Miguel Almirón

Paraguay · Premier League · FW · PAR · age 32

2026 World Cup squad profile

Team: Paraguay
Position: MF
Squad role: Projected starter
Position rank: #1
Intl caps: 75
Intl goals: 9
Intl assists: 7
: 0.63(model rating, 0–1)
: 6.6%

See Miguel Almirón on the full Paraguay scoring list →

Recent form

Rising

2024/25 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (7.09 vs 6.82).

Major tournament stats

Tournament	MP	Min	G	A	xG	Sh	KP	PrgP	PrgC	Tkl	Int
Copa América 2024	3	179	0	0	0.0	1	4	8	17	3	2

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

Limited sample

Defending

Tackles won / 90

1.51

Interceptions / 90

1.01

Ball recoveries / 90

5.03

Blocks / 90

1.01

Clearances / 90

0.50

Pressures / 90

20.11

Passing & progression

Prog. passes / 90

4.02

Key passes / 90

2.01

Prog. carries / 90

8.55

Pass completion %

82.2%

Possession

Carries / 90

24.13

Dribbles / 90

0.50

Per-90 rates from major-tournament event data (StatsBomb), ranked vs 103 midfielders with ≥270 minutes in the same finals. Higher = better. This player is below the 270-minute bar, so their own rates rest on a small sample: read the percentiles as indicative.

123

Career matches

9,010

Career minutes

Goals

Assists

18.2

Career percentiles

Goals / 90

0.16

xG / 90

0.18

xAG / 90

0.08

vs 189 FW 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
2018-19	Newcastle Utd	Premier League	10	759	0	0	1.5	0.6
2019-20	Newcastle Utd	Premier League	36	3,021	4	2	6.7	3.0
2020-21	Newcastle Utd	Premier League	34	2,429	4	1	3.2	2.9
2021-22	Newcastle Utd	Premier League	30	1,716	1	0	2.5	1.3
2022-23	Newcastle Utd	Premier League	13	1,085	7	0	4.3	0.7

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.