Upamecano Dayot World Cup 2026 player profile
Upamecano Dayot is listed for France as a Defender. Kickoff Lens uses caps, goals, career context, role, and team strength to explain how this player can affect fixture reads.
Deep player read
Upamecano Dayot is currently classified as a important rotation/core defender: regular squad option, defensive role profile, and useful aerial size. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- regular squad option; 38 caps and 2 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- important rotation/core player in this data package, ranked 10 by impact inside the France squad and 3 among defender entries.
- defensive role profile; useful aerial size.
- The match model uses this profile through role, experience, impact score, and team context rather than treating the player as a standalone model context.
Player signal
| Team | France |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 38 |
| International goals | 2 |
| Impact score | 76 |
| Squad impact rank | 10 |
| Role impact rank | 3 |
| Role profile | important rotation/core · defensive role profile |
Model context
The player impact score is not a standalone rating. It is one input inside the contextual match model, alongside squad depth, team radar, venue adaptation, travel/rest load, and group pressure.
Match questions
- Can the player protect the box when the opponent's attack signal rises?
- Does the player improve the rotation floor without becoming the central dependency?
- Does aerial size matter against the next opponent's set-piece and crossing profile?
Archive context
| Team power score | 88 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 3 |
| Group path | I |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 31 |
France fixtures
- France vs SenegalFinished 3-1 · Jun 17, 03:00 · New York/New Jersey (East Rutherford)
- France vs IraqScheduled · Jun 23, 05:00 · Philadelphia
- Norway vs FranceScheduled · Jun 27, 03:00 · Boston (Foxborough)
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- Olise MichaelForward · impact 78
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- France team radarFull squad, team strengths, and fixture list.
- All player profilesBrowse the World Cup 2026 player library.
- Discovery hubEvery team, match, venue, and tournament page.