Mathías Olivera

Uruguay · Serie A · DF · URU · age 29

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Uruguay
Position: DF
Squad role: Projected starter · #16
Position rank: #2
Intl caps: 35
Intl goals: 2
Intl assists: 1
: 0.65(model rating, 0–1)
: 0.9%

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Recent form

Rising

2024/25 club form vs the player's multi-season baseline (4.68 vs 4.59).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	G	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Copa América 2024	5	420	1	0.8	4	1	80	75	8	5
World Cup 2022	3	263	0	0.1	2	6	19	19	7	4
All tournaments	8	683	1	0.9	6	7	99	94	15	9

Event data from StatsBomb open data, covering the World Cup, Euro, Copa América and AFCON finals. Small per-tournament samples. Totals shown, not per-90 rates.

▸How to read this table— 11 columns explained

MP: Matches played in the tournament.
Min: Total minutes on the pitch.
G: Goals scored (penalties in normal play included; shootouts excluded).
A: Assists: passes that directly led to a goal.
xG: Expected goals: summed per-shot quality (StatsBomb's model).
Sh: Shots taken.
KP: Key passes: passes that led to a shot.
PrgP: Progressive passes: completed passes moving the ball ≥10m toward goal.
PrgC: Progressive carries: carries advancing ≥5m toward goal.
Tkl: Tackles won.
Int: Interceptions.

Tournament scouting radar

Defending

Tackles won / 90

1.98

Interceptions / 90

1.19

Ball recoveries / 90

5.14

Blocks / 90

2.77

Clearances / 90

2.90

Pressures / 90

13.70

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

13.05

Key passes / 90

0.92

Prog. carries / 90

12.39

Pass completion %

85.9%

Possession

Carries / 90

34.92

Dribbles / 90

0.00

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 128 defenders with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better.

113

Career matches

8,643

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

6.4

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.03

xG / 90

0.07

xAG / 90

0.07

vs 392 DF players with ≥3,000 career minutes in the dataset. Higher = better.

Career: goals & xG by season

GoalsxG

Season-by-season

Season	Club	League			Goals	Assists
2017-18	Getafe	La Liga	3	103	1	0	0.2	0.1
2018-19	Getafe	La Liga	14	1,007	0	1	0.4	0.9
2019-20	Getafe	La Liga	24	1,870	0	1	0.6	0.8
2020-21	Getafe	La Liga	31	2,614	0	0	2.5	2.1
2021-22	Getafe	La Liga	32	2,803	1	3	2.3	2.7
2022-23	Napoli	Serie A	9	246	1	0	0.4	0.1

FBref data ≤ 2022-23. Rows tagged wiki are top-scorer entries from Wikipedia and only carry goals.

▸How to read this table— 6 columns explained

MP: Matches played in that season (start or sub counts as one).
Mins: Total minutes on the pitch — better signal for workload than MP alone.
Goals: Goals scored (penalties included).
Assists: Passes that directly led to a goal (FBref attribution).
xG: Expected goals — per-shot quality scored 0–1 by distance / angle / pressure, summed across the season.
xAG: Expected assisted goals — the xG of shots created by this player's passes, summed.

FBref data ends 2022-23; current-season rows tagged wiki come from Wikipedia top-scorer tables and carry only goals.