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Every player · Valencia · 2026-27

Luis Jesús Rioja González

Valencia · Forward · 2026-27 · status: available
Born 16 October 1993 (33) · Las Cabezas de San Juan, Spain
Minutes
159
Starts
1
Goals
1
Assists
0
Shots
3
Key passes
4
Duels won
2
Rating
6.88

Rioja has 1 goal this season — 0.57 per 90 minutes, far ahead of last season's pace.

Season by season

2026-27 against his past seasons · per 90 minutes

How this season compares with the ones before it. 2026-27 is drawn dashed — it is only 5 appearances old.

SeasonClubMinMin/matchStartsGAShots/90Key passes/90Tkl+B+I/90Rating
2019-20Alaves164143.219000.330.82—6.49
2020-21Alaves209955.225420.691.11—6.67
2021-22Alaves312782.336130.980.95—6.66
2023-24Alaves253266.634541.211.49—7.01
2024-25Valencia286875.534500.000.060.136.90
2025-26Valencia263669.431360.611.331.846.82
2026-27Valencia15917.71101.702.261.706.88

Elsewhere

league seasons outside this league · API-Football
SeasonClubCompetitionAppsMinGA
2018-19AlmeriaSegunda División39299541
2022-23AlavesSegunda División413424105

Playing time

minutes per club match · 2025-26 → 2026-27
Min / club match, 2026-27
17.7 of 90 · 159 min in 9 matches
Min / club match, 2025-26 (any club)
69.4 2636 min over 38
Min / club match trend
▼ -51.7 trend

Ball-winning

defensive contribution per 90 · 2026-27 vs 2025-26
DefCon / 90, 2026-27
1.70 3 in 159 min
DefCon / 90, 2025-26
1.84
DefCon / 90 trend
▼ -0.14 trend
Tackles
0 this season only
Clearances, blocks, interceptions
3 this season only

The trend

2026-27 vs 2025-26 · per 90 minutes
Rate2026-272025-26Trend
xGI/90———
Goals/900.570.10+0.47
Assists/900.000.20-0.20
xG/90———
xA/90———
Tkl+B+I/901.701.84-0.14
Pts/90———
About these numbers

Where these numbers come from. Every figure on this page is read from API-Football (api-sports.io) for La Liga; a field it does not publish reads “—”. Per-90 rates are the total × 90 ÷ minutes.

Past seasons are the totals API-Football records for him league-wide, and a season spent outside the league leaves a gap rather than a bridged line. The club is the one the feed records for that season. A per-90 rate needs 90 minutes behind it, so a shorter season shows no rate at all. Minutes per club match is minutes over 38 for a past season.

Playing time = minutes ÷ the club's matches played, so a starter reads near 90 and a substitute reads his true share. 2026-27: 9 club matches so far. 2025-26: minutes over 38 matches for any La Liga club — the club shown is the one the feed records for that season. The trend needs 450+ minutes last season and 90+ this season.

Defensive contribution is API-Football's ball-winning count: tackles + blocks + interceptions. It does not include clearances or ball recoveries, which API-Football does not publish, so it is not the same measure as the England site's. Tackles, recoveries and clearances-blocks-interceptions are this-season counts only: the API's past-season totals carry just the composite, so no trend is available for those three.

Trend = this season's rate minus last season's (2026-27: 159 min; 2025-26: 2636 min).