Niakhate Moussa World Cup 2026 player profile
Niakhate Moussa is listed for Senegal 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
Niakhate Moussa is currently classified as a squad-support defender: regular squad option, defensive role profile, and strong aerial frame. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- regular squad option; 32 caps and 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 14 by impact inside the Senegal squad and 3 among defender entries.
- defensive role profile; strong aerial frame.
- 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 | Senegal |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 32 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 72 |
| Squad impact rank | 14 |
| Role impact rank | 3 |
| Role profile | squad-support · 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 | 78 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 18 |
| Group path | I |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 39 |
Senegal fixtures
- France vs SenegalFinished 3-1 · Jun 17, 03:00 · New York/New Jersey (East Rutherford)
- Norway vs SenegalFinished 3-2 · Jun 23, 08:00 · New York/New Jersey (East Rutherford)
- Senegal vs IraqFinished 5-0 · Jun 27, 03:00 · Toronto
- Belgium vs SenegalFinished 3-2 · Jul 02, 04:00 · Seattle
Related teammates
- Gueye Idrissa GanaMidfielder · impact 96
- Sarr IsmailaForward · impact 96
- Mane SadioForward · impact 96
- Camara LamineMidfielder · impact 86
- Jackson NicolasForward · impact 85
- Gueye PapeMidfielder · impact 84
- Koulibaly KalidouDefender · impact 83
- Diatta KrepinDefender · impact 82
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Senegal 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.