The data story · 2019/20 – 2025/26
Vitinha joined PSG in 2022 as a creative midfielder. What the data shows is something more interesting: he didn't just move clubs, he changed roles. The arc of Goal Involvement is almost flat. The arc of Touch Dominance is one of the steepest climbs in our dataset.
Goal Involvement (GI) per 90 · All competitions · 2019/20–2025/26 · Source: Sofascore
"Vitinha completed 104.9 accurate passes per 90 minutes in 25/26 — and lost almost none of them. That accuracy held while his volume doubled over six seasons. Most elite controllers show degradation. He never did."
The radar tells the whole story immediately. The control axis — Touch Dominance, Pass Security — pushes to the outer ring. The output axes — Goals, Assists — barely register. This is not a weakness. This is the profile of a player who makes everything else possible.
10 metrics · Ligue 1 central midfielder peer group · 2025/26 · Statsdex
The earliest season radar against the latest. Three years at PSG transformed a creative midfielder into an elite controller. The Touch Dominance axis grew. The Chance Ignition axis shrunk. The defensive axes shifted. Two polygons on the same chart — one career.
Same metrics · 19/20 Porto vs 25/26 PSG · Statsdex
Pass Security at 99th percentile among Ligue 1 central midfielders. Touch Dominance at 97th. The output wedges are small — but output is not his job. His job is to own the ball, move it quickly and accurately, and never give it away. The pizza chart makes this unmistakable.
Estimated percentile ranks vs Ligue 1 central midfielders · 2025/26 · Statsdex
The Control bar extends further than any other family in the dataset. The Output bar is the shortest of any player we've profiled. That gap is not a coincidence — it is the defining characteristic of a press-resistant, possession-anchoring controller at the highest level.
Four family indices · Control · Creativity · Output · Defense · Statsdex composite
Plot Touch Dominance against Chance Ignition for every central midfielder in our peer group. Vitinha sits alone in the top-right corner — extreme volume, reasonable creation. Nobody else in the dataset occupies this space. That isolation is the data definition of a unique player.
16 Ligue 1 and European central midfielders · dot size = GIS · 2025/26 · Statsdex
"Expected goal involvement ranks Vitinha 14th in Ligue 1. The Game Impact Score — Statsdex's composite of chance creation, ball progression and defensive contribution — ranks him 3rd. That gap of eleven places is the entire argument for why xG alone is not enough."
The full Statsdex report on Vitinha includes all 42 charts, his complete seven-season career delta heatmap, the Porto-to-PSG slopegraph, consistency score across all competitions, the EVI dual-axis showing how quality held while volume doubled, and the most thorough analytical profile of this player available outside a professional scouting department.
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