De La Cruz Nicolas World Cup 2026 player profile
De La Cruz Nicolas is listed for Uruguay as a Midfielder. Kickoff Lens uses caps, goals, career context, role, and team strength to explain how this player can affect fixture reads.
Deep player read
De La Cruz Nicolas is currently classified as a squad-support midfielder: regular squad option, control or linking profile, and lower aerial-size profile. This is a derived Kickoff Lens profile built from the public squad fields, not a private scouting report.
- regular squad option; 34 caps and 5 international goals are used as stable public career context.
- squad-support player in this data package, ranked 9 by impact inside the Uruguay squad and 5 among midfielder entries.
- control or linking profile; lower aerial-size profile.
- 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 | Uruguay |
|---|---|
| Role | Midfielder · MF |
| Caps | 34 |
| International goals | 5 |
| Impact score | 74 |
| Squad impact rank | 9 |
| Role impact rank | 5 |
| Role profile | squad-support · control or linking 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 help the team control tempo under pressure?
- Does the player improve the rotation floor without becoming the central dependency?
- Does mobility and role fit matter more than aerial size in this matchup?
Archive context
| Team power score | 75 |
|---|---|
| Team FIFA rank | 16 |
| Group path | H |
| Squad size in archive | 26 |
| Squad average caps | 36 |
Uruguay fixtures
- Saudi Arabia vs UruguayFinished 1-1 · Jun 16, 06:00 · Miami (Miami Gardens)
- Uruguay vs Cape VerdeScheduled · Jun 22, 06:00 · Miami (Miami Gardens)
- Uruguay vs SpainScheduled · Jun 27, 08:00 · Guadalajara (Zapopan)
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- Bentancur RodrigoMidfielder · impact 87
- Nunez DarwinForward · impact 85
- Muslera FernandoGoalkeeper · impact 84
- Ugarte ManuelMidfielder · impact 76
- Olivera MathiasDefender · impact 75
Related pages
- World Cup 2026 data libraryTeams, players, matches, venues, and model explainers in one crawlable archive.
- Uruguay team radarFull squad, team strengths, and fixture list.
- All player profilesBrowse the World Cup 2026 player library.
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