I. Baldé

Baldé's 2026/27 season, read from the numbers

In 2026/27, I. Baldé was used in rotation for Rodez in the Ligue 2: 4 appearances and 344 minutes, averaging 86 minutes per outing. Across our top-five-league attackers pool, his standout number is match rating — 47th of 702 attackers and inside the top 7%.

Per 90 minutes that is 1.3 goals per 90, 3.1 shots per 90 and 67% of his shots on target — the rate profile behind Baldé's totals. The profile is lopsided rather than complete: measured against top-five-league attackers, Baldé sits in the top 49% for shot conversion but only the top 92% for assists.

Set against Baldé's own record, 2026/27 reads differently: his 6 goals beats anything in the 3 earlier seasons we hold for him (best before: 1); it is also the heaviest workload we have recorded for him, 501 minutes against a previous high of 284; his average match rating has risen from 7.05 to 7.50 since 2025/26. Our records cover 5 seasons of Baldé's career, 2021/22 to 2026/27, across 4 clubs — Lens, Annecy, Rodez, Lorient. In that time he has played 122 matches across 3 competitions, 5,829 minutes in all.

His best return on our records was 13 goals in 2025/26, from 31 appearances. He is 7 appearances into the current one.

How these scores are built, and the minutes and rating floors a player must clear to appear on our boards, are set out in our methodology.