# Sikou Niakaté · NVP, ratings and skills | Sir Balone

> In the 2025-26 Liga Portugal, Sikou Niakaté has an NVP of 79: number 6 of 112 defenders in the league with 900+ minutes. They produce 1.21 times their position's average and cost 0.64 times as much.

URL: https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/sikou-niakate-101045/
Datos al: 2026-10-15
Fuente de los datos: Sportmonks (https://www.sportmonks.com/). Métricas, notas y textos: La Lente, de Sir Balone, a cargo de Juan Carlos Vasquez (https://sirbalone.com/authors/juan-carlos-vasquez/).

§ Player · Defender

## Sikou Niakaté

[Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/sporting-braga-884/2025-26/)

In the 2025-26 Liga Portugal, Sikou Niakaté has an NVP of 79: number 6 of 112 defenders in the league with 900+ minutes.

They produce 1.21 times their position's average and cost 0.64 times as much.

Their strongest skill is Dribbler: S, percentile 100.

They have a rating in 11 matches that season and were player of the match in 2. Their best rating was 71, in Arouca 0–4 Sporting Braga.

### Seasons

| Season | Competition | Team | Min | G | A | Produces | Costs | NVP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | [Liga Portugal](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/liga-portugal/2025-26/) | [Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/sporting-braga-884/2025-26/) | 939 | 0 | 0 | 1.21× | 0.64× | 79 |
| 2025-26 | [Europa League](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/europa-league/2025-26/) | [Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/sporting-braga-884/2025-26/) | 648 | 0 | 0 | 0.81× | 0.69× | 54 |
| 2024-25 | [Liga Portugal](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/liga-portugal/2024-25/) | [Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/sporting-braga-884/2024-25/) | 1962 | 1 | 1 | 1.18× | 0.64× | 77 |
| 2024-25 | [Europa League](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/europa-league/2024-25/) | [Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/sporting-braga-884/2024-25/) | 619 | 1 | 0 | 1.00× | 0.89× | 51 |

### Skills

Percentile against players in the same position in the 2025-26 Liga Portugal, as on the app card.

Striker A 82

Creator A 84

Dribbler S 100

Defender A 79

Control A 92

### Latest matches

- 51 [Sporting Braga 1–1 Real Betis](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-real-betis-2026-04-08/) 8 Apr · Europa League · 90'
- 60 [Moreirense 0–1 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/moreirense-sporting-braga-2026-04-04/) 4 Apr · Liga Portugal · 90'
- 58 [Sporting Braga 1–2 Porto](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-porto-2026-03-22/) 22 Mar · Liga Portugal · 63' · ★ player of the match
- 41 [Sporting Braga 4–0 Ferencvárosi](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-ferencvarosi-2026-03-18/) 18 Mar · Europa League · 90'
- 64 [Ferencvárosi 2–0 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/ferencvarosi-sporting-braga-2026-03-12/) 12 Mar · Europa League · 62'
- 47 [Sporting Braga 1–0 Nottingham Forest](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-nottingham-forest-2026-01-22/) 22 Jan · Europa League · 46'
- 57 [Tondela 0–1 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/tondela-sporting-braga-2026-01-18/) 18 Jan · Liga Portugal · 90'
- 62 [Sporting Braga 1–0 Santa Clara](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-santa-clara-2025-12-15/) 15 Dec · Liga Portugal · 83'
- 56 [Nice 0–1 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/nice-sporting-braga-2025-12-11/) 11 Dec · Europa League · 90'
- 31 [Famalicão 1–2 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/famalicao-sporting-braga-2025-12-06/) 6 Dec · Liga Portugal · 90'

### Best matches

- 80 [Sporting Braga 3–0 Boavista](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-boavista-2025-01-26/) 26 Jan 2025 · Liga Portugal · ★ player of the match
- 71 [Arouca 0–4 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/arouca-sporting-braga-2025-12-01/) 1 Dec 2025 · Liga Portugal · ★ player of the match
- 69 [Sporting Braga 1–2 Bodø / Glimt](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/sporting-braga-bod-glimt-2024-10-23/) 23 Oct 2024 · Europa League
- 66 [AVS 0–1 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/avs-sporting-braga-2024-12-01/) 1 Dec 2024 · Liga Portugal
- 66 [Estoril 0–2 Sporting Braga](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/estoril-sporting-braga-2025-04-19/) 19 Apr 2025 · Liga Portugal

### How is the rating calculated?

The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.

[See their card in La Lente All their metrics, recent form, comparisons and Same DNA.](https://app.sirbalone.com/?jugador=Sikou+Niakat%C3%A9&liga=Liga+Portugal&temporada=25745&equipo=Sporting+Braga)