Thiago

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

In 2026/27, Thiago was used in rotation for Brentford in the Premier League: 5 appearances and 443 minutes, averaging 89 minutes per outing. He grades out best for match rating — 78th of 702 attackers and inside the top 11%.

Per 90 minutes that is 0.2 goals per 90, 2.4 shots per 90 and 33% of his shots on target — the rate profile behind Thiago's totals. The profile is lopsided rather than complete: measured against attackers, Thiago sits in the top 1% for goalscoring but only the top 30% for assists.

Set against Thiago's own record, 2026/27 reads differently: he has managed 22 in a season before, so 3 is well short of his own mark; he is playing far less than he once did — 659 minutes against 3458 at his peak; his average match rating has slipped from 6.94 to 6.64 since 2025/26. Our records cover 3 seasons of Thiago's career, 2024/25 to 2026/27, all of it at Brentford. In that time he has played 55 matches across 3 competitions, 4,109 minutes in all.

His best return on our records was 25 goals in 2025/26, from 40 appearances. He is 7 appearances into the current one. On our positional score Thiago rates 53 out of 100, 30th of 126 qualified players — inside the top 24%. Relative to what each component is worth, his strongest is shot conversion.

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.