Our index calls it: Vandevoordt 5.0, not 7.9 — Leipzig's widest grading gap

The Pred1x Grade verdict is blunt: Maarten Vandevoordt does not belong near the top of this sheet. Our index hands the RB Leipzig keeper 5.0 — 2.9 points below the reference rating — and that distance is the loudest disagreement of the night. A 7.9 for a goalkeeper beaten three times at home is exactly the kind of occasion-inflation our position-weighted, per-90 normalized model is built to strip out.

The rest of the sheet keeps its head. Elliot Anderson topped our grades at 7.6, with Erling Haaland close behind at 7.5 — both cooler than the reference's 8.5 and 7.6. The away winners carry the sheet, mirrored by one home bright spot: Antonio Nusa at 6.8, still 1.2 under his reference 8.0. Rômulo (4.6 vs 6.4) and Christopher Nkunku (5.1 vs 6.8) fall the same way. When the gaps lean toward the losing side this broadly, our index reads the reference as grading the occasion rather than the production — and Vandevoordt is where that gap peaks at 2.9.

Pred1x Grade runs 0-10 from box-score production, position-weighted and per-90 normalized, with a 30-minute minimum. The reference rating is shown for comparison only.