Player dossier

Premiership · 2025/2026

Marcelo Saracchi

Full back

Team: Celtic
Role: Full back
Nationality: Uruguay
Date of birth: 23 Apr 1998 (age 28)
Shirt number: 36
Competition: Premiership (Scotland)
Season: 2025/2026

All players

01 / Record

Performance summary

19 appearances · 663 minutesDeveloping sampleAll figures cover completed fixtures in this season only.

Player recordCompleted fixtures

Appearances: 19
Starts: 8
Minutes: 663
Average rating: 6.86
Goals: 1
Assists: 2
Yellow cards: 1
Red cards: Not available

02 / Telemetry

Per-90 statistics

Season totals scaled to 90 minutes played. Metrics the provider did not record are marked as not available rather than zero.

Per-90 data sheetSeason to date

Per-90 statistics
Metric	Per 90
Touches per 90	102.90
Passes per 90	74.52
Accurate passes per 90	65.43
Passes in final third per 90	12.62
Key passes per 90	1.90
Chances created per 90	1.22
Shots per 90	1.36
Shots on target per 90	0.54
Successful dribbles per 90	1.09
Tackles per 90	1.36
Interceptions per 90	1.09
Clearances per 90	2.71
Ball recoveries per 90	6.52
Duels per 90	7.74
Goals per 90	0.14
Assists per 90	0.27
Possession lost per 90	15.88
Saves per 90	Not available
Saves inside box per 90	Not available
Goals conceded per 90	0.81

03 / Telemetry

Efficiency

Success rates computed only where both the numerator and the denominator exist.

Efficiency data sheetSuccess rates

Efficiency rates
Metric	Rate
Pass accuracy	87.8%
Dribble success rate	61.5%
Duel win rate	54.4%
Aerial duel win rate	100.0%
Tackle success rate	70.0%
Shot on target rate	40.0%
Long ball accuracy	50.9%

04 / Role telemetry

Performance profile

Percentiles compare this player with others in the same role and season. Only families relevant to full back are shown.

Role-relative telemetryPercentile 0-100

Compared with Full back players in this season40 in reference group

Passing94.6pctl
Defensive39.7pctl
Ball retention77.5pctl
Duel53.1pctl
Dribbling55.4pctl
Creation88.4pctl
Shooting80.9pctl

05 / Intelligence

Player Intelligence

Experimental in-house signals derived from completed fixtures only. They describe what the data shows — they are not official ratings, and they are not predictions.

Performance telemetryExperimental signals

Efficiency Index

69.3/ 100

Above average

Useful output divided by relevant attempted actions, weighted for the player's role.

Coverage 100%

Opposition Index

46.3/ 100

Balanced schedule

Minutes-weighted strength of the opponents actually faced. Context only — it does not adjust the Impact Score.

19 rated opponents

Momentum Index

67.9/ 100

Rising form

Last 2 scored matches 74.1 vs earlier 65.2 (+9.0).

Breakout Index

61.5/ 100

Upward signal

Signal, not a prediction: recent impact, minutes and starting involvement, read against role-relative standing and opponent strength.

Minutes −21Starts 0pp

Decline Index

38.5/ 100

No decline signal

The same development axis read downwards. A signal of sustained negative movement, not a prediction.

7 scored matches

Final-third profile

Per-90 attacking output from fields the provider actually records. Expected goals, expected assists and spatial metrics are not available in this data and are not estimated.

Final-third profile per 90
Metric	Per 90
Passes in final third per 90	12.62
Key passes per 90	1.90
Chances created per 90	1.22
Big chances created per 90	0.41
Crosses per 90	6.79
Shots per 90	1.36
Successful dribbles per 90	1.09

Team effect

Observational, not causal: team points per completed fixture with and without this player in the starting eleven.

Started8 fixtures2.75pts/match

Did not start30 fixtures2.00pts/match

Difference: +0.75 points per match. This is a description of results only and does not establish that the player caused them.

Efficiency Index components

Pass accuracyweight 30%: 87.8%
Duel win rateweight 25%: 54.4%
Tackle success rateweight 20%: 70.0%
Dribble success rateweight 25%: 61.5%

05.1 / Player telemetry · ProfilePercentile 0-100

Role-relative percentiles from the 2025/2026 season. Only metrics relevant to this player's role are shown.

Role-relative percentile values plotted in the profile chart for 2025/2026
Family	Percentile
Passing	94.6
Defensive	39.7
Ball retention	77.5
Duel	53.1
Dribbling	55.4
Creation	88.4
Shooting	80.9

Dashed ring marks the full back median (50th percentile) across 40 players in the reference group.

06 / Performance index

Football Performance Lab Impact Score

Performance indexExperimental assessment

67.8/ 100

Assessment

Developing-sample estimate

19 appearances · 663 minutes

Experimental modelCoverage 100%Developing sample

Based on available match data — 19 appearances · 663 minutes as full back.

Component breakdown

Duelweight 15%: 53.1
Passingweight 20%: 94.6
Creationweight 20%: 88.4
Defensiveweight 25%: 39.7
Dribblingweight 10%: 55.4
Ball retentionweight 10%: 77.5

An experimental in-house model based on available match data. It weights role-relative percentile families and is not an official rating, a definitive measure of player quality, or a prediction.

07 / Match record

Match history

Completed fixtures with recorded minutes, most recent first.

Match recordMost recent first

Recent completed matches with minutes and output
Date	Opponent	Venue	Min	Rating	G	A	YC	Impact
16 May 2026	Hearts3–1	Home	17sub	6.63	0	0	1	—
13 May 2026	Motherwell3–2	Away	12sub	6.24	0	0	0	—
10 May 2026	Rangers3–1	Home	6sub	6.36	0	0	0	—
25 Apr 2026	Falkirk3–1	Home	18sub	6.45	0	0	0	—
05 Apr 2026	Dundee2–1	Away	14sub	7.31	0	1	0	—
14 Mar 2026	Motherwell3–1	Home	12sub	6.51	0	0	0	—
04 Mar 2026	Aberdeen2–1	Away	25sub	7.00	0	0	0	—
01 Mar 2026	Rangers2–2	Away	16sub	6.44	0	0	0	—
22 Feb 2026	Hibernian1–2	Home	21sub	6.58	0	0	0	—
15 Feb 2026	Kilmarnock3–2	Away	12sub	6.63	0	0	0	—
11 Feb 2026	Livingston2–1	Home	61	7.91	1	0	0	70.8
03 Dec 2025	Dundee1–0	Home	44	6.97	0	0	0	77.4
30 Nov 2025	Hibernian2–1	Away	63	6.61	0	0	0	—
09 Nov 2025	Kilmarnock4–0	Home	22	6.59	0	0	0	—
29 Oct 2025	Falkirk4–0	Home	90	7.98	0	0	0	71.3
05 Oct 2025	Motherwell3–2	Home	64	6.29	0	0	0	—
27 Sept 2025	Hibernian0–0	Home	90	7.88	0	0	0	67.0
14 Sept 2025	Kilmarnock2–1	Away	58	7.41	0	1	0	67.5
31 Aug 2025	Rangers0–0	Away	18sub	6.49	0	0	0	—

Goals, assists and yellow cards are counted from recorded match events, so a 0 means the event did not occur. A dash means the provider sent no value — it never means zero. Match impact is only shown for appearances of at least 30 minutes with sufficient metric coverage.

08 / Season archive

Season context

Competition: Premiership
Season: 2025/2026
Team: Celtic
Appearances: 19
Minutes: 663
Average opponent strength: 46.3Minutes-weighted, 0–100 team strength scale. Contextual only — it does not adjust the scores above.

Recent opponents: Hearts, Motherwell, Rangers, Falkirk, Dundee, Aberdeen.

09 / Season on season

Season on season

Stored season figures for this season next to the previous season of the same competition. Presentation only — no new score is calculated.

No comparable previous season is recorded for this player in this competition.

A comparison is shown only when this player has a published season record in both this season and the previous season of the same competition.

10 / Cross-reference

Compare similar players

Players with a comparable Impact Score profile
Player	Team	Role	Impact	Compare
Colby Donovan	Celtic	Full back	66.3	Compare
Anthony Ralston	Celtic	Full back	65.7	Compare
Kieran Tierney	Celtic	Full back	63.5	Compare
Alistair Johnston	Celtic	Full back	72.9	Compare
John Koutroumbis	Motherwell	Full back	61.5	Compare

Comparable players share the same season and, where possible, the same role, ranked by how close their existing Impact Score is. No new metric is calculated here.

11 / Method

Methodology

Data source

Match, lineup, event and player statistics come from Sportmonks and are stored per fixture. Only completed fixtures with recorded minutes are aggregated — announced lineups and future fixtures are excluded.

Per 90 minutes

A per-90 value scales a season total to a full match: total × 90 ÷ minutes played. It is not calculated when minutes are missing or zero.

Missing data

The provider omits some statistics instead of sending a zero. A missing value is shown as "not available" and never converted to 0, so rates and percentiles are only produced where the underlying fields genuinely exist.

Impact Score

The Football Performance Lab Impact Score is an experimental in-house model that combines role-relative percentile families with explicit weights. It is not an official rating and not a measure of transfer value.

Minimum samples

Values are calculated internally from 180 minutes, but a player is only shown publicly with a ranked Impact Score from 360 minutes and 5 appearances, with at least 90% metric coverage and an established role. A single appearance contributes a match impact observation from 30 minutes.

Full methodology