R. Bentancur

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

In 2026/27, R. Bentancur was used in rotation for Tottenham in the Premier League: 5 appearances and 372 minutes, averaging 74 minutes per outing. The number that flatters him most is match rating — 468th of 978 midfielders and inside the top 48%.

Per 90 minutes that is 0.2 key passes per 90, 0.0 assists per 90 and 4.8 ball recoveries per 90 — the rate profile behind Bentancur's totals. The profile is lopsided rather than complete: measured against midfielders, Bentancur sits in the top 10% for tackling volume but only the top 59% for shot conversion.

Set against Bentancur's own record, 2026/27 reads differently: his average match rating has risen from 6.76 to 6.91 since 2025/26. Our records cover 10 seasons of Bentancur's career, 2017/18 to 2026/27, across 3 clubs — Juventus, Uruguay, Tottenham. In that time he has played 335 matches across 9 competitions, 22,164 minutes in all.

His best return on our records was 7 assists in 2019/20, from 43 appearances. He is 7 appearances into the current one. Away from his club, Bentancur has 52 appearances for Uruguay on our records, scoring 3 — across World Cup, World Cup - Qualification South America and Copa America.

Treat these rates carefully. At 372 minutes — roughly 4 full matches — Bentancur is 528 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.