M. Díaz

Díaz's 2020/21 season, read from the numbers

In 2020/21, M. Díaz was used in rotation for Real Madrid in the La Liga: 16 appearances and 506 minutes, averaging 32 minutes per outing. Per 90 minutes that is 0.2 goals per 90, 2.3 shots per 90 and 46% of his shots on target — the rate profile behind Díaz's totals.

Set against Díaz's own record, 2020/21 reads differently: he is playing far less than he once did — 506 minutes against 2516 at his peak; his average match rating has slipped from 6.90 to 6.57 since 2019/20. Our records cover 10 seasons of Díaz's career, 2016/17 to 2026/27, across 4 clubs — Real Madrid, Lyon, Sevilla, Alaves. In that time he has played 174 matches across 6 competitions, 6,864 minutes in all.

His best return on our records was 21 goals in 2017/18, from 45 appearances. He is 21 appearances into the current one. Díaz has 24 appearances in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League on our records, and the gap is real: he is roughly 1.6 times more productive domestically, 0.47 per 90 domestically against 0.29 in Europe.

He has reached 15 goals in a season once, in 2017/18. Treat these rates carefully. At 506 minutes — roughly 6 full matches — Díaz is 394 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.