M. Arnold

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

In 2025/26, M. Arnold was a regular for VfL Wolfsburg in the Bundesliga: 25 appearances and 1860 minutes, averaging 74 minutes per outing. His standout number is match rating — 93rd of 978 midfielders and inside the top 10%.

Per 90 minutes that is 1.4 key passes per 90, 0.2 assists per 90 and 2.2 ball recoveries per 90 — the rate profile behind Arnold's totals. Arnold played 1,029 passes at 84% accuracy — 49.8 per 90, which is the volume that decides whether a side builds through him or around him.

The profile is lopsided rather than complete: measured against midfielders, Arnold sits in the top 12% for assists but only the top 46% for tackling volume. Set against Arnold's own record, 2025/26 reads differently: he is playing far less than he once did — 1860 minutes against 2996 at his peak.

Discipline is part of the picture for Arnold: 5 bookings in 25 appearances, one every 5.0 games. Our records cover 11 seasons of Arnold's career, 2015/16 to 2025/26, all of it at VfL Wolfsburg. In that time he has played 392 matches across 5 competitions, 32,052 minutes in all.

His best return was 11 assists in 2019/20, 7 more than he has managed this time. Arnold has 28 appearances in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League on our records, and he is modestly more productive domestically - 0.10 per 90 domestically against 0.08 in Europe.

He has reached 8 assists in a season once, in 2019/20. On our positional score Arnold rates 26 out of 100, 118th of 326 qualified players — inside the top 37%. Relative to what each component is worth, his strongest is tackles and 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.