Egypt winger Omar Marmoush has been ranked among the poorest-performing Premier League players at the 2026 World Cup, according to statistics site WhoScored, despite his country reaching the last 16 for the first time in their history.
Man City winger placed in bottom three
WhoScored placed Marmoush, who plays for Manchester City, third from bottom in its list of Premier League players at the tournament, restricted to those who played at least 300 minutes.
The 25‐year‐old received an average rating of 6.39 out of 10 across Egypt’s five matches at the World Cup.
Only his club team-mate Antoine Semenyo of Ghana, rated 6.14, and Sweden defender Victor Lindelof, who posted the lowest figure of 6.01, were ranked lower.
The ten lowest-rated Premier League players at the 2026 World Cup, based on WhoScored’s data, were:
– Victor Lindelof (Sweden) – 6.01
– Antoine Semenyo (Ghana) – 6.14
– Omar Marmoush (Egypt) – 6.39
– Pedro Neto (Portugal) – 6.41
– Gabriel Gudmundsson (Sweden) – 6.43
– Morgan Rogers (England) – 6.44
– Piero Hincapie (Ecuador) – 6.45
– Diego Gomez (Paraguay) – 6.52
– Neco O’Reilly (England) – 6.53
– Jordan Pickford (England) – 6.57
Lowest-rated Egypt regular
Marmoush’s figures also made uncomfortable reading in the context of his national team.
The same statistics showed that he recorded the lowest rating of any Egypt player who featured for more than 200 minutes at the tournament.
At the opposite end of the scale, goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir was highlighted as Egypt’s standout performer, earning a rating of 7.38 to top the Pharaohs’ internal rankings.
Marmoush started all five of Egypt’s matches as they broke new ground by progressing to the knockout stage for the first time. However, his individual contribution was judged to have fallen short of expectations for a leading attacker in both club and international football.
Egypt’s narrow exit to Argentina
Egypt’s campaign ended in agonising fashion in the last 16 with a 3-2 defeat to eventual opponents Argentina, a match which also produced Marmoush’s most talked-about moment of the World Cup.
Deep into stoppage time, with the score level, Marmoush led a rapid counter-attack that appeared poised to create a famous Egyptian winner. He advanced at pace and looked to slide the ball across to Mahmoud Hassan “Trezeguet”, who was well placed to finish.
However, Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes intervened at the crucial moment, cutting out Marmoush’s pass and denying Trezeguet the chance. Minutes later, Argentina went up the other end and scored what proved to be the decisive goal.
That sequence has widely been described by commentators as the turning point in the tie – and, for some, a defining moment in the trajectories of both teams at the tournament.
Paredes turns key tackle into art
The defensive intervention has since taken on an almost symbolic status in Argentina.
According to the report, the moment was immortalised by Paredes himself, who commissioned an artwork capturing the tackle and has hung it in his home as one of the signature images of his World Cup campaign with the Albiceleste.
For Marmoush and Egypt, the numbers and the narrow defeat leave a bittersweet legacy: a historic World Cup breakthrough for the team, but a tournament to forget on an individual level for one of their leading forwards.
