Head to Head · 2025/26 season
R. DIASvsV. DIJK
Who performed better — and why.
13
Tackles
23
Interceptions
7.2
Rating
26
Apps
2149
Minutes
DEF
Position
22
Tackles
28
Interceptions
7.3
Rating
38
Apps
3431
Minutes
DEF
Position
Leads in: Tackles, Interceptions, Duels Won, Duels Won %
Same job · centre-backs
R. Dias
top 25%
43rd of 176
V. Dijk
top 2%
2nd of 176
Ranked against the 176 centre-backs who cleared the minutes floor, on rating, duels %, tackles+ints/90, aerial %.
Top Defender
Rúben Dias
1.5076779897626804
Wins More Duels
V. van Dijk
5.67
Higher Rated
V. van Dijk
7.3
Stat comparison · Defenders
0.54
Tackles / 90
0.58
0.96
Interceptions / 90
0.73
3.43
Duels Won / 90
5.67
60%
Duels Won %
73%
0.71
Clearances / 90
0.68
7.2
Rating
7.3
Rates are per 90 minutes. appearances: R. Dias 26, V. Dijk 38 · minutes: R. Dias 2149, V. Dijk 3431. Playing time is context, not a category either player can win.
Performance radar
🏆 Head-to-head result · 2025/26
DIAS2 — 4DIJK
🥇 V. DIJK EDGES IT
R. Dias leads in:
- · Interceptions / 90 (0.96 vs 0.73)
- · Clearances / 90 (0.71 vs 0.68)
V. Dijk leads in:
- · Tackles / 90 (0.58 vs 0.54)
- · Duels Won / 90 (5.67 vs 3.43)
- · Duels Won % (73% vs 60%)
- · Rating (7.3 vs 7.2)
The verdict
Both are scored as centre-backs, against the same field of 176 and on the same criteria. V. van Dijk comes out ahead by a clear margin: 2nd against 43rd, which is top 2% against top 25%.
What the role score is measuring
The centre-back score weighs rating, duels %, tackles+ints/90 and aerial %. Those are the things the position is actually asked for, which is the point of scoring by role at all — a ranking that rewards a centre-back for goals tells you about his set-piece luck, not his defending.
Where Rúben Dias is ahead
Rúben Dias leads on interceptions / 90 (0.96 to 0.73).
Where V. van Dijk is ahead
V. van Dijk leads on duels won / 90 (5.67 to 3.43), duels won % (73% to 60%).
What this cannot settle
- The role score is a rank within one season and one set of criteria. Change the weights, the minutes floor or the league filter and the order can move, which is why the numbers behind it are printed above rather than summarised away.
- Penalties are not separated from open play here, so a forward on regular spot-kicks carries an advantage this page does not strip out.
- Minutes are not equal. A player with a deeper sample has had more chances to regress toward his real level, and a shorter one can still be riding a hot month.
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