Dion-Johan Cools
DEF🇲🇾30 years old·born 4 Jun 1996
185 cm · 78 kg · born Kuching, Malaysia
Rank #4,365·262 matches tracked
Playing style
DefensiveTackles + int. /90
2.52
71st pct
Duels won
58%
70th pct
Blocks /90
0.24
40th pct
Passes /90
34.90
59th pct
Fouls /90
0.96
59th pct
Goals + assists /90
0.15
Latest· 17 Oct 2026
90' vs Kawasaki Frontale — a quiet game.
Cerezo Osaka 2–4 Kawasaki Frontale (loss) · Rating 5.74 · Elo -15 · 1 tackles · 2 intercept. · 3/7 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
−91A. Scholz1925
in 4 matches · FC Tokyo
−65E. Cocalić1372
in 4 matches · KV Mechelen
−59Y. Tielemans2465
in 3 matches · Monaco
−57Airton1435
in 4 matches · Prachuap
−55K. Endo1812
in 3 matches · Kashiwa Reysol
Nemeses
+187S. Miura1752
in 4 matches · Kawasaki Frontale
+137Werik Popó1605
in 4 matches · Avispa Fukuoka
+132M. Hasegawa1643
in 6 matches · V-varen Nagasaki
+121in 4 matches · Bangkok United
+117C. Aukkee1398
in 4 matches · Port FC
Coaches
Their Elo change in matches against him (at least 3 meetings).
Favourite coaches
- −44
F. Pedersen1645
in 4 matches · FC Nordsjaelland
- −40
A. Nawas1251
in 3 matches · Nakhon Pathom
- −33
in 3 matches · KV Mechelen
- −28
Takayuki Yoshida1731
in 5 matches · Shimizu S-pulse
- −22
H. Bidoglio1813
in 3 matches · Johor Darul Takzim FC
Nemesis coaches
- +106
Bartosch Gaul1931
in 3 matches · Sanfrecce Hiroshima
- +83
in 4 matches · Port FC
- +59
in 4 matches · Gent
- +59
D. Nielsen1579
in 4 matches · Aarhus
- +42
Shinya Tsukahara1611
in 3 matches · Avispa Fukuoka
Style radar
On-ball style vs same-position, same-league peers (0 = average for the role).
Career history
- 2025Buriram United→Cerezo OsakaTransfer
- 2023FK Jablonec→Buriram UnitedFree
- 2022Zulte Waregem→FC MidtjyllandLoan ended
- 2022FC Midtjylland→Zulte WaregemLoan
- 2020Club Brugge KV→FC Midtjylland
- 2015OH Leuven→Club Brugge KV