David Luiz

AI Scouting Report

Luiz remains one of football's most polarising defenders — a player whose highlights reel and disaster reel are often filmed in the same ninety minutes. At 543 minutes of Champions League data, the sample is partial, but the patterns are familiar. His tackles won rate sits in the top 10% among defenders at this level, and his passes into the final third rank in the top 20% — this is not a man content to recycle sideways. The counterintuitive read: his 70.2% pass accuracy, bottom 10% in the league, isn't purely sloppiness — it reflects genuine ambition in distribution, attempting progressive balls others won't.