J. Gvardiol

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

In 2026/27, J. Gvardiol was used in rotation for Manchester City in the Premier League: 5 appearances and 435 minutes, averaging 87 minutes per outing. He grades out best for match rating — 107th of 905 defenders and inside the top 12%.

Per 90 minutes that is 2.3 tackles per 90, 1.4 interceptions per 90 and 59% of his duels won — the rate profile behind Gvardiol's totals. The profile is lopsided rather than complete: measured against defenders, Gvardiol sits in the top 7% for goalscoring but only the top 57% for tackling volume.

Set against Gvardiol's own record, 2026/27 reads differently: he is playing far less than he once did — 1158 minutes against 4452 at his peak; his average match rating has slipped from 7.01 to 6.69 since 2025/26. Our records cover 6 seasons of Gvardiol's career, 2021/22 to 2026/27, across 2 clubs — RB Leipzig, Manchester City. In that time he has played 229 matches across 11 competitions, 16,931 minutes in all.

His best season on our records was 2023/24, when he averaged 7.34 across 49 appearances. Gvardiol has 42 appearances in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League on our records, and he is modestly more productive domestically - 0.11 per 90 domestically against 0.08 in Europe.

Away from his club, Gvardiol has 37 appearances for Croatia on our records, scoring 3 — across World Cup, UEFA Nations League and Euro Championship - Qualification. On our positional score Gvardiol rates 33 out of 100, 167th of 304 qualified players — inside the top 55%. Relative to what each component is worth, his strongest is interceptions.

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.