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Every player · Lyon · 2026-27

Moussa Niakhaté

Lyon · Defender · 2026-27 · status: available
Born 8 March 1996 (30) · Roubaix, France · nationality Senegal
Minutes
630
Starts
7
Goals
0
Assists
0
Shots
2
Key passes
3
Duels won
17
Rating
7.07

Niakhaté has no goals or assists yet this season, in 630 minutes, far behind 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 7 appearances old.

SeasonClubMinMin/matchStartsGAShots/90Key passes/90Tkl+B+I/90Rating
2017-18Metz310491.334010.380.12—6.80
2024-25Lyon272580.132000.070.232.946.92
2025-26Lyon275881.130020.070.462.817.22
2026-27Lyon63070.07000.290.432.717.07

Elsewhere

league seasons outside this league · API-Football
SeasonClubCompetitionAppsMinGA
2014-15ValenciennesLigue 2956700
2015-16ValenciennesLigue 228200400
2016-17ValenciennesLigue 235294310
2018-19FSV Mainz 05Bundesliga33279011
2019-20FSV Mainz 05Bundesliga33297012
2020-21FSV Mainz 05Bundesliga32286731
2021-22FSV Mainz 05Bundesliga30256740
2022-23Nottingham ForestPremier League15116200
2023-24Nottingham ForestPremier League33146510

Playing time

minutes per club match · 2025-26 → 2026-27
Min / club match, 2026-27
70.0 of 90 · 630 min in 9 matches
Min / club match, 2025-26 (any club)
81.1 2758 min over 34
Min / club match trend
▼ -11.1 trend

Ball-winning

defensive contribution per 90 · 2026-27 vs 2025-26
DefCon / 90, 2026-27
2.71 19 in 630 min
DefCon / 90, 2025-26
2.81
DefCon / 90 trend
▼ -0.10 trend
Tackles
3 this season only
Clearances, blocks, interceptions
16 this season only

The trend

2026-27 vs 2025-26 · per 90 minutes
Rate2026-272025-26Trend
xGI/90———
Goals/900.000.000.00
Assists/900.000.07-0.07
xG/90———
xA/90———
Tkl+B+I/902.712.81-0.10
Pts/90———
xGC/90———
Goals conceded/900.000.000.00
About these numbers

Where these numbers come from. Every figure on this page is read from API-Football (api-sports.io) for Ligue 1; 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 34 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 34 matches for any Ligue 1 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: 630 min; 2025-26: 2758 min).