Exequiel

Palacios

Exequiel Palacios history

Exequiel Palacios was born on 5 October 1998 in Famailla and plays for Bayer 04 Leverkusen. He played for CA River Plate from 2008-2019 and has played for Bayer 04 Leverkusen since 2020.

Current season 2023/24

With two assists, he presently has the second-most in his team along with Jonas Hofmann, Alejandro Grimaldo, Florian Wirtz and Victor Boniface. In five of the previous six games of the season, the player with the shirt number 25 was in the starting line-up. Of these six games, he won 5 with his club. Additionally, he was substituted in for one game.

No one has been fouled as often this season as the 24-year-old. With 17 instances, he leads the league ranking in this category. His pass success rate amounts to 92.31 per cent. This result enables he to occupy eighth place in the league ranking for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 58.76 per cent. With this, he occupies third place in the team-internal statistics. Exequiel Palacios has had 514 individual ball possessions this season. With this, he occupies seventh place in the Bundesliga statistics for this category.

Last game

Exequiel Palacios played his last game on the sixth matchday of the 2023/24 season (30 September 2023). Playing for Bayer 04 Leverkusen, he won against 1. FSV Mainz 05 3-0. He played as a midfielder throughout this entire game. In terms of total touches, he had 108 individual ball possessions, which is the highest amount of any player in the game. Furthermore, Exequiel Palacios had 23 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win 15. He was additionally able to make 88 successful passes – the best performance in the game. During his total playing time in this game, Exequiel Palacios ran 11.2 km and thus covered a longer distance than all other players in the club. In doing so, he had a total of 27 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Exequiel Palacios has played 66 matches in the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won 37. He has played all the matches of his career in the Bundesliga as a member of Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Here, he has put a total of eight balls in the net.

International appointments

Exequiel Palacios won the World Cup with Argentina in 2022.