Player dossier

Superliga · 2025/2026

Nicolai Poulsen

Central midfielder

Team: AGF
Role: Central midfielder
Nationality: Denmark
Date of birth: 15 Aug 1993 (age 33)
Shirt number: 6
Competition: Superliga (Denmark)
Season: 2025/2026

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01 / Record

Performance summary

20 appearances · 1,784 minutesEstablished sampleAll figures cover completed fixtures in this season only.

Player recordCompleted fixtures

Appearances: 20
Starts: 16
Minutes: 1,784
Average rating: 6.83
Goals: 1
Assists: 2
Yellow cards: 5
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	75.47
Passes per 90	60.19
Accurate passes per 90	51.61
Passes in final third per 90	10.70
Key passes per 90	1.11
Chances created per 90	0.76
Shots per 90	0.66
Shots on target per 90	0.15
Successful dribbles per 90	Not available
Tackles per 90	1.92
Interceptions per 90	1.06
Clearances per 90	1.46
Ball recoveries per 90	3.33
Duels per 90	7.11
Goals per 90	0.05
Assists per 90	0.15
Possession lost per 90	10.70
Saves per 90	Not available
Saves inside box per 90	Not available
Goals conceded per 90	1.16

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	85.8%
Dribble success rate	Not available
Duel win rate	53.9%
Aerial duel win rate	100.0%
Tackle success rate	55.3%
Shot on target rate	23.1%
Long ball accuracy	54.6%

04 / Role telemetry

Performance profile

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

Role-relative telemetryPercentile 0-100

Compared with Central midfielder players in this season16 in reference group

Passing71.9pctl
Creation62.3pctl
Ball retention59.4pctl
Defensive22.1pctl
Duel43.3pctl
Dribbling43.3pctl
Shooting32.7pctl

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

Insufficient sample

Too few role-relevant rates recorded

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

Coverage 80%

Opposition Index

48.7/ 100

Balanced schedule

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

20 rated opponents

Momentum Index

75.5/ 100

Rising form

Last 2 scored matches 70.0 vs earlier 57.2 (+12.8).

Breakout Index

56.8/ 100

No clear movement

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

Minutes −23Starts −50pp

Decline Index

43.2/ 100

No decline signal

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

17 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	8.12
Key passes per 90	0.81
Chances created per 90	0.61
Big chances created per 90	0.10
Crosses per 90	0.40
Shots per 90	0.55
Successful dribbles per 90	Not available

Team effect

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

Started16 fixtures2.13pts/match

Did not start16 fixtures2.06pts/match

Difference: +0.07 points per match. This is a description of results only and does not establish that the player caused them.

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	71.9
Creation	62.3
Ball retention	59.4
Defensive	22.1
Duel	43.3
Dribbling	43.3
Shooting	32.7

Dashed ring marks the central midfielder median (50th percentile) across 16 players in the reference group.

06 / Performance index

Football Performance Lab Impact Score

Performance indexExperimental assessment

53.9/ 100

Assessment

Established-sample estimate

20 appearances · 1,784 minutes

Experimental modelCoverage 100%Established sample

Based on available match data — 20 appearances · 1,784 minutes as central midfielder.

Component breakdown

Duelweight 15%: 43.3
Passingweight 30%: 71.9
Creationweight 20%: 62.3
Defensiveweight 20%: 22.1
Ball retentionweight 15%: 59.4

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
03 May 2026	Sønderjyske Fodbold2–1	Home	20sub	6.51	0	0	0	—
20 Apr 2026	FC Midtjylland1–2	Away	15sub	6.25	0	0	1	—
22 Mar 2026	Brøndby IF0–0	Home	34sub	6.89	0	0	0	—
15 Mar 2026	Sønderjyske Fodbold1–1	Away	25sub	6.54	0	0	1	—
07 Dec 2025	Randers FC2–1	Away	128	6.66	0	0	0	59.4
30 Nov 2025	FC København2–0	Home	69	6.41	0	0	1	—
09 Nov 2025	Sønderjyske Fodbold2–3	Home	154	7.04	0	1	0	59.3
03 Nov 2025	FC Midtjylland1–1	Away	156	6.70	0	0	0	42.3
24 Oct 2025	Nordsjælland1–0	Home	142	6.99	0	0	0	—
19 Oct 2025	Brøndby IF3–3	Away	126	6.93	0	0	0	—
05 Oct 2025	Silkeborg IF3–1	Home	67	7.68	0	1	1	85.0
21 Sept 2025	Brøndby IF1–0	Home	90	6.80	0	0	0	45.0
14 Sept 2025	Viborg FF2–1	Away	90	6.99	1	0	0	57.0
31 Aug 2025	Fredericia4–1	Home	90	7.30	0	0	0	71.9
24 Aug 2025	Vejle Boldklub1–0	Home	90	6.79	0	0	0	—
18 Aug 2025	Odense BK5–1	Away	73	6.81	0	0	0	52.0
08 Aug 2025	FC København3–2	Away	180	6.48	0	0	0	—
03 Aug 2025	FC Midtjylland0–0	Home	71	7.18	0	0	0	54.0
25 Jul 2025	Randers FC1–2	Home	87	6.80	0	0	0	57.2
20 Jul 2025	Sønderjyske Fodbold1–1	Away	77	6.84	0	0	1	69.0

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: Superliga
Season: 2025/2026
Team: AGF
Appearances: 20
Minutes: 1,784
Average opponent strength: 48.7Minutes-weighted, 0–100 team strength scale. Contextual only — it does not adjust the scores above.

Recent opponents: Sønderjyske Fodbold, FC Midtjylland, Brøndby IF, Randers FC, FC København, Nordsjælland.

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
Thomas Delaney	FC København	Central midfielder	49.5	Compare
Markus Solbakken	AGF	Central midfielder	48.3	Compare
Lukas Lerager	FC København	Central midfielder	47.0	Compare
Mads Emil Madsen	Not available	Central midfielder	61.2	Compare
Caleb Yirenkyi	Nordsjælland	Central midfielder	46.4	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