“The player you hadn’t known before seeing him at the 2026 World Cup—and ended up admiring”

 

122 Vozinha (CVe, 40, Chaves)

22 Sidny Lopes Cabral (Cve, 23, Benfica)

19 Ayoub Bouaddi (Mar, 18, Lille)

19 Pedro Porro (Esp, 26, Tottenham)

18 Yan Diomande (Ivo, 19, RB Leipzig)

18 Anthony Gordon (Eng, 25, Newcastle)

12 Ismael Saibari (Mar, 30, PSV)

11 Mostafa Ziko (Egy, 29, Pyramids)

11 Marc Cucurella (Esp, 27, Chelsea)

11 Gustavo Puerta (Col, 22, Racing Santander)

8 Johan Manzambi (Sui, 20, Freiburg)

8 Gilberto Mora (Mex, 17, Tijuana)

8 Orlando Gill (Par, 26, San Lorenzo)

7 Pau Cubarsí (Esp, 19, Barcelona)

6 Andreas Schjelderup (Nor, 22, Benfica)

6 Antonio Nusa (Nor, 21, RB Leipzig)

6 Crysencio Summerville (Ned, 24, West Ham)

6 Djed Spence (Eng, 25, Tottenham)

5 Tim Payne (NZ, 32, Wellington Phoenix)

5 Julián Quiñones (Mex, 22, Al-Qadsiah)

4 Elliot Anderson (Eng, 23, Nott'm Forest)

4 Álex Baena (Esp, 24, Atlético Madrid)

4 Mikel Oyarzabal (Esp, 29, Real Sociedad)

3 Keito Nakamura (Jap, 25, Reims)

3 Ismaïla Sarr (Sen, 28, Crystal Palace)

3 Trézéguet (Egy, 31, Al Ahly)

2 Folarin Balogun (USA, 24, Monaco)

2 Facundo Medina (Arg, 27, Marseille)

2 Bart Verbruggen (Ned, 23, Brighton)

2 Juninho Bacuna (Cur, 28, Volendam)

2 Michael Olise (Fra, 24, Bayern)

2 Érik Lira (Mex, 29, Betis)

2 Lionel Mpasi (DRC, 31, Le Havre)

2 Leandro Paredes (Arg, 31, Boca Juniors)

1 Yasin Ayari (Swe, 22, Brighton)

1 Anthony Elanga (Swe, 24, Newcastle)

1 Deniz Undav (Deu, 29, Stuttgart)

1 Renato Veiga (Por, 22, Villarreal)

1 Kristoffer Ajer (Nor, 28, Brentford)

1 Aymeric Laporte (Esp, 32, Athletic Bilbao)

1 Pape Gueye (Sen, 27, Villarreal)

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Atlético top players in history

 

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World Cup top rated players (Gazzetta dello Sport)

7,44 Messi (8, Arg)

7,30 Vinicius (5, Bra)

7,25 Mbappé (8, Fra)

7,20 Haaland (5, Nor)

7,12 Manzambi (4, Sui)

7,00 Pedro Porro (6, Esp), Pico Lopes (4, Cve)

6,94 Bellingham (8, Eng)

6,90 Quiñones (5, Mex), Saibari (5, Mar), Gill (5, Par)

6,88 Múñoz (4, Col), I. Sarr (Sen)

6,80 Diogo Costa (5, Por), R. Vargas (5, Sui)

6,79 Dani Olmo (7, Esp)

6,75 Vozinha (4, CVe), Rodri (8, Esp), Tillman (4, USA), Ounahi (6, Mar), Nakamura (4, Jap), Livakovic (4, Cro), Y. Diomandé (4, Ivo), Mpasi (4, DRC)

6,70 Bruno Guimarães (5, Bra)

6,69 Olise (8, Fra)

6,67 Hakimi (6, Mar) 

6,64 Lautaro Martínez (7, Arg)

6,62 Cucurella (8, Esp), J. Vásquez, Lira (4, Mex), Verbruggen, Gakpo (4, Ned), Z. Suzuki (4, Jap), A. Diallo (4, Ivo), Pulisic (4, USA)

6,60 Alisson (5, Bra), Ziko, Shobeir (5, Egy), Lucumí (5, Col), Eustaquio (4, Can)

6,57 C. Romero (7, Arg)

6,50 Laporte (8, Esp), Dembelé (8), Koné (5, Fra), Kane, Saka (7, Eng), Martinelli (4, Bra), van Hecke, Dumfries (4, Ned), McKennie (5), A. Robertson, Adams (4, USA), Beach (4, Aus), Sabitzer (4, Aut), Tielemans (5, Bel), Salah (5, Egy), Puerta (5, Col), Ndoye (5, Sui), P. Gueye (Sen)

6,44 Merino, Yamal (8, Esp), E. Anderson (8, Eng)

6,43 Álex Baena (7, Esp), Rabiot (7, Fra)

6,42 Bounou (6, Mar)

6,40 Alvarado (5, Mex), Lerma (Col), Ashour (Egy)

Average ratings Argentina

7,40 Lionel Messi 

6,57 Cristian Romero

6,50 Lautaro Martínez

6,38 Alexis Mac Allister

6,33 Emiliano "Dibu" Martínez, Lisandro Martínez

6,26 Enzo Fernández

6,25 Nicolás Otamendi

6,17 Thiago Almada, Nicolás González

6,11 Nicolás Tagliafico

6,00 Facundo Medina

5,98 Julián Alvarez

5,88 Gonzalo Montiel

5,85 Rodrigo De Paul

5,83 Giuliano Simeone

5,57 Nahuel Molina

 

Player ratings Spain 1-0 [aet] Argentina

106' Ferran Torres (Nico Williams). Sent off: 93' Enzo Fernández. Att: 80.663 (MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford). 

Spain: Unai Simón 6,35 - Pedro Porro 6,88, Pau Cubarsí 7,25, Aymeric Laporte 6,72 (99' Eric García 6,11), Marc Cucurella 6,81, Rodri 7,11 (99' Martín Zubimendi 6,10), Dani Olmo 6,45 (75' Mikel Merino 6,57), Fabián Ruiz 6,17 (62' Pedri 6,50), Lamine Yamal 6,43, Mikel Oyarzabal 5,82 (62' Ferran Torres 7,85), Álex Baena 6,09 (75' Nico Williams 7,14). - coach: Luis de la Fuente 7,68. = average: 6,61 [very good]

Argentina: Emiliano "Dibu" Martínez  6,88 - Gonzalo Montiel 6,07 (58' Nahuel Molina 5,39), Cristian Romero 6,37 (70' Facundo Medina 5,87), Lisandro Martínez 6,10 (44' Nicolás Otamendi 6,17), Nicolás Tagliafico 6,52, Rodrigo De Paul 5,35 (70' Giuliano Simeone 5,57), Enzo Fernández 4,50, Alexis Mac Allister 5,84, Nicolás González 5,43 (46' Leandro Paredes 5,20), Lionel Messi 5,49, Julián Alvarez 5,35 (102' Marcos Senesi 6,00).  - coach: Lionel Scaloni 5,36. = average: 5,77 [mediocre]

 

Sweden ratings in the World Cup

6,50 Jacob Widell Zetterström (2)

6,38 Alexander Isak (4)

6,28 Anthony Elanga (3)

6,21 Yasin Ayari (4)

5,88 Lucas Bergvall, Viktor Gyökeres (4)

5,72 Isak Hien (4)

5,71 Gabriel Gudmundsson (4)

5,67 Victor Lindelöf (4), Jesper Karlström (2)

5,62 Gustaf Lagerbielke (4)

5,58 Kristoffer Nordfeldt, Benjamin Nygren, Besfort Zeneli, Daniel Svensson (2)

5,56 Elliot Stroud (3)

5,44 Alexander Bernhardsson (3)

USA ratings in the World Cup

6,83 Malik Tillman (4)

6,62 Christian Pulisic, Folarin Balogun (4)

6,58 Tyler Adams (4)

6,56 Weston McKennie (5)

6,41 Sebastian Berhalter (4)

6,38 Antonee Robinson (4)

6,27 Alex Freeman (5)

6,25 Sergiño Dest (5)

6,04 Tim Ream (4)

6,00 Chris Richards (4)

5,81 Giovanni Reyna (3)

5,79 Matt Freese (4)

5,72 Ricardo Pepi (3)

Average ratings of the top-4 teams

 

Germany ratings in the World Cup

6,67 Deniz Undav (4 rated appearances)

6,44 Nathaniel Brown (3)

6,38 Florian Wirtz (4)

6,33 Antonio Rüdiger (3)

6,21 Kai Havertz (4)

6,17 Felix Nmecha (4)

6,08 Joshua Kimmich (4)

6,04 Manuel Neuer (4)

5,75 Jonathan Tah (4)

5,62 Aleksandar Pavlović, Jamal Musiala (4)

Player ratings Brazil 1-2 Norway

 

Brazil (4-2-3-1): Alisson 6,25 - Danilo 5,40, Marquinhos 5,90, Gabriel 4,90, Douglas Santos 6,00 - Bruno Guimarães 5,10 (79' Ederson 5,90), Casemiro 5,90 - Rayan 5,90 (67' Danilo Santos 5,80), Martinelli 6,30 (67' Neymar 5,90), Vincius Júnior 6,60 - Cunha 5,90 (58' Endrick 5,00).  - coach: Ancelotti 5,10. = average: 5,78 [mediocre]

Norway (4-3-3): Nyland 8,10 - Ryerson 6,00 (63' Aursnes 6,10), Ajer 5,40, Heggem 6,60, Wolfe 6,50 (95' Østigaard 5,20) - Berg 6,30, Berge 6,50, Ødegaard 6,90 - Sørloth 5,40 (46' Bobb 6,50), Haaland 8,60, Nusa 5,20 (46'Schjelderup 7,40). -coach: Solbakken 7,40. = average: 6,45 [very good]