J. Brekalo

Brekalo's 2025/26 season, read from the numbers

In 2025/26, J. Brekalo was used in rotation for Oviedo in the La Liga: 14 appearances and 483 minutes, averaging 35 minutes per outing. The number that flatters him most is match rating — 713th of 978 midfielders and inside the top 73%.

Per 90 minutes that is 2.0 key passes per 90, 0.0 assists per 90 and 2.8 ball recoveries per 90 — the rate profile behind Brekalo's totals. Brekalo played 209 passes at 72% accuracy — 38.9 per 90, which is the volume that decides whether a side builds through him or around him.

Set against Brekalo's own record, 2025/26 reads differently: he is playing far less than he once did — 483 minutes against 2299 at his peak; his average match rating has slipped from 6.79 to 6.61 since 2023/24. Our records cover 10 seasons of Brekalo's career, 2016/17 to 2025/26, across 8 clubs — VfL Wolfsburg, VfB Stuttgart, Torino, Fiorentina and others. In that time he has played 274 matches across 11 competitions, 15,695 minutes in all.

His best return was 6 assists in 2019/20, 4 more than he has managed this time. Brekalo has 17 appearances in UEFA Europa League and UEFA Europa Conference League on our records, and he is modestly more productive in Europe - 0.20 per 90 domestically against 0.28 in Europe.

Away from his club, Brekalo has 27 appearances for Croatia on our records — across World Cup - Qualification Europe, Euro Championship and UEFA Nations League. Treat these rates carefully. At 483 minutes — roughly 5 full matches — Brekalo is 417 short of our 900-minute qualifying floor, so he does not appear on the ranking boards: on a sample this size two good afternoons move a per-90 number further than a month of steady form.

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.