, this competition only, current to his last match.

Other measured

5 figures
Appearances
37
Starts
13
Minutes
1,472
Goals + assists
4
Shots off target
19

Appearances, Starts, Minutes, and Shots off target: summed from the per-match feed, this competition only, current to his last match. Goals + assists: calculated here from the figures beside them.

About the data

Where every figure on this page came from, and how every figure calculated here was calculated.

In the competitions the per-match feed covers, every count — appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists, shots and the rest — is summed from the matches each night, and the provider's season line supplies only what the matches do not carry, its percentages and its pass, duel, dribble and discipline figures, bought in full every 21 days, with every squad checked every 7 days for players the competition has not seen before; in every other competition the season line is the only source, and it is bought in full every 7 days.

Three sources

The provider's season line
One record per player per competition-season, refreshed only when it is bought again, so it can stand a few rounds behind the matches. The source of the rating, duel, dribble and pass figures in Full stats, which nothing else carries, and of the counts in a competition-season the per-match feed holds no match of his in. Full stats prints the day it was fetched.
The provider's per-match feed
One record per player per match, kept current for 19 competitions, each from the season its coverage began. The source of xA, npxG and touches, of xG where there is no shot feed, and of appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists, shots, shots on target, key passes and big chances created wherever it holds a match he played. Summed over one competition-season at a time.
This site's shot-by-shot model
An xG value for every shot, for the same competitions. The source of xG wherever it exists, and of the shot map.

Which xG

Where a competition has the shot feed, xG is this site's sum over his shots; otherwise it is the provider's per-match figure. The two are slightly different definitions of expected goals, so they are never mixed inside one competition-season.

On this page, xG is this site's shot-by-shot figure — Championship has the shot feed.

Which counts

Appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists, shots, shots on target, key passes and big chances created are summed from the per-match feed over that competition's fixtures wherever it holds a match he played in that competition-season, and are the provider's season line only where it holds none. One source for all nine together, chosen once per competition-season rather than figure by figure, so a count is never set against an expected figure summed on a different day.

On this page, the counts are summed from the per-match feed — it holds his Championship matches this season. No season line has been bought for him in this competition-season yet, so Full stats carries only the figures the per-match feed does.

Rules

A per-90 figure about him needs 270 minutes — three full matches. A per-90 league rank needs 450 minutes, because a rank sets him against everybody else in the competition and a short run at the top of a table displaces a player with a whole season behind him.

A dash is a figure nobody measured; a nought is a figure measured at nought. A sum over no rows is a dash, and a division by nothing is a dash rather than zero.

Every section above Every season counts one competition in one season — Championship 2025/2026 — and only the matches he played. Every season counts his whole career, every competition. No figure is summed across competitions.

Formulas

xG
The sum of this site's per-shot xG over his shots in this competition-season where it has the shot feed; otherwise the sum of the provider's per-match xG.
xA
The sum of the provider's per-match xA over his matches in this competition-season.
xGI
xG + xA. A dash unless both exist.
Goals − xG
Goals − xG, signed.
Assists − xA
Assists − xA, signed.
Per 90
Figure × 90 ÷ minutes. A dash below the per-90 floor.
xG/shot
xG ÷ shots. A dash with no shots.
Conversion
Goals × 100 ÷ shots. A dash with no shots.
Shot accuracy
Shots on target × 100 ÷ shots. A dash with no shots.
npxG
The sum of the provider's per-match non-penalty xG. A dash for the season if any match in it lacks the figure.
Non-penalty goals
Goals − penalty goals.
NP goals − npxG
(Goals − penalty goals) − npxG, signed.
Touches
The sum of the provider's per-match touches. A dash for the season if any match in it lacks the figure.
Map xG/shot
The xG of the shots drawn on the map ÷ the number drawn. Shots without coordinates are left out of both.
Ranks
Highest first; tied players share the higher place and the next is skipped — 1, 2, 2, 4. A player with no figure for a metric is left out of its ranking rather than placed last.

How the site's expected-goals model works

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