Matt Crooks

An unusually tall midfielder who scores the kind of goals strikers are supposed to score, arriving late in the box, winning the header, finishing from six yards. He has been a genuine goal threat everywhere he has played.
England Hull City MID
Appearances
3
Goals
0

Season Snapshot

Minutes played
204
68.00 per match
Assists
0
Key passes
1
Pass accuracy
76%

Season Stats

Appearances
3
Minutes played
204
Goals
0
Assists
0
Key passes
1
Accuracy
76%

League Rankings

Among Premier League 2026/27 midfielders

Assists
29th of 29
Key passes
81st of 96
Pass accuracy
72st of 109
Goals
32nd of 32
🟨 Most Cards #7 of 152
👻 Ghost Players #37 of 273
😈 The Bad Boys #93 of 326
💪 Workhorses #198 of 273
👑 Assist Kings #217 of 273
🎯 Pass Masters #260 of 417
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Sun 25 Oct
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Matt Crooks, A Midfielder Who Arrives Late

A midfielder who has scored at a rate most forwards in the Championship would be perfectly happy with.

Crooks is built like a centre half and finishes like a number nine, a combination that has produced goals at Rotherham, at Middlesbrough and almost everywhere else he has been. His best trick is the timing of the run into the box, arriving after the defenders have already committed to marking somebody else, then getting his head to a cross nobody thought was his.

The step up asks whether that timing survives against defences who track runners properly. Championship sides regularly lose a late arrival in the confusion of a set piece, while top flight centre halves are drilled specifically to prevent it. Watch where he starts his run rather than where he finishes it, because the yard he steals before the delivery is the whole thing.

The Rest Of The Squad

33 players

Goalkeepers

19
Konstantinos Tzolakis
Age 23
5 apps
55
Archie Howard
Age 19
0 apps
12
Dillon Phillips
Age 31
0 apps
1
Jack Butland
Age 33
0 apps

Defenders

15
John Egan
Age 33
5 apps
2
Lewie Coyle
Age 30
5 apps
22
Lucas Herrington
Australia · Age 19
5 apps
3
Ryan Giles
Age 26
5 apps 1a
6
Semi Ajayi
Age 32
5 apps 1g
32
Nobel Mendy
Age 22
4 apps 1g
18
Brooke Norton-Cuffy
Age 22
2 apps
23
Matt Targett
Middlesbrough · Age 31
1 app
17
Paddy McNair
Age 31
1 app
4
Charlie Hughes
Age 22
0 apps

Midfielders

27
Regan Slater
Age 27
5 apps 1a
21
Elliot Stroud
Sweden · Age 24
4 apps
29
Lucas Gourna-Douath
Age 23
3 apps
42
Tim Iroegbunam
Everton · Age 23
3 apps
5
Hidemasa Morita
Age 31
1 app
14
Jens Hjertø-Dahl
Age 20
1 app
33
Abdülkadir Ömür
Age 27
0 apps
36
Christos Mouzakitis
Age 19
0 apps
24
Darko Gyabi
Age 22
0 apps
8
Eliot Matazo
Age 24
0 apps
26
Kieran Dowell
Age 28
0 apps
20
Óscar Zambrano
Age 22
0 apps

Forwards

10
Mohamed Belloumi
Age 24
5 apps 2g 2a
9
Oliver McBurnie
Age 30
5 apps 1a
50
Mohamed-Ali Cho
Age 22
4 apps 1g
7
Sorba Thomas
Stoke City · Age 27
3 apps
47
Robinio Vaz
Age 19
2 apps
11
Joe Gelhardt
Age 24
1 app
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Ilyas Ansah
Age 21
0 apps
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