Miguel Almirón
Paraguay · MF · age 32
2026 World Cup squad profile
Recovering — Knee problems
- Team
- Paraguay
- Position
- MF
- Squad role
- Projected starter
- Position rank
- #1
- Intl caps
- 75
- Intl goals
- 9
- Intl assists
- 7
- Composite rating
- 0.71(model rating, 0–1)
- P(scores ≥1)
- 2.1%
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.
Full definitions in the glossary.
123
Career matches
9,010
Career minutes
16
Goals
3
Assists
18.2
xG
Career percentiles
Goals / 90
0.16
10
xG / 90
0.18
62
xAG / 90
0.08
68
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 | MP | Mins | Goals | Assists | xG | xAG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Full definitions in the glossary.