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Two 2025-26 Liga Portugal defenders. According to La Lente, who is the better Defender?

Liga Portugal · 2025-26

StatAB
Tackles per 902.401.17
Duels won47 %58 %
Times dribbled past per 901.640.47
Interceptions per 901.001.10
Aerials won per 900.703.25
Recoveries per 904.053.29
  1. Player A
  2. Player B
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Player B. Tiago Esgaio (Arouca), Defender B (percentile 70), against Tiago Manso (Tondela), X (percentile 5). Tiago Manso has more tackles per 90, but Tiago Esgaio wins more duels and wins more in the air.

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Tiago Manso records more than double the tackles per 90 (2.40 to 1.17). Even so, Tiago Esgaio wins 58% of his duels and adds 3.25 aerial duels won per 90.

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