Ekdal Hjalmar World Cup 2026 player profile
Ekdal Hjalmar is listed for Sweden 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
Ekdal Hjalmar is currently classified as a squad-support defender: low-cap 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.
- low-cap squad option; 13 caps and 0 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 13 by impact inside the Sweden squad and 5 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 | Sweden |
|---|---|
| Role | Defender · DF |
| Caps | 13 |
| International goals | 0 |
| Impact score | 65 |
| Squad impact rank | 13 |
| Role impact rank | 5 |
| 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 | 61 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA live rank | 37 |
| Group path | F |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 20 |
Sweden fixtures
- Sweden vs TunisiaFinished 5-1 · Jun 15, 10:00 · Monterrey (Guadalupe)
- Netherlands vs SwedenFinished 5-1 · Jun 21, 01:00 · Houston
- Japan vs SwedenFinished 1-1 · Jun 26, 07:00 · Dallas (Arlington, Texas)
- France vs SwedenFinished 3-0 · Jul 01, 05:00 · New York/New Jersey (East Rutherford)
Related teammates
- Gyokeres ViktorForward · impact 96
- Isak AlexanderForward · impact 96
- Lindelof VictorDefender · impact 86
- Elanga AnthonyForward · impact 82
- Svanberg MattiasMidfielder · impact 79
- Ayari YasinMidfielder · impact 74
- Sema KenMidfielder · impact 73
- Karlstrom JesperMidfielder · impact 72
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Sweden 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.