Manchester United · 2025/26
Matthijs de Ligt
Matthijs de Ligt ranks 247th of 398 qualified players for attacking involvement, shooting from 9.7m on average, with 77% of their danger coming from set pieces.
This week
Next fixture
Gameweek 2vs Ipswich
Sun 30 Aug, 15:30 UTC
No shot record for Ipswich in this season, so no opponent adjustment is possible. Newly promoted sides have no Premier League history to measure.
Season rate multiplied by what this opponent concedes relative to the league. It assumes a full ninety minutes and takes no account of rotation, so check availability before reading anything into it.
Shots
13 appearances- Over 0.554%± 14
- Over 1.515%± 10
- Over 2.515%± 10
- Over 3.50%± 0
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 6 of 13 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Shots on target
13 appearances- Over 0.523%± 12
- Over 1.50%± 0
- Over 2.50%± 0
Share of appearances clearing each line, with one standard error. Blank appearances count as misses, 6 of 13 here, so these are lower, and more honest, than rates built only from matches where the player got a shot away.
Where the shots come from
Where they shoot
11 shotsMatthijs de Ligt, 2025/26 · final 35m.
- left
- 6%
- Centre
- 63%
- right
- 32%
share of their shooting xG
Chance quality
xG per shot, distance, how they arrive- xG per shot
- 0.120
- Shots per 90
- 0.85
- Key passes per 90
- 0.23
- Average shot distance
- 9.7m
- From set pieces
- 77%
How their chances arrive
- Crosses
- 0%
- Through balls
- 0%
- Own dribble
- 0%
- Headed
- 0%
What they are for
Roles
penalties, set pieces, crossing, partnerships- On the pitch34% of the minutes available to them.
Partnerships
- Feeds Joshua Zirkzee1 shot, 0.20 xG
- Feeds Matheus Cunha1 shot, 0.14 xG
- Fed by Bryan Mbeumo1 shot, 0.54 xG
- Fed by Bruno Fernandes3 shots, 0.28 xG
A share of the attack says how much runs through Matthijs de Ligt. These say what would have to be replaced. Losing the penalty taker or the corner deliverer is not the same as losing a proportional slice of output, and a partnership cuts both ways: the supplier being absent damages the finisher’s numbers too.
Who they play with
Chances received
who supplies them- Bryan Mbeumo0.5 xG1 shot · 0g
- Bruno Fernandes0.3 xG3 shots · 1g
- Diogo Dalot0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
- Benjamin Sesko0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
- Amad Diallo Traore0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
Chances created
who they supply- Joshua Zirkzee0.2 xG1 shot · 0g
- Matheus Cunha0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
- Amad Diallo Traore0.1 xG1 shot · 0g
Season record
Involvement in build-up
excludes their own shots and final passesMatthijs de Ligt carries 1.9% of Manchester United’s build-up value.
- Build-up per 900.18429% of defenders
- Possession value per 900.21828% of defenders
Ranked against 119 defenders with a comparable sample. Build-up is the value of possessions a player was involved in with their own shots and final passes removed, so it credits the work before the chance. It is a possession-value measure rather than a passing one: it cannot tell a forty-yard carry from two sideways balls, because no pass or carry record exists in this data.
Tackles, blocks and recoveries
per 90 · 2025/26They account for 3.4% of their club’s recorded defensive work.
- Tackles1.4638% of DEF
- Blocks, clearances, interceptions6.7765% of DEF
- Recoveries3.0823% of DEF
- Defensive contribution8.2358% of DEF
Rates from 1,170 minutes, ranked against 113 defenders with a comparable sample. The feed publishes season totals rather than a match-by-match record, so there is no hit rate against a line here. That needs the distribution, which no arithmetic on a total can recover. This statistic begins in 2025/26, so there is no earlier season to compare against.
Match log
most recent first- 1 shot0 OTat Crystal Palace
- 3 shots1 OTvs Everton
- 1 shot1 OTat Tottenham1g
- 1 shot0 OTat Liverpool
- 1 shot0 OTat Brentford
- 1 shot0 OTvs Burnley
- 3 shots1 OTvs Arsenal
Solid marks are on target, faded ones off. 6 further appearances produced no shot and are not listed, but are counted in the rates above.