Rafa
MID🇵🇹33 years old·born 17 May 1993
172 cm · 62 kg · born Forte da Casa, Portugal
Rank #1,866·414 matches tracked
Playing style
PlaymakerNon-pen goals /90
0.36
95th pct
Assists /90
0.24
85th pct
Key passes /90
1.65
83rd pct
Passes /90
29.80
47th pct
Tackles + int. /90
1.50
30th pct
Dribbles /90
4.28
97th pct
Latest· 11 Oct 2026
73' vs Vitória SC — a quiet game.
Benfica 2–0 Vitória SC (win) · Rating 6.35 · Elo -7 · 24 passes (1 key) · 1/1 dribbles · 3/12 duels
Form — EAR = Elo Above Replacement, football's version of baseball's WAR (Wins Above Replacement). Every rated match scores a player against the average performance for their position: better adds to EAR, worse subtracts. EAR180 adds up the last 180 days (current form); EAR career adds up every rated match. Our predictions add EAR180 to a player's Elo, about 37 Elo points per EAR point. Each bar is the EAR180 going into that match: green above the position average, red below. A gap means no rated match in that window. (180 days)
Opponents
Their Elo change in matches against him (at least 3 meetings).
Favourite opponents
−78Aderllan Santos1357
in 6 matches · AVS
−67A. Bardakcı2247
in 4 matches · Galatasaray
−66Tiago Esgaio1819
in 8 matches · Arouca
−66Tarantini1122
in 7 matches · Rio Ave
−64L. Torreira2273
in 4 matches · Galatasaray
Nemeses
+290Miguel Reisinho1665
in 3 matches · Boavista
+186Al Musrati1918
in 9 matches · SC Braga
+172A. Dennis1950
in 4 matches · Göztepe
+168Francisco Moura2277
in 10 matches · FC Porto
+168M. Bokele1975
in 4 matches · Göztepe
Coaches
Their Elo change in matches against him (at least 3 meetings).
Favourite coaches
- −90
Okan Buruk2223
in 4 matches · Galatasaray
- −38
João Pedro Sousa1659
in 7 matches · Famalicao
- −32
Vítor Oliveira1540
in 3 matches · GIL Vicente
- −30
Daniel Sousa1760
in 3 matches · Arouca
- −30
Stephen Kenny1625
in 3 matches · St Patrick's Athl.
Nemesis coaches
- +100
Vasco Seabra1845
in 6 matches · Arouca
- +98
S. Stoilov1922
in 4 matches · Göztepe
- +85
Ruben Amorim2356
in 8 matches · Sporting CP
- +63
Silas1591
in 3 matches · Belenenses
- +61
Petit1811
in 8 matches · Boavista
Style radar
On-ball style vs same-position, same-league peers (0 = average for the role).
Career history
- 2026Beşiktaş→BenficaTransfer
- 2024Benfica→BesiktasFree
- 2016SC Braga→Benfica€ 16.4M
- 2013Feirense→SC Braga